Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

i got an old fashioned magnetic egg timer for my fridge. i hate being in the middle of cooking and needing to touch my phone. it's inconvenient and also gross

Siri stopped speaking back to me when I set a timer, no amount of restarting and turning things off and on makes it come back.

alexa et al are are prob the best for timers, totally hands free, as long as you dont mind having a spy in your home

Olde-timey manual kitchen timer sounds like the best option

it has the benefit of being able to look at it and see where its at

having a dial timer built into the stove is good cause its one hand operation

the stove timer is always the first choice but sometimes there's a lot going on and you need multiple timers

I use the microwave timer

With all their money I really want Apple to expand beyond tech. They should make mugs and sneakers

remember when they were gonna make cars haha

Yeah don’t want a car lol
Just like little regular stuff but well made

Like expand and define their design aesthetic beyond tech

https://cdn.thecollector.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/apple-shoes-sothebys.jpg

Apple necktie
Apple socks
Apple apples

the stove timer is always the first choice but sometimes there's a lot going on and you need multiple timers

flashbacks to The Bear with this

https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/35530-65319-apple-car-porsche-xl.jpg

sick ride

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Backstory: https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/3017/the-real-apple-car

Some notes from the anecdotes: iOS 17.0.1 is absolutely crushing my normally reliable personal phone... The device was radiating an alarming amount of heat after a 30min FaceTime and battery life is absolutely degraded (eg, overnight charge on a typical Sunday would except to be about 30-40% by this time). I've had to top off charge it 2x from low battery mode.

The usual is to let it run down to dead, charge it to full, do a reset while on charger, then switch it off and leave it on charger for a long period - the idea is to re-educate the system about the battery characteristics.

I always do another full restart after a OS install. Total superstition but I’ve lucked out and avoided most problems. 17.0.1 on phone and pad now - going all in with Sonoma tomorrow.

device going nuts after an OS update usually means the indexer or some other system service that kicked off is going nuts in the background

i'd been running the beta and def had worse battery performance; have the standard install now and haven't noticed phone getting hot but battery is still not great, but I'm inclined to think my battery may just need a replacement (this is an iphone 11 which I refuse to upgrade until I absolutely have to)

I think iOS 17 is the first integer update I've had in ages where I haven't noticed a battery drain hit. It's weird how these things are so user-specific.

akm - have you checked battery health in Settings? Apple recommends changing once it hits 80% maximum capacity but in my experience it's worth doing it long before that.

yeah it's at 84. I'm sure it needs a replacement, I've just been lazy

the main feature i was excited about doesn't work for me :(

tvos can now do facetime with an iphone running ios 17 as the camera via continuity camera. great feature for calls to grandparents with kids on the couch! the camera even follows people around via (usually annoying) center stage.

doesn't work for me though, apparently possibly because i once changed the email address on my apple id https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/tvos-17-and-facetime-no-user-in-list-qr-code-doesnt-work.2401584/page-2.

let it run down to dead

one step ahead of you

FWIW I went for 15 Pro, since my most recent phone is the 8 and wouldn't be able to handle iOS 17 anyway. No regrets so far, it's nice seeing what all the more recent bells and whistles are.

i really want the 5x zoom but don't want the iphone max. the rumor is that the normal sized pro will get the 5x zoom next year. maybe i wait it out one more year? the battery inside my 12 mini is absolutely toast. maybe i just need a new battery.

Yeah hearing that too about the 5x next year. I would have been happy to tough it out just a little further but again, my old one had just hit the limit!

Anyone us Sonoma yet? One feature I'm very excited about is web apps. I used to use Fluid to make web apps but haven't in years. There's def many websites I'd love to break out of the browswer tab bar.

oh cool, it's not compatible with my 2017 iMac.

i just installed ventura

my job has forbidden me to upgrade until they can verify it works with Citrix

ars still running decent (but not siracusa good) reviews of these things

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/macos-14-sonoma-the-ars-technica-review/

(including the claim that chrome can already create web apps that work better than this new safari feature, in case that helps dan)

you can already use some other browsers to run Progressive Web Apps as little standalone windows but it'll be nice to have that with Safari

damn it caek beats me to the punch again

I suspect Adobe are soon to leave Big Sur behind, perhaps before Apple do... or, at least I've been getting a warning for a while that Ps 25.0 (I was running the Beta for a bit) needs at least Monterey, to the point where I've rolled back to 24.7. Lr/LrC still fine for now but even in there there's stuff that just won't run on a 9yo MBP (like the "AI" denoise - 40min for a single photo!).

assuming apple continue their recent pattern, they will drop support (in the sense of no longer releasing security updates) for big sur in a couple of weeks.

how/where can you make web apps w/ chrome?

the site has to offer a PWA:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/9658361?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop#zippy=%2Cstart-apps-when-you-sign-in%2Ccreate-shortcuts-for-apps

I guess Safari lets you add any site as a standalone, as it has in iOS for a while. iOS only got PWA support in the last year, though

Installed Sonoma last night. Seems nice enough.

Getting a Leopard->Snow Leopard code optimization feeling from Sonoma. Nothing obviously new or broken - just seems to work a little smoother now.

I’ve installed Sonoma but it doesn’t seem to want to display any wallpaper, despite several attempts in settings to select it. I may need to restart in safe mode and sort it out when I have more time.

I was a bit excited about the introduction of interactive widgets in iOS 17 but now I've found out developers can't use them for text entry so my excitement has largely dissipated. I just want to be able to search the web from my home screen.

Turning the phone on its side while it's charging and having it turn into a bedside clock is fun for about 5 minutes.
I think only the 14 and 15 have an "always on" mode so it really behaves like a clock, and not something you have to tap to wake up (which makes it fairly pointless).

Those third-party Magsafe charging stands, which are ideal for this sort of thing, also have pads for Watch and Airpods so obv you have to buy the lot :)

Gotta say, those £100-150 entry-level Androids do look tempting in the context of what Apple offers now. Once you've stepped off the 2-year-upgrade-bundle train, and you've got a 2020 SE with 74% battery on a SIM-only (rolling 30-day, cancellable) contract, the route back to something newer is very steep. But... those Androids are all seemingly massive. Work replaced my 9yo Android recently with a Samsung A54 and it's gigantic. I can't use something that's 77mm wide one-handed (missus), especially with a case (mandatory for company devices). I know it's a pointless gripe, Apple tried the 12/13 Minis and they didn't sell.

he's not wrong about the size of it...

https://images.samsung.com/is/image/samsung/p6pim/uk/feature/164462152/uk-feature-speed-will-take-you-further-535771736?%24900*N_JPG%24