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StrangeDays said:

dpkroh said:

minor point upgrade to iOS is a good thing but you are missing the biggest iOS 13 story completely.

Until today HomePod has been stuck on version 12.4. Finally today Apple has released 13.2 for HomePod as well. It is been an absurd wait of about a month or more.

I’m not sure which is the stronger feeling. The relief that Apple has finally released iOS 13 for HomePod or the fact that it took more than a month after the general release of iOS 13 to issue the same for HomePod.

I am guessing nobody at Apple insider has a HomePod? LOL?

Absurd wait? For new functionality you didn’t have before? I’m confused, did your HomePods stop working in the interim? Mine are still performing perfectly and I’ve suffered no losses. 

Yes... the wait was absurd.  Had a HomePod when it first came out - sent it back as useless.  The very reason I decided to try HomePod again was due to the multi-user voice recognition.  Everything on Apple’s website after iOS13 was released that mentioned HomePods mentioned this feature.  No where at that time did it still say “coming soon”.

Also when I upgraded my other devices like iPhone to iOS 13 I HomePod features broke. My iPhone started telling me I had to upgrade to newer software on my HomePod - newer software that was not yer available.  So it basically “broke” things until Apple later muted this message.

This is an ECOSYSTEM not single isolated operating systems and devices.  There are features in iOS 13 and HomePod 13 that depend on both devices upgraded.  So yes it is very much absurd.  You may have slack standards, and that’s okay for you, but it doesn’t make it okay for Apple as a company.  Especially not when Apple promotes the idea of buying into an entire ecosystem that works together.

sirozha said:

How does a service with just a few shows compare to Netflix or Hulu, which have thousands of titles? 

Apple TV should have become a streaming delivery platform for content providers to use. Kind of like a cable TV provider is a delivery platform for multiple content providers. This way, content providers could concentrate on the content and let Apple handle the technical issues related to streaming. 

Instead, Apple decided to become a content provider with their own streaming service. It’s clearly a dead end approach, as people will only be willing to have a limited number of streaming services. 

sirozha said:

How does a service with just a few shows compare to Netflix or Hulu, which have thousands of titles? 

Apple TV should have become a streaming delivery platform for content providers to use. Kind of like a cable TV provider is a delivery platform for multiple content providers. This way, content providers could concentrate on the content and let Apple handle the technical issues related to streaming. 

Instead, Apple decided to become a content provider with their own streaming service. It’s clearly a dead end approach, as people will only be willing to have a limited number of streaming services. 

Actually I think quality vs quantity is exactly the right approach. Used to be at least any NetFlix Original was guaranteed to be good to great. Netflix is now so full of crap it’s barely worth the hassle of bothering with. I would much rather subscribe to 10 really good shows with no crap content, then have to wade through the cesspool of mostly never should have been made crap that has to be waded through on a Netflix. I remember when I worked in London, UK in early 2000. Premium TV meant having 3 channels.... yes... just 3 good channels vs 300 channels of time wasting, can’t find anything , keep surfing hoping to find something that doesn’t suck... TV here in North America. Less is more when quality trumps quantity.

Oh yeah one more thing.... to all the sleazy scum companies like Ubisoft, Rovio as examples of the very worst, plus many others.  Those who use every manipulative trick known to turn their apps into cesspools of pay to win, disposable, non-restorable on crash currency purchases in app......

nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, hey hey GOODBYE NOW ! 

Minimum Hardware Specifications

I have not seen any mention of this.  

crushed said:

What this article fails to mention is that MDM is a feature of the Enterprise Developers Programme. It is meant for “enterprises” who need in-house apps for their own users and these apps are never meant to be released on the App Store. All these screen time apps are abusing the Enterepise Developers Programme license agreements and releasing the apps on the App Store by requiring special certificates to be installed on your devices. Irrespective of their claim of how useful these apps are, it is a breach of contract. If they want APIs for Screentime, and I sure would like to have access to those APIs this IS NOT the way to go about getting it.

Getting bogged down in these technicalities is IMO failing to see the forest for the trees. The timeline of Apple’s actions doesn’t pass the smell test.

Apple allowed these apps for years.  Quite obvious given their functionality they had to use something more than basic iOS APIs.  Apple can’t reasonably claim they did not know what these apps had been doing for years. Yet Apple approved them over and over again.

Then after Apple finally releases its own competing feature, they begin to ban the competition.  The developers saw the need years ago and provided a solution.  Apple’s screentime interface is IMO one of the worst UIs I have ever seen.   Confusing, messy, disjointed.   Seems to me the real reason Apple is banning competing screen management apps can be summed up as “if you can”t beat them, then ban them”

I was quite excited about the screen time feature when it was announced.  Once it tried it though, I was appalled at just how bad the interface is. I don’t use it.  Tried for a while but just not worth the time fighting with such an awful UI.