I HATE APPLE

oh wait, i just remembered the 12 still has a lightning port, ignore me

I think the reasoning (or at least my reasoning) is that should you need to or want to you just can't upgrade the storage on an iPad. So better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it, right? That said, I honestly don't know their current capacity. I think my phone is 128gb, and I've never come close to filling it. But my MacBook was 256, and after riding the slimmest space margin for the longest time I finally put in a 512 GB drive, which has worked out well.

I would get the most you can afford in a Mac but 90% of people will be fine with whatever the smallest storage option is for an iPhone or iPad.

adults yes. kids will fill them up with games in about 2 days regardless of size.

Gene From kiss in Decline 2 said that what money gives you the opportunity to do is not think about money. Same goes here. What storage gives you is the freedom to not think about storage

adults yes. kids will fill them up with games in about 2 days regardless of size.

I pretty easily use about 128gb on my phone, between my mp3 library, games, and apps a lot's covered. Also agree to go with more than you need; in the worst case you don't use it and your phone is worth a little more when you trade it in or resell.

When I say 90% of people can use the minimum storage I’m allowing for the fact that most people don’t save music or movies on their iPhone/iPad. Minimum storage obviously doesn’t work if you have a biggish music collection and don’t use Spotify or Apple Music or whatever.

I will say I agree with caek. Probably this has been covered ITT already but... The apple tax for mobile storage is so outrageous it's practically extortion. Then again I have a really high-spec laptop and that's probably a big part of why I don't need more than the minimum storage on my cell.

I would get the most you can afford in a Mac but 90% of people will be fine with whatever the smallest storage option is for an iPhone or iPad.

I'm the other way around. I rarely have anything much on my internal hard drive as I know all my media files have to go on an external HD, whereas I filled up my iPhone's 128GB with apps and podcasts and videos with ease.

I accept that liking to have an offline version of Wikipedia on my phone makes me not a a typical user.

Max affordable for phone and Mac for me, iPad doesn't matter much.

I accept that liking to have an offline version of Wikipedia on my phone makes me not a a typical user.

I just want IPad for streaming, not downloading---so as prev mentioned, could just go w Fire etc., but Consumer Reports etc. reviews tend to favor iPad for video quality and some other reasons, also seems like it might be more Chrome friendly (I want easy access to gdrive as emergency backup to laptop, though prefer the latter's bigger screen for docs; it's gotten too old and crashy for most streaming sites, or I wouldn't bother with another device).

But also I prefer to read about iPad functions rather than having to re-watch videos etc. I guess I could get a For Dummies-type book if recent enough.

Just something that spells out reeely simpul

I promise you don’t need a book to figure out an iPad.

But if you really want a book, the take control series is the closest thing to a manual for a lot of apple stuff these days. I haven’t seen the iOS boot but I’m sure it’s fine. https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/ios-14-ipados-14/

Thanks! Yeah, books like that are just my compulsive crutch--bought two about Chromebook, then didn't buy Chromebook---this looks good, except Instead of recycling and updating loads of old content, we’re starting from scratch with a slimmer guide that focuses primarily on what’s new in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. Build on everything you already know about using your iPhone or iPad and explore what Apple has changed and added this year. B-but I don't already know! Oh well, maybe I'll get a second-hand copy of last year's book, with all the recycled basics, and this new one for the new stuff.

i bought a 64 gb ipad air 2 in 2015 and i love it so much, still use it every day.

i mostly use it just for reading. i have apple news+ and i use it to read the atlantic, the new yorker, the washington post, the la times, new york times, wall street journal, the guardian, forbes, scientific american, national geographic, wired, etc etc etc.

but i also use it for watching tv, watching movies, streaming music to bluetooth or airplay speakers, and then just lots of different apps for different things

it's just super nice to be able to leave my laptop in my office (or when i used to leave the house for work, in my backpack) and not lug it into bed or onto the couch when i want to use the internet but not actually do work

it's really done wonders for life/work balance

this iphone 12 pro is pretty cool but i don't know if it's $1000+ cool. it's definitely a lot cooler than the beat ass 6s it's replacing but i imagine so is an 11 pro which happens to cost less than ⅓ what this 12 pro costs

i mean 5g is fast and all but i'm starting to realize that i have wifi access pretty much everywhere i go and in places i don't (the park, the beach, the grocery store, etc) i'm not streaming movies or whatever

anybody here upgrade from the 11 pro? any thoughts?

oh also turns out the usb port on my 2011 honda civic doesn't recognize this phone so guess i really will be dipping back into the CD collection

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/10/caviar-launches-custom-iphone-12-pro/amp

> The front of each ‌iPhone‌ has been left untouched, but the backs feature an authentic fragment of Jobs' original famous turtleneck embedded in the Apple logo

just want to say that i hate HATE Face ID. its up there with removing the headphone jack for worst apple things of recent years.

yeah i can't imagine ever turning it on for any reason

I thought is was great, and then we all had to wear masks.

someone i follow on twitter recently starting posting pictures of masks of her own face, and i didn't understand why at first:

Don’t leave the house without your Second Face.👃👄 https://t.co/kMhTNT6xIN pic.twitter.com/MxBbvnzatC

— Danielle Baskin (@djbaskin) December 3, 2020

Wow I hate that.

lol, i kind of do too, reminds me of possessor

at least part of the purpose of wearing a mask is letting people know you're wearing a mask!

