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Baofinity said:
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Apple UI Design Chief Alan Dye Leaving for Meta

Apple UI design head Alan Dye is leaving the company and transitioning to Meta, reports Bloomberg. Dye took over Apple's user interface design team in 2015 when former Apple designer Jony Ive transitioned to Chief Design Officer, and he's held that position since then. Dye has been at Apple...
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The dude who oversaw Liquid Glass is out.

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Hopefully he takes Liquid Ass with him.
 
So I picked up my S24 Ultra yesterday to keep it up to date. It downloaded apps and updates fine. Today it doesn't fucking work. I have tried everything short of factory reset the phone. Apps from Galaxy Store download just fine though, so who the fuck knows.

This has never happened to me ever lmao
 
NarohDethan said:
So I picked up my S24 Ultra yesterday to keep it up to date. It downloaded apps and updates fine. Today it doesn't fucking work. I have tried everything short of factory reset the phone. Apps from Galaxy Store download just fine though, so who the fuck knows.

This has never happened to me ever lmao
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Sounds about right what I would expect from android. :coffee-blob:
 
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I still use my super old oneplus phone to have the gym app on, so that me and partner can use it and go at different times. I do wonder if I will go over something different for my next phone, dont want to go for android since well google is way more evil than apple, but by the time I need to get a new phone I hope there will be more open OSes and phones that use them
 
Le Pertti said:
I still use my super old oneplus phone to have the gym app on, so that me and partner can use it and go at different times. I do wonder if I will go over something different for my next phone, dont want to go for android since well google is way more evil than apple, but by the time I need to get a new phone I hope there will be more open OSes and phones that use them
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There’s always Huawei. Not sure if they’re banned in Europe though.
 
I’d love for there to be a viable alternative to Android and iOS. Alas.

That said, I’m at a point now where I can almost switch OS at will and not have switching costs.

The main sticking point for me right now is the office suite. But Proton is quickly making that a non-issue.
 
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Nebulys said:
I’d love for there to be a viable alternative to Android and iOS. Alas.

That said, I’m at a point now where I can almost switch OS at will and not have switching costs.

The main sticking point for me right now is the office suite. But Proton is quickly making that a non-issue.
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I do see myself alternating Android / iOS every other day. I'm trying to break out of the ecosystem, because I dislike the feeling that I'll be greatly inconvenienced if I stop consuming from a specific brand.
 
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The screen on my Mac flickers from time to time, as if the backlight was rapidly shifting and I don't know what that might be.
 
Le Pertti said:
Yeah ! Ive been trying to convince my partner that we have to get a NAS partly because of I want to safely store my 2 terabytes of photos on my own.
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I'm really looking forward to learn how to self host a bunch of things because these fucking corpos, man.
 
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Baofinity said:
Im definitely switching email provider and and getting a android phone early next year.
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That's my main take away from that person's story. 30k worth equipment bricked because of one account. That's fucking crazy. Imagine not being able to use your fucking headphones because an account got nuked.
 
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All things considered, I will still prefer to use Apple than Android because fuck google. Only option for android phone is to use open OS or buy open phone from the start but havent looked into that much since I hopefully dont need a new phone in a few years.
 
Le Pertti said:
All things considered, I will still prefer to use Apple than Android because fuck google. Only option for android phone is to use open OS or buy open phone from the start but havent looked into that much since I hopefully dont need a new phone in a few years.
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I think using the base of whatever brand you choose is fine, but has to stop setting all the eggs in one basket.

Like, I cannot imagine being locked out of accounts if one were to lose access the the Passwords 2FA iOS thingy.
 
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A little late to this discussion but I wanted to share a bit of news...

A few weeks ago the government in my country sent a (secret?) order to all phone manufacturers telling them to preload a specific app on every new phone sold here, and to update older ones as well. This app is supposedly meant to protect people from scams, fake handsets(?!), to let them monitor usage of their sim card and to report any sort of misuse. In short, they tried to position it as a cybersecurity app.

That order said that the user should not be able to disable or uninstall the app. In addition to that, it required every permission you can think of... managing calls, reading and sending messages, accessing histories, full access to photos and storage and so on. Basically, they wanted to set up a surveillance network on every single phone that is used in this country.

The backlash against it was swift and immense. Within days of this news getting out, the government tried to backtrack by saying that they'd allow users to uninstall the app if they wanted to. What they didn't say is that they still wanted hardware companies to preinstall that app and they knew full well that very, very few people would actually uninstall something they probably don't know about or understand. The backlash continued and the day after that they had to publicly scrap the whole idea.

Why am I posting about this in this thread? Because on the day the news came out, Apple was the only company to straight up publicly refuse to carry out this order. Google, Xiaomi and all the others stayed mum. Now, it stopped being an issue just a few days later but still... they stayed quiet. You know, you can say their commitment to privacy is performative marketing and I don't have any particular affinity or dislike for any of these corporations but during those few days I have to say I was glad to have an Apple phone if this bullshit actually had gone through.
 
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I don’t think Apple’s privacy commitment is performative, it’s just that they make money on privacy so they will fight stupid laws like the one in India.

They’ve also (allegedly, because it’s secret) been challenging the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act in secret courts.

I think Apple is in a different place to a lot of other Big Tech companies, insofar as they’re an end-to-end hardware and integrated software company at heart. Yes, services now make them the more money than any single device, but services ultimately still serves their hardware devices. And one of the biggest selling points of Apple hardware is the privacy protection.

When you frame what Apple does in terms of selling as many devices to you as possible, everything else they do begins to make sense.

If Safari worked on non-Mac devices (fun fact, it used to) it’d far and away be the best browser for usability, install base and privacy. But it won’t, because it’s a selling point of their devices.
 
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Nebulys said:
I don’t think Apple’s privacy commitment is performative, it’s just that they make money on privacy so they will fight stupid laws like the one in India.

They’ve also (allegedly, because it’s secret) been challenging the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act in secret courts.

I think Apple is in a different place to a lot of other Big Tech companies, insofar as they’re an end-to-end hardware and integrated software company at heart. Yes, services now make them the more money than any single device, but services ultimately still serves their hardware devices. And one of the biggest selling points of Apple hardware is the privacy protection.

When you frame what Apple does in terms of selling as many devices to you as possible, everything else they do begins to make sense.

If Safari worked on non-Mac devices (fun fact, it used to) it’d far and away be the best browser for usability, install base and privacy. But it won’t, because it’s a selling point of their devices.
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I've thought about this topic many times in the past and I always reach a conclusion similar to the one addressing a potential Valve heel turn: sure, it could happen, but it hasn't in many decades and it has given them immense profit so I do not see any reason why it would be any different now.
 
When it comes to trusting big tech with my data, Apple is the only one, hell I even trust them more than smaller and local tech. That said, that security and privacy has a price, and in my case a monthly subscription, that if I would stop paying I might actually lose my data.
 
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