@stroughtonsmith@WarnerCrocker@doctorlaura Carrier offering iPhone 12 for US99.99. Checked Apple site, it can get iOS 17. It's just 64GB, but that'd be a huge upgrade my shit phone's 16GB. Go or no-go? Can do week after next.
@mikecane@WarnerCrocker@doctorlaura I am dead, to anybody who thinks that place is still worth using. Check my follower count, I'm doing just fine here ๐
@stroughtonsmith@WarnerCrocker@doctorlaura So, is iOS Pages a Mac app too? Or is there any alternative to MS Word? I use Atlantis WP on Windows. Generally love it. Can make ePub too! And HTML. And some other stuff I'm not interested in. Bought lifetime license.
@stroughtonsmith Help me out here. iOS 1.0 didn't have any way to select text, right? Didn't that come later? So who are these idiots who say 1.0 couldn't copy/paste when text couldn't be selected from the start?
@mikecane that's being weirdly nitpicky; whether you could select text or not, you couldn't copy paste it. There are places in the OS today you can't select but can copy โ those two things aren't tied
@mikecane maybe wait to see what Apple announces with their AI at WWDC; an M1 is an incredible chip but itโs a far cry from the state of the art for on-device AI. Image generation is 30X slower than my gaming PC, for example. You might get away with text, but these models use a lot of space and RAM. Worth seeing what Apple's optimized models bring
@mikecane a developer account & Xcode is free, but you just can't publish to the App Store or TestFlight, only over a USB cable (etc). You do need access to a Mac
@mikecane@WarnerCrocker@doctorlaura just confirms what I was saying the other day! Even in my apps iOS 15 is gonna be dropped next, bringing a minimum up to iOS 17 or 18. Can't stay on old devices forever ๐