I HATE APPLE

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Back on topic , I hate that apple is now a media studio and producer

I miss iMessage notifications multiple times a week. I hate the notification center.

while we’re on the subject, how come the “Reminders” app, yknow that thing that’s supposed to remind you about stuff, has so few notification options? I need it to blare shit at me loudly even when my ringer is turned off or down, i need it to give me two extra reminders beforehand, etc. what else is a phone for than to fave you from yourself

(i realise someone is about to tell me how to do these things and that they are in fact very easy to do, and i am steeling myself for it)

fave = save

apple whines from the 1600s

the Vision seems devoid of any creative tools. It’s just another device to facilitate media delivery and consumption. Dud

eh, it’ll be interesting to see what developers do with it. apple’s got a fair number of first-party apps in house now and you can definitely use a mac or iphone to create things out of the box, but they still position their products as a platform for developers

sticking it in the pro market makes sense and I’d guess a lot of the spatial tools (design, architecture, etc) that let you create interactive mixed reality things on a phone would play a lot better on a headset. seeing what furniture would look like in a room in your house is a neat trick on a phone. in AR, it’s a different game. throw in tools like Autodesk’s or w/e and you have mechanical building walkthroughs

Probably more people will end up using these things to watch basketball games from courtside than to sculpt 3d models, so I get it financially. Apple used to prioritize creatives, though. Used to be a child could kick a ball in the street in Cupertino

It’s a commentary in itself that this lack of creative facilitation has gone entirely without note in the press. It’s not expected and apparently not missed.

The #1 thing everyone is yelling at Apple about (among many) is what their AI plans are... it has sucked out much of the oxygen needed for Apple to explain itself better as to the possibilities of Vision as something other than a monitor you wear on your face. I'm reminded a lot of the introduction of the iPad - a grim "look, you can use office programs" trudge that only confirmed those of us in the "hurm. it's a big phone" camp. Never expected an iPad would become one of my main synths. I dutifully downloaded the visionOS SDK and after a couple of looks I think that a year from now there will be some interesting tools in the vertical markets esp. the spatial ones already mentioned. Curious to see if any tiny 1-2 software shops write stuff for it.

it definitely takes some traction in the market to get the more useful applications (in both senses) rolling

this headline seems like it’s defeatist if you’re rooting for apple or the vision pro’s success in any way, but it’s more like we’ve come full circle back to the original iphone’s app-less, browser-first launch. which wasn’t going to work because the ability to do things effectively in a browser wasn’t there, but we’ve gotten to the point where a lot of apps are written as web browser views and bundled: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/20/24044343/apple-vision-pro-safari-killer-app

I want one, but I don’t really watch movies/tv shows, which seems like what it is best for right now.

so of course i’m a pro with the touch double-tap touch move now. and the corner swipe vs bottom swipe vs top swipe. no sweat.

here’s my current beef: on a facetime audio call, when i want to hang up, i need to 1) tap the “dynamic island” 2) hang up. this always leads to like 2-3 seconds of delay, where i hope i’m not breathing weird or something

trying to be the first to hang up a call / leave a zoom meeting is one of the great anxieties of modern life

have you considered not breathing weird

i just don’t breathe for a few seconds, it’s fine

I’ll give that a try

ahhh apparently you can hit the side button to end a Facetime Audio call! basically the place where your thumb is resting if you're right-handed.

imagine doing that and it doesn't work

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Douche chills

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Apple has had some questionable phone wallpaper in the past but this one for the 15 series may be the worst ever

Finally the time has come to buy a new laptop. Old one was 15”, flipping a coin between 14” and 16” now

Get the 14 - I got the 16 and the bulk is pointless

insanity. bigger is better (when it comes to screens.)

admittedly my 16 is rarely carried beyond my couch

This is kind of like a vim versus emacs debate, isn’t it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

I’ve used both. Going from the 15 to the 14 you’ll notice the deficit right away. The 16 will seem luxurious. Comes down to how much you can spend I guess

Get a 14 and use the leftover money to get a 27 external monitor.

