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Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by eightysixfour »

randmeerkat wrote: post #334
xattt wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple keeps a lot of owners addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. I’d love to go dumbphone and a Watch synced to an iPad at home, but this is not an option.

>…addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. Buy a Garmin watch, battery life measured in weeks, and you’ll never have to re-enter your pin again because it moved on your wrist. You’ll still get great fitness tracking though and also notifications if you choose to sync them.

> and you’ll never have to re-enter your pin again because it moved on your wrist.

Is this a problem for others? I’ve never had it happen to me.

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Post by eightysixfour »

gxs wrote: post #206
xattt wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple keeps a lot of owners addicted to their phones by making Watch support exclusive to iPhone. I’d love to go dumbphone and a Watch synced to an iPad at home, but this is not an option.

You can probably get fairly close to do this by using an apple watch with a sim card I used to leave the house with just my watch and it was great - I could read and send text messages, email, even take calls on my watch and have everything synced up to my phone at home. You can even download music to it and pair it to your airpods. The missing piece here is just having a dumb phone - somehow I think that with some i…

It is the smallest, most annoying things that keep Apple Watch from being an actual phone killer for me - like getting an Uber.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by burnte »

metadat wrote: post #182

Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…

I own it, the bezels can't really be much thinner on the small device, they're well sized. They don't look as big on the real thing in person.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by soapdog »

metadat wrote: post #182

Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…

I have it. The bezels make it easier to hold. I like them, never understood the appeal of borderless devices to be honest

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by spogbiper »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #388
zombot wrote: post #380

Selling machine learning stuff as "intelligence" raises false expectations and is ultimately fraud. I can't wait for this whole overblown hype to crash and burn.

That's an Apple thing. They developed this habit (if not addiction) after bringing features to their devices very late, sometimes a decade later than their competitors. They thought it was better to call those basic features with fancy multi word names with ™ symbols at the end and that resonates with their fan base in perfect harmony. So I think the habit stuck.

high dpi = "Retina"

high refresh rate = "Promotion"

vibrating phone = "Taptic Engine"

there are probably more. and calling AR "spatial computing" seems similar though I don't think its completely a made up marketing term

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by walterbell »

alpaca128 wrote: post #410
walterbell wrote: post #222

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Google Pixel has one Tablet.

Within the first year of release there was also just one iPhone and one iPad. Meanwhile there are 4 variants of the Pixel 9. So clearly Google shows the same trend over time.

9 years, 3 tablets, 1 active:

  Pixel C (2015)
  Pixel Slate (2018)
  Pixel Tablet (2023)
https://www.androidcentral.com/google-pixel-c-was-best-andro...

> I'll forever remember a different tablet, the Google Pixel C, as the best Android tablet ever made.. The Pixel C's design was just overflowing with potential.. like so many Google hardware products, few people ever had an opportunity to use a Pixel C. It never received a model refresh, and its spiritual successor, the Pixel Slate, was a total disaster. I felt at the time, as I still do today, that the Pixel C deserved a simple update with new components to give this hardware design more time to shine.

So far, no news on Pixel Tablet 2, other than Pixel Tablet being sold standalone without the dock.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by jonpurdy »

nsteel wrote: post #421
jonpurdy wrote: post #321

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I've been using data-only SIMs (and now eSIMS) since 2015. Bria voip client with voip.ms providing DIDs. Works wonderfully well and I can highly recommend going voip-only if you can. The thing holding me back from going iPad Mini instead of iPhone was Apple Watch needs the iPhone (for some reason you can't use an iPad or Mac). Not an issue anymore. But now I rely on the amazing 16 Pro camera (with Halide shooting RAW…

Does voip.ms work with 2FA services e.g. those used by banks? I have heard it doesn't and that's a dealbreaker for me.

It works for most of them, but not all. And sometimes a service originally supports it, but then changes and doesn't, which means you need to get in touch with them to fix it.

I now have a Tello eSIM ($5/mo) that I use just for the 3-4 services that don't support voip.ms. And only turn it on when I need it.

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

RIMR wrote: post #158

All of this looks good, but if they want to retain trust with artists, the last thing they should be doing is integrating generative AI tools into their art programs. Creatives are getting more and more frustrated with the AI tools showing up in places like Windows or in Photoshop. For the first time ever I am meeting career artists and designers who are actively looking to add non-AI alternatives to their usual tool…

It's not like artists have a choice. They've been abused by Adobe and similar organisations for decades now, and remain locked in their siloes.

Sure, in theory they could switch to Linux with Krita and Gimp or something, but every time I've heard artists chime in on this, they claim that the software is to immature or lacks features that they need. I _wish_ they could switch to open source software, but they've been putting up with Adobe's abuse for a long time now. This new development is unlikely to change anything.

And just to be clear: I wish I was wrong here. I wish they could and did move to open source tooling.

Re: Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence

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Post by HumblyTossed »

hankman86 wrote: post #221

One would think that they avoid the embarrassment of releasing another device before their AI features are even available. But no.

Remember folks, this is a US$3Trillion company and they can't get their flagship products shipped.

Something is very wrong at Apple.

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