I hope they don’t get stingy on the ports.

I know some people will “everything is usb-c now!” except everything isn’t, so stop.

I have a ten year old Mac Mini on my desk that has two FireWire, four usb, an sd card reader, and Ethernet. I still want most of these things (though, of course swap FireWire for some number of usb-c). I don’t want to HAVE to buy a dock for this machine.

In hearing that it’ll be smaller, my initial assumption is Apple will do the Apple thing and arbitrarily reduce the number of ports while saying “if you want more here’s the Mac Studio that’s way more expensive!”

I still have an iPhone 4 in a drawer and it’s totally flat on the back. Still looks really cool.

Apple: “Our new chips are more efficient so we can make devices thinner with a smaller battery and still get 10 hours of battery!”

Everyone: “Or just keep them the same and use a bigger battery to get, like 15-20 hours of battery?”

Apple: “NO.”

Lots of updates coming to the ios calculator with ios18. They obviously focused on the ipad version because it has the written math notes stuff, but a lot of those features are coming to the iphone, too.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/11/ios-18-calculator-these-conversions/

The current calculator has had a lot more options if you turn the phone sideways, but no one ever does that. Personally, I’m a pCalc guy.

RCS, I suppose, so we can stop hearing about it.

That’s fair.

Hopefully there’s a toggle to turn it off.

At least Apple isn’t taking a screenshot of your device every three seconds and saving it in plain text.

Just let it understand the word “and” and I’ll be happy.

I’ve been trying to get my parents to use a password manager for years now. They have a piece of paper with a bunch of passwords on that’s one coffee spill away from a disaster.

I’ve tried getting them to use Bitwarden or any other simple manager, but nothing has stuck.

A “default” one from Apple, might, though. They are more amenable to stuff “built in” (that will also not be hidden down in some settings menus like how the current iOS passwords are stored.) So bring it on.

Yep. So weird to not see the outrage then.

I wasn’t upset with this Apple commercial. But I am definitely upset with this LG commercial.

https://youtu.be/NcUAQ2i5Tfo?si=yIHs1i4haxVlalh7

The market is saturated. Everyone has a phone, and only so many will need one next year.

I still have a 12Pro (and had a 6s until is started acting up), and its fine. The camera is kinda trash, but otherwise it’s never had an issue running any app I’ve tried.

I tend to ride with a phone until it dies, and I bet most people are the same way.

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I’m less bothered about the App Store than I am just allowing these devices with these very powerful chips to stretch their wings.

And it’s just simple things, too. iPadOS should allow you to have two different audio tracks going at once. It can handle that. But it’s too skewed to being a “bigger iPhone” than it is a “smaller MacBook.”

And I honestly love my iPad. Using it right this moment with a wireless KB and trackpad. And I’m happy I can extend the display relatively easily to a monitor now, too.

But it could definitely be so much more if the handcuffs were taken off.

So Apple hardware that’s super powerful but has bad software to support all that power?

“Where have I heard that one before?” he types on his iPad Pro…

Don’t know if this sways your opinion either way, but just yesterday they bumped the MacBook Air to have the M3 chip.

I’d agree with this.

I also kind of think it doesn’t help that every joke or meme — seemingly — we get now has the punchline as being like “…I guess I’ll die.” There always seems like there’s a negative bend to the joke, and even if we understand that it’s a joke (“Missed the bus; guess I’ll die”), seeing that over and over again all over the place can start to taint your perception some.

Or at least it can for me.

Premium is pretty great, to be honest.

Oh this is interesting.

I’ve used an external keyboard for a while now and never had any issues with keys activating things I didn’t want, but I did just check that accessibility setting and I have that turned off so that makes sense.

I use my ipad with a trackpad a lot, and often with stage manager on an external display. Youtube doesn’t play well with that set up. Oddly it’ll switch which background color to show (like from dark to light) and as a result the text can get unreadable because the text doesn’t always switch with it. The chat/info panes sometimes won’t work when you click on them. I’ve had it not let me click the share button because the share button wouldn’t load.

And, yes, Stage Manager is somewhat a niche use case, I suppose. But this isn’t a mom and pop app dev. It’s google.

Even out of Stage Manager, they don’t support the cursor targets like apps are supposed to (maybe they are just using one build and shipping everywhere and hoping for the best). PiP sometimes doesn’t work well, and you have to kill the app and restart.

They should do better with one of their flagship apps, is all I’m saying. And Apple, honestly, should do better on their end with stuff like this. They don’t even have all native apps built for the Vision Pro that comes out in a couple weeks. It’s like, you’re the most profitable company on the planet and you don’t even bother. It’s crazy.