My daughter's iPhone 7 has gone kaputt (stuck on Apple logo). I've exhausted all options so I think I'm going to have to restore it but I just wanted to check if there was anything I can possibly do? She's devastated about losing her photos (she doesn't have them backed up).

Plug it into the wall and then https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/force-restart-iphone-iph8903c3ee6/ios

Thanks calstars. I've been round and round that loop. I think it's a restore.

God, it's been a while but iTunes is a bag of shit.

If it's that badly damaged it could be a hardware thing. Could be worth taking it to Apple to see if they can do anything at all (beyond upsell you a new phone) before restoring it, which guarantees nobody else can get photos off it. Depends if she can wait that long, of course

narrator: they tried to upsell user chinaski a new phone

Lost an ear pod, back to wired , it’s fine

I have had a goddamm calvacade of Mac-related bullshit since the beginning of 2021. I hesitate to say anything because I don't want to be an old man literally yelling at a cloud, but here goes:

caveat: really only one of these can be directly attributed to Mac.

1.) NOT A BIG SUR FAN. I hate the #ffffff windows with high contrast that make the "save" and "browse" buttons near-imperceptible. I hate how you can't resize the default window size anymore. I hate how when I take a screengrab, it just doesn't automatically save to my desktop.

2.) WHY WON'T CHROME REMEMBER MY PASSWORDS ANYMORE. It used to. It still offers to do so. But it doesn't. I can't rightfully blame Mac, but I can say that this didn't happen until after I hit the Big Sur.

3.) If you thought #2 was not relevant to this thread, then how about how every morning, I have to CHANGE MY CALENDAR TO DEC. 1, 2020, OPEN AN OLD COPY OF FIREFOX, LOAD UP A SITE THAT STILL USES FLASH, and then CHANGE MY CALENDAR BACK TO 2021.

I could take one, possibly two of those, but all three are fucking doing me in.

Since I installed Big Sur my Mac's been randomly rebooting. No idea what's causing this, console log is too crazy to parse :(

They really really fucked up the Console app

The big sir window resize thing is an acknowledged bug I think

Lol big sir

Xps

I didn't even make it to the shop before they tried to upsell me a new phone! It needed a restore; I did it myself.

Safari seems snappier

You can really feel the difference with the 500 MHz Power PC upgrade

I will say this thing is fast as fuck.

Fast at giving me tiny little windows!

my magic trackpad sometimes lags appreciably at random times for no readily apparent reason, so that sucks

That sucks
I have the magic keyboard and mouse and they have been flawless

my 16” MBP bricked itself today, two months after apple replaced essentially everything in my first one. i think the thermal design can’t handle the newer i9 chip, and it just cooks itself during normal use.

last time it took 3 weeks to get thru service. it’s gonna suck to wait for them to turn this around a second time, and i’m worried a replacement will just fail again. it’s fucked that a $3300 machine is this unreliable. all of my macbooks 2003-2015 lasted for years before any logic board issues popped up.

what am i supposed to do now? ask them to downgrade me to an i7? demand an upgrade to a newer model?

If they’ll give you an m1 then take that (it works, it’s faster than the machine you have, and if you need the pro stuff (ports, screen size) trade the m1 in for the m1 pro when they release it later this year

thanks caek. i might try that. how’s backwards compatibility tho? i’m concerned most of my music software (written for intel/x64) will be unusable with the new brand of processors :/

Ah yeah no idea on specific software

yup, looks like i’m stuck with intel for a couple more years probably—translating between instruction sets is gonna hurt performance and in some cases fail altogether. plus it’ll be impossible to run any non-native plugins when a host program (e.g. Ableton Live) ports over to run natively in “apple silicon” (which is actually just ARM).

unfortunate... but it will be cool when the audio software industry catches up and we can start to run audio signal processing on GPUs, which it seems will finally be afforded by apple’s new machine architecture.

nerdy details for audio ppl here:
https://www.pro-tools-expert.com/production-expert-1/2020/6/25/apple-silicon-a-developer-helps-to-unpack-what-we-know