Also Apple TV (the software/app) will not let you cast to a smart tv/ Google chrome/ Roku etc. you have to workaround it by casting it from the browser version and casting through chrome.
Apple TV prompt requires another Apple device
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Yeah, AR glasses are what will actually be the Next Smartphone, as far as rapidly attaining ubiquity. If they can fix the bulkiness and battery life issues, anyway. And sure, decent chance that'll involve tethering the glasses to some kind of watch where the actual brains and long-range radios live. Or to a smartphone or tablet that you can leave in a pocket or bag all the time (why wear a watch when the AR glasses c…
But won't people feel uncomfortable being seen with AR glasses, at least for the next few years? They would have to be completely transparent, no impediment to eye contact, very small and fashionable, and so incredibly useful people would be willing to deal with any judgemental glares they got.
Depends what kind of form factor they can get them to. I've got a pair of these, and they look close enough to regular Ray-Bans that nobody realizes there's cameras on them: https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/ray-ban-stories
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#133Bonus points for Apple Support chiming in - to address an unrelated issue that another commenter casually mentioned. About the original problem? Not a single word. At least they are sending a clear message... https://twitter.com/AppleSupport/status/1615094275334619136
Well, he did get an Appler asking for a Feedback ID which is more than nothing. https://twitter.com/DanCUnderwood/status/1614943132340068353
[OP here] I filed a thing for them and this person will get it in front of the right people. I have more faith in that more than generic Apple support anyway.
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#134It's interesting how the responses basically split into two camps: - the "just buy an iPhone" and "you've brought it on you, what did you expect" camp - the "Apple fix this" camp At the point I'm reading this, the first camp represents the vast majority of the responses. That's interesting regarding Apple's ongoing lawsuits and regulaory pressure. For most people Apple domination and dictating the rules is basically…
Apple doesn't really affect me at all, except inasmuch as other companies who I actually do buy from copy their obnoxious ideas.
I don't really care what they do, and none of it surprises me it's just Apple doing what everyone already expects them to do, but they are influential enough that I want there to be some regulation, so their way of doing things doesn't take over.
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I’m fully in the apple ecosystem but agree that a person shouldn’t be forced to buy another device to use the device at hand. The ecosystem should be a nice to have and not a necessity (although Apple Watch might be an exception, given how much it relies on the iPhone for its functionality). The fact that they were able to use their Apple TV before this TOS prompt seems like this blocking TOS prompt was a miss on App…
Until 2 months ago, they forced you to have an Apple Watch to be able to watch Fitness+ videos, even if you were already paying for the Apple One bundle that includes Fitness+. There was no technical reason for this requirement, as Fitness+ is just videos, and even if you had an Apple Watch, you did not need to be wearing it to watch the videos.
While we're on the topic but silly Fitness+ restrictions: Each family member needs to have their OWN iPad to use it with Fitness+.
For example, I have an iPad + Apple Watch, I can use it with Fitness+. My wife however, with her own Apple Watch, cannot use MY iPad for Fitness+. Instead, she needs a whole other iPad set up as her, or it cannot "see" her Apple Watch/has no concept of her.
Family Sharing is under-baked. Fitness+ is also under-baked. The fact they have zero interactive fitness games on Fitness+ is frankly embarrassing, I had fitness equipment 20 years ago which had interactive games tied to your workouts, and Apple with the best programmers in the world, 100x more powerful hardware, and better development toolkits has developed nothing beyond video-recordings of studio workouts.
Actually the fitness-gaming ecosystem is frankly is a terrible state. Currently, Nintendo or Meta are the leaders in spite of them doing little to try.
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“Find My” depends on a custom chip iPhones have.
So you can only locate your airpods if they're with your iphone? Best make sure you lose them together then :)
I mean...AirPods don't have GPS or a way to upload their location, so yes. The location shown on the map is the last place one of your devices (or, in recent times, anyone's iOS device) last saw it. That's usually good enough to tell "I left them at home" vs "I left them in that café"
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#137I wonder whether that prompt still is 100% correct, given that Apple recently put an Apple TV app on the Microsoft Store ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/apple-tv/9mw0zwqfh0m2 )
Which, for some bizarre reason, you can't install on an arm64 Windows 11 computer despite it being able to run x86/x64 software no issue.
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#138Last time I checked a parent needed their own Apple device to set up app limits, downtime, accept/reject app installation requests on child's device. Thanks Apple. Now I have an option to give my kid unrestricted access to their device and to the whole Internet, or buy another IPhone just because my child uses Apple product.
Or not let your child use an Apple device . That's actually your choice if it's your choice whether/which apps they can install.
There are many reasons why it's not that simple. My kid may be old enough to make the decision on which phone to buy, but not old enough to have unrestricted access to it. I may be divorced, and the device might have been given to them buy another parent. The device might have necessary features that are missing from other non-Apple device.
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#139I think the current title is mistaken, the twitter user isn't claiming he can't use the Apple TV, he's just saying the message appears. I encountered the same message when iOS 16 had just released and wasn't available on my iPad yet. It wasn't a blocking message, pressing "OK" was enough to make it go away, and when iPadOS 16 finally came out I was able to clear it. It's bad UX but the Apple TV can still be used as b…
[twitter OP] This is true. Appears once a day or so, you hit OK. Sometimes during a show you're watching, sometimes while it starts up. Don't know if it becomes blocking some day...
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I don’t think either can do it alone, but Watch + [ AR glasses or tablet + earbuds ] could more directly replace a smartphone.
Yeah, AR glasses are what will actually be the Next Smartphone, as far as rapidly attaining ubiquity. If they can fix the bulkiness and battery life issues, anyway. And sure, decent chance that'll involve tethering the glasses to some kind of watch where the actual brains and long-range radios live. Or to a smartphone or tablet that you can leave in a pocket or bag all the time (why wear a watch when the AR glasses c…
I am more thinking the next 10 years than 30.
AR glasses have issues with UI, comfort, style, and durability even if you fix the more core issues of weight, battery life, etc.