I just wish Apple would have iMessage in the iCloud web interface, so I could send/reply from a web browser.
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Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak Discuss USB-C on iPhone, iMessage on Android, Lack of iPadOS Calculator App, Pace of Innovation, and More
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Makes no sense. How many iPad only households do you know. I know zero. Yet I know iPhone only, no Mac, no iPad.
I'm really surprised their marketing director didn't give the better (but still bad) answer: just use Siri.
Maybe they forgot Siri exists. Would explain a lot.
I believe it. I only know one person (who I regularly communicate with) who uses an Android phone. An old high school friend.
On top of that, every company I know of that provides employees with a smartphone, gives them iPhones. So even when I communicate with people for work, it is always with an iPhone.
The latests stats I have seen claim that 87% of US teens with a smartphone use an iPhone. Numbers are comparable for US college students. I understand that, statistically speaking, there are Americans who use Android, I just never seem to meet them….
Honestly it sounds like Apple is refusing to add a calculator app to the iPad. Why I still have no idea. Well Apple, I refuse to use my money to buy another iPad. This lack of basic and inconsistent features between their devices is just dumb. I mean the Watch even has a calculator.
What are you talking about? You get brand new bugs every iOS release.
Stop being so picky. 🤪
The real question is: What calculator app is giving money under the table to Apple so they don't get sherlocked? Who is this mystery global calculator powerhouse? 🤔
iMessage playing catch up to that piece of trash WhatsApp? WhatsApp is a completely mismanaged asset for Facebook because they derive so much of their profits from enterprise and their focus is not on the actual app which is terrible. WhatsApp is my primary messaging app and if they could make it half as good as iMessage I would be so happy. I wish they would just copy more more more.
While that is a fair point, it is also a fair point to recognize that Apple does not want to release something that has the potential to cause them embarrassment (even though, yes, I know they still do... it doesn't mean they WANT to).
Imagine if they released iMessage on Android, and some mainstream Apple hating article source picked up that it only had like a 5% adoption rate because iMessage on Android really wasn't good at taking people away from the already available other popular messaging platforms.
Other than that, I agree that it seemed pretty inconsistent answer not to have released iMessage on Android.
And I found most of their answers - genuine or not - unacceptable.
Does anyone actually use Siri anymore? I don't think I've ever heard anyone activate Siri in public with their voice. I remember using Siri for like a day years ago when it was first released, just to mess around with it. I got tired of it after a few hours and haven't used it since. It's a neat feature, but I wouldn't be down if Apple scrapped it in the future.
I never used Siri. I just never set it up. I knew when the feature was first introduced that it would annoy me. The only time Siri's voice is ever heard on any of my devices is when I'm using Maps to navigate.
I wonder if there’s a relevant target audience listening to those interviews and saying “Yep, sounds plausible, go Apple!”. Somehow I have a hard time imagining it.
Use it numerous times each day. Usually to create quick calendar events. Sometimes play music. Even used it once to quickly search for cafes around me. Pretty handy now that you can activate Siri directly from your Apple Watch, so you don't even have to take out your phone now.
The trick is to only update to a new major version in spring at the earliest, around .4.
The problem with those 3rd party apps is they are riddled with ads or want you to keep paying for them withs subs. Every time I look into that, I don't both with it because they are trash. Yes, you can do basic calculations in the search field but you can't copy and paste the results or do multiple calculations. Just dumb.
Am I the only one wondering why there's no Notes app on the Watch? Seriously, what a dumb omission, especially now that the 7+ have a keyboard. I'd love to have something I could dictate/type to, and have it sync with all my devices. Instead, I've got to use a damn third party app.
We should go back to S years
I think most people would have been fine with this year’s iPhone being called the iPhone 13S
They are so boring! I miss SJ attacking Adobe with open letters and pushing certain standards forward.