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  • Why Apple will move Macs to ARM, and what consumers get

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    Non-programmers—and more specifically, people who don't know assembly language—can't appreciate the significance of ARM64's support for twice as many general purpose registers as X64. For most high-level code, with all else being equal, this gives ARM64 a 20-30% speed advantage over X64, without any tweaking, because it avoids the CPU having to access relatively slow caches and main memory so often.
    Intel is stuck with X64 and the world is ready to move on.
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  • Mac Pro in danger after fumbled Apple Silicon launch

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    The biggest fail of all with the 2023 Mac Pro is it doesn’t have enough PCIE lanes to support all of its slots. Add one 16x card and you’ll be fine, but add a second and they each get only 8x. This is super sleezy in my opinion.
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  • Green texts in iMessages nudge teens to use iPhones

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    Apple led the way, now the others want it to conform. Yeah, sure.
    I never understood why Europeans went "whole hog" for WhatsApp. WhatsApp won't do anything until the user gives FaceBook access to their entire contacts, which you know gets uploaded whole hog to the mother roach. Before FB owned WhatsApp, it was the same way, and when the news came out that FB was buying the company, I was relieved to not have used it. Signal demands access to contacts, too, but doesn't upload or store them--or so they say.
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  • Germany wants Apple to offer iPhone updates and parts for 7 years

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    I want a new puppy.
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  • Microsoft Windows 11 revealed with dramatic increase in system requirements

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    macOS has a dock for 20+ years. 2021, Microsoft announces whiz-bang dock, where nothing stays where you put it.
    June 7, 2021, iPadOS 15 multitasking gets panned. June 24, 2021, Microsoft announces iPadOS 15-like multitasking.
    Apple lowers commissions. Microsoft lowers them further, in all-out effort to coerce more malware to the Mac.
    2020, Apple brings iOS apps to the Mac. 2021, Microsoft brings Android malware to Windows.
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  • Apple Music trademark blocked over branding conflict with musician

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    Apple's lawyers should've been able to swat this problem away without trouble.
    https://www.applejazz.com/about.htm
    "AppleJazz Records began as a way for Charlie Bertini to promote the recordings of his "AppleJazz Band".
    So AppleJazz Records promotes the sale of recordings, not so much live concerts.

    His registered trademark is "Apple Jazz" (with a space), not "AppleJazz" (no space). He's not even using the registered trademark. If he stuck to using AppleJazz (no space), I don't see any confusion. His application even has the disclaimer "NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "JAZZ" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN." Well, what about the right to use APPLE? In my opinion, he doesn't mention APPLE, because his intent is not to obtain a trademark he wishes to use but only to interfere with Apple Inc. and obtain a lucrative settlement with the company.

    It was only in 2016 that Bertini finally applied for the "Apple Jazz" trademark (which he doesn't use), a year after Apple applied for theirs.

    Archive.org has old webpages from applejazz.com going back to 2004. Even then, Bertini was using AppleJazz (no space).
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  • New York Apple retail union organizers are asking for $30 an hour

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    lkrupp said:
    $30/hr is ridiculous for a retail worker. Here’s a radical idea. Apple Store workers should be paid on a draw+commission basis. No sell, no eat that week. That’s how I started (in1977) out selling musical instruments in a mall store. I got what was known as a ‘draw’ salary every month that went against any commissions I made in sales. My draw as $750/mo so if I sold enough product to earn $1000 in commissions I got $750 a draw check + $250 commission check. If the next month I only sold enough product to make $500 in commissions I still got my $750 draw but was now $250 in the hole so the following month I had to sell enough to make $1000 commission just to break even. Quite an incentive to work hard and sell, sell, sell. It quickly separates the men from the boys (and the women from the girls). 

    But somehow I think the entitled little pricks today would think that’s slave labor or something. They want $30/hr? For what? Standing around and showing people where the iPhone cases are? Trying to explain to some idiot why their iPad screen will cost money to repair because they dropped it and don't have AppleCare?
    The lack of commissions is one of the great features of Apple stores. Steve was very clear about wanting this model at their introduction. There's nothing like a sleazy sales person paid on commission--you can't trust anything they say.

    $30/hr is not a whole lot for anyone working in NYC, even if they don't live there but must commute.
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  • X gets big exception from Apple with one-letter App Store listing

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    At this rate, by this time next year, Musk will be masturbating in public.
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  • Google Photos to end free unlimited storage on June 1, 2021

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    cpsro said:
    Google Photos isn’t free. The company retains a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right-to-use your pics for any money-making purpose the company chooses, even after you delete your photos and account.
    Inevitably whenever the subject of Photos comes up, someone posts this misinterpreted view of a bog standard Creative Commons software license.  Not really sure how this is still misunderstood by so many (yes, I'm generalizing, but you're not the first to post this. sadly you won't be the last either).  This license is common boilerplate for any company that interacts with customer data.   Yes, Apple has the same license in their ToS... as does FB, MS, Yahoo, Twitter, etc.  I could go on for a long time, but you get the point.  Any number of combinations of the search terms "royalty free" + "worldwide" + "license" + "terms of service" + Company X, will net you a Creative Commons license notification from that company.

    tl;dr That license doesn't mean what you think it means.


    You are so wrong. Clearly you’ve not read the license and understood it. No surprise. Google has carefully crafted a custom license that is difficult to interpret, but what I describe succinctly is correct... and the perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to use is granted to Google alone. Google attempts to assuage users’ fears by stating users retain ownership of their pics, which is correct, but they are glossing over the sweeping rights granted to Google merely by using their ‘free’ service.

    By the way, Apple’s service licenses are far more clearly worded (last I checked!) and clearly state that data are only mined for the purpose of serving the user/customer. And if the user deletes their data, the data are in fact deleted.
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  • Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM

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    This doesn't explain why an additional 8GB costs $200.
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