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Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by rootusrootus »

SebastianKra wrote: post #365
vladvasiliu wrote: post #346

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> The way that regular bluetooth headsets work fine, but AirPods work even better What do you mean by this? I have an iPhone but don't have airpods, just "regular" BT headphones. Under windows, they're hit or miss (sometimes they don't reconnect), but they work pretty well under iOS and mac os. They work best under linux (!), especially since it's the only one to support LDAC (though I understand some non-sony androi…

To connect regular bt headphones, you must go to Control Center > Hold on Bluetooth > Hold Bluetooth again > Select the headphones > wait > tap once to exit > tap twice to exit > swipe up from the bottom. AirPods are always accesible via the AirPlay-menu, which is prominently featured in many media apps. Again: still fine, but just bad enough to partly influence my next buying decision.

BT headphones are certainly less reliable at auto-switching, but that process you're going through isn't the norm for me. I just click on the output menu and select my Sony WH-1000XM4 headphones if I want to use them instead of my airpods. I don't have to pair them every time.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by rootusrootus »

015a wrote: post #390
basch wrote: post #388

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Battery throttling doesn’t fit the rest of these. Preventing a device reboot is pro consumer.

Ah, found that "heated discussion" the OP mentioned.

One nice thing HN has taught me is that I should be wary of anti-Apple claims like this. Inevitably someone comes along to add context or explain what's actually going on, and 9 times out of 10 it turns out that Apple's solution wasn't unreasonable at all.

Which isn't to say that things like the 30% app store cut is entirely defensible, though you can certainly make some halfway plausible claims in that direction (based mostly on how retail works, especially at the time iPhones were invented). Or sideloading. There are legitimate gripes. But a lot of crap spewed regularly on HN turns out to be exactly that, crap.

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Post by js2 »

AprilArcus wrote: post #412
js2 wrote: post #381

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What am I missing here? In iOS 5, it's black on blue vs black on green. Now it's white on blue vs white on green. Contrast between text and background looks the same to whether green or blue. In general, Apple has lowered contrast throughout the UI over the years. There's an accessibility setting for high contrast if you need it.

Green has higher luminance than blue at equivalent saturation. The values for SMS and iMessage background colors are, respectively and in sRGB, #00CC46 and #0080FF, corresponding to relative luminance values of 0.436 and 0.227 according to the WCAG 2 formula. With white foreground text, this gives a contrast ratio of 2.15:1 for SMS and 3.79:1 for iMessage. WCAG 2.x AA level compliances requires a contrast ratio of at…

Thank you. FWIW, here is it under iOS 16 with Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Increase Contrast turned on.

https://imgur.com/a/b61lmAf

To my eyes, the green/blue doesn't make much difference in terms of legibility. I obviously find the reduced contrast throughout iOS annoying and keep increase contrast turned on.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by klardotsh »

reliablereason wrote: post #16
userbinator wrote: post #10

Microsoft is always striving to improve and streamline our product experiences—offering a new way to use the classic Microsoft Outlook app on Windows and the Microsoft Edge web browser. to help you stay engaged in conversations as you browse the web. I wonder if the people who write this sort of BS-filled prose really believe in what they're writing. To be completely honest, the style almost sounds like LLM output.

It is likely written by some copywriter. That person believes in nothing, they are simply performing a task that has been assigned to them.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”...

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Post by flagrant_taco »

soraminazuki wrote: post #431
flagrant_taco wrote: post #425

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Shipping a device that will overheat and reboot when the device is a couple years old and fixing it by silently throttling the device isn't pro consumer either Those devices really should have been recalled or offered a generous trade-in value to account for the fundamental design flaw

So that's every device with rechargeable batteries then.

Not really, most devices are designed with a commination of passive and active cooling as needed to operate under normal conditions.

Apple just has a history of prioritizing design asthenic and they're willing to push the limits on thermal regulation.

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Post by scarface_74 »

flagrant_taco wrote: post #467
scarface_74 wrote: post #455

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Have you found a new battery technology where that is mid the case?

Device design is always constrained by the current technology. It isn't impossible to make a phone with current battery tech that doesn't overheat after a year or two of normal use Apple just pushed design to far and underestimated the cooling/heat dissipation required

The phone didn’t overheat. That’s just the point. The options were either the phone slows down to keep the phone from shutting off when the battery got weak or the phone shuts off. What was the other alternative?

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Post by rootusrootus »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #483
thebruce87m wrote: post #474

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It has nothing to do with overheating. It is battery ageing. The internal resistance of a battery increases as it ages, leading to brownouts when peak current happens. The throttling feature still exists in iOS. All that’s changed is that you will be made aware that it’s happening and you can switch it off if you prefer a brownout when your battery is degraded. Other manufacturers are happy to let your handset reboot…

> It has nothing to do with overheating. It is battery ageing. The internal resistance of a battery increases as it ages, leading to brownouts when peak current happens yawn Why my 8 years old Moto XT910 eat the battery like cookies but did not reboot ? It's battery wasnot only old, but swollen a bit, it's USB port was damaged so sometimes the charge didn't actually happened... but it still could survive a couple of…

> Why my 8 years old Moto XT910 eat the battery like cookies but did not reboot

Probably because it's a simple, slow dual core Cortex A9 with low enough power draw that it doesn't stress the battery enough to matter.

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Post by ryukafalz »

rootusrootus wrote: post #495
BudaDude wrote: post #464

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It's not that its green thats the issue, is the shade of green they chose. It does not contrast well with white text and makes it hard to read.

But the argument does become a lot weaker unless they changed the shade of green after introducing iMessage. If it stayed the same, then it's just the design they chose from the beginning. Also worth noting is that the color only applies to sent messages. When you receive a message, it's just gray in either case. It makes a certain amount of sense to let the user know which transport their outbound message went on si…

They did change the shade of green, and the newer one is much less readable. See for yourself:

Original: https://ronstauffer.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/taking-a-pic...

Current: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...

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Post by goosedragons »

rootusrootus wrote: post #495
BudaDude wrote: post #464

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It's not that its green thats the issue, is the shade of green they chose. It does not contrast well with white text and makes it hard to read.

But the argument does become a lot weaker unless they changed the shade of green after introducing iMessage. If it stayed the same, then it's just the design they chose from the beginning. Also worth noting is that the color only applies to sent messages. When you receive a message, it's just gray in either case. It makes a certain amount of sense to let the user know which transport their outbound message went on si…

They kinda did just not immediately. iMessage was introduced in iOS 5 pre-redesign. It used to be black text on a lighter green. With iOS 7 they moved to white text on searing green.

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Post by jackson1442 »

madars wrote: post #328
SebastianKra wrote: post #305

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Apple are experts are experts at creating these patterns that fall just at the edge of being classified as anti-consumer, to the point where you frequently find heated discussions about whether they are. Battery throtteling on the iPhone 6s; The sandboxing / sideloading discussion; The no-iCloud experience; The way that regular bluetooth headsets work fine, but AirPods work even better; How unauthorized Apps on MacOS…

Don't forget making SMS in unreadable neon green (to the point that it violates Apple's own accessibility guidelines https://archive.is/4nSWV ) "iMessage on Android would simply serve to remove [an] obstacle to iPhone families giving their kids Android phones" -- an actual quote from the SVP of Software Engineering in charge of iOS, revealed in Epic Games v Apple court discovery https://storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

a much stronger argument than color imo is apple’s refusal to implement RCS, which would make the experience of communicating with android users.

generally I try to avoid SMS since the photo quality is bad, there’s no delivery guarantee, and it doesn’t work over wifi.

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