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kkolakowski

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iOS & games developer, solo army of oneminutegames@gamedev.place 🙂

Also interested in retro computing and various other tech stuff 🤓

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stroughtonsmith, to random
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Every time I see some B-roll with a MacBook entering Mission Control or Exposé, it makes me wish iPad had that instead of Stage Manager. Unlimited windows, that can be tiled on a key press, and Fullscreen Spaces that you can flip through with the trackpad

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith And for every WWDC I DREAM that Apple will finally add ability to close windows directly from Mission Control 🤷‍♂️😅

craiggrannell, (edited ) to Netflix
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I mean, if ever I needed more persuading that my #Netflix sub can go away, this is it. (We still have two pre-4K Apple TVs. One is used on my tiny office TV. It works perfectly well with every other service, and so Netflix can go do one.)

Edit: to clarify, HD onwards will work with Netflix. Pre-HD (and pre-tvOS) will not. It’ll be interesting to see how rapidly everyone else does the same. (IIRC, Prime still worked on those old boxes.)

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell Oh well... that's unfortunate 🤔 I still use my "original" Apple TV 1080p occasionally in my other apartment with 1080p TV - and it works perfectly fine, it supports the most recent tvOS!

Weird decision but it also might mean that the next tvOS will finally drop support for those devices.

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell Apple TV HD seems to indeed last forever, it's the last Apple A8 based device that runs current OS (A8 was used in... iPhone 6)

But as @alexjsp properly noted - the mail is about those olders, pre-tvOS Apple TVs, not the "HD" ones. So... not yet!

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell So this meant those older units only. Which makes sense, it would be weird for Netflix to stop support devices that were still sold barely 2 years ago I think (Apple TV HD?)

marcoarment, to random
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Lots of people (including Apple) put full-color icons on each top-level row in Settings these days.

I'm experimenting with using monochrome SF Symbols there. I may not ship it this way, but it's kinda fun, and it lets me use the same icons that are used for the corresponding features throughout the rest of the app.

Maybe that improves consistency and understanding, especially since I don't currently have localized strings.

kkolakowski,
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@marcoarment I don't like monochrome ones (WhatsApp changed recently to those and it's incredibly dull)

I like color-coded ones, for different groups of settings for example. Or with some background (like in Settings app)

marcoarment, to random
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Do we have a standard "opens external app" SF Symbol?

I'm using “arrow.up.forward" here, but I don't know if there's a more canonical one.

(Tapping this button opens the iOS Settings app to my app's notification settings via UIApplication.openNotificationSettingsURLString.)

kkolakowski,
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@marcoarment Yeah, this one!

I use it for any link that opens something externally, like some external app, settings, or website in external Safari.

Migueldeicaza, to random
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I find myself using the FreeForm, the MacOS built-in app more and more for simple collages, annotations and drawings.

Very pleased with it, and the sharing across my devices is a plus.

kkolakowski,
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@Migueldeicaza You use it with a mouse/touchpad? 🤔 I always thought it's more sensible (and truly designed for) on iPads and Apple Pencil...

craiggrannell, to random
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Judging by what I’m seeing, Apple is using a lot of automation of late in app review. And it’s not going well.

From: @jandamm
https://iosdev.space/@jandamm/112513498957185543

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell They always did - it’s literally impossible to human-review thousands of apps per day. I bet there're few steps & tiers for that, depending if that's an update, how long there was no human review etc..

stroughtonsmith, to random
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But from what I’ve heard, this runs macOS. You know what that means, though? iPadOS couldn’t get us there, so Apple is making bets in other places — like a touch-based macOS. But why would Apple maintain two touch-based computing platforms? Do they even have that bandwidth? Is this perhaps where iPad Pro will end up in a few years time? Will macOS gain a much more SpringBoard-like layer, and then replace iPadOS entirely on the top end iPads?
https://mastodon.social/@iryantldr/112490741955327005

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell @stroughtonsmith For me it was rather a try to make windowing system: but we HAVE to make it different than 35 year old conventions 🤷‍♂️

