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Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by philistine »

bredren wrote: post #44
leetharris wrote: post #15

Weird how the title says, "macOS Sequoia is available today, bringing iPhone Mirroring, Apple Intelligence, and more to Mac" Then you look at the paragraph for this and it says, "Coming Soon: Apple Intelligence" They announced this in June, and it's just loosely coming "this fall." I have a feeling they are finding it very difficult to do anything with any kind of consistency or value on their 8gb RAM phones / Macboo…

A commonly cited analyst described lower than expected sales of iPhone 16 Pro due to AI features not rolling out until October. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/15/iphone-16-pro-demand-es... I find that a little hard to believe. I would suppose the vast majority of customers don't think a lot about the timing of software features in a purchase decision.

Ming-Chi Kuo is the golden standard for reports on Apple's production apparatus. He has the best sources, the best leaks, the best insight into very specific discussions regarding parts acquisition for Apple.

When it comes to what Apple does with those parts, or market segmentation, or sale projection, he's got no special knowledge. In this specific case, pardon the technical language, but he's full of ...

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by avidphantasm »

llm_nerd wrote: post #50
leetharris wrote: post #15

Weird how the title says, "macOS Sequoia is available today, bringing iPhone Mirroring, Apple Intelligence, and more to Mac" Then you look at the paragraph for this and it says, "Coming Soon: Apple Intelligence" They announced this in June, and it's just loosely coming "this fall." I have a feeling they are finding it very difficult to do anything with any kind of consistency or value on their 8gb RAM phones / Macboo…

iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 -- the versions with the full Apple Intelligence -- are both in betas, and there are enormous numbers of people blogging and vlogging about their experiences. And yes we all realize that on-device models aren't going to be competing with trillion parameter models, but people are finding it pretty useful. They just don't feel like it's release ready so they're refining. Apple has done this with…

Unless it can be completely turned off I will never upgrade and I guess I will be selling my year-old M3 Max in favor of some shitty PC (or I’ll eventually just run Asahi once it supports my hardware well).

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by Cyberdog »

xlii wrote: post #35

I recently got bored of Apple ecosystem. Was considering buying System76 for work, but thought that iPhone Mirroring feature would be really neat and decided to wait. Turns out it’s not available in EU because yadda yadda Apple threw a fit. Oh well.

I looked up an article to elaborate on the "threw a fit" part. It appears that Apple believes it would have to compromise security aspects of iPhone Mirroring in order to do it in a way that complies with EU law, so it's choosing to just not offer it at all.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/28/eu-hits-back-at-a...

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by andrelaszlo »

realusername wrote: post #107
andrelaszlo wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope they will fix some bugs as well. The top one on my personal list would be fixing broken exfat support https://superuser.com/questions/321161/disable-automatic-fsc... Or maybe Bluetooth automatically switching to "reduced audio quality" (I know, I know, it's a feature, not a bug...) Or wait, the kernel panic I get every once in a while would be nice: panic(cpu 1 caller 0xfffffe00318c8a1c): DCP PANIC - ASSERT!Ap…

> Or maybe Bluetooth automatically switching to "reduced audio quality" (I know, I know, it's a feature, not a bug...) I don't think I've experienced a single system where Bluetooth is working well. Linux, Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS all have their share of Bluetooth issues. The Bluetooth spec must be beyond broken.

Totally agree. I wish my hearing aids had a proprietary USB-C dongle or something.

On Linux, my experience has been both better and worse. More random disconnects and the need to re-pair is more frequent. The nice thing is I can automate the workarounds on Linux but can only curse on MacOS :D

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by philistine »

wilg wrote: post #38
aeturnum wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We may actually be seeing the moment where Moom[1] is no longer an essential OS X app. It can solve both window tiling and the "maximize problem" on mac and has been my first install for many years. Here's to hoping that Apple can get one basic OS feature right once. [1] https://manytricks.com/moom/

I wish I could set the macOS one to allow me to have ⅓ on the left and ⅔ on the right.

There are so many totally invisible third-party apps that do exactly that.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by dcre »

avidphantasm wrote: post #112
llm_nerd wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iOS 18.1 and macOS 15.1 -- the versions with the full Apple Intelligence -- are both in betas, and there are enormous numbers of people blogging and vlogging about their experiences. And yes we all realize that on-device models aren't going to be competing with trillion parameter models, but people are finding it pretty useful. They just don't feel like it's release ready so they're refining. Apple has done this with…

Unless it can be completely turned off I will never upgrade and I guess I will be selling my year-old M3 Max in favor of some shitty PC (or I’ll eventually just run Asahi once it supports my hardware well).

Why is this the line for you? macOS is already doing plenty of things it sounds like you wouldn't like.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by threeseed »

lwhi wrote: post #71

Literally nothing I care about. As a web developer I'd be happy if Safari usage fell off a cliff.

It's always the worst type of developers who care more about their experience than what is best for users.

Having Google, an advertising company, in sole control of how the web works is bad for everyone.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by yunwal »

bredren wrote: post #44
leetharris wrote: post #15

Weird how the title says, "macOS Sequoia is available today, bringing iPhone Mirroring, Apple Intelligence, and more to Mac" Then you look at the paragraph for this and it says, "Coming Soon: Apple Intelligence" They announced this in June, and it's just loosely coming "this fall." I have a feeling they are finding it very difficult to do anything with any kind of consistency or value on their 8gb RAM phones / Macboo…

A commonly cited analyst described lower than expected sales of iPhone 16 Pro due to AI features not rolling out until October. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/15/iphone-16-pro-demand-es... I find that a little hard to believe. I would suppose the vast majority of customers don't think a lot about the timing of software features in a purchase decision.

I would guess that the vast majority of customers don’t even know when a new iPhone is released and therefore don’t buy in the first few weeks after it’s released. Of the customers that are aware of the release, I would assume that most are aware because they’re anticipating new features

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by lorddumpy »

AndrewSwift wrote: post #13
modeless wrote: post #3

Window tiling! If you drag a single window to the top does it maximize, and unmaximize when you drag it away? That's been my most wanted feature in macOS since forever (yes I have tried the third party ones). I don't really care about tiling multiple windows, but I've always hated the macOS full screen behavior, and before that the old green button behavior, so an alternative that finally works well (the way Windows…

Note that you can option double click the corner of a window to make it fill the screen. I realize that this isn't what you're asking, but it might help.

Had to make an account just to say thanks! You literally solved one of my biggest gripes with macOS. This site honestly feels like the internet of the late aughts' last bastion. I think I'll stick around.
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