Depending on how old your 15 is, the 14 might have more pixels and may be less than 1” smaller.

I went from a 15 intel MBP to a 14 M1 MBP. Default res on the 14 is 1512 x 982 which is less, but if I need the space I can switch to 1800 x 1169.

I switched from 2014 15” MBP to 2022 13” MBA and I slightly regret the loss of screen real estate. Keep switching between the default scaling and one size up, lamenting my ageing eyes. It weighs nothing, slips into several bags the old one didn’t and is otherwise great; I had a budget and a refurb 16/512 13-inch was the sweet spot.

for work i have a 13” air. i travel with it a lot eg take it into the office, take it on trips etc, and when i’m in the office i’m always plugging into a monitor anyway. if i had more space at home i’d be plugging it into a monitor there too. it’s fine and i like how light it is.

I went from a 15 MBP to the 15 MBA and it’s been fine. I’m so used to 15 that anything else just doesn’t feel right

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/apple-sports/id6446788829

Anyone try this new Sports app

I just want a new SE (with thumbprint haptic button i/o facelock), maybe w/ 2 cameras lol.

Like I'd pay the same price for one as whatever the giant iPhone 26 phablet costs for a refresh.

(Sorry for not wanting AR/VR goggles, like the mom* next to me at swim class last week who couldn't tell her daughter was 5 feet away from her screaming to get her attention for almost a full minute.)

*harbor to guess an Apple employee as she was of advanced age and similarly old-adjacent as myself in every other facet of her essence.

I basically only use my laptop screen when I’m travelling. And when I’m travelling it’s more important that it’s small and light than I have a lot of screen. When I’m not travelling I don’t care how big the screen is because I’m using a monitor. So I’ve always had 13” machines for as long as they’ve made them. I’m intrigued by the 15” MBA but apparently it’s not selling very well which is surprising to me.

Yeah

I basically only use my laptop screen when I’m travelling. And when I’m travelling it’s more important that it’s small and light than I have a lot of screen. When I’m not travelling I don’t care how big the screen is because I’m using a monitor. So I’ve always had 13” machines for as long as they’ve made them. I’m intrigued by the 15” MBA but apparently it’s not selling very well which is surprising to me.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, February 21, 2024 3:54 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^^same

The 16" came from work (what a fight it was to requisition instead of a flaky Dell turd) but for flights I cracked and bought a used iPad Pro 11 and "magic" keyboard case. A pretty workable setup - but I would guess, possibly heavier than a MBA 13!

I bought a 4th gen iPad Air + Logitech Folio Touch off eBay last summer (post-GCSEs gift for the kid) and that's pretty much exactly the same weight as an MBA 13.

With the 15->13 switch, it's not really been photo or video editing (or even watching films) where I've felt any lack, but the default (fractional) window/text scaling seems a bit fatiguing. And if I step up to the integer scaling, I do feel like I've been directed towards the Large Print aisle in the bookstore (even though that's probably what the old 15 looks like). It's fine really.
(Using a cheap 24" 1920x1080 narrow-colour-gamut monitor for work, in a back bedroom with poor ambient lighting, for four years has likely been the source of more eye strain than shrinking the MacBook display).

Yah, after some time paging through what gets posted to /r/macsetups/ I realized that my office lighting is straight-up terrible. The ghost of Steve Jobs is sneering contemptuously at me for the aesthetically adverse conditions

I’ve had the 13/14 and 16 over the last 5 years and my wife has the 15… my personal preference is that I found the 16 a little too large for day-to-day but sometime the extra size was handy. The issue wuth both the 15 and 13 is that the screen is not as good as the Mini-LED, and the power is a bit less than I needed for work, but would be fine for light stuff - but they are nice and portable.

So, that leaves the 14 which I am very happy with.

For another £170ish I could've got a refurb late-2021 M1Pro MBP 14" (16/512), which doesn't seem like much for an obviously better machine with lots of extra ports but going fan-less was a key requirement. Though from what I've heard, the fans barely kick in on the M-series Pros even under substantial load.