iOS 14 is available today • Hacker News Board

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by samatman » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 6:31 AM UTC

shaan7 wrote: post #337

crazygringo wrote: post #226

I've just tried out the spatial audio on my iPad with AirPods Pro, with one of the (many) free first episodes on Apple TV+... ...and it's stunning . Seriously. It's actually three separate features in one. First, all the audio is outside of you rather than stuck between your ears. Second, it's surround sound so that dialog actually comes from your iPad, while music comes from all around. And third, it tracks, so if y…

> People love to criticize Apple, but man do they do some wonderful things for their customers. People rarely criticize Apple for the products themselves. Apple gets criticism because of the "weird" (for lack of a better word) restrictions on the products. I've stopped using a Mac for quite a while now - but I recall examples - when the first Macbooks came without a optical drive you could buy an external one. But it…

I hear you.

The headphone jack on the phone, I can actually see it. Not a lot of real estate inside a phone, and they wanted people to try AirPods (which I love, and might not have tried if it weren't for the missing jack).

But... no headphone jack on a 13" tablet? I edit movies on there sometimes and I grumble every time I dust off the dongle to plug in a mic for voiceovers.

But, no, people criticize Apple for everything they can think of. It's one of those companies where there's a set of people who, for whatever weird reason, have decided it's the enemy. They're against Apple and everything it stands for.

It's strange, I think the only company I feel that way about is Facebook. Maybe because phones are the most intimate things we own, they become part of our identities?

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by AnonC » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 6:52 AM UTC

crazygringo wrote: post #226

I've just tried out the spatial audio on my iPad with AirPods Pro, with one of the (many) free first episodes on Apple TV+... ...and it's stunning . Seriously. It's actually three separate features in one. First, all the audio is outside of you rather than stuck between your ears. Second, it's surround sound so that dialog actually comes from your iPad, while music comes from all around. And third, it tracks, so if y…

> So not only does it blow me away technologically, but also that I got it as a free upgrade almost a year after buying the headphones!

Being pedantic here: it is not actually free for you. The costs of improvements delivered through software updates are built into the original price you paid for it through deferred revenues and "subscription accounting". [1] In other words, Apple is not subsidizing new feature delivery from other sources of revenue or from debts. This came from the collective AirPod Pro users' pockets.

Accounting (and the related legality) aside, it is great to see hardware products get enhancements and a longer useful life through such means (whenever it happens).

[1]: https://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/01/apple-now-sitting...

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by irrational » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 6:54 AM UTC

city41 wrote: post #246

AnonHP wrote: post #228

One of my favorite new features in iOS 14 is an accessibility setting that allows a double tap or triple tap on the back of the phone to trigger an action. You can set this up in Settings->Accessibility->Touch->Back Tap . In general, I love how accessibility features on iOS are so useful even for the average person who wouldn’t be considered or classified as disabled.

iOS lets you turn on a red filter that disables the green and blue channels. you can set it to turn on by triple tapping the home button (or I'm guessing the back for new phones). This is the one thing I really miss after switching to Android. The red screen is fantastic for reading at night, really easy on the eyes.

Also fantastic when out star gazing.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by irrational » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 6:57 AM UTC

perardi wrote: post #267

ghaff wrote: post #265

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Because going back not that long (non-SPAM) incoming voice calls were a priority interrupt. And they still sort of are for the relatively few people who call me in a regular basis. Phone calls are not rude as a general statement. When my dad calls me it is not rude.

If someone is calling me, without texting first, I assume that either (a) my boss wants me immediately, or (b) someone is in the hospital.

Probably a generational thing. I get far more phone calls than texts. I’d think it was super weird if a friend texted me before calling me.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by kiddico » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 7:28 AM UTC

ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #290

AnonHP wrote: post #228

One of my favorite new features in iOS 14 is an accessibility setting that allows a double tap or triple tap on the back of the phone to trigger an action. You can set this up in Settings->Accessibility->Touch->Back Tap . In general, I love how accessibility features on iOS are so useful even for the average person who wouldn’t be considered or classified as disabled.

My wife has no disabilities (and is a very light/casual tech user) but uses heaps of the iOS accessibility features. I personally had never really looked at them until she started showing me how handy so many of them are day to day. Things like: The triple-tap-to-zoom feature has a “low light” filter that works on top of your brightness setting so you can use it to get a lower-than-lowest-brightness for reading in be…

"Zoom" settings seems like a very odd spot to put something like a low light filter, which is why I never found it.

Thanks for sharing! (and the same to your other half!)

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by evan_ » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 7:39 AM UTC

ponderingfish wrote: post #325

city41 wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iOS lets you turn on a red filter that disables the green and blue channels. you can set it to turn on by triple tapping the home button (or I'm guessing the back for new phones). This is the one thing I really miss after switching to Android. The red screen is fantastic for reading at night, really easy on the eyes.

That the night-shift mode right? I've been using it for almost 2 years I think. I have the same settings on my iPhone and macbook pro

No, it's a different thing.

Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by Mromson » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 7:40 AM UTC

ghostpepper wrote: post #86

philshem wrote: post #24

Faithful iPhone SE (1st gen) user checking in. Thankful to still be in the club. This will likely our last.

If you're hanging onto it, like me, because it's small and not because it's cheap, there are rumours that the launch of the iPhone 12 in October will include a 5.4" model. It would be the smallest they've released since the original SE, and will have flat edges too.

Anything larger than the iPhone SE (my current phone) is simply too large. So unless Apple changes course and starts providing smaller phones anytime soon (doubtful), my next one will unfortunately probably be an Android.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by AlphaSite » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 7:41 AM UTC

plorkyeran wrote: post #232

mkskm wrote: post #66

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What's the reason for the size increase? ARM support?

Finder says it's 28 GB but du says 15 GB. The compressed size went from 8 GB to 11 GB, so I suspect Finder's number is just wrong for some reason? The overwhelming bulk of Xcode's footprint is the simulators. Xcode 12 went from two iOS simulator architectures to three (previously i386 and x86_64, arm64 added), one watchOS architecture to three (previously i386, x86_64 and arm64 added), and one tvOS architecture to tw…

Dont they support app thinning on macOS?

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by tuananh » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 7:58 AM UTC

nuker wrote: post #349

tuananh wrote: post #318

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i upgraded to SE 2020 too but only because my SE 16gb space is running out. The SE 2020 is an ok upgrade and since its cpu is pretty good, I expect this one can last with me for another 5 years.

> my SE 16gb space is running out. If it is music, i found iTunes Match is the solution. Like $40/year.

it's mostly photos. for music, i already use spotify

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by Sangeppato » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 8:09 AM UTC

chromedev wrote: post #287

Sangeppato wrote: post #241

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Better specs for $400 less, on a Pixel? Name one phone built to last with better specs than the iPhone SE please, I'm listening. I don't care about multiple cameras, OLED displays, 120 Hz or whatever the industry is trying to push these days, I just want a reliable decently built phone with a good SW support. Furthermore, I don't see how replacing the phone more often would be a positive thing, it just means I would…

Yes, have you seen the Pixel 4a? I got a Razer Phone 2 when they first came out for $399. It blows away most iPhones, especially in that price range.

You previously said "the specs are the same or better for $400 less", but the A13 in the SE blows away the Snapdragon 730 in the Pixel 4a and the price difference is only $50.