LexGray

Is it that big an advantage to test APIs that are still in beta and may change at any time? With their built in apps they can fix both pieces at once, but if they started breaking large numbers of apps every update I do not think developers would be happy.

> reasonable way to manage menu bar icons

I believe the new control center API is intended to push seldom used icons into the control center

> searching through open windows by typing

The new Siri is context aware once the developers include their data through new APIs. The Microsoft version which was snooping through private browsing, secure apps, and logging passwords in open databases was not the right way to go.

Given the well documented Russian tendency to wage nation hostile whisper campaigns and app algorithms natural tendencies to promote such speech we are in place where every country both democratic and not have CIA levels of disorder, new mental health issues, and general productivity drain introduced by social apps. I think every country should take a hard look at what is happening and should consider banning or time limiting some U.S. apps.

I believe the underlying narrative of TikTok was with government control the algorithms would be purposefully tuned to promote disorder elsewhere which is a level of control the U.S. government does not have over U.S. companies and they were jealous (although with the level of information control during Desert Storm I am not 100% certain on that). However, I think this law was very premature and should have required evidence of tuning or actual war. While soldiers may have apps they should not the spies should know better.

The China side where they have banned encryption apps also seems to be war preparation. A digital iron curtain while depressing for the population behind it is not something that can be torn down from the outside. A per app legal war seems an unfeasible use of congressional time when many Chinese smart device control apps require location to function and are on many phones. This also appears to be an opening shot by congress for putting up a U.S. national firewall if TikTok just leaves all US offices and continues business through web based offerings.

There was a gyroscope based motorcycle which I thought was more the Apple Style. I was imagining single person cars just like they make all their devices single user. Get one auto-driving bike for each member of the family and you would ride laying on your back so you could take a nap if you wanted.

Because it assumes the data only has negative use. Asian and black communities are underserved in many ways from employment, medicine to education.

Forbidding AI to identify race is forbidding AI tools to help serve those people better or even detect that they are being served poorly.

It assumes even that targeted advertising by race or gender orientation is only exploitative and not seeking to help fill key needs.

AI is only made by racists and religious jobs as a basic assumption seems like a very stupid assumption.

I think that is a change in definition. 15 years ago it was only rain if you were sure to get drenched. Now rain means 1mm of water hit the ground in your general vicinity. I blame an abundance of data combined people who refuse to get damp and need an umbrella if there is any chance at all.

From reporting I have seen Sacramento SMUD is generally 25% cheaper than PG&E with faster outage response and more green initiatives. Supposedly carbon neutral. Potentially 35% of power generated from natural gas which replaced decommissioned nuclear. Generally considered superior across the board.

I’ve seen quotes that something like 40% of all California politics revolve around prop 13. The promise your parents aren’t going to lose their house from arbitrary reassessments is a strong one (instead it will because they can’t afford medical bills). Prop 19 (2020) at least put a dent when it came to multi-home ownership and inheritance.

I do not see that happening in California without some virtually magical building material. California is wary of earthquakes, noise, toxics, fire, and crime. Perhaps other states will create cheap high density paradises to suck the population away.

I should imagine large kickbacks to apps using Google and Facebook SDKs even if they do not launch stores directly. They don’t need a store if they can get every other store compromised.

I also think shareholders in those companies that lust after data would revolt if they did not try to directly take all app sale profit and install data. I would be shocked if both did not already have apps in development stage.

I think the changes Apple should make is add a little indicator to every app showing the store it was purchased from encircling the icon with the default store color to remind of non-default privacy in that app. Just green badge them all and call it a day to let people know the app will be slower going through app specific memory encryption and API filtering with new anti-piracy frameworks to combat modified or fraudulent purchases.

Perhaps some new app storefront licensing board if the EU is serious about protecting consumers. Their current policy seems half baked along the line of shutting down government is a good thing. Make single click subscription cancellation a requirement for opening a storefront with and require bond to prevent stores from just cutting and running after a few fraudulent sales.

