In regards to, "Why do I need satellite radio when I can just listen to a podcast, or preload a bunch of music on my phone?" you don't if you only listen to music or content accessibly on your preferred streaming service. Their strength is in their specific content, most notably Howard Stern to note one. If and when Apple Music/Spotify gets and/or can take away that big talent then yes Sirius will eventually be dead in the water. I use Sirius for things like CNN. I tried using CarPlay app for that and didn't work reliably enough compared to the simplicity of just knowing Sirius in car is always there and always work even if ones phone dies or any other random situations. Sirius has horrible customer support and they deserve what is coming to them, but still think they have a lot of gas left in in them as long as they continue to retain their headliners and come preloaded in new cars with free trials.
The doctor says buy it if you think its ‘nifty’ but do bit buy it for health since it will not make you healthier. That’s crazy, it will certainly not make every person healthy still like a personal trainer it cant make you do anything but it can certainly encourage much healthier habits as it does for millions of people like myself with real world tangible results. He dilutes his more valid concern about his belief of saving lives from AFIB may or may not outweigh the inconvenience false postives could cause.
That is not what Apple says. Apple says that developers submitting apps to the store will be given a trust score to prevent spammers based on the approximate number of calls and emails made. It does not look at your emails or calls. If you use the phone for spamming purposes and say send 1000s of emails a day and 10000s of calls a day and marked as a spammer you will get a lower score to avoid abusing the app store.
I imagine if they had to honor, they would make it priority number one resolving those bugs, and make changes to make the bugs more apparent to people in the process. If they don't have to pay, there isn't much of an incentive to prioritize the fixes, especially since I imagine if the bugs are in the favor of the company they can make a lot of money.
Curious why Google requires their users to use Chrome or Firefox but can't use Safari to access Google Services when enrolled in that program? "And you will only be able to use Chrome and Firefox to access your signed-in Google services like Gmail or Photos." I could see them just requiring Chrome but curious why they would block Safari over Firefox.
While it's good to hear that landing on HackerNews typically results in a resolution, it's unfortunate it has to always reach that level of publicity for large companies to take personal action. I understand that has to be levels of support you have to go through, but there should be a clear path of escalations to resolve the issues privately. Thank goodness none the less for the power of HN (and social shaming) when all other options are exhausted.
Depends on if you are happier with Pocket than Instapaper. I think the Pocket UI is rather awful compared to Instapaper, but if it works at least as well or better for you, then of course no reason to switch back.
When installed, under settings for that plugin Safari shows a warning saying, "This extension will slow down your web browsing." Other content blockers such as 1Blocker do not show that warning by Apple.
It says the fix is for High Sierra. For everyone running Mojave on the new MBP, will there be a fix for that as well, or was it previously patched in Mojave already?
Interesting. Pretty great that Adobe didn't require a non disclosure of that type of information for a set time after leaving the company like most. Bravo for Adobe for allowing their ex employees freedom to talk about what they are working on.
I imagine it's less about money to be made but rather about fearing money to lose. Affinity offering a more and more well rounded solution with their Photoshop, Illustrator and now upcoming Indesign competitor, most of which are already on iPad today. With a Lightroom competitor in the works, I imagine Adobe is worried people will leave them completely for Affinity because of some customer's hatred of the subscription model, and lack of iCloud and other Apple specific tech. If affinity designer didn't release their app yesterday and announce publisher I'm sure Adobe wouldn't have leaked this news today. Excited for all the competition.
If they said, "1P doesn't comment on rumors, etc or we have no comments at this time" like Apple it would be very off brand for them and would make people assume they were getting bought. If they didn't say anything people would assume they were getting bought. So all they can do is deny without blatantly lying such as they can't say something like, "we have had no talks with Apple about an acquisition or offering our special program to apple employees.". But they can say something like rumors are false, since they don't say what part of the rumor is false, and they aren't planning to sell until they actually do. We'll know very soon if Apple employees do get a special version soon and if that part of the rumor is true, one can assume they eventually will purchase them, or talent purchase.
Make great again, would imply there was a time that the OS was overall better than it is today, which is of course rather silly since while there an incredibly long list of small imrpovements we would all love to see, there is no previous version of macOS that I imagine that see as being greater and thus would revert too. But would love to see app like, "Make OS X Even Better. Hard to imagine an app that could fix all of those things. As anything you defaults you can change via terminal commands are already available for free on github like the popular https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles, unless this app plans to have core functionality versus just running terminal commands once.
Really depends where you live. We live North of Boston and still countless times run into issues where the dot is the wrong place, or the location data for the place going is wrong, or Google maps provides extra relevant info like it will be closing before I get there, or when the store has special hours google maps knows and Apple maps doesn't, and countless other differences. I still use Apple maps mostly because the integration with Apple Watch and iOS (getting back to the app) and notably using Siri make it for a better experience and if going somewhere new ( a long drive) I check with Google Maps first to avoid any major issues. If Google Maps on iOS was allowed to be deeply integrated like Apple Maps wouldn't touch maps with a 10 foot poll, but that will never happen. So any improvements to Maps data will be a welcome improvement and while hard to imagine them beating Google Maps they only have to be good enough to beat them in the long run.
While I know they are not recommending, recommending this, for everyone who does, this doesn’t get you off the hook at all unless you are a new site who has never had EU visitors. Also of course all the EU citizens in the US, GDPR would presumably still apply.
Their music apps were already confusing and now more so. On iOS you had YouTube for videos and YT Music for Music (that also shows videos) for 10 a month. So now you can also pay 10 a month to get YT Red but without any videos? Why not just have an option in settings to hide videos in YT Music. Since then you could watch them when battery life. I personally love YT Music/Red or whatever they are calling it but the branding of the services seems all over the map.
