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After reading that sentence, the only thing that came into mind was "do you know how much (surveillance) video can fit in 64GB?"
FaceID There's folks in this thread talking about why FaceID is lacking from this display given there is presumably just an iPhone 11 logic board in this display and I think they are missing the bigger picture here. I'm not certain FaceID will ever come to a non-iOS device, here's why... With your iPhone/iPad - the OS knows you want to be authenticated because you pick up the device and the device uses that pickup/ac…
Sudo / security approvals appear on your watch too so you double press the side button to approve.
FaceID There's folks in this thread talking about why FaceID is lacking from this display given there is presumably just an iPhone 11 logic board in this display and I think they are missing the bigger picture here. I'm not certain FaceID will ever come to a non-iOS device, here's why... With your iPhone/iPad - the OS knows you want to be authenticated because you pick up the device and the device uses that pickup/ac…
This is how FaceID works already on the iPad Pro. If you use it with a keyboard there's no TouchID on the keyboard. Any key press wakes it up and it does a FaceID scan to check who's trying to wake it up.
The part that isn't covered is activating FaceID other than on wake up. On the iPad it still has you double click the wake button, they'd need a button on the side of the monitor or something if keeping a separate hardware activation button is required.
FaceID There's folks in this thread talking about why FaceID is lacking from this display given there is presumably just an iPhone 11 logic board in this display and I think they are missing the bigger picture here. I'm not certain FaceID will ever come to a non-iOS device, here's why... With your iPhone/iPad - the OS knows you want to be authenticated because you pick up the device and the device uses that pickup/ac…
Also the defacto auto-login on macOS is with Apple Watch. That just works and most people I know with Macs have Apple watches already. Sudo / security approvals appear on your watch too so you double press the side button to approve.
Unfortunately using unlock with Apple Watch means that I can be reading in a chair on the opposite side of the room, and when the cat walks across my desk the computer helpfully goes "lemme unlock that for you so we can type in this important sdxvi90weraklxczkopk."
If Apple sold a webcam with FaceID built into it as an alternative to their keyboard with TouchID, I would definitely buy it. I don't like the keyboard options, it's either $150 for the too small one (I like having full size arrow keys and the isnert/home/etc block), or $180 for the too big one (numpad puts the mouse unnecessarily far away).
I'm quite happy with a tenkeyless layout but I don't see Apple adding a "just right" keyboard size in between their existing models.
The Apple Studio Display is a very Tim Cook sort of product. Cook is the supply chain and logistics wizard who saw Apple into the behemoth era, and the mentality he brings to the company is all over this device. The 27" panels from the now discontinued iMac in that size meet the A13 Bionic at end of life, and the same front-facing camera they put on everything else. The Studio Display is a bit like a restaurant servi…
Agree with you. But in my case I use a MBP as a desktop 80% of the time so wanted a zero hassle monitor that will charge my MBP and take over some of the ancillary functions built into the laptop. It does that perfectly so I bought one and I love it already. The price is high but it's not unreasonable for the overall quality and it comes with decent service and support unlike all other vendors in the UK which hire th…
Sounds like the old Apple Thunderbolt Display... which is built a lot simpler than the new model. Basically it's nothing more [1] than a PSU and a TB controller exposing eDP to the panel and PCI Express to deal with network, firewire, USB and audio. Dead simple.
The new one just reeks of needless over-engineering, similar to the Lightning-to-HDMI adapter [2]. Why the fuck does a monitor need an embedded OS?!
> The price is high but it's not unreasonable for the overall quality and it comes with decent service and support unlike all other vendors in the UK which hire third party repairers who are hell to deal with.
Oh yeah, that's a scourge on the industry and not exclusive to the UK. I had the "pleasure" of dealing with a carrier-bought Samsung tablet which as it turns out had a broken screen which made its bootloader refuse to boot. At the last second I read the T&C of the repair shop the carrier had contracted with, which stated that device erasure was mandatory which also meant I'd lose all content on the encrypted SD card. Had them bail out on literally the last second and send them back the device, so I could do the repair myself - at my own expense, to add insult to injury.
[1]: https://de.ifixit.com/Teardown/Apple+Thunderbolt+Display+Tea...
[2]: https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/accessories/apple-lightning-av...
FaceID There's folks in this thread talking about why FaceID is lacking from this display given there is presumably just an iPhone 11 logic board in this display and I think they are missing the bigger picture here. I'm not certain FaceID will ever come to a non-iOS device, here's why... With your iPhone/iPad - the OS knows you want to be authenticated because you pick up the device and the device uses that pickup/ac…
The Apple Studio Display is a very Tim Cook sort of product. Cook is the supply chain and logistics wizard who saw Apple into the behemoth era, and the mentality he brings to the company is all over this device. The 27" panels from the now discontinued iMac in that size meet the A13 Bionic at end of life, and the same front-facing camera they put on everything else. The Studio Display is a bit like a restaurant servi…
The only reason the iPod was so successful was because he had the foresight to buy up all air freight for the holiday season.
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Agree with you. But in my case I use a MBP as a desktop 80% of the time so wanted a zero hassle monitor that will charge my MBP and take over some of the ancillary functions built into the laptop. It does that perfectly so I bought one and I love it already. The price is high but it's not unreasonable for the overall quality and it comes with decent service and support unlike all other vendors in the UK which hire th…
> Agree with you. But in my case I use a MBP as a desktop 80% of the time so wanted a zero hassle monitor that will charge my MBP and take over some of the ancillary functions built into the laptop. It does that perfectly so I bought one and I love it already. Sounds like the old Apple Thunderbolt Display... which is built a lot simpler than the new model. Basically it's nothing more [1] than a PSU and a TB controlle…
Applying that to the Studio Display now, I paid £330 more for the Studio Display, gain a charger, 5k screen, decent speaker system, decent webcam and a warranty. And it looks really nice sitting in front of me.
I'm really not bothered.
As for the OS, I don't care if it's got an imp with a paintbrush drawing the pixels on the inside of the glass as long as it works.