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iOS 16 Available September 12th
- gridder 4y agoYou can already download the RC with the public beta profile. Released few minutes ago.
- minimaxir 4y agowatchOS 9 also September 12th unsurprisingly.
- dkrich 4y agoInteresting to see the similarities to watchOS
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- candiddevmike 4y ago> Freeform. Freeform is a productivity app where you and your collaborators can bring ideas to life. Jot down notes, share files, and insert web links, documents, video, and audio. > Coming later this year Apple going to start offering email too?
- desro 4y agoWith iCloud Plus you're able to add custom email domains (really nice and tight integration with Cloudflare DNS for all the MX records) -- was a breeze to set up. Haven't put it through it's paces yet, though.
- jws 4y agoWeirdly, you can only have three email addresses per domain. So you can't really use it for a typical family domain, even though it supports the family group (which can be six people).
- nytesky 4y agoThe other users in your family group will be able to add 3 addresses of their own; the 3 you see are just the email address for your root@yourdomain.com account. User1 will have their own set of 3; login to iCloud.com from one of the family accounts and you'll see.
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- Terretta 4y agoEveryone gets 3 each. More importantly you can create unlimited throwaway vendor / site reg emails you can receive to and send from with Hide My Email.
- CharlesW 4y agoI migrated my personal email from Google Workspace to iCloud+ a few months ago, and it worked great. No complaints so far. This guide to using imapsync was invaluable: https://blah.cloud/miscellaneous/migrating-google-workspaces-to-icloud-custom-domain/ https://blah.cloud/miscellaneous/migrating-google-workspaces...
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoJust be sure to check your spam box more often than you used to. iCloud mail's spam filtering is very aggressive
- Jtsummers 4y ago> Apple going to start offering email too? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileMe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileMe Replaced by iCloud later. So it’s not something they will do, but something they have been doing for over two decades.
- cachvico 4y agomac.com before MobileMe, still have my @mac.com ;)
- SleepilyLimping 4y agoIt's frustrating, because this likely won't be usable on Desktop, Windows, or the majority of workspaces. I actually don't mind the Reminders app, but like iMessage, I can't use it on my main Windows desktop, so I don't. I can count on one hand the amount of times I've FaceTimed someone because of fragmentation in my network with Android.
- criddell 4y agoYou can use Reminders in the browser.
- SleepilyLimping 4y agoYes, but not all the features of it; if you're using the most recent "upgraded" Reminders, all you can do on web is create new tasks and add notes. You can't: - Add or edit lists - Add reminders or due dates - Add tagging or priority - Add things like location-based reminders Just crappy all around.
- easrng 4y agohttps://www.icloud.com/reminders/ https://www.icloud.com/reminders/ :)
- ezfe 4y agoFaceTime supports joining from the web
- artificialLimbs 4y agoTeams. Apple is going to start offering Teams.
- christophilus 4y agoI'm surprised they aren't using the iPhone 14 in the promo images. Anyway, looks like my old iPhone 7 is finally going to have to retire. :/ I can't wait for a good Linux phone. Edit: 7 years of use isn't bad compared to Android, but the phone is still just fine, and it really bothers me that it's turning into e-waste for no good reason.
- MBCook 4y agoThe group putting this together almost certainly didn’t have “clearance” to see those images before they were publicly released today.
- augustl 4y agoApparently, the reason Apple dropped support for iPhone 7 is performance on the new lock screen. Pretty lame if that's the case, Apple has usually been good with supporting all devices as long as the hardware allows it (for example, hardware level secure enclave was required at a certain version of iOS)
- anonuser123456 4y agoIt is a extremely hard to maintain differential software features across hardware product lines. What ‘sounds lame’ may translate into significantly added complexity to the maintenance process.
- theideaofcoffee 4y agoI think with all of their resources, Apple of all companies could dig deep and stretch a little bit to make that happen.
