Garoo

Hi! Do you remember blogs? Well, this used to be one. Now it just serves as an archive for my multiple Twitter accounts.

23 September

@sdw:

iPhone 8 day 2: phone vibrated itself slightly off the center of the charging pad overnight, so it didn’t get a full charge. Splendid.

# 2017/09/23 - 19:01

@ivanassen:

Levels of programmer enlightenment:

- my software is shit

- all software is shit

- everything is shit

# 2017/09/23 - 18:54

Instagram Stories look so damn nice on a Plus.

# 2017/09/23 - 18:06 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

I keep forgetting that Titanfall 2 exists and is in my mind’s wishlist because it isn’t on Steam.

# 2017/09/23 - 18:03 — originally published on @commandergaroo

On iPhone 6, Control Center doesn’t respond to touch for a full second as the music widget struggles to find out the current track’s title.

# 2017/09/23 - 16:04 — originally published on @garoocomplains

iPhone 8 vs 7 drop test

That protruding camera is definitely a structural weakness. But hey that’s okay, a broken back is just cosmetic 😬👍

# 2017/09/23 - 15:06 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

I’m having issues in Tacoma with sounds & voices going quieter the more directly I look at the source and can’t find any complaints online 😒

# 2017/09/23 - 01:58 — originally published on @commandergaroo

22 September

@orinoxide:

Randomly remembered that “lunarcore” is a fashion aesthetic that exists.

# 2017/09/22 - 23:16

@hodapp:

UPS guy just mentioned he’d made “almost no” Apple deliveries today- Says it’s odd as last year his truck was totally full of iPhone 7’s.

# 2017/09/22 - 19:38

@BrendanSinclair:

PUBG-Fortnite thing is sorta like Threes-2048, but if Threes devs already had to give the cloners a cut of their money in the first place

# 2017/09/22 - 18:40

Using a Plus is renewing my annoyance at the impossibility for an app to change what it displays on a 5.5” via Auto Layout size classes.

# 2017/09/22 - 18:35 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Oh, well, that’s was just answered in the podcast — I don’t need to kill the poor guy now.

# 2017/09/22 - 18:32 — originally published on @commandergaroo

# 2017/09/22 - 18:23 — originally published on @garooscreens

My first Heat Signature character was soon “captured” (with a bullet, there was a lot of blood everywhere, but okay sure it’s sci-fi). My second character’s life goal slash loyalty mission is to free the first, who was his life partner, so basically I’ve been guilt-tripped into playing the game forever* now, well done.

* Actually, now that I’m writing this, I’m curious what happens when I “kill” the second character — does the chain end, or were they poly?

# 2017/09/22 - 17:44

I’d still rather finish Prey before I get Death of the Outsider but today’s Crate & Crowbar is weakening my resolve.

# 2017/09/22 - 17:06 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Goddammit

# 2017/09/22 - 16:29 — originally published on @garooscreens

Radiolab: Oliver Sipple 🏳️‍🌈 [TW]

# 2017/09/22 - 16:09 — originally published on @garoo

@DIA_Mitch:

The next wave of R&D spacial kinetic typography. No more fixed formats with AR & VR

# 2017/09/22 - 12:50

@handsomeninja:

Magnifique (et jetez pas vos kinects) : [vimeo.com] #motiondesign

# 2017/09/22 - 12:50

I don’t think Apple’s official battery life numbers take into account Unity games or poorly optimized apps, though

# 2017/09/22 - 11:35 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Weird cognitive dissonance that I have a yay-new-toy but it isn’t more powerful than the old toy and doesn’t run all the new AR apps either.

# 2017/09/22 - 11:08 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Safari 11 on Mac still beachballs for 30 seconds when loading a random news site in a background tab. Oh, I’d love not to use Chrome.

