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Making privacy some end-goal that PMs cut to meet targets is how you end up with Google redefining privacy to mean "only we have access to every aspect of your life, now and in the future".

If Apple takes the position that the UX has to fit in around the privacy requirements, so what? Privacy is a core pillar of their product identity—a built-in hallucinating compliments machine isn't.


To be fair, Google have always treated privacy that way, long before they used any of that data.


> nominally "selling" plots to people but with terms of service attached that restrict what you can do with the land you bought and that allow the company to change the terms at any time.

So, a lease.


That's, to begin with, not even how a lease generally works. A lease isn't where you pay once up front to take permanent possession of something.

Moreover, did people buying iPhones on "day 1" think they were buying them or leasing them? Did Apple call it a sale or a rental agreement?


It’s not misleading to measure the performance of WebAssembly in a web browser.


Yeah, but it's specifically testing things that implement against a posix API (because generally that's what "native" apis do (omiting libc and other os specific foundation libraries that are pulled in at runtime or otherwise) I would suspect that if the applications that linked against some wasi like runtime it might be a better metric (native wasi as a lib/vs a was runtime that also links) mind you that still wouldn't help the browser runtime... But would be a better metric for wasm (to native) performance comaparison.

But as already mentioned we have gone through this all before. Maybe we'll see wasm bytecodes pushed through silicon like we did the Jvm... Although perhaps this time it might stick or move up into server hardware (which might have happened, but I only recall embedded devices supporting hardware level Jvm bytecodes).

In short the web browser bit is omitted from the title.


WebAssembly is neither web nor assembly. It’s a low level byte code format most similar to LLVM IR.


Then you can only adjust one thing at a time—so you’ve just created the worst of both worlds with a multi-touch display and live music software.


There is absolutely no way you successfully adjust two knobs at the same time on a multitouch display, let alone while doing live music. They are barely usable one by one.

There is a reason people serious about doing music keep using physical knobs to change values in their software. I’m entirely convinced the sole reason DAWs use virtual knobs despite them being such a poor UX element is because people will map them to MIDI knobs anyway and that keeps the software and physical world looking the same.


> There is absolutely no way you successfully adjust two knobs at the same time on a multitouch display, let alone while doing live music

I do it all the time on an iPad. It handles up to 5 simultaneous controls very well.


There's a demo app for the original iPad multitouch display, which can distinguish eleven simultaneous inputs.

Prompting the obvious question: Why eleven?


You don't ever use your nose as an additional input device? I thought everyone did that.


Same here


Kind of a self fulfilling prophecy then. I had to figure out how to map the knobs to MIDI hardware because it was so hard to adjust them on screen!

At that point I guess the physical resemblance is a virtue.


> I own this iPad, as in: it's mine. Why should I, and why would I want to put MY device's access and security on the whims of company?

Great question! You did configure it that way, so it might be worth asking yourself.


It is impossible to configure recent ipads in any other way. There are no established 3rd party OSes that you can install, even with great effort. IOS does not respect user freedom. As an example, see the restrictions on running code that Apple didn't approve of (directly, or, in the EU, indirectly).


Cool, great. That’s got nothing to do with Activation Lock.


The 10th and 11th generation iPads work with _both_ the Lightning Apple Pencil and the USB-C Apple Pencil.

The Lightning Apple Pencil was sold at a time when you could plug it directly into the compatible iPad, and it *came with the adapter*.

The current iPad is compatible with both, so you could use your old Apple Pencil with the new iPad.

You cannot buy a Lightning Apple Pencil anymore because Apple doesn’t sell them.

who knows what third-party retailers are doing.


> assistive access only works for the standard apps

Other apps can offer a proper Assistive Access mode [0], but when most developers these days put writing a real app in the ‘too hard’ basket, getting them to actually use platform features feels like an impossibly long shot.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accessibility/assi...


Thanks, that is good to know! Sad to learn that even the most mainstream of apps with incredible profit margins don't seem to find this worth implementing. This would have been a reason to switch some of my family onto Apple


> then Cook will go on stage to showcase what an awesome idea they had that nobody thought of before: “standards!”. Wait no, that’s usb c.

That never happened.


https://youtu.be/d9JblG0O3Io Timestamp 6min.

Wasn’t Tim, I guess it’d have been too embarrassing…


Glad to know I was correct. They didn’t claim it was new or “never thought of before” at all—they even specifically pointed out how they already did it on their other products.

I’m pretty sure they almost spent more time talking about the colours of the phone.


Including in authoring all their other frameworks, which are used by many, many apps.


Repair State isn’t a feature that you need to know about unless you’re having your phone repaired or traded in, at which point you’ll learn about it.

It’s a perfect example of a feature being surfaced exactly as it should be, when needed. Quite a bit of mental gymnastics to twist that into being an ‘issue’.


I disagree. If I take my phone in, I'm going to wipe it first. If someone asks me, I'd say they should do the same.

Now that I know it's a feature, I won't suggest that for iPhone users as backup+restore just sucks. (I know restore is easy, but bank apps, Signal, etc don't get backed up, so it is an annoyance)


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