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  • July 30, 2020 8:45pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    +1. Very sad seeing Apple acting like this. Maybe Apple seeling great products, they are telling lies too. Can we have it both ways? #apple twitter.com/timsweene…

  • July 30, 2020 4:36pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Apple is doomed. I mean, really doomed this time. Or not. Q3FY20

  • July 29, 2020 10:13pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    After 10 seconds of watching this iPhone 12 concept video I had enough. 🤦🏻‍♂️ youtu.be

  • July 29, 2020 8:39pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Woah, that is a prime example of impressive architecture for a store. One question: where a the customers? #coronaviruseffect Apple Central World opens Friday in Thailand - Apple

  • July 29, 2020 6:59pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    What Steve Jobs would have said… ?

  • July 29, 2020 6:28pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Do you think Apple has plans already in place to allow for third-party payment systems on the App Store, just in case they are being forced to add these?

  • Apple had an easy day overall

    July 29, 2020 5:52pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

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    Is it me or Apple had a pretty easy day today? Seems all the attention went to Google, Facebook and Amazon. My guess is that it reflects a fact: Apple is not in a monopolistic position like the other three. www.cnbc.com

    Live: Big Tech testifies: Bezos promises action if investigation reveals misuse of seller data

  • July 29, 2020 6:50am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Let’s see if Tim Cook is also a good politician. #apple #testimony #appstore

  • July 24, 2020 2:16pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

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    I’m getting there. Where? No idea. Entirely random city design and building. That is what playing is all about. #townscraper

  • July 24, 2020 1:55pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

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    A byproduct of the coronavirus pandemic: traveling apps like Flighty won’t get my renewal this year. Sad for the developer. Really nice app. See you next year, maybe.

  • July 24, 2020 12:24pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Highly doubtful that Apple already has the date set for the September Keynote in current context. Even more for October event. Take this with a grain of salt. ‘iPhone 12’ event Sept. 8 with ‘Apple Glass’ & Apple Silicon Mac reveal on Oct. 27, says leaker - Appleinsider

  • July 24, 2020 12:21pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Is this really surprising? It’s not. Apple saw the virus coming - Philip Elmer‑DeWitt

  • July 24, 2020 10:15am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Here is a bunch of Apple inconsistencies in design. On macOS Big Sur: you can add a widget by clicking on it, but not on iOS. Still on Big Sur, notifications are stacked on top of the widgets space on the right while on iOS they get their own space. Explain this to me, Apple.

  • July 24, 2020 8:15am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Misc

    To me, it is becoming clear every day that, it’s the virus who will bring down this clown in chief, stars are slowly aligning. apple.news

  • July 24, 2020 7:05am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    Interesting summary on Apple’s move to its own silicone for the Mac product line in light of recent Intel announcement of delays affecting 7nm chips. twitter.com/neilcybar…

  • July 24, 2020 7:00am
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

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    If anyone had doubts on why Apple is transitioning to its own silicon for the Mac: Intel is (again) delaying it’s 7nm chips to… 2022 or 2023. www.tomshardware.com/news/inte…

  • After 14 major iOS release... and yet...

    July 23, 2020 1:07pm
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    Everybody is talking about Apple Music new icon since Beta 3 but, think about this: after 14 versions of iOS, and here we are: the “More” “button” lingering bad design. How many times I try to hit this and I bring the detail view of the app instead. Frustrating.

    Let me be clear: wrong place, too small, text overlapping, not a real button.

    Come on, Apple!

    My suggestion: add a “Details” button accessible when sliding the table cell to the left (the same gesture that reveals a Delete button).

  • On Widgets Management Interfaces on iPhone

    July 23, 2020 1:00pm
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    Very valid complaint from Dieter Bohn of The Verge on Apple’s implementation of widgets management on iPhone. Two different user interfaces for basically the same objective. I prefer the look of the new design, but I understand the previous one is still there for compability purposes.

    iOS 14 Beta 3 brings back the « Edit » button at the (very inconvenient place) bottom of the list. Hitting the button brings you back unexpectedly to the top of the widgets list. Going back down the list and you’ll find a “Customize” button. Really? Also, tapping and holding on old widgets doesn’t invoke edit mode. Not very consistent. I should probably fill a feedback report and send it to Apple.

    I do think this is a transitional design. Transitions are rarely pleasant.

    twitter.com/backlon/s…

  • The race for the bottom of everything

    July 23, 2020 7:35am
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    On Apple’s 30% cut. Again.

    We all know where this all goes. Yesterday it was a deal. Today, 30% is way too much. So, let’s fight and try to force Apple to set the cut to 20%. No, 15%. That is way better, right? A few years down the road, a well known developer comes out and complain about 15% being way too much of a cut. Poor guy. Let’s start a fight and bring that down. Apple respond and set it to 10% because they are forced to. And the story continues.

    Let’s face the reality. We don’t like to pay for something. We want it all. We know the price of everything but the value of nothing. How do you think China came to be so powerful? How do you think Amazon or Costco is sucking air from small local businesses in our communities? Why do you think our life is full of shitty ads are everywhere? Why do you think we are the product of Google, Facebook? Because we don’t like to pay for something, anything. We want it all free.

    There is a pattern. There is a race for the bottom of everything. And I don’t agree in Brent’s views on what would happen if Apple lowers their demand from developers. I certainly don’t believe developers would lower the price of their apps.

    Remember what capitalism is all about?

    Change my mind.

    inessential.com/2020/07/2…

  • July 22, 2020 9:06pm
    Numeric Citizen Numeric Citizen

    Apple & Tech

    It is easy to forget what it was before the App Store and now complain about the 30% cut by Apple.

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