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kkolakowski

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iOS & games developer, solo army of oneminutegames@gamedev.place 🙂

Also interested in retro computing and various other tech stuff 🤓

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dosnostalgic, to random
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It has happened. A grown ass adult Mac user told me they had no idea how to "make a folder". Damn. Phones ruined people.

kkolakowski,
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@dosnostalgic There's much more to this... Many people are not even using computers other than smartphones. No surprise they have no idea what "folder" is.

And even if they have computers, they use them more like a bigger phone: concepts of files & folders is quite complex for them. It's very interesting...

stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint for visionOS

/via https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/microsoft-corporation/id298856275

kkolakowski, (edited )
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@stroughtonsmith So Microsoft was able to build their Office suite to visionOS and Apple does not? 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

simonbs, to random
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Was it confirmed that Apple Vision Pro will be coming to more countries later this year or is this new? From https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-vision/apple-vision-pro

kkolakowski,
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@simonbs Yes... Although unspecified which ones yet, but all could guess 🤷‍♂️

craiggrannell, to random
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My family’s first home computer was an Atari 400. I don’t remember much about it, bar the horrible keyboard. Interesting that it’s getting a mini-console, but then why not? The creators already have the foundation and the licensing partners. So really this is all about new tooling for the exterior.

As for overshadowed by the C64… yep. And that’s the computer we ended up with in our home.

From: @arstechnica
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/111767352596886276

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell Atari 8-bit family had a kind of resurgence (in form of 65XE) in Eastern Europe in late 80s. Already outdated tech, but Tramiel was able to get a license to sell them behind Iron Curtain.

So this was my first home computer, but in 1989-1992 🙂 Still great memories! Replaced by Amiga 600 🥰

simonbs, to random
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Everyone: the keyboard in visionOS sucks hard.

Me: OK IM BUILDING A TEXT EDITOR FOR IT

kkolakowski,
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@simonbs For any „real" work I can't imagine working on visionOS without physical keyboard 🤷‍♂️

verge, to random
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The Apple Vision Pro has a ‘guest’ mode for your friends to try it https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/16/24039995/apple-vision-pro-guest-mode-friends?utm_content=buffera958a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

kkolakowski,
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@verge Unless you have glasses 🥸

stroughtonsmith, to random
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There is something quite scattershot about Apple's Vision Pro native app story. 3D movies and virtual cinema, virtual Mac display, Keynote (and only Keynote), a whiteboard, a mindfulness visualizer, a dinosaur for your carpet — they're trying to cover a lot of bases. Future generations of this product are very much going to be defined by the third party experiences built atop it

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith I think it shows that Apple tries different things and checks what would stick 🤷‍♂️ Well, everything except VR games 😅

rileytestut, to random
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If we do see true 3rd party app stores, I doubt they’ll be distributed through the App Store. That would imply that these stores could install and update other apps, but would have to go through App Review themselves for every update

kkolakowski,
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@rileytestut This is... not great to be honest 🤔 I just want to install any app (signed, notarized, provisioned) outside of any AppStore like on other „computers". I don't want any extra stores really, for the handful that I plan to install. Of course that's not targeted into you and AltStore.

kkolakowski,
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@rileytestut That would be really interesting approach indeed. I really don't want a „Meta" store to just install WhatsApp & Instagram for example 😬 And not only because of potential privacy issues, but also simple convenience.

I definitely will install AltStore in that case, as I assume you will want to support this route 😅

Also, maybe developing things like emulators to iOS/iPadOS/visionOS (!) became much more sensible! I have a plan for one by myself!

dimillian, to random
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Do you think it's good? Because I think it's not good for consumers or app makers. EU will probably be late with new stuff yet again.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/15/app-store-to-be-split-in-two/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

kkolakowski,
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@dimillian Short: sideloading is good ✅, multiple AppStores are not ❌

I want to install any app I want on my device. Apple doesn't like emulators, VMs, torrents on their store? Ok, but I still want to use such apps.

nicklockwood, to random
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What's the best way to play (classic) Lemmings on a modern Mac?

