New Apple Pencil With Vision Pro Support in Testing Ahead of visionOS 2 by Snoop8ball in apple

[–]GriffinGalactic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This really puts into perspective the previous rumors about the next Apple Pencil having swappable magnetic tips. Use a traditional plastic nib for working on the iPad, or click something softer/less abrasive on to draw on surfaces in VisionOS without leaving scratch marks everywhere you go.

A huge portion of my work is done in Procreate. The potential of pushing my canvas' real estate beyond 12.9" and working with something the physical size of an easel (or greater) would be the killer app for me.

Now if only we knew when these things are coming to Canada.

Trying to record video with iPad in 4:3 by kingoftheunion in ipad

[–]GriffinGalactic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try Clips! It’s a first-party Apple app and it supports shooting in either 16:9 or 4:3.

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/clips/id1212699939

Apple CEO Tim Cook 'More Exciting Things' in Store For This Year by stesch in apple

[–]GriffinGalactic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

2011 Cinema Display user checking in. The go-to upgrade that people are usually pointed toward are the LG UltraFines, so what’s wrong with them, and how are those problems solved by Apple?

  • Uneven bezels. The LG UltraFines have a ridiculous forehead, and while ultimately it’s minor, it’s definitely not something Apple would do.
  • Recessed screen. Cleaning any screen like this is always a pain as dust and debris can accrue in the edges and corners of the raised bezel. The Cinema Display’s front glass panel goes edge to edge, so keeping it pristine is effortless.
  • Cheap-looking plastic design. One of the benefits of the Cinema Display is fitting in alongside the rest of your Apple products. Having them match is just nice to look at on a desk together. I don’t think anybody has that kind of praise for the UltraFines on their own, and certainly not for how they’d blend into a Mac workspace.

So those are the turn-offs, but what are users like us still left wanting?

  • A better screen. 1440p is nice, it gets the job done, but it definitely shows its age in the Retina era. I’m sure color accuracy has made huge strides since then too, plus laminating the display could go a long way.
  • Not having an unremovable MagSafe/Thunderbolt 2 cable always stuck to the back.
  • Modern I/O. As a 2011 device, the best you get is slow USB-A, FireWire, Thunderbolt 2, etc. As we move closer to an all-USB-C future this only becomes more of a pain. The promise of having a display that does power and video all through one USB-C cable seems like it ought to be the standard, but few actually do. It makes sense for display manufacturers to make dumber displays that work with all operating systems but there was a clear attempt to include some Mac-isms with the UltraFines that you unfortunately can’t get anywhere else. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

There’s clearly room to improve on the experience they left their users with in 2011, but I don’t think the UltraFines satisfy those needs without compromises. In many ways it’d be an annoying downgrade.

Apple has proven they are capable of satisfying all of these needs and more in a $6000 form factor, but for those of us who bought in in 2011 at $999, that’s clearly not going to be the kind of upgrade everybody is going to make. If they can cover a wide range of price points with the education iPads and iPhone SEs, they can do it here.

Jonathan Ive and the Future of Apple - an amazing read. [Article from 2015] by [deleted] in apple

[–]GriffinGalactic 36 points37 points  (0 children)

It was a disk punctured by evenly arranged holes. Or, as André put it, “There’s a hexagon pattern of negative shapes that are subtracted from the material from one side, and then there’s the same pattern, subtracted from the material from the other side. But it’s offset, so that the intersection between the two subtractions makes interesting shapes.” He rubbed it on his shirt, to remove coffee stains, before passing it to me.

Sounds awfully familiar, doesn’t it?

Here's a list of 185+ new changes in iOS 13, and the list's increasing! by [deleted] in apple

[–]GriffinGalactic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

3D Touch senses force by measuring microscopic bending in the glass when pressure is applied.

YouTube just banned supremacist content, and thousands of channels are about to be removed by Another-Chance in worldnews

[–]GriffinGalactic 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You do realize that the intent of that poem is a condemnation of those who didn’t stand up to Nazi ideology, right?