One possible use case would be for police officers to scan driver licenses when pulling people over. When I worked for a city IT department, they had to have separate barcode readers installed in the cars for that, so I imagine it'd be nice to have it integrated into the laptop.
(This is just to help macOS Finder users, not to say, "Well, Finder can do it too!!)
You can select multiple files in Finder > Right-click on one of them > Rename. That'll bring up a modal with some bulk-rename options, including a name pattern. It's not intuitive, but was really cool when I found it for the first time!
That's awesome! I use a Mac-based software similar to TC (after years of using TC on Windows), and always use it for bulk renaming. I had no idea I could do the same with Finder, I'll definitely take advantage of that in the future!
I think it could be a combination of:
1. Marketing speak because it sounds better to compare it to the much slower Intel Macs than to the fast M1. Plus the gains between and M1 and M2 are marginal compared to Apple Silicon vs. Intel.
2. They are marketing more to Intel Mac owners/potential PC switchers rather than M1 owners.
I don't recall so I'm guessing it wasn't a big deal. Conjecture: The department had stacks of phones for loaner use, maybe they just got a replacement. I remember having several on my desk to play with at the time.
You can remove the icons from the home screen, but it doesn’t actually delete the app from the device storage. They’ve said that’s in case you need or want one of the apps again; it’ll “reinstall” essentially instantly.
iOS 13 drops support for the 6. It'll be 6s/SE and above for iOS 13. It'll be interesting to see what they do for iOS 14. I was surprised that they cut off both the 6 and 5s this year.
They’ll definitely keep dropping at least one iOS every year on average. Right now the 6S is going to be 4 years old. If they cut back to only 3 year old models. That’s pretty recent. Will be interesting to see if they do that. Removing the 6S Plus is also interesting. I thought maybe they’d give the Plus or higher end models a year longer to incentivize purchasing those.
t’s not really a huge deal to me that they’re likely purposefully going to try to keep the newest iOS limited to only a few years. Supporting 4 year old devices is still pretty good. And being on an old iOS for a few years isn’t the biggest deal.
I thought somewhat similarly about World War I not being as interesting as later 20th century history until I listened to Dan Carlin's excellent "Blueprint to Armageddon". It's a multi-part Podcast going through WWI. I loved his style. Each episode is a few hours long, but it goes quick.
https://automattic.com/2024/11/21/automattic-welcomes-harper...