stroughtonsmith

shayman, 3 days ago to random

What an amazing treat to learn that InfiniteMac.org now has versions of NeXTSTEP that run in your browser. Amazing.

https://blog.persistent.info/2024/03/infinite-mac-nextstep.html

Of course I had to fire up NeXTSTEP 3.3 to see if this was still in there ... I wonder what happened to that other guy?

stroughtonsmith, 4 days ago to random

Great, lengthy discussion about the limitations of iPadOS and the existential crisis it creates for iPad Pro from about 47 mins in
https://zeppelin.flights/@jsnell/112448791983098424

stroughtonsmith, 4 days ago to random

@siracusa you'll find the same warning in many games — ‘reboot your iPad before you play’ https://www.reddit.com/r/ipad/comments/qkwfdc/silly_me_thinking_i_could_use_photoshop_on_my/

mikecane, 4 days ago to random

@stroughtonsmith @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura Any of you yet rate for the ChatGPT 4o Mac app? People on The Better Place reporting access.

stroughtonsmith, 4 days ago to random

My ideal iPad is a 15" iPad Pro with an M4 Pro, combined with a Magic Keyboard with 2 Thunderbolt ports (that do both data & power) and a built-in second battery, that can run macOS and all my legacy software/workflows in a virtual machine, and can be operated entirely in clamshell mode from an external monitor. A drafting table when I need it, a pro workstation when I need that.

If such a machine existed, I would never buy a Mac again. That's what I've wanted on my desktop for the past decade

christianselig, 4 days ago to random

Does launching a build with the debugger attached on Vision Pro take forever for anyone else? It's near instant on the simulator, but even after the data is transferred to the device, the actual launch screen hangs out for like 10 seconds (so I don't think dev strap would help?)

stroughtonsmith, 4 days ago to random

If Apple's afraid of eating into Mac sales by putting macOS on iPad, just put the Hypervisor and Virtualization frameworks on iPadOS so third parties like Parallels can virtualize Windows 11 or Linux instead. Windows, at least, is much better suited for a touchscreen than macOS is. Let the developer/userbase validate the concept if you won’t — is a virtual desktop good or bad for the iPad platform?

stroughtonsmith, 4 days ago to random

Someday Ubisoft will be able to afford voice actors native to the setting, instead of a dozen Canadians putting on mildly-racist accents, but not today!

stroughtonsmith, 4 days ago to random

iPad today is very reminiscent of the Mac of the 90s. A bewildering array of models and SKUs, a beloved operating system with core technology issues that severely limit the future of the product line, a dearth of the real apps professionals use, and a strong emphasis on the handful of creative niches it's carved out for itself. Unlike the 90s, though, all of these problems are masked by the success of the low-end. If you split iPad Pro out into its own product category, it would be in trouble

stroughtonsmith, 4 days ago to random

Having read and watched through all the iPad coverage, it really seems like a lot of people are aligned on the top items where iPad falls down

• The Files app infrastructure
• The too-restrictive audio system
• Background processing
• Multiple user support

"Just put macOS on it” is the fallback for most criticism, because it's hard to articulate just why iPadOS doesn’t cut it. And the "Where's the Calculator?” discourse isn't about a calculator app, it's about the missing apps of the core OS

stroughtonsmith, 4 days ago to random

Maybe Apple's problem is that it has too many absurdly wealthy old white people making the decisions? What's a $3,000 iPad to an executive?

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-watch-is-the-perfect-golfing-companion/

stroughtonsmith, 5 days ago to random

“The end of Google traffic”
https://www.threads.net/@reckless1280/post/C69ymgIPBC3

stroughtonsmith, 5 days ago to random

♻️ Originally posted 2018

If you've ever been curious what happened to the rumored 'TextEdit for iOS' from way back — it worked, it was likely somebody's pet project to test certain APIs and never intended for release, and it's barely more than a UlTextView w/ Files support. It might still be included in AppleInternal versions of the OS, today.

I'm with @viticci: I would love a fully-functioning TextEdit for iOS

Action sheet in TextEdit: New Document, New From Template, Browse
Sample document in TextEdit. It tests various RTF styles, weights and tables. The toolbar has a back button, a link icon, a search icon, an info icon and a folder icon — meanings forgotten

stroughtonsmith, 5 days ago to random

I know people like to think iPadOS 'forked' from iOS when it was renamed a few years back, but it really didn’t. If you install Xcode, both iPhone and iPad simulators run out of the exact same OS root. It's the same set of apps, the same SpringBoard — it just decides which features you get at runtime based on screen size and a feature map. That's not a fork; the name essentially means nothing. A brand new $4,000 iPad runs the same OS as your six year old phone

stroughtonsmith, 5 days ago to random

Broadcom ported my profile over from VMWare, and doesn't know how to handle my name now so I can't sign the download agreement. It also doesn't give me a way to edit my name, either 😛

I tried the support chat, and got an error instead.

What a shitshow.

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stroughtonsmith, 9 days ago to random

Star Citizen looks even more beautiful every time I check in; its new rendering tech really looks the part