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  • July 8, 2021 8:02am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    If you depend on automation shortcuts and use shortcuts in general on iOS 15 & iPadOS 15, you’ll quickly realize that any advance Apple made in Notifications are ruined by Shortcuts generated notifications. Those notifications should be treated separately.

  • July 7, 2021 12:30pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Maybe Apple should sell iPhone without any operating system, that way, everyone is equal. I’d love to build my own kernel because I think it would be the best but since Apple is bundling one, I’m seriously disadvantaged. How is this even allowed?

  • July 7, 2021 8:02am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Photography

    The power of iPadOS 15: setting up a workspace made of four apps with a simple shortcut from the home screen. So cool. šŸ‘ØšŸ»ā€šŸ’»šŸ¤“

  • The return of the Touch ID?

    July 7, 2021 6:47am
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    Apple & Tech

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    A recent poll ran by 9To5Mac gives surprising results about what people would like to see if Touch Id is to return to the iPhone. Touch ID under the screen wins popular favour… personally, I would prefer Touch ID to go on the power button, just like the iPad Air because it is easily accessible while holding the phone.

  • July 6, 2021 8:03pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Can’t wait for a fresh coat of paint: beta 3. Tomorrow? Thursday? Next week? 🄸

  • Here is some relief for Safari 15 users who hate the new design… (#ios15beta2 #apple)

    July 4, 2021 9:25pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Longer posts

    For those like me who despise Safari redesign in iPadOS 15 & iOS 15: here is simple trick to better cope with Safari redesign: keep the number of open tab to ONE. Why do you think Apple thought it was a good idea to include a ā€œClose Other Tabsā€ in the popup menu while pressing the address bar? With on,y one tab open, this is close to what we had before.

  • July 3, 2021 5:43pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Photography

    Every few days, I go on the Apple Store app to configure a 12.9ā€ 2021 iPad Pro with 512 GB just to confirm delivery date estimates. I’m crazy.

  • Apple in a weakness position…

    July 3, 2021 2:51pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Longer posts

    I keep thinking of this phrase from Phil Schiller who once said:

    “whenever we make a change we do it from a position of strength rather than weakness.”.

    The window has closed a long time ago for Apple and they find themselves in a weakness position. I thought Mr. Schiller was still partly involved in the App Store related decisions.

  • Let’s pretend there is side-loading of apps on the iPhone, then what?

    July 3, 2021 9:21am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Longer posts

    InitialCharge:

    The only one that stands to lose anything in this scenario is Apple and that’s why they’re doing everything they can to convince us that side-loading is inherently bad. But they’re wrong.Source: Apple’s Head of Privacy Doubles Down on Anti-Sideloading Stance - Initial Charge

    I’m a bit late on this one but, let say Apple does go ahead and allow for side loading of apps. Besides the proliferation of App Stores, what will we get in this scenario that we don’t get today? Proponents of applications sideloading are always shy on providing the real long term benefits of such opening. Let me guess: lower prices for apps? Faster install? Better layout App Stores? Apps that use private APIs? What examples of previsouly missed innovations that we get with side-loading? Apps that can trick differently users in thinking they are safe? Or is this choices for the sake of choice?

  • Please… stop… using… ellipsis… for gods sake (#apple #ux #design #iosdev)

    July 2, 2021 12:11pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

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    In the following screenshot taken this morning on my iPad screen, how many ellipsis signs to you catch? I highlighted them for you to make it easier. To all developers, to all designers, to Apple: please, stop this shit NOW and find a better way, use your imagination, stop being lazy at design. Thank you.

  • I’m starting a new trend: open writing.

    July 2, 2021 10:17am
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    Blogging

    Longer posts

    If you’ve been paying attention in recent months, did you know that you can have a peek at my upcoming blog posts that I’m working on? Thanks to Craft, You can peak at a selection of drafts, ideas, reference lists, etc. I give a name to this: open writing. Think of this as being this observer looking at a painter while he or she is painting a new artwork.šŸ‘ØšŸ»ā€šŸ’»

    What would be super cool is if someone interacted with this by posting comments… which is something Craft makes possible.

  • July 1, 2021 8:48am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Misc

    Instagram Plans to Take on TikTok With Full-Screen Video Content

    Ridiculous. Facebook: the Instagram destructor. www.macrumors.com

  • June 30, 2021 6:37pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    I’m very surprised by the public release of iOS 15 today… it’s really rough.

  • June 30, 2021 6:01pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Blogging

    I’ll never consider moving my newsletter from Subtack to go to Facebook. Over my dead body. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: Bulletin Is ā€œDirectly for Journalists and Individual Writersā€ – The Hollywood Reporter

  • June 30, 2021 2:36pm
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    Photography

    I rarely post my photos here… but here we are, it’s an exception day. This one is from the lake in front of my rented chalet. My photos are available here for those wondering: numericcitizen.photos

  • June 30, 2021 2:24pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Photography

    Public beta, already? That was fast. (#ios15publicbeta #ios15beta2) If my experience is any indication, I wouldn’t install that on an iPhone, if it’s the only device a user have.

  • June 30, 2021 9:30am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Blogging

    Problem of the day: my read later list is spread among Safari Reading List, Apple’s Reminders, Pocket, Craft and since iPadOS 15, QuickNotes😳. What is the problem with me? šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø

    I have to do something about this, once and for all.

  • On Apple’s Hybrid work model — Apple’s employees to become targets?

    June 30, 2021 9:27am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Longer posts

    Dave Mark for LoopInsight:

    Did the pandemic make a foundational change to the way we think about where we do our jobs? Or was this a blip, with a slow slide back to the old ways?

    I certainly hope that we won’t return massively to the old days. For Apple, it looks like the pandemic was a blip and employees will need to be back at the office at least three days a week. It’s a corporate culture thing, which doesn’t get amended easily. Now, for employees not wanted to return to the previous model, even partially, they could become poaching targets by other companies where remote work is fundamental to them. This is where Apple could have to open up more.

  • June 29, 2021 9:09pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Reading this story of the original iPhone demo Steve Jobs did, 14 years ago, using a barely working iPhone prototype, makes you realize how far we’ve come. Man, time flies.

  • June 28, 2021 5:23pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    With iPadOS 15, the more home pages you create on the iPad, the more you’ll wish Apple made a ā€œhome page switcherā€ just like the ā€œapp switcherā€. Maybe I should file a feedback report. 🧐

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