The Apple thread

[Deckard]

Looks appealing to me -



Plus with steam game integration I could play some Housemarque games on my Mac

[MattyP]

So having a bit of tech shuffle around at the moment and moving on lots of redundant tech. Pretty much done now and my mancave not feels like a place of zen rather than a cluttered mess!

Anyway as part of this reshuffle ditched all my Windows machine (Surface devices) and replaced them with a new iPad and Apple pencil. Then decided to go a step further and return to Apple full time and now have an iPhone too.

Just tried Continuity. Mind. Blown. Wow. Really impressive stuff. The iPhone is lovely too... liking the dedicated camera button makes if feel much more like a proper camera. Spend most of my time taking pictures on my phone anyway so this is an absolute blessing. Don't think I've had a dedicated camera button - with two stage press - like a real camera, part way down to focus lock and all the way down to take the picture since the old Nokia Lumia Windows phones. Top stuff.

It's been a challenge today to get used the iPhone at times today coming back from a Google Pixel. Especially the volume buttons being on different sides on the phones. Cut at few people off today due to this! Damn muscle memory at times...

I absolutely love Apple kit. Its just such a nice place to be and they feel like solid tools to get the job done. The Pixel was great and comes extremely close to the iPhone but not just quite there. The user experience is certainly much closer to iPhone than other Android phones I've tried in the past.

[MattyP]

So having a bit of tech shuffle around at the moment and moving on lots of redundant tech. Pretty much done now and my mancave not feels like a place of zen rather than a cluttered mess!

Anyway as part of this reshuffle ditched all my Windows machine (Surface devices) and replaced them with a new iPad and Apple pencil. Then decided to go a step further and return to Apple full time and now have an iPhone too.

Just tried Continuity. Mind. Blown. Wow. Really impressive stuff. The iPhone (17 Pro Max) is lovely too... liking the dedicated camera button makes if feel much more like a proper camera. Spend most of my time taking pictures on my phone anyway so this is an absolute blessing. Don't think I've had a dedicated camera button - with two stage press - like a real camera, part way down to focus lock and all the way down to take the picture since the old Nokia Lumia Windows phones. Top stuff. The screen size is perfect for me. Lovely quality bit of kit. Impressed.

It's been a challenge today to get used the iPhone at times today coming back from a Google Pixel. Especially the volume buttons being on different sides on the phones. Cut at few people off today due to this! Damn muscle memory at times...

I absolutely love Apple kit. Its just such a nice place to be and they feel like solid tools to get the job done. The Pixel was great and comes extremely close to the iPhone but not just quite there. The user experience is certainly much closer to iPhone than other Android phones I've tried in the past.

[RiK]

Then decided to go a step further and return to Apple full time

Welcome back :-)

[MattyP]

Then decided to go a step further and return to Apple full time

Welcome back :-)

Indeed always end up drifting back! I mean their kit looks great, is well built and just well works. Consistently (well nearly always certainly more so than Android anyway). Think you get to a point with tech especially when you work in the sector where you just want things to work without fiddling around especially with your personal tech that you own and control. I have a Windows 11 laptop for work. Think this is what drove me back to not having MS stuff in my personal devices. MacOSX is Unix enough for me too with a sexy UI skin on. Great stuff!

Always been a bit of an Apple fanboy since well forever. Have a Mac SE/30 kicking about and an Apple Newton amongst other bits. Although feels a bit different since Jobs passed. Although they are still doing cool stuff.

[Deckard]

Its been a while since I had a jailbroken iPhone !

https://ellekit.space/dopamine/