Messages sent via SMS or iMessage already look identical to the recipient, the only distinguishing feature is a small header at the top of the conversation that says either "Text message" or "iMessage".
I mainly use YouTube through the app (although I’m slowly moving off it using RSS and yt-dlp) and my account can’t watch age restricted videos because I’m not that keen on giving google my drivers license or credit card. The amount of totally normal content being age restricted and the amount of highly questionable or outright disturbing or inappropriate content marked as “for kids” is mind boggling. Especially when you consider everything that’s neither age restricted or for kids.
Well you might work on projects where the extra performance makes working in the viewport faster. It’s not hard to find graphics workflows where extra resources aren’t useful.
You can configure the M3 models with twice as much RAM (128GB) as the M1 models, that’s quite an upgrade if your workflow is memory intensive. It’s especially compelling for graphics work as that memory is also used as VRAM. A desktop RTX 6000 gets you 48GB of VRAM for $6800.
iPads feel like they last forever in standby. I remember there was a period of time where I was using my 6th gen mini very little (but I was using it) and it lasted me close to 3 weeks on a charge.
I was surprised when I went to the US and had to pay taxes on everything I bought. On a logical level, I know I pay sales tax in Europe too, but it’s all integrated into the price tag of items so on a more psychological level it doesn’t really feel like the tax is there. Compare that to the US where you pick up a few items in a store, mentally add up an approximate price you have to pay and the cashier asks for significantly more. I’ve also noticed some products sold internationally will have very similar prices in the US and EU, probably because the company wants to hit some certain price for marketing reasons, but the EU price has the taxes included in it.
Facebook is probably salivating at the thought of their own App Store. Don’t forget that Apple already once had to block Facebook’s enterprise apps because they were literally paying kids to enroll their devices and install a data harvesting VPN.
I was just on a poorly planned shoot where the iPhone saved us. The camera we used was too big and heavy to actually get the camera movements we had planned. We had just gotten a new DJI phone gimbal to test and we ended up using it with the iPhone. This was on a green screen stage so we didn’t want character from the lens or a shallow depth of field. All the shots were within the focal range of the phone too. I’m guessing about 70% of the final shots were shot on the phone. And because it’s LOG and ProRes, the footage fits right into the pipeline. Now even though we shot on a phone, we didn’t turn off the lights or send the actors home so maybe that’s cheating…
Mental health. I recently passed out in public and had to finally admit to myself that I’m severely burnt out. I had ignored the signs and mentally written off the concept of burnout as a bit of a wishy-washy mostly “emotional” concept and not as the very real psychological AND physiological condition that doesn’t just go away if you get a good nights sleep and a day off. It was emotional to actually read up on it and realize my disillusionment with work, deteriorating relationships and steady decline in my ability to carry out daily tasks weren’t signs of a personal lack of interest or effort, but an inevitability resulting from the position I had put myself in.
I got the Owl documentary and it made me wonder if I’d be slightly proud or slightly annoyed if I something I made and found interesting ended up as a tool for people to fall asleep to.
Shows are often made by production companies on contract and licensed for domestic distribution. Licensing for international distribution might be significantly more expensive.
>Nothing about that screenshot indicates that I'd have to swipe to take action.
Users are not interacting with a screenshot. If you try to tap the slider it will slide a little to the right and fall back to indicate it’s a slider. There are also other actions on the watch that use this kind of interaction. And if you fail to either call ems or confirm you’re OK, it will call them for you.
I apologize if this is off topic, I’m not sure, but I found it incredibly interesting. His lawyer summarizes the situation pretty well at 2:40 in the video.
For context: The YouTuber, friendlyjordies (Jordan Shanks), is being prosecuted by gambling lobby group ClubsNSW for interviewing a former employee and whistleblower who had previously exposed widespread money laundering in the industry.
He also made several videos accusing the Deputy Premier of New South Wales of corruption, which led to the channel’s producer being arrested in his home by an anti-terrorism unit.
Density. North American suburbs built around cars spread taxpayers thin over a large area that requires a lot of expensive infrastructure. These places can’t actually afford the services they depend on and infrastructure debt is usually paid off by new developments kind of like a ponzi scheme.
I’m cautious about what apps and services get access to my location and I feel like I have good control, but I don’t really have any idea of how carriers like Telenor and Telia handle my location data. Are you planning to touch on this or investigate it in the upcoming articles?
How can Apple’s App Store prices be monopolistic if the App Store has driven software prices so low that a lot of developers are having a hard time making money?
Before the App Store, software licenses for Mac software could be priced in the $40-$70 range for software that might have had feature parity with what you get in a $3-$10 app on iOS these days. That’s not even taking into account the fact that paying for a new version of a piece of software used to be the norm, but on iOS, you buy the app once and expect updates for free forever.