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Iāll never consider moving my newsletter from Subtack to go to Facebook. Over my dead body. Facebookās Mark Zuckerberg: Bulletin Is āDirectly for Journalists and Individual Writersā ā The Hollywood Reporter
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I rarely post my photos hereā¦ but here we are, itās 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
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Public beta, already? That was fast. (#ios15publicbeta #ios15beta2) If my experience is any indication, I wouldnāt install that on an iPhone, if itās the only device a user have.
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Problem of the day: my read later list is spread among Safari Reading List, Appleās Reminders, Pocket, Craft and since iPadOS 15, QuickNotesš³. What is the problem with me? š¤¦š»āāļø
I have to do something about this, once and for all.
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On Appleās Hybrid work model ā Appleās employees to become targets?
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 wonāt 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. Continue reading ā
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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 weāve come. Man, time flies.
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With iPadOS 15, the more home pages you create on the iPad, the more youāll wish Apple made a āhome page switcherā just like the āapp switcherā. Maybe I should file a feedback report. š§
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What if nobody really knows what is going on? (#google #privacy #surveillance)
What if nobody at Google knows exactly what their data hungry engine is all about? I mean, what if nobody has a global picture, so nobody can say āoh my god, it’s terrible, we must stop it!ā. This makes me think of the nazis in second world war: very few had a global picture of what was really going on. It was devised this way so it was easier to āmanageā and keep the machine humming. Continue reading ā
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Another coat of paint to Windows UI mess? (#windows11)
So Windows 11 is a thing. Is it a revolution to Windows? Maybe, maybe not. It depends if you can install it on your PC, which is far from certain. But letās say you can, how deep goes the UI refresh? Is it like it was for Windows 10 which was supposedly a redesign of Windows 8 which was tweaks to Windows 7 UI that came before it. Here is a simple question: Did Microsoft really clean up the Windows UI mess that it has become over the years? Continue reading ā
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Thought of the day: for me, Appleās Widgets are more transformative to the iPad experience than they were to the iPhone, by far.
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I made many updates to my Apple-centric rumours micro website which happens to be made entirely with Craft. Enjoy.
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Since I began extensively testing iPadOS 15, my idea of upgrading my 2018 11ā iPad Pro to a 2021 12.9ā version is suddenly less temptingā¦ what does this even tell about the very nature of iPadOS 15 for the iPad Platform?
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On design trends ā sadness
While reading a recent article from Basic Apple Guy about News+, there is this illustration that shows how far Apple News icon has come since its beginnings. I have included the illustration here. It shows how bad design has become in the last five to ten years. That is really depressing to see. As much as things like AR and LiDAR technology help bring real world and virtual world closer together, UI design seems to go the opposite direction. Continue reading ā
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A few observations on my iPadOS 15 beta2 experience so far
So, I took the plunge and installed iPadOS 15 beta2 on my iPad Pro. A few observations. Itās beta and it shows. Home screen and widgets placement is janky. One springboard crash so far. All my apps are working just fine. Battery life is taking a hit. Text recognition in pictures is jaw breaking and open up all sort of new use cases. The QuickNote feature is a nice addition that will complement my blogger workflow. Continue reading ā
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When hackers strikes personal NAS-type devices
Pool Western Digital My Book Live NAS ownersā¦ many of them woke up to find out that their content was gone from their devices. Apparently, hackers came in by using an unpatched vulnerability on devices where the last update was issued in 2015 by Western Digital. This brings me to ask the following questions: were those devices directly connected on the internet? If yes, that dumb. If this was a known vulnerability, why WD didn’t issue a patch? Continue reading ā
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iPadOS 15 beta 2: install or not, that is the question (#ipados15 #ipadod15beta2)
Iām on vacation. I have some time to spare. My vacation time is spent between my home and a rented chalet. The iPad Pro and my iPhone 11 Pro are my main devices. Beta 2 came late this week and reports are starting to come in. In summary, lotās of fixes, a bit faster and apparently no big show stopper. Iām mostly using Craft these days and Appleās stock apps like Reminders and Notes. Continue reading ā
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Are Facetime Links Enough to compete against Zoom or Teams?
Benjamin Mayo on FaceTime 15 in the landscape of collaboration tools like Zoom and Teams: FaceTime is more like an add-on of Messages, competing against WhatsApp and traditional phone calls if anything. You also see this in how each service handles identity; Zoom and Teams have abstracted user accounts, whereas on FaceTime you connect by sharing your personal phone number or email address ā information that you only want to give out to close friends. Continue reading ā
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One design doesnāt fits all device sizes ā Safari in iOS 15
This Safari redesign concept misses the point of Appleās decision to redesign Safari on iPhone. Appleās intention was two-fold: provide a better navigation on the iPhone with the thumb and bring the navigation model of switching across open websites closer to switching between apps. Appleās intention were good but where they fail is to provide the exact same design for things like opened tabs the same across all screen sizes. Itās probably not needed on the Mac, itās good on the iPad but messy on the iPhone. Continue reading ā
