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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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    Pointless unintuitive feature that’s replaced with simple press and hold.

    Iris scanner

    Slow and unreliable compared to fingerprints. Anyone actually used it?

    Air pressure/humidity sensor

    Who needs these things? Weather apps work just fine. Rather use the space for battery.

    IR blaster

    Unless you’re looking to vandalize public tvs, just replace it with any number of wifi/bluetooth remotes.

    Just saying there’s a reason features get the axe. Headphone jack is the only one I can sort of agree with, but I still rarely ever need one anymore. Bluetooth is just so much better.

    And one thing all this debloating has led towards is larger battery capacity, which most older phones are sorely lacking.






  • To touch on this I think the sorting algorithms could do with some improvements, it shouldn’t be possible for one or two communities to completely take over the front page just because there’s a lot of activity on those communities.

    I recall Reddit used to have a similar issue until they tightened it up.

    For now just blocking the specific communities should do.








  • I’m sorry but that is grossly untrue. Apple is pretty good at sweeping them under the rug but they’re absolutely no stranger to failed or underwhelming products. Remember AirPower? Or how about Homepod? Ping comes to mind as well. Those certainly didn’t demolish the wireless charger, home assistent or social media industry. Far from it.

    Even many more succesful products can hardly be said to have demolished their entire industry. The iPhone might have won over the US, but everywhere else Samsung is king. Windows computers remain far more popular than any Mac. Even Airpods, while very innovative at the time, now have many succesful and often more affordable competitors.

    The only spaces I’d say Apple is truly dominant is smart watches and tablets. But even then Garmin makes a better sports watch and 2 in 1 laptops eat into the tablet market.

    We just have to wait and see where Vision ends up. In any case, until we can actually experience the device ourselves it is nothing more than a sales pitch.