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Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by nkkollaw »

rimliu wrote: post #210
nkkollaw wrote: post #8

I don't know, I've watched the keynote, and it just looked to me like Allison was right in saying that the company without Steve Jobs would go down. Pretty considerably and pretty quickly, too, IMO.

So in 7 years since SJ died they went to be 1T company. It that fast enough and down enough yet?

If money is your only metric, sure. There are also borderline criminal corporations that do great in the stock market while enslaving children and destroying the environment.

In the meantime, Apple managed to piss off most of their creative/developers user base, their software got so bad from a usability point of view that it's become a nightmare to use, their hardware barely gets upgraded and they need class actions to acknowledge that their idiotic inventions make computers unusable as computers (keyboard fiasco).

As for their most successful product (the iPhone): the notch, removing the headphone jack and removing the home button, and other design choices might be a matter of preference, but look very misguided to me--to the point that if anyone gave me any of their newer phones I wouldn't hesitate to sell it and buy a decent one from another brand.

What has Apple done in the last few years? A bigger iPad? A keyboard that stops working if dust gets under the keys? Removed a few ports people would use every day so that their products are a few millimeters thinner?

The only reason why Apple makes money is because it's a status symbol to have Apple products and they sell overpriced, inferior hardware components, not because their products are worth the money anymore.

I think people will wake up to that, sooner or later.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by DenisM »

wlesieutre wrote: post #241
DenisM wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The just-release Watch OS 5 is compatible with Watch 1: https://www.apple.com/watchos/watchos-5/ so w 1 should be compatible with iOS 12

"Series 1" is not the original Apple Watch model. Confusingly, that's officially named "Apple Watch First Generation" and colloquially called "Series 0". When they released the Series 2 with better processor, GPS, brighter screen and better waterproofing, they simultaneously killed the "Series 0" and launched the Series 1 as the low price model. It got the new processor but not the other improvements. That leaves the…

Indeed. I had no idea. Thank you.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204507#link5

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Post by BonesJustice »

threeseed wrote: post #252
j2bax wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was mostly meaning the first example you provided. These platforms are so good (at least they claim to be) at matching users and ads because of their extensive data collection/sharing practices. Is it cool to say "We respect our users privacy" if they are benefiting directly from another companies less privacy respecting practices?

They have no choice. There is no technical way for Apple to monitor what data apps are sending out without doing something like MITM every connection which is a million times worse. So they have to rely on a punishment model where they demand apps provide a privacy policy then kick them off the store if they fail to comply with it.

I think he was asking whether Apple itself buys ads on platforms like Facebook. e.g., ads for Apple prodcuts.

The implication being that by doing so, they would be benefiting from the aggressive data collection performed by those platforms.

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Post by GeekyBear »

kbenson wrote: post #94
FabHK wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple has engineered iOS to offer much more privacy than Google for many years, but they have not highlighted it much in the past. Was that also just a marketing move?

> but they have not highlighted it much in the past Sure they have. Every instance where they stonewalled an investigation was undoubtedly seen at least in part as a way to differentiate themselves from their main competition, which is an run by what is essentially an advertising company that functions by gathering user information. If you can do something that differentiates you from your competition and they can't…

Apple created iAd as a way to allow developers to monitize free apps while respecting the end user's privacy many years ago. Privacy is hardly something Apple discovered recently.

iAd stood out because it didn't share customer data with advertisers as was the standard in the industry.

>Apple has a lot of knowledge regarding its users,but what it doesn’t do with that data is share it with advertisers very freely. That makes Madison Avenue very mad.

>rather than offering a cookie-based ad-tracking and targeting mechanism, it essentially requires partners to tell it what kind of audience it needs to reach, and then trust that Apple will handle the rest, AdAge says. And it’s well worth noting that Apple prioritizes customer privacy here over a big potential upside in ad revenue.

>what it doesn’t do is hand over the keys to all that data and let advertisers plug into it directly with their own data-mining and targeting software. That’s not standard for the ad industry and that’s likely the reason a few Madison Avenue feathers are ruffled over their approach.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/advertisers-not-thrilled-w....

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Post by anreekoh »

retromario wrote: post #242

"On devices without 3D Touch, touch and hold the keyboard Space bar to turn your keyboard into a trackpad" This is subtle but huge. One of the main reasons to get a phone with 3D touch is/was the ability to easily move your cursor when typing. This makes the XR model (which lacks 3D touch) a lot more enticing.

Finally. Man I’ve had this feature on my jailbroken devices for over 4 years. And every update I would hope they would add this. Clicking around with the cursor was always so stupid because almost all quick cursor changes would be ~10 characters back, aka not a huge amount of movement.

Some keyboards have this feature like Nintype (which is over engineered imo), but I’ve always wanted this natively. Glad to see it coming.

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Post by gnicholas »

anselmio wrote: post #119

The new Shortcuts app by Apple (must be downloaded separately: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/workflow/id915249334?mt=8 ) is definitely interesting. An example from the description: "Run custom scripts in Safari with the new Run JavaScript on Web Page action". Edit: Just discovered that there's also "Run Script Over SSH" that takes input passed to a shell script (stdin) and returns the output from the shell script (…

> Run custom scripts in Safari with the new Run JavaScript on Web Page action

Does this mean it's possible to have a javascript run after page load every time? This would effectively make it possible to have a browser extension. Previously it was limited to "action extensions" — which had to be manually activated on every single page. This could take 2-3 taps, and obviously they were hardly ever used.

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Post by 0x0 »

X-Istence wrote: post #108
speg wrote: post #71

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Already noticing small but appreciated performance improvements. Share sheet and app switching both came up noticeably quicker. Am loving shortcuts, looks like they didn't dumb it down. There's even an SSH action.

Which app is providing the SSH action?

In iOS settings > workflow (yes, it is still labeled workflow in iOS settings!), it credits NMSSH which appears to be an objc wrapper on top of libssh2.

Re: iOS 12 released

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Post by gnicholas »

spleen wrote: post #120

The update seems to have messed up the color profile on iPhone X. Colors are brighter, more saturated, more washed out and generally crappier.

I saw some weirdness on my iPhone 7 Plus also. The green icon for the Nextdoor app seems different/brighter. I thought it was just me, but perhaps it's not.
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