Apple thinks this is BETTER? - April 29, 2022

[RILEYISMYNAME]

 

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TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH

iPhone 14 has no notch… has worse cutout instead

https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/28/iphone-14-pro-and-iphone-14-pro-max-taller-displays-and-notch-replacement-corroborated-in-leaked-panels/

https://www.xda-developers.com/hole-punch-pill-could-look-like-iphone-14/

Apple’s great Q2

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/28/apples-services-revenue-hits-a-record-19-8b-in-q2-reaches-825m-paid-subscriptions

People apparently liked M1 Macs

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1428061-the-last-seven-mac-quarters-have-now-been-the-top-seven-quarters-ever-in-the-history-of-the-mac-and-50-of-mac-purchases-were-first-timers/

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/28/mac-users-q2-2022-new-to-mac/

Gonna be waiting for non-Apple Arm competitors

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/qualcomms-m1-class-laptop-chips-will-be-ready-for-pcs-in-late-2023

 

NEXT-JEN JRAPHICS

Next-gen AMD GPUs will use RDNA 3

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-begins-rdna3-gfx11-graphics-architecture-enablement-for-llvm-project

Phoenix https://twitter.com/Kepler_L2/status/1519722530826866690

RTX 40 series is a new architecture https://www.techradar.com/news/nvidia-lovelace-might-be-much-more-powerful-than-originally-planned

https://twitter.com/kopite7kimi/status/1519873990093058049

Intel https://www.pcgamer.com/intel-arc-alchemist-desktop-release-date-q2/

 

LEAVE THE BAND KIDS ALONE

Epic stands up to Google over Bandcamp

https://9to5google.com/2022/04/29/epic-games-bandcamp-android-billing-court/

https://musically.com/2022/04/29/bandcamp-at-centre-of-dispute-between-epic-games-and-google/

https://www.billboard.com/pro/bandcamp-payment-system-google-android-app-store-court-filing/

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/04/29/supporting-artists-on-android/

 

QUICK BITS

 

BUT FIRST LEMME TAKE A PIXY

Snapchat Pixy selfie drone

https://www.engadget.com/snap-selfie-drone-pixy-170050006.html

https://videos.ctfassets.net/o1znirz7lzo4/6teCOVPsLRdIUAfsFSEXgi/f127123b48e0df8644898a817ffc5967/Pixy_Hiking_Film_Long.mp4

https://newsroom.snap.com/en-GB/sps2022close

https://twitter.com/snappixy/status/1519730339652018179

 

FLYING BLIND

Warzone’s latest anti-cheater tactic is making non-cheaters invisible to them

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23046152/call-of-duty-ricochet-anti-cheat-warzone-vanguard-invisible-legit-players

https://www.callofduty.com/blog/2022/04/call-of-duty-vanguard-ricochet-report-update

https://twitter.com/ModernWarzone/status/1495085717097230338

 

BIT BY THE COIN BUG

Central African Republic is 2^nd country to make Bitcoin legal tender

https://gizmodo.com/bitcoin-adopted-as-legal-currency-in-central-african-re-1848848235

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bitcoin-is-declared-a-legal-currency-in-central-african-republic-1.1758233

 

PLACEBO PEOPLE

Science bit: VR pain relief company trying out virtual control groups

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/28/23044586/vr-chronic-pain-synthetic-clinical-trial-data

https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/05/synthetic-control-arms-clinical-trials/

https://www.pharmavoice.com/news/2021-10-synthetic-control-arms-a-broader-clinical-reach/612010/

 

GUNDAM STYLE

Humanoid worker-piloted robot fixes Japan’s railways

https://newatlas.com/robotics/jr-west-gundam-maintenance-robot/

https://twitter.com/news_jrwest/status/1514919764153434113

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1427730-calling-all-gundams-i-repeat-calling-all-gundams-time-to-go-work-the-rails/

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Ok y’all

stop trashing on how the notch was a horrible design decision. It wasn’t.

sure, it’s annoying now that all screen fronts  are possible, but when it came out the notch was amazing.

