Regardless of what happens in the keynote today with calculators, I wanted to say that I’ve been dealing with a serious family health crisis for the last three months, and I’ve spent a lot of that time around hospitals.
So, please don’t add to my stresses today by tagging me in a million things about getting Sherlocked because, genuinely, even if Apple destroys my entire business today, it’s not going to be my biggest concern.
Monday's announcements are cool and all...but what I'm really anxious to find out is what the goodie bag item is this year. Last year’s travel mug (a Fellows Carter Move Mug) was the best travel mug I've ever found. Whoever at Apple picks their products is aces.
[I liked the mug so much I actually got one for everyone in my family for Christmas, it's that good.]
@_Davidsmith Thanks for the tip. My travel mug is OK, but not great. This looks like a good option. Expensive for Europeans, but a good travel mug is worth it.
That dangerous point in time between getting an app approved and when you release it, and whether you will find a new bug while you take some promotional screenshots.
@jamesthomson Just finally released a v1.0.0 for something we've been working on for two years. Already found seven things to fix/improve that should have been in v1.0.0. Sigh...
My iPhone 15 Pro doesn't hold onto USB-C cables very well anymore, and they always fall out or flake out.
(And I only use the USB-C port for Xcode and travel charging, so it's not from overuse.)
Anyone else have this happen? Is this most likely a "crap in the port” 5-minute-fix-at-an-Apple-store situation, or a hardware-repair I'll-be-without-my-phone-for-some-days-and-need-to-move-into-an-old-one situation?
@marcoarment This is exactly why I, although it was necessary, did not look forward to the USB-C transition: physically, it's a downgrade compared to Lightning.
So congrats all, we made it worse. And better. But also worse.
Playing around with a Meta Quest 3 version of my Vision Pro stand, and I want a flourish on top to differentiate them, but I can't decide if I prefer the inset or raised sensors. What do you think?
A tricky part of being a solo developer is that there is nobody to review my code. So a trick I've developed is to do a review myself but in a different tool from my daily Git setup. The context switch helps me to pretend I’m analyzing someone else’s work.
Previously I'd export diffs into Kaleidoscope, but I recently discovered Juxtacode, which works better for me. It’s a Git-native Diff tool. I can easily pick any 2 commits to compare and navigate changes. Recommended.
@_Davidsmith I've been using Sublime Merge as my git tool for the last few years, and it's absolutely fantastic. It has an indefinite free trial, but it's well worth the price if you use git seriously.
@christianselig Or just do it. I've not had issues on a Mac ever. And I've not been using PC for the past decade and a half, but I'm sure they're fine too.
Just make sure it's not the only place your files live.
@leoncowle A minivan can sit 6 people and tow plenty. No, you don't need it. If you would take a honest look around, you wohld find plenty alternatives.
@leoncowle I forgot that camping in the US isn't camping at all. It's moving house (literally). Even the heaviest EU camping trailers can be towed by a VW Golf.
@samueljohnson Golfs, among other cars, are used by police intervention units. I've definitely seen them driving by in dark grey with blacked out windows and a very well equipped gun safe in the back. If you want to get somewhere in a city and get there fast, a decked out Golf is probably the best option.
@arstechnica Calling it "bailing" without providing numbers is yet another sensationalist header. If it's more than a few % of eligible users I would be surprised.
@arstechnica Gas anyone tallied the predictions of Musk? My bet is he gets about 90% of his predictions wrong, and 99% of those about technology in the coming year.
Elon is not working on AI, and I doubt he has more insight than most.
Of course it all depends on what you measure 'smartness' by.
Random question, but does anyone get that bug in Safari on Mac where when navigating the YouTube website, sometimes you'll navigate back a page and the page won't actually change at all despite the URL updating?
It still blows my mind that 99% of monitors out there still have lower resolution than Apple and LG's 21" monitor from 2016. Refresh rate is cool, but cmon, Obama was still president back then
@christianselig I'm still baffled by the fact nobody mentions the pixel density (ppi) of monitors. Even those list of ‘best monitors for Apple customers’ (e.g. https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/13/thunderbolt-monitors/) don't mention them. When I’m buying a monitor, I'm interested in 1) how large it is and 2) how sharp it is. I don't want to calculate 2 myself.
Resolution is only interesting if you consume a single type of content on it. It makes sense for TVs when content comes in HD or 4K, but not for computer monitor.
@jamesthomson Soo... will this be expanded to a full immersive 3D table top RPG experience? I'd love to see a certain panda walk around in my environment.
@christianselig@jsnell@caseyliss As a Dutch person: we always say "1 - 78", which means "1 meter and 78 centimeter". In a medical context "178 cm" is sometimes used.
@jamesthomson I've got an app idea for you: a spatial pin board where you can pin achievements from different apps, to hang in your virtual office. With some API to have apps like Carrot donate pins to show off.
As an Apple shareholder, I wish Apple wouldn’t push for services revenue. How much better of a company would they be, if it was mostly about selling cool devices that everybody wanted to use? Would they make less money? Yes. Would they still be insanely profitable? Also yes!
@jamesthomson I don't think this will ever be the case, unless the target audience gets the majority of shares in hands. The unfortunate truth is that most shareholders only care about profit, no matter which company.
How many Apple users would it take buying buy $1000-$5000 worth of shares to get them to change?
I wonder (though am doubtful) if there's going to be any way to view a device like a Nintendo Switch's output on the Vision Pro. Playing Tears of the Kingdom on a movie theater screen on a plane would be awesome
CrazIly enough, with YouTube there's no way to know the aspect ratio of a video (unless you inspect the video file which is against ToS). Even the YouTube API doesn't reveal that info, halfway between always assuming 16:9 and screenshotting then measuring black bars in code
@christianselig That's going to be buggy. There are plenty videos that switch, showing bars in part of the video, or have black borders for other reasons. E.g. 3blue1brown has mostly a black background in his videos.
