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vanitalo

@vanitalo@mastodon.social

Developer | Automator | Technology & Apple Enthusiast

Currently working in the higher education sector as a Lead Enterprise Software Engineer.

Disclaimer: Your perception is not my reality ;-)

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appleinsider, to random
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If you feel like you're being controlled by your smartphone, don't feel alone -- smartphone addiction is a real thing. So, let's talk about it, and how to deal with it.
https://appleinsider.com/inside/iphone/tips/smartphone-addiction-is-real-and-we-all-probably-need-to-do-something-about-it?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

vanitalo,
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@appleinsider So many phone zombies walking down the street. 🙄

daringfireball, to random
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The New iPads No Longer Include Stickers
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/no-more-stickers-with-new-ipads

vanitalo,
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@daringfireball If you want stickers request them from Apple at time of purchase. It’s totally unnecessary to ship what are essentially extra waste materials in the box when the likelihood is that they will never be used.

daringfireball, to random
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Is the ‘Crush’ Backlash a Dead Canary in the Apple Brand Coal Mine?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/dhh-crush

vanitalo,
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@daringfireball The only thing missing from the hydraulic press was the artists themselves. That ad would have been a bit too graphic, but some would say not too far from the point considering how some people also feel that AI technology is poised to replace the human element in many aspects as well.

I wonder what ads Apple has planned for WWDC 🤪

daringfireball, to random
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Apple Apologizes for ‘Crush’ Ad: ‘We Missed the Mark With This Video, and We’re Sorry’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/apple-crush-apology

vanitalo,
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@daringfireball I guess Sonos didn’t get that memo. 🤪 They’ve doubled down on their mistake.

verge, to random
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Sonos says its controversial app redesign took ‘courage’ https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/9/24152675/sonos-new-app-bad-reviews-response-statement

vanitalo,
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@verge I guess it does take courage to wilfully piss off all of your customers!

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Early iPad Pro Geekbench results (if true) make it out to be basically double the performance of my M1 Mac mini. Double the single core score, double the multicore score, and double the graphics score 👀 It's only been three years!

CPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/6013825

GPU: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/2154401

📈

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith I hear the iPad Pro is great for running benchmark software… not much else though 🤪

verge, to random
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People sure are pressed about Apple’s crushing iPad commercial https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152236/apple-ipad-pro-commercial-artists-ai

vanitalo,
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@verge WWDC’s announcements…

Hold my beer! 🍺 🤣

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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Manifesting that the next iPad mini features an OLED + Nano-texture display, making it an incredible eReader. 🤞

vanitalo,
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@BasicAppleGuy It’s annoying that Apple neglects the iPad mini so much. It’s the best iPad IMO, but it could really benefit from more regular updates that give it more Pro features.

verge, to random
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The new Sonos app is missing a lot of features, and people aren’t happy https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24151704/sonos-new-app-bad-reviews-missing-features

vanitalo, (edited )
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@verge It’s an awful update 😞 they even screwed up the volume controls for grouped speakers.

This should never have been released in this state. Should have been a TestFlight beta only!

stroughtonsmith, (edited ) to random
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When I finally pull the trigger, a new 13" iPad Pro w/ 16GB RAM, keyboard & stylus is gonna cost me €3,107. It would be by far the most powerful computer I own.

That's more than twice as much as what I paid for the Mac mini I do all my development on. It even beats out my high-end gaming PC whose GPU alone was €1800.

All of that goes to waste because it’s paired with a simplified, stripped-down OS using the same technology stack and limitations as a $300 Netflix device for your grandparents

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith Apple needs to discontinue the iPad Pro line and introduce the MacPad!

stroughtonsmith, to random
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An Apple Pencil with a gyro, physical squeeze-click, and a haptic motor, sure would be useful for drawing in AR, huh

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith But can the new Apple Pencil Pro be used with the Vision Pro for VR lightsaber duels? 👀🤪

stroughtonsmith, to random
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These new iPads Pro are clearly the best iPads ever made, and most powerful hardware in this form factor by a long shot.

Which is why it pains me that the most excitement I can drum up is an exasperated sigh

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith It doesn’t matter how much power or hardware upgrades Apple throws at the iPad platform. The operating system is fundamentally broken (especially for iPad Pro) and needs to be completely redesigned.

Given Apple’s track record of lacklustre iPadOS advancements year on year, I don’t expect any groundbreaking announcements at WWDC that will fix the fundamental flaws in the iPad’s operating system.

