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macrumors, to random
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Apple Vision Pro Apps Now Live on App Store Website https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/01/apple-vision-pro-apps-app-store-website/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors kinda wild that giant floating app windows are being paired with even more giant UI controls, somehow resulting in vastly less real estate to work with. So many scrolling toolbars!!

I thought chunky buttons designed for touch screens had ruined a lot of interfaces, but this is next level 😂

macrumors, to random
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Apple Warns Proposed UK Law Could 'Secretly Veto' Global User Protections https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/30/apple-deeply-concerned-uk-surveillance-law/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors it’s a very scary law, but hard to miss the irony of Apple complaining about someone else having too much power, especially this week. It’s like when Spotify and Epic accuse Apple of having too much power and treating people unfairly… they’re all spot on, but massively hypocritical 😂

appleinsider, to random
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Do you think Apple Is acting in good faith with their App Store changes for the EU? Andrew presents both side of the argument in our new YT Video. Which side are you on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YxxypV0GZI

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider LMAO Apple are deliberately going out of their way to make the experience as horrific as they can possibly get away with. It’s nothing but bitter, entitled corporate greed. I’ve seen them for what they are for years - hopefully this opens some more people’s eyes!

appleinsider, to random
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Apple has attacked what it calls the UK's "unprecedented overreach" in proposing that it have the power of veto over all Big Tech security features across the globe.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/29/uk-could-secretly-block-security-worldwide-says-apple?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider ironic coming from the company that wants the power of veto of every single app that anybody wants to install on any of their devices

macrumors, to random
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Apple Car Autonomous Driving Scaled Down, Launch Planned for 2028 https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/23/apple-car-scaled-down-2028-launch/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors I still don’t believe this was ever a thing. They’ve made all that fancy CarPlay software and are giving it away for any vehicle manufacturer to integrate. It would have been like them giving away iOS a few years before the iPhone launched: insane. There’s no way a car is coming. It’d be an absolutely ludicrous market to enter into.

macrumors, to random
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Apple Store Down Ahead of Vision Pro Headset Pre-Orders https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/19/apple-store-down-vision-pro-pre-orders/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors if the iPhone 15 launch is anything to go by, this preorder process is gonna be disastrous and annoy a lot of people 😅

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Vision Pro is a VR headset without controllers to play VR games, a media headset without support from the top streaming services, and a ‘spatial computer’ that can only run [some] iPad apps.

…and even still, I'm excited to have one 🤣

primalanomaly,
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@stroughtonsmith I’m excited to try it. But I predict that once I’ve tried it, that itch will be scratched, and I won’t really feel any longer term need for it.

But I guess I’ll just have to wait and find out (could be waiting a while here in the UK 😭)

daringfireball, to random
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★ ‘Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand’
https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/the_sixth_finger

primalanomaly,
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@daringfireball you may be right that Apple has no intention of charging commission for Mac apps, but they will absolutely intend to replace Macs with iDevices eventually.

iPhones and iPads are rapidly catching up to the performance of laptops and desktops. In the not-too-distant future, buying a laptop in addition to these is gonna be redundant.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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I have a very strong suspicion that Vision Pro app compatibility is gonna be rough in this first year. Like, Windows Store rough.

primalanomaly,
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@stroughtonsmith there are so many big players that still can’t even be bothered to make iPad or Watch apps. There’s no way they’re making Vision apps any time soon.

macrumors, to random
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Apple 'Carefully Orchestrating' Vision Pro Reviews With Multiple Meetings https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/09/apple-vision-pro-reviews-multiple-meetings/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors so every review prior to launch will be heavily biased and completely unreliable. Got it 😂

carnage4life, to random
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I’m not an Apple fan boy but I agree with @gruber that they were completely within their rights in blocking Beeper Mini.

iMessage is a service that Apple provides to people who buy Apple devices just like iCloud. Both cost money to run and maintain.

Android users have no legal or moral right to get these services for free no matter how annoying it is that they don’t have access to them.

Android users can install Signal or WhatsApp if they want encrypted iPhone chats.

https://daringfireball.net/2023/12/beep_beep

primalanomaly,
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@carnage4life @gruber definitely agreed. Cloud service providers shouldn’t have to make their services public.

On the flip side, phone manufacturers should absolutely have to support standardised communication protocols (such as RCS).

