@arstechnica Apple should be fully transparent about the cause and resolution of this bug. If the photos were actually deleted they wouldn’t be able to suddenly come back into existence, so this suggests that the “deleted” photos were not actually deleted, just flagged as deleted… if that’s the case this could be a massive privacy issue!
How long before we start trying to cram an LLM into a space probe to act as a potential interactive digital ambassador containing the wealth of human knowledge? A time capsule that could encapsulate and preserve our culture, languages, history for thousands of years, fired into the cosmos. It is almost certainly going to happen
If Apple's afraid of eating into Mac sales by putting macOS on iPad, just put the Hypervisor and Virtualization frameworks on iPadOS so third parties like Parallels can virtualize Windows 11 or Linux instead. Windows, at least, is much better suited for a touchscreen than macOS is. Let the developer/userbase validate the concept if you won’t — is a virtual desktop good or bad for the iPad platform?
@stroughtonsmith Government legislation may need to force Apple’s hand on making iPad Pro support VMs if Apple is unwilling to allow it. This would bring more competition to the platform. I suspect a major reason Apple still hasn’t allowed VMs is that doing so could threaten to reduce Apple’s services profits.
I know people like to think iPadOS 'forked' from iOS when it was renamed a few years back, but it really didn’t. If you install Xcode, both iPhone and iPad simulators run out of the exact same OS root. It's the same set of apps, the same SpringBoard — it just decides which features you get at runtime based on screen size and a feature map. That's not a fork; the name essentially means nothing. A brand new $4,000 iPad runs the same OS as your six year old phone
@stroughtonsmith Assuming this is made possible by running macOS apps in virtualisation. Would you rather macOS ran in full screen on iPad and the Mac apps can only be used while the full macOS desktop is displayed, or the macOS apps run in their own windows alongside other iPadOS apps (like parallels coherence mode)?
@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 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.