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@marcintosh @jsnell @marcoarment It’s just Tim’s Newton. The ideas are interesting, but the tech just isn’t there yet.
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@rileytestut@mastodon.social If only those buttons and text at the bottom of the screen were actually legible. #liquidass
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@cinebox @samhenrigold That would be costly, when they could just give everyone a precut piece of angled plastic to hold between the keyboard and screen on setup.
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@BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social I noticed that IKEA switched fake computer suppliers last year. They used to have what felt like and looked like actual empty MacBook-style shells with real removable key caps. I’m guessing they got tired of teenagers pulling the keys off, or were worried about little kids choking on loose key caps. Or maybe this new supplier is just cheaper. 🤷♂️
It’s deleted? What did you delete, Siri? And why is there not an undo button on a potentially destructive action????!
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@BigBadBiologist lol. The G3 AIO was the worst all-in-one. What a “designed by committee” dead weight that thing was.
@vga256 Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh.
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@anyware@mastodon.social Interrupting the user just angers them. It’s not like you’re going to get positive app store ratings from this prompt — quite the opposite.
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social My yellow ring just goes round and round. My red ring barely fills. I haven’t found a way to fix it. You’d think the yellow ring would be reserved for actual activities the user has initiated from fitness apps.
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@cabel Sorry, I don’t get what you’re running into here. Apple Pay is set to pay with the default card. So, the default card is displayed at the top to let you know which card is about to be charged. If you want to use a different card instead, you tap “Other cards >” right?
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@viticci Ternus seems dull as dishwater. I was hoping for someone more charismatic. Here’s hoping he believes in product quality and knows how to say, “No.”
Displaying “Processing Payment” when downloading a free app from the App Store is such horrible UI/UX.
Someone at Engadget doesn’t know how to design a favicon. I’ll never understand why websites invest in these huge redesigns that just break everything. By the time they finish getting everything working again, they’ve started on the next unnecessary redesign.
This reeks of “We paid all this money for AI, find a use for it!”
I remember when it was Apple policy to not announce products that weren’t ready to ship. Let’s see if Ternus and Cook understand why now. They certainly didn’t learn their lesson with “AirPower”.
Good post about Apple Invites. I remember enjoying iCards, but Invites just feels like friction to use. Maybe not everything needs to be an app? Or maybe this feature should be built into the Calendar app? It really feels like something that will just be abandoned by Apple in a year.
If I put my Apple Watch on but forget to unlock it, it should be smart enough to tap me on the wrist and ask “Do you want to unlock your watch?” After all, it does this when it thinks you’ve started a workout.
Fascinating that the majority of “most helpful” reviews of the Audible app on the App Store are just reviews of various books. Not the app. Feels really scammy. And kind of pathetic.
Strong disagree on this one. The horizontal orientation makes it simpler to navigate and brings it in line with iOS app switching. The sliding animation helps the user to understand where they are going to/from. Admittedly “reduce animation” in accessibility settings should turn it off. Learn to use command-tab to quickly switch apps and the space will follow.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/03/macos-needs-its-spaces-grid-back/
What’s the point of adding all these fancy new AI/Siri features if the Apple Watch is too stupid to use its cellular connection when needed? Apple’s paying for data centers its customers can’t connect to.
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@nikitonsky@mastodon.online When does Mozilla start adding tabs and buttons to the right side and bottom of the window as well?
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@agiletortoise@mastodon.social That would make sense if Apple hadn’t gotten rid of sabbaticals when Steve Jobs came back.
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@jochenwolters@mastodon.social I think he saw people moving towards the web for sharing live data and “compound interactive documents”. OpenDoc was an interesting framework, but the paradigm was too forward looking and the UI was too messy (everything is a document, drag in stationary to create a frame, menus changing out from under you when clicking on an item, etc.).
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@noheger@wien.rocks Remember when Mac windows had a nice large “resize handle” in that corner? It served as both a visual indicator, and an easy hit target. Looks like Apple brought it back on the iPad. They should probably bring it back on the Mac as well.