And the industry as a whole should be continually pushing standardised protocols forwards to make sure they’re always the best they can be.

iMessage shouldn’t even have to exist, open standards should have made it redundant long ago.

appleinsider, to random
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The ultimate guide on how to customize your iPhone running iOS 16
https://appleinsider.com/inside/ios-16/tips/the-ultimate-guide-on-how-to-customize-your-iphone-running-ios-16?utm_medium=rss

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider this post comes to you from September 2022

appleinsider, to random
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If you want blue iMessage bubbles that much, buy an iPhone
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/12/21/if-you-want-blue-imessage-bubbles-that-much-buy-an-iphone?utm_medium=rss

primalanomaly,
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@appleinsider fuck I hate arguments like this so much. It’s the logic of a 5 year old. It’s the same as when people say “oh you want sideloading? Buy an Android 🤪”

There’s like 1000 different considerations when picking your favourite platform, and every platform is far from perfect. People are allowed to push for their favourite platforms to become better - yes, even if that means copying features from competing platforms.

macrumors, to random
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Your Apple Watch Bands May Not Work With Next Year's Model https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/20/your-apple-watch-bands-may-not-work-with-new-model/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors excited for Apple Watch X redesign, but nervous at the sound of “magnetic watch strap connectors.”

Is my watch gonna just fall straight off if I snag it, or if someone grabs it from me? 😬

sdw, to random
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adobe: monopoly on almost all design tools
figma: basically a monopoly on ui design

regulators: this merger seems… anticompetitive
people on the internet: wow I did NOT see this coming

primalanomaly,
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@sdw I think it’s mostly just surprising cos of what other companies get away with every day

macrumors, to random
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Here's How Apple Plans to Display Vision Pro in Retail Stores https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/15/apple-vision-pro-retail-store-display/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors quite the scoop 🤣

macrumors, to random
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GM Says It's Nixing CarPlay to Make Drivers Safer https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/12/gm-carplay-removal-safer-drivers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors honestly I don’t know how touch screens in cars haven’t resulted in an exponential increase in road accidents tbh. Seems like horrendous UX.

carnage4life, to random
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Ben Thompson gives a detailed breakdown of the sentiment I shared yesterday that Google lost the Epic case by pretending to be open.

Apple is up front that they are a closed platform. Consumers and developers know this when they choose iOS.

Google markets Android as an open platform to consumers and developers but then uses OEM contracts and constantly changing rules to effectively make Google Play and its in-app billing as the only effective choices.

So they lost.

https://stratechery.com/2023/google-loses-antitrust-case-to-epic-the-differences-between-apple-and-google-revisited-the-tying-question/

primalanomaly,
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@carnage4life hoping regulators will go back to the Apple case and realise they were wrong tbh, we need competition on iOS!

appleinsider, to random
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Apple offers to open NFC on iPhone in EU, likely to stave off antitrust regulation
https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/12/12/apple-offers-to-open-nfc-on-iphone-in-eu-likely-to-stave-off-antitrust-regulation?utm_medium=rss

primalanomaly,
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@DadeMurphy @appleinsider LMAO Apple needs customers way more than customers need Apple 🤣

macrumors, to random
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Samsung Display Readies Development Team for Apple Foldable Panels https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/11/apple-foldable-panels-samsung-display/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@macrumors ew

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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2023 Apple Product Tier Ranking
https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/2023-apple-product-ranking

primalanomaly,
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@BasicAppleGuy that’s a weird alphabet

carnage4life, to random
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Github has declared that while “GitHub was founded on Git, today it is re-founded on Copilot”.

I don’t write code regularly on the side anymore but I’m curious about whether this is Microsoft corporate hype or if LLM-based coding assistance will be as impactful to software developers as was the seismic shift that was Open Source & hosted git.

Do people using Github Copilot feel this way?

https://github.blog/2023-11-08-universe-2023-copilot-transforms-github-into-the-ai-powered-developer-platform/

primalanomaly,
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@carnage4life having been using copilot since the beginning of the year, it’s unreliable, inconsistent, and far from perfect.

But it’s been noticeably improving in that time, and it increasingly blows my mind when it gets stuff right. I type a comment or function name and it just finishes the rest, often perfectly producing exactly what I needed in a couple of seconds.

Definitely a game changer with huge potential in my experience, but I hope it continues to massively improve.

9to5Mac, to random
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WhatsApp says it won’t show ads in chats, but the same can’t be said for the rest of the app https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/08/whatsapp-ads-privacy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@9to5Mac that’s ok, no one uses it for anything other than chats 🤷‍♂️

chriscoyier, to random
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Need a reminder of just how much CSS is super powerful and brand new just in the last... about a year?

(Some a bit older, browser support varies from super solid to just one browser.)

primalanomaly,
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@chriscoyier there’s native masonry now? Amazing, did not know this 🎉

9to5Mac, to random
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Did Apple just crush our dreams of a big-screen iMac with Apple Silicon? https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/02/big-screen-apple-silicon-imac-rumors/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

primalanomaly,
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@9to5Mac pretty sure those dreams were crushed several years ago when they discontinued all the big screen versions without a replacement.
It doesn’t take 2+ years of R&D to go “make that but 3 inches bigger” 🤷‍♂️

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