OutdoorAppDeveloper

It feels like Apple held back some features for the new iPad Mini. It is missing MM wave 5G, LIDAR and has a binned slower CPU than the iPhone. Perhaps we will get those in the Mini Pro next year along with a M1X processor. The feature I would love to see on an iPad is the ability to share a phone number with your iPhone like your Apple Watch can. It has full cellular, a microphone and a speaker so why not? Time to wake up those dozing cellular providers.

It's odd Apple did not call out a 20% speed increase during the launch presentation. If Intel or AMD managed a 20% CPU performance increase that's all you would hear about for weeks. Instead they talk up their low single digit performance increases.

Disallowing an app based on constantly changing "rules" that Apple can make up and modify whenever it suits them is by definition developer abuse. Work for a year on an app working around the limitations of the Apple SDK (which are numerous on the Apple Watch) and then wait in terror for the review only to be told that keyboards are not allowed on the Apple Watch. Please think objectively for a second. Who exactly does a rule like that help? Is it for user security? Is it for user safety? Perhaps instead it is about Apple jealously guarding its precious power over what users are allowed to do with their devices.

Why am I going on and on about this subject? For three reasons:
1. It harms the users since they are never even given the chance to see many apps they would find useful.
2. It harms developers because we don't have the opportunity to create wonderful new apps that no one has ever imagined before.
3. It harms Apple as many of those apps would cause more people to buy their products and more developers to flock to their platform. It is already costing them billion$ and it could cost them their place in the market.

The iPhone 13 uses a Lightning connector which has USB 2 bandwidth. USB C is 20 times faster. 20 times! Just think about that for a few seconds. A 10 GB 4K movie takes 2.7 minutes to transfer to the iPhone 13 while the same movie takes 8.3 seconds on current Android phones. What reason did Apple have to refuse to add USB C for the past few years? It's on most of their other devices now including their iPads.

So much secrecy. So little results. Again the iPhone 14 was leaked a week before the iPhone 13 was released causing many potential buyers to wait for next years far sleeker model. Given that level of leak, what difference does it make keeping some arcane aspect of an Apple product a secret?