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stroughtonsmith, 3 days ago to random

The 13” iPad Air review units that Apple sent out are $1,700+ if you price them up 😅

stroughtonsmith, 7 days ago to random

Vision Pro is going to be an even harder sell now that iPad is two CPU generations ahead of it. You just know too that, like every single first-gen Apple product, it's going to be left behind by OS updates way sooner than you'd hope 😔

stroughtonsmith, 9 days ago to random

A 13-inch iPad Pro fully kitted out with nano texture glass, cellular, keyboard and Pencil Pro is €3,717, if you're keeping track.

(Or about twice the price of a base model PowerMac G5, twenty years ago)

(…the G5 could export Final Cut projects in the background)

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stroughtonsmith, 12 days ago to random

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?

Procreate marketing photo

cmaciasjimenez, 14 days ago to random

@robb Hi Robb. Found your website through this fantastic post https://rknight.me/blog/the-web-is-fantastic/ and you really inspired me. Been thinking about start a blog to post stuff and things from the internet. Just wanted to say thank you! 🙂 Hopefully, this time I stick with it. Cheers!

arstechnica, 1 month ago to random

“Ban Chinese electric vehicles now,” demands US senator

China's EV industry benefits from billions of dollars in government subsidies.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/ban-chinese-electric-vehicles-now-demands-us-senator/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

verge, 1 month ago to random

Spotify adds video learning courses in latest experiment https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24110545/spotify-online-courses-learning-video-test-uk-skillshare-bbc-maestro-playvirtuoso

stroughtonsmith, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

The EU/DMA version of AltStore looks hawt. Spent the day with @rileytestut and @shanegillio, and it’s wild just how much they have ready to go (pending Apple final approval), before any of the other alternative marketplaces, and with exciting new monetization models too ✌️ I don’t think Apple is at all prepared for the kind of positive disruption new App Stores will bring

markgurman, 3 months ago to random

The 13-inch M3 MacBook Air and new iPad Pros are already in production overseas, with a launch targeted around the end of March. Also in the works are new iPad Airs and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 and a slew of new iPad accessories. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-01-28/apple-eu-changes-sideloading-third-party-app-stores-are-future-of-the-iphone-lrxjzbg6

stroughtonsmith, 3 months ago to random

I honestly hope to see Steam on iOS, with cross-buy, cross-save, and cross-compatibility. We could theoretically see something like Steam's Proton layer add automatic game compatibility with the platform.

Or something like Setapp, with subscription access to bundles of apps.

Alternate app stores aren't simply a bad thing.

stroughtonsmith, 3 months ago to apple

Since we haven't had a good look yet at all the system apps, here's Apple Music on visionOS

#visionOS

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daringfireball, 3 months ago to random

Apple Finally Reveals Vision Pro’s Weight
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/01/20/vision-pro-weight

siracusa, 4 months ago to random

Five months after I purchased my AirPods, I’m still seeing this popover daily on multiple devices. Whyyyyyy 😕

stroughtonsmith, 5 months ago to random

Even with a new industrial design, I'm just not excited at all by the prospect of paying two grand to get a new iPad Pro, keyboard and stylus just to run the same software it does today. The software roadmap just seems so out of alignment with what I want from an iPad that it's becoming hard to motivate myself to invest in building for it.

Unsurprisingly, paying $4000+ to run the exact same apps on a face computer, with a two-hour battery and crummy input, is even less appealing 😔

michaelsteeber, 7 months ago to random

I had the honor once again of creating the artwork for this year's @macstories iOS and iPadOS 17 review. Check it out! https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-17-the-macstories-review/

iPadOS 17 on an iPad Pro and iPad mini.

stroughtonsmith, 8 months ago to random

The real tragedy of iPad is the vast gulf between how much potential it had as a platform, and Apple's disinterest in letting it live up to that. It is easy to imagine an alternate universe where iPad grew up to outright replace desktop computing, in all shapes and sizes, running powerful, complex software good enough to supplant everything we used a Mac for. A modern do-over of the entire personal computing industry. Nobody looks at iPhone and thinks 'oh this could be so much more’, but iPad?

matt, 8 months ago to random

In the spirit of sharing, here’s a few more super colorful desktop wallpapers created using the method I shared in today’s video.

Also, these were all made 100% from my iPhone at the post office while I was waiting for my appointment.

https://youtu.be/qgvrSu-aHHI

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viticci, 10 months ago to random

I'm trying the thing: https://www.threads.net/@viticci

paul, 10 months ago to random

Debating picking up a 2019 27" iMac with a high end config at a cheap price. I kind of want to experience working with a true 2x desktop display and figure that its got at least 2 years left of OS updates. But then I look at the benchmarks vs a simple M1 mini…

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paul, 11 months ago to random

Wait a second, I'm on the highest Netflix plan which I thought was a family plan? Now they want me to pay extra just because I have kids off at college? Makes me want to either just downgrade or cancel all together.

stroughtonsmith, 1 year ago to random

Tears of the Kingdom looks like a beautiful game that I can't wait to experience…

…on better hardware 🙁

I'll punt it for now (have way too many other things to play and not enough time), but I really hope Nintendo starts talking about a Switch successor in the next year or so. I've seen far too much of Breath of the Wild at a gorgeous 4K60 in emulators to go back to the real thing in 2023

paul, 1 year ago to random

Dell's half price Pro Display XDR is live, even comes with a free stand. I do like HDR, I don't $2500 like HDR.
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-32-6k-monitor-u3224kb/apd/210-bhbz/monitors-monitor-accessories

stroughtonsmith, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad: “Beginning Tuesday, May 23, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad will be available on the App Store as subscriptions.” ($4.99 (US) per month or $49 (US) per year) https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/apple-brings-final-cut-pro-and-logic-pro-to-ipad/