Maybe they turn the Studio Display into the rumored bigger iPad.
If they can give it touch capabilities through a firmware update nobody would doubt their ability to innovate again...
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Apple Releases Studio Display 16.4 Firmware Beta
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If they can give it touch capabilities through a firmware update nobody would doubt their ability to innovate again...
iOS is based on macOS - why would the display need to run the full macOS? It’s just a display, camera, and speakers. iOS is more than capable of handling this. MacOS would be way too much bloat and 95% of it would go unused just taking up storage.
I think you may have misinterpreted the original poster’s point—or perhaps I have.
I took the post to mean that it’s wild that a monitor has an SoC and an OS to run at all—not that it should be running macOS in lieu of iOS.
How many monitors in your lifetime have you used that had their own SoC + OS—of any kind—installed?
I just wish it would power down completely when USB-C is unplugged from the computer. It does so properly if you power down the Macbook, but as soon as you unplug the cable everything on the downstream USB bus starts getting power again.
We've gotten to the point where SoCs are so cheap and plentiful that companies like Apple can just use them in their products even if they're VASTLY overpowered for the job.
The SoC in the Studio Display doesn't do much. It doesn't have to. But it was likely less expensive for Apple to throw that in, than to implement something using an off the shelf microcontroller which probably wouldn't work as well.
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If you think that's weird... wait till you have to update your MagSafe Charging Cable. That's weirder...😣
Yeah, if I leave the Mac sleeping the display is still ‘on’, if I leave anything in the ports on the back of the display it remains ‘on’ even if disconnected from the Mac. The only way to sleep the display properly is to totally unplug everything. I have a laptop tho so I don’t know if this practice is the same with a Mini or Studio.
Every single monitor has a SoC and operating system. How would they work if they didn't?!
It works great here. Even had someone in a webex a few days ago ask me what camera I was using because it was super clear. 😀
How do you come to the conclusion that it is still on? The display is off, the ports are still powered through. This is how it should work. The usb ports are on low power if I remember correctly.
So where exactly is the issue?
At this point I'm just afraid that my display breaks in some way when I install an update. Given Apple's low software quality the last years, not having release notes isn't helping build trust.
They beta firmware now? God, how hard is it to just make a working monitor?
The hilarious part of this is that the display has 64 GB of internal storage, storage that isn’t used for anything, and is more than sufficient to run macOS.
I think one must be able to sometimes question the claim that ”Apple makes both the hardware and the software, therefore things work so much better than if using tech from other vendors”, because sometimes things behave a bit glitchy considering exactly that.
That doesn't mean I think Apple are never able to a good job with their hardware and software.
Am I the only person on the planet who has no problem whatsoever with any of my kit?
That patent thing was already debunked, the company behind it is suing EVERYBODY including Amazon, Google, Samsung, Apple etc. not for ANC, but for beamforming mics and smart speaker things.
The whole "Apple nerfed my ANC!!!11!" brigade isn't anything new or exclusive to AirPods, it has happened to Sony and Bose too. Bose even did a VERY thorough investigation going as far as to visit people's homes and found nothing wrong with the firmware, which was so valiantly condemned as thrashing the ANC. Clean your buds, people.
Of course I'm not saying Apple has done nothing wrong with their firmware (*cough* 2C54), but to think they go out of their way to intentionally make ANC worse out of malicious intent is kinda ridiculous.
So in a few years the monitor will become unsupported because the "firmware" will not be updated anymore...? hmm
If they made the StudioDisplay into severely underpowered iMac it would be a PR disaster.
Just think about all the people whining about having only 8/256GB in a $599 MacMini and how the would react to a $1599 iMac with just 4(?)/64GB running fewer outdated cores with limited I/O.
Heck thats most likely the reason why the did not put anything M1 into it and market as an iMac, whatever would have worked would have been seen as bad value, while it just being a screen with even worse value is a much smaller issue.
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No! Mine's all fine too. So much whinging here - it's as if some people don't realise how bad things used to be. I haven't experienced bugs in any of my hardware for some years now - including my homebuilt Windows machine.
to this day I don't understand why they don't allow the Studio Display to work as standalone smart display ... it could happily run tvOS and with the A13 & 64GBs of storage it's basically more powerful than my 2021 Apple TV 4K 64GB ...