Adding AI functionality to iPadOS won’t provide any solutions to that either!

appleinsider, to random
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For the first time, Apple has used the iPad to edit some of the footage of one of its Apple Events to showcase the powerful capabilities of its tablet lineup.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/07/the-let-loose-event-was-the-first-to-be-edited-on-ipad-using-final-cut-pro?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

vanitalo,
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@appleinsider I’ll bet they didn’t do much of the editing on iPad though. 🤪

jsnell, to random
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Just posted on Six Colors: The iPad Pro is no longer the future, so what’s next?

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-ipad-pro-is-no-longer-the-future-so-whats-next/

vanitalo,
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@craiggrannell @jsnell This is why I think Apple should make a new touchscreen MacBook form factor instead of just iterating the iPad Pro which despite all the iterations has not really evolved.

The issue I have with the iPad Pro when trying to use it as a laptop is there are too many compromises, too many limitations! (1/2)

vanitalo,
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Despite that I’d like a touchscreen tablet without a keyboard sometimes, when I have to attach an iPad to a bulky/heavy keyboard/trackpad it makes the iPad far less compelling for me and iPadOS is also too limiting for laptop work for me.

I’d like Apple to make a real hybrid device, not something that can become hybridish by attaching a bunch of accessories… maybe we’ll need to wait a few more years for that though. (2/2)

verge, to random
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Samsung announces new entry-level OLED TVs — likely with LG panels inside https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/6/24150270/samsung-s85d-entry-level-oled-pricing-specs

vanitalo,
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@verge SamsuLG 👀

stroughtonsmith, to random
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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

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith If Apple won’t enable virtualisation on the iPad Pro, they should make real touchscreen MacBooks.

I wouldn’t buy any version of the iPad (other than the mini) if Apple made touchscreen MacBooks that also support Apple Pencil.

I don’t think iPadOS will ever meet my computing needs unless Apple adds a lot more macOS style capabilities.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Both computers on my desk each have a 27" 4K Dell display at 1080p@2x and I wouldn't have it any other way.

You will never recover the eyesight you destroy now by pushing usable screen space over comfort
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112367242770869662

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith
@9to5Mac I have this monitor setup at the moment. All are 4K monitors, but running at scaled resolutions. I’d go blind if I had to read text at native 4K 😜

I prefer a resolution closer to 1600p as the text still looks reasonably sharp and large enough so I don't have to squint, and it provides a little more vertical screen resolution than 1440p.

2 x LG 32UN88A running at 3008x1692
1 x LG 27UP550N running at 1296x2304 (portrait)

verge, to random
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Bumble’s app redesign lets women automate conversation starters https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145199/bumble-opening-move-app-redesign

vanitalo,
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@verge lol, the future of dating is AI, let your AI date someone else’s AI 🤣🤪

film_girl, to random
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Honestly, support ublock origin and you can win back the Mac browser market. But the current extension model in Safari is such a terrible experience for every person involved, developers and users. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112360846501810807

vanitalo,
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@film_girl 💯agree on this! The Safari extension model is awful, it’s the main reason I refuse to use Safari for most things.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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the only consumer AI gadget worth making is glasses

There are very few spots on the average human body to put anything else that aren't already occupied. And it's the perfect place for a camera.

That's your niche, and you have a countdown clock until Apple and Google arrive with real ecosystems in tow. That gives you maybe 5 years of runway before you have to ‘compete’

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith I agree that glasses would be ideal, but current technology isn’t really up to the task yet and may not be for another decade. In the interim I’d like AI watches to be take a more prominent place.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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iPad has probably had the most dramatic shift of all of Apple's platforms, since its inception. It began as doing very few things to a very high quality, but now it does almost everything, badly. I hope history finds it to have been more than just an incubator for Apple's Mac silicon during the wayward years

vanitalo,
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@stroughtonsmith Totally agree! iPadOS is the problem. It’s a waste of time putting an M4 processor in an iPad. If Apple doesn’t make iPadOS more capable like macOS the hardware will never live up to its potential.

daringfireball, to random
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Widespread Problem Has Locked Many Out of Their Apple IDs
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/27/apple-id-lockout

vanitalo,
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@daringfireball The stolen device protection feature really shouldn’t use significant locations. It should use specified configured locations that allow the user to also specify the allowed radius from the specified locations. Apple needs to rethink and redesign this feature!

macrumors, to random
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Apple Asks Customers for Vision Pro Feedback https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/26/apple-asks-customers-for-vision-pro-feedback/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

vanitalo,
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@macrumors The more important question is “why haven’t you purchased an  Vision Pro?” 🤪

verge, to random
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A morning with the Rabbit R1: a fun, funky, unfinished AI gadget https://www.theverge.com/24138746/rabbit-r1-hands-on-ai-gadget-chatgpt

vanitalo,
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@verge Junkware!

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