- BuckRogers 4y agoYou can blame their competition for not beating them out at longterm support on that front. Apple is already leading the market supporting iOS this long. I used my last iPhone for 7 years, unfathomable on any other platform than iOS. I hope their competitors step it up and beat Apple out on grade A support. I'm seeing them fall further behind in every metric. My iPhone 12 mini that I bought on launch day "just works".
- avtar 4y agoApple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.
- Daltzn 4y agoGive the app bouncer a try. I been able stop almost all spam texts.
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- stouset 4y ago> Other companies compete over best or newest features. Camera location/exterior shape forces their status-conscious demographic to buy new phones. Frankly this kind of comment has no place on Hacker News. There are many, many reasons to be critical of Apple. "Doesn't compete on features and only cares about what the device looks like superficially because their customers are sheep who only care about status" is not only a lazy take, but also doesn't even remotely describe the reality in which we live. > I don't see what is wrong with calling out a very rational decision to continue making high status products rather than deviate into high tech products. I genuinely can't fathom how one could conclude that Apple as a company isn't investing in technology. I mean, even at a superficial level, you're talking about a company that in-houses their own chip design and has dominated the mobile CPU market since doing so. They're very competitive in the desktop space in compute power with their very first chip line in this product category, and are absolutely crushing the existing players on performance per watt. The've leveraged this advantage into being effectively the only meaningful player in the wearables space other than Garmin. Satellite integration into the phone is a direct shot across the bow of devices like the Garmin inReach, and the greater battery life (plus satellite integration) in the Apple Watch Max is going to start eating away at a chunk of Garmin's marketshare for GPS-tracking watches. Though Garmin still wins here for serious backcountry enthusiasts who spend multiple days in a row out of reach, Apple is leaving them a smaller and smaller margin in which to operate. I stand by my original comment that this characterization of Apple is not reflective about of our reality. For Apple's many faults, they are extremely competitive from a technological perspective. Precisely because they are so unbelievably good at identifying how and when to apply a technological advance to achieve the largest possible impact for their customers.
- bell-cot 4y agoFor those with older devices, a list of supported (& unsupported) hardware - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_16#Supported_devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_16#Supported_devices
- bnt 4y agoNext to CarPlay it says "Vehicle announcement coming in late 2023" - what is this related to? Showing car-related information in CarPlay, or are they announcing a car of their own?
- jackson1442 4y agoI think that's surrounding which vehicles will support the CarPlay dashboard.
- berberous 4y agoI’m not sure, but a while ago they announced a sort of expanded CarPlay where things like the speedometer, fuel gage, etc were shown in the CarPlay format, so I assume that.
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- CharlesW 4y agoI believe this means, "late next year, we'll be announcing 2024 model-year vehicles that will be the first to support next-gen CarPlay experiences".
- Jaepa 4y agoLikely the former. They announced a new version of Carplay during WWDC. Basically rather than just applying to the infotainment system, it will also include information from the dashboard, and climate systems. https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/09/apples-2023-carplay-is-an-apple-car-preview---and-is-scaring-detroit https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/06/09/apples-2023-carpl...
- WXLCKNO 4y agoReally hope that this will be compatible with iDrive 8 on my upcoming BMW.
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- noncoml 4y agoApple, for iOS 17 can you please let me freely rearrange the apps on the screen? Having them shuffle every time I add or remove an app is really a pain
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
- dewey 4y agoYou can rearrange apps on their screen, you just can't have gaps between them or move them "freely" in a way that they alwasy snap to an invisible grid...which isn't really something I have thought about ever.
- teekert 4y agoI got used to it (especially when things are settled) but when you are fresh from android it can be annoying that you have to fill the top rows before your can place your fav apps within reach of your thumb. It feels very wrong.
- mikestew 4y agoUse blank icons to fill in the rows. Kludgy? Sure, but it gets the job done: https://david-smith.org/blank.html https://david-smith.org/blank.html
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoI'm guessing the problem is a UX one. If, by deleting an app, all your app icons shift position by one, that'll ruin your spatial memory.