(I'm aware of DosBox, browser-based versions, etc - I'd like something that comes as a standard app package ideally)

kkolakowski,
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@ratkins Emulation on iPad exists, and it's available for many platforms, including PC, Amiga, old Macs, VMs for more modern OS'es like Windows XP, basically any game console.

It's simply not allowed on the AppStore - but you can do it by building said apps from source, or sideload it using self-sign. Some tools are available like AltStore by @rileytestut

https://altstore.io/

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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Moment of recognition to everyone who paid $19.99 to get Mail, Maps, and Notes on their iPod touch back in 2008.

kkolakowski,
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@BasicAppleGuy Apple bragged that they next updates were free for years 😅

And macOS was paid for many years later as well. A different era for software indeed! Now even Windows is effectively free (but filled with ads & analytics!)

I started using iPod touch and later iPhones just after this paid upgrades era.

dimillian, to SwiftUI
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With the new ScrollView API, making a paginated scroll is now straightforward. Combine .containerRelativeFrame in your item with .scrollTargetLayout and on the container. Bonus added if you support arrow keys to navigate, like the code in the video (for macOS).

video/mp4

kkolakowski,
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@dimillian I still think a proper page view would be a nice addition to - it's simply far too common use-case to not have one 🤔

(I know TabView have such style but still - it has to be more flexible)

craiggrannell, to random
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This is a great point. This Tetris works well on mobile and can on modern macOS be tuned into an app-like experience. And it’s official. So I’m not sure why Gruber felt the need to be so sweary. (Also, by inference from his piece: so it’s OK to rip off Pajitnov and co because reasons? What other games is it OK to directly clone? Where’s the line?)

From: @kkolakowski
https://mastodon.social/@kkolakowski/111742881202594877

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell With games like Tetris - where the „idea" is the "core" of the game - it's very hard to pursue the copyrights. In theory - ideas, concepts are not copyrighted AFAIK - only specific implementations and use cases.

I think TETRIS company have a quite broad copyright here, not only for the title, but also partially: for game logic: brick types, specific rules of the game.

I don't blame them, given what struggle they had in the 80s/90s 🤷‍♂️

craiggrannell, to random
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“A hearty fuck you to The Tetris Company for ruthlessly shutting down hobbyist clones while refusing to license a decent official just-plain-Tetris Mac app.”

News to me that the company has “refused” to do this. Citation required…

Also, if Mac users want Tetris, the official version works just fine in Safari. https://tetris.com/play-tetris/

From: @daringfireball
https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/111741051992898486

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell It also plays perfectly well on an iPhone. And can be added as PWA app to home screen as well - being MUCH better "just Tetris" than official F2P AppStore version 🙃 Touch controls works great as well!

Aaand, it can also be embedded as an app on macOS as well, just using the mobile version URL: https://tetris.com/games-content/play-tetris-content/index-mobile.php and then „Add to Dock" in Safari 🤓

daringfireball, to random
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From the DF Archive: Are There Any Tetris Games for Mac?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/01/11/tetris-for-mac

kkolakowski,
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@daringfireball As @craiggrannell said, there's an online official (and FREE!) Tetris game: https://tetris.com/play-tetris/

Which also works on mobile, as PWA (can be added to home screen as an app), which also works on a Mac! Just use this URL: https://tetris.com/games-content/play-tetris-content/index-mobile.php and "Add to Dock” It consumes very little resources as well (it happens if you won't include entire web browser with it 🙃)

It's as pure of a Tetris as it can be. It's free, and MUCH better than those mobile F2P ones.

dimillian, to random
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I don’t understand why they’re not just enabling the iPad app as a Catalyst app. It would be 1000 times better than this dogshit.

