Notices by Steve Troughton-Smith (stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social)

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura /Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15 *Pro* or higher/. It's not coming to older or slower devices

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura TL;DR the outlet that doesn’t take unattributed ‘on background’ information from Apple says it’s not fixed, and the news outlets that do take it say there’s a new display controller that fixes it. Draw your own conclusions

I would honestly fully support Apple splitting the iPad mini into two separate lines — remove some stuff to make the mini even cheaper than it is today, but have an iPad Pro 8.3-inch (M4) with everything the bigger models have. Give it that 5.1mm OLED design to make it the ultimate notepad/sketchpad

iPad mini battery life is pretty miserable as-is, without Stage Manager or ProMotion or Face ID. While I would love to see an M-series iPad mini Pro, with all the bells and whistles, I'm not convinced it can be done to that level with current battery technology. Not to mention the slower NAND they use for the mini actually has a noticeable impact in the sluggishness of the UI. I think a decked-out iPad mini would have to be a different product entirely — but I'd buy one for sure

Since this went pretty wide, here’s some more Leica for good measure, including tiny baby era

Leica’s #aurora photo bomb may just be the best picture I’ll ever take

‘Where are all the Vision Pro apps?’ begins and ends with Apple. Is this a computer, or is it a fancy Apple TV for rich people? Where is Pages and Numbers? Swift Playgrounds? Final Cut, Logic? iMovie? Native ports of Maps? Reminders? Calendar? Podcasts? Books? Most of these were glaring omissions /at launch/, but we’re fast approaching a year on (and we're well over a year since announcement) and there’s just been nothing.

This absolutely feels like Windows Phone/Windows 8 all over again

Great review of the iPhone camera by @becca.farsace, and harsh words for the Camera Control

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2LFBBxufDw

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura AirPods do this. They cost $150. Everybody already wants them

Really don’t like the change in Messages on Sequoia/iOS 18 to turn links in the text field into previews and masking their URLs, leaving all the tracking identifiers and YouTube timecodes. On macOS you get a menu item to turn it back into text, but then the receiver doesn’t get a link preview either

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura Swift is probably the most complex and complicated programming language native Apple development has ever had. But it is also pitched to students and learners. ‘Progressive disclosure'.

Frameworks that were built for this new Swift era often have a ‘Swift' prefix in the name, like SwiftUI

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura I have many other names for SwiftUI, and they're all unbroadcastable

@mikecane @WarnerCrocker @doctorlaura it's been rewritten in SwiftUI.

Welcome to my world.

‘The DMA isn’t prescriptive enough!’

Careful what you wish for. 😏 If you can’t follow the spirit of the law, get ready for the detailed specifications. The idea that Apple will somehow ‘win’ its ‘battle’ with the DMA is ridiculous. Follow the law in good faith or get buried in the paperwork
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/113163726247010286

Ah, so the ‘new' Flappy Bird is just a crypto mining scam? Figures

@bigzaphod he hasn't got his AirPod hearing aids in

macOS has adverts in the Sound menu now? 😑

@chad oh right. And I presume I can show the same thing from my apps? It's a public API, right?

😒

Figured I should look at Jetpack Compose (Android's SwiftUI) while I have Android Studio installed, so picked the most interesting looking sample code from the website (https://github.com/android/nowinandroid/tree/main)

I really didn't expect it to have 600 dependencies 😅

I'm guessing Patreon won't be allowed to tell its users *why* they're being gouged on iOS, because Apple doesn't allow anything like that that could embarrass Apple.

“We've never raised prices” my ass. Swooping into other peoples' markets and taxing them on revenue that has *nothing to do with you* is objectively worse than raising prices