I think providing supports to regular consumers may not have been in their dna, but I've been using the business chat/phone/email support through Google Apps, and they have always been top notch. While their answers weren't always what I wanted to hear, that was because of Google policy, versus the reps themselves. Most all of which have been very knowledgeable and human over the years versus most all of the other support channels I've used for companies other than Apple of course. However, there is an enormous amount of more consumers than business customers, so no idea how that support will scale, and if the consumers will get the same level of expertise as business but will be interesting to find out.
Same here, though I’m very happy with the latest version with the exception of the touchbase as well. Never use it but can’t ignore it since that’s where the volume, brightness and esc are. And freezes sometimes and TouchID seems slow. Wish I could get the same model without it since my computer unlocks via my Apple Watch anyway.
I’ve had mine since it was released and haven’t had any issues, but what happened when you brought it into the Apple Store? Would assume they would be able too fix that right away versus other repair issues that can be quite involved.
Because for the people you describe, they love MBP's and no other option comes close for what they prefer, but with love comes wanting it to be more perfect.
Keyboard working here without issue. Noticed a couple issues earlier on, but discovered was from a couple crumbs. If there were a major issue affecting nearly everyone there would have been a recall or constantly news cycle about it. So I don't think the answer is for others to not buy a MBP because 'you' and some others are experiencing issues. Instead, I'd recommend you and others affected bring it into get fixed.
That being said, I'm sure the keyboards will continue to improve with each generation, albeit with compromises such as to get thinner they change the key styling and eventually will be touch only with haptic feedback (which I'm not excited for) but will be inevitable.
We bought several HomePods with the intention of replacing our Echos and Sonos. Though we knew the current version would only be a Sonos replacement and would take a few software updates before closing the gap with Echo/Google.
Apple knows it can't compete with them yet, which is why it focused as a Sonos competitor at launch until presumably iOS 12 when Siri will see a sizable update to better compete as well as offering more basic offerings such as multiple user recognition, stereo paring, brevity mode, intercom mode, Home App automation integration and such.
It will be a great product and think the price and being limited to Apple Music for now isn't a major problem but the Siri limitations and other items noted above are even for people in the Apple eco system. Once those are fixed and most heavy Apple users have one, then they will eventually lower the price, open up to third party apps, and the masses will come.
Let's just hope they update throughout the year often rather than waiting for long stretches like the other product lines.
Very excited for this. When "Inbox" came out I was excited for a lot of the modern amenities but it was so dumbed down from gmail and missing a lot of core features, that ultimately switched back to using the classic Gmail interface, even though it hasn't received much love in a while.
Since they have a separate Inbox product, hopefully they will be able to refresh it with all the new modern bits, without removing any of the advanced power user functionality we have all come to love and relay on.
I had Blue Apron and at first loved it, but ultimately, their calories where far too high and didn't have any offerings for people on a diet or other health conscious concerns such as low sodium and such. Their food was tasty but by missing out over health conscious options, they missed a growing niche, and once Amazon or someone comes in with more options they will be done.
While the light-years-ahead would imply compared to current available navigation systems such as Google Maps, Apple Maps, etc, the actual tweet in the article notes he's saying it's light years ahead of their own current system. So doesn't necessarily mean it will be as good as Google Maps nor any promise it will be better and certainly not light years ahead of Google Maps or Apple Maps presumably.
This rumor has been around past few months, hoping it's true. Though while us technies in the minority would rather bug fixes than new features that don't apply for us, the general public would be very upset if iOS12 changes are all under the hood, as they would say Apple has fallen behind and people will insert common statements every years like they are finally considering switching etc. So while I hope the do fix long standing small bugs, I think the average user would lose their mind if they do. I imagine it will be a mix, some new features and some fixes.
I like I'm sure many predicted this would be inevitable regardless how better one product is over another. At the end of the day Spotify can't compete with Apple's budget, and music streaming isn't a long term profitable business on it's own. I love Apple and deep into their ecosystem. However, certainly not a fan of Apple Music. When using on the Mac iTunes is rather horrific since everytime I search it searches local music rather than Apple Music or vice versa, or its in the Podcast tab, etc. They need a dedicated Music app for Mac and universal search without the iTunes store. I'm sure they are moving towards this but until then rather miserable. The Spotify app isn't as clean looking but is much more practical and enjoyable to use. Finally, Apple is about curated playlists, where is Spotify is about algorithms which in my experience is the better route. So while Spotify maybe the better product, at the end of the day, Apple Music is more seamless for people in the Apple Ecosystem of Siri, HomePod, AppleTV and all and in the end will win out. Let's hope Spotify stay's long enough to make Apple Music better.
Forgot to add, that personally, I love YouTube Music. The algorithms and search and pool of countless remixes, live performances and old videos/music not on other places is unmatched. It lacks the Apple Ecosystem benefit, but is a hidden gem
Completely agree. Had hoped with iPhone X they would move to have interactions at the bottom, since constantly involving reachability (which is now disabled by default) to go to the top menus (since not all apps allow you to swipe from the left to go back consistently). Several apps like Instapaper work great the main navigation actions in the bottom. They have items in the top but those are ones you won't need to access often. And they leave space at the bottom to not interfere with the home button line area. Maybe we will see a push to this UI direction from Apple officially in iOS12 as I imagine iPhone screens will only get larger.
Excited for this. Like most, my Health Care Provider already has an app, well they use one of the standard ones that other providers use. It shows health records and all, but in a rather ugly interface even though it doest now support FaceID and some other latest tech.
Can't wait until that data will be in Apple Health which is more future proof (in case you leave your current health provider) and a far better UI experience.