Re: Vision Pro: I'm curious what others think about it
I agree (about the current product), but here’s some thoughts about where it *might* be going. <>
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On 14 Feb 2024, at 13:12, Hester Reik < dhreik@...> wrote:
No interest. For whom was this designed? What bubble are these designers in? Price point seems designed to appeal only to the elite. And imho we do not need more isolating experiences. Technology has already created a siloed society, furthered by the pandemic. You probably wish you had not asked. lol
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Re: Vision Pro: I'm curious what others think about it
No interest. For whom was this designed? What bubble are these designers in? Price point seems designed to appeal only to the elite. And imho we do not need more isolating experiences. Technology has already created a siloed society, furthered by the pandemic. You probably wish you had not asked. lol
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Re: Vision Pro: I'm curious what others think about it
On Feb 13, 2024, at 7:16?AM, Otto Nikolaus via groups.io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
I’m not (yet) interested, but I stumbled on this the other day
I’m really surprised at how much reviewers complain about the price. It’s almost like saying, “I’d buy a Mac Studio and Display, but together they shouldn’t set me back more than $750.” Apple has never “bargain-priced” its hardware, and they’re not going to start now. The thing is NOT a peripheral, it’s an entire computer AND display(s). And, just because the company’s been working on it for 10 years doesn’t mean that experiences and disappointments voiced by early adapters won't lead to (pretty rapid) software updates and additions. But I don’t see it getting much cheaper.
My own guess is that what will blossom and explode quite quickly will be 3D entertainment. Imagine taking a lap at Monaco in 3D in Hamilton’s Mercedes Ferrari!. I’m sure Apple could add centrifugal acceleration sensors/effectors for, say, $199 ?.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Vision Pro: I'm curious what others think about it
I’m not (yet) interested, but I stumbled on this the other day <>
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I’ve complained multiple times here about the sheer distance between my Montana home and the nearest plate glass double doors fronting a white block of mall space or independent edifice engraved with a giant bitten Apple.
Last week I needed to visit an injured sibling in a far away city and took advantage of a bit of down time to find and visit one, where my sister and I were both offered guided tours of the new device.
If you have such an opportunity, SEIZE IT.
I emerged with my wallet undiminished, but VERY impressed nevertheless. I found it, as a prototype, VERY seductive. If the library of 3D movies grows rapidly, my wallet MIGHT be in jeopardy. If I had an iPhone 15 Pro (capable of creating 3D videos…) ? ? ? ?ditto.
But, I also found the Vision Pro vaguely threatening. Few among us would deny that, more than any other device possessed by ordinary citizens, the iPhone has transformed the very way we live, even while it’s created legions of restaurant goers, subway and commercial flight passengers, and perhaps even isolated glacial mountain lake visitors, who stand or sit ignoring companions, staring at that little screen. The risk of even worse happening once the nits and bugs are cleaned up and the device’s total weight and total price are reduced, is truly scary. It is a TREMENDOUSLY isolating experience to use one.
Any similar or differing opinions?
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Vision Pro: I'm curious what others think about it
I’ve complained multiple times here about the sheer distance between my Montana home and the nearest plate glass double doors fronting a white block of mall space or independent edifice engraved with a giant bitten Apple.
Last week I needed to visit an injured sibling in a far away city and took advantage of a bit of down time to find and visit one, where my sister and I were both offered guided tours of the new device.
If you have such an opportunity, SEIZE IT.
I emerged with my wallet undiminished, but VERY impressed nevertheless. I found it, as a prototype, VERY seductive. If the library of 3D movies grows rapidly, my wallet MIGHT be in jeopardy. If I had an iPhone 15 Pro (capable of creating 3D videos…) ? ? ? ?ditto.
But, I also found the Vision Pro vaguely threatening. Few among us would deny that, more than any other device possessed by ordinary citizens, the iPhone has transformed the very way we live, even while it’s created legions of restaurant goers, subway and commercial flight passengers, and perhaps even isolated glacial mountain lake visitors, who stand or sit ignoring companions, staring at that little screen. The risk of even worse happening once the nits and bugs are cleaned up and the device’s total weight and total price are reduced, is truly scary. It is a TREMENDOUSLY isolating experience to use one.
Any similar or differing opinions?
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Sharing tags across applications
Is there a way to synchronize their names, colors, and effects across apps that have access via my Apple ID.
I’ve not used the Reminders app much (putting most items that would work well there into my Calendar instead), in part because I’ve found Reminders hard to use.
For example, just now an incoming email reminded me that Netflix’s engaging series “The Drive to Survive” returns February 23 (ostensibly to chronicle perhaps the LEAST engaging F1 series in recent memory (unless you have sibs or cousins named “Verstapen).”
When I open the Reminders app from the Finder, NO interface offering to create a new reminder is available! If I could get that to happen, and even better, if I could find a way for the same flag to mark mail, notes items, reminders, and perhaps even others in the same way, it would be what finally gets me to make use of them.
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Jim Robertson
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On Feb 11, 2024, at 20:27, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Thank you for your suggestion of Meko stylus. It has worked very well.
I didn’t remember making any such suggestion, but searching my email archives I discovered a post wherein I complained about suddenly having to deal with an entire QWERTY keyboard on the tiny face of my watch. Bob suggested trying that stylus and then followed up with a report that it actually worked. Jim Robertson
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Jim R,
Thank you for your suggestion of Meko stylus. It has worked very well.
Brent
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Re: Using iPhone to ping Apple watch (iOS 17.3.1, watchOS 10.3.1, Gen 7 watch (model A2477)
On Feb 10, 2024, at 6:02?PM, Pat Taylor via groups.io <pat412@...> wrote:
If you haven’t already, I would try re-booting your watch by holding down the Digital Crown and On/Off buttons together until you see the Apple logo on the screen. ?It wouldn’t hurt to also re-boot the phone.
Impatient, I did both, and my iPhone Control Center now pings my watch!
One of the main reasons I HAVE the “plus cellular” version of my Apple Watch is because I sometimes forgetfully leave home without my phone. The sound quality of phone conversations on my watch isn’t fantastic, but far better than the “no ability to make calls at all because I left my phone at home.”
I DO religiously strap my watch to my wrist each morning, but my wife’s watch (also “plus cellular”) is a less faithful companion for her. But either sibling should be able to find the other!
Thanks AGAIN!
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Using iPhone to ping Apple watch (iOS 17.3.1, watchOS 10.3.1, Gen 7 watch (model A2477)
If you haven’t already, I would try re-booting your watch by holding down the Digital Crown and On/Off buttons together until you see the Apple logo on the screen. It wouldn’t hurt to also re-boot the phone.
Pat
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On Feb 10, 2024, at 5:00 PM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
On Feb 10, 2024, at 16:13, Jackie Klinnert <jackie.klinnert@...> wrote:
Jim, I still have the Ping My Watch choice in my Control Center.
Thanks, Jackie AND Pat for those prompt replies. Jackie, your devices are one generation earlier than mine, so confirmation that you can ping YOUR watch from your phone is very helpful. Apple support has given me at LEAST 2 cumulative hours of telephone support time related to swapping out my old watch which could no longer record an ECG. Some of their web support documents about handling the swap for watches that function independently as phones are less than clear, but I think I did everything right.
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Re: Using iPhone to ping Apple watch (iOS 17.3.1, watchOS 10.3.1, Gen 7 watch (model A2477)
On Feb 10, 2024, at 16:13, Jackie Klinnert <jackie.klinnert@...> wrote:
Jim, I still have the Ping My Watch choice in my Control Center.
Thanks, Jackie AND Pat for those prompt replies. Jackie, your devices are one generation earlier than mine, so confirmation that you can ping YOUR watch from your phone is very helpful. Apple support has given me at LEAST 2 cumulative hours of telephone support time related to swapping out my old watch which could no longer record an ECG. Some of their web support documents about handling the swap for watches that function independently as phones are less than clear, but I think I did everything right.
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Re: Using iPhone to ping Apple watch (iOS 17.3.1, watchOS 10.3.1, Gen 7 watch (model A2477)
Jim, I still have the Ping My Watch choice in my Control Center.?
I use a Gen 6 Apple Watch (A2291) using WatchOS 10.3.1, and an iPhone 13 ProMax using iOS 17.3.1.
Jackie
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On Feb 10, 2024, at 4:43?PM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? I recently had to replace my 7th gen Apple Watch because the sensors that permit recording an ECG failed). I’m almost certain that I was able to use the Control Center on my iPhone 14 Pro to ping the watch (i have a habit of taking it off sometimes and leaving it behind), but after receiving the replacement watch I can no longer find the item in the iOS Settings>Control Center>Ping My Watch.
I think my hardware permits this, but I don’t see how to activate it. Has anyone else had this conundrum?
Thanks so much,
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Using iPhone to ping Apple watch (iOS 17.3.1, watchOS 10.3.1, Gen 7 watch (model A2477)
The feature works on my AW9 ?and iPhone 15 Pro as it has on all models since it was introduced. ?If the Ping my Watch feature isn’t showing up in the Control Center choices, it might be time for a call to Apple support. ?This is the Apple instruction I followed:
Ping your Apple?WatchYou can use your iPhone with iOS?17 to help you find your Apple?Watch if it’s nearby. Open the Settings app on your iPhone. Tap Control Center, swipe down, then tap? ?next to Ping My Watch. When you want to ping your Apple?Watch, swipe down from the top-right corner of your iPhone to open Control Center, then tap? .
Note:?If you have more than one Apple?Watch, the sound will play on the watch that’s selected in All Watches in the Apple?Watch app on your iPhone. You can also use??to play a sound on your Apple?Watch.
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On Feb 10, 2024, at 3:43?PM, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? I recently had to replace my 7th gen Apple Watch because the sensors that permit recording an ECG failed). I’m almost certain that I was able to use the Control Center on my iPhone 14 Pro to ping the watch (i have a habit of taking it off sometimes and leaving it behind), but after receiving the replacement watch I can no longer find the item in the iOS Settings>Control Center>Ping My Watch.
I think my hardware permits this, but I don’t see how to activate it. Has anyone else had this conundrum?
Thanks so much,
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Jim Robertson
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Using iPhone to ping Apple watch (iOS 17.3.1, watchOS 10.3.1, Gen 7 watch (model A2477)
I recently had to replace my 7th gen Apple Watch because the sensors that permit recording an ECG failed). I’m almost certain that I was able to use the Control Center on my iPhone 14 Pro to ping the watch (i have a habit of taking it off sometimes and leaving it behind), but after receiving the replacement watch I can no longer find the item in the iOS Settings>Control Center>Ping My Watch.
I think my hardware permits this, but I don’t see how to activate it. Has anyone else had this conundrum?
Thanks so much,
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Help me fix my user acct on my Mac
I use Excel, the rest of office I could do without. I don’t think MS Office is the cause of the problem. I think iCloud did not like working with macOS 10.7.5, but there is no way to prove it. Also Office suddenly stopped acknowledging y product key,?causing other issues.
Mail, rebuilds its files, since I use IMAP.?I have some old files archived on my old Mac,?along with some email that is stored on the old Mac, no longer in the Mail server. I’m not worried about prefs, as I don’t mind going thru them to reset. I use it as a time to review and reset. I found that many of my needs have?changed since I retired. Since I crossed the 64-bit only line, I have to install or upgrade?several apps. Some are no longer being developed, so need replacement.
I’ll rename both Users, and then hold onto the old one for a bit.
Thank you for your comments. I appreciate it.
Brent
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Brent, I can’t say anything about Office; I don’t use anything from MS. ?But if it was authorized on the system presumable other user accounts can use it, unless of course Office is the source of the original problem that the new user ID is meant to solve. ?I did copy over or import things from the original user Library, like the Apple Mail files and a few preferences that had taken a long time to set up, particularly those with a keyboard shortcuts. ?I left the original user ID in place for a while, with just about everything cleaned out of it, just in case. ?It uses very little space and does nothing if you’re not logged into it. ?There might have been a couple of things I had to re-install, but just about all of that stuff sits in the main system folders and libraries. ?
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Re: Help me fix my user acct on my Mac
Brent, I can’t say anything about Office; I don’t use anything from MS. ?But if it was authorized on the system presumable other user accounts can use it, unless of course Office is the source of the original problem that the new user ID is meant to solve. ?I did copy over or import things from the original user Library, like the Apple Mail files and a few preferences that had taken a long time to set up, particularly those with a keyboard shortcuts. ?I left the original user ID in place for a while, with just about everything cleaned out of it, just in case. ?It uses very little space and does nothing if you’re not logged into it. ?There might have been a couple of things I had to re-install, but just about all of that stuff sits in the main system folders and libraries. ?
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Re: Microsoft Office 2021 Home and Business lifetime license
On Feb 9, 2024, at 11:22 PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Office 2021 won’t run on a late 2012 Mac mini that can only run up to Catalina, 10.15.
I don’t know if I need 2016 or 2019. MS Office 2019 will work with macOS Catalina: JoyWarp does not carry Office 2019 for the Macintosh. Check out: Office 2019 Home and Business for Mac - Lifetime License $26 __________________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice __________________________________________________
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Re: Microsoft Office 2021 Home and Business lifetime license
Office 2021 won’t run on a late 2012 Mac mini that can only run up to Catalina, 10.15.
I don’t know if I need 2016 or 2019.
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Feb 9, 2024, at 19:41, David Brostoff <davchbro@...> wrote:
?On Feb 9, 2024, "Brent via groups.io" <whodo678@... <mailto:whodo678@...>> wrote in a different thread ("Help fix my user acct on my Mac"):
"I can’t find any where to buy a stand alone version of Office."
The best deal I've ever found is from Joy Warp:
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An odd company name but absolutely legitimate and reliable.
David
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Microsoft Office 2021 Home and Business lifetime license
On Feb 9, 2024, "Brent via groups.io" <whodo678@... <mailto:whodo678@...>> wrote in a different thread ("Help fix my user acct on my Mac"):
"I can’t find any where to buy a stand alone version of Office."
The best deal I've ever found is from Joy Warp:
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An odd company name but absolutely legitimate and reliable.
David
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Re: Help me fix my user acct on my Mac
On Feb 9, 2024, at 5:35?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote: I can’t find any where to buy a stand alone version of Office. I started a new thread, "Microsoft Office 2021 Home and Business lifetime license." David
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