@andyn Out of curiosity, what do you use the mini for these days? I had a mini for a few weeks and was like “it’s basically the same screen size as my phone and with a worse screen” so I just used the phone all the time 😅
I mean this is absurd (Trump complaining that democrats won’t cheer him at his addresses).
The most mainstream slogan for Trump fans over the last 4 years, that was in flags in people’s yards in my neighborhood and on family minivan bumper stickers, was “fuck Joe Biden.”
I’ve gotten used to the new Photos app and don’t mind it much, but I will say I haven’t heard a single person in my offline life say they like it. Most seem to not like it and others don’t have a big opinion of it. https://www.threads.net/@thisistechtoday/post/DDCu2v-RdJk
This is actually it, this is the best analogy for using apps on the Vision Pro in my opinion: it feels similar to using apps on the Apple TV.
Given this analogy, is it any surprise that the seeming most popular things to do with the Vision Pro are watching movies and using a Mac? The first is literally replicating a TV and the other is doing the real computing interactions on a Mac.
Marco goes on to say that much like how the Apple TV and Apple Watch *can* be more general purpose computers, in both cases we learned pretty quickly that they worked better as specialized devices for a couple tasks. I think it’s too soon to say with confidence, but he wonders if this is what will happen with the Vision Pro as well.
You’ll all be very proud of me. At work someone was prepping a slide deck and needed some images. They fought with ChatGPT for hours to get something good, but it all looked terrible. They brought me in, I made them some graphics in like 10 minutes that looked so much better, and they were super happy.
When it comes to AI-generated images in your presentations, just say no ✌️
RE: my recent blog post about the timer and alarm UIs being opposite and confusing, Apple has addressed this in watchOS by giving them different interfaces when they’re going off.
Not saying this is perfect, but I’ve never heard someone say they get confused by what to do with these UIs.
If passkeys fizzle out, it’s 100% going to be because they demo well but implementations are all over the place and in most cases it’s more confusing than existing solutions.
PSA if you have a bug with an app, especially an indie app, you can often privately message the person who makes the app on social media with your issue rather than publicly complaining about the bug. They'll probably be happy you helped them find it!
Report your bugs, don't make them engagement bait :snake_salute: