Andrew Coulter Enright (in 2005):
I thought [the iChat AV] implementation would work perfectly if applied to my Visual Browsing problem.
Like paper cards flipping within a bar jukebox, I pictured each cover flipping in and out of the illuminated center position, revealing the subsequent album/song as the user browsed through the current library (via the linear scroll-bar detailed below). The faster you scrolled, the faster the covers would shuffle in and out of the spotlight.
After you had located the record you wanted, you could simply click on it, and the familiar iTunes Browse View would slide up from the bottom edge of the window (much like the Cover Art Window does currently) allowing you to select a song to play.
Via Stephen Hackett:
The images in the blog post are shockingly close to what the feature would become when Mac developer Jonathan del Strother implemented it in an app called “CoverFlow” that let users flip through their non-iTunes MP3 collections in a much more visual way than scrolling folders in Finder.
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CoverFlow was purchased by Apple in 2006, as the app’s website still reports[…]
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The final blow came with macOS Mojave in 2018, which swapped out Cover Flow for a new Gallery view[…]
Cover Flow never clicked for me, either.
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Atlassian (via Hacker News):
Loom is an asynchronous (async) video messaging tool that helps users communicate through instantly shareable videos. Today, almost 5 million Loom videos are created every month by their 200,000 passionate customers.
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As Atlassian consolidates Loom into its platform, engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira, leaders will use videos to connect with employees at scale, sales teams will send tailored video updates to clients, and HR teams will onboard new employees with personalized welcome videos. By integrating Atlassian’s and Loom’s investments in AI, customers will be able to seamlessly transition between video, transcripts, summaries, documents, and the workflows derived from them.
I went to Loom’s home page and was amused to see a video showing a MacBook Pro. On screen is an app that looks like Fantastical, but the menu bar says “Calendar,” and the names of the menus don’t match either app. Someone also went to the trouble of renaming “Safari” to “Browser.”
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Nikita Prokopov:
Why is nobody excited about these “yesterday”/“2 days ago”/“a week ago” labels?
Because they pretend to speak human language, but they actually don’t. For a human, yesterday is “at the day before”, “between 0am..11:59pm the day before today”.
No human uses “less that 24 hours” as the definition of “yesterday”. Computers, unfortunately, do. Add here that different implementations calculate “yesterday” differently (even on the same service) → lack of trust → less useful.
Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date. It’s absurd that I sometimes need to subtract 9 or 12 days, and “borrow” from the previous month, to figure out when something actually happened. (Sometimes it’s in the tooltip or URL slug, but not always.)
I don’t find relative times particularly useful, either, because some sites will reload-in-place to keep them up-to-date, but others won’t. So “1 hour ago” could mean actually one hour ago or it could mean “one hour before I opened that tab.”
Update (2023-10-14): See also: Hacker News.
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Marko Zivkovic:
The iPhone SE 4, known internally under the codename Ghost, is expected to receive a new design derived almost entirely from the base model iPhone 14.
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As far as the chassis is concerned, two major changes are expected – an Action button and a USB-C port.
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As for the back of the device, the next iPhone SE will feature a single camera with the flash aligned in an arrangement similar to the third-generation iPhone SE.
Andrew Cunningham:
I’ve got a soft spot for Apple’s budget phone, the iPhone SE. […] The downside has been that you need to put up with an older design. In the case of the current iPhone SE and the one before that, that has meant a phone with the same 4.7-inch screen and basic dimensions as the iPhone 6, a design that will be a decade old next year.
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In-the-know analysts like Ming-Chi Kuo have said that Apple plans to launch the next iPhone SE in 2025, three years after the launch of the current iPhone SE. Three years is a long wait—though not as long as the four-year gap between the original and the second-gen model—but that timeline makes sense if Apple’s template for the next SE really is “an iPhone 14 with some iPhone 15 features.” Even with a weaker camera, an iPhone in the SE’s typical low- to mid-$400 price range with USB-C and an Action Button could risk undercutting the actual iPhone 14, which Apple still sells for $700 and up.
It’s frustrating that the iPhone SE is not on a regular schedule. Although I kind of like the widescreen camera, I would probably wait for the iPhone SE 4 described above if it were coming in 2024. I’m just not that crazy about the sizes or colors of any of this year’s iPhones. I’ve never been a Pro phone person, but I ordered an iPhone 15 Pro to try, since it’s at least slightly smaller than the others.
It should have already arrived, but the Apple Store (again) messed up processing my order and canceled it without telling me. Customer support gave me the lame excuse: “The system had an issue with completing the payment process of your order, even if it was confirmed, so for your security the system canceled automatically,” followed by “since we are having a big volume of purchases for this iPhone 15 sometimes it starts failing with processing the payment information.” So, for now, I have a new order placed, but’s a month away from delivery.
I’ll see how it feels and how I like the camera and then decide whether it’s worth the price or whether I should go through the hassle of getting a new battery for my current phone, which I still love.
Eric Schwarz:
Part of me would love to see the fourth-generation SE build off of the 13 mini design, but most people like bigger phones and something based on the 14 makes sense. This also allows a much larger battery, something that has hurt the second- and third-generation SEs, as well as the 12 mini and 13 mini. Moving to USB-C is mandatory, while the Action Button will sort of future-proof it in the lineup for awhile.
In other old iPhone news, the original iPhone SE that my son has been using recently died of a swollen battery. So, regardless of the number of years of OS support, I think my original iPhone is the only one that lasted 7 years. Every other iPhone or iPad that I kept—plus a MacBook Air—ended up with a swollen battery as the limiting factor.
Previously:
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