DAalseth

Regarding Continuity Camera

Your iPhone doesn't even have to be unlocked. The Mac still recognizes that it's near, turns on the iPhone's camera, 

On the face of it that sounds like a potential security vulnerability. A Mac will recognize a nearby iPhone on the same network and access the camera even if the phone is locked. I’m admittedly a bit paranoid about security but that sounds kinda’ sketchy. 

He’s absolutely right. More and more I hear people saying that “they know everything about us anyway so why worry about” Google, Facebook, the police, etc., etc. It’s very disconcerting. And I’m afraid that I’m not as optimistic as TC is though. I was shocked how easily people accepted pat downs, x-rays, and searches in order to fly on an airliner. “But it’s for safety” was the BS they used and everyone ate it up and asked for seconds. All it takes is for someone in authority to say the words “safety” or “protect the children” and people seem eager to give up their personal freedoms, and human rights. That’s how they are attacking things like encryption.

I find it very depressing.

urahara said:

DAalseth said:

CheeseFreeze said:

The new iMac looks great IMHO, and as the article states, feels very Ivy-ian. Several products now balance usability and design better.
However the Mac Studio looks ugly and the designers didn't have the balls to move beyond stacking two Minis together; a wasted opportunity.
I hope the new Mac Pro and iMac Pro will show a more ambitious design.

The Studio is engineering, not form driven. The chip needed a mongo heat sink and there was no way to do that without ending up with that form. Personally I like it. It’s a clean design that has ports on the front and a fan that’s quiet. 

Your words sound like product design can be only engineering driven and never (even partially) as a form driven.

It has to be a balance but Ive’s designs were too much form over function. I’m very glad to see Apple moving back the other way. As far as the Studio, personally I like the simple clean lines. 

Two areas that IMO are solid signs that Apple's design philosophy has changed. The newer MacBooks with lots of different ports. Ive was the one who made the MacBook with just one, and other models with only one kind. The other place is the Mac Studio. Ive would never have put ports on the front. These are good changes in philosophy. Ive was so focussed on design that very often functionality took a back seat and the user, the customer, suffered.

9secondkox2 said:

Apple Arcade is crap. Sorry. It’s a joke. It’s the same as not even trying. Just a way to get recurring payments from people who don’t buy games much. In the beginning, it was a way to focus on higher quality mobile games. But now it’s just a subscription tier for the same old crap. 

I’m inclined to agree. I’ve subscribed three times, I want it to be good. But each time I play what’s there, what’s new, what looks good, and then drop it. Last December I stopped going in there after a week. All I found were games I wasn’t interested in, and games that I had bought previously and had just been put on AA to milk them a bit longer. ATV+ can at least argue that while their catalog is small the quality is good. AA can’t even claim that.