auxio

Xed said:

entropys said:

Yes it should. Hardly anyone has USBc projectors. But they all have hdmi.

Is this really a problem, especially for anyone that has been using the latest Mac notebooks since 2016?

https://www.amazon.com/Thunderbolt-Compatible-MacBook-Samsung-Surface/dp/B07TLMZK6S/

It's truly incredible.  I've listened to so many people complain about needing dongles and adapters for Apple laptops over the past few years.  Now Apple creates a laptop which doesn't need them and people complain they shouldn't have done it.

For myself personally, I can't count the number of times where having an HDMI port on my 2015 MBP has come in handy.  Sure I'm doing work on it 90% of the time, and I always take adapters on work trips.  But often I take it on vacation with me and don't bother to pack adapters since I figure I don't need them.  Then I end up wanting to show photos & videos to friends/family and simply need to hook it up to the TV in their living room (as opposed to having to pass my phone around the room).  It's not a "pro" use case, but it's a "real life" use case.

docno42 said:

auxio said:
I don't really need one as I have a decent work laptop right now.  This would be for personal use, and a fair bit of the software I use for my hobbies hasn't even been ported to Apple Silicon yet (e.g. Ableton Live), so I'm ok to wait.

EDIT: And then I check the Ableton website and see that ASi support is finally in beta

The amount of stuff that worked with the M1 and emulation was astonishing.  I didn't run into any one Mac app that refused to work; then again I didn't try an audio app.  

I do think these machines will light a fire under any developers who have been on the fence though.  As you note Ableton has a beta; I think the pace of that is going to pick up dramatically.   We shouldn't have to go through the whole Adobe/Carbon 64 fiasco again - one would hope! 

For audio apps, a lot of the problem is with old plugins (VSTs and similar) which aren't being maintained anymore, so they need to figure out a way to host them via emulation while the main app is native.  I also have a couple of old audio devices which don't have updated drivers, so I'd need to find replacements for those.

Japhey said:

I’m curious to see how this fits in with Apple One plans. 

This.  Not that I'd use it very often since I'm in the same boat as others (have a large library of my own music), but I'd expect it to be included with an Apple One plan.

EDIT: I think I understand now after seeing the comparison on the Apple Music page.  This is a cheaper way for people who only buy a HomePod to get access to Apple Music.  Those with regular Apple Music subscriptions will get the enhanced voice control for free (along with more features).

lkrupp said:

It always kinda makes me roll my eyebrows that there have to be instructions on how to watch an Apple event. Are there that many people out there who are so inept they can’t figure out how to watch? It would seem those who are interested in the event would be technically aware enough to know how. Yet, time after time, we get posts saying, “I can’t find it” or “It’s not working”. 

I’m not trying to belittle anyone but it is something that’s makes me go Hmmmmm. 

For myself, I'm typically using my laptop for work and so I'd prefer to watch it on the TV beside me (using my Apple TV).  If you've tried to find their events on an Apple TV ever since they removed the Apple Events app, it's truly an exercise in frustration.  So I appreciate the Apple TV instructions.  Though searching for "Apple events" is only showing older events (I guess because it only shows up once the event has started).  Looks like I'll have to use the YouTube stream since I don't want to be manually polling the search.

There was a previous article on here which linked to an overview of RCS and how different carriers have branded it with different names, with varying levels of support for different parts of the specification.  From a technical standpoint, it looked like a hot mess at this point.  Google is fine with that because they're not the ones providing technical support for Android-based phones.  They can live in lala land and implement it so that it works perfectly fine with other Android phones running the very latest version of Android on Wifi, and not have to worry about being inundated with support calls from confused customers when conditions aren't perfect: cellular connection from a carrier which doesn't fully support it, phones stuck on older (incompatible) versions of Android, other types of phones, etc.  Apple OTOH has to worry about providing tech support when an iPhone using RCS encounters less-than-ideal connectivity situations which are outside of their control.