Post #668986
2026-03-15 07:15 UTC
Replies (13)
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@AshtonDev@mastodon.social 2026-03-15 07:17
The Apple Store near me used to run a session for kids where they made a comic book in Keynote. I can’t imagine how that session would go now.
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@mora@mastodon.uno 2026-03-15 08:40
@AshtonDev deleted on day 0
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@maschinentraum@mastodon.green 2026-03-15 14:07
@AshtonDev @marcoarment Enshitification, the.
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@AshtonDev@mastodon.social 2026-03-15 21:58
@CodingItWrong @marcoarment I thought these apps being presinstalled and free was a huge selling point 🤷 How long until they charge for the OS again, money left on the table
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@bbech@mastodon.social 2026-03-15 14:31
@AshtonDev my toddler likes to just type and I’d let him use Pages because every so often he’d accidentally change the font or colors and it would bring him joy. When this rolled out all of a sudden he was freaking out because he wasn’t sure what’s happening. There were a bunch of watermarked image generations all over the place because they made the AI buttons purple when no other button has color
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@vmachiel@mastodon.nl 2026-03-15 14:43
@AshtonDev @marcoarment adding the formally free Pages, Keynote and Number was just a pure anti consumer, penny pinching move.
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@HootenHaller@mastodon.social 2026-03-15 15:25
@AshtonDev Apple created a new job category. https://mastodon.social/@HootenHaller/116218347588155590
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@xenonchromatic@mastodon.social 2026-03-15 17:21
@AshtonDev Wont you please have some sensitivity to Tim Cook's stock bonus?
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@ac@sfba.social 2026-03-15 17:30
@AshtonDev Weirdly, it seems like Apple chose badly when they *stopped* charging for iWork. Rather than making money from sales and turning that into new development, they stopped developing Pages to be a fantastic word processor, Numbers to be a great spreadsheet app, and Keynote to be the best presentation app. The key updates over the past decade-plus have mostly been strategic initiatives for Apple’s platforms, not the apps (iCloud sharing with E2EE, now AI flows). I don’t for a minute think Apple can’t make these apps true professional-grade alternatives to MS Office (or, in Pages’s case, even Adobe InDesign). I don’t think for a minute that, even while doing so, Apple can’t make these apps simple enough for beginners, including children. They can do these things. They just don’t.
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@Chancerubbage@mastodon.social 2026-03-15 19:10
@AshtonDev @marcoarment I think I just read a news release that OS 27 isn’t going to do a damn thing about Liquid Glass. So much winning!
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@spacejunk@fosstodon.org 2026-03-16 09:39
@AshtonDev also, in Tim Cooks letter on celebrating 50 years: "So here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently." It just rings so hollow these days. I'm not sure if his intention was to write Apples obituary?
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@jramskov@helvede.net 2026-03-16 15:52
@AshtonDev “We need all the money, because we need to continue to grow forever”.
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@CodingItWrong@oldbytes.space 2026-03-15 14:08
@AshtonDev@mastodon.social @marcoarment@mastodon.social remember back when the 30% App Store commission was enough money for Apple?