teknishn

It’s amusing watching the enormous weight of Apple and it’s ancillaries coming down upon Qualcomm. Especially after they’ve lost virtually every legal dispute of note already. 

What he means when he says out of court settlement is that Qualcomm will be cutting a nearly billion dollar check to Apple just like they have had to do to others already. 

sflocal said:

I almost sprayed coffee out of my nose in laughter when I read the headline.

Qualcomm is getting desperate and in my opinion, is nailing its own coffin with Apple.  After the ITC slaps Qualcomm's pie-hole shut, I hope Apple continues weaning off of Qualcomm's chips.

Heck, if I end up having a choice between a new iPhone with Qualcomm and Intel chips, I'll go with the Intel model just out of principle now.

My my how Qualcomm has fallen from grace.

Im with you on the sprayed coffee.  Qualcomm has had its entire ass handed to it in every legal dispute its been in.  They're still walking funny from the check they had to write to Blackberry.... and from the looks of things, they will get destroyed by Apple as well.

Really?!?!  I'm a long time tester, and I've seen some bad builds, but these are pretty darn good.  I have iOS 11 running on my iPad Pro and my iPhone7+.  No deal breaking issues, batteries on both are fine, no system crashes.  I did have the UI on my 7+ crash while watching a youtube video.  Those are minor and infrequent... and the UI comes right back rapidly.  I'm really enjoying it on my iPad, what a massive upgrade.

I also have High Sierra running on my 5k 27" iMac and MBP w/Touchbar.  No deal breakers in either case here as well.

Of course there are bugs, but I haven't run into any deal breakers on any of my devices in since yesterday morning.  The deal breakers have become fewer and farther between in recent years.  Still, that being said, I'm a seasoned tester and developer.  I'm willing to put up with so bugs to help the cause (reporting), and I really enjoy all the new features.  I won't put the betas on my kids or wife's gear, and I don't recommend it to anyone else other than experienced like minded friends that are in my line of work.

If anyone is curious to try betas out, definitely wait and only install the 'public' betas.  They always run more stable and they aren't as bleeding edge as the developer builds.

Fatman said:

The PDF functionality is long overdue. I had a PDF sent to me that I could not open or convert in an usuable way on my Mac (Word or Pages) for basic editing. The same doc I was able to open and edit on a Win10 machine right in Word (an older version of Word too). Hopefully this new API along with app updates will bring parity to the Mac. Both machines only had Reader installed.

This new API is more about making reading, writing and navigating pdfs more extensible for third party developers within the system. OS X has had the ability to read, and add txt fields or signitures etc, for many years with the Preview app. Windows 10 actually has nothing to do with it. Its MS Office (Windows only version) that converts the PDF to Word native format using PDF Reflow. You can then edit, and when done save as a pdf and it will convert it back. MS hasn't added this to Office for Mac. Maybe these new APIs will help that cause.