I'm struggling to see an acquisition path for Humane; what unique technology would a potential acquirer be picking up? The hand projector? Software wise any AI features they've demonstrated so far (even if working as advertised) are going to be rapidly outstripped by newer, better models. A talent acquisition? They certainly have some beautiful industrial design, but you don't really need to buy the entire company if you want to poach that. Brand? 😅
@stroughtonsmith I can imagine Apple here (probably they too 😅) - their technology might be applied to Apple Watch or some other wearable that Apple might try to do as well. But as you said, can't Apple, with their potential, just copy the good stuff and hire their best people? 😅
One of my pet peeves with ChatGPT’s UI on every platform I’ve tried is the prominence of old conversations in the UI. I view my chats with ChatGPT as ephemeral, not something I want to keep around.
@simonbs Oh yeah, exactly my thoughts. Ephemeral chats should be default: archived afterwards (but searchable if needed!), with user allowed to "pin" or "bookmark" conversations it found useful. That's it.
How long before we start trying to cram an LLM into a space probe to act as a potential interactive digital ambassador containing the wealth of human knowledge? A time capsule that could encapsulate and preserve our culture, languages, history for thousands of years, fired into the cosmos. It is almost certainly going to happen
@stroughtonsmith Hmm, but maybe giving potential aliens „full” knowledge about us without even knowing their intentions and potential is not a really good idea? 😅
Seriously, we know nothing about potential aliens. How they think, react, what (if any) are their moral systems. Just giving up such amount of informations about us (even if vetted, or incomplete) seems to be slightly dangerous.
my big privacy related question is: why (seriously why) Apple keeps deleted photos on their servers indefinitely? for what really? and how that aligned with the privacy of the iPhone statements
bugs happens. that is not just a bug. that is a bug that surfaces the questionable design decisions.
@krzyzanowskim I bet those reports are incorrect - simple as that, people are not good at that at all. It would be almost impossible for a scenario like that. They sync by the device UUID or what?
Quick question: what are you hoping for Apple to reveal at WWDC this year? I’m writing a piece and it’d be useful to get insight into improvements devs and anyone else hopes Apple makes or new things it introduces (and how they are achieved).
AI: Apple needs something huge here, and fast, fortunately for them, their OS'es are perfectly ready for deep AI integration thanks to Siri integration and Shortcuts
iPad improvements: relaxed AppStore policies regarding VMs, shells, IDEs; REAL background operation capabilities; multi-users support; further improvements in Files & Stage Manager
Refocus macOS as "workstation OS" again, which would help further distinguish iPadOS & macOS
@stroughtonsmith 1080p on 27 inch is probably too big though, but 4K @ 27 inch - also. 5K at 2x scaling is the perfect spot here IMO - and Apple nailed those proportions 🤷♂️
Right now I have 28 inch 3:2 display with a 4k+ res also scaled at 150% to match those sweet iMac 5K points size…
I wonder if the DMA would have happened at all if Apple had actually let Epic back on the App Store at the end of their trial like they lied and said they would 🫠
@stroughtonsmith For sure it wouldn't happen if Apple simply allowed for a sideloading few years ago - they could even pack it as a "feature”. No third-party stores, just simple sideloading made with little effort by expanding their Enterprise Provisioning. Even stripped from some AppStore-specific features.
iPad has probably had the most dramatic shift of all of Apple's platforms, since its inception. It began as doing very few things to a very high quality, but now it does almost everything, badly. I hope history finds it to have been more than just an incubator for Apple's Mac silicon during the wayward years
@stroughtonsmith Apple still might have a chance though - but it needs a will from them!
Hardware is here - only software is the issue, they could really "fix" most of the most important roadblocks within one OS update cycle 🤷♂️ They just don't want to.
I remember when they introduced Face ID for iPads Pro in 2018 - I thought: "ok, so this time we'll REALLY add multiple users support and it'll be AWESOME experience!”
@simonbs To be perfectly honest: while I’m having some minor issues with Safari form time to time - those are nowhere near the issues you seems to have 🤔
Thinking about possible other reasons for that - network issues?
Needed to turn off Screen Time temporarily. Apple: “bollocks to you, then”. Infers the set-up is wiped and has me start from scratch. I go through the set-up, and it merges the new one with what was already there. But the block set-ups have been randomly wiped.
Struggling to think of what could convince me to upgrade from my 2018 11in iPad Pro
It's pretty much a Photoshop & airplane movie machine for me now. So I guess some tangible upgrade to the pencil, or if they manage to make it thinner/lighter or (gasp) fold 😄 https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112320928051400405
I have the same model - it really is the „ok" size & weight (although I keep it mostly on some holder/Magic Keyboard or hold on my laps)
Thinner & ligher usually means worse battery, worse thermals. Even if battery time will stay the same in theory, it would've been longer with bigger size.
@charliemchapman I have so weird feelings for iPads these days. From one side: I love the device & form factor! It's a perfect mobile computer. A tablet by day - perfect for content consumption, and a laptop if needed (with Magic Keyboard). And Apple Pencil as a great accessory as well (I don't have one though).
Apple could make it a fantastic, universal computer - they run literally the same hardware as Macs now - but they choose not to, and basically keep it as a „bigger iPhone" 🤷♂️
Today is one of those classic development days where I had put off dealing with a tricky design/UX problem during the initial creation of a feature (offline maps in Pedometer++), which I now have to solve (deleting old maps).
I didn't address it the first time because I didn't have a great answer and I hoped that after using the feature for a while the solution would come to me [narrator: it did not], but now I really kinda need to find an answer.