it moved the icons that would usually take up space up into what used to be the bezel. It’s not an intrusion into the screen space, it’s a bezel With sides missing to to put the time and battery icons

[RILEYISMYNAME]

On 4/30/2022 at 8:55 AM, Helpful Tech Wiard said:

Ok y’all

stop trashing on how the notch was a horrible design decision. It wasn’t.

sure, it’s annoying now that all screen fronts  are possible, but when it came out the notch was amazing.

it moved the icons that would usually take up space up into what used to be the bezel. It’s not an intrusion into the screen space, it’s a bezel With sides missing to to put the time and battery icons

Yeah, it was an interesting 'innovation' on the iPhone X - but it's kind of wild how it's survived for 5 years even as other phones came up with other less ugly solutions

[DANK_AS_gay]

2 minutes ago, RILEYISMYNAME said:

but it's kind of wild how it's survived for 5 years even as other phones came up with other less ugly solutions

Eh, It works fine. I really like my fingerprint sensor, and FaceID is just one of those things I really am not interested in. Compared to other phones, this may be an outdated solution, but if it works well why change it? I never saw an iPhone after the X that made me think, "man, I wish I had 1/4th in extra screen". Maybe on the Mini models, but a fingerprint sensor takes up more room so the point is moot.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

48 minutes ago, RILEYISMYNAME said:

Yeah, it was an interesting 'innovation' on the iPhone X - but it's kind of wild how it's survived for 5 years even as other phones came up with other less ugly solutions

Yes, it was an innovation for the time, but in the video even something was said about how it was never a good idea, which is what I take issue with

[Sauron]

On 4/30/2022 at 5:55 PM, Helpful Tech Wiard said:

stop trashing on how the notch was a horrible design decision. It wasn’t.

It was and it made the entire smartphone industry worse

On 4/30/2022 at 5:55 PM, Helpful Tech Wiard said:

it moved the icons that would usually take up space up into what used to be the bezel.

That problem was already solved better by thinner bezels like the S9 had

[WhitetailAni]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

That problem was already solved better by thinner bezels like the S9 had

Thinner bezels, and then you put the front camera and speaker... where?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

1 minute ago, Sauron said:

It was and it made the entire smartphone industry worse

That problem was already solved better by thinner bezels like the S9 had

But those icons are all on the main part of the screen then

they still take up screen space, the notch design literally just moved them into the bezel

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, FakeKGB said:

Thinner bezels, and then you put the front camera and speaker... where?

The speaker can go in the edge where the front and sides meet, the front camera ends up having the front lens be smaller

[WhitetailAni]

4 minutes ago, Helpful Tech Wiard said:

they still take up screen space, the notch design literally just moved them into the bezel

As shown.

X without notch:

Spoiler

X with notch:

Spoiler

The screen area to the left and right of notch is rarely used in my experience anyway. It's a feature in the iOS SDK to add black bars to block out that small bit of screen space.

[Sauron]

4 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

Thinner bezels, and then you put the front camera and speaker... where?

 

thinner bezels and slightly taller screens were the solution to adding screen real estate without compromising ergonomics. instead we got phones you can't even hold well without covering part of the screen and camera cutouts making the space you gained useless.

6 minutes ago, Helpful Tech Wiard said:

But those icons are all on the main part of the screen then

compensated for by the taller screen. when you need to see the icons you can easily fit them in without taking out much app space, on the other hand when you're watching a widescreen video you don't get a stupid hole in the middle of it.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

23 minutes ago, Sauron said:

 

thinner bezels and slightly taller screens were the solution to adding screen real estate without compromising ergonomics. instead we got phones you can't even hold well without covering part of the screen and camera cutouts making the space you gained useless.

compensated for by the taller screen. when you need to see the icons you can easily fit them in without taking out much app space, on the other hand when you're watching a widescreen video you don't get a stupid hole in the middle of it.

those bezels are the same thickness as the notch, and theyres not a bottom bezel at all really.....

And im not sure what you mean by holding a phone and covering part of the screen,ive never had an issue like that.....