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Post by aaplsauce on Aug 5, 2021 22:35:19 GMT -8
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Post by chinacat on Aug 6, 2021 6:08:41 GMT -8
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Post by chinacat on Aug 6, 2021 8:23:43 GMT -8
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Post by benoir on Aug 6, 2021 15:56:26 GMT -8
II don’t actually know where AAPL landed today… but a quick tally of the posts here tells me we had another day of sideways action…. Am I right!
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Post by 4aapl on Aug 6, 2021 16:22:58 GMT -8
II don’t actually know where AAPL landed today… but a quick tally of the posts here tells me we had another day of sideways action…. Am I right! Looks like it. We took a quick 1-night camping trip to Donner Lake, of the famed Donner party. With school starting next week for one of our kids, and deciding we didn't want to take the longer trip to the mountains in Eastern NV that I was planning, this fit in well. It was windy, but clear, yesterday. We were wishing we had added some of the water toys to the haul, having skipped them due to some packing delays. But the Dixie fire increased dramatically in the last 24 hours, and the whole region woke up to smoke and ash this morning, dashing our plans to hang out there for the day, while also a direct reminder of those in Greenville and surroundings that likely lost their house and most possessions. AAPL wasn't really on our minds today. But it's just bouncing around a bit, currently less than 3% off it's recent All Time High. Sure, with recent earnings it would be great to see the stock move dramatically positively in quick response. But that just ain't how it works with AAPL these days, especially after the size of run-up AAPL enjoyed when initially peaking out 11 months ago. Crowd psychology is always tough to guess at with high certainty (ie distressed people pulling guns when fire fighters ask them to evacuate). But throwing a guess out there, mine might be that within 2-4 weeks AAPL will see a string of small to medium daily increases on increasing volume, as those wanting to get in before the next iPhone revision announcement do their thing.
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Post by benoir on Aug 6, 2021 16:53:23 GMT -8
II don’t actually know where AAPL landed today… but a quick tally of the posts here tells me we had another day of sideways action…. Am I right! Looks like it. We took a quick 1-night camping trip to Donner Lake, of the famed Donner party. With school starting next week for one of our kids, and deciding we didn't want to take the longer trip to the mountains in Eastern NV that I was planning, this fit in well. It was windy, but clear, yesterday. We were wishing we had added some of the water toys to the haul, having skipped them due to some packing delays. But the Dixie fire increased dramatically in the last 24 hours, and the whole region woke up to smoke and ash this morning, dashing our plans to hang out there for the day, while also a direct reminder of those in Greenville and surroundings that likely lost their house and most possessions. AAPL wasn't really on our minds today. But it's just bouncing around a bit, currently less than 3% off it's recent All Time High. Sure, with recent earnings it would be great to see the stock move dramatically positively in quick response. But that just ain't how it works with AAPL these days, especially after the size of run-up AAPL enjoyed when initially peaking out 11 months ago. Crowd psychology is always tough to guess at with high certainty (ie distressed people pulling guns when fire fighters ask them to evacuate). But throwing a guess out there, mine might be that within 2-4 weeks AAPL will see a string of small to medium daily increases on increasing volume, as those wanting to get in before the next iPhone revision announcement do their thing. Just looked up Donner Lake in Maps3D, pretty spot. The fires are terrifying. We’ve been lucky to have had a relatively wet year so hopefully our summer season won’t see the return of devastating fires. As for AAPL, I suspect your prognosis will pan out. On another point. I recently picked up some Home pods before they disappear. Very nice. I am surprised at how much supply they seem to have given their legendary supply chain CEO. Perhaps they just didn’t sell well. If I’m going to be critical here, I think sometimes Apple could be a little more nibble at getting products to market in order to establish market presence and penetration. Another example, I feel like I’m the only one using Apple Music in a sea of Spotify users, who wonder why I’d use such a ‘lame’ service (they might have a point here….)
