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24 votes
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Meta starts licensing headset OS in battle with Apple
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I just switched to an iPhone, what should I do to make the most of this change?
Basically the title. I've been an Android user since 2012, but have have an iPad and a Macbook that I really like, especially how well they work together. My pixel 5 was on its way out, so I...
Basically the title. I've been an Android user since 2012, but have have an iPad and a Macbook that I really like, especially how well they work together. My pixel 5 was on its way out, so I finally took the plunge and bought an iPhone 15 Pro earlier this week. I'm still getting everything set up, and I'm particularly excited to play with the different focus modes and shortcuts. I'm curious what apps and features should I be using to make the most of this switch?
38 votes -
Making the Macintosh: Technology and culture in Silicon Valley
11 votes -
The story of The Oregon Trail
18 votes -
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store
33 votes -
Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
24 votes -
Sideloading with iOS 17.4: any use cases?
It’s been a few weeks now since the release of iOS 17.4, which […] provides new options for app marketplaces, web browsers and payments for residents of the European Union. […] Now, don’t get me...
It’s been a few weeks now since the release of iOS 17.4, which
[…] provides new options for app marketplaces, web browsers and payments for residents of the European Union. […]
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am a firm believer in the underlying regulation to it, and have been ever since the possibility of this becoming a reality was in the Brussels air. But so far, I haven’t really been able to come up with a truly practical use case.
Furthermore, I haven’t seen any marketing for an Epic Store, Meta Store, or similar “app marketplaces”, but this may be attributed to the still rather… wobbly legal situation surrounding, notably, still having to direct payments to Apple while not using their store for app distribution. I don’t think there has been any follow-up from Apple (or the EU) that retracts these conditions.
So: Have any fellow EU resident ~tech’ies done anything fun or interesting with this new freedom yet?
To those not affected by this regulation, what would you like to “sideload”, or are perhaps already sideloading on Android?
Do any of you think big companies will move their entire palette onto an alternative store anytime soon, e.g. Facebook and sister products? To be honest, I doubt this will happen, otherwise it would’ve long occurred on the Google Play Store as well.
My ideas were:
- I’ve thought about trying to install Minecraft (the full version, probably using Pojav), or a game of similar caliber, on my phone just for fun and to see how well the iPhone GPU really fares against a “real” game, but didn’t find the time yet for looking into it.
- Also personally, I’d love to see a real “root-capable” shell on iOS, but I don’t think that will ever be a thing irrespective of how much sideloading Apple is forced to allow into their OS.
9 votes -
Introducing AltStore PAL
7 votes -
Fly Me To The Moon | Official trailer
8 votes -
Hard cider - making old orchards new again
15 votes -
Apple's $3500 nightmare
47 votes -
Will the Apple antitrust case affect your phone’s security?
15 votes -
Recent ‘MFA bombing’ attacks targeting Apple users
8 votes -
Apple releases macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 with fix for USB hub bug, and Java crashes
11 votes -
Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit
95 votes -
California judge rules lawsuit over Apple AirTag stalking claims can proceed
10 votes -
Cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS.
25 votes -
The FBI’s new tactic: Catching American suspects with push alerts
32 votes -
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin | Official trailer
24 votes -
Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a ‘threat’ to the iOS ecosystem
57 votes -
Inside Apple Arcade: axed games, declining payouts, disillusioned studios – and an uncertain future
30 votes -
What a bunch of A-list celebs taught me about how to use my phone
47 votes -
EU fines Apple €1.8bn over App Store restrictions on music streaming
26 votes -
Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series
32 votes -
Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey
32 votes -
Danish man on trial over accusations he fraudulently made more than £502,000 in royalties on music streaming sites
9 votes -
Frequent/long-term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways
17 votes -
Apple on course to break all Web Apps in EU within twenty days
37 votes -
Using work OSX machine while travelling
I will shortly be travelling for work. I do not have the capacity to bring anything other than my work machine. In addition to working every day I would like to: legally stream movies in the...
I will shortly be travelling for work. I do not have the capacity to bring anything other than my work machine. In addition to working every day I would like to: legally stream movies in the evening, work on writing, email friends etc. At home of course I use a separate laptop for this but in this case I won't have that option. Any thoughts on how best to achieve a separation of concerns while travelling? How do people on Tildes manage this case?
p.s I know in a best case scenario it's not ideal, hence my behaviour at home, I just need a working method for this particular case.
12 votes -
Help: iPhone SE (2020) home button not working; “Unable to Activate Touch ID”
Really hoping there’s an easy fix for this, because it’s making using my phone a pain. Relevant info: I never actually set up a fingerprint, and have only used passwords. phone memory is almost...
