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Missing Apple Features and Products

High-impact or noticeably missing features and products for 2023 (Part 1/2):

  • Custom Apple Watch faces
  • Reminders in the Calendar app
  • Custom search engine in Safari
  • Albums in Photos Shared Library
  • Clipboard history
  • Passwords is an app
  • Clear and separate volume controls for audio, ringer, and Siri voice
  • iCloud Private Relay system-wide (VPN)
  • Landscape mode but only for video
  • Xcode for iPad 🥹

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bamboo,

It only applies to safari traffic. So third party browsers and other apps aren’t supported

bamboo,

It seems easy to take this position as a native English speaker, but what if you aren’t proficient in English, perhaps only in a smaller regional language that doesn’t have the same nearly infinite pool of content? This is a potential game changer for that, allowing you to listen to thousands of podcasts you never could before. No jobs were lost because there was never anyone doing the translations in the first place. When viewed this way, it’s an accessibility feature.

bamboo,

Having listened to it, I could not identify any sort of “AI quirk”. It sounded perfectly fine.

I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.

I have recently started a new position and am required to use an app that has three Facebook trackers, one of them being a Facebook location tracker according to Exodus App Privacy in order to get your food when it would literally work perfectly fine ordering to a real cashier or shit even a website rather than having to...

bamboo,

This is what I told my employer’s IT system. They have an app for non-standard 2fa that I had no interest in configuring so now I just get phone calls.

bamboo,

I wouldn’t be that optimistic. It’ll be a less attractive engine for indie devs and smaller companies, but it’s their enterprise customers that bring in the lion’s share of the revenue, and it takes a lot more to move them. To them, it’s purely a business decision. They didn’t even notice the drama, but come the q1 2024 fiscal report they’ll notice the supplier’s cost increased, have an investigation done if any competitors offer a better deal and what the retooling and retraining costs would be, observe keeping with Unity will be significantly cheaper, and life will go on. I sure hope Godot can take over the indie scene though, that would be amazing.

bamboo,

I bought a 15 Pro (not max) and it is also quite large. Came from a pixel 5 with a 6” screen so I didn’t think it would be that much bigger. Starting to understand the appeal of the mini sizes.

bamboo,

I wonder if that would actually hold up in court. Apple can call it a game console, but a game console should be used primarily for games. I’m sure most iPhone users do play some games on their phone, but I doubt a high percentage use their iPhone primarily for games. Even on their marketing page for the iPhone 15 pro, they allocate more space to photography and connectivity than they do to gaming, though gaming comes before either.

bamboo,

Ventura is not affected

bamboo,

Yes? It’s the latest stable version until next week, so you’d only get Sonoma if you opted in for the beta. Even then next week you can upgrade to Ventura but then just not install Sonoma. It’s not like windows where they force automatic upgrades.

bamboo,

Protocols are static duck typing. An object is a valid instance of protocol if it implements all the methods defined in the protocol, even if it doesn’t declare it as implementing it. That last bit is important and the most distinguishing factor compared to an ABC.

bamboo,

The A17 Pro is pretty close to the M1 in benchmarks, and that’s more than enough for most users. Presumably it’d still be iOS, so existing knowledge and experience would apply, they’re just need to design and test their UIs for larger landscape screens, which they may already be doing for iPads.

bamboo,

Probably not, for reasons you stated. But for a typical workload I doubt that would even matter. If you would have otherwise considered a MacBook air, this would still probably be a sufficient replacement.

bamboo,

I for one really appreciate the new systems settings app. Grids are bad when they’re more than a dozen or so items, it’s much easier for me to find and remember things in a list.

bamboo,

Apple claimed this was for environmental reasons, not animal rights reasons.

bamboo,

I addition to the answers others have given, consider the large centralized package repositories for software development: npm, PyPI, crates.io, etc. If you frequently publish packages to these indexes, you often will find name collisions and are forced to come up with clever names. In the case of PyPI specifically, it is even worse because while your pip package might be uniquely named, the actual importable python package may not be, and you end up where two pip packages clobber each other. Java’s system is verbose but it is simple and solved this problem decades ago.

bamboo,

That used to be the case, but most phones now use radios that can support necessary frequencies and protocols globally. It’s also helped that the network side has also been more standardized compared to the 3g days.

bamboo,

As far as I can tell it’s just the C band frequency range, and radios supporting either generally support both.

bamboo,

Even in the US, only some high end phones support mmWave. It’s never required for service as the few areas covered by mmWave also have low or mid band 5g coverage too.

bamboo,

I have some practical annoyances, most surrounding multiple remotes and the clunkiness of it. I have two TVs in my house: a Samsung smart TV from 2019 and a Hisense Google TV I purchased earlier this year. The Google interface is not the most responsive, but it packs in all of the stuff I would want. Android is the most supported platform for apps. Samsung’s OS has good app support, but open source projects and more niche apps aren’t there. I think there is a nebula app now, but for a while there wasn’t, for instance. So, I bought one of the Chromecast with Google TV sticks to bridge the gap. It works well most of the time, but unlike the Hisense, it doesn’t support airplay. So if someone airplays, you get kicked back to the native OS and have to use the native remote. It’s possible to configure the Chromecast to use the native remote, except the home button doesn’t map, it is the home menu for the native OS. So it’s just kinda clunky. I do think newer Google tvs with airplay built in (varies by brand) are going in the right direction here. If you’re concerned about privacy, they’re still gonna be a nightmare though.

bamboo,

It’s a bit more complicated than that. Your IP can identify you still, if there are few users connecting from that IP. VPNs reduce the efficacy of IP based tracking because they allow you to connect via many different addresses, and every one of those addresses will have hundreds of thousands of users on a given day. It adds a lot of noise that makes any pattern identification useless.

bamboo,

In US schools they teach it as the US just withdrawaling due to cost and domestic pressure because teaching it as a loss would really tarnish the whole “we never lose wars, USA #1!” narrative.

bamboo,

I wouldn’t be too concerned, see how it is on Android. Every major app is on the playstore, which takes a cut similar to Apple. The only exception that I can think of is fortnite, as well as many small open source apps. Fortnite cases are rare, as the game would need to be popular enough to make people willing to install it. That’s why no other large company or app has done it. Small open source apps are a plus to those who know of them. Platforms like f-droid are fantastic for finding free, zero-ads, zero-tracking apps.

bamboo,

I’m glad nebula exists as a good alternative for educational content. It has successfully replaced much of the time I previously spent on YouTube.

bamboo,

They have “classes” which I think are supposed to be going in this direction.

bamboo,

They allow it on Mac because Mac predates the locked down experience they created on the iPhone. I’m sure Apple love having it so that you can only install Mac apps from the app store, but users have been able to install their own software for 30 years and know it would be bad if they took that away.

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