sagan_student

Nice comparison between the two watches. My only gripe is how the screen size is talked about. You mention in the display section that “Google's screen is circular, which will affect the amount of information it could show, versus a square one that has pixels in the corners.”. I feel this is a bit disingenuous, as the Pixel actually has 5% more pixels when compared to the 41 mm Apple Watch. While I agree that a rectangle screen COULD hold more information, the author should have included that the Pixel does have 5% more pixels. 

dysamoria said:

How many of you take advantage of being able to type long iMessages with paragraph breaks? Does it not bother you that you cannot scroll that text box (you know, to do proofreading; people do proofread, right??) without iOS getting “confused” and “assuming” you want to close the keyboard? Just me, huh? Because that’s what it feels like.

It feels like I’m the only person who uses this device enough to notice the mountain of bugs and conflicting gestures that it has become. It feels like no one at Apple actually uses their own products and that people on these Apple forums cannot see flaws.

Today’s Apple is not the same company as the Apple being showcased in the years of the iPhone’s first few years. I want that Apple back. There is no Steve Jobs to have back, and there’s also a lot of lost vision and attention to detail that seems it’s never coming back as well. It’s depressing.

Am I missing something here? To scroll, just touch and hold the spacebar. The keyboard turns into a trackpad and you scroll to where you want to make an edit. Or are you referring to something else?

I share your sentiment as I have my own frustrations, but I disagree with your conclusion. When comparing current day iPhones with the iPhone as a new product there are many details that cannot be glossed over. One that conflicts with your statement of Apple not caring, is that the first iPhone was extremely limited. These imposed limits that Apple chose to put on the original (and earlier) iPhones is what made it ‘just work’. It wasn’t trying to be everything, it was doing 3 things well. As time and competition caught up, additional features come into the fold. More features = more places for bugs to hide. Whenever, I start to get frustrated by something that I feel Apple should be doing better at, I look to my friends that have Android or Alexa and see that they also suffer from their own bugs/limits.

Unfortunately that Apple no longer exists. It is one of the biggest, wealthiest and most successful companies in the world now. They are no longer maintaining a single vision from which to grow; but, rather, a larger and all encompassing one. They can no longer be a company that will surprise everyone with a new piece of tech, like AR/VR glasses, that will revolutionize the industry and be unlike anything from Apple that we have ever seen. Everything they do in this space has to about being a piece of the larger picture for Apple, which is to say how does AR/VR fit into what and where Apple is currently headed. And for that, IMO, Apple can never be what there were 20 years ago. It can be seen as a sad reality, but such is life. I cannot be my teenage, carefree, and self-absorbed me ever again; I have seen and experienced too many things. No matter how hard I try, I can never be that again. 🤷‍♂️

bloggerblog said:

When Jobs introduced Siri he said it’s going to be a conversational AI assistant. I know it could be hard to do, but it’s been 10 years! Siri had a huge head start, it should be better than the competition in every way. 

While Apple may have appeared to have a bit of a head start, Google had the advantage in most ways over Apple. The foundation that Google could build their assistant off of came from their work with predictive search, scanning the worlds books, digitizing and cataloging everything else, and all the work done with targeted, personalized ads. All Apple had as a potential base to build off of was, IMO, finder. Apple’s business model and all their learnings over the years are not very transferable to the creation of a voice assistant; Google’s (and Amazon’s and even Meta’s) are transferable. Using this as a potential predictive model; if one knew Microsoft’s business model, could they have predicted where they would fall in advancement of Cortana? I would say yes. Microsoft did try to pivot a bit with the release of Bing, but they were over a decade behind Google in Search. 

I use Siri daily, and while she has gotten better, the more proficient and comfortable I am becoming with speaking my thoughts instead of taking the slower time of typing them down, the more aggravating it is as I hit up against more boundaries of her abilities. I do hope that the work that they have been doing with Maps and Siri suggested search results starts to expand Siri’s portfolio. Luckily for Apple, I really don’t know what I am missing, yet, as I am invested in their ecosystem and most of my immediate and extended family and friend groups are too. Those that are using Android, are not using Okay Google in any meaningful way either. But for how much longer… I do hope Apple steps up their game in this area and soon too. Perhaps the release of a significant upgrade will be coincided with the release of their AR headset? 🤷‍♂️🤞

Cheers.

hackintoisier said:

Xed said:

hackintoisier said:

I wouldn’t refer to iPadOS 15’s multitasking features as “polish.” It’s still a mess.  No windowing support, we’re still limited to two apps on screen in split view mode, external monitor support is still a broken mirrored mess that doesn’t use the aspect ratio of the monitor. 

Apple can do so much better than this, I know they can. 

Thank god we don't we don't have to you pointers to constantly resize and drag windows around on a small display.

I don’t know if you’ve ever used Samsung dex, but it has resizable windows, and while it has its quirks, it’s a much much better multitasking experience than the more powerful iPad, in my view. Others may disagree. 

But with dex you have free-form control over the width/height of most windows (some apps have a minimum size beyond which they cannot go below). And it’s easy to use your fingers to resize windows and move them around the screen. When you resize windows, most apps resize in a way where the text doesn’t get too small to read. You can have your web browser to the left, YouTube open in the lower right, have instagram or whatever other app on the screen as well. All this from a Samsung phone hooked up to a usb-c touch screen monitor. You can customize your multitasking layout to your heart’s content. To the extent you haven’t tried Dex, I suggest to use it and compare the experience to iPadOS. 

I’m not saying Apple should copy Dex, but there clearly exists a better and more intuitive multitasking implementation on other tablets/phones.  Apple is an extremely talented company so I know they can do better than what they’ve given us. 

I don’t understand why they put m1 into the iPad only to limit it in the way they have. I guess it’s because Apple caters iPadOS to the minimum specification of iPads, some of which have far inferior processors than the m1 and might be too sluggish with a more multitasking-oriented OS. 

I don’t share the same experiences as you do with this. I have been using an iPad Pro 12.9” coming up to six years (a got the original in November of 2015) and had recently updated to the release of the one in 2020. Unfortunately, about a month ago it was stolen (I really don’t know why people would take it, I feel it’s useless to them, they can’t do anything with it, or maybe they can, but I’m doubtful). Anyway, so now I’m using an HP laptop from work and using multiple windows is such a pain in the ass. It honestly surprises me that it’s that bad. The  individual windows being layered overtop of each other on a window of different sizes is annoying. I’d far rather use the split screen and a slide over window and a four finger swipe to another app or split screen, then having to meander multiple windows of varying sizes on a laptop with a point and click mouse. 

Is it native of me to see this as similar to the App Store policies? Society has built the structure through which Apple is benefiting from; so to play in this sandbox it is going to cost you 15%.