# 2017/09/22 - 11:05 — originally published on @garoocomplains

Storyboards have existed for six years and I still can’t tell Interface Builder “this subview should segue into that subview” like in any UI prototyping app 😤

# 2017/09/22 - 02:42 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@LaurenGoode:

Apple Watch’s new heart rate features won’t work on the original Watch model [theverge.com] via @Verge

# 2017/09/22 - 00:06

21 September

Why does iOS 11’s lock screen screw up iOS 11’s new backgrounds? This absurd transition effect irks me every time I turn on my iPhone.

# 2017/09/21 - 23:52 — originally published on @garoocomplains

Never been double-rejected before—because of “Free” in the name (knew the risk) and old unused icon-Default.png not matching App Store icon.

# 2017/09/21 - 23:22 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@directhex:

Technophobes: “computers are barely working magic”

Nerds: “computers do as they’re told”

Elder nerds: “computers are barely working magic” [twitter.com]

# 2017/09/21 - 22:37

@Pentadact:

HEAT SIGNATURE IS OUT

Break into spaceships!

By the Gunpoint devs!

Buy! [store.steampowered.com]

RT pls?

New trailer! [youtube.com]

# 2017/09/21 - 21:39

Isle of Dogs

# 2017/09/21 - 21:31 — originally published on @garoo

Swapped iPhones with a friend, my 6 for his 6 Plus, and why did I resist the Plus form factor for so long? It’s so roomy!

# 2017/09/21 - 21:23 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@NathanJLiu:

# 2017/09/21 - 17:44

I bought a Series -2 😁 (and I like it unironically, although it’s a little too large for my wrist)

# 2017/09/21 - 17:39 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

I suppose I ought to push an unmodified update to Music Rating Widget because some people won’t buy it without a september 2017 build date.

# 2017/09/21 - 16:43 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Looks like that’s because I set the alarm on the Watch, so it was Watch-only (that wasn’t the case before, was it?), so Siri didn’t see it.

# 2017/09/21 - 15:55 — originally published on @garoocomplains

WTF, Siri hadn’t been stupid about this for several iOS versions (only one of these is actually enabled)

# 2017/09/21 - 15:54 — originally published on @garoocomplains

I mean you can clearly see how this looks too useful and well designed to be approved #obviously

# 2017/09/21 - 15:49 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Good old App Review being App Review

# 2017/09/21 - 15:47 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@videocats:

Seeing a huge seagull on the roof left him in a state of shock

# 2017/09/21 - 13:49

@stroughtonsmith:

Fascinating to see all this running on iOS

# 2017/09/21 - 12:08

I mean one billion dollars must be a decent runway but there’s no future in historically being the first company to ship Valve’s technology.

# 2017/09/21 - 12:05 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Did Google refuse to buy all of HTC or does HTC really think it has a chance to survive with just VR?

# 2017/09/21 - 12:04 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Check out Forza going after the Euro Truck Simulator crowd 😁

# 2017/09/21 - 00:32 — originally published on @garooscreens

20 September

@WordMercenary:

“Women are ruining games” 16th century edition

# 2017/09/20 - 23:25

@braddwyer:

Just submitted our 1st #madewitharkit app for iOS11! @magicsudokuapp solves Sudokus using #CoreML, #Vision & #ARKit. [magicsudoku.com]

# 2017/09/20 - 21:53

@Sci_Phile:

If you blow air through sand, it becomes a “fluidized bed,” and acts just like a liquid

# 2017/09/20 - 20:50

@jetscott:

Excuse me, I’m just laying out IKEA furniture on a subway platform #ARKit #iphone8plus

# 2017/09/20 - 18:33

@BrentToderian:

There’s bike infrastructure… & then there’s Dutch bike infrastructure. World’s 1st suspended bike traffic circle:

# 2017/09/20 - 18:05

@YouHadOneJ0B:

Mind blown.

# 2017/09/20 - 17:36

Dire que l’Espagne était jusqu’ici au top des pays européens les moins susceptibles de mal tourner 😔

# 2017/09/20 - 17:35 — originally published on @garoo

The fuck is that Facebook-worthy bullshit

# 2017/09/20 - 17:12 — originally published on @garoocomplains

Reminder that iOS 11 allows you to force “While Using” in Location Services even the app didn’t allow for it

# 2017/09/20 - 17:08 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

SCREAMING AT THE CLOUDS NOW

(Les annonces d’emploi affichées en-dessous ne corroborent pas totalement, ceci dit.)

