Yes precisely. I’m saying it’s an unpleasant interaction, not a difficult or hard to remember one. Even with two hands, I need to shift my fingers and hands around momentarily and somewhat uncomfortably. The angle of my swipe usually means I hit the edges of the device, where I always brush up against the Apple case I use. It’s the same feeling I had towards 3D Force Touch on the edges of the screen in iOS for multitasking.
That was a horrible feeling, and prone to error. Glad they removed that with a much better interaction (on X-generation devices) with the bottom left-right bar swipe. “Hey Siri.” “Undo” “Undo again” “Undo again” “Redo” /s Shake-to-undo is by far my most loathed interaction on iOS, together with swiping down to access control center / notifications depending on the position of my finger in the top area on the larger iPhones. I am terrified of using it on my phone most of the time, and I feel that it’ll take Tim Cook or Phil Schiller to have their eventual $2000 costing iPhone fall to the ground in a loud crash to prioritise the software teams to come up with a better solution.
See for an easy-to-use unofficial calculator. 2TB stored for a year on the German servers (I'm based in DE) costs 85€/year ($97 USD). 2TB stored with both Google or Apple would cost 120€ (also $120 USD) in comparison ($9.99/mo). It costs money if you retrieve data on Glacier, just so you know. It also isn't instant.
The idea with Amazon's long-term storage isn't that you use it as a backup source you access and retrieve from all the time, like you might Google's or Apple's solutions. Also note that Arqbackup costs 50€ one-time for the software. Arqbackup has its own cloud backup service, but for 2TB it would actually cost $11.98/mo making it more expensive than Apple/Google. You'd be better off using Arqbackup and Google Cloud so that you can still encrypt your backups with Google. If you want convenience with your devices and don't care about encryption / privacy, stick with Google One / iCloud Drive. If you're a bit more of a power user, consider Amazon Glacier.
You could also consider using Arqbackup software with, which has a $50/year unlimited backup plan. Touch ID doesn’t, to the best of my knowledge. Edit: It does, albeit a little differently than Face ID. Face ID does update its database of your face at new angles, if you manage to successfully type in your passcode after failed Face ID logins. You’ll notice it get better unlocking when in bed, with one eye half closed, for instance.
If you want Touch ID to work better, just add the same finger again to the 5 allowed finger profiles, using slightly different angles. To improve unlock performance and keep pace with the natural changes of your face and look, Face ID augments its stored mathematical representation over time. Upon successful unlock, Face ID may use the newly calculated mathematical representation—if its quality is sufficient—for a finite number of additional unlocks before that data is discarded. Conversely, if Face ID fails to recognize you, but the match quality is higher than a certain threshold and you immediately follow the failure by entering your passcode, Face ID takes another capture and augments its enrolled Face ID data with the newly calculated mathematical representation. This new Face ID data is discarded after a finite number of unlocks and if you stop matching against it. These augmentation processes allow Face ID to keep up with dramatic changes in your facial hair or makeup use, while minimizing false acceptance.
I mean it’s cool that you just found this out, but does nobody even look at the Menu Bar and see what options are available to them in an application? I don’t know if it’s an iOS mentality that people bring to macOS, but from my own experience, if it’s not an on-screen button or label somewhere, a lot of people are completely unaware about any additional functionality that’s in contextual menus or the Menu Bar. “Find Again” is a standard Menu Bar menu item available in almost every macOS application unless specifically removed by a developer. It would be automatically disabled when it doesn’t make sense based on the current context. What do you mean by “select output source” exactly?
On the Bose I just press play on Soundcloud/Spotify/whatever and it switches, no need to do anything special. The Bose headphones can be connected to 2 devices simultaneously, which is why it switches so effortlessly. If I was connected to the Mac previously with the AirPods, pressing play on my iPhone will not switch, even if the music is stopped or the Mac is entirely off. It doesn’t have any concept of “fallback” since it doesn’t keep both BT connections alive even in Low-Energy mode (ultimately because of battery life no doubt). Do you not have the same problem? AFAIK it only does effortless switching between iPhone and Apple Watch. Maybe the next model will improve this, but you cannot deny that with the AirPods I would end up:.
Charging more often. Fiddling with the charging case more often.
Fiddling with Bluetooth settings on the Mac/iPhone more often. Getting distracted in the open working space more often (due to no noise cancellation) I’ll continue to enjoy using the AirPods on the street and bike, but will still use proper noise-cancelling wireless headphones for work. They ultimately sound better than the AirPods too, which is just as important.
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Edit: directly from Apple, AirPods connect automatically with all your Apple devices. They’re simultaneously connected to your iPhone and Apple Watch, and sound switches instantly between the devices. Want to listen to your Mac or iPad? Just choose AirPods on those devices.1 That footnote is the annoyance I’m referring to. “Just” is not just “just”, it’s an irritation that happens at least twice a day (arriving and departing the office), and seemingly occurs often when walking out of BT range of the Mac but keeping the iPhone with me as I walk around.
Apparently early reviews of AirPods did have this functionality spread to iPads and Macs, but never made it to the public release. Anyway, kind of continues to add to my point that desk/Mac playback and AirPods were an after thought. Edit 2: I am not alone it seems. That’s because they’re only giving you a small charge (6hrs at maybe 50% volume). Other BT headphones charge for longer durations because they have larger batteries. Example QC35 recharge: 2 hour recharge = 20-22hrs playback, 15 min charge = 2.5hrs playback Best part about the QC 35s?
When the battery dies and you really don’t want to charge and stop listening, plug in the 3.5mm cable and keep listening as if they’re wired headphones - charge when you have time later. I listen to sets mostly ranging anywhere from 1 to 3 hours. It’s a little irritating to hear the battery low sound and having no way to continue listening, especially if I’m in the groove of something I’m working on. That’s nothing against AirPods specifically, but just another +1 for the Bose at work/the desk.
I actually have an Apple Watch - I guess I turned off the stand-up reminders, I never recall receiving one. Might turn them on again and see if it triggers with my patterns. When I had a standing desk I’d switch between sitting and standing every 30 minutes or so, but not every 5-10. That seems excessive and counter-productive. I do take breaks (to grab water, get coffee, get air), I just meant to say I don’t ever get interrupted with “hey can you check that email” or “can you jump into this useless meeting” or get forced on a lunch break or some company announcement or whatever (I work for myself). Those kind of interruption breaks is what I was referring to. Maybe they’re still healthy to have, but I also work less than average hours (maybe 4-6).
The 6-9 hours I originally stated is split up over a 24hr period, I might do an hour or two in the evening, I don’t work 6-9 hours in a row without a break, that would indeed be silly and terribly unhealthy. Also living in Europe and don’t own a car so I’m not sitting for an extra couple hundred hours a year - walking or cycling everywhere.