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Re: macOS Monterey

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I get that you want to show your own products in their best light, but this is just petty and beneath them.

Only if you have no sense of humor :). Reminds me of how hugely offended some people were that the icon for a Windows PC in Mac OS X’s network browser was a blue screened monitor.

It's just annoying when they don't have a sense of humor about their products but have a negative sense of humor about other's.

Re: macOS Monterey

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For the Focus feature, I find it a bit unexpected that someone messaging me can tell if I'm Driving, Sleeping, Coding, or Reading, etc. Does anyone else find this a bit strange/awkward? I know you can turn it off (and I did) within iMessage, but it seems a bit poorly considered. Curious if people like that aspect of the feature!

Re: macOS Monterey

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I get that you want to show your own products in their best light, but this is just petty and beneath them.

This is the same company that displays Windows machines it finds on the network with a Blue Screen of Death. You have to really zoom in on that icon to see it, but it's there. As a Certified Apple Fanboi(tm), such pettiness bothers me. I'd go as far as to call it unprofessional. But macOS rules and Windoze droolz, amirite?

I'd give them a pass for this as it's been in there since they really were the underdogs. At the time it was punching up. Not so much now.

Re: macOS Monterey

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For the Focus feature, I find it a bit unexpected that someone messaging me can tell if I'm Driving, Sleeping, Coding, or Reading, etc. Does anyone else find this a bit strange/awkward? I know you can turn it off (and I did) within iMessage, but it seems a bit poorly considered. Curious if people like that aspect of the feature!

I thought it was only letting them know that you were currently unavailable, not the specific Focus type you are currently in.

Re: macOS Monterey

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If they used an XPS people might accidentally realize that you don't need a notch to put a camera at the top of your screen.

But then they'd have to show the corresponding person in the video call as being nothing but a floating nose.

The XPS line fixed that last year. It's at the top of the screen in a super thing bezel.

Re: macOS Monterey

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MacOS major version release are so underwhelming to me. They're not so much OS updates as they're updates to built-in apps I don't use or use at a very surface level: Safari, Facetime, Apple Maps, Messages, etc. I'm not really sure what I'd want out of a new MacOS, though. It's been stable and (for my purposes) feature-complete for many years now. I don't remember the last time a MacOS upgrade added a feature I wante…

Same here. Looking through recent release highlights, Mojave adding Dark Mode is the mot recent stand-out I spotted, and even that I don't really care about all that much.

Universal Control has potential to be valuable.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Funny that they used a very clunky looking Windows laptop and a pretty dated looking Android phone to show off Facetime.

What do you think the average Windows laptop and Android phone look like?

Re: macOS Monterey

#38

For the Focus feature, I find it a bit unexpected that someone messaging me can tell if I'm Driving, Sleeping, Coding, or Reading, etc. Does anyone else find this a bit strange/awkward? I know you can turn it off (and I did) within iMessage, but it seems a bit poorly considered. Curious if people like that aspect of the feature!

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Re: macOS Monterey

#39

For the Focus feature, I find it a bit unexpected that someone messaging me can tell if I'm Driving, Sleeping, Coding, or Reading, etc. Does anyone else find this a bit strange/awkward? I know you can turn it off (and I did) within iMessage, but it seems a bit poorly considered. Curious if people like that aspect of the feature!

It will show your contact that you have notifications silenced, not which Focus mode you activated.

Re: macOS Monterey

#40

MacOS major version release are so underwhelming to me. They're not so much OS updates as they're updates to built-in apps I don't use or use at a very surface level: Safari, Facetime, Apple Maps, Messages, etc. I'm not really sure what I'd want out of a new MacOS, though. It's been stable and (for my purposes) feature-complete for many years now. I don't remember the last time a MacOS upgrade added a feature I wante…

I personally prefer the incremental yearly updates to huge changes on a longer timeframe. I'm pretty excited about Live Text, personally. I've been getting a lot of great use out of it on iOS.

If we're talking about other recent releases, ARM (/iOS app interoperability) support was definitely a huge change :)

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