- permo-w 4y agothey mean they can’t have an app floating in space not in a nice pretty queue next to another app. not that they can’t rearrange them at all
- toomuchtodo 4y agoPasskeys gonna be fire. Goodbye password managers, credential stuffing, and phishing attacks! (photo deduplication is nice too btw, been a long time coming)
- kylehotchkiss 4y agoFire so long as sites implement them. Given how "quickly" yubikeys or even just touch ID webauthn have been going around, it doesn't seem very imminent :( Hopefully Firebase or AWS offer an easily accessible way to add passkeys etc as auth methods.
- cheeze 4y agoOn the flipside, Yubikey and whatnot are still pretty niche. That being said, I was hoping to see more touch ID webauthn so I'm not super hopeful. But we can hope!
- sebk 4y agoThere's nothing special RPs have to do in order to support Passkeys. It's just WebAuthn that happens to be synced. If the site supports WebAuthn it already supports Passkeys (As long as they're not doing significantly less common things like checking for attestation, which Passkey-enabled credentials won't do).
- isatty 4y agoHave they added the feature to have a locked (and hidden, I know that hidden already exists) folder for pictures?
- toomuchtodo 4y agoThat is my understanding. FaceID for hidden and deleted photos.
- isatty 4y agoAmazing. I cannot believe it’s taken this long but that’s amazing. Upgrading first chance I get.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoA great maps feature would be to even let me choose google maps when clicking on an address in iMessage.
- teekert 4y agoMy country does not have bike navigation options, so you still need gmaps a lot. I really hope they will add it soon.
- glitchinc 4y agoAfter all of the iterations of iOS, there is still no way to have only the first new/unread message per SMS/iMessage thread generate a notification--particularly the notification sound or tone. I find the feature would be useful in all situations, but would be especially useful in group threads. I don't need to hear a ding every time someone in a group thread sends a message if I don't have my phone in my hand. One ding generated when the first unread message is received will do just fine.
- patrickserrano 4y agoNot the same thing by a long shot, but you can turn on "Hide Alerts" for group chats. My wife has all of her long running group chats set to this to prevent alerts all day when her friends are chatting.
- muhammadusman 4y agoYup, this has been very helpful. Coming back to 20+ messages where 50-75% of them are reactions was annoying to get alerts for.
- yabones 4y agoWell, looks like it's the end of the line for my 1st gen SE. It's been a good run. I'll miss you, little guy. Looks like my other options for a small phone are 12/13 mini or possibly the 2nd/3rd gen SE. But not nearly as compact as the 4" SE.
- empressplay 4y agoI just ordered a 'refurbished' iPhone 8 plus off of Amazon to replace my SE -- it's slightly bigger than the second generation SE but it has a second telephoto camera so... if I'm going to be forced to have a larger phone then that's sufficient compensation. Also it still has a fingerprint sensor!
- Jtsummers 4y agoThe 13 mini is only slightly larger than the SE (2016). Dimensions: Model Height Width Depth SE 4.87" 2.31" 0.3" Mini 5.18" 2.53" 0.301" (strangely precise) Diff +0.31" +0.22" +0.001" The screen goes from 4" to 5.4", which (for me) was worth the slight increase in size. I'm not going to say it's as compact as the SE (2016), but it's not a huge difference (nowhere near the difference of the regular sized 13 and 14 models). The mini is also smaller than the later SE models (except for depth, they are slightly slimmer).
- GloriousKoji 4y agoAs a lover of the original SE and a a Mini 13 owner the HUGE increase in thickness is what really bothers me with the size change. Their official thickness spec only measures the main body of the phone which is virtually a zero change in size but the camera bump makes it's thickest point about 50% thicker.