From: @benbloodworth
https://mstdn.party/@benbloodworth/111738669517506739

kkolakowski,
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@dimillian It lacks tons of features from macOS Music app. Especially: ability to list playlists as actual condensed lists, not those big table views (which are webviews in reality :o)

But... this could be a nice motivation to improve iPad Music app and add missing features to it.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Apple pitching Vision Pro as a 'spatial computer’ from the outset is setting it up to run head first into the ‘iPad is not a real computer' arguments for the next decade, except this time it costs 7x the original iPad.

I already see people on Reddit thinking the device is as powerful as a multi-screen Mac, and they're going to be quite upset when they realize it’s an iPad with a very limited app selection 👀

Apple is going to have to work damn hard to make it live up to 'spatial computer’

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith I have a small hope that Vision Pro will give a „bump" to iPad as well, which will benefit from his (big?) brother.

simonbs, to random
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Europe, if you're lucky, you too can buy a $3,500 dev kit before the end of the year.

kkolakowski,
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@simonbs Add ~20% of usual VAT to this amount though 🤑

_Davidsmith, to random
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Pricing for the Vision Pro inserts seems pretty reasonable "ZEISS Optical Inserts — Readers will be available for $99 (U.S.), and ZEISS Optical Inserts — Prescription will be available for $149 (U.S.).” In the same ballpark as a pair of glasses which seems about right.

kkolakowski,
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@jamesthomson Is that a known thing? 🤔 They mentioned it somewhere/sometime?

For sure I won't be buying them (I can't anyway, at least for now) - but I would love to rent then for a while 🤔

simonbs, to random
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I hope to see a company at CES 2024 present a power bank that is closer to the one I dream of than what is currently available on the market 🤞 https://mastodon.social/@simonbs/110983250234275803

kkolakowski,
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@simonbs I know that MacBooks could take much more power while in use, but I used a 30W MBA charger on my MBP (which comes with 90W brick normally) - and I never encountered any problem, even while in use. It consumes ~5-10W at idle so any surplus can be used for charging (albeit slowly)

Sure, when using MBP hard - you would loose energy, but while normal development use, it would be ok 🤷‍♂️🤔

kkolakowski,
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@simonbs 20W could work for „normal" work. Not playing games, but working for example in Xcode with occasional compiling. This is "random" total power use of my 14inch MBP with M1 Pro for the last hour of mixed use, with some (lighter) Xcode development (no full rebuilds). And with a 4K external display attached. Those are VERY efficient laptops!

And for sure if you just want to charge it overnight, I guess 20W should manage to charge in a few hours anyway 🤷‍♂️

dimillian, to SwiftUI
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It’ll be funny seeing the community collapse and split in two when Apple introduces AI-assisted Xcode and AI frameworks to build iOS apps. In the same way, we still have a division between and . There is only one way, and it’s upward.

kkolakowski,
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@dimillian Tbh, like @stroughtonsmith said yesterday - those who won't embrace (especially if Apple could do that with more privacy and local) - will simply end up with inferior products.

That's not the case really with vs - end user don't care about such technicalities, but for features - for sure 🤷‍♂️

stroughtonsmith, to random
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If Apple is adding a LLM-based generative AI API to iOS, expect every single first and third party app to adopt it and tout AI features this year. It's going to be a big deal. This is Apple's major chance to relaunch Siri/'Siri Intelligence’ and turn the narrative around

https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/111715205794509037

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith If Apple wants to bring robust AI support to their systems and APIs, I can see it like that:

  • A local (?) LLM API to use in apps, similar to current LLM APIs. Not sure if robust local LLM will be possible, but if not, they should use server-side service first to keep up

  • A system level LLM (marketed as super-improved Siri?) with access to all the context that Siri have right now, to finally make it functional

  • API for apps to share their context/data with this super-Siri

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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Jan 05, 2000: Apple unveils iTools 🛠️
With 20MB of free storage, iCards, child safety features, & a coveted [at]Mac email address, iTools went on to become .mac, which became MobileMe (shudders), which became the iCloud we have today.

kkolakowski,
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@BasicAppleGuy At least from "MobileMe" times (?) I have my @me.com iCloud email address 🤓

Which is super-awesome!

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