I don’t have white ones, but I suspect the white will be better here because the etched buttons on those are black and prolly easier to see.
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Deffo prefer the backlit volume buttons of the OG. This is how both look with song playing; the +- on the new one is basically invisible.
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Sync speaker volume when using multi-room audio with this one weird trick™
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This week on Happy Hour: foldable iPad and periscope iPhone lens rumors, more AR headset details, and more
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The new Handoff tutorial animation progresses in sync with your phone approaching the unit — U1 chip in use
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“Midnight” is definitely bluer.
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The indignation on social media today about this is somewhat hilarious, especially as some other services already enforce policies like PIN code verification to disincentivise sharing (and many more say so in their ToS, they just haven't cracked down yet).
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Prefacing this by saying it's entirely Netflix's fault for training an entire consumer base for more than a decade on terrible pre-conceived notions of value and leaning into sharing as a brand identity but: did anyone think Netflix was going to allow password sharing forever?
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A random example of Siri sillyness, via Verge's HomePod review: if you ask it who is playing in the Super Bowl, it can't tell you ...
But it _does_ actually know! If you ask for 'when is the Super Bowl', you get times and all the team information.
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After submitting the issue a few months ago with no fix in sight I thought I'd see how popular third party platforms faired whilst loading my library via Apple's TV.
Roku Stick 4K HDR (instant)
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Apple TV fandom, where did it begin? For me and millions like me the answer is 2006 with the introduction of iTunes 7 & Movie purchases.
16 years on, after building sizeable collections, Apple's most loyal TV customers have a problem. Library tab lockups on Apple TV hardware...
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Talking iPhone 15 design rumors, Apple AR headset software details and more in this week's Happy Hour — listen/sub:
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ivory club bzamayo@mastodon.social
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... also from 6 microphone array to 4
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Unclear whether sound quality will be better or same or worse, but it numerically has less tweeters now compared to the OG (from 7 to 5).
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glad they took the weekend to get their talking points in order, it really paid off
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Twitter is enforcing its long-standing API rules. That may result in some apps not working.
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Discussing touchscreen Macs, and the state of the rumored 2023 Apple product lineup on this week's Happy Hour pod - listen here
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Musk wanted to get rid of the bots so that's what he did, he got rid of Tweetbot
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Pretty significant departure given Stern seemed like he was in prime position to take Cue’s job when he eventually leaves
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Happy Hour returns for 2023 with what else but some Apple rumor discussion — listen and subscribe here
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That General row is looking a bit thicc
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Apple Arcade Gone Wild
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Happy New Year — here’s our look back at Apple in 2022
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New Happy Hour is out, talking Mac Pro rumours and EU app sideloading :) Listen/subscribe
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I like HomeKit a lot but the native automation options are still very limited. Need to get HomeBridge hacks involved to do anything useful with a motion sensor.
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tweets got view counts now better smash that like button
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MLS Season Pass Pricing bzamayo.com/mls-season-pas
MLS Season Pass is innovative and bold in its structure, but perhaps not the most appealing proposition to people who are only interested in their local team.
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I’ve resisted but I guess it’s time; find me at the elephant place, same handle - main instance.
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Apple wanted to flex but now it's just gonna be a Mac Studio with expandable RAM :(
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TV+ has cancelled a few shows to date but Shantaram is an ugly one; cancelled the same day the season finale episode comes out that ends with 'To Be Continued' as the final frame.
(Show cost a lot to make, didn't catch on, and isn't that good so can understand the decision.)
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To be clear, I wasn't necessarily expecting to see improvements. My accessories already respond as fast as I could reasonably expect them to. The promise of the new architecture is also targeted at people with many, many accessories — that's where old HomeKit could chug a lot.
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Upgraded to the new HomeKit architecture. Cameras flipped to Off state (had to set back to stream + record), otherwise haven't seen issues — but also haven't really seen a tangible benefit either — yet.
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when you have an OG HomePod this is your monthly thrill ride
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Big Friday newz for Apple developer ecosystem: "we are embarking on a project to create a unified implementation of Foundation, written in Swift, for all platforms"
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Thanks to for joining us on Happy Hour this week. Discussion includes the new end-to-end encryption iCloud announcements, Apple Music Sing, and more :)
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Sing support varies by track. Many have the vocals volume adjustment, some also have these more fine-grained lyrics. Others don’t support it at all.
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