Apple is the one holding back the user experience on their operating systems, not third party developers.
Apple is the one holding back the user experience on their operating systems, not third party developers.
I mentioned game consoles as an example of consumer electronics that function without having yearly updates. This is largely due to giving game devs a performance tagtet to hit, but it shows you don’t need marginal updates every year. Mobile app software could probably benefit from not having better hardware every year, forcing devs to write better software.
From a software standpoint, iPhones are locked down like gaming consoles, focused on consumption and not general computing devices. Apple controls what software runs on their devices just like Nintendo.
I think yearly car updates are also wasteful and the car industry has adopted a fashion style model where the changes are mostly atheistic and they try to make people’s cars feel outdated/obsolete and for them to buy a new model. Cars are viewed as a status symbol, so this works.
Apple has been applying the same play book as the auto industry, though they can actually obsolete hardware through their software.
Maybe they can finally stop releasing new phones every year. We don’t have yearly game console releases.
UT04 > UT03
Sounds like he has a work addiction.
Why are Messages and FaceTime dependent on WiFi drivers? This seems insane.
As far as I understand, this isn’t changed.
Apple didn’t really open control of iOS as all apps still have be approved by them through notarization, which they said will be done by a person and not automated.
You can’t run unsigned apps on iOS like you can on macOS.
Same, that would be terribly corrupt and disappointing if Tim had gotten approval for this implementation.
I started a new play through of Morrowind after lasting playing it in the 2000s. I used OpenMW on my Steam Deck, it plays really well.
It was really refreshing how more immersive it is as you have to read the journal and use the map to figure out where to go for quests. I really enjoy not having a quest marker guiding you.
It made since when iPhones were small enough to be used with one hand.
Now that they are all phablets, they introduced the double tap on the home button to slide the top half of the screen down. No idea if this shortcut exists for devices without a home button.
It’s pretty scary to be honest. On iOS there is no choice but to use Apple’s centralized severs. On Android there are options like UnifiedPush.
I have problems where when my Apple Silicon MacBook Pro will have been “asleep” for days in a backpack and then I try and use my Bluetooth headphones on another device, it will connect to the asleep Macbook.
I solved it by running a small program that kills Bluetooth when the laptop goes to sleep.
Doesn’t this waste more power being connected rather than actually sleeping? With a laptop lid closed, there’s no screen to show notifications on. What’s the point of this?
Once Sonoma is out, Big Sur won’t see any more security updates. Apple only updates the lastest three versions of macOS.
The bigger problem is software applications increasing there minimum macOS version very quickly once Apple stops supporting the OS version.
Apple is the worst with this with Xcode increasing the minimum macOS version each year. You can’t stay on old Xcode versions, at least for iOS development, as Apple requires a certain version to submit to the AppStore. This in effect causes devs to have to buy new hardware quickly after Apple drops support.
It’s a different story for their computers. Macs from 2017 are not supported by Sonoma. It’s pretty terrible to have a desktop/laptop obsoleted at 6 years.
Is being able to run an alternative OS on your device covered in the law?
I would love to be able to put another OS on iPhone hardware, as now they become waste quickly after Apple drops them from the latest iOS version.
Happened with the iPhone 6
But for their laptops the support has dropped to the lowest in years. Some intel MacBooks no longer get the latest version after 6 years.
KeepassXC on desktop and KeePassium on iOS. No vendor/cloud lock in and can pick how you sync the database.
I think the point of co-operative/collaborative parenting would be for the group to agree on how to raise the children. You collectively raise the children, not each adult implementing their own rules/methods. When you have differing opinions, you would most likely compromise and come to a common ground. The whole point of working together is to operate as a group to reduce the workload and not work in isolation.