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Last week I was driving and a popup from apple music to accept more terms and conditions showed up on top of Maps. It was a tense 25 minutes of interchanges without nav before traffic was clear enough to deny the terms, and I purged the app and cancelled the subscription afterward.
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His Something rotten in the state of Cupertino piece earlier this year broke his relationship with the upper echelons of Apple, and to be frank he's no longer inevitable as an Apple commenter. He cannot understand the European Union at all, so he devolves into saying they're idiots. Really? The EU, the whole thing, idiots? Really?
I don’t think we should conclude that a tech columnist who regularly shits on EU tech policy really intends to attack the EU writ large. If he sounds like he’s generalising to the “whole thing,” I’m pretty sure he understands most readers know he’s not talking about the entire EU experiment. Just the backward tech regulation.
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I don’t think we should conclude that a tech columnist who regularly shits on EU tech policy really intends to attack the EU writ large. If he sounds like he’s generalising to the “whole thing,” I’m pretty sure he understands most readers know he’s not talking about the entire EU experiment. Just the backward tech regulation.
Oh no, John criticizes at large. He complains that the EU itself is too obtuse, that the way they enact laws is obtuse, that the nomination process for officials is obtuse.
He really is unique in how consistently wrong and clueless he keeps on being.
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I also went tinted as soon as 26.1 came out. There is a step further, under "accessibility" -> "Reduce Transparency". For me Tinted is ok. Original was indeed very hard to read in places (ie, quick peeks at the notification tray).
Reduce transparency brings it back to acceptable levels, thanks!
I 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…
Funny enough, my phone upgraded to iOS 26 tonight, and I am like - what is this garbage, who though this is a good idea? And lo and behold, now I know... Immediately went Tinted mode, yet there is transparency where it shouldn't be, text overlays other text, etc...
I'm still on 18. I keep waiting for the all clear sign to upgrade. I take it, not yet?
> Putting Alan Dye in charge of user interface design was the one big mistake Jony Ive made as Apple’s Chief Design Officer. _One_??? Talk about rose tinted liquid glass(es).
But I suspect that Apple Services have too much power so the platforms will continue to be corrupted with ever-more-intrusive advertising.
It will be an equally good news if Zuck poaches the person or team that manages Apple's feedback assistant tool, the one that's used to report bugs. Asking customers to file issues there and then not at all responding to those for months and years even after repeated pings should definitely generate some interest from Meta. Zuck, some more poaching please?
I recently took the time, despite having committed to never bother again, to write some feedback to Apple. I can’t even remember what it was about, but it was a big deal for me to break my commitment. I spent 15 minutes writing it up, getting screenshots marked up… And the form refused to submit. I was on my iPhone. I clicked the button. Nothing happened. I clicked it again. Nothing. I reminded myself of the reason I…
And look what happens, it turns out if you switch app-focus and go back to the app (now immediately focused on the text input) your on-screen keyboard becomes pretty much unreadable (white on light grey...)
The feedback is probably going straight to the bin but I couldn't help myself to file a second bug with a screenshot from the first feedback submission with a broken keyboard.
Screenshot of this absolute disaster: https://imgur.com/a/CyXiVy2