I cannot, for the life of me, get my head around the #iPhone’s storage restrictions, iCloud or otherwise. Yesterday I deleted a 1Gb audiobook and half a dozen podcasts. Today I put a 500Mb audiobook on it and now it’s not even letting me refresh my mail, that’s how full it apparently is. No other apps updated or anything. Don’t understand the math.
In this week’s Disconnect Roundup: Apple’s new products are flops, so it’s going back to what Tim Cook knows best: raising prices to get more out of existing customers.
Plus, recommended reads, labor updates, and other news you might have missed.
The view from my hotel room in Kampen, where I’m staying for a few days to play at a wonderful chamber music festival. In the picture the huge cathedral that towers over the town. #iphone#blackandwhitephotography#Netherlands#music#ontour
In case you ever wondered how you can find out the current price of an app you bought in the past, it’s “easy”: Click on the share icon and choose “Gift App”. The dialog will show the current price in the summary at the top. #ios#iphone#apple
It's insane thinking about how #iPhone has nailed touch scrolling right out of the bat from the first phone, and #Android phones still have not figured out how to do it right. Not just on touchscreens but on trackpads too, only #Apple has managed making something as "simple" as touch scrolling as intuitive, magical, and true to life (instant response, the exact amount of weight and inertia as you'd expect from what you just did with your finger) SYSTEM WIDE (and not app-dependent) while #Windows laptops still makes you feel like you're better off with a mouse. I use an Apple Magic Trackpad on my #Linux PC and it feels great and was one of the best investments I've made, but it will never be as good as it'd be on #macOS and that feels like a crime. Since no one has figured it out, I unjokingly wish the EU or CCP make it compulsory for Apple to teach everyone else in the industry how to implement this seemingly simple thing, so right.
My #iPhone is barely half a year old and already the haptic motor seems to be failing? 😳 There’s a sharp clicking sound / rap on the back of my phone on some vibrations. Seems unrelatedly the actual strength of the haptic feedback and only happens about once in every three or four vibrations, but it’s concerning.
It appears that this supposed iOS/iCloud bug could be troublesome. If you updated. your iOS device recently, your old deleted photos from COVID-times might have undeleted themselves...
This is probably why you should self-host your own cloud storage if you know what you're doing.
Apple’s industry-defining products made it the juggernaut it is today. But as iPhone sales continue to stagnate and the Vision Pro vastly underperforms, the company’s long-term prospects look increasingly dicey.
Am I the only one who would much rather an extra 10–20% battery life over having a slightly thinner #Apple#iPad? And same for #iPhone. Every single year.
Now released: Version 1.1 for iPhone, iPad, and macOS, with new rain and wind chart options, and localizations in French, German, and Italian. Thanks so much to the testers that helped me refine the translations. Any mistakes are my own, please let me know if anything doesn't seem quite right!
Here’s my iPhone box collection. I have the iPhones still. Does anyone else keep the boxes, even when they have no intention of selling them for the foreseeable future?
I just went out back and took a photo and I'm pretending that the sky is just a tiny bit purple there toward the bottom. 🤣☹️ #Aurora#Kansas#MissedItByThatMuch#iphone
I'm thinking about printing a flip-down MagSafe iPhone charger to mount under the kitchen cupboard. This is kind of the idea. I'm still working out how to route the cord. I'm imagining magnets to hold it in position either flipped down or flipped up, but haven't modeled those either.