I think it is a shame how much silicon and engineering effort this will burn to maintain device security. It may go as far as apps run through a virtual machine sandbox with limited permissions in the short term. Personally being limited on my device made me sad, but as I lack self control the restrictions helped me focus.

Yes, but in a world where people have been trained to ignore signs if they want to have nice things. No kid and most adults would think twice before clicking I agree even if the screen was flashing red and the phone was making klaxon sounds.

It was far less glitchy than iTunes for Windows, but no longer exists on macOS. years ago Apple split it into TV app, Music app, and they do device sync is through the file system Finder app.

Generally the replacements still lack many iTunes features many years later, but iTunes really did grow into an unmanageable monster.

Perhaps there is some sort of pressure by stockholders to have the ability to promote their own products and services on the device or just some sort of backroom dealings.

My personal hope is that Apple course corrects at some point that they do not need to extract the extra cash while damaging the customer experience. The company feels much less customer oriented now and has lost a lot of the premium feel. I have already stopped using their TV app because they have made it nearly non-functional with the amount of promoted content. The News app has an exceptional number of subscription only items in the feed to where I am about to go back to pure RSS. The feeling is like what Google would have done with Google Reader if it was still going stuffing in promotions.

I agree first party apps should be advertisement free if they are advertised as being included in the price of the phone. Otherwise it is a hidden bill you are paying with hours or days of your life that you can't get back.

I would pay for a service that just disabled all first party promotions advertisements. Give me the real price instead of wasting my valuable time with advertisements I would never click.

Isn't looking at an Apple device just like looking at a newspaper? I seem to recall papers being chock full of ads outside the front page to a far greater extent than the Apple News app.

Our society depends on advertising for promoting new services, gaining new customers, and building trust. I would call it a social necessity which makes it very ethical as long as it is truthful. The hijacking that occurs is consensual as you should not visit sites if you disagree with their advertising habits. Even with the App Store almost never open it directly.

The ones that cannot be avoided are in the outside world. I would celebrate if every billboard, postal mail item, and other real world advertisement were banned completely as that is the part I have no direct control over.

Once you hit the shutter button you do get a great photograph due to all the machine learning and other post processing the photo is exposed to.

I could see an argument that a heavily augmented normal photo is not much different from a photo generated from a prompt. Digital zoom is virtually AI inpainting where it guesses the detail.

I wandered just a bit south on a whim with no destination and as you go even a bit past the first major city the roads are empty, people just leave the highway whenever, the city streets are dirt with massive pits, and the small towns can resemble permanent homeless camps with fences cobbled together from box springs. The experience feels quite lawless (or at least significantly different enforcement) than a drive at random in the United States.

I know the whole country is not like that, but it is not a vacation spot I would go without a plan unlike the US where you can do a cross country drive and rely there will be services almost everywhere.

Presumably require a degree and certification for sex work. Need proof to advertise and any client who doesn’t check ID is current is guilty of facilitating trafficking.

If degree includes self-defense, financial literacy assistance, and a social worker. This would hopefully improve prospects of those that turn to sex work.

I would not count on immediate price drops. Typically cheaper devices like iBook or iPhone SE were years down the line.

Apple picks a price point and sticks to it (first generation iPhone was a one-off). People with too much money pay for early development on exclusive feature poor devices. As the technology becomes more functional inflation drops prices into affordable ranges.

Given the tolerances needed for head mounted quality and comfort Apple will never have a comparable cheap model. Meta has the edge here and will have Android levels of market share while Apple has Apple shares of profit.

I have a friend in the call center world. You are required to take the next call before you finish your notes on the previous and to never mute yourself. It is nearly straight torture to keep people talking two hours at a time with penalties if you are heard swallowing. A lot of employers love our quasi-dystopian monitor every moment future.

That ~80% figure comes from an Epic argument. At that time Apple had argued the number was completely wrong and they were going to refute. I do not see any article online with an updated number, but it is almost certainly wrong. It is super annoying the tech bloggers never pestered Apple to reveal what they said they were going to.

Historically Apple always has adjusted the quality of the product to match desired 35% margins and price points. I would be very surprised if the App Store is any different, although they may have had issues ramping up to eat that much money. Apple gouges users... but they tend to gouge consistently. The other 65% likely includes costs like advertising, cloud services, editorials, legal, fraud costs, WWDC, corporate overhead and the like but it far more than just hosting and evaluation costs. They may be blowing it on Apple TV+ content though. Services is a tricky number to nail down.

That would be easier if there was a required nutrition label "Requires root access which will not be revoked on uninstall", "requires background services when app is not running", "shares telemetry with developer".

That is far from the world we are in and the budget tech has to defeat any law that would attempt to implement those protections.

As it is many developers seem not to care if whatever frameworks they use are affecting system integrity or stability if it would generally not be noticed by the end user. Most users are going to need a trustworthy gatekeeper why can make some of these evaluations so you do not need extensive research just to play a game.

Not to say I agree with the position Apple appears to be taking here on not allowing macOS apps to run directly on the device, and not allowing it to function as a display for every device in the home. For single people in small spaces who currently burn wall space for monitors and televisions or just do not like big black slabs in their living space this could have been a useful gizmo.

One of the complaints about remote assistance is the missing olfactory clue needed by remote surgeons and the like. I am sure some company has it in the pipeline, but given how Apple will likely always have their "not meant for medical use" in their TOS it is unlikely to be an Apple priority. Still their accessibility crew may make some noise given the number of people who have lost their sense of smell.

With any luck whatever 3D picture/video format is open and includes roving geolocation, compass direction, inclination, smells, humidity, wind speed/direction, light sources, humidity and more. Saving more metadata now should encourage technology to take advantage of it later.

The complete lack of cellular/satellite announcement is not too surprising as Apple computers and CarPlay also suffer the same lack. Apple pinches pennies in the weirdest places.

There is an opportunity for widespread Vision Pro adoption even at this price point so perhaps get started on the business idea. As a display alone there is high success potential as long as Apple does not feel the need to knee-cap the future of Vision Pro by abandoning the shared display market to others. It has nearly the resolution of a Studio display ($1599 at 14.5 million px vs $3500 at 11.5 million px/eye) and can emulate multiple monitors at once. Apple will want to control the experience, but personally I am hoping they quickly jump to WiFi 7 and become the central home hub for multiple PCs, consoles, and headless/clamshell Macs with multiple desktops each.

Desktop PCs and Phones are hardly social to start with so I think people complaining about isolation with AR are overstating their case. I expect most will just take this off like putting down the phone for conversation. Apple has an opportunity to create unique environments, increase personal privacy for all screen based devices, and champion compatibility if they cut back on ego a bit. Here is to hoping they open source some sort of easy pairing/streaming/VR protocol that limits frames/resolution based on attention/distance and the console makers adopt it with Find My in every controller and everyone makes a bundle doing it. One can dream.

Eventual Thunderbolt ports for a cellular dongle/fast media backup/head mounted lamp/charging controllers while playing/etc would also be nice if they don't add flashlights and cellular options to future models would be my main current request.

The first AirPods were great, yet the original Apple Watch and iPhone were bare bones so I will keep my expectations low. Here is to hoping Apple grabs every opportunity as quickly as possible to increase adoption as the competition will be fierce. As long as they are not too patient with the long game I think even five years should have a good market with a lighter plastic lens no front screen non-pro version for the casual.

Some general use cases: - training/education: say giving you tips and correcting you while cooking with checklist recipes and concurrent demos of the current step. Works for painting, fixing instrument finger positions, workout tips, STEM, or anything where you would want to use your hands instead of holding something. There was a keynote section about the watch helping with golf swings and the like. - Streaming: there were apparently some terrific sports/concerts front row seat demos. Some were willing to plunk down $1000 courtside subscriptions instead of $1000/ticket seats. TikTok but far more intimate in the room with them experiences. - decorating: there was a demo where a wall became a portal to a Jurassic period. Imagine the decorating possibility of an aquarium in your living room and a planetarium on your ceiling. Virtual pets cavorting and visitors just popping into your living room via a portal. Create a literal dream home on the cheap. -escape/relaxation: live in a noisy bright urban center? Just cut it all light and noise out with your private getaway helmet. If you are paying $2000 a month for a so-so living space it would be a good add on.

Personally I value having a great bed and a great car because treating yourself makes it worthwhile. Having a dream environment the times I am alone? Having a theatre experience stuck on the toilet? I am looking forward to when the hardware can simultaneously do all of this at once.

I agree there is a lot of low hanging fruit which could differentiate consumer from Pro for the next generations.

The pro could increase the FOV (some mentioned black borders at edge of vision), increase refresh rate and brightness (some mentioned adjusting to room brightness when removed), reduce the weight and thickness with titanium (some mentioned unbalanced weight), have more private sound (I understand it is pretty noisy to the neighbors so you would currently need AirPod Pro for plane/bed use), increase the cooling system (some mentioned it is warm), get some sort of med-tech sensors (control with thoughts, detect stress etc), get back sensors (the AirPod demo of being passed by the bike seems it needs some sort of backup camera/360 video record options), get cellular features, get Mx Pro chip, and increase the front screen size. After that I expect outdoor waterproof Ultra models (The scenes of people twitching on couches compared to the iPod dancers flinging themselves around could not be more stark).

Many reviewers also mentioned getting their hair messed up making it unwanted in professional scenarios where sharp looks are important which is something to solve for a true pro model. I imagine corporate will want all sorts of usage data and screen sharing.

3D movies were mentioned as a use case and there were multiple 3D app demos. The dinosaur roaring out of an educational app. The beating heart and heart take apart viewer from multiple angles. Walking around machines in place as you examined future workflow. The breathe app doing a full room fireworks thing. And a future National Geographic videos where you are traveling within the school of fish.

I could see a fair use case in STEM education helping to visualize atomic structures, do dissection, or otherwise help people engage with the material. Historical videos are often pretty dry and with some machine learning they could punch up Churchill so you are in the crowd listening to his speech surrounded by a period entranced crowd.

Will it get to the point that you can go to a concert and watch from the front row with seats in the boonies it is hard to say, although hopefully this contains all the AirPod pro passthru tech blocking out other people’s chatter or nearby vacuuming may be a huge boon to concentration and enjoyment.

You say that now, but bulky embarrassing camcorders at kids birthdays were a major thing in their day. Perhaps there will be some livestream type features to share the birthday with grandparents across the country in 3D.

Having a patent moat is also a message to the consumer. Apple has had promised features pulled because it ran into somebody else’s patent minefield and it can affect device price considerably. Having a software update pull features for legal reasons is also a terrible experience.

At this point no. Virtually every IoT device requires upload to the manufacturer’s server to get even basic functionality, which of course breaks when the server goes offline. The privacy policies when they exist virtually never promise end-to-end encryption (a promise I wouldn’t trust anyway as corners are cut and there are unlikely to be security audits), and often imply sales of data to partners.

In this age of AI scraping every shred of data I suspect anything connected to the internet will be compromised in a back room deals, through lack of security, or through sub-contractors sharing what they can get their hands on.

I think reactions to this are more along the lines of horrified, but it is our accepted trade off in the name of cheap products.

I would not say zero. I visited a jailbreak store early on and this is exactly what I saw. However, it was not the developer. The store had pirated versions of popular games hacked to create fake in app purchases. I foresee numerous headaches for developers trying to prevent cheating, piracy or fake purchases.

At least for the Apple ecosystem 2FA is built into the iCloud Keychain so you can access it from multiple devices. While there are security implications, in general it is a good trade off that the Safari or apps will only offer to auto-fill on the matching site. For the general population it is a far nicer, safer, and faster solution than waiting for the matching SMS code to login.

The biggest downside is if the site isn't set up correctly it is a long trek into Settings to get the code and it makes the site seem less trustworthy.