Noticed on the compare page that the new iPad Air and Pro do not support the existing "best" Apple Pencil and require you to get a new Pencil Pro or the cheapo one.
Final Cut Pro, Logic and Xcode were the ‘pro apps’ of the Mac era, but the pro apps of the iPad are tools like Procreate. Though iPad has moved towards the Mac over time, it's unlikely to replace it. Traditionally, Apple hasn’t really provided a whole lot of dedicated APIs a high-end illustration app could take advantage of; perhaps that is one of the axes of progression Apple could double down on, and maybe a new first-party AI-enhanced, layered, pro drawing app would make sense for dogfooding?
@stroughtonsmith I would like a more capable desktop version of zoom for the iPad, and I am not sure what’s holding it back. iOS limitations, or the parent company simply not caring?
@stroughtonsmith The iPad is going to need a strong selling point beyond a better processor. I guess one way would be to showcase how the faster chip powers new software features? I remember many people buying the M1 iPad Pro, then being disappointed when nothing was announced during WWDC that seemed to take advantage of it.
@daringfireball I always assumed that ram in iPhones corresponded with the demands of the camera. So you have the pro iPhones getting more ram because they sport more powerful cameras which presumably require more ram to operate properly. So with Apple, you get the specs you need, not necessarily what you want.
In a sign that Iran’s retaliatory drone strike was not intended to escalate the conflict, Iran announced that the drones are Boeing-made and therefore were not expected to make it to the Israeli border before crashing.
@rileytestut It’s legislation, not competition. It has always been the right of any country to come up with new laws to coerce a company to act a certain way. Just as a company is free to adhere to them or exit the market. It seems like Apple has opted for the former. For now.
If Apple is dumb enough to start leaving markets in which it can't follow the law, it's not gonna have many markets left.
Apple’s one trade (or otherwise) war away from losing access to China. It would be colossally stupid to voluntarily leave a western market for the sake of one man's ego.
Apple's OS build process is overseen by Ireland. It has consumer apps teams in France. The iTunes infrastructure itself is run out of Cork, last I checked
@craiggrannell It kinda works both ways. People who felt Apple should exit China now expect Apple to also stay in the EU and submit themselves to whatever demands the EU asks of, no matter how onerous. Isn’t that double standards as well?
In-App Browsers subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites and enable applications to severely undermine user privacy🪲🕵️
In-App Browsers hurt consumers, developers and damage the entire web ecosystem👎
@owa so let me get this straight - being booted out of an app like say, a mastodon client, every time I wish to read an article in app, is supposed to make for a better user experience?
@owa Thank you getting back to me as well. I was genuinely perplexed by this as well. Perhaps I have been so conditioned to apps opening in either safari view or their own browser that for that moment, I just couldn’t fathom it supporting a web view of another browser.
@finestructure Shouldn’t a law be designed around malicious compliance being the default norm and address it specifically? Otherwise, it says as much about said law as it does about the companies complying with it in said manner.
@stroughtonsmith I always assumed his maps firing was just a cover for Tim Cook getting rid of him because he refused to get along with other Apple executives, and it was either him or them.
Had a similar experience in my school where a new principal had a very public power struggle with the head of a department, and the head exited the following year.
The slow march of enshittification continues, this time with IFTTT.
IFTTT in 2020: Choose your price for Pro and we'll honor it forever.
IFTTT Today: Okay, so when we said "forever", we meant up until four days from now. Hope you read this e-mail before we charge you!! Good luck, fucker!
@silvereagle I am surprised the company is still around. I think I used their widget once or twice in the past, but never understood how they made money.
Sometimes a video render for one of my project takes 30+ minutes. On the Mac it’s no big deal, I just work on other stuff or get up from my computer and walk the dog or make lunch.
On the iPad I can’t do anything else, but at least I can leave it to do its thing.
The Vision Pro is weird because if FCP was there, I’d have to leave my computer strapped to my face while it worked. That’s…a weird concept, but at least I can chuck the window behind me while I do other stuff.
@matt For LumaFusion, I just ran it in split screen mode and used another app in the meantime. Same with documents when it was just indexing my Dropbox files. You don’t get the whole screen, but at least you can still do something with it. 😛
When Apple remembers to make new iPads again (any day now.), one thing I'd really like to see is an end to the baby apps. I don't want a stripped-down, half-assed 'iPad experience’ for anything. It's been fourteen years and I'm so over it. Give me real desktop-class apps across iPadOS and visionOS, feature for feature, that can scale all the way up to power a 5K External Display or spatial computing workstation.
A reorderable toolbar doesn't make for a 'desktop-class app’.
I keep seeing it floated that 'if you have a million users, and you don't have a way to make money, what are you even doing?’, which is incredibly toxic. Screw everybody who provides free software/tools, I guess?
I guarantee you every single one of you relies on software that has more than a million users and makes $0, somewhere in your tech stack.
Having a single app like that in your portfolio, even if you have robust paid apps, could be enough to bankrupt you under Apple's CTF proposal
@stroughtonsmith Then they would be better off staying in the App Store under the current existing terms, which is exactly what Apple wants. I get what you are trying to say, but a law-abiding and non-controversial app like mastodon perhaps doesn’t illustrate your case that well.
@stroughtonsmith Any chance this is because they are still working on an app optimised for the Vision Pro UI? So just because support isn’t there on day one doesn’t mean it will never be there.
