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iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by anonuser123456 »

theideaofcoffee wrote: post #28
anonuser123456 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a extremely hard to maintain differential software features across hardware product lines. What ‘sounds lame’ may translate into significantly added complexity to the maintenance process.

I think with all of their resources, Apple of all companies could dig deep and stretch a little bit to make that happen.

It would make their product worse.

As someone that has worked on this very problem for 20 years, I can say with somewhat confidence Apples choice is the right one.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by kshacker »

NonNefarious wrote: post #169
the_mar wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Boy do i have a lifehack for you. Buy a phone number with a random area code, like ohio or something, all the spam calls come from surrounding area codes.

Actually, the more-telling part of the number is the exchange. They'll often match yours, which is dumb as hell. In the age where most phones are mobile, this whole "scheme" is pitifully ignorant.

Spamming, like many other things in life, is a field of bleeding edge technology. :) They were not using your area code a decade back, then they realized your area code works better - it probably did for a while. When it loses effectiveness, they will move on to other patterns they have discovered.

Also, A/B testing is not just for good guys.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by encryptluks2 »

the_mar wrote: post #110
avtar wrote: post #10

Apple’s call and sms spam filtering remains subpar to say the least. When I had a Pixel, I had the option to let the OS transcribe what the potential spammer was saying and end the call. It’s puzzling why Apple isn’t doing more here.

Boy do i have a lifehack for you. Buy a phone number with a random area code, like ohio or something, all the spam calls come from surrounding area codes.

Just have the US start sending missiles to spam call centers and people will stop real quick.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by jacobn »

giarc wrote: post #144
noncoml wrote: post #23

Apple, for iOS 17 can you please let me freely rearrange the apps on the screen? Having them shuffle every time I add or remove an app is really a pain

I'd like to be able to log into my Apple ID account and do this on a PC. I hate sliding them around various pages with my finger.

I thought that was available via iTunes on Windows?

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by highwaylights »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #32

Passkeys gonna be fire. Goodbye password managers, credential stuffing, and phishing attacks! (photo deduplication is nice too btw, been a long time coming)

I dunno. Passkeys scare the crap out of me.

If I get arbitrarily locked out of a Google/Apple/Microsoft account then my logins for absolutely everything go up in smoke too.

(Assumes the key is a composite pair of local passkey + cloud account secret)

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by layer8 »

giarc wrote: post #144
noncoml wrote: post #23

Apple, for iOS 17 can you please let me freely rearrange the apps on the screen? Having them shuffle every time I add or remove an app is really a pain

I'd like to be able to log into my Apple ID account and do this on a PC. I hate sliding them around various pages with my finger.

It used to be possible with iTunes, but they removed that feature in 12.7.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by kshacker »

giarc wrote: post #144
noncoml wrote: post #23

Apple, for iOS 17 can you please let me freely rearrange the apps on the screen? Having them shuffle every time I add or remove an app is really a pain

I'd like to be able to log into my Apple ID account and do this on a PC. I hate sliding them around various pages with my finger.

And I think years back you used to be able to do it from iTunes when the phone was connected with a wire. It disappeared over the years probably when they moved to Finder, but I think maybe even earlier.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by ezfe »

jacobr wrote: post #116

The iPhone 8 only compatibility means that many teams will be stuck supporting Safari 15.6 for a very long time. Anything under "no support" on this page will continue to be out of reach for years to come https://caniuse.com/?compare=safari+15.6&compareCats=all#res...

It's good that Safari is much less shit than it used to be...

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by ezfe »

robot9000 wrote: post #145

Huge! But the bigger surprise is that there's literally nothing in it that I care about despite being an iOS user. Also, multiple stops on Maps? That's Google maps 15 years ago.

Doesn't really matter if Google Maps had it first, I like Apple Maps more and I'm excited for the feature.

Google Maps UI is a mess - only real advantage is (usually) better POI data. Routing quality is the same in my experience.

Re: iOS 16 Available September 12th

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

nabakin wrote: post #176
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #109

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>I just asked you about this the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32718712 Sorry, my bad, I didn't see your other message since it got buried in hundreds of nested replies and there's no way I was gonna see it. Also, what guidelines did the other message it break?

Being rude and insulting, I'm sure. Read the guidelines for comments, your comment violates almost all of the top rules. > Be kind . Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. > Eschew…

>Being rude and insulting, I'm sure.

And exact which part was rude and insulting?

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

> Eschew flamebait

> Please don't post shallow dismissals

Many comments on HN break at some of those rules you listed on a regular basis, especially on topics that spark a lot of debate, yet they fly. Even racist ones. Why? Saying my comment breaks all those rules, you must be joking.

If you start to split hairs like that and look for interpretations out of context (which I assume my comment was read out of context, without following the full thread) then I'm pretty sure many, may comments here can be said break some rules.

Look, I mean no disrespect, and I have apologized and corrected my mistake, and I promise I try my best to follow the rules as I love this community and love contributing here for the best, but what you said and what I experienced sometimes, feels like rule enforcement is random, subjective and sometimes personally targeted.

Since this is offtopic and don't want to discuss this here, @dang, could you please delete this thread.

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