So Apple goes the opposite way compared with Purism: making different OS for every device. What's the point?
Because we’ve learned time after time that one size fits all is a fool’s dream.
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#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what always confuses me when people say "macOS/iOS is soooo intuitive!" - discoverability of features is well, horrible. You have to long/3d/long 3d press all manner of elements to discover, not to mention single/two/three finger swipes in differing directions, from screen, from edge.
Because these gestures are akin to keyboard shortcuts — they're not the only way to do achieve something, just a convenient shortcut. One could always request the desktop site via the Share sheet.
It's worse because keyboard shortcuts you could learn from the menu bar. Mac convention has been that all shortcuts should be discoverable there, and you even see the menu title flash when you hit it.
To your point about request desktop site being in the share sheet, that's true. But recently closed tabs are not.
Advanced iOS features are definitely less discoverable. But it's a trade-off for how easy the essentials are.
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#253> you’ll be able to grab files from USB-C flash drives That sounds useful. Reaching NeXTSTEP functionality soon enough.
Well, for that it would need Xcode. And multi-user.
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
USB-C/Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard support, including on extra screens when plugged in, would have been a killer feature. I guess Apple thought it would cannibalise Mac sales too much?
Wouldn't Apple be okay with everyone switching over to their own iOS based ARM products? They wouldn't have to deal with Intel for processors regular CPU's anymore and they wouldn't have to support an extra software architecture on the development side of things.
I think the Apple of old that was willing to make bold decisions, even at the expense of part of its own product range, is gone. Soon Apple will start selling printers again!
Its exactly as Steve Jobs predicted:
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#255As a web developer, what on earth does this mean? > desktop sites are now the default in Safari Surely it's not some kind of meddling with the device width to make responsive web design even more confusing. That would be very odd. My hope is that it's some kind of user agent manipulation that thwarts device sniffing so you don't see a mobile phone stylesheet or get redirected to a mobile site while using your iPad.
I'm hoping that maybe with this I might be able to access a JupyterLab server with this in some useable way. Fingers crossed!
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#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
She guessed your pin?
Yup, she brute-forced it. This was back before touchID and faceID and IIRC GA pins were only four digits. The game quickly changed from let’s watch cartoons to let’s figure out how to change apps.
I mean, I just checked and now the pin is 6 digits long, and there's a 10 second time out between attempts.
Your original comment implies there's some kind of fundamental flaw with GA that makes it useless, which apparently couldn't be further from the truth.
Even with a 4 digit pin it takes 5 seconds to change it if it's figured out, and if the child has enough time to brute force 10,000 possible combinations without you being able to intervene and rebuff that behavior, I'd say that's it's own problem.
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#257Why are we as developers giving this company any of our business when they've thumbed their noses at us for decades?
Because we don’t develop things just for ourselves, we develop it for our users who happen to love Apple products.
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#258No information on whether the iPad Pro keyboard is fully compliant in terms of arrow keys, etc. This really gets in the way of things like Cloud 9, hosted VS Code, etc.
As much as people (myself included) wish we could do native development on the iPad, I would quickly settle for just supporting Cloud 9. The only reason I have to bring two laptops and an iPad with me when I travel instead of just one laptop and an iPad is because Cloud 9 doesn't work on an iPad, for absolutely no good reason.
Off-topic: "Opening workspaces (including access to databases and app frameworks) will be disabled on June 30, 2019. Cloud9 will stop working on December 31, 2019." [https://c9.io/login]
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#259What about mouse support?
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#260> Apple Pencil latency is dropping from 20ms to 9ms, This is why I respect Apple. Most tech forums would have been flooded people whinging about how mere humans can’t perceive such low latencies and how improving them is a waste. Meanwhile Apple knows not to leave anything on the table for UX.
Actually I think it highlights how well Apple manage their message and keep people focused on them: most people probably don't notice or actually care about the difference in latency, and 9ms is not the best in the market, yet it becomes a 'good news story' validating Apple