"At the same time five year old Apple devices (5S) still receive support and the latest versions. That, coupled with an iOS 12 market share of 60% versus an Android 9 market share of 0.1% speaks for itself as far as "update policies" are concerned."
I have to say what impressed me most about IOS12 on my 4 year old 6Plus is that it has made the old phone operate more smoothly. To the point that I hope it will hold out for another year before replacing to then newest iphone.
I recognise it wasn't always like this, one past update made my jurassic iPad 2 suddenly slow like a tortoise, it was indeed an old device with limited specs and little RAM but it taught me to first check on reports of new IOS on old devices, because annoyingly you can't roll back to the previous version of IOS after the first week or so of release.
Anyway, back to the 6Plus. It wasn't a cheap device when I bought it, but if I can get (as I expect) 5 years of comfortable use out of it, then the yearly price vs. the general satisfaction will have been worth it.
Yes, that is the key. Spend the screentime wisely and don't get addicted to a dumb game. Nothing wrong with constructing something virtually in minecraft for example. Anyway, at this moment my twins are too young for much screen time anyway. As I wrote, a bit of Peppa Pig is wonderful, TV is on only a few minutes every other day.
I actually do find that it is healthier to keep kids away from overdosing on video games, rather encourage them to do more physical world social activities. The iron-fist way China approaches the issue can be debated, of course. But since becoming a dad of 2 year old twins I think quite a lot about good ways for them to explore and play. Currently they have almost no screentime (a bit of Peppa Pig etc every two days) and I intend to keep it that way, increasing the use of TV, ipads, videogames in moderation over time and rather let them play in other ways. I have seen other kids who are utterly addicted to video consoles and will not let that happen. I don't plan to be heavy handed about it, rather hope to enable them to find interest and joy in many other ways. Recently they started enjoying drawing scribbles with crayon for example, they were inspired by me often drawing little things for them. Parenting is a challenge, but so rewarding.
I had an iPad 2 which was a nice media consumption device, more comfortable than a laptop for that use, and great for travel too.
Since last year I have the previous generation iPad Pro and while all the above is still true, I find that the processing power makes it quite compelling for a lot of uses, esp. on travel. On holiday evenings, I find it relaxing to import photos from my dslr (yes, yes, it needs that dongle), and edit them in pretty powerful software. While sipping a glass of wine. And when ready it all syncs back with iCloud. The admitedly expensive keyboard cover is also good on trips, it is good enough to be scribbling ideas in Scrivener etc.
What holds it back for general use? Mainly the limited file system access. It will never be the tool of choice for a programmer, but it may well be powerful enough for typical home and small office use. The processor of the newest generation makes them pretty convincing for creative use in general as well.
My retired parents are enjoying an old Macbook for browsing, light document writing, and facetime. When it eventually dies, I think I may give them a new iPad instead. Doesn't even need to be the "pro" variant.
Let us leave aside the semantics that Apple is mainly an innovator rather than an inventer, as in manically designing something that may functionally already exist, but resulting in a product experience that is *usually* noticeably better and simpler than the existing one.
I do like the idea of an all-encompassing simple subscription for all kinds of entertainment incl. books, a cloud service and some kind of extended warranty. No hassle. I can well imagine google, netflix etc eventually also offering such.
I find it puzzling that such a big bug can happen - it is not a WearOS implementation that can in theory run on hundreds of very different configurations. There are only a handful of different Apple watch models. So how does this happen? I assume that Apple uses normal QA processes. Would it perhaps be an obscure interaction with a pre-installed 3rd party app?
I agree - I like editing photos in the evenings of a holiday trip, glass of wine nearby, I use the previous ipad pro 10.5 for that, and the new one seems to give a big boost in power.
I thought that the new processor in the new ipad pro seemed very convincing (traditional speed test to confirm). I have the previous model ipad pro which is already pretty quick, and this is a step up, plus it has a co processor for machine learning apps as well.
Actually, Apple is the leading watch brand by value. Rolex make and largely sell approx 800k-1m expensive watches per year (based on the number of chronometer certifications they receive). The Apple watch is obviously a lot less expensive, and they will this year sell something like 20 million pieces (depending on the market analysts between 15m and 25m) which is frankly quite impressive.
And yes, scientists are aware that planting trees will help, but you need an incredible surface of forest to now make a little difference - twice the size of India is what I read a while ago.
