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  • Missing message issues plague Mail users in macOS Catalina

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    dysamoria said:
    macxpress said:

    spice-boy said:
    jcc said:
    dysamoria said:

    How do regressions like this keep happening so often?
    Because of incompetence. Cook needs to go. He lacks the ability to manage good teams and good products. The more resources you give him, the more problems he’ll create. That’s the very definition of incompetence.
    Aah sure Cook is to blame, nothing went wrong when Steve ran Apple, never.
    Honestly, Mail has been a thorn in Apple's side it seems like every release of macOS, even under the wonderful and perfect Steve Jobs. 
    I agree. I’ve had many issues with Mail and mail servers. Like mice, Apple just don’t seem to be able or willing to do this right.

    Apple also seem unwilling or unable to get Safari text edit views to behave correctly. 

    Still, I didn’t find and suffer nearly as many bugs during Jobs’ tenure as I do today. Today’s Apple is all about the Wall Street religion, not the product. The product is more hype than completion.
    Mail feels like one of these legacy apps that has been tweaked and extended on old code base. 
    Easy to break, easily unstable.
    But I still use it - in classic view that is because I find it hard to search and get a good overview in ‘modern’ view where mails are shown in this tiny phone-optimism column. Classic layout is something Mail alternatives often lack.

    I would love for Apple just to start over with Mail and rethink some basic principles while they’re at it. 
    ouragan

  • Spotify iOS beta gains ability to make Siri music requests

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    There is still anti competition going on by Apple. 
    They should be sued for having taken years to have third parties integrate Siri into music apps - a category they blocked.

    Secondly they should be sued for the fact you still need to say “on Spotify”, because leaving it out - the “default” - is still Apple Music. 

    iOS should include an option to set the defaults for music, navigation and other categories, so that Siri can take that setting as the ‘default’.
    ZepLepplinAppleExposed

  • Don't update to iOS 13 just yet -- wait for iOS 13.1

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    W fred1 said:
    I'm grateful for this warning.  I'll definitely wait for 13.1.

    I can't understand why Apple went ahead and released version 13.0 with these bugs.  I know, I know, there are often problems with new iOS versions, but this time there's a later version already ready.  Why release a version with known problems for which there's a solution ready?
    Reason: iPhone 11 announcement date and preinstalling 13.0 on millions of units + investor targets. 
    jahbladerinosaurbakedbananas

  • Apple's internal 'Overton' AI tool helps with Siri's development

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    Set aside the idiotic answers from Siri, who usually answers by saying: “here are some webpages with hopefully answers to your questions, totally defeating the purpose of a voice-assistent”, it’s not facts that I’m interested in for Siri to answer.

    It’s mostly a better understanding of context for tasks around what the operating system should support through finger gesture interaction anyway, a reduced failure rate in understanding and recognition of my voice in a way that approaches faceID (because if Siri can do stuff like send a document I’ve stored to someone around afternoon, Siri shouldn’t listen to my colleague requesting this from my phone).
    With context I mean: where am I? What am I  doing? What was I working on? Where am I going? And then interpret my query around factors like these.

    Lastly, Siri should support ‘default apps’, e.g:
    - default maps app
    - default music app
    - default browser 
    - etc
    ...And then when I perform a Siri query, I should be able to omit Safari, Chrome or Spotify in my request (note: Siri doesn’t support most of these anyway because Apple isn’t fully opening up to competitors like Spotify).

    It’s anti-competitive behavior from Apple when I have to say “give directions to home using Waze” versus “give directions to home” (which defaults to Apple maps).
    Apple should be sued for that behavior.
    entropyslkrupp

  • More power with less: Apple's A13 Bionic is faster and more power efficient

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    razorpit said:
    So I guess you can say the A13 has almost 2 billion reasons why it's better than the A12?  :D

    Seriously though, this is an incredible jump in performance and power consumption in just one year's time. How far off can an ARM MacBook Air be?
    The hardware is already at a level it could easily power a desktop. The problem is the software. All applications and drivers need to be recompiled to ARM which is a huge logistics nightmare. Imagine having bought this fancy ARM laptop and no commercial app besides Apple’s first party software runs on it, because they need to build it for a new architecture now.... 
    I think Apple is preparing for this with Project Catalyst, by creating a system that is not simply abstracting UI/UX, but doing the same for CPU/GPU architectures. If your app is developed using Catalyst, compiling for ARM would simply be a matter of recompilation and some minor adjustments, while Catalyst under the hood does the heavy lifting. A company like Adobe, who uses a lot of propriety modules and build systems, would not benefit from that, but a company who builds Pixelmator Pro for example would have an relative easy job.
    razorpittmayjahbladeravnorodomwatto_cobra