godofbiscuitssf

9secondkox2 said:

While iOS 7 was a major move forward in terms of modern ui and UX, this update just seems pointless. Look more like the headset ui? Why? No point. The headset ui just looks like the watch, but with frosted windowing. And it makes sense there. The phone doesn’t need windowing or greater elements. Whatever those icon shapes are-they are genuinely ugly. Looks like a beginner homemade android mod. 

But I don’t believe apple would head back into skeuomorphism (with the fake glass buttons) or degrade into amateur style design. I’m sure it will combine the best parts of each is and make it consistent across the board. 

melgross said:

Rogue01 said:

Will it be a live keynote, or another awful cringe-worthy video?  Maybe they will be apologizing for Apple Intelligence instead of trying to push out more half-baked features.  They already blundered with Siri, unless they try and do damage control and more promises of features that won't be ready with iOS 19.

I miss the days when Apple released new software and the features they previewed at WWDC were actually in the release version.  Instead all we get are 'coming soon' and then 'maybe next year'.  I stopped watching the videos because they were nothing more than reading press releases and spec sheets.

The videos are much better than the live presentations. Those tended to ramble and took much longer. Well, I remember that Apple was criticized for trying to get everything in the first release. Be more like Google and Microsoft people would say, and release features when they’re ready and don’t rush them out for an announcement.  Give me a break!

anonymouse said:

godofbiscuitssf said:

AnObserver said:

I agree. Too many who have no knowledge about how things really work are in control.

Except in this case, they're backing into the right answer.  Facebook, Twitter, and most others these days are CURATORS, not just platforms that repost and relay other people's opinion.  Curation IS opinion, IS editor.ial content.  They are owners of that, and they've been hiding behind Section 230 to blast their own agendas and opinions while individual users are still on the hook legally and financially for their own posts.  

That obviously isn't equal treatment under the law.  Section 230 needs to be gutted, or killed.  It's not like corporations don't have a million other avenues of protection for themselves, and where they don't, they have lawyers.  Endless supplies of lawyers.

I don't know how you have formed your ideas about this but you still have it completely backwards. Repealing Section 230 isn't going to stop, to use your word, "curation" of content by FB and others, it's just going to mean that they delete a lot of content that they now leave up. Individual users would still be "on the hook for their own posts," but anything the "curators" deem to put them on the hook as well, like false and defamatory posts from political operatives, will be removed. Without Section 230 a lot of individual "voices" are going to be muted, but the so called "curators" aren't going to be muted.

It's really amazing how so many people, especially those who have benefited the most from Section 230, have the rather wild idea that Section 230 is somehow muzzling them or somehow giving "curators" some sort of special "immunity" to "censor" when the reality is exactly the opposite.