It seems that this issue was basically nailed with first Macintosh, and really this is some kind of global or at least local optimum for this class of problem.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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I'm struggling to see an acquisition path for Humane; what unique technology would a potential acquirer be picking up? The hand projector? Software wise any AI features they've demonstrated so far (even if working as advertised) are going to be rapidly outstripped by newer, better models. A talent acquisition? They certainly have some beautiful industrial design, but you don't really need to buy the entire company if you want to poach that. Brand? 😅

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith I can imagine Apple here (probably they too 😅) - their technology might be applied to Apple Watch or some other wearable that Apple might try to do as well. But as you said, can't Apple, with their potential, just copy the good stuff and hire their best people? 😅

simonbs, to random
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One of my pet peeves with ChatGPT’s UI on every platform I’ve tried is the prominence of old conversations in the UI. I view my chats with ChatGPT as ephemeral, not something I want to keep around.

kkolakowski,
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@simonbs Oh yeah, exactly my thoughts. Ephemeral chats should be default: archived afterwards (but searchable if needed!), with user allowed to "pin" or "bookmark" conversations it found useful. That's it.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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How long before we start trying to cram an LLM into a space probe to act as a potential interactive digital ambassador containing the wealth of human knowledge? A time capsule that could encapsulate and preserve our culture, languages, history for thousands of years, fired into the cosmos. It is almost certainly going to happen

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith Hmm, but maybe giving potential aliens „full” knowledge about us without even knowing their intentions and potential is not a really good idea? 😅

Seriously, we know nothing about potential aliens. How they think, react, what (if any) are their moral systems. Just giving up such amount of informations about us (even if vetted, or incomplete) seems to be slightly dangerous.

krzyzanowskim, to random
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my big privacy related question is: why (seriously why) Apple keeps deleted photos on their servers indefinitely? for what really? and how that aligned with the privacy of the iPhone statements

bugs happens. that is not just a bug. that is a bug that surfaces the questionable design decisions.

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/17/ios-17-5-bug-wiped-devices-photos-resurfacing/

kkolakowski,
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@krzyzanowskim I bet those reports are incorrect - simple as that, people are not good at that at all. It would be almost impossible for a scenario like that. They sync by the device UUID or what?

I wouldn't believe it 🤷‍♂️

verge, to random
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The Delta Emulator is changing its logo after Adobe threatened it https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24159268/delta-emulator-logo-change-app

kkolakowski,
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@verge You guys should be afraid as well 😎

kkolakowski, to apple
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It is quite weird that before WWDC nobody is even talking about #visionos 😅 No wishlists, no requests, no angry users that wants more out of it 🤷‍♂️

All of the rage seems to be about the iPad. It's worth to note though that Vision Pro would benefit from iPadOS changes as well.

craiggrannell, to random
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Quick question: what are you hoping for Apple to reveal at WWDC this year? I’m writing a piece and it’d be useful to get insight into improvements devs and anyone else hopes Apple makes or new things it introduces (and how they are achieved).

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell Oh boy, a lot!

  • AI: Apple needs something huge here, and fast, fortunately for them, their OS'es are perfectly ready for deep AI integration thanks to Siri integration and Shortcuts

  • iPad improvements: relaxed AppStore policies regarding VMs, shells, IDEs; REAL background operation capabilities; multi-users support; further improvements in Files & Stage Manager

  • Refocus macOS as "workstation OS" again, which would help further distinguish iPadOS & macOS

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Both computers on my desk each have a 27" 4K Dell display at 1080p@2x and I wouldn't have it any other way.

