Apple in 2021 • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by wwarek » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

gnicholas wrote: post #71

wwarek wrote: post #50

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My Mi Band 6 from Xiaomi easily lives ~30 days on one charge if used less (eg. no constant heart tracking, no PAI) and ~7 days with all tracking enabled (sleep, oxygen, heart rate, 1-2 workouts a day). With a third party app instead of Xiaomi "Mi Fit", I belive also all the data stays with me. That makes me wonder - what does Apple Watch do that Mi Band doesn't that makes the time on battery so much different? I gues…

Reading reviews on Amazon, it makes it sound like it's not the best on privacy. Do you experience this? > If you don’t agree to let them sell your information, then every single time you connect your watch to the phone, it automatically transfers you to settings on your phone because it wants you to alter them so they can sell your information.

No, not really, I can't confirm that. I'm using third party app[0] which has nothing to do with Xiaomi. It only requires login with official app once in order to obtain encryption(?) key. After that all functionalities can be used without any problems or settings opening automatically. I guess the quoted person has misconfigured something.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mc.miband1

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by leviathant » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 9:04 PM UTC

asdff wrote: post #76

leviathant wrote: post #52

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I was a pretty staunch opponent of the iPad for a very long time. Tablets were clearly a consumption device, and I've always disliked Apple's penchant for proprietary connectors. However, things have shifted enough that on the artistic/creative front, the iPad is actually a really nice thing to have. When the iPad Air 4 (I think? The iPad ecosystem has terrible nomenclature) came out, it not only had a USB-C connecto…

I think even today there are probably a lot more creatives using cheap wacom tablets than iPads and developing music on actual computers. Apple hasn't even bothered getting logic pro on the ipad.

And to your point, the iPad I bought isn't a replacement for my computer. For music, it serves as a playable instrument. On the visual side of things, I draw in Procreate, and then export to PDF, to complete the work in Photoshop. It's not a replacement, but it finally serves well as augmentation. I even bring it along on work trips to function as a 'second monitor' for my Macbook.

I would get on just fine without an iPad, but getting one last year was one of the most satisfying tech purchases I've made in a long time.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by barkerja » Tue, Feb 08, 2022, 9:55 PM UTC

rodgerd wrote: post #59

barkerja wrote: post #11

I have to believe that HomeKit has fallen so far to the wayside due to their work on Matter. And we can expect something big in the near future. Right? Please?

HomeKit's biggest challenge is that so much of the home automation market balks at Apple's requirement to be able to operate without a cloud service. Can't do surveillance capitalism or extort monthly fees or end-of-life product arbitrarily if you've got HomeKit branding, so of course that's first overboard. The second problem is that Apple themselves are missing a number of functions that are baffling, such as not h…

Yes! This is one of my biggest desires in HomeKit, and the native Home app. Having access to historical data. This is one of the main reasons I have Home Assistant running. I don't use it for any automations, but I do often use it to reference historical data.

I'm not sure how Apple would approach this though. Would it be part of your iCloud data and require a minimum plan (similar to how HKSV operates). I don't ever see them allowing the option to control /where/ that data is stored exactly.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by gurkendoktor » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 10:45 AM UTC

thawaya3113 wrote: post #98

gurkendoktor wrote: post #96

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> Human beings are more than vessels for SV douches to make billions they don’t need. If I buy an iPad to read PDFs or books, many of which are free, I am hardly making SV douches more money than when I buy a "Pro" device for productivity. Ironically, the idea that people shouldn't read or listen (consume), and instead just build build build, also strikes me as a very Silicon Valley idea. I really don't know what it…

It’s about being more than …. A consumption device is nothing more than something designed to extract money out of a person. And no, being productive is not a SV idea. In fact, it’s only recently (in the past 50 or so years) that buying something that doesn’t have a productive purpose is even considered. But I’m not surprised that SV douches have convinced themselves that they’ve created the concept of being producti…

> It’s about being more than ….

I would understand that objection if people could only own a single computing device. But us who want the iPad to be a dumb consumption device probably own a proper computer for creation. In fact, having an iPad that is supported by all the big companies (native apps, DRM, ...) makes it easier to use a main operating system that runs none of the SV junk.

From my POV, it is really the opposite. People who want the iPad to be a universal computing device are the problem, because they'd be willing to move to a locked-down platform if only it had Xcode or whatever.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by dont__panic » Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 5:51 PM UTC

davidbarker wrote: post #47

dont__panic wrote: post #9

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The "new folder" workflow in Finder is one of the most infuriating things I've ever seen in macOS. I swear, they used to just have a "new folder" button in the olden days.

I actually didn't know there ever used to be a New Folder button, but that prompted me to customise the toolbar in Finder and I see it as an option (and have now added it).

OK I'll admit I didn't realize you could right click -> "customize toolbar". That seems to work in almost all native apps (Mail and Finder for me, at least). And you can turn on text labels in the options!

Finally I can get rid of the tagging button in Finder and replace it with a New Folder button. And I can ditch all of those buttons I don't use at the top of the Mail app to keep the "search" bar open at all times.