Didn’t Duolingo fire most of its developers and claim to replace them with AI. Well, I doubt agenic AI clicked the “I agree” to the Apple Developer “Terms of Service” and is therefore no bound to Apple’s silly rules for humans. Checkmate Apple! /s
I guess that means me never clicking “I agree” on the MacOS ToS makes my Hackintosh Thinkpad legal 😁
I saw this and immediately disabled DuoLingo’s ability to display live activities.
That was the only way to make it go away.
Just get rid of it altogether.
Yeah, can’t imagine it is still a useful app for anything, it enshittified so unbelievably much already half a decade ago.
Any alternative?
EWA
A pre-AI apk of Duolingo and ReVanced
Can’t run an apk on iPhone, the topic of this…
Oh, those rules are for lesser developers, the ones who aren’t providing Apple with tons of revenue. I’m sure Duolingo will be just fine.
This is one instance where Apple should be throwing its weight around.
I fear that the owls checkbook decides the outcome.
Agreed, but they won’t. They have a bunch of rules like this and they’re happy to go after small developers who don’t contribute much beyond their annual fees, but big developers who bring in money? They tend to look the other way a lot of the time.
So, are they guidelines, or guidelines. Because, if they’re just guidelines, then they can be ignored. But if they’re guidelines, then I suppose Apple will make them stop.
The article is five paragraphs including a quote, and it answers this question.
You’re a bird, you don’t know what it says.
egrets, respect my plurality
How many, exactly, are we talking? I need to know whether to be terrified in awe or to grab an umbrella to shoo them away.
I gotta say I do love the little Dynamic Island thing, it’s a genuinely good and novel use of what would otherwise be dead space, and it works like absolute magic. I’ve never had an iPhone before this one, and I certainly won’t have another one after it, but that’s one of the few features I genuinely enjoy.
That said, now that I know about this, the moment something tries to send notifications through it not related to what’s actively happening on my device, whatever app will be immediately uninstalled. I haven’t come across that yet since I try to avoid most apps, and almost all of them have notifications disabled, but I absolutely wouldn’t keep something that uses that space for something unimportant. Or even worse, ads.
Or, hear me out, not having a notch is wildly better than surrendering screen real estate to shit designers that prioritise form over function. (This applies to Apple, Samsung, Google, et al, except for sony and some other smaller brands).
Having had a phone with a notch and a phone with a small circle cutout, the notch bothered me and the circle cutout has hardly been an issue. I mean, I’d prefer an uninterrupted screen and a front camera, but I don’t like any of the current iterations of retracting selfie cameras, and I need a front camera for video calls.
EDIT:
I forgot about under-screen cameras. My options would be limited to RedMagic phones, Sony phones, and the Samsung Z-Flip. Maybe I’ll look into Sony next, since I heard the RedMagic software can be pretty awful.
If you go the way of Sony, in Europe, the 1 VI is heavily discounted and is 99% of the phone the 1 VII is. The VI still gets 3 major android version updates, till 17.
Ok. I mean sure. But since it’s there, I like the workaround. It makes useful space that’s seamlessly integrated and thus doesn’t feel like wasted space. I don’t feel like there’s a camera cluster there wasting my screen space. Because that part of my notification bar has always been empty (I genuinely hate notification clutter, so on android my top bar was always basically empty just like this is)
I’m willing to make sacrifices as long as they are done well, and compared to every phone I’d had before this one, it’s nice to see it used. It compares favorably to my past experiences.
I’m not an apple person, this is the only Apple device I’ve ever had, other than a first(?) generation 2gb iPod way back in the day, and I don’t plan to get another walled garden device. So not fanboying or anything, and I have far more complaints than praises for this pos, but it’s a good way to wrestle back a bit of space without having to make any major design changes. I’m ok with that.
“…and I don’t plan to get another walled garden device.”
So a Linux phone then? Because Google’s putting up walls real quick. And selling your data out from under you.
Sure, if there’s one available that can function as a daily driver and is user-repairable when I need a new phone. Or if more devices get support for alternate privacy-focused OS options, a used phone could be a real possibility.
But I might not bother with a smartphone at all if there aren’t better choices than now. I have a host of other things I can use to browse the internet and do most stuff I presently do on this tiny screen, and I’ve cut way way back from how much I even use this. Only issue would be GPS, but old devices work for that just as well as newer ones, as long as you download the maps.
Narrator: There isn’t.
Yeah, that’s why I said if there is one when I’m ready to get a new phone. That’s likely several years away, because I don’t plan to buy more stuff if I don’t have to, so one might exist by then. I know there’s been some progress on that front, just not a ton.
To this day I’m flabergasted that Sony is the only company that still knows how to design phones.
*Heres a magic screen with sapphire protection to avoid scratches and a bajillion nits because fuck battery life. Oh, btw, its costs north of 1000€.
- Uh, there’s like 150 dead pixels on the screen
*Oh silly you, it’s a camera notch,
- Wait, so why the whole schtick about how amazing the screen is when you deliver it with lost real estate that is the equivalent to falling on a rock from a height of 4m?
*Shut up peasant, you don’t know design.
- Sorry, thank you for letting me pay weeks of disposable income to own a factually broken screen because your engineers are too shit to achieve an under screen cam! ciau bellos
Well, they were great until the V generation. Just look at those phones now. Plus the price is horrendous.
Agreed. They did have a consistent design. Now it looks like it hates its users.
Cool. Idk why you are ranting at me about it tho. Like I don’t even like my phone outside of a few neat or well-done things it can do.
I’ve read a lot of dumb takes on here, but this one might be the best.
This is about people like you!
Ah yes, because I don’t think a brand new phone is broken I’m the crazy one?
Makes so much sense. Dumb fuck.
dumb fuck
Classy, I guess education failed to cross the Atlantic.
It’s funny tho, because Apple itself covers warranty over dead pixels. A notch is the equivalent of how many dead pixels?
But of course, I’m the dumb fuck, not the iZealots.
You people really are a deadweight on humanity.
That lil’ owl is getting way too cheeky
I don’t think guidelines can be violated. They’re not rules.
