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  • Apple Silicon Mac Pro debut finally ends transition away from Intel processors

    Freaking letdown. Wow. Total disrespect to the Mac Pro. There’s no reason to buy one over a Mac Studio unless you need specialized I/O. With the starting price, looks like Apple really doesn’t want to deal with the Mac Pro anymore. 

    It’s obvious they just want to get macs out of the way to get to what they really want to get to - a headset with a cable dangling down to a power pack your waist that doesn’t even look like an apple product. The 1980s Nintendo power glove was more integrated. Sheesh. And it wastes power with the outside screen. Get rid of that and you might not need to wear it all over your body. Looks like it was meant to be glasses, but apple wanted to rush. 
    You'd thought Apple would reinvent physics and come out with a monster machine that would beat what's on the PC market? There's a tiny set of people for this mac model, and even they are switching a lot of their workloads to the cloud. We used to be a mac pro shop,  but we're all on beefy Studio's now. Works just fine.
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  • Apple is pushing hard to make the Mac relevant in gaming

    hypoluxa said:
    Toortog said:
    From hardware standpoint Apple has a long way to go when it comes to gaming.   Sure Apple is putting lots of GPUs in their silicon, but Apple's GPU are puny compared to the GPU cards PC gamers are using.   Apple has a long way to go before serious gamers are going to take them seriously.

    Well the M3 GPU chip seems to give the GTX 4090 a run in some tested instances I believe I saw. So, they are on their way...
    Not even close, and that test was only on LLM computation, which is usually highly optimised for Nvidia cards, like most games. Apple scores fairly well there, but the 4090 still blows it out of the water. But Apple doesn't need to be in the top spot for gaming, 3rd or 4th would already be quite the accomplishment when they get there.

    But with gaming, you need development software, and those parties have left Apple a long time ago. Maybe they will return now that there is a somewhat decent GPU on Macs. Time will tell. Also, while Apple has Metal, most games are made with DirectX or Vulkan, and while there are translation layers for that, it's not great, and only a piece of the total puzzle. I've managed to run some simple games in emulation with Whisky, so there are possibilities. For games to succeed, they also need to sell well, which is already a problem on the PC, and that is why a lot of games are low-effort console ports.

    I think the best-running native game is World of Warcraft, for which Apple wrote the Metal code themselves. I don't see that happening for many games.
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  • Here we go again - Apple rejects Hey Calendar app from App Store


    “Hey apps are free, standalone apps that access a paid service. This is similar to how apps like Netflix and Spotify function — the app is essentially a reader app that accesses off-device content.”

    How is this app similar to Netflix or Spotify?  Does it stream video or audio content?

    I’m not privy to the whole situation, but my impression is that the developer seems to be looking for a fight.
    I have multiple apps in the store just like Hey, for my clients. Zero problems. Maybe I got lucky with the reviewers? Or maybe there is something else going on? there are exceptions for certain types of apps, listed in the rules. Hey follows those rules just fine, so why does Apple deny multiple times?
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  • Apple making the case that Apple Silicon Mac & iPhone are great gaming machines

    xbit said:
    The two games I've played that were fully optimised for Apple Silicon - Disco Elysium and Total War: Warhammer III - played beautifully. It's definitely not the hardware that's holding Mac gaming back.
    Both games should not stress a system that much, so it's not saying a lot about hardware. Apple choose Metal and the windows/gaming industry choose Vulkan. A big issue is software/library support, and an hardware/gpu upgrade path which is non-existent for the foreseeable future. Even if all that would be in place perfectly, it's going to be a chicken-egg problem, because games will need to be bought. So either Apple heavily subsidises makers, much like Microsoft and Sony do for AAA titles, or it's not going to happen.
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  • New macOS Sonoma 14.4 bug kills file versions in iCloud Drive

    Anyone else have issues with safari logging you out of every site all the time? I have this issue since I updated to 14.4

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  • Apple drops PostScript support in Preview for macOS Ventura

    Crazy. Loads of academics still use postscript. Has Apple remove BMP support as well?
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  • Apple to sell Apple Watch with blood oxygen detection removed to bypass ITC import ban

    So will they adjust the pricing?
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  • Spotify re-signs Joe Rogan in deal that includes return to Apple Podcasts

    time for spotify to fire more people and raise prices I guess.
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  • Apple in talks to license Google Gemini AI for iPhones

    The most interesting point would be who contacted who at first? 
    The more advanced AI is, the less relevant the web search service will be. Therefore, I would not be surprised if Google contacted Apple at first.


    Apple is really behind on AI and Apple should feel uncomfrtable with the current situation.
    I guess you missed MM1 as well.
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  • Apple isn't behind on AI, it's looking ahead to the future of smartphones

    Try talking to Apple employees, they are behind and it's a shitstorm in the teams. They're not millions of dollars per day for nothing. Lot's of projects tabled while several teams scramble to make the next iOS release feel meaningful. I mean Eddy, Greg and John are dropping stuff left and right to get AI into everything now. Wouldn't want to be on their teams. That said, I'm not looking for a generative AI from Apple, I'm looking for something really useful in daily life. Seeing some of the papers coming out, I'm liking the direction it's going. Apple going multimodal already is quite a feat. Siri will obviously be much improved, can't wait.
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