AppleExposed

dysamoria said:

This release was idiotic. Are all the new bugs fixed? How about the idiotic interference of the three-finger tap with the interfaces of other apps like soft-synth/MIDI music apps?

tmay said:

avon b7 said:

tmay said:

avon b7 said:

StrangeDays said:

avon b7 said:

robjn said:

5G is massively over-estimated.

It’s an extremely limited technology that offers no new high value or behavior changing application. Compare this to 4G - which made streaming video possible or 3G that made the internet usable. These were extremely valuable leaps that changed people’s lives significantly. What does 5G offer? The ability to download very large files quickly? What else?

Even if 5G does offer some valuable new ability that is meaningful to everyone. There is a critical flaw with the technology. It covers such short distances it will never work widely outside of densely populated areas - this means that it cannot be relied on for any meaningful new service - this is a critical flaw!

These Wall Street analysts are very simply looking back on 3G and 4G and assuming this is the same thing - it is not!

It will be a game changer on many fronts but just like now, all the pieces have to be in place.

Today 5G phones and networking equipment are being rolled out. There will be important changes ahead that go beyond handsets.

https://www.newequipment.com/industry-trends/managing-big-data-flood

In healthcare:

https://www.businessinsider.com/5g-surgery-could-transform-healthcare-industry-2019-8

5G in intensive care units combined with monitoring devices and AI will vastly improve emergency attention.

And doctors will arrive in flying cars. Cool
story, bro. 

Hey, no problem! 

Huawei is investing in flying taxis AND the software AND the hardware to cover it.

It is pushing for an international framework to make everything that is airborne (up to 300m) controlled and safe. LOL!

There you go, bro. Another 5G plus.

I know Huawei isn't alone with its thinking. Amazon? Musk? Apple? No idea.

Now, how long before drones fly injured people to hospital while onboard AI keeps them looked after on their way?

Yep. It's a cool story. It's coming but will rely on 5G to pull it off. It won't be tomorrow, that's for sure but we will live to see it.

When you say "Huawei is investing in...", what I see is "the Chinese Government is investing in...".

One and the same.

Well, I know you like to say that but in truth there is nothing to support it. 

Anyway, if you're interested in how cellular infrastructure can be used in civilian airspace and what telecos are looking at, here you are:

http://www.mobilk.net/en-off/mobile-news-12-24764.html

Of course, this isn't possible without 5G.

Actually, we can never no, because their is no transparency in Huawei's business, but we do know that the CCP does have party cells inside Huawei;

https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Huawei-affair-growing-Communist-Party-role-in-China-s-big-tech

"Huawei is in many ways a special company, and revered at home. It may shape China's innovation. Yet the gray lines between companies like Huawei and the party may damage their brands abroad. Meanwhile, the harder lines being drawn between millions of other private enterprises and the state sector may turn out to be ideologically correct, but commercially harmful."

 

jeromec said:

foregoneconclusion said:

crowley said:

Is it a rule for Apple Arcade that games must be cross-platform iOS, iPadOS and tvOS?  Or are devs allowed to only target the ones they want?

Every game will be available on iPhone, iPad, ATV, and Mac. That's one of the primary selling points of the service. You can pick up where you left off with a game on any of those platforms.

As of now, "Where Cards Fall" is available on iPhone, iPad, but not on Apple TV. There is no indication of whether it will be available on Apple TV later (that could be even before the official release of Arcade on Apple TV). Some games (such as WCF) might be more difficult to adapt to a non-multitouch control scheme. Some games require a controller on Apple TV, and it is optional for others.

crowley said:

foregoneconclusion said:

crowley said: Cool.  Though I doubt it's a primary selling point, it's a nice feature that most users will hardly ever use.

It's definitely a primary selling point. If you follow the link to the main Apple Arcade web page, you're not going to scroll very far before you see a graphic that has footage of various games running on all the hardware platforms and six points of emphasis that includes the ability to switch platforms while playing games.

https://www.apple.com/apple-arcade/

Just because Apple are marketing it doesn't mean that it's a reason people will buy.

minisu1980 said:

magman1979 said:

Have as much experience as I do with ALL of the other brands listed, and knowing how shitty they are, I find it astonishing the index value between them is that close!

I can only think of two possibilities why that is...

1) This data is "sponsored", which is often the case, or
2) The majority of consumers really have become so inept that they cannot tell the differences, and we've firmly moved into the "it's good enough" mentality

I think it's because the people polled only have experience with one product. Once upon a time I was a Windows guy and I just accepted the countless annoyances and let downs as the price paid for using technology. It was only after switching to my first Apple computer (iMac with first Intel processor) did I realize exactly how poor the Windows/PC experience truly was. This poll likely looks like this:

1) 70% people who have only used Windows/PC's. They don't know there are greener pastures, so they compare barren fields to one another and try to find the best one.

2) 20% people who have only used Mac. These people have only resided in green pastures so they really don't know how much better they have it then those in the barrens.

3) 10% people who were Windows and are now Mac. These people can truly appreciate the difference and the overall experience allows them to overlook small issues as they know how bad the alternative is.

magman1979 said:

Have as much experience as I do with ALL of the other brands listed, and knowing how shitty they are, I find it astonishing the index value between them is that close!

I can only think of two possibilities why that is...

1) This data is "sponsored", which is often the case, or
2) The majority of consumers really have become so inept that they cannot tell the differences, and we've firmly moved into the "it's good enough" mentality