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  • iOS 18 saw below average adoption despite Apple Intelligence

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    " below average adoption despite Apple Intelligence" - maybe because of it? After all, Apple Intelligence has pretty much been a failure - the headlines it has generated was making up fake headlines and the Siri fiasco.  I've yet to see any news about Apple Intelligence being useful.

    And in addition, Apple Intelligence is only available in a couple of markets, in a couple of languages. Thus, many of us would have even less reason to upgrade as there wasn't a lot of other things in that underwhelming iOS release.

    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondondewmedebonbonToroidalgavzaanantksundaram

  • Microsoft blames Apple's interference for why the Xbox mobile store has failed to launch

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    What I really want is access to game pass streaming on my devices. Native games would be good too, but especially streaming on AppleTV.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple Music Classical comes to the web before the Mac

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    mpantone said:
    AppleZulu said:
    Well, this is a profoundly odd choice on Apple's part. Why would they go to the trouble of making Apple Classical Music available via a web browser, but not natively on a mac or on AppleTV?
    Because web browsers run on lots of things like Windows and Linux PCs.

    If they addressed Macs and Apple TVs with native clients, they wouldn't be capturing any more marketshare. That's preaching to the choir.

    Remember that the Mac marketshare hovers around ~12% of the total PC market depending which ANALyst report you're reading. That's still a small percentage.

    Remember that there's already an Apple Classical Music app for iOS and the vast majority of Mac and Apple TV owners also have an iPhone.

    Besides people have been streaming classical radio via web browsers for a very long time. This is a tradition that any classical music enthusiast should be well aware of since it predates widespread smartphone adoption.

    This move is about broadening the audience for Apple Classical Music.
    It would be a really strange world if Apple's argument for not releasing software on the Mac was low marketshare  - "Remember that the Mac marketshare hovers around ~12% of the total PC market depending which ANALyst report you're reading. That's still a small percentage".

    Personally, I'd like to see Apple Classical Music support added to AppleTV and Sonos. The former including video support, for opera and concerts.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple hardware lost to LA fires needs to be replaced by homeowner's insurance, not AppleCa...

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    entropys said:
    I would never think to use AppleCare for replacing destroyed goods due to a fire.
    that is what insurance is for. 
    And as to the difficulty to get insurance in California, most of that is actually regulatory.  
    (Disclosure, work in a national disaster department, not USA but same sort of issues).
    Could you explain? Is it because companies are not allowed to charge a rate corresponding to the risk in these areas?
    watto_cobra

  • Best monitors for Mac mini: budget visual heavyweights for the smallest Mac

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    Does anyone know of a good, ultra widescreen monitor with two thunderbolt in connections?

    I have a stationary Mac and also connect a laptop frequently (work), and I'd rather have Thunderbolt for both connections than having to use both USB and displayport, or USB and HDMI.

    I've seen plenty of monitors having two thunderbolt connections, but then one of them is for daisy chaining monitors and can't be used as an input - and that's not what I'm interested in.
    watto_cobra