You will never recover the eyesight you destroy now by pushing usable screen space over comfort
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112367242770869662

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith 1080p on 27 inch is probably too big though, but 4K @ 27 inch - also. 5K at 2x scaling is the perfect spot here IMO - and Apple nailed those proportions 🤷‍♂️

Right now I have 28 inch 3:2 display with a 4k+ res also scaled at 150% to match those sweet iMac 5K points size…

stroughtonsmith, to random
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I wonder if the DMA would have happened at all if Apple had actually let Epic back on the App Store at the end of their trial like they lied and said they would 🫠

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith For sure it wouldn't happen if Apple simply allowed for a sideloading few years ago - they could even pack it as a "feature”. No third-party stores, just simple sideloading made with little effort by expanding their Enterprise Provisioning. Even stripped from some AppStore-specific features.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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iPad has probably had the most dramatic shift of all of Apple's platforms, since its inception. It began as doing very few things to a very high quality, but now it does almost everything, badly. I hope history finds it to have been more than just an incubator for Apple's Mac silicon during the wayward years

kkolakowski,
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@stroughtonsmith Apple still might have a chance though - but it needs a will from them!

Hardware is here - only software is the issue, they could really "fix" most of the most important roadblocks within one OS update cycle 🤷‍♂️ They just don't want to.

I remember when they introduced Face ID for iPads Pro in 2018 - I thought: "ok, so this time we'll REALLY add multiple users support and it'll be AWESOME experience!”

It was 6 years ago... 👴

simonbs, to random
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Just Safari deciding that it no longer needs to render a website entirely 😑

This browser has me so frustrated.

kkolakowski,
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@simonbs To be perfectly honest: while I’m having some minor issues with Safari form time to time - those are nowhere near the issues you seems to have 🤔

Thinking about possible other reasons for that - network issues?

craiggrannell, to random
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Needed to turn off Screen Time temporarily. Apple: “bollocks to you, then”. Infers the set-up is wiped and has me start from scratch. I go through the set-up, and it merges the new one with what was already there. But the block set-ups have been randomly wiped.

Stellar UX, there, Apple. Parents rejoicing. Etc.

kkolakowski,
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@craiggrannell Oh yeah, it would be very nice to be able to temporarily disable screen time, but apparently it's not really possible 🤷‍♂️

Second thing would be disable it for all apps/websites for example: but that seems to be unavailable as well.

charliemchapman, to random
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Struggling to think of what could convince me to upgrade from my 2018 11in iPad Pro

It's pretty much a Photoshop & airplane movie machine for me now. So I guess some tangible upgrade to the pencil, or if they manage to make it thinner/lighter or (gasp) fold 😄 https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112320928051400405

kkolakowski,
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@charliemchapman Why thinner-lighter? 🤔

I have the same model - it really is the „ok" size & weight (although I keep it mostly on some holder/Magic Keyboard or hold on my laps)

Thinner & ligher usually means worse battery, worse thermals. Even if battery time will stay the same in theory, it would've been longer with bigger size.

kkolakowski,
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@charliemchapman You carry it with Magic Keyboard maybe? Because this combo weights indeed a lot - more than a MacBook Air basically 😅

What iPads needs now though, is more capable OS:

  • real background operations
  • allow for real IDEs, VMs, shells
  • multi-user support
kkolakowski,
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@charliemchapman I have so weird feelings for iPads these days. From one side: I love the device & form factor! It's a perfect mobile computer. A tablet by day - perfect for content consumption, and a laptop if needed (with Magic Keyboard). And Apple Pencil as a great accessory as well (I don't have one though).

Apple could make it a fantastic, universal computer - they run literally the same hardware as Macs now - but they choose not to, and basically keep it as a „bigger iPhone" 🤷‍♂️

_Davidsmith, to random
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Today is one of those classic development days where I had put off dealing with a tricky design/UX problem during the initial creation of a feature (offline maps in Pedometer++), which I now have to solve (deleting old maps).

I didn't address it the first time because I didn't have a great answer and I hoped that after using the feature for a while the solution would come to me [narrator: it did not], but now I really kinda need to find an answer.

So I am basically this meme now.

Tom Scott saying “That was a problem for future me, and now I am future me”.

kkolakowski,
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@_Davidsmith Related heresy 🫣: I don't think we need databases and ORM systems (like CoreData) for MOST apps that are dealing with data these days 🫣

People seems to forgot how much data you can fit in just few megabytes. That's tens of thousands of records sometimes! Depending on model of course.

You can read all of it from some JSON in a blink of an eye (miliseconds!), keep it in RAM and occasionally save back to disk on separate thread 🤷‍♂️

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