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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?
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It didn’t used to be this way. Apple software used to be functional, intuitive, and fun in a lot of cases. Things went downhill rapidly when Jony Ive’s team took over software design. I wasn’t a huge fan of the gaudy extreme skeuomorphism of the late Forstall era, but at least you could tell what was a button. What you could do with a piece of software was much clearer. The current team are insistent that simplicity…
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.
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I think a Likert scale is actually different than how they're surveying respondents in the article linked by the OP. From Wikipedia: "A Likert item is simply a statement that the respondent is asked to evaluate by giving it a quantitative value on any kind of subjective or objective dimension, with level of agreement/disagreement being the dimension most commonly used... The format of a typical five-level Likert item…
How do you know? I couldn't find any example questions in the article.
I love the new Apple Silicon Macs, and the transition for me has been pretty easy. I can't imagine anything interesting happening to the watch that doesn't include a big increase to battery life. I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. Apple software has seemingly regressed every year recently. Native apps like Music and Podcasts, the only two I would regularly use, have become so…
I don't think it'll ever happen, but it would be amazing if the opened up 3rd-party watch faces. For a watch, the watch-face is really the analog of the app, and it's a shame we're just limited to the built-in stuff.
What is Apple doing with the iPad division? The Mac spanked the iPad in 2021 and the recent earnings showed that.
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I have a feeling these things are heavily related to both WiFi (congestion/protocol/support for sleep & awake/distance to AP) and cellular (if enabled), in addition to other usage (like Bluetooth, including distance to host phone). This is also (educated) speculation.
Also device age. My Series 3 originally lasted about a day and a half but is under a full day now with a couple years of cycles on the battery.
From what I understand, impact of radio on battery life is very real but often invisible / not thought about. Cellular really can chew through battery when the base stations are far away.
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My series 7 easily makes it a full day, closer to two days. It also charges really quickly. I put it on the charger for about 30 mins to an hour in the morning while reading emails and it’s done.
Really? I may make it thru one day if I am using it moderately (mostly apple fitness).
What is Apple doing with the iPad division? The Mac spanked the iPad in 2021 and the recent earnings showed that.
Which ends up being about as expensive and about the same size as a MacBook Air. And for any work that requires any sort of interface density, or complete access to the file system, or fast I/O, or…I’d way rather have a Mac.
I love the new Apple Silicon Macs, and the transition for me has been pretty easy. I can't imagine anything interesting happening to the watch that doesn't include a big increase to battery life. I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. Apple software has seemingly regressed every year recently. Native apps like Music and Podcasts, the only two I would regularly use, have become so…
I have to ask: What are you doing with your Apple Watch that drains the battery so fast?
I've never been able to drain my Watch battery anywhere near that fast, even with the always-on screen still enabled.
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Also device age. My Series 3 originally lasted about a day and a half but is under a full day now with a couple years of cycles on the battery.
Well of course battery age, but the GPs were talking about the latest watch, so I assumed it was more about battery life from the start. From what I understand, impact of radio on battery life is very real but often invisible / not thought about. Cellular really can chew through battery when the base stations are far away.
When the AirPods first came out there were a lot of reviews saying "Battery life is about 5 hours, this is just barely acceptable but it's not a problem."
And then two years later the same authors were writing articles complaining that their AirPod battery life has gotten unacceptably short as if they'd never owned anything with a non-removable battery before and had no idea it was going to happen.