# 2017/09/20 - 16:25 — originally published on @garoo

@Saythetitle:

8 1/2 (1963)

# 2017/09/20 - 16:07

Whaaat

There’s finally a reason to prune my Watch’s list of installed apps. (3D-Touch the honeycomb to switch.)

# 2017/09/20 - 15:57 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

“The iPhone 8 is a look into the augmented future of photography”

# 2017/09/20 - 15:46 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@_TheSeaning:

Jupiter, @NASAJuno Perijove 08 [G.Eichstadt] @LeighFletcher

Full HD: [flic.kr] & [youtu.be]

# 2017/09/20 - 14:48

@mattgemmell:

The strange thing about iOS 11 on the iPad is that it makes the iPhone feel like it’s a version behind.

# 2017/09/20 - 13:02

Shame that Apple doesn’t let this happen on iPhone where I’d be likely to use it

# 2017/09/20 - 12:21 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

(Avec les deux derniers tweets n’allez pas croire que je tape sur WW, je suis d’accord avec tout ce que dit l’Honest Trailer.)

# 2017/09/20 - 11:52 — originally published on @garoo

“A society of women trained from birth to cover for Gal Gadot’s accent”

# 2017/09/20 - 11:45 — originally published on @garoo

— Terminator 2 était plus féministe que Wonder Woman

— Ta gueule, patriarche !

— Sarah Connor revient à 65 ans 🖕

# 2017/09/20 - 11:35 — originally published on @garoo

@benz145:

Biggest stealth change in iOS 11 is that the Camera app can now read QR codes. About 6 years late, but they’ll probably see use in US now.

# 2017/09/20 - 01:37

@rmondello:

You can automatically use Safari Reader on some or all websites in Safari 11. Hold-tap or right click on the Reader button to turn this on.

# 2017/09/20 - 01:27

19 September

“Use @available to silence this warning”

The syntax for @available is ungooglable and I can’t find it in the docs 😒

# 2017/09/19 - 23:16 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Does Xcode’s “Convert to ARC” detect possible retain cycles? Because if it doesn’t… I sure as hell aren’t gonna. 🤷🏻‍♂️

# 2017/09/19 - 22:46 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Currently updating an app exactly one year too late, since the last few dozen users have all uninstalled it by now

# 2017/09/19 - 22:16 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Reopening an old project 😵

# 2017/09/19 - 18:59 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Especially considering that my iPad mini is as old as my iPhone 6, but with no likely replacement in sight 😔

# 2017/09/19 - 14:50 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Warming up to the idea of buying an iPhone 8, and I guess I could consider the Plus form factor this time?

# 2017/09/19 - 14:50 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@9to5mac:

iPhone 8 and X support pad-free wireless charging, third-party distance charger on the way [9to5mac.com]

# 2017/09/19 - 14:29

Weird that Apple seemed to have gorgeous copper-colored prototypes and ended up going with uncooked chicken

# 2017/09/19 - 14:27 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

The colossi look fine but everything about the environments feels like uprezzed last-gen, if that 🙁

# 2017/09/19 - 13:46 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@pgor:

BEFORE UPDATING TO IOS 11: Go to “Settings > General > About > Applications”. Verify you can live without incompatible apps listed there.

# 2017/09/19 - 12:33

“3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image”

Machine learning is unstoppable.