- Jtsummers 4y agoI did forget about the camera bump, but I don't believe the numbers work out that it's adding .15" to the thickness of the phone on its own. I had a recent chance to compare the SE (2016) to my 13 Mini (my mother still has the original SE but is likely to upgrade soon, I was recommending the mini since, other than the home button, it mostly met her needs and would provide a better display for her aging eyes) and it's definitely not 50% thicker at any point. That would have been quite noticeable.
- pkulak 4y agoThis won't bring ambient display to older phones, will it?
- MBCook 4y agoNo. That requires new display tech.
- zahma 4y agoI’ll be waiting for reviews and bug reports. I’ve found that for the last releases, subsequent patches have been worth the wait.
- MBCook 4y agoI’ve been on the beta for a week, it’s been quite smooth. I understand waiting for reviews but it doesn’t look like a problem release (which has certainly happened before).
- groovybits 4y agoFWIW, the iOS 15 beta was also solid leading up to release. There's something about general availability that just hits different, exposing bugs to be fixed in the eventual .1 release.
- cloutchaser 4y agoAny news on SKAdnetwork 4 release date? I can't find anything online.
- kemotep 4y agoLooking forward for PassKey integration. Then the wait for my programs and accounts to integrate and allow for passwordless logins.
- PassageNick 4y agoI'm looking forward to this as well.
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- scottydelta 4y agoI recently published an article[1] on How Apple could improve the VPNs experience on iOS. I hope someone at Apple finally decides to improve it on the next update. It surprises me how Apple continues to add a lot of fancy feature and ignore basic day to day usability features like these. [1] https://medium.com/@contact_54652/how-can-apple-improve-the-vpns-experience-on-iphone-ios-be93713879ba#68d5-f055ca2da018 https://medium.com/@contact_54652/how-can-apple-improve-the-...
- MBCook 4y agoVPNs are not an everyday feature for the vast majority of users.
- laundermaf 4y agoTrue, but I wager they’re vastly more popular than you think, considering the amount of VPN advertising of the last few years. We’re not talking about PGP here.
- pretext-1 4y agoNot for the "vast majority", but they are quite popular even for non-techy users, thanks to commercial VPN providers buying ads on YouTube and even offline. Narrative: if you don't use a VPN, hackers will steal all your data and your money. The apps from these providers are easy to set up. Even my mom asked me about it, it's surreal.
- l72 4y agoStill no ability to have separate accounts on an ipad... I sort of understand that a phone is a single user OS, but the ipad most certainly should be a multi user OS.
- patrickserrano 4y agoIf you don't mind using MDM you can get something akin to roaming profiles on iPads. It's an enterprise feature, but it was introduced sometime during iOS 13. I agree though, native multi-user support would be great. Though, I'd hope it's better than what we got on tvOS.
- sebazzz 4y agoDon’t act like it is either easy or free. You need a verifyable company, and the iCloud accounts need to be managed as well. They can’t be personal or manually created. It is not a viable solution for either the average user or the advanced user.
- amelius 4y agoApple's products are closer to a personal computer than most PCs ever were ...
- derefr 4y ago"User accounts" in the security sense, maybe isn't the right abstraction. Have you tried logging in with multiple accounts on a Nintendo Switch? You're sort of just logged into all of them at once; and when you launch a given app/game, it asks you which profile you want to launch it under. To me, that'd be the perfect multi-user experience for iPad. Any user can unlock it with their own biometrics/credentials; once unlocked, that user can then act as any user that has a profile on the device.
- josephg 4y agoWhen would you select user? The ipad is designed to swap between apps way more frequently than you swap games on the switch. If you have to select user every time you swap apps on the ipad, it would be horribly annoying.
- ronnocoep 4y agoThink Apple will ever agree to allow RCS into the iMessage ecosystem?
- theshrike79 4y agoIt's a Google-backed project, so I'd wager the probability around "Google will add iMessage and AirTag support to Android" -levels =)
- DesiLurker 4y agomy understanding based on google messaging is that google is interested but Apple prefers to have its walled garden.
- Jtsummers 4y agoIt's not really Google-backed, more Google-embraced. Google didn't even add support on their own carrier (Google Fi) until 2019.