Really hoping there’s an easy fix for this, because it’s making using my phone a pain. Relevant info:
- I never actually set up a fingerprint, and have only used passwords.
- phone memory is almost full (I have too many photos I still haven’t offloaded, I don’t use iCloud)
- I did drop the phone earlier today, but there was no visible external damage
- case does not cover the home button
- I’ve tried force restart, it didn’t work
7 votes -
MIT PhD student hacks Apple Vision Pro days after release, reveals potential jailbreaks and malware threats
19 votes -
Apple Original Films’ ‘Argylle’ with C+ CinemaScore and near $17m opening isn’t cutting it at weekend box office
17 votes -
Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
56 votes -
Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
35 votes -
Is Apple Music on Android good?
So before the question let me add some context: I'm planning to move from iOS to Android, mostly because how difficult is to backup photos from iPhone into my computer. I don't want my photos on...
So before the question let me add some context: I'm planning to move from iOS to Android, mostly because how difficult is to backup photos from iPhone into my computer. I don't want my photos on iCloud so I make my backups copying all the photos and videos into my computer, I currently use Fedora Linux and keep my photo library on digiKam which I think is better than the Apple Photos app for Desktop. It certainly was easier when I used my Macbook for that, but being a Macbook from 2015 the battery is almost dead and I no longer use it.
Recently I saw reviews for Android phones from last year and fell in love with the Asus Zenfone 10, I love small phones and that one looks amazing, but I'm still tied to the Apple ecosystem, and the service that I would miss the most from them is Apple Music. So that is actually the only reason that I'm still using an iPhone, (that and the camera which was pretty amazing back when my iPhone13 was released).
So I'll have several options:
- Keep using iOS and suck it up, maybe even giving up and doing my backups to iCloud (it's 10 years worth of photos and videos).
- Move to android and use Spotify like everyone else. (I really don't want to go back to Spotify so that's the last thing I want to do).
- Use Apple Music for Android. Which I really don't know how good or bad it is. I'm even surprised that there's a version for Android.
- Just have an mp3 library like in the good old days. This is a viable solution since I listen to music almost exclusively by albums and it's easier to download music album by album than song by song. But that also means I'll need to be caring around my music library and making backups of it.
So the question is: have anyone here used Apple Music on Android? Is it good?.
16 votes -
Google formally endorses right to repair, will lobby to pass repair laws
25 votes -
iPhone survives falling 16,000ft (4,876m) from airplane
13 votes -
4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever
43 votes -
Clicks: Physical keyboard for iPhone
32 votes -
My favorite MacOS Sonoma feature makes connecting to another Mac a breeze
6 votes -
History of the Graphical User Interface (GUI): A wonderful curse
7 votes -
Fixing Macs door-to-door
13 votes -
India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
19 votes -
Beeper - Moving forward
41 votes -
Apple to halt sales of latest smartwatches over patent dispute
23 votes -
Beeper Mini is back
45 votes -
How to disable Mac prompt to connect to iCloud
Long story short--I don't want to connect my mac to my iCloud account, but every time I login to my laptop, I get three popups in a row that say "This Mac Can't connect to iCloud because of a...
Long story short--I don't want to connect my mac to my iCloud account, but every time I login to my laptop, I get three popups in a row that say "This Mac Can't connect to iCloud because of a problem with [my email] ...".
I can't find a setting that allows me to disable this, and online searches have been fruitless.
9 votes -
Alexander Skarsgård stars in ‘Murderbot’ sci-fi series ordered by Apple
26 votes -
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android
64 votes -
US senator warns governments are spying on Apple and Google users via push notifications
38 votes -
Netflix and Apple open door to bundling with streaming rivals
18 votes -
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
66 votes -
Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal
58 votes -
The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard
16 votes -
Claire Saffitz cooks her ideal Thanksgiving start to finish
10 votes -
Apple reaches $25M settlement with the DOJ for discriminating against US residents during hiring
27 votes -
Masters of the Air | Official teaser
7 votes -
Should I switch to Apple Music or stick with Spotify?
Spotify recently increased their price, making it the same price as Apple's service. I've had Spotify since 2016 (started with the free version), and got premium in 2018 when they had the college...
Spotify recently increased their price, making it the same price as Apple's service. I've had Spotify since 2016 (started with the free version), and got premium in 2018 when they had the college student deal where you would get that and Hulu for only five bucks a month. I've been an off and on Premium subscriber since 2019. Only re-subscribing to it when Spotify would send me offers to sign up for three months for the price of one. This is actually the first year that I've consistently had Spotify all year since I was in college.
