My guess is the app icon designers aren’t allowed to talk to product owners about upcoming changes. Just like the software team probably doesn’t know the exact hardware shape / specs on unreleased gadgets. It’s all super secretive.
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Apple's Clips App Discontinued
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I have adopted this mindset for all technology. It will all eventually break, get sold, get updated, not get updated, become less intuitive, show ads, sell your information, increase in price, folded into something else, etc., based on the whims of some executive or stubborn developer.
The iPhone is only 18 years old. When it was released, Web 2.0 was still taking off and Podcasts still required a computer and iTunes. The 18 year olds entering the job market now will be forced to work along with AI.
We're just on the cusp of a new "App Store" built on algorithms promising to do things for you. You can see this now in Apple's latest OS updates. Eventually, perhaps in another 18 years, the idea of "apps" might seem like cable tv does today.
It's going to be exciting to dive into this new era but I hope everyone considers what they're giving up in exchange for the opportunity to be "more efficient" (lazier). If you've been using an iPhone for more than ten years, take a few minutes to look back at all your app purchases. So many were killed off because Twitter or Reddit, for example, changed their APIs.
Just saying: paper and pencil still work, records still work, photo albums from the late 1800s still work, a 64 Mustang kinda still works, even a lot of old pre-IC electronics are still repairable.
I'm not so confident that the lives we live and the memories we make - all stored 'in the cloud' for a price - will be around longer than it takes some to age enough to join the military.
It’s great for layout but it can be used as a standard word processor and I think it defaults to that behavior
No, I’ve never needed to so far but that has seemingly changed
Google docs suite is so barebones and runs from a web browser. I don’t find it to be a very convincing replacement to iWork
Me too. I updated it to the latest rev.
Macrumor said “Existing users who already have the app installed can continue to use it for now, and it can be redownloaded through your Apple account in the App Store, but new users are now unable to obtain the app.”
However, as the app had been removed from the App Store, if for any case the app is deleted from the phone, how could it be “redownloaded”?
I have no idea. 🤷
I could still re-download it on my iPhone 15 Pro on Saturday, as my purchase history indicated.
It’s likely because my 15 Pro was set up as a direct transfer from my iPhone XR, which used to have the app.
The iPhone XR had been erased and given away.
Interestingly, my favorite music player app, Musi, couldn’t be reinstalled even though it was transferred from my iPhone XR. It remains offloaded, which is why.
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I clicked on Clips from the update history and gave me the following screen. So, it looks to me even for the existing users they could not be even access to the download page of clips app.
How could they redownload it from the store?
Interesting. As clips app is a pre installed app, I have never removed it but seldom upgraded it till last weekend.
I clicked on Clips from the update history and gave me the following screen. So, it looks to me even for the existing users they could not be even access to the download page of clips app.
How could they redownload it from the store?
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It was purchased towards end of the cycle and came installed with iOS 16.5.1 (20F75).
There was a JetsamEvent file dated 2023-07-07, so that is about when all the software was installed.
Came with Clips, the the two “iLife” apps and the three iWorks apps all preinstalled.
All good points. My guess is most younglings are excited about AI, most of us GenX types are concerned. I wonder if history will look back on us and think: "What a bunch of idiots, purposefully developing technology to replace themselves for profit". Time will tell.
I remember when my grandfather made fun of me for having an electric toothbrush calling it lazy. All the while he had electric power tools in his shop. AI could be the new tool for the 2020s, but it's important that we have agencies monitoring and regulating it, just how we regulate vehicles on the road.
Being a nerd I watched Star Trek in the late 80s and 90s. Trek portrayed the use of AI along side societies' pursuits of bettering themselves (ourselves). We saw the use of AI when they talked to the ship's computer or when they created halodeck programs. It's a good example of living in harmony with AI but not becoming too dependant on it. Star Trek gave us a great role model for the future.