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A practical guide for why spatial audio music is great
That’s all very well, but I personally don’t subscribe to Apple Music for a host of reasons that are valid to me. I am not alone n this although the article pretty much assumes that all its readers do subscribe.
Spatial Audio has the potential to change that, but I am not aware of any way to try it without subscribing to Apple Music. Catch 22.
if there is a way then this article should cover it. In the meantime I will continue to be ignorant of the strength of its claimed virtues.And I am not about to sign up for a trial subscription that I then have to remember to cancel either, so don’t suggest that! I already have vastly too much stuff I need to remember to do!
One other comment is that the article suggests that most Bluetooth headsets will be able to make use of Spatial Audio but only mentions Apple products as some that do. What codec or format support do headsets need to have in order that they will work? Will the Sony range work, or (my personal faves) the Anker Soundcore Liberty 4?
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Jean-Louis Gassee doesn't know who an iPad is for, and thinks you don't either
I value my iPad very greatly, so my response to Gasée is "absolute humbug!" I use an iMac 27 in my home office, and anything less would simply not do the job. I totally don't understand why anyone uses a laptop in an office setting.I have my iPhone for calls and light duty app stuff, but beyond that when I am out of the office I use my iPad, and it is a fantastic tool in meetings and when I need to catch up on email or anything else where a larger screen than my iPhone is required.I can see that for some people a laptop is great when out of the office, but the iPad is more portable and more flexible and suits me just fine.Why do people like Gassee feel they need to proclaim in the way that they do? He is diminishing himself in my eyes (he is after all a flawed genius) by not appreciating that not everyone feels like he does, and some value their iPad very highly. Let them, please!
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EcoFlow Delta 2 power station review: Power and ports aplenty
OK, so this is basically an UPS in a different guise. Why not say that? Also, a big point, given that it is being sold as a "power bank" type of product, what exactly is its capacity in Wh? You mention its max output, but not its capacity. How can we work out how long it will support devices powered from it if we don't know what its capacity is? And does it have a Line Interactive function?
This is part of an issue that really frustrates me - it is incredibly difficult to find out what the capacity is for UPS type devices. Given that we are all facing a possible electricity supply crisis this winter (certainly in Europe we may be), being able to keep our critical domestic infrastructure such as internet connections and WiFi running through long outages is increasingly a concern. But which device do we buy to support this?
The key thing is how much power an UPS or Power Bank stores, and that information is seemingly obscured while the devices are marketed on the basis of what their peak output is. Their peak output may have been an issue in the past with computers which consumed many hundreds of watts, but nowadays you can get a wireless router (and indeed a NAS as well) which would consume in total only 20-30W, so peak output is almost irrelevant.
What IS important is what total amount of power is stored, so you can work out how long it would run for. But getting that information is really difficult. An AppleInsider article on this subject would be REALLY valuable. You could survey the range of UPSes on the market and let us know which offers the sweet spot in terms of high capacity at a low maximum output.
Maybe there needs to be a new category of devices produced by manufacturers - something like Home Outage Prevention devices, which are oriented for the purpose I suggest. There would be a VAST demand for such products.
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Mac Studio designed with customer feedback & Pro Workflow team feedback in mind
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Apple execs explain why you should use Apple Maps over competitors
Apple Maps has some really big UX fails which mean Imalways go back to Google Maps. In particular it is close to useless if you are the “navigator” while someone eslse is driving. A vast part of the screen is taken up with a panel showing details of the place when you search for a destination, and there are only two ways of seeing the map full screen (that I have found). Firstly you can click the X to close the panel, but then you lose the route. Secondly you can start the route, but there is no way of switching to a mode where you control what you are looking at, or lose the directions.It surely should be possible to use it like a map book, but with the route displayed on it? This seems really fundamental to me but the UX designers seem to have almost wilfully stopped you from using it that way.Other things that bug me in CarPlay is that you can only have the display in dark mode or “automatic” when it seems to always be in dark mode as well. Why can’t you set it to always be in light mode? This doesn’t make any sense to me. The ideal scenario would be a quick and easy way to manually change it to the mode you want, not the mode that Apple seems to think you should want.Another failing is the difficulty in CarPlay of seeing what is coming up on the map a little bit further ahead than what is immediately in front of you. Viewing of the map is extremely limited.Finally another annoyance is that the warnings for speed cameras are only given when you are using it in routing mode. Why can’t you switch on the warnings even when you are not following a route?