# 2017/09/19 - 02:13 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

18 September

Il fait nuit et froid 😩😫😩😖😣

# 2017/09/18 - 21:01 — originally published on @garoo

@tsion:

1997: your lightbulb emits more heat than light

2017: your lightbulb is a futuristic color LED currently DDoSing GitHub on behalf of the PRC

# 2017/09/18 - 19:47

Partir élever des lampions dans une caravane loin d’internet #HaltAndCatchFire

# 2017/09/18 - 18:55 — originally published on @garoo

TIL the Xbox One’s Kinect 2 measures distance by the time photons take to travel there and back 😮

# 2017/09/18 - 14:27 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@ultrabrilliant:

# 2017/09/18 - 12:11

“CCleanup: A Vast Number of Machines at Risk”

This kind of thing is terrifying; as an end-user, I have no idea how to protect myself against such risks 😱

# 2017/09/18 - 12:08 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice ☆☆☆☆☆

There is a scene, one third of the way into Ancillary Justice, where the protagonist and narrator explains her goals and motivations to another character. That scene takes place off-page, and the reader will only begin to learn that information another hundred pages later. This is only the most egregious example; there are tons of details that the author only explains fifty pages too late.

I’ve read a lot of science-fiction and I’m perfectly fine with the “figure it out yourself” style of world-building, but this is different — this is trying to be Lost or Westworld, deliberate opaque, ostensibly hiding things from the audience. And that’s fine on TV but it doesn’t work at all, for me, in a book told in the first person; that just makes the narrator incredibly obnoxious.

Still, the book and its story are pretty clever, you have to love how much attention it pays to subtext and subtly expressed emotions, and the portrayal of One Esk is well thought-out and interesting. But I don’t remember ever being so annoyed at a book I couldn’t put down.

# 2017/09/18 - 11:56 — originally published on Sens Critique

@willkirkby:

Put “Ã©” into online forms and imagine the devs tearing their hair out trying to find the bug in their unicode handling.

# 2017/09/18 - 10:04

Bon ce qui est triste c’est que non seulement c’est (sans surprise) pas génial, mais il est pratiquement le maillon faible du casting 🙁

# 2017/09/18 - 00:05 — originally published on @garoo

17 September

Personne ne m’a prévenu, vous servez à rien

# 2017/09/17 - 23:41 — originally published on @garoo

The Room (2012)

# 2017/09/17 - 23:18 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Je suis en train de rénover mon portfolio et, paf, j’ai envie de refaire une version compatible iOS 11 de Tarot Royal 🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2017/09/17 - 21:58 — originally published on @garoo

@dhh:

“Works a lot ≠ has good work ethic”. Fuck 70+ hour work weeks as some sort of noble quality. [m.signalvnoise.com]

# 2017/09/17 - 21:45

Looks like you can have your app respond gracefully to ‘Smart Invert’ but not the launch screen? For now at least.

# 2017/09/17 - 19:34 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@sproutella:

UHH DIVINITY ORIGINAL SIN 2 HAS ONE OF THE COOLEST FEATURES I’VE EVER SEEN IN CHARACTER CREATION

# 2017/09/17 - 19:32

Why isn’t ‘Smart Invert’ in the Control Center? Why does iOS 11 make it customizable but only offer the bare minimum of options?

# 2017/09/17 - 19:28 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

I don’t need an iPhone X, I just want a jailbreak tweak on my iPhone to put rounded corners over every app. (Hashtag webOS.)

# 2017/09/17 - 13:07 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

# 2017/09/17 - 00:49 — originally published on @garooscreens

16 September

Look what I’m doing instead of working for real money 😩

# 2017/09/16 - 23:04 — originally published on @garooscreens

@theferocity:

Hello, somebody.

# 2017/09/16 - 21:33

I don’t think I would have liked Scanner Sombre much as a flat game, but it makes for an excellent VR experience.

# 2017/09/16 - 21:23 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Three years too late, it looks like iOS 11 finally keeps third-party keyboards in memory after their first load.

