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…..As does everyone else.
On that note, ‘old school’ and owning a smart watch are not mutually related. Since we’re referencing the Apple Watch, there would be no other reason somebody would purchase a smart watch that wouldn’t want to take advantage of all the functionality it offers.
So what’s your point?
I suspect the issues you raise in your first paragraph are security features, not a bug. You are in the wrong house if you want this level of core access. Apple is never going to deliver that. Doesn’t make it useless. You just need to go find a tool that does what you want it to do.
A Toyota Corolla can’t match a Porsche 911. That doesn’t make it useless however.
Imho it's inconsistent - e.g. some apps allow for views that others don't. And it's unintuitive to use (e.g. the touch targets for moving or changing "windows" in slide-over view are neither self explanatory nor easy to hit). Changing the active window can be mystery - e.g. it's possible to move a text window in one pages-window and still have the other staying the active window - and this is only indicated by the background of the three dots. I can't recount how iften I've typed something only to realize that it's in the wrong window.
Last years improvements were welcome, but it's still half-baked. And I guess that's why apple is still working on it.
I'm always trying to do some light work like writing on the ipad, as I like the form-factor, but in most cases it's things like multitasking that make it way slower than working on a laptop - and thus not really viable from a business point of view.
It's a great machine for e-mail, media consumption, drawing and editing photos with the apple pencil - but apart from the pencil, not a lot has changed over the last 12 years, when it comes to use cases - the hardware has gotten really great but it's still hampered by the "scaled up ios"-approach.
I'd welcome the option to switch between iPadOS abd OSX on an M1 ipad, although we all know that this is never going to happen (at least officially). It'd be far from ideal (although it worked fine on an 11" MBA with far less screen resolution), but still better than iPadOS today. Just compare the endlessly nested and complicated settings app vs. system preferences on OSX. This is not going to be solved by forever adding new functions to an OS that was first developed for a 480x320 3,5" display.
I agree. iOS seems to be the Corolla here (with a 911 price). I’ve had this Corolla for 10 years. I’m ready for something worthy of Porsche money.
I’m glad you get it. I’m not sure why no many others are so resistant to change.
What I don’t understand is how Apple is able to design and continue to improve a brilliant OS like OS X/MacOS but yet fall on their face with iPadOS and iOS.
For iOS 15 I think one of the biggest complaints I hear about regularly is how volume control is handled.
The easiest fix in iOS 16 would be when you 3D press (or whatever we call it with our long press now) on the volume control in control center, to have it open up distinct controls for different things for example, something like: Ringer volume, system sounds volume, Alarm volume, applications volume.
The easiest fix in iOS 16 would be when you 3D press (or whatever we call it with our long press now) on the volume control in control center, to have it open up distinct controls for different things for example, something like: Ringer volume, system sounds volume, Alarm volume, applications volume.
Or call it ios 20. Doesn’t matter. In 5 years ios will look exactly the same as today and apple will be working on making slight improvements to the camera.
I'm debating whether or not I'll be on the beta bandwagon this year. I hopped on last year specifically for Universal Control, which was never even released during the initial beta period. I'm mostly hoping they revert notifications back to when you could clear out all of your notifications at once, instead of by random group. Not all of them present the clear option for some reason, usually the first group doesn't. Really annoying that they changed the behavior on macOS to that too. It would also be nice if my message notifications went away once I read then on my phone, Mac, iPad, or watch.
Mute for 5 minutes isn’t very smart. Just mute the redundant notifications if you haven’t acknowledged the notification yet (e.g. Same sender to same group). And stop announcing a notification if you’ve activated the Watch’s face or unlocked the iPhone screen.
Yes because you use a third party
App. The Apple Watch by itself can’t do
It. That’s why you had to buy that app by the way.
You don’t get the point. There’s noooo sleep tracking on the watch. You have to tell the watch when you’re going to sleep! Otherwise it doesn’t work.
You don’t get it. It doesn’t do a good job, you could hardly tell if it does any job at all. It’s obvious you haven’t use any product other than the Apple Watch. This thing doesn’t have basic functionality from 3 to 5 years ago, what part don’t you get that doesn’t even track your sleep without you setting it up manually? It’s a joke of a product, seriously. I’m back to using my Fitbit that lasts I don’t know how many days with a charge, can monitor heart rate, can detect when I’m going to sleep and has text notifications.
I'm curious. What do you mean by "improvements for jazz"? I also don't quite understand what would be different in a "Music app for classical music"?
Are we just talking about presets for a graphic equalizer? As if somehow the recording studios record different types of music with different frequency levels, just to make the listener have to play with their equaliser settings? It's all hype and bluster, the only thing you should have to change things for, is for your particular speakers or headphones, or personal taste, and let it be. Absolutely flat equaliser settings is what the music is recorded for, but if your speakers have low bass, then pump that up, or your ears have trouble with higher frequencies, pump them up.
Oh hell to the no. Sorry, but no. Having separate ringer and media volume levels is already confusing enough for many people (and becomes second nature once/if learned). Your phone/iPad has volume buttons and plenty of interface volume controls—use them as needed.
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Like someone else asked, would you please divulge any info/elaborate on those two issues? Don’t worry, I’m not a complete fanboy and I’m not going to bite your head off. Just intrigued/concerned/out of the loop.
Thank you!
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When I bought the app, Apple didn't do sleep tracking but they have since added it. You have to go into the Health app to see the result. I just prefer the level of detail from Autosleep ro Sleep++. I believe for all of them you set a window during which you expect to sleep and the watch and apps focus on that time for tracking, but if you go to sleep earlier or later they still pick that up. Not sure if they would pickup a nap in the afternoon but I can never ever sleep at random like that.
This conversation would be more beneficial if you would actually state what you want to change, otherwise just you calling out words like "joke" and "mess" doesn't add anything of value.