I’ve been using only Apple devices for a few years now. I don’t have a Windows PC or an Android smartphone. I don’t even have headphones or accessories from other brands. I subscribe to iCloud+ and use various Apple services, such as Music, Arcade, and email with a custom domain. In short, I’m a user who is totally immersed in the Cupertino ecosystem, but I’m not a satisfied user at all.
I have most of Apple’s devices and rarely does Siri get any use. And when it does, it is when I have accidentally called up Siri on occasion. I wonder if Apple includes erroneous Siri requests in this number. The only time I really use it is to start a phone call or send a text message on the Apple Watch […].
In the last few months, I have seen some new TV series. I haven’t had that in a long time because time is short and blah, blah, blah. Instead, I had the pleasure to see those nice TV shows on Apple TV+.
I liked so much how Viticci has contextualized his review of the new iOS 18, focusing on the people behind the technology and not on AI. I fully share its perspective.
Imagine if Chrome could deplete your iPhone battery as fast as it does your MacBook battery. Imagine if you were one of the millions (zillions?) of people whose “incognito mode” browsing history was observed and stored by Google and deleted only after they lost a lawsuit. Imagine — and this takes a lot of imagination — if Google actually shipped a version of Chrome for iOS, only for the EU, that used its own battery-eating rendering engine instead of using the energy-efficient system version of WebKit.
I’m disappointed with Apple Arcade. I activated it to introduce my daughter to video games, and I combined the subscription by buying an Apple TV and two classical console joysticks. I can’t say that it doesn’t work, but it works with just a few titles and has limits that I didn’t expect.
Apple finally released the Podcast web app and, in the last few weeks, the Maps’ beta web app too. It was about time that Apple decided to take the web more and better into account in their solutions’ carnet. Better late than never.
I decided to introduce video games to my daughter. I have done it because she asked me, without screaming, and because I don’t want her to stay out of the — partially — understanding of a universe mistreated by adults and non-nerds. Among other things, a universe mainly attended by boys and less by girls.