He’s definitely finished now
I’m from space!
He’s definitely finished now
My wife and I were in the camp where everything just started to peel and come apart in the first few months. When we brought them in to Apple, the employees said that they were getting a lot of cases that just started falling apart.
Honestly, they should’ve been faux leather from the jump. A lot of that stuff has become pretty good over the past decade. You don’t get some of the cool wear marks, but the good stuff is really durable and looks nice for a long time. It’s not the faux leather from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
What do you think the Russian / right wing disinformation angle will be? AI video?
More specifically, the glow used in all the Apple Intelligence enabled UIs. Siri, summarizing, rewriting, etc. It all has that plasma glowy effect.
Really? A German police officer?
What does this even mean?
I imagine this is referencing Apple Intelligence in general. The rainbow glow is used for all of the interface elements using Apple Intelligence.
That, and the colors were all foods Tangerine, grape, lime, strawberry, and blueberry
The campaign was all food references
The OG colors were all food based.
Tangerine, grape, lime, strawberry, and blueberry
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The OG iPod style drag and drop for music still works.
Moreover, there are quite a few apps out there allow you to use an iPhone as an external storage device. Unfortunately, you need to do it over WiFi. USB only works for photos, videos, and music as I recall.
The form factors have already leaked out, like they usually do when manufacturing starts. It looks like there is no Mini.
If you really want to keep that small form factor, I would replace the battery or upgrade to a 13 mini.
Got to start somewhere.
I’m not going back. The iOS 18.1 beta iteration without ChatGPT is so much better at understanding and responding to prompts.
It still does dumb stuff, but it’s a big upgrade.
New Siri was not announced for existing HomePods. That said, there is an Apple event on Sept 9, so more products that support it may be announced.
Most folks are not expecting Apple intelligence on existing HomePods or AppleTVs. It would be very Apple-like to gate the new software behind a new hardware purchase.
Seems like the same old pre-iOS 18.1 Siri to me. Famously bad.
Gen 1 sold well because there were not a lot of small, fully wireless, earbuds when those launched. Moreover, unlike other BT headphones at the time, they were low latency and paired reliably.
All in all, the market was different back then and the OG AirPods addressed a combination of user experience issues that the rest of the market wasn’t really addressing.
Have you tried some of the Beats form factors? My SO has smaller ears, and those work much better for her.
IMHO, the most compelling reasons to install this are RCS support in Messages and the dark mode icons.
That said, I imagine 18.1 will be in public beta soon, and people will probably be more interested in that. That includes the newer Siri model, writing tools, notifications summaries, etc.