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  • Apple unveils 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro, M1 Max starting at $2499

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    elijahg said:
    Glad the ports many here declared "legacy" are back. Are they still "legacy" now?
    This is Cook Making Apple Great Again with  HDMI and SD slot plus MagSafe.  Fixing the Ive junk  pros.   Glad I held on to my 2015".
    muthuk_vanalingamentropyswilliamlondonbaconstang

  • M1 MacBook owners complain about easily cracked screens

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    asdasd said:
    Amazingly defensive comments here. Utterly weird. Almost a parody of what people think Apple users act like. 

    It's not like apple hasn't had screen issues before, and I have experienced that myself with a screen that just went dead. Apple fixed it out of warranty because it was their fault. 

    Isn't this a site for consumers? Apple isn't a political party, or a football team you always root for. Its a company that produces electronic devices and sometimes, because manufacturing is sometimes not perfect, things can go wrong. As consumers we should hope that Apple makes amends and fixes any issues as soon as possible. What I see here is sheepish fanboyism. 

    And before people who have been here a lot less time than I have start on he accusations of trolling, I have been here from 2003. I am posting on an M1 device, getting another one next week, and if I swivel around I can see my old intel MacBook Pro from 2018. There's about $5k worth of Apple devices in this room alone, with a HomePod and iPhone and AppleTV as well and more about the house. And I've been here since 2003, when the number of Mac Users in my country could fit into a hotel room,. Since my first Mac I have spent tens of thousands on Apple products. 

    But sometimes things go wrong, and sometimes Apple denies it.  Grow up and accept that. 
    This site is filled with stockholder fanboys that attack when any problem is discussed that impacts their retirement nestegg.

    Look at all the vitriol that they hurled whenever the butterfly keyboard was discussed.  Eventually it took an Academy Award winner complaining in public and an editorial by Joanna Stern in the Wall Street Journal for them to fix it an come out with new Design.
    https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-macbook-keyboard-problem/

    GeorgeBMacmuthuk_vanalingamasdasdgatorguypscooter63

  • Original HomePod now sold out at online and in Apple Stores nationwide

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    Apple should have bought Sonos years ago.  The HomePod joins the 2013 MacPro and Butterfly Keyboard/Touch Strip as failed products of the Ive era.
    williamlondoncornchiplkruppionicle

  • Apple previews iPadOS 15 with home screen widget support, system-wide notes

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    Apple “another work around because we won’t allow you to run MacOs on the iPad.”
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  • What to expect from WWDC 2021 - and what not to

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    22july2013 said:
    dotcomcto said:
    dotcomcto said:
    I really want to hear Apple announce that M1 apps from the Mac App Store will be able to run directly on the M1 iPad Pro.
    Even if that happened, which is unlikely, it would still require recompiling. Because apps for different OS's (macOS and iPadOS) use different APIs/kits. The alternative is for Apple to make both OSs support the same APIs, and Apple has had full screen slides saying: NO.

    Are you asking for macOS and iPadOS to merge? If not, then recompiling is required.
    For a short while, there was the ability to sideload iOS apps on M1 Macs - which Apple subsequently shut down. That said, Apple does have Project Catalyst: https://developer.apple.com/mac-catalyst/

    I do not see a reason why Apple wouldn't ultimately want that to work in both directions. It would be a win-win for Apple, as well as developers. 
    I would love it if you were right, but here was Apple's slide on the question of merging iOS with macOS. I know they were talking about iOS, not iPadOS, but I think the answer would be the same for both OSs. Remember, the OSs (macOS and iPadOS) are not binary compatible because apps for each one are compiled with different APIs. So unless Apple wants to port the APIs themselves, developers would have a lot of work to recode and recompile.

    As you indicated, Catalyst is the opposite of what you are asking for. And it's optional, not mandatory. It sounds to me like you are asking for complete compatibility, not just voluntary compatibility by recompiling with new libraries.



    The problem with that Giant “Are you merging iOS and MacOS” - “No.” Is that is doesn’t answer “Are you merging iPadOS and MacOs”

    By forking iPadOS off of iOS they can always say they didn’t merge them.

    They are not going to answer they question of what goes on with the two operating system till ready to unveil that.   But Mac computers and iPads will continue to be separate Hardware lines even if common software libraries in the future grow.

    Computers will have touchId but won’t get FaceId anytime soon.  FaceId is for iPhone and iPadPro.
    williamlondon