# 2017/09/16 - 15:49 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Instagram displays a small (probably too discreet, even) prompt to use the share functionality when you screenshot a post 👍👍👍

# 2017/09/16 - 15:44 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@Moristico:

# 2017/09/16 - 14:43

That upper-left corner was a right pain in the ass

# 2017/09/16 - 13:42 — originally published on @garooscreens

@Helgesonart:

Here’s a #tutorial /Step-By-Step of the latest illustration, because people seem to like these :D Same process as usual :)

# 2017/09/16 - 12:17

@Viran_:

Bonjour, aujourd’hui c’est la journée internationale du panda roux

# 2017/09/16 - 12:02

@ow:

.dev as a REAL TLD is coming and oh god I have to get out of the habit of using it locally 😨😨😨 [twitter.com]

# 2017/09/16 - 11:55

15 September

@toggleModal:

I just witnessed a murder

# 2017/09/15 - 23:04

@flyosity:

The S8 family of phones with the infinity edge screen simply look more futuristic than the iPhone X.

# 2017/09/15 - 22:45

@MoneerElmasseek:

So Roald Dahl originally wrote Charlie as young black boy but his agent told him not to because “people would ask why”. Such a shame. [twitter.com]

# 2017/09/15 - 19:28

Apple’s docs now store language choice in the URL instead of a cookie 🙄 so a Google search will always send you to the default Swift 😠

# 2017/09/15 - 19:24 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

App Review hasn’t become any less silly while I wasn’t making apps.

# 2017/09/15 - 16:21 — originally published on @garoocomplains

@KeithKrimbel:

E-mailed #CraigFederighi about #FaceID and actually got a response!

# 2017/09/15 - 13:36

@TristanACooper:

finally figured out what mario odyssey reminds me of

# 2017/09/15 - 12:57

# 2017/09/15 - 11:08 — originally published on @garooscreens

Xcode 9 doesn’t want to connect to my iPhone and the simulators don’t seem to support Dark Mode / Smart Invert. Oh well, maybe next time.

# 2017/09/15 - 00:34 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Good news: @uniconsole only requires a tiny fix. Bad news: the app doesn’t use Auto Layout so I have no idea how to handle that fix 😬

# 2017/09/15 - 00:09 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

14 September

Why do you still ask me to enter separate version + build numbers only to throw an error afterwards if they differ

# 2017/09/14 - 23:48 — originally published on @garoocomplains

I can’t be bothered to fine-tune the location of the buttons and app title, but at least the notch looks fine on a textured background

# 2017/09/14 - 23:09 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Why. Do I. Always make. Complex. Unmaintanable. Interfaces.

# 2017/09/14 - 22:13 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Every time I have to update my apps for a new iOS version it’s a unpleasant reminder that I used to consider myself an app developer.

# 2017/09/14 - 22:09 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@KristenMcTighe:

Nikon creates team of 32 professional photographers to be the faces of Nikon D850- & picks not a single woman. #2017

[fstoppers.com]

# 2017/09/14 - 20:03

@joshuafry:

1984, 1997, 2017

# 2017/09/14 - 19:57

The iPhone X doesn’t just require apps to be updated, but also every single website that isn’t on a white background

# 2017/09/14 - 19:53 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Actually the eSIM is not really virtual at all; it’s just rewritable (and tiny)

# 2017/09/14 - 19:50 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

No roaming on Apple Watch, even in Europe

Could it be a technical limitation of the virtual SIM card?

# 2017/09/14 - 19:40 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@eurogamer:

Psychonauts is absolutely free on PC right now, over at the @humble store, get a copy now - [eurogamer.net]

# 2017/09/14 - 19:06

If I play Death of the Outsider now I will definitely never ever finish Prey. (Instead of the 50/50 chance it currently stands at.)

# 2017/09/14 - 19:05 — originally published on @commandergaroo

Eek yeah okay good bye IPAs (FYI the new iTunes won’t automatically delete them, which is reasonable in case you still want them)

# 2017/09/14 - 19:03 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

I can’t wait for machine learning to be able to censor memes I’m tired of seeing.

# 2017/09/14 - 18:23 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

And I love how you can customize Control Center for quick access to anything you like except the only way to toggle Night Shift is now a compulsory long press.

# 2017/09/14 - 15:06 — originally published on @garoocomplains

Remember when they finally updated Control Center so you could change the brightness while seeing what it would look like in the active app?

