Paul in de Emiraten

@Zorque Habit, I guess. If I create a website, I can chose from about 70 templates with Everweb, no of them having a two column lay out.
So I guess it’s difficult to get this right in HTML but I’m by no means an expert on this topic.

@brandon @Zorque This has been researched about hundred times and for most readers in the Roman alphabet lines between 55 and 70 characters - a space is a character too - are easiest to read. Hence scientific articles in Latex and similar later text mark up languages use two columns on a A4 paper.

@DJDarren @mybuttnolie ?! You mean there’s people that don’t use it? That’s bizarre. It one of the most useful features. Specifically if you create a Smart Folder with recent screenshots. Like, of the last two days.

@dojan I disagree. President Trump has been chosen by the American voters in free and democratic elections.

Most dictators have been chosen in free and democratic elections.

“There will not be a next election. It will be taken care for.”
Pres. Trump.

“Democracy is a train and is just the means to an end and when we reach the station, we will hop out.“

Pres. Erdogan.

@Hotznplotzn that’s extremely bad indeed! However; if the President of the United States organises a manhunt against the chief prosecutor of the ICC, where can Apple go for a non-brutal regime? Don’t forget that the current prime minister of India, democratic chosen, just like a president of United States, is involved in a scandal revolving around the massacre of more than 1000 people too.

The best options - regime wise - are also the most expensive ones.

@DJDarren @dzso I have not yet looked at the innovations Apple came up with in 2025 but you do have to give that company credit for the fact that they are working hard, and did work hard, to keep stuff accessible for handicapped people in whatever way handicapped.

Name one other non-specialised company that the same.
I can’t.

@cantankerous_cashew This saddens me. It means people don’t really get that it used to be “the medium message” but now it’s “the device is the message”.

The iPhone is a thing to communicate with others one-on-one
An iPad is a thing to watch videos on if you like and to scroll through the news.
A computer is a thing to work with, if you insist like a portable one.
A TV is a thing to watch stuff together.

Customers seem to long for one device that does it all.
Sad.

@parody you’re the lucky one because you use Siri in English, I guess. And then the results are deplorable. But, if you use Siri in other languages, say German (spoken by 130 million people) or Dutch (spoken by 25 million people) the results are totally useless or -even worse - completely wrong.

If it wouldn’t be Apple, the efforts would be endearing. But it’s about Apple, so it’s annoying and to the level of totally unbelievable that they messed up so badly.