- Dylan16807 4y agoPartial support. The full version of "messages for web" and RCS are still mutually exclusive.
- pretext-1 4y agoNot on their own but there will be legislation. EU just passed the Digital Services Act which requires the largest of the messengers (e.g. WhatsApp, iMessage) to offer APIs for other platforms to interconnect upon request. Google could use this to connect RCS and iMessage users. Not exactly what they wanted (iOS implementing RCS natively), but same effect.
- viktorcode 4y agoIf it will take off among carriers, then yes. As things stand now it's a technology that "sometimes work".
- jacobr 4y agoThe iPhone 8 only compatibility means that many teams will be stuck supporting Safari 15.6 for a very long time. Anything under "no support" on this page will continue to be out of reach for years to come https://caniuse.com/?compare=safari+15.6&compareCats=all#results https://caniuse.com/?compare=safari+15.6&compareCats=all#res...
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- robot9000 4y agoHuge! But the bigger surprise is that there's literally nothing in it that I care about despite being an iOS user. Also, multiple stops on Maps? That's Google maps 15 years ago.
- t-writescode 4y ago15 years ago? Wow! Seeing Google Maps came out 17 years ago, that’s really early in their lifetime!
- ezfe 4y agoDoesn't really matter if Google Maps had it first, I like Apple Maps more and I'm excited for the feature. Google Maps UI is a mess - only real advantage is (usually) better POI data. Routing quality is the same in my experience.
- balls187 4y agoI finally swapped to Apple maps permanently. Was ~okay with giving Google my data because it's routing was better, but now Apple is on par, there is no reason to continue to use Google maps.
- thiht 4y agoAs someone who tries to avoid Google products more and more, I'm glad they improve Apple Maps. I have zero Google app installed on my iPhone today, but Google Maps is the one I'm the most tempted to use occasionally. I use it in the browser instead but the experience sucks. On my side I'm kinda excited about live notifications, it looks cool for food deliveries.
- gravelc 4y agoBeen on the β for a while; it’s a good OS. Particularly like the ability to use the iPhone as a Zoom cam. 3D printed a phone mount and everything works pretty seamlessly. Lock Screen widgets are nice too. Stage manager on iPadOS doesn’t do it for me though.
- hebrox 4y agoCan you share the 3D model for the mount? Would love to try it first, before buying the expensive Apple licensed one.
- gman83 4y agoDo people still get excited for these smartphone OS updates? I remember a couple of years ago I couldn't wait to see what the new features were. Now I don't think I've changed the way I use my phone for several years.
- Gigachad 4y agoI’m excited to be able to use my phone as a camera for video calls. The quality difference between my phone and MacBook webcam is quite large.
- jafjaf 4y agoWhat is there to implement once you’ve reached perfection?
- mrweasel 4y ago"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- MBCook 4y agoI do. The live text last year was fantastic. They’ve made it better this year. The new lock screen customization is nice, especially combined with focus modes. Editing iMessages? YES. Dictating emoji? YES. Easily extract photos from the background to send in messages like a sticker? Sure. My iPhone 12 Pro feel way faster, especially Safari. Is it actually faster or are animations shorter? You know what? I don’t care. I like it. Some things like making search prominent on the home screen will help many people. The new password replacement stuff will be great. Can’t wait. Live tiles to show the status of a pizza delivery or something like that on my lock screen? Handy. Built in delivery tracking with ApplePay if stores opt in? Sure! And none of that includes the stuff announced today for the new phones, like the notification/background changes that look nice. ALL of that was off the top of my head. This is a very good year. Not every year can be as big as multi-tasking/etc, but this year is not just piddly little nothings.
