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Post by _venkatasg »

cafed00d wrote: post #322
crazygringo wrote: post #226

I've just tried out the spatial audio on my iPad with AirPods Pro, with one of the (many) free first episodes on Apple TV+... ...and it's stunning . Seriously. It's actually three separate features in one. First, all the audio is outside of you rather than stuck between your ears. Second, it's surround sound so that dialog actually comes from your iPad, while music comes from all around. And third, it tracks, so if y…

> People love to criticize Apple, but man do they do some wonderful things for their customers. I agree. Some solutions from Apple are uniquely wonderful. Imagine if they opened up this feature for 3p companies like Netflix. And let’s suppose Netflix commissions original content that is tailor made to take advantage of this type of audio. Of course, Netflix would benefit from increased subscribers and one could argue…

Netflix can and hopefully will add support. HBO Max and Disney+ support spatial audio right now.

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Post by dang »

Zippogriff wrote: post #134
wayneftw wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 1) I don't want to see the prompts to allow push notifications from a webapp... You wouldn't have to get them unless you proactively installed the PWA to your home screen. > 2) Generally I'd rather none of the software I use be webtech, so anything that makes it easier to deliver webtech to my phone/tablet is a step the wrong direction...so no-one can bug me about it or cajole me into using it. That's your only rea…

> Perhaps that's because you want the wrong thing for some reason. I can't really parse this but from the best sense of it I can get, I reckon the most correct response is, "no, u". [EDIT] Oh and also: > You have never experienced this, so how could you possibly know? Also, no it wouldn't. It's really incredible how often relatively straightforward conversations on HN end up veering, pointlessly, into theory of the m…

That's not an HN thing, that's an internet thing (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...)

If you find yourself getting sucked into a "no, u" dynamic, the only thing that works is to step away. That's hard in the moment (because it feels like ceding the field to the obviously-wrong, obviously-inappropriate other) but then you win. And we all win.

Certainly when an internet thread becomes so generic as to reach "theory of mind and epistemology", it was time to walk away a long time ago. It's hardly likely that any internet forum will ever generate anything new or valuable to say about such things, and certainly not in the middle of a tit-for-tat activation.

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Post by [deleted] »

jdxcode wrote: post #311
crazygringo wrote: post #226

I've just tried out the spatial audio on my iPad with AirPods Pro, with one of the (many) free first episodes on Apple TV+... ...and it's stunning . Seriously. It's actually three separate features in one. First, all the audio is outside of you rather than stuck between your ears. Second, it's surround sound so that dialog actually comes from your iPad, while music comes from all around. And third, it tracks, so if y…

I own a pair and they don’t stay in my ears even if I’m sat perfectly still for more than 15 minutes at a time. I really hope they fix this somehow.

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Post by reificator »

MBCook wrote: post #305
reificator wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I really love the new app drawer. My hundred barely-used apps are now neatly stowed there while I keep a single (Yes, one) Home Screen. I hop between Android and iOS every few years and was quite excited for iOS to check this basic functionality box right as I came back. Shame they had to ruin it by forcing the absolutely nonsensical categories on you with no option for a plain alphabetical list. Just give me the U…

> Shame they had to ruin it by forcing the absolutely nonsensical categories on you with no option for a plain alphabetical list. Swipe down on the app library screen and you get the alphabetical list. Same gesture you used to do a search from any screen.

Yep, that's what I was referring to here

> Just give me the UI that shows up when you tap the app drawer search button, but as soon as I swipe to the drawer and without showing the keyboard.

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Post by throwaway5792 »

Answerawake wrote: post #323
PascLeRasc wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe it requires the Taptic Engine, which only appeared on the 7 and later models.

Why is that? Isn't the taptic engine just a miniaturized vibrating unit?

I guess a vibrating unit is an electric motor fundamentally. And an electric motor is also a generator when run in reverse. Maybe the Taptic Engine can also sense vibrations too.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by zaroth »

arsome wrote: post #329
zaroth wrote: post #319

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I have the same problem as you. Our ears must be similarly defective. You can buy silicon flaps that slip over the top and will keep them comfortably in your ear. The problem is that they don’t fit in the case with the flaps on. I haven’t tried AirPod Pros but I assume they are better in this regard.

Apple: where it's not a problem with their hardware, it's a problem with your ears.

To be clear, it’s the same for me with any in-ear buds that don’t have the silicone flap thing that I first found on the Bose QuietComfort headphones.

That earbud style just fundamentally doesn’t work for some anatomical reason in a percentage of the population.

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Post by shaan7 »

crazygringo wrote: post #226

I've just tried out the spatial audio on my iPad with AirPods Pro, with one of the (many) free first episodes on Apple TV+... ...and it's stunning . Seriously. It's actually three separate features in one. First, all the audio is outside of you rather than stuck between your ears. Second, it's surround sound so that dialog actually comes from your iPad, while music comes from all around. And third, it tracks, so if y…

> People love to criticize Apple, but man do they do some wonderful things for their customers.

People rarely criticize Apple for the products themselves. Apple gets criticism because of the "weird" (for lack of a better word) restrictions on the products. I've stopped using a Mac for quite a while now - but I recall examples - when the first Macbooks came without a optical drive you could buy an external one. But it will only work with _that particular Macbook model_ (after googling around I found that you could send a magic SCSI string to make it work). There is no iPhone with a SD card slot - my dad _LOVED_ iOS and his iPhone 6S but he had to switch to an Android phone so that he can use a 500GB SD card to store all his photos (he wants _ALL_ his photos available locally on the phone, so cloud sync is not an option).

I could go on. Apple makes some amazing products, but then adds quirks that makes the amaze short lived.

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Post by Austin_Conlon »

burntcookie90 wrote: post #114
divbzero wrote: post #102

Any Android users have insight into the uptake on Instant Apps [1] over the past three years? I’ll be curious how they and the new App Clips [2] in iOS 14 will evolve versus web apps. [1]: https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant [2]: https://developer.apple.com/app-clips/

minimal to no usage, i expect to see `app-clips` deprecated by iOS 15

Maybe, but the iOS uniformity and willingness of its users to update is an advantage for trying to get this adopted.

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Post by envolt »

mumblerino wrote: post #6

In 10 years, this is the first time I installed a beta version. It suffered a couple of issues, but they’ve been ironed out in my case. I really love the new app drawer. My hundred barely-used apps are now neatly stowed there while I keep a single (Yes, one) Home Screen. Widgets are nice but from what I understand they’re updated only once every 5 minutes, which makes them a lot less useful.

I had screentime widget on my home page. I doubt if it's even 5 minute. I had to tap and open the screentime to force update it every time. This was in Beta though, I hope this will work fine in normal update.

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Post by envolt »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #107
divbzero wrote: post #87

One iOS 14 feature I’m really looking forward to is the use of banners instead of full screen notifications for incoming phone calls.

Unbelievable that they stuck with that design for this long. It was even worse before unknown caller filtering was introduced: I would literally be DDoS'd from my phone multiple times a day from random numbers, iirc with no option to decline if your phone was already unlocked (i.e. using it when it a call came through)!!!

Took them a pandemic worth of phone usage to realize how irritating this was. When lockdown/WFH started, my company was using Google Meet, and everytime there is an incoming call it used to go full screen completely blocking for whatever purpose I was using the phone (or what ever I was hearing or saying). Though Zoom integrates with Call feature (not sure what's the technical term for it), whenever there is an incoming call between a zoom call it used to go in waiting.
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