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appleinsider, to random
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Following reviews saying that iPadOS limitations mean the new iPad Pro can't easily replace a MacBook Pro, Apple insists the two devices are complementary.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/14/ipad-and-mac-dont-compete-against-each-other-so-buy-both-says-apple-exec?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider Apple are a shareholder-first corporation. They aren’t gonna sell people 1 device if they can get away with selling them 2 instead.

macrumors, to random
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iPad Marketing VP: iPad and Mac are Complementary Devices, Not Competing Devices https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/13/apple-vp-mac-ipad-complementary/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors translation: why would we sell people 1 device when we can sell them 2?

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Following AppleInsider's discovery that Safari will add the ability to selectively turn off online ads, UK newspaper groups have complained to Apple about it being a danger to journalism.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/13/uk-newspapers-tell-apple-its-web-eraser-will-put-journalism-at-risk?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider so Apple disabling ads on third party websites that they don’t own is fine, but woe betide anybody who wants to bypass the App Store 🙃

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Some of the iPad angst isn't that we have to wait 'till WWDC to see if the software is improved.

It's that little birdies have strongly hinted to us not to expect iPad to really go anywhere from here, that Vision Pro has sucked up all the oxygen inside Apple.

That iPad never really had the resources to fulfill its promises, and much of what was there has now been diverted.

That Apple's design folks couldn't really understand why anybody would want to use an iPad for anything but Pencil work

primalanomaly,
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@stroughtonsmith it constantly baffles me how frequently Apple products get neglected (both hardware and software). They’re the most valuable company in the world - do they really not have the resources to have a full time team dedicated to making something like the iPad the best it possibly can be at all times? Wild.

halide, to random
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According to Stu Maschwitz at @prolost the "Let Loose" Apple iPad event was shot entirely on iPhone — but with external lenses. Pretty interesting setup! https://prolost.com/blog/panavision-iphone

primalanomaly,
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@halide @prolost this feels like me claiming I “cycled to France” because there was a bike in the back of my car 😂

appleinsider, to random
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Spotify by far has the largest music streaming share in the EU and has now enlisted smaller services to go in with it on a complaint saying that Apple is defying the Digital Markets Act.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/09/the-dominant-eu-music-streamer-by-far-is-still-complaining-apple-has-too-much-power?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider AppleInsider still complaining every time somebody dares question the business ethics of the literal second biggest corporation in the world I see

stroughtonsmith, to random
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OK, creatives, is this really about the ad, or is this latent existential angst about generative AI?
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/112407557601933446

primalanomaly,
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@stroughtonsmith it’s just the latest example of Apple being out of touch with consumers, because they’re a company run by accountants now 🤷‍♂️

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Not just for iPad - Apple has updated its Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro creative software suites, enhancing their functionality with new AI-driven features for Mac users.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/07/not-just-ipad----mac-gets-ai-enhanced-logic-pro-final-cut-pro-updates?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider are Apple themselves actually using the term “AI” now? Have they finally given in and jumped on the buzzword bandwagon?

They’ve obviously been big users of AI for many years, but always seem to notably make a point of avoiding saying “AI” and instead going with “ML” or “LLM” etc.

appleinsider, to random
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An unknown number of iPhone users have been reporting that their alarms may go off on time, but without making a sound, so it's not their fault they're late at all.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/30/iphone-users-try-telling-their-bosses-the-alarm-didnt-go-off?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider if you happen to swipe up to close an app at the EXACT same time as an alarm goes off, the alarm doesn’t actually go off, isn’t snoozed, and you get no alert whatsoever. Have noticed this many times over the years.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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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

primalanomaly,
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@stroughtonsmith I think “never” is a long time.
It’ll get there eventually, but Apple is wholeheartedly a “shareholder-first” corporation these days - they’ll do everything in their power to keep us all buying 2 devices instead of 1 for as long as they can get away with.

appleinsider, to random
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Spotify continues to complain about an Apple Tax that it doesn't really pay, as it decries Apple's non-approval of its latest update because of a violation of App Store rules.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/25/spotify-is-still-complaining-about-apples-eu-app-store-rules?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly, (edited )
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@appleinsider AppleInsider continues to complain about anybody who even dares question the business ethics of the literal 2nd biggest company in the world

jaffathecake, to random
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We use self-closing syntax in HTML where it doesn't do anything. People see it and assume it does something.

Why do we keep doing this to ourselves?

