Macworld: New iPads are coming. Does anyone care?
I do. My iPad Pro’s battery life sucks. Gotta have recharge options whenever it’s used.
I do. My iPad Pro’s battery life sucks. Gotta have recharge options whenever it’s used.
I’ve written about my switch from flip to smart (phone) long before. I really tussled with the concept of having work ‘chase’ me throughout the day. I delayed and delayed the decision, until I was considered a dinosaur amongst my competition.
I suspect the biggest detriment would be when I go to the grocery store; so many times, sold-out items require extensive discussion and agreement upon reasonable replacements. So say the broccoli is sold out or moldy - brussel sprouts or asparagus? Or something else? Such precision was never expected, pre-smartphone. And it never seemed important enough to require an actual phone call. We allowed creativity in vegetal interpretation without post-shop rancor.
(‘vegetal interpretation’ … God, I’m dying laughing at my brain right now … really rolling on the floor …)
Yesindeed. All urbanities face a reckoning. Coworking spaces are dead, dead, dead now. I thank my lucky stars; I had an intention to start one a couple of years ago. What a disaster that would have been.
It's not just about the secure app you might like; it's about the ecosystem of apps you're maintaining on your tech. See the note about 3/4 of the way down about Signal ...
Of course, the model I just purchased. Not especially concerned.
Fake celltowers, everywhere in Washington D.C.! Heaven forfend, they might have to talk face-to-face! I suspect this one may end up being more complex to permanently fix than these initial news reports.
Boo, hiss. Private discussions, you'd better use Signal or Keybase or similar.
"It no longer has to do with being socially isolated,” Perel said. “It has to do with experiencing a loss of trust and a loss of capital while you are next to the person with whom you’re not supposed to be lonely."
Sitting next to someone, face lit blue, doing the jiggery-pokery with their little screens, yeah. You see couples sitting, walking all over Santa Fe - faces glued to their screens. Every so often one of the pair will have a crestfallen look. But the photo here - could she be any happier about it all?
Take, for instance, the connected “killer kettle”. You can turn it on at the click of a smartphone app – even when the kettle is empty, creating a fire risk.
Not even Arthur C. Clarke thought up weaponizing robotic domestic appliances. Then again, could we call HAL 9000 a 'domestic appliance', if we squinted real hard?
The only reason I linked this, is because the Tumblr app on iPhone has been very unstable. First such incident I've noticed on iPhone in ages. And, of course, Tumblr's not mentioned. So I'll try purging memory or something ...
It's the wide-angle lenses. Anyone getting a nose job to please a smartphone is a complete and total idiot. Get someone else to take the photo for you. Another 12" can make all the difference. Or one of those fiddly selfie-sticks. Anything to get that smartphone out of your face for some real perspective.
Anyone got one? Like it? Looks interesting, appeals to the Bullet Journal/fountain pen sort of ethic (through a digital lens).
Useful! More space is always a good thing.
Of interest. My iPad Air has likely seen its last iOS update, given noises from Apple. A client had an iPad Pro (the huge one), and wow ... it was fast and sleek. Didn't get to fiddle with the Pen, however.
Anyone know if they've approached handwriting recognition, as the Newton did? I'm still jonesin' for that.
Er ... uh ... Grids for Instagram has done this for a while now. Another demerit, DPR.
Great. Snitched from Euan's LinkedIn feed, which I can't seem to directly link ...
I'm a bit late to the party, but thought this might help. My advice - wait it out, if it seems to be taking a long time. Apple's updates have gotten quite pokey on my 5s. It can be ten minutes or more sometimes (32GB 5s - a 16 can take even longer.)
So it's not really about speed. As with anything that eschews standards for its own modified version thereof, it's about lock-in.
Yeah, not a fan. Esp. if you're dealing with intellectual property.
All you are left with then is a feeling of dissatisfaction at the end of it which can only be satiated with something more rewarding. That means you could endlessly keep responding to notifications, instant messages and consuming content online but NEVER actually feel good about it.
My wife has taken a reprieve from all social media; Instagram was the hardest for her to leave. She says she's happier than she's been in ages. She had specifically avoided getting social'd and blogg'd as I have been, only to be sucked in by client requirements about three years ago. She's no less informed, really, because news trickles down in so many ways these days. She may not be day-current, but she's certainly week-current ... with the healthy realization that the only control one has over politics is your vote.