But now that they're the same price I was wondering if I should switch over. I don't want to get into the whole quality thing and lossless (I don't even know what that is) but I haven't been happy with Spotify's algorithm for a while. Streaming services have always been how I discovered new music, going back to me using Pandora while I was in high school. But now Spotify keeps suggesting the same songs whenever it's on smart shuffle. For example, if I play a song from the late 60s or early 70s, I know the next song Spotify plays is going to be Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Whenever I play an indie pop song, like a Lana Del Rey song or something, I know that the next song is going to be Borderline by Tame Impala.
I'm kind of sick of it at this point, and I feel like it's limiting the scope of what I'm listening to. I'm not sure what Apple Music's algorithm is like, I've heard mixed things with some saying it's better than Spotify and others saying it's worse.
I'm also happy taking recommendations on other things to do or try with Spotify to correct this.
27 votes -
Can Windows make the jump to ARM like Apple did?
I'm seeing a lot of news in my feed about Qualcomm chips approaching laptop performance, such as...
I'm seeing a lot of news in my feed about Qualcomm chips approaching laptop performance, such as
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/qualcomm_x_elite/
Will this turn out any better than the last few times Microsoft tried to break away from Intel? Would you want such a laptop? Will it wake Intel out of its complacency?
33 votes -
Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China
65 votes -
Is there a reason the iPad pro "scans" your house every minute?
My wife has an ipad pro, and we have a baby monitor. So I was watching the baby monitor and noticed that her ipad was also in view of the camera. What I also noticed is that her ipad seems to...
My wife has an ipad pro, and we have a baby monitor. So I was watching the baby monitor and noticed that her ipad was also in view of the camera. What I also noticed is that her ipad seems to flash an infrared light every minute or so.
After some googling I think this is the lidar scanner, although I'm not 100% sure.
Anyway, does anyone know why her ipad is doing this? It feels pretty creepy that a device is scanning your house all the time. Normally you don't even notice, it's only when you view the iPad pro from a camera that also shows infrared.
Maybe I'm just a little paranoid, but it feels like a privacy violation.
10 votes -
Memories of Steve
7 votes -
Text editing on mobile isn’t ok. It’s actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates.
120 votes -
Critical 0day in WebP: Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 base score.
28 votes -
iOS 17 could break crucial diabetic glucose monitor alerts, manufacturer warns
23 votes -
iPhone 15 Pro Max: A gateway drug for Android users
22 votes -
Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters
13 votes -
iOS 17 is available for iPhone users
39 votes -
iFixit drastically and retroactively reduces ‘Repairability Score’ of the iPhone 14 because of error messages Apple sends if "nongenuine" parts are used
74 votes -
The iPhone 12 emits too much radiation and Apple must take it off the market, French agency says
39 votes -
A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials
27 votes -
California passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring seven years of parts
39 votes -
Apple unveils iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
48 votes -
All Apple users are recommended to immediately update their devices to patch a zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
102 votes -
EU ‘gatekeeper’ list has five American and no European companies
43 votes -
Monarch: Legacy of Monsters | Official teaser
6 votes -
Apple threatens to pull FaceTime and iMessage in the UK over proposed surveillance law changes
71 votes -
iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro rumored to feature big boost in battery sizes
16 votes -
iPhone 14, 14 Pro owners complain about battery capacity that’s already falling off
36 votes -
Apple’s decision to kill its CSAM photo-scanning tool sparks fresh controversy
24 votes -
Apple announces the iPhone 15 launch event
23 votes -
Apple formally endorses right to repair US legislation after spending millions fighting it
67 votes -
“The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt
9 votes -
Flora and Son | Official trailer
5 votes -
TikTok’s plan to take on Spotify and Apple Music
13 votes -
Unknown tracker alert on Android
I just received an Unknown Tracker alert on my Pixel 7 running Android 14 beta 5 for an Apple air tag that was on my son in laws key chain as I had borrowed his car. I heard this was coming but...
I just received an Unknown Tracker alert on my Pixel 7 running Android 14 beta 5 for an Apple air tag that was on my son in laws key chain as I had borrowed his car.
I heard this was coming but didn't expect it so soon!
Quite impressed with both the information given and the general advice and steps to take offered.
The first notification was "Tracker Travelling With You: Unknown Apple air tag detected. The owner can see your location."
Touching "more info" then shows a map of where the tracker has been with me and the option to make the tracker play a sound to help locate it, with a note that the owner won't know you've done that.
Then more advice and options:
- If you feel unsafe, get help.
- Get and save tracker info
- Disable the tracker (with a how-to guide on battery removal)
And a ”need more help" link.
As I said, I had heard about this coming but was pleasantly surprised at how good it was and the general advice and help offered up.
Nice seeing things like this done right.