# 2017/09/14 - 15:03 — originally published on @garoocomplains

I haven’t used Xcode in a while and OMFG how about you remove the fucking xattrs yourself if you know where they are

# 2017/09/14 - 14:49 — originally published on @garoocomplains

@drdrang:

Google Earth is a little behind, but it captures the Steve Jobs Theatre at an interesting stage of construction.

# 2017/09/14 - 13:19

@chrismasterson:

Apple: Embrace the notch! Black bars would waste valuable screen real estate.

Also Apple:

# 2017/09/14 - 13:08

@KrysaliaH:

[laboiteverte.fr] Haha : ils ont créé une pièce de 50ct géante pour la poser à côté d’objets normaux photographiés en tilt shift :D !

# 2017/09/14 - 12:46

@ow:

IKEA’s Augmented Reality app is such a great demo of ARKit. Going to be huge (and avoid awkward furniture mistakes)

# 2017/09/14 - 12:42

Avec ces conneries d’être impatient que le keynote Apple arrive, on est déjà jeudi 😨

# 2017/09/14 - 01:32 — originally published on @garoo

13 September

Why is the Siri watch face’s weather display so much better designed than the modular face’s

# 2017/09/13 - 18:51 — originally published on @garoocomplains

Onward Free Weekend

I’m curious how long I can play this (both in terms of locomotion and shooting realistic humans in VR).

# 2017/09/13 - 18:17 — originally published on @commandergaroo

@goodmanw:

Harrison Ford, giving more context on punching Ryan Gosling: [gq.com]

# 2017/09/13 - 16:32

Three ‘Update’ buttons per screenful

# 2017/09/13 - 15:39 — originally published on @garoocomplains

As is customary, enjoying my MBP being unusable for half an hour

# 2017/09/13 - 15:24 — originally published on @garoocomplains

I was skeptical about Face ID but Apple’s implementation convinced me. (Kinect in a phone!)

I was cautiously optimistic about the notch but Apple’s implementation disgusts me.

😖

# 2017/09/13 - 15:14 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

But it’s not like we have a choice when Apple won’t sign iOS 10, let alone push iOS 10 security updates, on devices compatible with iOS 11 😒

# 2017/09/13 - 15:07 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Even though both of my devices are just the right age to receive the new iOS and be made worse by installing it.

# 2017/09/13 - 15:04 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

I should be working but instead I’m finally installing iOS 11 because the urge to have something new is irresistible post-keynote.

# 2017/09/13 - 15:03 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@valentinsocha:

Voilà. #iPhoneX

# 2017/09/13 - 14:13

@vojtastavik:

I think I’ve fixed the notch issue in landscape 🍾 #iphoneX

# 2017/09/13 - 13:46

@stroughtonsmith:

The iPhone X home indicator isn’t a solid color; it actually adapts in realtime to the content beneath it (a luma dodge effect)

# 2017/09/13 - 12:54

@maxrudberg:

This was my reaction to the Apple Maps UI as well. Double grabber looks odd. [twitter.com]

# 2017/09/13 - 12:52

@ForkParker:

Looking forward to people that buy a $1,000 iPhone telling me it’s terrible to charge $2.99 for a game on the App Store.

# 2017/09/13 - 12:50

@laen:

Apple Touch Bar == I have a band-aid on my finger and can’t hit escape anymore.

# 2017/09/13 - 12:43

@thomasfuchs:

iPhone X renders webpages with literal white bars on the sides

# 2017/09/13 - 12:40

@stroughtonsmith:

Wow they really are stripping things out of iTunes. Never expected to see that

# 2017/09/13 - 03:01

@Snowden:

#FaceID

Good: Design looks surprisingly robust, already has a panic disable.

Bad: Normalizes facial scanning, a tech certain to be abused.

# 2017/09/13 - 00:35

12 September

This should be fun (hello Fire Phone)

# 2017/09/12 - 22:16 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@mpesce:

Given the integration I’m seeing, I’d have to say yes, Facebook will be able to read your face gestures while you read your newsfeed.

# 2017/09/12 - 21:54

You’re redefining the iPhone from scratch; why cling to the external aspect ratio instead of making the device easier to handle?

