TECHNOLOGY

Am I Unusual In How I Don’t Use My Phone?

IOS 17 and MacOS Sonoma seem to have some odd prejudices

My lonely iPhone — DALLE image by author

This is a lo-o-o-ng post that took freaking days to write because it talks about many new features coming later this year. Please feel free to skip any parts you don’t care about. I skipped stuff; why shouldn’t you?

Am I an outlier? Yes, I own and use an Apple computer, an iPhone, the Watch, an iPad, Apple TV, AirPods, Airpods Pro, and HomePods. Dollars to donuts — silly phrase nowadays considering the price of donuts, so no, let’s just say there’s a non-zero chance I’ll convince myself to buy that Vision Pro headset even though I shouldn’t.

But forget all that. Pretend for a minute that all I have is an iPad and an iPhone. Almost everything I do is on my iPad, so that’s not inconceivable. Nor is it unusual, is it?

Are you with me so far?

Good. In the fall we will get IOS and iPadOS 17, as well as MacOS Sonoma. Apple has promised a couple of features therein that make me very happy, but some others make me wince.

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