It depends what you value in macos. If it's the rails preventing the edge cases, and couldn't stand Windows and Linux for their laxitude, yes it's rough.
Otherwise the iPad already has to deal with it, it's not much different.
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Otherwise the iPad already has to deal with it, it's not much different.
For a dedicated iOS dev that's worth the hassle, for someone managing a team of devs or employees only needing apps to run without requiring a full dev env, it's quite convenient and potentially cheaper.
Windows laptop took the same path, for the better.
There's a lot of small niceties that pile up into a better experience, the sister comments cover a bunch of those, so I'll focus on a macos specific nice point:
iPad and iPhone apps can now get direct touch when running on a laptop, instead of the mouse mode. With this, there is now a perfect platform able to run Mac, iOS and iPad apps outside of the ill-fated Vision Pro.
That's too little to late for me, but I think many will appreciate the benefits.
To the core message of it, if we really need to stick to one liners, "go alone to go fast, go together to go far" would be an easier philosophy to adhere to perhaps.
The reality of it though: librarians have their lives and can't man libraries 24/7. Scheduling regular visits is fine if the kid has a reading routine, basically the "1 book a week" kind of quota.
I know some people do it, to my family it's a lot easier to me to search together online the very moment an interest is expressed, buy it on the spot and the kid can start reading immediately. There's no discipline, but it also makes books and documentaries a lot more familiar and casual.
As far as I remember, the self-repair kits only make sense in very niche cases (I think repair shop get a different contract ?) and won't work around any limitations Apple puts on parts or repairs.
As sister comments point out, this could be reproduced with a lot more technology (VR with high precision controllers ?), which could bring it on par with playing Counter Strike in some ways perhaps ?
To expand on bird watching, people usually don't mindlessly choose a wood cabin and just sit there. They'll know which bird should be where depending on the season, where they tend to hide depending on the time of the day, their bird calls etc. and eventually trek to wherever the birds will be. It's also not so far from fishing.
That has been the case basically since Apple Care existed IMHO.
The first result that isn't a guideline or call to action when I search "preschool children screen time research"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074937972...
On the recruitment:
> Note: Eligible families were recruited primarily through paid social media advertisement (83%) as well as other online sources (6%) and word-of-mouth/other (11%).
So most of this experiment was done with families who click ads on Facebook/Instagram. The results are relevant for that specific public, but tougher to expand to other families and environments.
That's one specific study, but I really read a lot, and this kind of bias is common. Perhaps because they need families that are stressed about screen time in the first place ?
Nowadays I think I wouldn't mind audio and video, especially audiobooks and channels like those on Nebula. YouTube is a cesspool while also hosting the most interesting content, running something like Newpipe on a kid's tablet with specific channels locked on would also interesting IMHO.
> addictive games
The main issue for me is the lack of management options. ScreenTime is half-assed, what we have on Nintendo's Switch is a bit better, I'd actually spend time to deal with all the settings and rule system if it was available in a very granular way. We're already spending the same amount looking after other stuff.
As one of them, no, not really.
I looked hard into the question but all the litterature I got was a mix of "I'll give you candy if you do X" experiments that beg the obvious "what if the kid doesn't want the candy for whatever reason ?", including their mood while doing the experiment. And this goes on for every detail of the experiments.
And the rest was philosophical and hypothetical "it's not like the olden days" style of conservatism, mixed with "this time it's different" to try to barrage criticism.
Testing on kids is just hard, so coming up with good experiments is in itself a PITA. I wish people would recognize that and take the research with shovels of salt (and I don't see misleading research as better than nothing).
Buying a kindle for my kid has been a decision that still pays dividends, I would have kicked myself if I refused it on social pressure.
The dual working parents part is a red herring.
Single working parent families were still busy as hell in many circumstances. Even with a single kid there has always been a social push to control (historically)women's time and make them try hard to be good wives/mothers. I include socializing and engaging with their community to be part of it.
Nobody ever had the time or energy to watch after a kid 24/7 while dealing chores, paperwork, the rest of the family etc.
As I understand it, money is the core of it. Everything else would be accessory if the payment processor part got solved.
> restrictions from payment providers are making sharing queer stories online even harder.
Having other places with a roof, some security and some public amenities should go a long way to avoid other services getting bogged down by homelessness.
The simple version: Alibaba/Express and Amazon buys or kills most online competition etc, the remaining behemoths split the different markets and manage all the delivery. Only them know your personal info and every smaller shops need to go through them. Kinda the same way most of the world need to get with Apple/Google for things happening on mobile phone.
That situation could be completed in 5 years I wouldn't be surprised.
The crazy alternative: we all cooperate to have a common protocol to handle personal info, banks and shipment companies all agree to have standardized public APIs that are robust enough to last and be used more than six months. I don't think my grand children would see that happen.
That was the same issue with jailbreaking, it gave a lot of freedom, while also being a PITA to deal with at every security fix and system change. Many jailbreakers came to parent's conclusion and just "give up".
I'm all for understanding what went down the drain, pondering on the name doesn't help much IMHO.
I'd love to get a bit more info on how CVC Capital Partners handle their purchases, what I get online is extremely generic and non descript.
That way choosing a powerful and more accurate engine, or more adapted display of the characters also becomes an option.
Stumbling on names is fine, name litteraly have no logic, there is no system that will get them 100% correct by definition.
Screwing meaning is on a whole different level and Google Translate or even the built in screen reader of your OS will do an extremely good job given enough context (a whole phrase).
In real world use there is little space for sloppy hacks IMHO.
We also weren't discussing GoDaddy as a registrar without mentioning it's CEO killing elephants and being an all around douchebag. Or Oracle without the lawnmower.
It's tough to ask people to dissociate the CEO from the company, especially when he's doing all the PR by himself.
Same as parent, I'm amazed by the quality I get, but I'm also not looking for brands or vendors that try to piggy back on some halo effect.
That means choosing carefully what to buy from where, pouring over the specs and reviews for every purchase, but as I'm getting products that just don't exist elsewhere, that's a mental burden I'm fine with.
To note you can still just give up your account and money, technically you're not _forced_. But that's a trend that will go on IMHO.
That's way too optimistic.
The core reason people enter the password in different domains is because most services suck at keeping a canonical login page. That forces users to register multiple URLs for a single credential. And from times to times, they hit a page not within their registered urls, will login and just add the new url to the pool.
Will these services magically become super competent because of passkey ? I'll respectfully doubt it.
They might not screw this specific aspect, but they'll screw enough other things that users will need to keep injecting password somewhere from times to times.
A point I don't see mentionned: switching accounts with passkeys is a PITA. Yes it's an implementation issue, there is no technical reason for sites to auto-log you with a passkey when you have one.
But as you point out it will be more convenient for a majority of people, so right now switching between multiple accounts when any of them has a passkey is a hell of itself.
Some password managers might handle it well now, I'd be curious to know as I'm won't be doing these kind of experiments again until there is a reasonable chance to go well.
To cover that gap, you get rid of passwords altogether, and now users lose access if the passkey fails to sync or isn't available on one of their devices (let's say a Kindle Fire tablet)
Passkeys being bound to the domain is neat, but not without tradeoffs and practical workarounds. At least that can't be the only aspect to look at when making a choice.
I assume they want to limit the amount of customer support more than advertising their logistics.
That would be a whole different category of device and surely not at 300 USD.