# 2017/09/12 - 21:47 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Of all the iPhone X design choices I disagree with, the one I don’t understand is why make it so tall.

# 2017/09/12 - 21:45 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

It bums me out that I’m probably gonna have to update some of my apps to accommodate the stupid notch on the stupid 1200€ phone.

# 2017/09/12 - 21:30 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@doney:

WTF we’re not even allowed to resist [twitter.com]

# 2017/09/12 - 21:24

@twostraws:

Watch now! 14 new developer videos released by Apple, teaching iPhone X, face tracking, and more: [developer.apple.com] #swiftlang

# 2017/09/12 - 21:22

Really curious to see if anyone buys an iPhone before iPhone X is available. I’ll say it again, this launch seems completely crazy to me.

# 2017/09/12 - 20:51 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

“Look at it, swipe up” doesn’t really sound like it’s simpler and quicker than pressing the Home button, does it.

# 2017/09/12 - 20:36 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Interesting to see Schiller acknowledge outright that Face ID won’t work for twins, when Microsoft’s face recognition has been touted as differentiating them in most cases. (Of course, “most cases” is problematically vague.)

# 2017/09/12 - 20:30 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Did not expect for a second Face ID to include Kinect. In a tiny phone. 😮

# 2017/09/12 - 20:26 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@benthompson:

I miss ‘Slide to Unlock’ 😥

# 2017/09/12 - 20:25

Apple using an open standard for wireless charging? Am I dreaming?

# 2017/09/12 - 20:15 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

It’s completely absurd that they worked so much on iPhone 8 only to immediately supplant it with iPhone X. A simple 7s upgrade would have made sense; not a completely redesign.

# 2017/09/12 - 20:03 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Non-Plus iPhone 8 still doesn’t have the twin cameras 😠

# 2017/09/12 - 19:58 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

I miss the original iPhone’s announcement like I miss a first hit of heroin.

# 2017/09/12 - 19:55 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

With an A10X the Apple TV could really offer some serious gaming experiences. If anyone ever bought it for that.

# 2017/09/12 - 19:47 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

I would have expected the LTE model to be about $100 more. Being on a Series 0 I’m possibly curious about upgrading.

# 2017/09/12 - 19:38 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Does the virtual SIM really take dedicated silicon space instead of being just software?

# 2017/09/12 - 19:33 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Why would you (seemingly) force the red crown on everyone who buys the LTE Watch?

# 2017/09/12 - 19:30 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@ironicsans:

I can’t unsee. #iPhoneHairline

# 2017/09/12 - 18:32

@computertales:

A presentation of the PDP-11/45 used in 1976 to create the Death Star CGI in StarWars

[chicagotribune.com]

#retrocomputing #retrocgi

# 2017/09/12 - 14:35

“The Internet of Things: A return to feudalism?”

# 2017/09/12 - 13:58 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@Bouletcorp:

Ceci est une vraie publicité pour de la glace (via @io9 )

[youtu.be]

# 2017/09/12 - 13:16

@stroughtonsmith:

iPhone X’s fluid multitasking UI is /very/ webOS, just w/ more physics. Shame existing iPhones won’t get it; going to feel very different

# 2017/09/12 - 12:47

Le mal qu’ils se sont donnés pour faire un truc aussi merdique que Seven Sisters 🤦🏻‍♂️

# 2017/09/12 - 02:18 — originally published on @garoo

@RickyHelgesson:

What if the new iPhone tracks your face to project the right part of wide-fov video on screen, you’d percieve it 100 % see-through #arkit

# 2017/09/12 - 00:15

11 September

Aww, it has its own widdle landmark logo

# 2017/09/11 - 19:38 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@Bencjacobs:

This is a remarkable photo of the wildfires in the western United States right now

# 2017/09/11 - 19:24

C’est juste leur site qui est incroyablement mal foutu, ou Converse a plus ou moins abandonné les Chuck II ? 🙁

