Papa qui achète un mac dernier modèle pour remplacer son ancien mac qui marche plus.
"C'est plus la même connectique, je peux plus brancher mes anciens périphériques sur le nouveau modèle."
Papa qui bloque le démarrage après avoir saisi trop de fois le mauvais mot de passe.
"J'ai appelé la hotline ils devaient me rappeler, ils ont jamais rappelé. Du coup je suis allez chez un revendeur agréé, ça fait une semaine qu'ils ont la machine pour la débloquer."
Fiston récupère un PC à la cave (AMD Sempron) avec écran clavier souris. installation de Debian, openbox,VLC, gthumb, firefox.
Papa peut en quelques clics sauvegarder ses photos, voir ses films, allez sur le web, bref faire tout comme sur le mac sauf que là ça marche et ça lui a rien coûté.
"C'est génial !"
Apple AirDrop has gotten much less reliable in the last year. It used to always work like magic. Now, it seems to fail half of the time on transfers between me and friends and between my own devices.
Also, the bump mega vibration screen ripple thing sends a contact card instead of the thing someone is trying to share often enough to never use it.
The only fix is both sides doing an airplane mode toggle. Annoying. Not magic.
Weird, I have the opposite experience. I find it is improved now between the contacts I have. A bit slow to detect the target at times, but works every time.
"The decision came after the executives Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT. The product’s use of generative artificial intelligence, which can write poetry, create computer code and answer complex questions, made Siri look antiquated"
Amazing to me that it took 3 wks of ChatGPT to convince Apple that Siri was "antiquated".
Whole bunch of folks have been screaming this from the rooftops for years. 😐
@davemark Siri isn’t even good at what it’s supposed to do. Reliably set a timer? Play music in the only app I ever use to do that, which is also Apple’s own? Extract a time and date from an email?
🇬🇧 #DarkMatter on #AppleTVPlus - how good is this!!! It promises to be another good series that is an adaptation of a book, which in turn I will probably have to read because I won't handle waiting until the finale 😁
🇵🇱 #MrocznaMateria na #AppleTVPlus - jakie to jest dobre!!! Zapowiada się na kolejny dobry serial, który jest adaptacją książki, którą z kolei pewnie trzeba będzie przeczytać, bo nie wytrzyma się do finału 😁
#Apple challenges the courts again on payments processing.
You can now show users an external link to process the payment outside of Apple’s platform.
But that comes with a new “external link fee” of 27% - to be paid on top of the fee you pay for users who still make their purchases through the App store.
I’ve said it several times, I’ll repeat it: companies like Apple can get away with such parasitic rent-seeking behavior with no added value, and with challenging courts all over the world, because they are practically above the law.
They can afford to create their own taxation system as if they were an independent country, but without being accountable to voters, and without losing a single percentage point of market share if they behave like jerks.
And any fine thrown on them by courts around the world is likely to be only a tiny part of their revenue - unless we get the balls of fining them for hundreds of billions and use that money to support more competition in the market, which would be an act of redistribution long overdue IMHO.
Apple can treat fines as small operating costs because their monopolistic behaviour is still profitable enough to pay those one-off fines many times over.
And if they are above the law, it’s because too many people bought their crap and gave them power that they didn’t deserve. And they’ll keep buying their products even if Tim Cook starts wearing a Darth Vader mask during interviews.
If you use anything made by Apple, you are part of the problem.
@fabio I am not a fan of #apple, however the issue here seems not to be that their behavior is illegal, but that their customer base have chosen to voluntarily self-jeopardise their bargaining power. 🙄
On my little corner, I shall continue my personal apple-free life.
After watching the decidedly poorly thought out #Apple iPad commercial, I kind of suspect it was a set up. It's so bad, it looks intentionally bad.
Like some business guy thought up the idea and told his creative people to do it. His creative people told him it was a bad idea and the guy made them do it anyway, so they said "We are totally going to make that jerk regret this!"
