cabassi

You can’t share pointer control using a mouse. Only with a trackpad. AVP doesn’t support mice. Try it. (I’d love to be proven wrong about  this.)

nubus said:

The "Apple did USB C on their own" is simply not true. Apple agreed in 2009 and 2014 to standardize the connector. EU told about the plans in 2019 to make it USB-C - that is 4 years ago. And no... Apple couldn't wait to next year. Apple is selling iPhone 13, 14, 15 - next year it will be 14, 15, 16... but at the end of 2024 only USB-C devices can be in the shops.

Apple will have to terminate sales of non USB-C devices clear all inventory from 27 countries... if they did so with 16 then they would have 3 months to get rid of all previous versions. It had to be this year, and even so iPhone 14 will have to be removed ahead of time from EU probably early next year to avoid having the products in the shops.

You’re wrong about a lot of this. The EU announced the ruling on USB-C in 2021, and announced the timing of it at the end of 2022. Also, only phones newly introduced to the market after the deadline (Dec 28, 2024) will have to have USB-C. Apple can continue to sell pre-existing models after that. 

sloth77 said:

Is it just me that finds adverts that directly name (and shame) competitors tacky?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfv6Ah_MVJU

I don’t understand how making Amazon use Apple’s payment mechanism (or “bow out”) addresses the problem of the Kindle app being cross-platform and making it easy to switch from iOS to Android. Can someone explain that to me?

I always thought that the differences between 3D Touch and long-press (functionality-wise) could be confusing to users, and in most cases, I didn't think it was necessary to have two modes instead of one. That said, I do like that pressing forcefully can eliminate the delay with 3D-touch-enabled phones, and there are some cases where it makes sense to have two different functions depending on whether you long-press or 3D press.

Overall, I don't blame Apple for scrapping this. You can get just about all the same functionality with long-press, and a lot more people will use it. 3D touch was nice for power users, but probably not worth the trade-off as far as cost and space it takes up in the phone that could be used for bigger batteries.