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- Kkoala 4y agoAs a non-iOS user it looks like a great update, but at the same time I thought that many of these were already features like in Android
- ezfe 4y agoSure, but if you look at Android 13 it's basically all things that are already in iOS From the list, I only see two features that don't have equals already in iOS - both related to Material You. https://blog.google/products/android/android-13/ https://blog.google/products/android/android-13/
- fomine3 4y agoAs who hate auto rotate feature on smartphone/tablet, I'm waiting for Apple copy this https://www.droid-life.com/2018/04/12/android-ps-new-navigation-bar-rotation-suggestion-button-is-a-sneaky-good-feature/ https://www.droid-life.com/2018/04/12/android-ps-new-navigat...
- MBCook 4y agoThat’s basically where we’ve been for the last few years. Both android and iOS occasionally come up with something new, but a lot of their time is copying something the other one already did that people like. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
- smm11 4y agoI got one or two spammer calls a week on TMobile over the course of maybe 8 years. Six months on Verizon and I get more spam calls a week than those 8 years.
- poglet 4y agoThe improvements with photo sharing seem promising. Right now my partner and I have Dropbox Photo Sync enabled on our iPhones, but viewing the shared photos must be done through the Dropbox app. But now with the new improvements it looks like there is an automatic option "you can share photos instantly right from Camera, choose to share automatically when other shared library members are nearby".
- pretext-1 4y agoYes, very nice addition for families. Unfortunately there can only be a single shared library, so it can't be used for sharing with other groups.
- Waterluvian 4y agoIs anyone else anxious about updates? I used to be so pumped for them when I was a teen. They’d unlock a world of new opportunities. Now I just feel anxious that there’s change for change sake to justify the resourcing of the design teams and that they’ll make things I’m used to worse all for a bunch of features I’ll never use or want. I don’t want more features. There’s so many already and they’re really cluttering. Like when they moved the address bar to the bottom in Safari. Bad. Shame. But they let you revert it. I’m just waiting for that team to decide, “no those users are idiots. It’s been a year. Time to remove the setting and impose our new vision on existing users.” …it’s me isn’t it? This sounds like old man yells at cloud speak.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoGenerally iOS is quite conservative in its update. They also tend to port the most useful/popular features of the various Android and Android custom launchers with a bit of lag so things are already quite ironed out when they land.
- highwaylights 4y agoThey won’t make them functionally worse. They’ll outright break them, and then move on, then eventually once everyone has stopped using it because it’s so broken they’ll quietly remove it.
- layer8 4y agoI mean, you don’t have to update, at least not right away. Just wait a couple of months for the new version to stabilize and see what the reports say. In the past I’ve sometimes skipped two or three major updates to reduce the frequency of disruptions. But I agree that everything has become increasingly cluttered and decreasingly “it just works”.
- noahtallen 4y agoMaybe not just you, but probably more rare. I’m pretty excited for many of the new features coming in this update! (Lock Screen customization, live activities, and iMessage edits being a few very powerful and practical additions!) I also liked the safari address bar change, as it’s objectively more ergonomic for thumb use. Many recent iOS updates have significantly expanded power user features too: we have shortcuts and automations, customizable focus modes, default browser/mail apps, Home Screen widgets, etc. Most of which the HN crowd (and many others) have been asking for for years! In fact, we’re at the point that people can technically customize app icons. I think these updates objectively are unlocking a world of possibilities. The features I listed above a pretty powerful — especially shortcuts and automations. It’s ok to not be in that headspace anymore — but many others still are :) You can always stick around on older iOS versions! And I’d argue there are vanishingly few new features that dramatically change the way you use your phone. The address bar being a good example.
