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New Macs in 2025 rumored to get at least one major design refresh
This!mrstep said:
An actual height to fit hands, modern optics for better DPI, higher Hz rates, and updated wireless AND wired modes would make it actual Magic. As it is, the only trick it has performed is making itself disappear from my desk as well.AniMill said:
Never used any of mine. Drawer filler for sure.CheeseFreeze said:Please Apple, please, while you’re at it, redesign the god-awful Magic Mouse so that most of the users don’t have to throw it in the drawer at the day of purchase, replacing it with an actual usable mouse.
(It's the only mouse with good vertical *and* horizontal scrolling, lets you gesture for other common trackpad functions as well - but was the only mouse ever to make me feel like I was getting carpal tunnel issues, and the Bluetooth connectivity is so janky compared to mice from more recent decades that it's just unusable. I'm convinced they don't have anyone working on the mouse team at all anymore.)Plus:
They should design with a less slippery material. The glass feels terrible.The shape isn’t ergonomic for professional use; the wrist is in an odd angle all the time. This needs to be redesigned accordingly.
The left and right button should have tactical feedback (which Apple does well with the crown button on the Watch and laptop Trackpads).
There should be a scroll wheel as well with tactical feedback. Not feeling anything is terrible UX.
There should be a programmable side button.
Obviously they should switch to USB-C charging… on the back!
No serious professional who switches between editing, 3D work, coding, etc should have to deal with a mouse that was designed to look cool up to a point where it compromises basic usability. It’s still in the Touch Bar era. Apple can do so much better here!
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New Macs in 2025 rumored to get at least one major design refresh
Please Apple, please, while you’re at it, redesign the god-awful Magic Mouse so that most of the users don’t have to throw it in the drawer at the day of purchase, replacing it with an actual usable mouse.
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Apple defends business practices in motion to dismiss DOJ lawsuit
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How the Apple Ring will blow all the other smart ring manufacturers out of the water
I’m in VR myself (mostly learning, previously gaming) and I can tell you there are a lot of use cases for AR in addition to VR.VictorMortimer said:"Before Apple Vision Pro, it was common for headsets to mostly be all-encompassing virtual reality ones. You can bet that from now on, all higher-end headsets will have pass-through video of the outside world."No you can't.The whole point of VR is to be immersive. Seeing the outside world is a bug, not a feature.I'm not at all convinced that AR has much of a future for most of us. I could see it being somewhat useful in limited situations, but for general purpose use it just seems like a dead end.
For example training people in context of their own environment, layering virtual humans and objects in an environment that is ‘understood’ by the application. Similarly designing future states of environments (e.g construction work).
For consumer use it’s harder to find compelling use-cases unless the glasses are the same as regular, fashionable ones, in which case it’s not hard to find compelling use-cases (navigation, translation, video recording, etc)
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How the Apple Ring will blow all the other smart ring manufacturers out of the water
Okay so the article starts with many paragraphs about product positioning, which almost comes across as if it’s defending Apple in preparation of a hypothetical product launch.Then it fails to make a case doing so, stopping at “sleep tracking” and “more data points for health”.What was the purpose of this article?And seriously, who tf wants to wear a stupid-ass ring all day for something that does only that?
