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It was nice to have Alex back. I was actually curious after listening to Upgrade whether Alex was at Apple’s vision pro thing; and this episode confirmed he was.
I thought about getting the iPhone Air when I got my 17 Pro (max) last week. But one of my motivators for upgrading was my 15 Pro Max battery after 2 years was showing it age on vacation with prolonged use. So I felt like the Air wouldn’t be an improvement, specially while on vacation. I’m hoping to go on more vacations this year and really make use of my new phone haha. I also really use the telephoto camera. it’s one of my most used cameras.
I’m glad y’all mentioned the settings things. I ended up removing Settings from my iPhone homescreen (I’m pretty picky with what apps I have on the screen) because I am pretty anal about the red circle notificaton indicators. I like to have them all cleared. And as y’all mentioned: unless you have Apple Care on everything that can, or you’re outside of the Apple Care window: it’s impossible to turn off those indicators. I was pretty annoyed you couldn’t manually disable it in the settings. Now I just use spotlight to search for settings every time.
Maybe I’ll discover this is better and I didn’t need settings on the home screen at all.
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“Windows is a virus “- geez Alex, tell me you haven’t used Windows lately without telling you haven’t used Windows lately. Even resident curmudgeon @thurrott wouldn’t go that far.
I’m very much in Andy’s camp when it comes to technology. It’s not meant to be looked at from afar, only enjoyed by the privileged few who can afford utopia. The best system in the world won’t matter if only a few people (relatively speaking) get to use it.
This constant elitism that pervades the American Technorati has got to stop - otherwise the backlash against big tech is only going to get worse.
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I’ve not got Apple Care on anything and I have no red blobs showing. Maybe an EU thing? That they aren’t allowed to not let you disable the notifications?
I got a notification, when I bought my devices Abe I just silenced them…
Edit: I haven’t had problems with Spotlight not finding things, but I did have something strange yesterday.
Suddenly my mouse and keyboard stopped working on my MacBook Air M4. It just stopped reacting, also the built in keyboard and trackpad. Then I noticed that my iPad kept turning on.
It had taken over the mouse and keyboard from my Mac, even though I hasn’t been in settings of either device - I hadn’t even used the iPad.
The iPad was still locked, but shorting Spotlight search… I couldn’t unlock the iPad, even with fingerprint. I did manage to turn off the sharing via Control Centre on the iPad and I could use my Mac again.
But the iPad remained locked with Spotlight showing and no way to unlock the device. Eventually I did the tap volume up, tap volume down and hold the on/off switch, until the Some logo appeared. Everything worked again after that.
I think we need to rid ourselves of the notion that the Vision Pro is a developer product. We’ve seen Apple release developer products before - the dev kit for Apple Silicon being the most recent example. Apple limited that kit to developers who had a paid Apple Developer membership and who paid $600 (I believe that amount is accurate) for a kit that they then had to return after a certain point. That’s a developer product. None of the marketing for Vision Pro, and certainly none of the early commercials, couched it as a dev product. It’s a retail product.
I believe Apple has called Vision Pro a ‘developer product’ as an attempt to justify low sales and high prices.
Alex’s comment about European regulations being for businesses against Big Tech is rubbish. Other companies, local companies, get regulated hard as well. It is just that European companies are built with the regulations in mind and, for the most part, follow them, whereas a lot of US companies, not just Big Tech, come to Europe and expect the rules not to apply to them.
Also not about the individual? So the regulations about the maximum number of hours you can force a person to work are businesses wanting Big Tech to cave? A minimum of 5 or 6 weeks paid leave each year is, what? Spotify wanting a better deal with Apple? Paid sick leave? Oh, right, that is Epic’s fault! 
The EU regulations are there to protect the individual. Yes, companies can show that they are being hard done by, but they have to prove the harm to the individual - higher prices, less competition etc. That is why the regulators take years to look at problems, before issuing changes.
Some, like the single adapter for charging and not including a power adapter are there to protect the individual, in the long run (environmental protection). We have gone from dozens of power adapters around the house in various drawers and never knowing which adapter belongs to which device, to pretty much everything now being USB-C in the house and I have 3 or 4 decent GAN adapters that are efficient and good quality, long cables routed from the wall to my desk or bedside table, and that’s pretty much it (I have 2 old torches, my old Sony Alpha and my old (2016) Sony headphones that still use microUSB and a beard trimmer that has a proprietary adapter, everything else is USB-C and I don’t need more adapters, I don’t really need a cable with each new device, those go into my spares’ drawer, or are recycled straight away.
There is no way I’d want to live in the USA, with its pretty much free-for-all business attitude, that way lays insanity. As a kid growing up, the USA was something to respect, the idea of the American Dream, but since the late 80s, each year moving to the USA has become less and less appealing.
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I agreed with you up to this point David - not including an adapter is just an excuse to SAVE COST!!!
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No, it is a legal requirement not to provide an adapter, here. It should save several thousand tonnes of electrical waste every year. I have bought 4 GAN chargers for dozens of devices, because they don’t all need to be charged at the same time (and 3 of the chargers have 3 or 4 ports).
When I replaced my iPhone, I didn’t need a new charger, if it had come with one, it would have gone straight into the e-waste box for recycling. My MacBook came with a charger (that is still a requirement), but it and the cable sit at the back of a drawer, because I have never used them.
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what I’m saying is the big companies used the e-waste thing as an excuse to save money on every unit! I know its the law in EU