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  • Apple releases iPadOS & iOS 15.0.2 with bug fixes for Find My, Photos, more

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    iPad OS 15 made my 10.5” iPad Pro (A10X fusion processor) noticeably jittery, performing worse than my iPad 2 did with some software, and I’m still hoping that as they revise it the performance will improve, but this release doesn’t solve the problem. If anybody is holding out to avoid this kind of issue, you should probably keep waiting unless you have other reasons that merit the trade-off. 
    MacsWithPenguins

  • No, Nirvana's 'Nevermind' baby won't trigger Apple's CSAM detection

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    If he were actually bothered by his biggest claim to fame, he would probably just keep a low profile, but I bet he’s been bragging about it for most of his life.
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  • iPhone 13, Apple Watch Series 7 & more: what to expect from the Apple Event

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    mangakatten said:
    When I see the Mac mini redesign with all the cables in the back I think Apple should bring back the wired keyboard and upgrade it to be a thunderbolt-hub! Is not gonna happen as Apple is migrating to wireless, but it’s so cumbersome to access all the ports in the back. 
    That would be great. I can sort of see the benefits of a wireless mouse, but not a wireless keyboard, unless you are pairing it to other devices like an iPad or Apple TV. After many years, my father just bought a wired keyboard to replace the wireless one that came with his iMac, because he got sick of dealing with batteries, etc. and the thing always sits in the same place on his desk, a few inches in front of his iMac. Most people don’t need to move around their computer keyboards like their TV remote control, although I suppose some may. 

    Apple needs to re-think their obsession with wirelessness and try to see the bigger picture. The current iPhone MagSafe charging system is ridiculous (adds complexity and bulk to the phone—where you really don’t want it—and to the charging puck and necessitates a heavy and fragile glass back for the phone to support a process which charges the phone more inefficiently than a simple plug. If they had made the iPhone MagSafe work like the old laptop MagSafe (or something like the iPad Smart Connector), it would have been far superior and just as waterproof. They seem to want to make products that appear “magical” due to the invisible power of magnets and wireless technology even when that means it’s less convenient. 

    And you can’t argue that they are focused on simplicity and convenience, not when they also require you to keep close track of a collection of dongles (sold separately) to maintain compatibility with your flash drives, iPhones, memory cards, scanners, projectors, printers, external drives, Ethernet, headphones, audio interfaces, etc. And I’m not exaggerating—I have to use dongles for every single thing I mentioned here, and in some cases multiple dongles in series, like for my FireWire scanner which still works great. I do realize that they could have stopped supporting it altogether, which would have been worse. 
    williamlondon

  • MacBook Pro with mini LED backlighting set for fall launch

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    jas99 said:
    While I don’t need the added port types - I’m perfectly happy with the one dongle I might use once every 8 months - I suspect the M1X chip and board size is so small Apple had room left over. 
    If you can add those extra ports without increasing the form factor, why not?
    I know they won’t, but throwing in a USB-A would be a nice perk for their actual customers. I have a late-2016 MBP with only USB-C/Thunderbolt 3, and almost five years later I still need USB-A on a regular basis (along with other ports they stopped including). I understand that they sacrifice user convenience in the effort to push other companies to adopt the latest technologies, but at a certain point I do still want convenience and for $2400 I should be able to have it, especially now that anyone likely to respond to that kind of pressure has probably responded by now. I wish they had another way of incentivizing their industry partners that didn’t require them to intentionally make a less useful product. And yes, I know many of you early-adopters don’t need USB-A, or headphone jacks or whatever, but there are also plenty of us who don’t want to change our peripherals/accessories every few years unless it will directly benefit our purposes as we see them. 
    darkvader

  • Apple execs say iPadOS 15 helps users to multitask with UI changes

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    When I saw the multitasking demo, it seemed complicated and not at all intuitive. I would not be able to repeat what I saw without a lot of experimentation. I think much of the success of Apple products has come from their ability to make things that work the way you’d expect them to, and knowing when less is more in terms of functionality. Simple elegance. I recognize the desire to add functionality to make the products more powerful/useful, and I know it gets progressively more difficult to add functionality without sacrificing ease of use, but that’s the genius that has so often distinguished Apple from their competitors (until they all copied it, and eventually we all accepted the solution to the problem as obvious). 
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