Likely multiple techniques will need to be used to be successful. And also a serious effort in reducing new co2 of course.
I live in Hong Kong these days where you can find xiaomi here and there. I must say that I like their attention to design, almost everything they make (and that includes watercookers etc) is pretty with a good feel to it.
I have one xiaomi product, and I really love it: their “urban” backpack which is well designed (for example it has a waterproof little side compartment for an umbrella), good quality and looks much more office-like than most backpacks, and priced well too. Worth checking out.
Yes, I was also pleasantly surprised how IOS12 made my 4 year old 6 Plus run smoothly and quick enough.
It actually makes me delay replacing the phone for at least another year.
Parent of almost 2 year old twin toddlers here.
Currently they don’t play with ipad etc, they are too young, better to play with physical things and explore at home or in the playground or in nature.
Together as a family, since a month we watch on youtube streamed to tv for 15 minutes max daily, animated songs like The Wheels on The bus. They love that, and we sing (badly in my case) with them. Otherwise tv is off all day.
But how to address things when they get older? I am not adverse to parental controls - there is a time for everything. Indeed porn seems to have slipped from the erotical to rather extreme stuff. I wouldn’t want my kids at say 8 years old, when they search for “pussy”, to see a hand stuck up a vagina. For example.
The world can be a violent place, I don’t want them to be too sheltered but again there is a time for everything, and nobody at any age needs to stumble upon a decapitation video.
We plan to lovingly guide our kids through the discovery of the online world, and warn them about dangers, and i find that parental controls once the bugs are substantially ironed out, can help. You can’t always be present, and it is healthy that kids explore on their own, but they Shoukd not be scarred at a young age.
Considering that Apple deals with a limited number of hardware configurations, unlike Android, it surprises me when some bugs weren’t intercepted before the first release.
In theory it is best to wait a month before installing, but I admit that I installed IOS12 immediately when it came out, luckily without obvious bugs, and featuring a noticeable boost in general smoothness of operation on my 4 year old 6 Plus, good enough to make me keep my phone for another year at least.
Indeed. Loved them on my C64 in the early 1980s, and youâ(TM)d be surprised to see how they have evolved now as a niche game style with. Sometimes innovative story structures even. Anchorhead was remarkably satisfying.
Tangentially, as a teenager dabbling with programming, I found it a fun challenge to create a simple adventure engine in Basic on my C64. Still think it is a good challenge for beginners.
I havenâ(TM)t tried these interactive fiction submissions for years yet always found them interesting - some are surprisingly original and even arty in approach. A free, Lovecraftian text adventure I can recommend is Anchorhead. Itâ(TM)s some 25 years old and it convinced me how good a text adventure can still be while competing with graphics extravangant modern games,
I love wearing a traditional automatic mechanical watch, actually I have 3 I regularly wear, and 2 pretty 1960s ones I occasonally wear. So yes I am a bit of a traditional watch fan, the kind who typically hate a smartwatch.
Then my wife gave me the original Apple watch as an xmas present. I didnâ(TM)t expect to like it, but actually find it pleasant. It is comfortable, it sends me message notifications only from my family, it has handy features like the auto unlock of my macbook air, and I like the activity tracking. In the end I wear it most weekends, while during working days I wear my mechanicals. It still has in essence on day battery, I take it off around 10pm.
Yesterday I was able to examine v4, and it is a significant upgrade, it is noticeably quicker and the much bigger screen i splendid, and I like the health features. I was tempted... but then my original one is still a fine device, so I intend to wear mine for several more years, perhaps changing the battery and only buying a âoequantum leap betterâ new one, probably with even more heaklth functions, when mine expires.
Many jobs will gradually require less people due to machine learning. Often it can support human specialists with analytical lookup work that woukd be done otherwise by people.
I have young twin children and I sometimes wonder what direction they should grow their capabilities to have a happy life with an interesting job.
I think that tasks like setting up a communication or marketing campaign will not immediately be replaced, and having an enterpreneurial attitude will be useful too, but difficult to make predictions...
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"At the same time five year old Apple devices (5S) still receive support and the latest versions. That, coupled with an iOS 12 market share of 60% versus an Android 9 market share of 0.1% speaks for itself as far as "update policies" are concerned."
