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  • Waze starts beta testing Apple CarPlay support ahead of iOS 12 release

    sirozhasirozha
    Even with Google Maps and Waze soon to be available on CarPlay, search is going to be driven by Siri. This is still going to be a crippled system compared to Google Maps and Waze on Android Auto, where Google Assistant shines in the car. 

    Apple has so much cash and so much engineering talent (supposedly). Why is Siri so limited and plain dumb? Those who have never tried Android Auto don’t understand how infuriatingly limited and dumb the CarPlay experience is compared to Android Auto. I’ve been using both in the past 1.5 years, and there’s no comparison. Two CarPlay issues are inferior Maps and inferior voice assistant. The inferior maps will soon be solved by allowing Google Maps and Waze on CarPlay. The inferior voice assistant will remain on CarPlay.  
    lplohmann

  • iPhone XR hands-on: New model called 'fascinating,' 'a super-strange phone'

    sirozhasirozha
    If I upgrade this year, it will be iPhone XR. The most important things about the phone is not the screen but the camera. The camera in the XR is a huge improvement over the previous generations. The screen is small enough that lower resolution will not be noticeable. The pictures of that quality and resolution should be viewed on large high-definition screens, like large 4K TVs. 
    watto_cobra

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook donates nearly $5M in company stock to charity

    sirozhasirozha
    loquitur said:
    sirozha said:
    Tim, keep donating your personal wealth to LGBT rights. Good job!

    Just please leave Apple out of your social agenda. 
    Apple, like many corporate entities (public or otherwise), co-sponsors various activities ranging from charitable contributions
    to agencies involved in humanitarian disasters (e.g. via donations to the American Red Cross), efforts supporting
    a greener planet (Apple being nearly "net zero" here), and also human rights issues such as the LGBT movement.

    Just looking at the 2018 sponsor list for SF Gay Pride, this includes Budweiser, Hilton Hotels, T-Mobile, Smirnoff,
    Salesforce, the Commonwealth Club, Amazon, AT&T, intel, PG&E, airbnb, Lyft, many health orgs such as
    the Kaiser Foundation, Genentech, Gilead, etc., and retail ops ranging from Safeway to Nordstrom.

    Now you may be anything from a capital-L libertarian, a religious practitioner, a Leninist, or amongst those believing that any
    corporatist involvement in "social agendas" constitutes anathema.   Meanwhile, Apple and the LGBT
    rights movement marches on.
    Wrong. I’m none of the above. I‘m a shareholder with a sizeable AAPL portfolio. I don’t hold any positions in any other corporations that actively support social agendas. Let LGBT CEOs support LGBT charities. Let evangelical CEO support Christian fundamental charities. You get the drift. I don’t care what they do with their own money. I want them to keep the corporations they were hired to run out of their social agendas. I want them to focus on the main purpose of the corporation they run, i.e. increasing the value for the stockholders.  
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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook donates nearly $5M in company stock to charity

    sirozhasirozha
    Tim, keep donating your personal wealth to LGBT rights. Good job!

    Just please leave Apple out of your social agenda. 
    anton zuykov[Deleted User]maciekskontaktmld53a

  • Apple axes Back to My Mac in macOS Mojave

    sirozhasirozha
    fastasleep said:

    Anachr0n said:
    ipilya said:
    Just a heads up people.... If you open safari and type in the address bar: vnc://ip-address:port it will open Remote Desktop / screen sharing
    Good to know.  Now all I have to do is ask my parents to look up their IP:port. Easy...
    /s 

    They’re  probably killing it for security reasons, which is good. My only ask is: if you can share your screen with Face Time/ Messages, and it has end to end encryption; why can’t you also allow remote control?  Is there a significant  difference in risk/security? 
    Get them a static IP and then you won't have to ask them.
    You can do remote control via iMessages. There must be a person on the other side to accept the connection, though. 
    fastasleepStrangeDays