34 votes -
New Apple Music player from iOS 17 coming soon to Android app
6 votes -
On attestation on the web and why this could threaten the open web
13 votes -
Apple tests ‘Apple GPT,’ develops generative AI tools to catch OpenAI
17 votes -
Apple Vision Pro headsets will require a head scan and vision prescription to customize the headset for each user
29 votes -
Mac shipments grow 10%, as all major PC brands see downturns
10 votes -
The robots are coming ― to pick Northwest apples
10 votes -
Is Apple's "walled garden" as bad as it was when the first few iPhones came out?
I've never owned macs for desktop use because of the expense and my general preference for windows pcs. I had a first or second gen iPhone and was incredibly frustrated by how limited it was - you...
I've never owned macs for desktop use because of the expense and my general preference for windows pcs.
I had a first or second gen iPhone and was incredibly frustrated by how limited it was - you couldn't set an alternate default browser, access your own file system, customize you home screen, etc, etc. So I've been an Android user since then.
I'm not really looking to make a switch for either phone or PC, but my brother bought an Apple watch which spurred a conversation that made me realize I don't really know if the issues that bugged me about Apple are still relevant in 2023.
Anyone want to weigh in?
32 votes -
How Apple's new Mac Pro completely misses the point
33 votes -
Killers of the Flower Moon | Official trailer
18 votes -
Thoughts on the Proton app suite on Apple products?
I am curious to see what other peoples experience has been with all of their apps? I made the decision to switch to proton for mail, drive, calendar and vpn 7 months ago. I wanted to get away from...
I am curious to see what other peoples experience has been with all of their apps?
I made the decision to switch to proton for mail, drive, calendar and vpn 7 months ago. I wanted to get away from having all my stuff tied to apple/google/microsoft. While it has been pretty solid for the most part, especially with android. The same cannot be said for their iOS/iPadOS apps at all. This will be my personal observation from my experience with iOS/iPadOS apps.
Mail - Pretty solid all around experience, timely notifications on incoming mail. I have 4 email addresses setup based on the type of account I used for them. I only get bothered by the emails that I would need to see and the rest get checked around once a day. Recently the whole app on both iPad and iPhone has just slowed down so much. Opening the app is frustratingly slow, while everything loads in. I will get a new email and click on the notification and the app will sometimes load the last email I viewed and not the one from the notification. I have cleared the cache and signed out and then back in and it still has this behavior.
Drive - This one is the biggest pain point for me. On iPhone the app crashes when you try to watch a video in landscape mode. This is a pretty basic feature in 2023 if you ask me. I did report the bug, to which they said they are aware and have no timeline for when it will be fixed. The next biggest issue with drive on iOS/iPadOS is that you can only upload 1 file at a time. If you do multiple files if not all, almost all of them will fail to upload. You have to do it 1 file at a time. Reported this and was told the same thing I was about the landscape mode. Seems odd to not want to fix a core function of a cloud storage app as soon as possible.
VPN - I really enjoy this vpn and have paid for just the vpn in past. Now it constantly disconnects or gets stuck in connecting. I can’t use quick connect unless I manually pick a country connect then disconnect. After that I can use quick connect with out any issues. This happens without having secure core toggle on. This is happening on both my iPad and iPhone. Waiting on them to actually help trouble shoot this after sending them a bug report.
Calendar - Is the most useless app they have every put out. I was so excited to finally dial this calendar app in when I got my iPad. Only to find out that they don’t have an iPad version of their calendar. Which makes no sense because that is an app that can really shine on an iPad when do well. This whole app just feels like an after thought and they only have it just to say we have a calendar app too.
I feel that compared to when I started using all of their apps back in December. The quality and stability of the apps has really taken a hit. I understand that they probably have a focus on building their brand with an app suite based on privacy. I feel like the quality is really taking a hit especially with iOS/iPadOS versions of the apps. The obvious answer is to just switch back to android and save myself the headache of apple. The reason for apple is a whole post in its own and I want to keep this one on topic.
For clarification, I have been using the iOS versions since December. I was switching between pixel 7 pro and 14 pro max every few weeks. Having an eco system of apps not based on either platform was also why I chose proton everything.
11 votes -
iPhone support -- SMS verification codes not appearing as autofill. Help?
My phone used to autofill the 2-factor SMS verification codes used when logging into a site. I can't remember when or why, but suddenly it doesn't appear, and I have to... (gasp) type in the SMS...
My phone used to autofill the 2-factor SMS verification codes used when logging into a site. I can't remember when or why, but suddenly it doesn't appear, and I have to... (gasp) type in the SMS code manually.
SOLVED:
Autofill SMS codes only work with Safari.
8 votes -
The Apple Vision Pro headset is a stupid product on the surface, but it is a calculated move that can bring Apple to the holy grail of computing: true augmented reality
17 votes -
Apple fixes zero-days used to deploy Triangulation spyware via iMessage
8 votes