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Post by edbaskerville »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #365
xnx wrote: post #272

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> Apple very rarely admits mistakes. Probably the best reversion was getting rid of the butterfly keyboard and bringing back ports after Jony Ive was gone.

He went on to ruin Ferrari now :)

Whoa, didn't realize that was Jony Ive! Good job Jony! Gave both Ferrari and EVs bad press with a single product launch!

A good lesson in not messing with a good thing. If they had just put an electric motor in a classic Ferrari body, it could have been a nice moment for the energy transition.

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Post by avarun »

thewebguyd wrote: post #313
avarun wrote: post #279

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Wait what? Where did you see this? It would be crazy if the Series 9 doesn't get updated to the next watchOS

On their WatchOS page, about halfway down: https://www.apple.com/os/watchos/

Has to be a fuckup. watchOS 26 supported the Series 6 onwards. I don't think Apple has ever cut 3 generations of devices with a single yearly OS upgrade unless there's an underlying architecture reason for it before.

This might be the list for Siri AI supported watches or something.

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Post by sudokatsu »

robot_jesus wrote: post #174
WoodenChair wrote: post #25

Apple very rarely admits mistakes. The fact they're rolling back some of the extremeness in Liquid Glass and actively mentioned in the keynote that they very seriously took the user feedback shows just how bad it was, at least initially.

Yeah. It's clear they've been hearing the complaints. Not just Liquid Glass, but they even talked about the inconsistent menu bar icons and problems with rounded corner radii (among a bunch of improvements). I'm excited that this is basically Snow Leopard part II, for those who remember.

Well, let’s wait a bit before giving it such an honorable name lol

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Post by officeplant »

groundzeros2015 wrote: post #367
officeplant wrote: post #352

Apple continues to innovate in new and excited ways, because I never though I would speak the words "I guess I'm sticking with ios26 until the end of security updates." Unless I can continue to neuter AI, and keep the older siri this is my last iOS.

What do you want?

The ability to continue to completely lock down Apple Intelligence to the point where it even free's up the ~7gb it takes up on the phone. Currently this works in iOS 26 as long as I never accidentally toggle it back on via Apples dark pattern attempts that happen every few software updates.

Also for the ability to continue using Siri without Apple Intelligence would be nice. I rarely need to use Siri so it's already set for manual triggering with the power button long press only. But if Siri goes into the AI shitter then I'll just wholesale disable it.

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Post by yurishimo »

xoa wrote: post #260
philistine wrote: post #42

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It was literally the first specific announcement they made after they finished their introductions. Not anything iPhone related; they announced that Liquid Glass on macOS would move towards the older design. Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. That and the guy who announced it last year fled to Fa…

> shows just how bad it was > Goes to show that a year of anybody with any sort of clout complaining about the thousand little cuts of Liquid Glass on macOS will get a company to respond. Worth remembering too that this isn't merely about "complaints", Apple has significant metrics on the rates at which users are upgrading to a new OS, or not. You can opt-out of sharing that data, but a lot of people (even technical…

I and most of my dev friends didn’t update. The reality is that many of us work in a web browser and an IDE all day writing software for non-Apple platforms. The only incentive I have to update is new and compelling OS features or bugfixes. Since major security patches will likely be backported, that just leaves new features and the reality is that macOS’ only new “feature” worth talking about was Liquid Glass considering their AI offering was also an absolute joke.

Given the other emphasis placed on performance improvements (likely in service to helping to mask the slowness of LLM Siri) I’m really hoping this is a modern Snow Leopard release. I’m looking forward to the Apple nerds digging and offering a compelling narrative about why I should care about updating.

And to add on to that, if this is a bug-fix bonanza release, hopefully we’ll also see a lot of positive movement during the beta period to keep shipping fixes. We’re getting a freaking EQ on AirPods!!!!111!!1! It seems Apple is finally taking some things to heart about listening to their users and I’m 10000% here for it.

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Post by desolate_muffin »

officeplant wrote: post #352

Apple continues to innovate in new and excited ways, because I never though I would speak the words "I guess I'm sticking with ios26 until the end of security updates." Unless I can continue to neuter AI, and keep the older siri this is my last iOS.

As opposed to the AI-free operating system, Android?

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Post by sudokatsu »

thewebguyd wrote: post #359
dmitrygr wrote: post #357

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https://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+blocks+local+accou... https://redmondmag.com/articles/2025/10/08/microsoft-ends-lo...

Hmm, funny, because I literally just set up a Win11 PRO machine yesterday, I could still create a local account, no bypass script needed. Your links only apply to Home editions.

We shouldn’t give them praise for gatekeeping it behind a paywall.

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Post by desolate_muffin »

pfortuny wrote: post #27
chatmasta wrote: post #20

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When I download a new app on iOS, I immediately disable searching it and disable background updates. I hate the search feature and only use it as an app launcher when I’m accidentally not on the App Library screen. On macOS, I also disable spotlight for everything because the indexing process has been the single biggest culprit of CPU spikes when it’s doing something insane like indexing a git repo. Again, I only use…

Try quicksilver

The presence of an alternative launcher does not prevent spotlight background tasks from running
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