#FaceTime invitees need the ability to share their screen. That seems to be the biggest glaring miss when using it with non-Apple devices that work being it up to par with other video conferencing apps. #Apple#Mac#iPhone
Here is my continued discomfort with the Apple Vision Pro and how its announcement/roll-out has gone: In every single way, this is a dev kit, which I think is completely valid and is the proper positioning for a device like this at this stage. But Apple, while somewhat positioning it like a dev kit in terms of price/release/how it can be tried out, continues to market this as a direct to consumer device. You cannot be both, and I cannot stress this enough. You cannot be both.
They say it will ship with spatial versions of #Safari, Photos, Music, Messages, TV, Freeform, Notes, Mail, Keynote, Mindfulness, #FaceTime, and an #AppStore for #AppleArcade, bespoke and compatible #iPhone and #iPad apps.
The fact that NVIDIA made software that forces eye contact through AI makes me realize how much work needs to be done in accepting neurodivergent folks and how we communicate/walk through the world.
It’s a myth that eye contact = trust, attention, respect…
If you meet me in person, I’ll likely look at your eyes… once? But I still care about you, what you say, and want to connect. I just can’t look directly at you - it’s too overwhelming. I know I’m not alone.
This article from @jsnell at @sixcolors is spot on! If you are getting started on a #Mac, especially if you are coming from #Microsoft#Windows, don’t install anything! Chances are it’s built in and you don’t need an app at all! The defaults are what I use for the majority of my workflow and they work exceptionally well! And I agree, the Mac needs a clipboard manager! https://apple.news/APFeqn2R-OfyGIxDw5qWu8A
@jsnell@sixcolors A couple of my favorite best kept #Mac secret defaults are:
-Don’t install #Adobe, just use #Preview
-No need to install #Microsoft#Office, just use iWork (#Pages, #Numbers, #Keynote)
-#FaceTime can do what most conferencing apps do, no need for #Zoom or #Teams, including scheduling meetings and sharing screens
-The built in #Dictionary app is crazy helpful and useful, especially if you can’t connect to the internet for a quick word lookup.
There is so much bloat in the #MacOs these days. All these apps should be optional downloads. But they aren't. They sit there, never being used with regular updates being pushed, taking up resources. For example my Mac doesn't have a camera, so why does my OS have #Facetime? #software#bloat
Friends, last night I discovered you can share the music you are playing on Spotify via FaceTime and it will play for the other person as well. Even though @cara is traveling this weekend, I was able to share my music and dancing with her while cooking dinner. She thought it was funny enough to grab screenshots so I thought I would share. 😆 :bisexual_fire:
I am devastated that #Zoom has decided to become an #AIhype company and I’m going to have to go back to using #GoogleMeet. As a #firefox user, Google Meet is horrible software. Roughly 20% failure rate, either audio has issues or video quality collapses even on gigabit wired connections from both parties.
My dream is #Apple decides to finally offer a cross-platform version of #Facetime group calls which remains the best audio and video quality I’ve ever seen in video conferencing. The 32 user limit would sometimes be a problem, but otherwise it’s really stellar software.
If you have a headset that supports spatial audio and you close your eyes, it is like the person is in the room with you. It’s that good.
#Apple threatens to remove #FaceTime and #iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security under a proposed security bill amendment, dubbed a “snooper's charter”
They go on to imagine some wonderful or awful scenario where the floodgates are open and #Threads becomes another #ActivityPub app like #CalcKey or #Plemora.
Maybe.... but what you are envisioning is really very unlikely. Threads is entirely algorithm driven. How's that going to work? Plus they have no interest in letting their captured users escape.
Apple Tries to Explain to U.K. Legislators That You Can’t Add Back Doors to Secure Protocols (daringfireball.net)
Link to: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66256081
Apple warning it could shut FaceTime, iMessage in UK over gov't surveillance policy adds to growing tech industry discontent | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The list of mainstream Internet services that could shut down in the UK over security risks attached to government policymaking just got longer...
This is a quietly big year for the Apple TV and tvOS (www.theverge.com)
FaceTime, a far better Control Center, and a remote finder.