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It is surprisingly slow, though. Like, awfully slow. There's a very noticeable latency that's unacceptable for a local device sitting right next to the computer.
Apple has been doing low latency screen mirroring for, I don’t know, a decade. If you find the latency unacceptable, consider looking into your network performance.
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Many people log into their Mac using the same credentials (Apple ID) that give access to the Health data, and in fact Apple makes it really hard or even impossible to use it without (you can't selectively grant access, you need to use a separate Apple ID but then you lose some useful features such as universal clipboard, etc). This is again a misinformed take. Your Mac can already get all your iPhone's data from the…
> Your Mac can already get all your iPhone's data from the cloud Only if the data is available in iCloud and it is stored in files and it is not encrypted. Otherwise data from apps like Instagram will be exposed exclusively via screen sharing.
We do not live in this universe. Consider getting a Chromebook instead if you want to be in that universe. (But then you have a tradeoff: Apple itself seems pretty good about not using your data inappropriately. Google, not so much.)
Best new feature: Passwords are a separate app again instead of being a shitty, illegible panel in the inexplicably-unresizable, cramped, tiny-text hell of the iOSified system prefs. Maybe in a couple more major versions we'll have a re-re-designed system prefs app that actually looks like a desktop app again!
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Thanks for confirming the nightmare.
Care to explain the nightmare to someone who seriously doesn't get it? I can run any open-source software I want. Other people can't run my precompiled binaries unless I opt into an attestation system that lets the OS respond to and pre-emptively block binaries from developers found to be issuing malware. Open source is unaffected. I seriously fail to see what is wrong here.
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Why would you use iPhone Mirroring for this
I don't even like Apple as a company but I have high expectations of their products and I assume their product is meticulously designed for a variety of use cases. Why should I as a consumer expect half-assed implementations? Just because all software are half-assed these days? Apple says "With iPhone Mirroring, users can now fully access and engage with their iPhone right from Mac while iPhone remains locked nearby.…
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the permission for screen access is only for apps that failed to start using the new API where the OS lets the user select a window/screen they want to share.
again, i keep asking: which apps have actually switched to the new screen sharing API and which apps have not? does zoom, chrome, google meet, etc still require this?
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> How many unsigned apps are you downloading and running? For me, quite a few? Internal tools at work, open source projects which publish builds on their github, that sort of stuff. (And no, paying Apple a yearly subscription for the privilege of letting users run an app is not a reasonable expectation of small open source projects)
Just tell these advanced users to compile it themselves. Problem solved.
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The way it's even implemented now is like the nightmare realized from everything Richard Stallman warned about for decades. Especially for non-technical users, they've practically implemented a system where Apple decides what software you are and aren't allowed to run on your own computer. They can muddy the issue by claiming it's for safety/security but I don't buy it. They could have made the override still clear b…
> They could have made the override still clear but much easier to access. The level of difficulty is absolutely intentional. For you, it's a small speed bump. For the guy on the phone with my grandma trying to hack her computer, it's more of a hill to climb.