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I'm sure it looks very nice when everyone has a custom icon, but I'd wager that's rarely the case in the real world.
Apple's UIs communicate less and less with each release. It's like their design philosophy is "simple as possible and then just keep going."
EDIT: Withdrawn. -- The photo in the Accessibility section shows it expanded. Why they didn't show it that way in the Messages section is beyond me.
I went back and checked photos in the other sections and, indeed, there is a photo in the Accessibility section showing it expanded.
Phew.
I’m so confused. Is this a politically correct way of saying parent or a feature designed for the sick / handicapped?
From Apple:
> Combine two controllers into one whenever you need support during a game. Link two wireless game controllers to drive a single player and get to the next level while playing your favorite games on iPhone, iPad, or Mac.
First, did you really need to post this comment when you could have just pressed the "+" button to learn more?
Second, what are you consuming on a daily basis that has you seeing basic feature copy as a litmus test on society's tolerance of "political correctness"? Whatever it is, I suggest consuming less of it. Buddy Controller is a more accurate term here because it can assist parents and caregivers (along with couples, friends, etc).
I'm not op, but I get a little confused/annoyed about the mixed visual metaphors to "expand" + affords "me to add something" not to "expand", I expect the 'arrow to four corners' or the inverted caret.
It could just be that I'm not cool anymore and the kids are down with new visual metaphors.
From the iOS Guidelines[0]:
> If you create a button that looks like a common button that people know, ensure that the button behaves as they expect. For example, if you create a button that uses the plus.circle SF symbol, people expect it to let them add an item to the current view. Similarly, using the info.circle symbol in a button identifies it as an info button.
From the Mac Guidelines[1]:
> plus.circle - Displays additional detail for an item.
[0]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
[1]: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
“Care provider” to me means a nurse or doctor. Whether in hospital or at home. But I’m struggling to to imagine that Apple sees that as a real use case for their controller? Is it often that an in home nurse for example would help an adult play video games?
The only other way the description makes some sense to me is if Apple are referring to parents but are shrouding their language in political correctness.
I can imagine a parent playing with a child with the buddy controller. Although I’d imagine the feature would be much more likely to be used by siblings.
I’m still genuinely confused who they built this feature for and why.
Your musings about my “consumption”, whatever that means, are completely off topic, low brow, and inappropriate.
The section headlines are pretty easy to miss, they're a lot less visually important than the giant button things.
Compared to command + tab or exposé, this approach is more visual and direct, which seems to be a better fit for a form factor that offers much more screen real estate.
I guess this is the cost Apple is willing to pay to ease mac and ipad users into reality OS.
Even though Spaces is an awesome idea, I find it very inconvenient to use even with 4-finger swiping. Perhaps it's the lack of visual cues that is the issue for me. And I find that most of the left/right real-estate on my screen wasted anyways, so this might be something I can actually use.
I already rely on Spaces for day-to-day organization (one per task) but each individual Space can become really hectic when you have several things to reference simultaneously (e.g. wikis, specs, Figma, Zeplin, screenshots, etc...). This cleaned everything up nicely without having to drag windows off the edges of the screen or risk minimizing / hiding and having them show up elsewhere.
It really needs a way to magnify the little previews though, either by hovering to peek them or just magnification the way it works in the Dock.
I would pay for fancyzones on macOS
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I should dig it out again. It was a simple bent plastic plate. Worked like a charm for my 7 plus.
Also the tech to merge the “desktop” view distortion-corrected seems pretty cool.
I was seriously hoping for an integrated way to backup iCloud contents locally. Considering that most entry level macs has about 1/10 the storage of the large iCloud plans, synchronizing data locally is not a viable solution for backups.
A huge increase in system requirements for modest changes.
Stage Manager is hopeless. Like I have no idea what they were thinking.
Metal continues to fiddle while developers for MacOS abandon it and the platform at scale.
Meanwhile there's still no snapping for useful window management, virtualisation is an afterthought, there's still no Windows story for the M1/M2, the M1/M2 has terrible monitor support, the UI padding is still too high and there's no coherent gaming story (because that requires Apple to swallow their pride and accept Vulcan, or even better to built a Proton-esque compatibility layer and fix the core missing Metal features that make such a thing difficult today).
Yes, but a lot of utilities give that functionality
>> virtualisation is an afterthought
That's false, maybe you refer to containerization? Apple provides APIs to virtualize a system in 10 lines of code
>> there's still no Windows story for the M1/M2
That's up to MS
>> the M1/M2 has terrible monitor support
Absolutely false. It's just that the base models are differentiated this way
>>> the UI padding is still too high
Yes but where do you find small puddings? It is a global design fad and even Linux distros adhered to this fashion
>> and there's no coherent gaming story
Macs are not marketed to gamers
This does not excuse core OS functionality being left to rot.
> That's false, maybe you refer to containerization? Apple provides APIs to virtualize a system in 10 lines of code
And not well.
> That's up to MS
Given the software story for the Mac is imploding, it is Apple's problem too. Apple could introduce a Proton-esque translation layer if they wanted to and make Macs significantly more useful machine at a stroke.
> Absolutely false. It's just that the base models are differentiated this way
This is unambiguously true - the M2 still cannot use multiple monitors correctly.
> Yes but where do you find small puddings? It is a global design fad and even Linux distros adhered to this fashion
Apple own their UI, Linux distro designers are not holding them at gunpoint.
> Macs are not marketed to gamers
They literally spent ten minutes of the keynote trying to market Macs to gamers.