There is another explanation for why the commercial was so bad: It's it's gotten more people talking about it than any other ad I can think of and is probably the most watched, most successful iPad TV ad ever.
The M4 Geekbench 6 scores are out for the new M4, and well benchmarks don't exactly translate to real life performance, it's interesting how much performance increase there is.
Also, the M4 is slightly faster as an M2 Pro. However, I think the GPU scores is a different story since the M4 has fewer GPU cores, although it beats the M1 Pro.
@yon I have to agree. GPUs, especially on the highest end just use rediculous amounts of electricity. Even the RX 7900 XTX can use a lot of power, especially the one with more than 2 8 pin PCI-e, which is basically the non reference models. Also, GPUs are getting too big too.
@chikorita157 Feels like they are out of ideas and are just pushing stuff at an unreasonable pace. Doesn’t help that all completion is virtually gone:/
Still curious about those Chinese ones. Could end up being endlessly terribad. Or we get something we’d never expect and a leap. Time will tell.
The ironic thing is if Apple did anything else, perhaps a magician covering a box with the stuff with a curtain, then whisking the curtain away to show the iPad, it wouldn't have made such a negative impact, but the destruction of creative stuff just echos a world that is like the first Mac ad, except without someone cool slinging a hammer at a screen... a world Apple has helped make.
@bodomenke Dieser Clip wird Apple noch jahrelang leid tun. Und es werden viele Artikel darüber geschrieben werden, wie sich ein Unternehmen vom „1984“-Clip bzw. der „Think Different“-Kampagne zu diesem Schrottpressen-Schrott entwickelt.
@Linkshaender Sehe ich genauso. Insbesondere weil Apple ja praktisch schon selbst als Kreativladen gilt und bislang eher eine recht glückliche Hand bewiesen hatte bei ihren Commercials.
Das Schrottpressen-Ding ist ein echter Faux Pas. Denke, dass wird der Grund sein, warum man das nicht noch mehr “streisanden” wollte durch Kommunikation durch Tim. Stattdessen lieber tief hängen, um möglichst schnell wieder aus dem Shitstorm rauszukommen. Mal sehen, ob der Plan aufgeht…
@craiggrannell I get why Folium is having issues, but they must have known about Provenance and others before.
Otherwise I feel like they're shooting themselves in the foot. Again.
@darylbaxter But iDOS is being put through the ringer for reasons that make no sense whatsoever. and MAME4iOS is being repeatedly rejected for spam. None of that really looks good.
I’d also love to be a fly on the wall when someone submits mini vMac. I’d say there’s zero chance of that going through.
Apple pulls the controversial "Crush" ad and apologizes.
"The ad, posted on social media Tuesday by Apple CEO Tim Cook, was met with backlash from internet users who felt that the ad celebrated technology’s destruction of human creativity and art."
« #Apple doesn’t understand why you use technology » by Elizabeth Lopatto
« This ad does highlight a particular Silicon Valley attitude: It scorns the past as outdated rather than respecting it as clever. In some sense, these companies have to: they’ve got products to sell. »
A tablet will never replicate the experience of playing a physical piano or ukulele for me. I still read physical books over using a kindle. When I draw and paint it’s with a real pencil and paint brush.
If that makes me a Luddite, then I’m proud to be one.
@JugglingWithEggs It’s entirely possible to embrace the digital over the analogue in many of these instances and still find this ad… distasteful at best.
Crushing products of any kind, but particularly those associated with creativity, in the days of over-consumption and AI coming for the arts after ripping off those artists, is just tone deaf. #Apple should pull their ad and apologise.
I reflexively cringed when I saw this ad. Not only is it wasteful, the message sent across appears to be that Apple literally crushes all the things you like to make the new iPad.
Well, that's a first! My iPhone was reading a web story and #siri on a #homepod decided some passage was a request to play a song. Now #AI's are talking to each other? #Apple#funny