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1cceb03/i_thought_i_knew_html_until_i_saw_this/

primalanomaly,
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@jaffathecake this is just some noob who doesn’t know how p tags work. Although in their defense, the closing of html tags is quite wildly inconsistent, with all sorts of different rules for different elements.

appleinsider, to random
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The introduction of the Apple Vision Pro has reintroduced 3D content after nearly a decade of absence. Here's where to find 3D movies for purchase from any Apple device that has a TV app.

https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-vision-pro/tips/how-to-find-3d-movies-to-watch-on-apple-vision-pro?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider I’d argue there’s a pretty good reason it’s been absent for a decade 😂

macrumors, to random
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Apple Likely Planning to Skip M3 Mac Mini for M4 Refresh in Late 2024 https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/21/apple-likely-planning-to-skip-m3-mac-mini/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors why does one of the biggest and most profitable companies in the world struggle so consistently to employ enough people to keep their relatively small line of products always up to date?

macrumors, to random
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Apple Announced the 24-Inch iMac Three Years Ago Today https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/20/24-inch-imac-three-years-ago-today/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors 3 years since we lost the big screen, high performance iMac with user-upgradeable RAM 😭

appleinsider, to random
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Senator Elizabeth Warren has posted a call for Apple's "stranglehold monopoly" on the smartphone market to be broken up, despite the iPhone peaking at only half the US population.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/19/senator-warren-doesnt-have-a-plan-to-break-up-apple-but-still-wants-to-pretty-badly?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider a monopoly and a duopoly are pretty equally as bad as each other though 🤷‍♂️

gruber, to random
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Electron.

primalanomaly,
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@gruber Adobe used to do this lol

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Neither Vision Pro nor Humane's Ai Pin are 'the future’, but they’re both showcasing aspects that will /become/ the future. A pair of glasses, running an OS like visionOS, with advanced multimodal AI smarts. That's the next product that can truly change the world, something anybody and everybody can wear all day every day, and give the smartphone a run for its money; what we have now are science projects — really cool science projects — but science projects nonetheless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w1vv7_dU2Y

primalanomaly,
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@stroughtonsmith I’m still not convinced the “handheld touchscreen” form factor will ever really become redundant.

I’d wager a huge portion of time spent on our phones is just “distraction time” rather than “productivity time” - e.g. reading, playing games, scrolling social feeds, messaging friends. I just don’t think you will ever beat “handheld touchscreen” as a form factor for many of the things people like to use them for.

appleinsider, to random
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Investment firm JP Morgan predicts that Apple will introduce AI with the 2025 iPhone 17 Pro, and has dropped its current price target to $210 partly as a result.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/11/jp-morgan-drops-apple-target-price-over-questions-on-when-ai-iphone-will-launch?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider the fuck does “introduce AI” mean? Apple have been using AI in a ton of different ways for years 😂

appleinsider, to random
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Apple has been having no luck arguing against the EU's Digital Markets Act, and it's paid the price in fines and forced changes to its App Store -- so now it's looking for a European head of PR.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/10/apple-wants-to-hire-a-pr-heavyweight-to-battle-the-eu-on-its-own-soil?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider have they tried just not being dictatorial assholes?

macrumors, to random
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iOS 18 May Feature All-New 'Safari Browsing Assistant' https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/10/ios-18-safari-browsing-assistant-rumor/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors because what the web really really needs is even more things popping up and getting in the way 🙃

stroughtonsmith, to random
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visionOS is Apple's most locked-down general computing platform in history; the kinds of features Apple keeps for itself in the name of ‘privacy’ are absolutely going to cause massive antitrust issues if those restrictions are all still in place by the time the platform takes off (on this form factor, or another). Virtually every defining feature of the platform experience is already a red flag. Kinda wild that Apple, already aware of its obligations under the DMA, would design an OS like this

primalanomaly,
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@stroughtonsmith Apple is a shareholder-first company. They’ll lock things down as much as they possibly can until they are forced to do anything different. “Ask forgiveness, not permission” as they say.

appleinsider, to random
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For years, Apple has reportedly been considering the addition of a camera to the Apple TV set-top box -- and the rumors about it have fired again.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/08/apple-tv-with-a-camera-is-the-rumor-that-will-never-die?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider does anybody actually put their Apple TV in a position where you would want a camera? Mine is hidden away because I don’t want a silly little black box that’s too small and light to even stay in place visible on my TV unit 😂

appleinsider, to random
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Amplifying work and media it has developed for the Apple Vision Pro headset, Apple is developing technology so your MacBook Pro or desktop monitor can display 3D environments without special glasses.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/04/apple-wants-to-bring-spatial-computing-to-regular-monitors?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider so like a giant Nintendo 3DS? That sounds awful tbh. Why are Apple focusing on so much gimmicky stuff lately?

macrumors, to random
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iOS 17.5 Lets EU iPhone Users Download Apps From Websites https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/02/ios-17-5-app-website-downloads-eu/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors “Developers need to be a member of the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more and must have an app with more than one million first installs on iOS in the European Union in the prior year.”

Hey Siri, show me malicious compliance

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