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Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by NoPicklez »

TillE wrote: post #42
jhickok wrote: post #6

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…

The new Watch health features that have been rumored for the coming years (blood pressure, etc) would be genuinely life-changing for a ton of people. I don't have any particular interest in a smart watch - even if you gave me one for free, I doubt I'd bother wearing it. But if it's also a fully-featured health monitor? Yeah, absolutely.

Currently Garmin, Fitbit and Whoop have much more advanced health features than the Apple watch. I agree, its a big downfall of the Apple watch IMO.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by GekkePrutser »

For me the keyboards on the MBP still aren't nearly as good as the ones up to 2015. I will still pick my Lenovo if I have a lot to type. They need more travel.

Other than that, the new MBP reverted many mistakes they made before. And yeah I love the iMac design with the colours. They really need to bring back target display mode before I'll actually buy one though.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by JonathanBuchh »

koyote wrote: post #82
kccqzy wrote: post #44

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I work out every day using the Workouts app. I often bike or run outdoors so during a workout GPS, Bluetooth and the heart monitor are all active. At night I use the AutoSleep app to track sleep. I charge the watch just before sleep. I get the 10% low battery notification a few times a week.

Sounds like a proper workout watch like the Garmin or Suunto would be better suited for your use case? My Garmin lasts just over a week (less if I record a lot of activities, but even recording an 8 hour hike it still has over 50% left at the end of the day).

I second this. If battery life and fitness features are of the upmost importance, check out a Garmin, Polar, Suunto, or something similar. They can last for many days on a single charge using GPS regularly and the only charging I do is when I'm showering, meaning I can track my sleep. I've had a Garmin 735XT for three years and it's not showing signs of age. It's less of a smartwatch and more of a fitness tracker, since the extent of "smart" features these watches often possess is limited to receiving notifications and possibly playing music, but I don't use these features anyway. I used an Apple Watch in the past, but much prefer a simpler fitness tracker. The only thing I miss is the ability to listen to podcasts using only a watch and Bluetooth earbuds.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by hanche »

mandeepj wrote: post #72
jhickok wrote: post #6

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 want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. I'm waiting for them to add glucose monitoring into it

That would be very useful to many, but as far as I know, the technical hurdles are formidable. I don’t know if anyone has developed a non-invasive technique yet that is sufficiently reliable. And it’s not for the lack of trying.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by thawaya3113 »

gurkendoktor wrote: post #70
leviathant wrote: post #52

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I was a pretty staunch opponent of the iPad for a very long time. Tablets were clearly a consumption device, and I've always disliked Apple's penchant for proprietary connectors. However, things have shifted enough that on the artistic/creative front, the iPad is actually a really nice thing to have. When the iPad Air 4 (I think? The iPad ecosystem has terrible nomenclature) came out, it not only had a USB-C connecto…

> I was a pretty staunch opponent of the iPad for a very long time. Tablets were clearly a consumption device I have no doubt that the iPad is great at the things you list in your post, and I wish I had any skills that would justify buying an Apple Pencil. However, I don't understand why Apple and we on HN are so focused on making the iPad "more" than a consumption device. What's wrong with consumption? If I were to…

> What's wrong with consumption?

Human beings are more than vessels for SV douches to make billions they don’t need.

Or in the case of Peter Thiel (hello HN), to make billions to use to go out of their way to make the world a more miserable place.

Computers should empower people. They made them more than they were. The likes of the iPad go out of their way to take a device that someone, nearly everyone on this site, can learn from and grow from, and replace it with one that works hard to prevent you from exercising any brain cells. It says pleasure comes from being a potato, when the people who created it know that the pleasure in their lives can from being active creators.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by gurkendoktor »

thawaya3113 wrote: post #95
gurkendoktor wrote: post #70

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> I was a pretty staunch opponent of the iPad for a very long time. Tablets were clearly a consumption device I have no doubt that the iPad is great at the things you list in your post, and I wish I had any skills that would justify buying an Apple Pencil. However, I don't understand why Apple and we on HN are so focused on making the iPad "more" than a consumption device. What's wrong with consumption? If I were to…

> What's wrong with consumption? Human beings are more than vessels for SV douches to make billions they don’t need. Or in the case of Peter Thiel (hello HN), to make billions to use to go out of their way to make the world a more miserable place. Computers should empower people. They made them more than they were. The likes of the iPad go out of their way to take a device that someone, nearly everyone on this site,…

> Human beings are more than vessels for SV douches to make billions they don’t need.

If I buy an iPad to read PDFs or books, many of which are free, I am hardly making SV douches more money than when I buy a "Pro" device for productivity.

Ironically, the idea that people shouldn't read or listen (consume), and instead just build build build, also strikes me as a very Silicon Valley idea.

