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What's the point of a wireless mouse if you have to deal with wires? Do you leave the Lightning cable permanently plugged into your computer, taking up one of the very few ports Apple bestows upon you these days? Or do you unplug it on both ends and hope you don't lose or misplace the cable, then deal with craning your neck trying to find a USB port hidden in the least convenient place, the back of an iMac?
Why bother having a wireless mouse at this point?
The holy grail would be wireless charging mouse and a charging mouse pad.
I keep waiting for Apple to add built-in wireless charging to the iMac. I would love to recharge my mouse, keyboard or iPhone by placing it on the foot of the stand.
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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Dec 9, 2015, 01:11 AM
Oh man, built-in wireless charging in the stand would be killer. Drop your phone there while you work and have it charge, or leave your mouse there once you're done and it's topped off? That's a great idea.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
Think if Steve were alive those products would have ever left the planning stage? Me either.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Apple products are becoming too expensive. $99 for a pencil (stylus) and $99 for an iPhone case? The competition, in the case of the case, is much cheaper and better than the Apple case.
The Power Mac used to be getting cheaper, reaching a low of $1,599 before, and now it (Mac Pro) is much more expensive.
Got an iPhone6S recently (upgrading from the 3GS, which is still my primary phone).
Using the 6S with iOS9, reminded me of using my first PowerBookG4 with MacOS9; great hardware held back by a previous generation OS (at least as far as the sophistication of the UI). In MacOS9's defense, it didn't have a heavy layer of makeup caked on.
One hardware design flaw(IMHO) is the location of the sleep/wake button.
That only bothers me if I manage to hit sleep and volume at the same time.
Yup. The positions of all those buttons make it more likely to do that, that's why i think its sortof a flaw. The button should have stayed at the top. If the proximity of the button to the camera was the issue, they could have moved the button to the other side of the top edge. IMHO
The issue is being able to reach it without repositioning the phone.
Hey everybody... we found "gorilla hands"!
Oh i hadn't thought of that. Well i guess there's the tradeoff. Not sure which i would prefer. Accidentally locking the phone when adjusting the volume or having to use my other hand to lock?
The (by far) most irritating situation is when you're trying to snap a pic with the volume button, and put the phone to sleep. Second most is tying to put it to sleep when it's on a table. You naturally pinch the phone right on the two buttons.
Even these you do enough times you train yourself to stop at some point.
The (by far) most irritating situation is when you're trying to snap a pic with the volume button, and put the phone to sleep. Second most is tying to put it to sleep when it's on a table. You naturally pinch the phone right on the two buttons.
Even these you do enough times you train yourself to stop at some point.
Well, i think i've adjusted to using it.
3D-touch feels like a gimmick. It's frustrating using on the home screen with the icon-wiggle thing. I've disabled it for now.
Wait, what?!? The cable for the mouse plugs into the bottom face of it?! So you can't use it while its charging?
It takes all of two minutes to charge for several hours of use, should you have ignored the "low battery" warnings for days on end and not have plugged it in when going to fetch some coffee.
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Dec 27, 2015, 02:21 PM
Do I keep one of my very few, very difficult to reach USB ports occupied with a Lightning cable all of the time available for charging or do I lose the cable and buy a $20 replacement each time it needs charged?
Does anyone actually *like* 3D touch on the iPhone? At best i'm apathetic. It's a neat technological achievement, but the implications("right-click"/context menus) for end users seems negligible (within the context of an iPhone running iOS9.x.).
That takes up a precious power outlet, likely with a bulky adapter.
Any charging solution would do that. USB chargers aren't bulky anymore, and the advantage with using USB is that you can pick one that works for you. Are you saying that rechargeable devices are bad per se?
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
Does anyone actually *like* 3D touch on the iPhone? At best i'm apathetic. It's a neat technological achievement, but the implications("right-click"/context menus) for end users seems negligible (within the context of an iPhone running iOS9.x.).
Yep, I use it all the time, and it's become second nature. But it's taken a while to grow on me.
As of now, it doesn't *feel* like I'm using it a lot, but I think I'd be tremendously annoyed if it weren't there.
Thinking more closely on it:
It started with Voice memos from the homescreen.
Then Scanner Pro from the homescreen (I scan a lot of music sheets and stuff).
Camera app.
More recently, it's become so normal that I'm trying it out more and more - I pop and press-through (or whatever it's called) on links in mail and Safari all the time, now.
Peek-n-pop has the potential to really influence the mobile-ui-language. I just find the software layer doing a 'half baked' job in taking advantage of it (at least on the home screen).
Imagine...peeking into the ....
-weather/stocks app and specific custom info is presented instead of just a context menu? instead of "launching" a "card" for the app?
-the Music app brings up playback controls
-Facebook, twitter, social, messaging shows the most recent notification/message
Im kinda disappointed with the new app switching where the "cards" are all overlapping and you essentially have a stack of cards where your current app-card is at the top.
App switcher:
-need to be able to rearrange the cards
-group cards
-document-based apps should be able to have a card per document (document based system vs application based system)
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