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  • Apple won't force updates to iOS 15 from iOS 14

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    beowulfschmidt said:
    WRT your phone, turn automatic updates off.  You'll then have the choice of when, and if, to upgrade.
    What the heck... I thought I had all that stuff turned off. It was on. Now I have to check all our devices. Sneaky Apple.
    beowulfschmidt

  • Apple's Eddy Cue says Spatial Audio is a 'game-changer' for music

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    2021's 3D TV
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  • What to expect from WWDC 2021 - and what not to

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    22july2013 said:
    For WWDC 2021 I'm hoping Apple decides it's finally time to compete with Google's search engine and FaceBook's social network. Apple's advantage over those companies will be that Apple doesn't collect personal information. WWDC seems like a good time to announce new services like these. Apple could choose to require a subscription, eg, Apple One, to be able to access these services. Or Apple could require a subscription only for creating content, not accessing content, on these services.
    Sounds good, and I'd pay for that. But, I don't think Apple has it in them. They can't even seem to do basic search well (let alone Google-level), and remember any of Apple's attempts at social? I guess there is always a first time, but they have a really, really bad track record.

    k2kw said:
    By forking iPadOS off of iOS they can always say they didn’t merge them.
    Even if they did, they could just go ahead and do it anyway. Wouldn't be the first time.

    The thing is, I think there will always be differentiation, if nothing more than 'modes' the software goes into. They could certainly put MacOS on an iPad and iPadOS on a touch-screen MacBook, but both would suck if they didn't go into a proper mode that fit the 'ergonomics' of the device and use-case. A touch-based system is just plain different from a keyboard/input-device system. As far as I'm concerned, it always will be.

    BroncoMac30 said:
    No new hardware, what else is new? What good does new software do, if don’t have a computer that can run it, plus other software one needs? WWDC 2021 is a non event for me now. 
    I'm bummed, but they'll probably just release them as they come out. IMO, that is a waste of prime exposure the Keynote provides, but at this point, maybe Apple doesn't need that exposure anymore? And, I think now hardware at WWDC is kind of new (well, i think it happened once or twice before, but it's more rare than the hardware release events).
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Nanoleaf Elements Wood Look Hexagons review: A more grounded smart light

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    Oh, and I stopped by this thread to say that as this kind of lighting goes, this is one of the better ones I’ve seen yet. Nice.
    watto_cobra

  • Nanoleaf Elements Wood Look Hexagons review: A more grounded smart light

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    mobird said:
    e-waste...
    I suppose, but doesn’t some high-percentage of products (let alone electronic ones) fall into that category?
    If we’re truly worried about waste/pollution (which I think we should be), there are much lower hanging fruit, but my main issue is the hypocrisy of the ‘green’ movement being so insane over gasoline cars while not realizing stuff like this is petroleum driven (including most of the packaging of what they buy at the grocery store, or product packaging, or the zillions of boxes Amazon uses to deliver one gadget per box, several per day, etc.).
    watto_cobra