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  • iPhone & Mac game engine Unity putting the screws to independent developers

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    Remember when Apple was sent to court by the makers of this system because of the 30% fee asked by Apple to help pay for the infrastructure?

    Apple should tell everyone complaining about this hypocrisy and let developers know they are actually getting a good deal.
    williamlondonFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • iPhone 14 Satellite SOS saves stranded New Zealand hikers

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    Xed said:
    lowededwookie said:
    coolfactor said:

    Due to the relative novelty of Apple's service, the air rescue company advised its customers instead to rely on Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs), dedicated devices which use satellite Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates.

    That sounds more like an anti-Apple stance, or an unwillingness to adapt to changing technology. Before the PLB's did they recommend flares?  And before flares was it "yelling really loudly"? :D
    That pretty much sums up how New Zealand reacts to new tech but it’s not an anti-Apple stance or anything like that. New Zealand has a “wait and see” mentality which is annoying but also the safer option.

    New Zealand’s terrain is extremely difficult terrain and with it brings issues that even the incumbent tech such as PLBs and EPERBs can’t get around. So a new tech like this isn’t proven yet.

    My real question is though, why weren’t these trampers heading out with an EPERB? That’s potential suicide even on designated walkways like Arthur’s Pass.
    If you think that a "wait and see" attitude is the safer option then explain to me how these hikers would've been safer without an iPhone 14 with the Emergency SOS Satellite feature, because... as you claim, it hasn't been proven?

    I think it's objectively been proven to work countless times over the past year. it's also a built-in feature in the iPhone (which I can only assume will be in nearly all smartphones within a few years) that doesn't require an additional device to be purchase, activated, subscribed, and carried by individuals who otherwise wouldn't have had a dedicated unit  on their person (as we've seen countless times in the last year).
    Read the article mate. It’s the first use in New Zealand. As I’ve already explained, New Zealand has very different terrain and very different emergency systems to other countries.

    One use case working doesn’t prove it works. Working in a desert with wide open skies is different to being in the bush where canyons can prevent GPS and satellites from working. Hell, satellite systems don’t always work in a city.

    A wait and see process is a good idea to prove that it’s reliable enough for people to ditch EPERBs and other PLBs.

    Just because it works in your country doesn’t mean it will in others. Plain and simple.
    muthuk_vanalingamentropysFileMakerFeller

  • iPhone 14 Satellite SOS saves stranded New Zealand hikers

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    coolfactor said:

    Due to the relative novelty of Apple's service, the air rescue company advised its customers instead to rely on Personal Locator Beacons (PLBs), dedicated devices which use satellite Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates.

    That sounds more like an anti-Apple stance, or an unwillingness to adapt to changing technology. Before the PLB's did they recommend flares?  And before flares was it "yelling really loudly"? :D
    That pretty much sums up how New Zealand reacts to new tech but it’s not an anti-Apple stance or anything like that. New Zealand has a “wait and see” mentality which is annoying but also the safer option.

    New Zealand’s terrain is extremely difficult terrain and with it brings issues that even the incumbent tech such as PLBs and EPERBs can’t get around. So a new tech like this isn’t proven yet.

    My real question is though, why weren’t these trampers heading out with an EPERB? That’s potential suicide even on designated walkways like Arthur’s Pass.
    FileMakerFeller

  • Microsoft begins sunsetting process for Visual Studio for Mac

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    michelb76 said:
    lowededwookie said:
    That's a shame because I was using it for web development. A free, powerful IDE for web development was much appreciated.

    Anyone got any good ideas for replacing it? Preferably free. I'm not going to make use of it more than for my personal website.
    Are you not confusing it with VS Code? That's not going anywhere.
    Ah ha. Yeah, I’m using Visual Studio Code. Good to know I can still use that.
    FileMakerFeller

  • Microsoft begins sunsetting process for Visual Studio for Mac

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    That's a shame because I was using it for web development. A free, powerful IDE for web development was much appreciated.

    Anyone got any good ideas for replacing it? Preferably free. I'm not going to make use of it more than for my personal website.
    byronlwatto_cobra