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Typical overcooked Apple bashing. Can the anti-stalking measured baked into AirTags continue to improve? Yes. Apple needs to do what they can to head off those with bad intentions. However, is Apple the only one in this industry who is bothering to even try on this? Also yes. But that doesn’t matter if you have a shot to roll out some click-bait.
I bite my tongue if anyone even bothers to mention Tile, Samsung, and the many other products available for tracking people and items when ranting about AirTags.This is wildly over dramatic. The only reason Apple would release an M1X at this point is if they can’t make enough M2s to fill orders soon due to the global chip shortage. I doubt that happens, but it’s possible. If it did, it would mean the M2 isn’t coming until after spring of 2022 and Apple doesn’t want to wait that long to release a new laptop.
I agree with a lot of what Mr Wong says, but I absolutely disagree that Apple still sees the iPad as the “middle” device between smartphones and computers that Jobs originally described. They have been slowly but definitely moving away from that original design for the last 5 years.
Another terrible take that completely dismisses a segment of the iPad Pro user base and literally tells us what we SHOULD be wanting or buying instead. How about kiss my ass, keep your condescension to yourself, and I’ll keep my own opinion how I please, thank you very much.
This is a ridiculous straw man argument. iPad power users WANT bigger iPads, so there’s absolutely no reason Apple shouldn’t make them. There’s also absolutely no relationship between touch-enabled Macs and bigger iPads and no reason that BOTH shouldn’t exist. Knocking down one to prop up the other is useless when the merit of Apple bringing touch to the Mac stands on its own.
As a lifetime Windows user, I have to say this author is making a LOT of assumptions about an un-released OS updated based on one demo. My opinion of “I’ll believe it when I see it” is based on a decade of observable failure and mediocrity when it comes to MS handling the touch experiencing on their hardware. Win 11 looks like a step in the right direction, but it only looks like a step, not a destination.
Qualcomm doesn’t control the rest of the devices their chips go in or the software stack, so they have little hope of ever matching what Apple can do.
This is a straw-man argument on one critical point. I’m not opposed to Apple allowing side-loading. I would just prefer there be some friction in the process (like there already is today).
The problem here is that the author compares the Mac and its Gatekeeper notarization process to Apple’s orders of times larger mobile App Stores. This is an absolutely ridiculous comparison. He’s talking about Apple performing cursory reviews of hundreds to thousands of Max apps per year for free as if that’s the same as opening up a market of tens of millions of apps. No publicly traded company in the history of capitalism would make this move for free, which is a big reason why it hasn’t been done.It’s hilarious to me that commercial and industrial Building Automation created this wheel 20 years ago with completely open standards, the most common of which isn’t governed by a company. The reason Apple, Google and Amazon went this route was specifically so they can control the process and evolution of this “open” standard, along with everything in your home. This new standard, as well as their proprietary standards, are completely unnecessary.
There is a lot of hoping going on in this article that ignores the last 10 years of Microsoft falling all over itself trying to move Windows forward. That’s suddenly going to change now because of a few touch controls and Android apps?