- ChuckMcM 4y agoThis may be an unpopular opinion but I find iOS to be a much better appliance OS than Android, Chrome, or Windows. That said they are getting close to the 'computer' gap. Back when computers were super expensive (like millions of $) the owners (or lessors) would try to get them to do as many things as possible all the time so maximize the "value" of their investment. What was truly revolutionary about microprocessors was that they were inexpensive enough that you could dedicate them to doing just one thing. But then the capabilities of microprocessors started to greatly exceed the level of computation you needed to do that "one thing" and so the age of "featuritis" was born where the "wasted" compute resource in the dedicated microprocessor could do something to differentiate or add value to a product. That could be as silly as adding more indicator lights, but usually it was a way of altering the thing the appliance did. Today, nobody things twice about a washing machine that has a combinatorial set of 20 different wash cycles, versus the simple "water level", "water temperature", "number of cycles" that was achievable with just simple mechanical switches and a few dumb sensors. However, it seems we might inflect again, as even cheaper microprocessors make even less expensive appliances available. Further, the subsumption of dozens of devices into the "phone" (copier, camera, recorder, navigator, television, Etc.) has created its own "traffic jam" where you might be watching TV on your device, and suddenly there is something you want to take a picture of and call someone about it. Multiplexing the device kind of works but it can also become annoying. It will be interesting to me to see how this more "computer os like" version of iOS will fare, and whether or not multi-functioning on a single devices develops into a negative feature vs the current economic win.
- LegitShady 4y agoI don't understand how anything you said is an argument in support of iOS being a better appliance OS than its competitors.
- ChuckMcM 4y agoThen your understanding is correct :-), I was not making an argument about the relative merits of appliance OSes. The point I was trying to make, and it relates to the linked article that I read and the features they are highlighting, is that the gap between "appliance" OSes and "general purpose" OSes, is narrowing. Both because the "general purpose" OSes are becoming more appliance like, and the "appliance" OSes are becoming more generalizable[sic]. As they get closer, differentiating them becomes more challenging. And I am really curious about how this affects both markets.
- paxys 4y agoI'm just happy that a decade later Apple is finally catching up to the industry standard home screen and lock screen notifications/widget experience that they resisted so hard for some reason.
- bogantech 4y ago> industry standard You mean a feature of their only competitor? If the other company doing something makes it an industry standard I guess the way Apple does things is an industry standard too
- JaneLovesDotNet 4y agoAnyone surprised by the Island notch software/hardware design? I don't mean the idea of a pill shaped notch. But the fact they're pouring so much software resource into it (even building dev tools) when the shape/size of that cutout should in theory change in the future when technology allows for smaller (or non-existent) cutouts. They will either feel commited to that hardware design and stick to it longer than they should, or they will have to abandon a lot of software.
- mwint 4y agoApple’s shown themselves willing to abandon software as hardware needs dictate (3D touch, grr).
- gnicholas 4y agoI viewed this as a signal that the island is not going away anytime soon. It's like they told the team: "how can we make it seem like the notch/island is a good thing, like we did it on purpose?" I don't mind how it looks/operates, and it's definitely nicer seeming than the notch it replaces.
- JaneLovesDotNet 4y agoRight. It's very commital, which I find a bit surprising.
- jbverschoor 4y agoI like it.. or looks like Siri will become this pill
- karmelapple 4y agoNot surprising to me at all. Cameras fully behind a screen without a hole punch seems pretty unlikely, and this allows Apple to add cutouts for other sensors in the future and hide them nicely. Perhaps there are ideas for AR-related aspects of this eventually?
- stjohnswarts 4y agotime to turn off auto update for a month or so :)
- pretext-1 4y agoiOS 15 only auto-updates within 15.x.
- whywhywhywhy 4y agostill cant disable the flashlight button?
- darinf 4y agoWhat bugs will we get this time?
- laundermaf 4y agoJust as many as any other software.
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- buf 4y agoStill no universal back gesture/button.
- edeion 4y agoInteresting the tyranny of "you read my message and didn't reply right away" is strong enough for iOS 14 to allow to mark a message as unread. Doesn't this make the whole point of read receipts moot, actually? I secretly hope this read-receipts feature (anti-feature?) is coming to an end. I believe read-receipts should be a per-message option or be discarded from apps. I know read-receipts can be disabled as a user choice, but most people expect them nowadays (me too, to be honest). It's that very expectation that I'm questioning and for which I suggest we should at least have a specific notion of ethics or politeness.