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  • Apple agrees to $50M settlement in MacBook butterfly keyboard lawsuit

    mrochestermrochester
    I still miss the keyboard on my 2017 MBP.  The one on the 2019 16" is nowhere near as good, which really surprised me given how much people raved about the 2019 keyboard and railed against the 2017.
    tyler82Alex1N

  • Apple's relationship with web apps will improve in 2023

    mrochestermrochester
    tht said:
    Right now, in June 2022, it looks like the release of Web Push in 2023 will be good for users and developers.
    Hopefully Apple will have a flag to turn off Push notifications from web apps and web sites.  :/ 

    I've taken quite the dim view of these "pro competition, pro business, pro consumer" rationales. GDPR pop-up notices are like a modern rendition of ActiveX pop-ups, and it didn't do anything to actually protect people. This Web Push stuff sounds like it is going to amp up notification marketing by increasing the surface area of who and what can send a push notification by orders of magnitude. Eventually a few "bad" players will blow up all the goodness and just trash everything. Like, all it takes is one "web app" to mess up your phone or PC and you will have to go through some cleaning activity.

    Every single communications medium we have eventually just turns to shit. My mail box is 99% advertisements, and probably 99.999% by weight. Just the thought of the gas and diesel used to deliver that shit pisses me off. My landline phone is nothing but telemarketing and basically shit calls. My cell phone is getting there and I really should just turn on the flag to only allow my contacts to ring the phone. Email? Our email apps have the work of multiple PhDs to filter that stuff out, on multiple nodes of an email's path to your input. Text messaging? I think text messaging costing money way back when actually delayed the inevitable, especially now that regulators want "compatibility".
    It’s almost like us humans should focus our efforts on our immediate neighbours and communities instead of trying to ‘connect to like-minded people’ on the other side of the world. Make meaningful, real relationships with a handful of people and everything else just fades away to insignificance. 
    williamlondondewmewatto_cobra

  • The new MacBook Pro: Why did Apple backtrack on everything?

    mrochestermrochester
    GeorgeBMac said:
    danox said:
    The silly thing with these new laptops is we’ve gone from 4 universal ports that will do anything to 3 universal ports and 2 ports that can only do one thing, so technically a less flexible machine now. 

    Also, where’s the outcry about Apple using a proprietary charging port? 
    So they never should given up on FireWire better faster and more versatile, and more importantly a superior in house solution not dependent upon tech from outside patent trolls…..
    Huh?  USBC and Thunderbolt are more flexible than HDMI and SD card readers. 

    ... unless you need HDMI or an SD slot.

    So why does it have to be 'either / or'?
    USBC can do HDMI, HDMI cannot do USBC. 
    omasouwilliamlondon

  • The new MacBook Pro: Why did Apple backtrack on everything?

    mrochestermrochester
    The silly thing with these new laptops is we’ve gone from 4 universal ports that will do anything to 3 universal ports and 2 ports that can only do one thing, so technically a less flexible machine now. 

    Also, where’s the outcry about Apple using a proprietary charging port? 
    9secondkox2

  • iPad mini review roundup: Superior speed but missing a critical feature

    mrochestermrochester
    I would have had this in a heart beat if only it had Face ID. Maybe next refresh now it has the Face ID design. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobra