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The obvious end point would be the same as iOS, which is to say - you can run it to your heart's content, provided that you shell out for a dev certificate.
That is not at all obvious.
What is the security benefit of removing the command-click shortcut?
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That's when I think about jumping ship. If they require the App Store that's the end.
They can't, and they won't. Just look at the upcoming changes being forced on iOS in the EU with sideloading.
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If you zoom out and look at the trajectory release after release, all of these things are obviously coming. Every release we act surprised that it's slightly more difficult to run unsigned, un-notarized, un-sanctioned code, but somehow that Voice Of The Fanboy within us has us convinced that "surely this last change is where Apple will draw the line and stop!"
Yeah, but such concerns are from a long ago and it didn't happen yet. So the best approach is (and has been) to just support the platform until it is not possible anymore and don't be emotional about it. We just know that one (still quite distant) day it will happen. Then the usage of the platform will end for many users & developers. One could still live a quite long time on the older systems to ease the transition…
Well yeah because they are very sensibly doing it extremely slowly. Microsoft is doing the same thing; they're just a fair bit behind Apple.
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> 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ? Every month. (Which is still annoying, but not the raw level of frustration that weekly would be.)
Do you still have to quit and restart the entire application after you give the permission? Holy shit mac users are gonna become a meme in meetings. MacOS is turning into quite the poo log lately. I respect that Apple has every right to completely destroy the legacy of the Macintosh, but they are slow playing it so that it's just a little bit better than the alternatives. The end result is my life gets just a little…
I disagree. Apple's various machinations to control the best available supply lines (deals with TSMC, etc...) make me feel quite entitled in saying what is and is not acceptable behavior on their part. This feeling amplifies with every "courageous" announcement they make sunsetting some useful feature they no longer feel like supporting.
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> supporting interoperability for these protocols is a burden Also an unprecedented and unacceptable privacy and security risk. You would be allowing third parties the ability to continuously record your iPhone's screen. Which includes websites you browse, apps you open, health information, text messages etc. And the Mac is so much open that you could do this, have a local model to transcribe it and ship it to a remo…
It is sad to see such a misinformed take on a technical forum. You can already do everything you want. It will take some reverse-engineering work, but it's possible. Similar things were said about iMessage interoperability with Android, until Beeper proved them wrong. They managed to reverse-engineer it, build a compatible client and clearly proved Apple's claims were BS (and no, this didn't lead to a mass-scale comp…
If you’re going to make such a claim, you should be very careful to ensure you’re not misinformed yourself.
> Similar things were said about iMessage interoperability with Android, until Beeper proved them wrong.
No, they did not. We already knew Apple not allowing iMessage on Android was a lock-in choice. The trial with Epic brought that unambiguously to light, years before the release of Beeper Mini¹.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375128/apple-imessage-an...
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406303/imessage-android...
> They managed to reverse-engineer it, build a compatible client and clearly proved Apple's claims were BS
What claims? The only time I remember Apple publicly addressing iMessage on Android was after cutting off Beeper Mini’s access.
¹ Which is an important distinction from the earlier Beeper, which used trickery with iPhones to accomplish the task.
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It's kind of wild that it took Apple to make this feature before we could get a decent Instagram client on a laptop.
is that Apple's job, to make client app for X?
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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.
Ahhh "you're holding it wrong" argument
nice, but still many things to be improved: - iphone mirroring keeps going into "paused" mode, showing a "resume" button - iphone mirroring doesn't unblock apps that need face Id, e.g. whatsapp says "passcode required" without prompting for some form of auth (auto auth is enabled, but no luck) - iphone mirroring is not really "mirroring": one cannot use both app and phone at the same time, and see what is going on. -…
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I don’t mind most of them, but the cut/move is IMO unusable.
opt-cmd-v for move vs cmd-v for copy? Pretty usable imho!
But in every other Mac app, even in TextEdit, you would Cmd-X to cut a piece of text and Cmd-V to then paste it somewhere else. The same logic is used to e.g. move an image within a note or email, which is also a file.
So Finder is simply inconsistent with the rest of the OS, and after 4 years as a Mac user I have just given up and use either drag-and-drop or a terminal when I need to move stuff.
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.
The ones who buy on day one do. I don’t find it surprising that the people who even know about and anticipate the release date of a product are the ones who are eager for specific features. If those aren’t there yet, there’s no rush to buy.
I’m no analyst but I expect demand in the EU won’t be that (comparatively) great either. When the flagship feature isn’t available, there’s little reason to spend the extra money.