I have to say what impressed me most about IOS12 on my 4 year old 6Plus is that it has made the old phone operate more smoothly. To the point that I hope it will hold out for another year before replacing to then newest iphone.
I recognise it wasn't always like this, one past update made my jurassic iPad 2 suddenly slow like a tortoise, it was indeed an old device with limited specs and little RAM but it taught me to first check on reports of new IOS on old devices, because annoyingly you can't roll back to the previous version of IOS after the first week or so of release.
Anyway, back to the 6Plus. It wasn't a cheap device when I bought it, but if I can get (as I expect) 5 years of comfortable use out of it, then the yearly price vs. the general satisfaction will have been worth it.
Yes, that is the key. Spend the screentime wisely and don't get addicted to a dumb game. Nothing wrong with constructing something virtually in minecraft for example. Anyway, at this moment my twins are too young for much screen time anyway. As I wrote, a bit of Peppa Pig is wonderful, TV is on only a few minutes every other day.
I actually do find that it is healthier to keep kids away from overdosing on video games, rather encourage them to do more physical world social activities. The iron-fist way China approaches the issue can be debated, of course. But since becoming a dad of 2 year old twins I think quite a lot about good ways for them to explore and play. Currently they have almost no screentime (a bit of Peppa Pig etc every two days) and I intend to keep it that way, increasing the use of TV, ipads, videogames in moderation over time and rather let them play in other ways. I have seen other kids who are utterly addicted to video consoles and will not let that happen. I don't plan to be heavy handed about it, rather hope to enable them to find interest and joy in many other ways. Recently they started enjoying drawing scribbles with crayon for example, they were inspired by me often drawing little things for them. Parenting is a challenge, but so rewarding.
I had an iPad 2 which was a nice media consumption device, more comfortable than a laptop for that use, and great for travel too.
Since last year I have the previous generation iPad Pro and while all the above is still true, I find that the processing power makes it quite compelling for a lot of uses, esp. on travel. On holiday evenings, I find it relaxing to import photos from my dslr (yes, yes, it needs that dongle), and edit them in pretty powerful software. While sipping a glass of wine. And when ready it all syncs back with iCloud. The admitedly expensive keyboard cover is also good on trips, it is good enough to be scribbling ideas in Scrivener etc.
What holds it back for general use? Mainly the limited file system access. It will never be the tool of choice for a programmer, but it may well be powerful enough for typical home and small office use. The processor of the newest generation makes them pretty convincing for creative use in general as well.
My retired parents are enjoying an old Macbook for browsing, light document writing, and facetime. When it eventually dies, I think I may give them a new iPad instead. Doesn't even need to be the "pro" variant.
Let us leave aside the semantics that Apple is mainly an innovator rather than an inventer, as in manically designing something that may functionally already exist, but resulting in a product experience that is *usually* noticeably better and simpler than the existing one.
I do like the idea of an all-encompassing simple subscription for all kinds of entertainment incl. books, a cloud service and some kind of extended warranty. No hassle. I can well imagine google, netflix etc eventually also offering such.
I find it puzzling that such a big bug can happen - it is not a WearOS implementation that can in theory run on hundreds of very different configurations. There are only a handful of different Apple watch models. So how does this happen? I assume that Apple uses normal QA processes. Would it perhaps be an obscure interaction with a pre-installed 3rd party app?
Well it costs an order of magnitude less and will give interesting health related functionality for say 5-10 years. Not a bad trade-off.
I agree - I like editing photos in the evenings of a holiday trip, glass of wine nearby, I use the previous ipad pro 10.5 for that, and the new one seems to give a big boost in power.
I thought that the new processor in the new ipad pro seemed very convincing (traditional speed test to confirm). I have the previous model ipad pro which is already pretty quick, and this is a step up, plus it has a co processor for machine learning apps as well.
Actually, Apple is the leading watch brand by value. Rolex make and largely sell approx 800k-1m expensive watches per year (based on the number of chronometer certifications they receive). The Apple watch is obviously a lot less expensive, and they will this year sell something like 20 million pieces (depending on the market analysts between 15m and 25m) which is frankly quite impressive.
And yes, scientists are aware that planting trees will help, but you need an incredible surface of forest to now make a little difference - twice the size of India is what I read a while ago.
Likely multiple techniques will need to be used to be successful. And also a serious effort in reducing new co2 of course.