I really don't know what it is about the iPad that makes it the target of this discussion. I have never heard anyone say the same things about e-book readers, or headphones that don't come with a mic for content creation.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by jhickok »

mirkules wrote: post #87
jhickok wrote: post #80

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I essentially use it for health-things. I listen to podcasts/music off of it when I run or row so I don't have to carry a phone around. Today, for example, I was at 40%-ish at around noon after putting in on around 6am and exercising for roughly 90 minutes.

That is bizarre. The watch I bought in 2020, lasts me two full days. I go running between 30-60 minutes every day. Battery life has never been an issue for me, and it almost even feels like an old nokia in terms of battery life. However, I turned off almost all notifications on my watch because they are mostly annoying, except text messages and protonmail. I turned off the “always on” watch face. I keep a very small…

I do have the cellular version and I definitely don't manage notifications, and my watch face is always on. So, I certainly could take steps to squeeze enough life to make it last from 6am-10pm, but I just don't really want to.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by thawaya3113 »

gurkendoktor wrote: post #96
thawaya3113 wrote: post #95

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> What's wrong with consumption? Human beings are more than vessels for SV douches to make billions they don’t need. Or in the case of Peter Thiel (hello HN), to make billions to use to go out of their way to make the world a more miserable place. Computers should empower people. They made them more than they were. The likes of the iPad go out of their way to take a device that someone, nearly everyone on this site,…

> Human beings are more than vessels for SV douches to make billions they don’t need. If I buy an iPad to read PDFs or books, many of which are free, I am hardly making SV douches more money than when I buy a "Pro" device for productivity. Ironically, the idea that people shouldn't read or listen (consume), and instead just build build build, also strikes me as a very Silicon Valley idea. I really don't know what it…

It’s about being more than ….

A consumption device is nothing more than something designed to extract money out of a person.

And no, being productive is not a SV idea. In fact, it’s only recently (in the past 50 or so years) that buying something that doesn’t have a productive purpose is even considered.

But I’m not surprised that SV douches have convinced themselves that they’ve created the concept of being productive.

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by mandeepj »

hanche wrote: post #94
mandeepj wrote: post #72

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> I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day. I'm waiting for them to add glucose monitoring into it

That would be very useful to many, but as far as I know, the technical hurdles are formidable. I don’t know if anyone has developed a non-invasive technique yet that is sufficiently reliable. And it’s not for the lack of trying.

There's hope

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/14/apple-supplier-la...

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/25/apple-watch-series-8-bl...

Re: Apple in 2021

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Post by leviathant »

gurkendoktor wrote: post #70
leviathant wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was a pretty staunch opponent of the iPad for a very long time. Tablets were clearly a consumption device, and I've always disliked Apple's penchant for proprietary connectors. However, things have shifted enough that on the artistic/creative front, the iPad is actually a really nice thing to have. When the iPad Air 4 (I think? The iPad ecosystem has terrible nomenclature) came out, it not only had a USB-C connecto…

> I was a pretty staunch opponent of the iPad for a very long time. Tablets were clearly a consumption device I have no doubt that the iPad is great at the things you list in your post, and I wish I had any skills that would justify buying an Apple Pencil. However, I don't understand why Apple and we on HN are so focused on making the iPad "more" than a consumption device. What's wrong with consumption? If I were to…

>However, I don't understand why Apple and we on HN are so focused on making the iPad "more" than a consumption device. What's wrong with consumption?

A big part of what interested me about computers was the ability to get in there and do stuff with them. Whether that was from the perspective of software - cracking open a hex editor, or learning to write code, make music, edit photos, etc. etc., or from a hardware perspective. Having standard connections that allow for modular changes to my computer, whether that meant dropping in a Firewire card to take advantage of professional audio and video equipment, swapping in SSDs as they become more affordable, upgrading RAM, changing out power supplies, and so on - all accessible with a Phillips head screwdriver. Lately I've been thinking that it's actually had an influence on the houses I've bought and lived in.

Nothing about the original iPad appealed to me. It was a big iPhone, and I already had an iPhone. Everything that I wanted to do on a bigger screen, I could already do on a bigger screen, whether that was my laptop, my desktop machine, or a television. A lot of my peers bought iPads, only to find them kind of... extra. Not great for watching videos, not as easy on the eyes as an e-ink Kindle, not great for listening to music - okay for browsing the web, until you hit Flash, which was still not uncommon at the time, especially for leisure activities like the kind of games that have become dominant on the iOS platform. For me, when the iPad came out, it was a solution looking for a problem. It wasn't for me. Now it is!

What's funny is, now I almost feel like it's too easy to "create" - there is an unfathomable amount of video content being produced or remixed or stolen & reposted, every single second, to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, you name it. There's amazing stuff coming out of that, for sure, but they're needles in an ever-growing haystack. Wild times.

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