Agreed. While I agree that having alternative App Stores is a good thing, I’m not about to jump in myself and use the first one that comes along. I appreciate Apple’s drive for security and I want to see how things play out first.
That I can only use it for this app makes me want to just stick with my miyoo mini+ and not bother.
Another classic @apple_enthusiast post. Seriously, you folks and your binary logic.
The UI is still in there - you just need to turn parts of the View on.
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I think Steve would have canned it earlier. The money is better spent in AI and with that training, then maybe autonomous driving might make sense.
Oh grow up.
YouTube sucks balls, but people still want it and the dev, who made Apollo and is one of the best app makers out there, did what they could to make YT available quickly.
So now you’re shitting on him personally because he didn’t fulfill your crusade. Get a life or learn to program and get off your ass and do it yourself.
Jesus, people.
I updated and haven’t seen it in CarPlay yet. They might have pulled it in the rolling release.
I updated and haven’t seen it in CarPlay yet.
Well, for that you’d definitely need external power so you’re really looking at a dock and not a hub. CalDigit docks are amazing.
Same here. I love the look of the satachi and I prefer their tech, but all the ports in the front? Seriously?
There is such clear anti-Apple sentiment on most conversations here, it’s frustrating to post and I tend to avoid the channel more now. Some will say it’s their opinion that Apple is now evil and these kinds of stories are needed to combat fanboy enthusiasm. But - The channel is /c/apple-enthusiast; so yeah, we should be allowed to be a bit fanboyish.
I used to mod number of channels on Reddit, but especially on the Volkswagen ID.3 and electric vehicles channels there are so many people calling VW a pack of Nazis that I had to put a zero-tolerance in place so we can have decent conversations.
You can say it’s free an Internet and people should be allowed to do whatever they want, but we’re all a bit older than that… Right? You don’t open the movie house and then let people come in and yell fire; you don’t open a shooting gallery and allow people come in and take shots at other people. We should have civil rules on civility here.
Just my own opinion.
Edit: …and I argued for civility and was downvoted. It’s like Reddit all over again.
Bullshit.
Hey mods - does anyone ever look at these garbage anger-engine posts?
It’s not whataboutism - it’s a valid comparison of platforms in their space. Stop acting like your hate about Apple is valid and grow up.
@DAlpha - I’m not sure it matters these days. Apple Vision is both.
Edit: Am way old too, and yet I want to try it out badly.
There are plenty of headsets out there already, and by “most people” can I assume “not gamers”? Headsets are in use for most people and architectural work or design or gaming… Just not for people in general. It’s a niche.
The only reason for that is that there designs are based upon WHO they think their public IS and what they think the public can afford to buy. Their market defines the product, not the other way around.
But like the iPhone, Vision is going to redefine what you can do with a headset, and in that it will redefine who the market CAN BE.
When the price comes down enough maybe it will be for everybody, but for now, it will still be in niche item. It’s just that you’re gonna get a look at what a real headset can do, and I look forward to having my mind blown.
Like the Mac or the iPhone, you can’t tell until you start using it.
Never forget how much everyone balked at the phone because it didn’t have buttons or that it was too expensive. And then they used it.
You can charge faster but phone batteries aren’t liquid-cooled like EVs, so heat generated during high-speed charging will degrade that battery over time. That’s just chemistry and physics.
Apple isn’t about to get burnt by battery lifespan issues a second time.
First off, thank you for speaking to me as a person and not in tirade-mode. I think, though, this also partially encapsulates the issue and arguments past.
Whether the stores themselves are complicit in this or not ignores a basic consideration - you can have free apps and there’s no charge to the developer (outside of possibly the developer license). I personally think the Subscription problem is more about the greed of some devs than micro transactions.
There’s a time and place for subscription. That’s the one point missed in this argument, which tends to be absolutist against any kind of renumeration outside of the initial spend by the consumer.
Not every app deserves a subscription, and 90% of the apps in any app store probably have no reason to exist – so many copies of apps, rehashes, one-tweak-wonders, etc. A smart consumer shouldn’t give these the time of day, but that they exist in the volumes they do suggests there are plenty of unwise consumers out there.
There are, though, likely thousands of apps or games that deserve to exist, and often expand on their utility in each release and offer features not normally on the base OS.
For instance, something like Infuse - it’s a godsend for anyone who doesn’t want a media server but does have a hard disk they can plug into their home base station. They also let you use formats that aren’t otherwise available on any of the OSs, license Dolby to the platform, adds spacial audio, helps with organization and grouping and is a knock-out player.
I personally love its constant development and don’t mind updating my license yearly. I could stop and still have the use of the version I paid up to, but man alive - do some people complain about paying for it. But that’s their choice, right? Use the simple version for free, or use another app like Plex or VLC - what’ the problem? Still - you can barely have a conversation about it without a big thread battle about “subscriptions”…
My ultimate point is we, the consumer, have to be better at our part of the process.
There are good apps where a subscription makes sense. There are others where you should turn your back immediately, to the app and likely the developer - there are some stupidly greedy apps out there. But also there are other apps where they are free or a fixed price…they probably live in obscurity.
Instead of arguing about whether there should ever be a subscription basis to an app, why not just try something else, or recommend a better, cheaper app? I’m tired and salty from the binary nature of this argument - there are so many other options, and yet so much time and energy wasted on a pointless battle.
I cannot wait to get out of IT. I’ve been coding since the early 90s, but every new fucking generation thinks they’re the shit, has opinions their experience can’t back up and decides they’re the only true way.
Typical - can’t respect any other experience in coding other than your own, or any other opinion on how an application should be coded.
I maintain my earlier opinion - you’re such hot shit; go make your own apps and let other devs do what they want. You’re not their audience, so why the fuck do you have to shit on anything when you can’t put up your own work??
It’s also basically a dev kit. $1.4B is not nothing.