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  • The Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro is well implemented, but serves no useful purpose

    darkpawdarkpaw
    "The Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro is well implemented, but serves no useful purpose"

    Well, says you, one person at AI.

    I like the Touch Bar. I use it to scrub through photos, adjust brightness etc. all day. It's quicker than using the mouse or keyboard, and it has Touch ID, which is very useful. I agree that there should be more uses for Touch ID, but it will get there.

    For those of you wanting to use FN keys all the time, switch them on in your preferences. If you want tactile keys, then why are you using an iPhone which has no physical keyboard? I don't see you complaining about that.

    For those of us who actually went and tried out the Touch Bar before we bought a £3,000 laptop, we bought it for a reason, based on use. If you went out and bought a Touch Bar MBP without trying it out first, is that how you normally spend that much money?
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  • Watch 5 great new features in macOS Mojave

    darkpawdarkpaw
    "Capture selected window ... is new in macOS Mojave". Nah, it's been in macOS for years. Cmd + Shift + 4, then press Space.
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  • China's Smartisan says Apple has 'lost its soul' in pitch for new smartphone

    darkpawdarkpaw
    tomasulu said:
    I’m a huge fan of Apple. I’ve pretty much all of their products from watches to desktops and everything in between. But I also agreed that Apple is in a general state of decline in terms of their ability to innovate and to think big. I see companies like Tesla, Google and even Amazon leading the way and going out of their comfort zone. Apple seems to be stuck in trying to do thing so perfectly and with craftsmanship that they’re not trying hard enough. Yeah having a biometric authentication method that’s 2 years ahead of your competitor is wonderful. But it’s not denting the universe. I don’t see anything from Apple that is going to fundamentally changed our lives. Like how it was when Steve disrupted so many industries. Even the secretive Apple car is simply a me-too trying to catch up to Google and tesla.
    You do realise you just rubbished your own argument, right?

    "Apple is in a general state of decline in terms of their ability to innovate"... "Yeah having a biometric authentication method that’s 2 years ahead of your competitor is wonderful."

    So:
    - Face ID, which no competitor has managed to match.
    - A-series processors, created in-house, and beating every other smartphone chip out there.
    - First with 64-bit processors in a phone.
    - The latest version of iOS is supported on devices four, maybe five years old. Where's the competition?
    - iPad beating every other tablet out there in both hardware and software.
    - Apple Watch beating all other smartwatches.
    - HomePod has the best speaker array in a "smart speaker" (Siri is software, and will be improved).
    - macOS is still much easier and better to use than Windows and Linux.
    - Handoff, Continuity...

    These are innovations.
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  • Apple acquires Ed Sheeran documentary Songwriter ahead of Tribeca debut

    darkpawdarkpaw
    I wish Apple would put quite a bit of money behind artists normal people actually like. We aren't all teenage girls.

    Maybe Apple could add a feature to never include Ed Sheeran in any playlists ever. It's getting a bit tedious trying to listen to a curated playlist that changes every week, but it always has a song by him in it.

    I don't like him, I cannot stand his music, and I have no way of telling my Music app to just skip over his stuff.
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  • Microsoft accidentally bricks AMD PCs with Spectre patch

    darkpawdarkpaw
    Rayz2016 said:
    Who are those people and why are they talking to shoes?
    Get Smart.
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