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I'm excited that Apple Maps will get another great update, especially the bus routes and navigation. Although I think Apple Maps is easier to use and better designed, I primarily use Google Maps for its wealth of data.

I live in Taiwan, and use maps mainly to look for restaurants and locate stores, and secondarily to search for bus routes. Here Google is king when it comes to restaurant information: offering ratings, reviews, photos, menus, and even third-party delivery and reservation services. This is an instance where the quantity of the data is really helpful, and Apple Maps just can't competitive in its current state. I would gladly switch to Apple Maps if it met my needs, especially for the added privacy, but I'm guessing the tightly focused Apple way will need more time until it makes a serious, concerted push into broadening the scope of its maps app.

Same here. 

On a side note:

It's interesting to see proof that Steve's on-stage outfit is also what he'd wear in real life.

Along these lines, I'd guess that the reason his keynotes were so casual and watchable by regular people is that he was just being his usual self.

Contrast this with the slicked up ways other CEOs present themselves on stage, and one can see why Steve was so unique and beloved by Apple fans.

cecil4444 said:

mattinoz said:

Comparison misses the fact the primary feature of the SE was lost in the redesign.
it didn’t grow up it ballooned. 

Exactly right. Best feature of the 2016 SE was its size — perfect for one-handed use, at a time when the newest phones lost that benefit. Sadly they only got bigger and bigger since then. Not everyone wants a jumbo phone.

While I agree the SE is no longer the one-handed wonder it used to be, I think the 2016 size is no longer that useful in terms of today's web content and UI design.

Even back in 2018 when I was still wedded to my beloved SE, surfing the web was like reading a bulletin board through a telescope—an unending loop of zooming in and out of the same web page to read very small type and look at images. Not only that, but apps were so short on space that interface elements became smooshed together. An app might have a row of buttons on the top and bottom of the screen (with the "Back" button already encroaching on the center title), and then only have enough space in the center of the screen for a scant two or three lines of text. Additionally, trying to read ebooks on the SE was a marathon for your thumbs because you'd have to scroll every two sentences.

Do I miss the diminutive size of the 2016 SE? Definitely. It felt great in the hand, and easy to pocket. But for my own uses, the resulting small screen was nearing the limit of its usability.

From my in-person experience of holding the new SE, it still feels great in the hand (which are probably smaller than average). But is it pocketable? Well, that depends on how big your pants are.

I could see this feature being useful for seeing other "Spaces" (virtual desktops) in full size, rather than the small thumbnails that we are presented with in the current MacOS implementation. But I doubt that Apple would invest this much tech and at the same time raising the cost of the iMac for a single feature.

Coming at this invention from another angle, if the projected image were of really high quality, and the surface it were projected on very suitable, then I could see an iMac or even a MacBook replacing the need for a large screen TV for watching video content. This is one problem I have with using a MacBook as my largest format media consuming device, not being able to watch things on a large screen. However, having the feature referenced in this patent would solve this problem.