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Post by 4aapl on Aug 6, 2021 17:17:27 GMT -8
On another point. I recently picked up some Home pods before they disappear. Very nice. I am surprised at how much supply they seem to have given their legendary supply chain CEO. Perhaps they just didn’t sell well. If I’m going to be critical here, I think sometimes Apple could be a little more nibble at getting products to market in order to establish market presence and penetration. Another example, I feel like I’m the only one using Apple Music in a sea of Spotify users, who wonder why I’d use such a ‘lame’ service (they might have a point here….) Are you using the Home pod to play music from Apple Music, play it from a device, or something else? Do you use or want the "Hey Siri" type commands or questioning on it? What else do you use it for? Personally, I'm happy to push a button on my iPhone to as Siri for things. Sometimes it works well, but other times it doesn't, often because it pushes results towards stores and restaurants it seems. OTOH, I guess I'm getting old. I'd like there to be a UI for things or some physical options, and not just voice commands. One of the things we couldn't figure out on our f150 was volume control on the navigation, since it was set very low compared to audio. There should be a gain level adjustment somewhere, right? Instead, after finally doing a google search, it turns out you just adjust the volume with normal stereo volume controls (dial or steering wheel) when the Nav is trying to talk to you. That seems simple enough, and worked once I did it, but that was after owning the truck for over 2 months, and occasionally (we don't actually care that much about Nav on a vehicle, as most of the time we would use it on a device instead, if we felt we needed it) searching for the option in the menus or in the manual. Same thing for entering addresses. It won't let you do it (without changing the setting with forscan or some other low level car programming software) once above 3 or 5 mph, which is a real pain when your passenger is trying to quickly put in an address when stopped at a light. But it turns out there are voice commands for it (nice, if you know about them) to side-step that safety limitation. Anyways, I don't really need something listening all the time, though like speech-to-text I'm sure it's a feature you can get used to and start to really use.
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Post by benoir on Aug 6, 2021 20:41:45 GMT -8
On another point. I recently picked up some Home pods before they disappear. Very nice. I am surprised at how much supply they seem to have given their legendary supply chain CEO. Perhaps they just didn’t sell well. If I’m going to be critical here, I think sometimes Apple could be a little more nibble at getting products to market in order to establish market presence and penetration. Another example, I feel like I’m the only one using Apple Music in a sea of Spotify users, who wonder why I’d use such a ‘lame’ service (they might have a point here….) Are you using the Home pod to play music from Apple Music, play it from a device, or something else? Do you use or want the "Hey Siri" type commands or questioning on it? What else do you use it for? Personally, I'm happy to push a button on my iPhone to as Siri for things. Sometimes it works well, but other times it doesn't, often because it pushes results towards stores and restaurants it seems. OTOH, I guess I'm getting old. I'd like there to be a UI for things or some physical options, and not just voice commands. One of the things we couldn't figure out on our f150 was volume control on the navigation, since it was set very low compared to audio. There should be a gain level adjustment somewhere, right? Instead, after finally doing a google search, it turns out you just adjust the volume with normal stereo volume controls (dial or steering wheel) when the Nav is trying to talk to you. That seems simple enough, and worked once I did it, but that was after owning the truck for over 2 months, and occasionally (we don't actually care that much about Nav on a vehicle, as most of the time we would use it on a device instead, if we felt we needed it) searching for the option in the menus or in the manual. Same thing for entering addresses. It won't let you do it (without changing the setting with forscan or some other low level car programming software) once above 3 or 5 mph, which is a real pain when your passenger is trying to quickly put in an address when stopped at a light. But it turns out there are voice commands for it (nice, if you know about them) to side-step that safety limitation. Anyways, I don't really need something listening all the time, though like speech-to-text I'm sure it's a feature you can get used to and start to really use. I'm mainly using Hope Pod to play Apple Music from another device. I prefer to look through a list then play something. I do like the way Siri can pick out your voice when music is playing and knows who I am. I also bought the home pod to start using Home Kit. I have some automated blinds on the house that are begging to be integrated. As for Siri listening in, I'm almost okay with it. We were given a Google pod thing a couple of years ago, which I promptly unplugged and discarded - that felt creepy, knowing Google business model. Interesting your experience with interface challenges on the f150. What might be apparently intuitive to [the] interface designer , may not be intuitive to the user. We have a kitchen appliance that has an inpenetrable user interface, with an accompanying user manual that is equally frustrating. Also I have recently worked in a PC environment after spending my entire career in Mac environments. And whilst I acknowledge that there is comfort in familiarity, the PC environment on the whole seems clunky. Compare Keynote to Powerpoint, or the print dialogue between Mac and PC, or a contemporary app like Pixelmator Pro to Photoshop, or Pages to In Design (I include this because so many InDesign users use such a limited feature set they might as well use a simpler and 90% effective program like Pages). Apple and Apple centric apps generally seem to have had more attention given to interface design. I wonder why better interface design is not more prevalent?
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