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Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by simondotau »

serbuvlad wrote: post #602
bigyabai wrote: post #449

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It seems like Apple could very easily turn the AppleTV into a proper game console Apple could turn the Mac, iPad or Vision Pro into a proper gaming console, too. It's just not something they are willing to do, no matter how well-positioned they are for it.

I think this is honestly correct strategy. Gaming is a license game, not a hardware game. Apple wants you to buy your games through the App Store, so they can take the 30%, which means competing with Steam. Which means getting licensed games on the App Store. Apple already fought one such license war over music and won. They're currently doing Apple TV as well. However, for the gaming industry they're complete strang…

For casual kids gaming, Apple TV and Apple Arcade is a fantastic combo. It's been plenty enough to keep my kid occupied, using hardware I already owned.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by crossroadsguy »

sleight42 wrote: post #789

I do NOT understand the bullishness on Siri. I've been running the dev builds for month. The thing I hear the most often is, "I'm sorry. Something went wrong."

There are users, there are rabid fans, and then there are blissful corporation groupies. Apple has a company that severely lacks the first kind – because if it did, it would have either fixed its act or gone into the ground.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by calderwoodra »

mchusma wrote: post #239
Someone1234 wrote: post #17

I've been using it for several months since the developer beta came out; overall I'm extremely positive on it. One of their better releases that seemingly focused more on quality and refinements than new-features. Siri is definitely worth using now, even if it remains still a work-in-progress/needs continued refinement. It can surprise you in good ways, but it isn't consistently good yet. The keyboard remains unfixed…

Apple's search is so comically bad. For example, I can click on my applications, and I have an app called Chess. I can often type letters C-H-E-S-S and have it not show the Chess app. This is inside the applications folder! Many people have complained before. Honestly I ONLY search for app names in spotlight search or application window, it should be trivial to make it actually work. Maybe i just need to vibecode som…

Use Raycast, and never look back

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by Kipters »

serbuvlad wrote: post #602
bigyabai wrote: post #449

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It seems like Apple could very easily turn the AppleTV into a proper game console Apple could turn the Mac, iPad or Vision Pro into a proper gaming console, too. It's just not something they are willing to do, no matter how well-positioned they are for it.

I think this is honestly correct strategy. Gaming is a license game, not a hardware game. Apple wants you to buy your games through the App Store, so they can take the 30%, which means competing with Steam. Which means getting licensed games on the App Store. Apple already fought one such license war over music and won. They're currently doing Apple TV as well. However, for the gaming industry they're complete strang…

> Gaming is a license game, not a hardware game.

Gaming is also a software support game.

Especially in the last few years, preservation has been a big topic. Gamers want their purchases to keep working in the future, not being broken by an OS update as it often happens with macOS (compared to Windows)

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by kps »

camillomiller wrote: post #593
m12k wrote: post #548

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They’re telling you the year where the new OS will be stable enough that it’s a good idea to upgrade (joke’s on them, I still haven’t “upgraded” to Tahoe…)

Oh boy don’t! I’m also waiting for Golden Gate .1 release instead

Give me 10.6.9 with nothing changed except support for current machines.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by crossroadsguy »

They block iOS 27 upgrade over 5G (irrespective of data mode and battery setting/state). Then they show something like this as a warning:

> Paused.

> … will resume when device reconnects to Internet.

Yes "Internet"! These buffoons don't even correctly say "WiFi".

And when you lock the screen, the download status message switches to "About X hours remaining" (without actually downloading anything of course) and upon unlock it glitches back to "Paused" state.

It baffles my mind at the amount of hardcoding and flag-based development this company has done. If Fable et al are let loose on these fruity pieces of software, it will lead to a global user safety-based outage.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by zuppy »

Someone1234 wrote: post #17

I've been using it for several months since the developer beta came out; overall I'm extremely positive on it. One of their better releases that seemingly focused more on quality and refinements than new-features. Siri is definitely worth using now, even if it remains still a work-in-progress/needs continued refinement. It can surprise you in good ways, but it isn't consistently good yet. The keyboard remains unfixed…

me: siri, turn off the lights everywhere.

siri: do you mean livingroom, […] or everywhere?

i rest my case. i can reproduce this every time. siri is the biggest pos software apple ever made (followed closely by the ios keyboard).

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by lynndotpy »

normie3000 wrote: post #542
lynndotpy wrote: post #182

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Just anecdotally, increasing the blur seems to have an associated performance cost, especially in Springboard ("the home screen".) It's probably only ~100ms for each interaction, so it probably won't impact latency-insensitive users. As others have said, it helps with the legibility but Liquid Glass is still distracting and illegible. I share the wish that Apple eventually returns to a more sensible, legible UI.

> only ~100ms for each interaction Wow.

I want to stress this isn't something I measured. There are just these noticeable lags before the sigmoidal animation starts when, e.g. opening a folder.

It's on top of the latency inherent to the animations of sliding, wiggling, wobbling, jiggling, etc. that are throughout the interface. ~100ms on top of a ~600ms input-blocking sigmoid probably just looks like a 700ms sigmoid to people.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by nogridbag »

LeapingLennie wrote: post #436
ryeguy_24 wrote: post #399

I’ve spent a lot of time testing the new Siri. Overall I like it and believe this will become a very powerful tool but definitely think it needs work. - Example: “Siri for the lights that are already on in the family room, can you put those lights to 50% brightness?” -> All the lights turn on incorrectly. This is a two step process. Get information from Home and then execute command with that info. - Example: “Remind…

One of the few things I use Siri for is converting units and still in iOS 27 we have: - "What is three fifty degrees Fahrenheit in Celsius?" -> "53°F = 11.67°C" Also disappointing: - "Add mow the lawn to my chores note." -> "Sorry, I can't help with that."

I've had the latter with Gemini in Android Auto. In fact, my scenario was even worse.

Me: "Send a message to ".

Gemini: "OK what's the message?"

Me: "Can you bring Tylenol I'm having a headache?"

Gemini: "I'm sorry, I cannot help with that. If you need medical advice..." Up to this point, I thought when Gemini would prompt for a message, it would simply accept whatever I said essentially as plain text - and maybe with the new Rambler feature on Pixel phones it may cleanup my message slightly.

But now I can see scenarios where Gemini would possibly need to parse my input. And it should have been obvious since I would often say things like "cancel" and I never questioned it.

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