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Re: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

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Post by marcosdumay »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #570
int_19h wrote: post #547

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That would be because IRA remains the sole government of Afghanistan recognized by relevant agencies such as UN. Which companies generally defer to when they came, because it cuts down on a lot of individual political decisions they'd have to make otherwise. Yandex is an interesting showcase of how bad this can get - they literally dropped country borders from their maps last year "for better user experience". And I…

Google Maps also does this when the border is under contention. Selecting a country with a contested border like Ukraine or Russia will only highlight the country name, but selecting a country with uncontested borders like Poland or Germany will draw a red outline around the country.

Mapmakers have been doing this one for centuries. Contested borders often do not appear.

Re: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

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Post by uplifter »

interpol_p wrote: post #545
TylerE wrote: post #468

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Because I absolutey do not need it, and it's infuriating to have a high contrast item in view when using a dark app (Like, say, a video player...)

There is an API for developers to use to signal that a view should hide the home indicator [1]. It doesn't guarantee that it will be hidden (the user may have accessibility or other options enabled which take precedence and prefer to display it) When playing fullscreen video on my phone, I do not see the home indicator, as it hides after a short delay due to most developers adopting this API. Just tested in VLC and t…

> It doesn't guarantee that it will be hidden (the user may have accessibility or other options enabled which take precedence and prefer to display it)

In my experience as an iOS developer using this API, the only time the preference to hide the home indicator is respected is in the case you mentioned, when a full screen video is playing. Otherwise the home indicator always appears whenever the user stops interacting with the screen. So the GP is correct that there is no user control to make it hidden, and not really any developer control either.

Re: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

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Post by cmeacham98 »

wonnage wrote: post #580
cmeacham98 wrote: post #557

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> The usage in HK that everyone keeps citing was as a way to spam incoming Mainland tourists' phones with protest flyers. Like okay, you might agree with the content in this case, but it can (and has) easily be dick pics instead. It's entirely possible it's misleading, but the tweet in this post pretty heavily implies it was from protester to protester, you're the one who brought up the "spamming tourists" thing. Als…

https://qz.com/1660460/hong-kong-protesters-use-airdrop-to-b...

"Thing A is happening" isn't proof for "Thing B isn't happening". Also, you missed the rest of my comment.

Re: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

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Post by xpe »

khazhoux wrote: post #535
smoldesu wrote: post #503

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Just a coincidence that this gets rolled out 9 years after Airdrop debuted.

That's literally the definition of coincidence: unrelated things happening at the same time.

Interestingly, there are two different meanings: (1) accidentally happening at the same time; (2) co-occurrence (_without_ any implication about causality)

Re: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

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Post by uplifter »

TylerE wrote: post #546
interpol_p wrote: post #545

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There is an API for developers to use to signal that a view should hide the home indicator [1]. It doesn't guarantee that it will be hidden (the user may have accessibility or other options enabled which take precedence and prefer to display it) When playing fullscreen video on my phone, I do not see the home indicator, as it hides after a short delay due to most developers adopting this API. Just tested in VLC and t…

It’s much more problematic on iPad Pro, since lots of devs don’t have one. It’s also geometrically larger, especially in landscape. Getting app developers to fix it is a very mixed bag. One app I use a lot (F1 TV) had had this issue forever, and many many many people have complained to F1 Media about it. They don’t care, apparently, and that’s a high end app that costs upwards of $80/yr Also, erm, Safari. I was actua…

As stated in my sibling[0] to your comment, the developer may have limited ability to fix it, since its a preference the system will often override. That said, its literally a one line change to implement it (for each view controller class), so there is little reason for them not to put it in, even with its limited effectiveness.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33781895

Re: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

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Post by bradgessler »

S201 wrote: post #457
bradgessler wrote: post #380

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The perception of "Free Software" is that it's a lot of extra work, which most people don't want to deal with on a day-to-day basis. I don't know many engineers who actually like how Apple locks down their platform—it's just to them the perceived trade-off of "Apple's polish" vs "configuring free OSS software" isn't worth it. If we're being realistic, most people I encounter want Apple to loosen their grip a bit so t…

Right, but my point isn't that "we all need to use only Free Software" (even though I think it would be great if we did), but rather that these companies, let's take Apple for example, consist of engineers like ourselves. Why are we not fighting harder internally that these products & platforms should be less restrictive? There's a myriad of arguments about "security" and whatever else that can be made, but even some…

Any engineer I've met knows Apple's "security argument" about the App Store and Sandboxing/Isolation are two completely separate things, the problem is most non-technical people believe Apple when they say the App Store keeps them secure.

At this point I don't think it's realistic to expect engineers to solve this problem —Apple would retaliate by booting them from the App Store of burying app reviews in red tape. What's probably needed is legislation that mandates hardware manufactures can't restrict what users are allowed to run on their devices.

Re: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

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Post by xpe »

karaterobot wrote: post #55

If you buy Apple products and call for Apple to change their behavior, it will have much less of an effect on their decision making than if you stopped buying their products.

I'm not sure I'm following the options you are comparing.

(A) keep buying and criticize

(B) stop buying

Correct?

What am I missing here? (B) has a bigger impact and sends a bigger signal. Right? Talk is cheap. Leaving the Apple ecosystem is hard and demonstrates a very serious complaint.

Re: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

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Post by [deleted] »

whimsicalism wrote: post #328
ThePhysicist wrote: post #127

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The timing of the change seems quite conspicuous [1], and it's also weird that Apple would introduce this in China first and only roll it out to the rest of the world next year. The same article mentions that Apple blocks the Taiwanese flag emoji in China, for which it's hard to come up with an explanation other than bowing to censorship. 1: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2022/11/netizen-voices-apple-r...

Apple certainly tailors the emojis available to the local political climate. They don't, for instance, have the flag of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, instead using the flag of the former Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Re: AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes

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Post by Spartan-S63 »

Karunamon wrote: post #152
Spartan-S63 wrote: post #138

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This is an incredibly disingenuous argument. Apple decided to underclock CPUs when the battery had aged to the point where consistent voltage couldn't be applied at maximum power. They did this so users wouldn't complain about their phone randomly crashing. Really, they were damned if they did and damned if they didn't. What you can criticize is that they did it without informing users or allowing an option — the law…

>You can argue they were doing it purposely for planned obsolescence, but evidence isn't really there to support it. This is not a court of law and I am quite comfortable believing this was planned obsolescence for the simple that behaving in this way was advantageous to their profits. Otherwise it would not have taken lies (they initially denied the existence of the throttling!), outrage and lawsuits to do the right…

I think it's simpler: there's general arrogance that Apple knows what's best for their customers. Their entire philosophy isn't about giving customers what they want, it's giving customers what Apple thinks they need. So, when you uncover phones crashing because batteries age and folks don't get their batteries serviced, you throttle the CPU in software to avoid the issue. It's pure arrogance.

We also know that Apple is stubborn (see the removal of the headphone jack), so of course it's going to take a lawsuit for them to reverse course on something like this.

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