(Today's anti-favorite: if the phone loses reception for even a moment — common on trains! — it disconnects tethering and never reconnects. You're just offline until you notice. Then you need to reconnect from the Mac's Wi-Fi menu again, after waiting for the option to become available, a process that's almost as slow as dialing up your ISP with a modem in the 1900s.)
@marcoarment Maybe it’s a cost thing? I think Apple needs to pay royalties to Qualcomm based on the price of the hardware and MacBook Pros can get pricey pretty quickly. But then again, people already pay for much for ram and storage upgrades, it’s not hard to bundle that into a higher spec option the same way we get nano texture option only with 1tb+ iPad Pros.
Ah yes, someone asking for the Mac to get a new feature only to be flooded with replies telling him why it’s actually good his needs aren’t being met and nothing needs to change.
@matt I feel it’s more that Apple isn’t run by idiots, there are sometimes legitimate reasons why they choose not to do things a certain way (like release a cellular Mac), and it may help to try and theorise why that is so, rather than always bang the “I want this and that from Apple and anyone who disagrees with me is an Apple shill” drum.
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 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.