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mjtomlin said:

debonbon said:

Those generated images look generations behind already. Ai is moving very quick and Apple needs to get up to speed real fast. 

No, Apple has stated they will not generate life like images, it has nothing to do with being “behind”. The cartoonish effect is there for a reason. If you don’t like it, use another image generator.

Their site also says images are created on-device:

https://developer.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

"Image Playground delivers an easy-to-use experience to create fun, playful images in apps like Messages, Notes, Keynote, Pages and more. Using the Image Playground API, you can add the same experience to your app and enable your users to quickly create delightful images using context from within your app. And because images are created entirely on device, you don’t have to develop or host your own models for your users to enjoy creating new images in your app."

There's only so much that can be done with 8GB total RAM and the stored image models. High resolution (1024+) image generators need 16GB or more RAM, ideally 32GB.

AppleInsider said:

Apple's new game-focused app store will feature a "Play Now" tab, along with a tab for the user's friends. The "Play Now" tab will supposedly contain content hand-picked by the app's editorial staff, while the application will also feature challenges, leaderboards, and achievements.

It would probably be good to have an app solely for game content, it would be like Steam for mobile.

Apple's staff recommendations are rarely helpful in the App Store and discovery is still really difficult when there are millions of apps with the same ones showing every time.

A game feed that can be tuned to preferred game types would be easier to find good apps like how dating apps or news feeds work. Have a discover tab and just load game pages that people can swipe through and reject. If people reject a game or app or already have it installed, hide it everywhere in the store like how Steam does.

Game Center only really needs to do one thing well, which is cross-save, even across devices with different Apple IDs or different operating systems. The achievements UI could do with being less obtrusive, most achievement notification systems have a subtle corner notification, not like an incoming email that has to be swiped out of the way.

Gaming is such a huge part of the App Store revenue, it makes sense to give it a dedicated app like they do for music.

9secondkox2 said:

Call it Apple Arcade and get some AAA console level games in there. And buy star citizen when it’s ready to launch. 

Star Citizen will be over 12 years in development and $700m budget, they'd want over $1b for the game rights. They have over 4m players, if they can get over 10m recurring players and charge at least $60 each, it could be worth the investment but it would only get to that level by being multi-platform and it would be difficult to get $60 on mobile. Squadron 42 is now delayed to 2026, they just keep pushing the release dates further and further out and still overworking their staff.

AAA game development inherently takes a long time but Apple would be better with a company that can release a game sooner than once every 14 years.

JohnDenver101 said:

I don't understand the appeal of a folding phone. They are:

• More expensive
• More expensive to repair
• Screen is less scratch resistant
• Screen may show fold
• Hinges make it more prone to break or susceptible to dust
• Heavier
• Can be difficult to use with one hand

All just to have a larger screen. I would love a folding iPad. Give me an e-ink display on the outside and it would be the perfect travel companion for movies and books. 

Maybe it would be better to have the folding displays as external displays rather than design the whole product around it. The panels are thin and light and could be built into a case.

Putting it into a phone form factor replaces the need for a tablet as it's the same apps.

If it was on the back of the phone, the middle 1/3rd of the display would be over the back and two other 1/3rds can fold out left and right.

iPhone 16 is 5.81" x 2.82" so if it was turned over and the display folded out, it would have a 8.46" x 5.81" display = 10" diagonal iPad-like display. It wouldn't matter so much if the display breaks because it's external. It would still be an expensive replacement but an instant replacement, just get a new one in store.

Then they can offer e-ink, OLED and ones designed for drawing on.

AppleInsider said:

A handy new feature of macOS Sequoia allows a mounted volume to self-eject once a process copying files from it ends. Here's how to use it.

If the copy is still running, the Finder will throw up an alert telling you it can't eject the volume because it's in use. But now in macOS Sequoia, that alert features a new button: Eject when finished.

This is useful if it works but one of the worst offenders for blocking eject is the Finder's QuickLook process. Clicking a single time on a file, especially if it's a less common format can block a disk eject as QuickLook tries to decode it and it needs opening Activity Monitor to force quit QuickLook. Some processes would be best tagged as interruptible. Non-essential features like QuickLook and Spotlight should always be interruptible by any process.

mpantone said:

Of course, the View-Master unit had a number of shortcomings. The biggest was the fact that the it wasn't compatible with a wide variety of smartphone dimensions. The optics were fixed so were limited to a subset of viewers' eyes. There was no headstrap. Audio was terrible because it relied on the phone's built-in speakers. 

There was a Gear VR for $100 too:



An Apple designed one would fix a lot of the issues.

This would be like a $599 iPhone 14 + $100 case = $699. The resolution here would be bad at less than 1K per eye.

But if the total retail price of these parts comes to $699 and 2K Micro-OLED displays are $300 for a pair, they have enough parts to make an affordable, very lightweight, reasonable quality headset that retails around $1199. Even adding additional tracking like hand/eye tracking, it would be under $1500.

It wouldn't be as sharp as Vision Pro but would give mostly the same experience and would build a platform with a bigger user-base in the millions, which is needed to be sustainable. The display spec can be increased later.