Hardware Design: check Hardware: check Software Design: check Software: please!
> Software: please! Didn't Apples AI guy just get fired? That will have effects on software.
Good effects.
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Liquid Glass I agree with. Not sure if the Touch ID comment is intended as a joke.
Cell phones from other brands have Touch ID and it works great. Apple has Touch ID on their iPads and it also works great. As it does on the MacBooks. As it does on the iPhone SE. It should be brought back.
It's a lost cause by now, but I really liked Sony's implementation with their Xperia Z5 -- the fingerprint sensor was on the power button.
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#63Hardware Design: check Hardware: check Software Design: check Software: please!
I'm not willing to cede the point on hardware design for as long as their primary mouse product cannot be charged during use. It's such a simple and obvious mistake, like a throwback to the days of hockey-puck mice.
On the plus side, that one's easy to avoid by using literally any other mouse
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#64I think Apple have jumped the shark, personally. Sure, trillion-dollar business and all that - but at the folk level, they have become the very thing they were always resisting: a tired old monopoly enforcing principles on their customers which are not in the customers' best interests. OS vendors have lost the plot. Where a company decides to try to build an operating system for mass acceptance at scale these days, t…
I have concerns too, but the file manager on macOS is not among them. The Finder has barely changed since its OS X 10.2 incarnation over two decades ago, except for gaining features (many of which were demanded by power users). A few settings need toggling on a fresh install (turning on status bar and path bar are musts, as is ~/Library visibility), but that’s the worst of it. Neither it nor the rest of macOS do much to go out of their way to obfuscate the filesystem.
iOS still needs work despite its file manager having become much more capable, but part of that comes down to the differing filesystem arrangement where user documents are kept within app bundles. If raw filesystem access were enabled, that model wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense even to many who are familiar with navigating filesystems. I could see the argument that it should be switched to a traditional desktop OS model, but that’s a deep architectural change.
Windows on the other hand… Explorer just keeps getting slower even if it’s not losing functionality, and Windows has always been poor when it comes to misrepresenting or obfuscating the filesystem. I hate trying to track down where files have been deposited in Windows boxes, and I would agree that it’s been contributing to users not understanding filesystems.
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#65I am starting to think John Gruber doesn't like Alan Dye.
Where were Gruber’s posts about Dye so obviously being a problem before his exit?
His podcast with Louie Mantia in July was pretty clear with it, though it also suggests why he’s given significant criticism of the design direction, but mostly just has quips and shade thrown at Alan Dye on the blog:
> I get to ask Alan Dye about [the shadows on Apple Watch faces]. And he was like, oh, we render a shadow? And I was like, oh, you never even looked. I just instantly realised he’d never really even looked at it. Like, somebody at Apple has, but Alan Dye didn't. […] It just suddenly came to me, oh, he doesn't do the job I thought he did.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cell phones from other brands have Touch ID and it works great. Apple has Touch ID on their iPads and it also works great. As it does on the MacBooks. As it does on the iPhone SE. It should be brought back.
I am not a fan, simply because of the screen real estate that needs to be sacrificed. Other phones tend to have it on the back, and I have heard there's good progress in having embedded thumbprint readers in the screen. I have, however, really come to like Face ID. [UPDATED TO ADD] I think that it's interesting that folks ding comments they disagree with. I upvoted all the responses to my comment, even though they ma…
Face ID is severely lacking compared to MS Hello, simple as. It's at best 50:50 hit/miss compared to Hello which logs me in always. Granted, that figure doesn't include false positives, but the difference is substantial and makes Apple's implementation look really lame, to the point I'd like to see it removed.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where were Gruber’s posts about Dye so obviously being a problem before his exit?
Quickly googled his website and found this from January 2021: > [...] I’m reminded of all the UI and interaction designs and changes in iOS and MacOS that are just bad. There’s a real sense that Apple’s current HI team, under Alan Dye, is a “design is what it looks like” group, not a “design is how it works” group. And this, from June of this year: > Re-watching Jobs’s introduction of Aqua for the umpteenth time, I s…
He’s had the position for 10 years and you found two mentions?
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not a fan, simply because of the screen real estate that needs to be sacrificed. Other phones tend to have it on the back, and I have heard there's good progress in having embedded thumbprint readers in the screen. I have, however, really come to like Face ID. [UPDATED TO ADD] I think that it's interesting that folks ding comments they disagree with. I upvoted all the responses to my comment, even though they ma…
Face ID is severely lacking compared to MS Hello, simple as. It's at best 50:50 hit/miss compared to Hello which logs me in always. Granted, that figure doesn't include false positives, but the difference is substantial and makes Apple's implementation look really lame, to the point I'd like to see it removed.
I haven't had that happen, so I think it works fairly well. Even with a mask.
In fact, it works so well, for me, that I was worried that it was too generous, but it is actually very secure.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a good while, Mac hardware was held back because of hardware design. That changed soon after Ive left. Maybe the same can happen with software now.
The healing begins with a joint HW/SW effort: bring iPhone touch ID back, and strip Liquid Glass down to the bare wood and fix it.
+1 for the return of TouchID, but it’ll never happen. Having to orient the phone and stare into a bright screen all the time is sub optimal.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cell phones from other brands have Touch ID and it works great. Apple has Touch ID on their iPads and it also works great. As it does on the MacBooks. As it does on the iPhone SE. It should be brought back.
It's a lost cause by now, but I really liked Sony's implementation with their Xperia Z5 -- the fingerprint sensor was on the power button.
This is how it's implemented on iPads without Face ID (like the Air)