I live in Hong Kong these days where you can find xiaomi here and there. I must say that I like their attention to design, almost everything they make (and that includes watercookers etc) is pretty with a good feel to it.
I have one xiaomi product, and I really love it: their “urban” backpack which is well designed (for example it has a waterproof little side compartment for an umbrella), good quality and looks much more office-like than most backpacks, and priced well too. Worth checking out.
Yes, I was also pleasantly surprised how IOS12 made my 4 year old 6 Plus run smoothly and quick enough. It actually makes me delay replacing the phone for at least another year.
It is not uncommon at all. Leonardo di Caprio is an ambassador for Tag Heuer watches for example. It is just an advertisement channel.
I seem to remember having read about a recent cryptographic algorithm that could withstand a quantum computer. Anyone remembers more detail?
I agree and will check that study.
Parent of almost 2 year old twin toddlers here.
Currently they don’t play with ipad etc, they are too young, better to play with physical things and explore at home or in the playground or in nature.
Together as a family, since a month we watch on youtube streamed to tv for 15 minutes max daily, animated songs like The Wheels on The bus. They love that, and we sing (badly in my case) with them. Otherwise tv is off all day.
But how to address things when they get older? I am not adverse to parental controls - there is a time for everything. Indeed porn seems to have slipped from the erotical to rather extreme stuff. I wouldn’t want my kids at say 8 years old, when they search for “pussy”, to see a hand stuck up a vagina. For example.
The world can be a violent place, I don’t want them to be too sheltered but again there is a time for everything, and nobody at any age needs to stumble upon a decapitation video.
We plan to lovingly guide our kids through the discovery of the online world, and warn them about dangers, and i find that parental controls once the bugs are substantially ironed out, can help. You can’t always be present, and it is healthy that kids explore on their own, but they Shoukd not be scarred at a young age.
The decline link is more than a year old. It seems that the iPad Pro has been able to reverse the trend.
The article briefly mentions "Intel’s Secure Device Onboard specifications".
Considering that Apple deals with a limited number of hardware configurations, unlike Android, it surprises me when some bugs weren’t intercepted before the first release.
In theory it is best to wait a month before installing, but I admit that I installed IOS12 immediately when it came out, luckily without obvious bugs, and featuring a noticeable boost in general smoothness of operation on my 4 year old 6 Plus, good enough to make me keep my phone for another year at least.
A happy shareholder?
Indeed. Loved them on my C64 in the early 1980s, and youâ(TM)d be surprised to see how they have evolved now as a niche game style with. Sometimes innovative story structures even. Anchorhead was remarkably satisfying.
Tangentially, as a teenager dabbling with programming, I found it a fun challenge to create a simple adventure engine in Basic on my C64. Still think it is a good challenge for beginners.
I havenâ(TM)t tried these interactive fiction submissions for years yet always found them interesting - some are surprisingly original and even arty in approach.
A free, Lovecraftian text adventure I can recommend is Anchorhead. Itâ(TM)s some 25 years old and it convinced me how good a text adventure can still be while competing with graphics extravangant modern games,
I love wearing a traditional automatic mechanical watch, actually I have 3 I regularly wear, and 2 pretty 1960s ones I occasonally wear. So yes I am a bit of a traditional watch fan, the kind who typically hate a smartwatch.
Then my wife gave me the original Apple watch as an xmas present. I didnâ(TM)t expect to like it, but actually find it pleasant. It is comfortable, it sends me message notifications only from my family, it has handy features like the auto unlock of my macbook air, and I like the activity tracking. In the end I wear it most weekends, while during working days I wear my mechanicals. It still has in essence on day battery, I take it off around 10pm.
Yesterday I was able to examine v4, and it is a significant upgrade, it is noticeably quicker and the much bigger screen i splendid, and I like the health features. I was tempted... but then my original one is still a fine device, so I intend to wear mine for several more years, perhaps changing the battery and only buying a âoequantum leap betterâ new one, probably with even more heaklth functions, when mine expires.
Many jobs will gradually require less people due to machine learning. Often it can support human specialists with analytical lookup work that woukd be done otherwise by people.
I have young twin children and I sometimes wonder what direction they should grow their capabilities to have a happy life with an interesting job.
I think that tasks like setting up a communication or marketing campaign will not immediately be replaced, and having an enterpreneurial attitude will be useful too, but difficult to make predictions...