# 2017/09/11 - 14:47 — originally published on @garoo

Oh no il va être temps de ressortir les écharpes, j’ai pas envie 😰

# 2017/09/11 - 05:42 — originally published on @garoo

Mieux après 02:30 quand les vautours de l’open bar se barrent, mais je ne devrais pas avoir envie de pisser en dansant ❄️❄️❄️

# 2017/09/11 - 03:49 — originally published on @garoo

Le Grand Hôtel, 01:30 : coups de coude, clim à fond, pas de lumière, verre brisé partout sur le sol et un vent en saluant des amis d’amis 💯

# 2017/09/11 - 01:37 — originally published on @garoo

C’est un peu lugubre, les transports en commun parisiens quand on sort le dimanche a minuit 💀

# 2017/09/11 - 00:38 — originally published on @garoo

10 September

Because — I don’t really use Watch apps, but they’re still all pretty shit, right? Even after watchOS 2.0?

# 2017/09/10 - 20:36 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

I wonder whether Apple Watch series 3 communicates with iPhone over cell network as if it were wifi, or only runs local apps.

# 2017/09/10 - 20:36 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

Twitter’s headquarters need to be razed and salted

# 2017/09/10 - 19:50 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@jckarter:

With thousands of Mars workers scrambling to escape the dust storms, Musk announced he would remotely unlock their suits’ oxygen capacity

# 2017/09/10 - 16:39

I don’t remember any details, but I know I dreamed last night that I had a new laptop. I really need an offline vacation.

# 2017/09/10 - 14:22 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

@LainZer0:

The dumbest TV film ever made was really just predicting the future

# 2017/09/10 - 13:43

@fietsprofessor:

Go on, tell me again the excuse that “your city is not Amsterdam” and “cycling is in the Dutch genes”

~Zeilstraat, Amsterdam (1970s)

# 2017/09/10 - 13:14

@gblardone:

De l’EAU et des VIVRES d’abord

C’est trop demander sinon?

# 2017/09/10 - 03:14

@thedogist:

Gohan & Jada, Akitas (3 & 2 y/o), 4th & Lafayette St., New York, NY • “They love sticking their noses in the fountain at Washington Square.”

# 2017/09/10 - 03:13

Ca la fout mal de dire ça pour qu’ensuite Guardians of the Galaxy 2 soit si mauvais

# 2017/09/10 - 02:59 — originally published on @garoo

9 September

@kittiesbot:

# 2017/09/09 - 19:45

@jesseringrose:

magic.

#ARKit #madewithunity #madewitharkit

# 2017/09/09 - 19:23

@stroughtonsmith:

iPhone 8

iPhone 8 Plus

iPhone X

# 2017/09/09 - 17:50

@rjonesy:

For the last YEAR I’ve been battling App Store rejections - we made an app called Animoji with animated emojis…now I know why. [twitter.com]

# 2017/09/09 - 16:30

8 September

Killjoys probably thinks it’s Buffy in space, but Buffy was quippy-funny whereas Killjoys is more silly-funny.

# 2017/09/08 - 17:14 — originally published on @garoo

Only now figured out what bothered me with Killjoys’ season 3: the worlds-ending stakes are a total mismatch for the show’s overall tone.

# 2017/09/08 - 17:12 — originally published on @garoo

Le mec incrustait la tête d’un surfer anglais dans des photos de guerre et personne n’a rien vu pendant trois ans 👍

# 2017/09/08 - 17:05 — originally published on @garoo

“RED finally reveals what its ‘holographic’ phone screen actually is”

I’ll believe it when I see it.

# 2017/09/08 - 15:39 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

But apparently the WSJ leak doesn’t include any pricing info so I guess it really goes for $999 and Apple will sell 100,000 iPhones per month this year.

# 2017/09/08 - 15:28 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

I still say iPhone X needs to start at $1500 if there are “extended supply shortfalls,” so people can accept buying the second-best instead.

# 2017/09/08 - 15:26 — originally published on @cedricbozzi

It’s time to manage expectations by leaking to WSJ, and this one isn’t pretty