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He's complaining about the DAC (Digital-Analog Converter). Basically he's confusing the capabilities of any software product manipulating digital audio with the quality of the headphone port. So Neil, we should put a $300 DAC in every MBP and push the price up for everyone so that people who still listen to music with wires can have marginally better quality? Both my MBPs are on mute 99.9% of the time. But both of us should pay more so that you don't have to plug in a separate device to listen with your wires? Exactly what does the DAC have to do with the rest of your comments on music production and software? How does the DAC have anything to do with recording since it's output only? If I use $10k worth of equipment to record and output audio and use Garageband for production, what specifically is wrong with that? Displaying ones ignorance in public is unbecoming. Go back to your guitar (something you are actually supremely good at). No one cares what you think about the new fangled computers.

aderutter said:

I remember when Netflix service in the UK was very poor with very little content worth watching; so people simply used VPNs to access the US Netflix. If this bill comes to pass, expect the customer to suffer because it will simply reduce the quantity of material available.

e.g. If Netflix had 5% EU content and 95% non-EU content, they will simply remove non-EU content and not increase EU content. They will go from proportionally 100 programs to 18 programs. How is that a win for consumers?

Or they pay for the mandated EU content (which no one wants otherwise it'd already be there) and pass the cost on to EU customers. A nice little bit of wealth redistribution from the working classes to the rich media folks.

Why does the thought never cross the minds of the European ruling classes to encourage starting a streaming service and compete in a free market where people will choose what they want?

We replaced Netflix with Britbox. Great British content. Love it. Much, much smarter comedy. American comedy by comparison is mostly like still thinking fart jokes are funny. We chose to pay for what we like in a free and open market. Other people who don't want what we want are free to pay for whatever they like. Why can't EU countries offer EUTube or something? People will pay for it if it's any good. And perhaps herein lies the problem.

So EU customers are destined to either pay more, have less content or both. As Reagan said, "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help."

ArianneFeldry said:

Apple is stealing money from their users.
If you signed up through Apple, then bought V-Bucks through the App Store, and never created a full Epic account for use with other devices. You're screwed. Apple disabling Sign in With Apple leaves these users with nothing.
This is incredibly screwed up for Apple to do this, and completely sours me on the service knowing that if Mozilla gets their developer certification cancelled for whatever reason, my Firefox account is gone along with my Pocket account.
What a boneheaded move from Apple, this move only harms the users of the app, not Epic.

And yet it was Epic that broke the contract and forced Apple's hand. What exactly would you have Apple do when a company decides to not comply with their contract? Just ignore it and allow the eco system to crumble into an insecure nightmare of malware as every other developer decides to ignore the rules too?

Epic put user's accounts at risk without asking the users. Not Apple. They put their own business and income at risk without asking the shareholders. Not Apple. They constructed a co-ordinated and premeditated attack on their contract with Apple, a contract they entered into of their own free will with full knowledge of the rules they now dispute. Epic put their hand in the mousetrap with full knowledge of what they were risking. The pain is not the mousetrap's fault.

TouchID isn't looking so bad now.

EsquireCats said:

Second to this Job's didn't really have a vision for the iPad after launch, for years it simply went into decline - it's been under Cook's leadership that the device has found it's own niche, the guy can clearly think further ahead than this own immediate desires.

I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs didn't have much of a vision for anything other than his own survival at the time the iPad was released. Tim Cook was interim CEO at that point and permanent CEO very shortly afterwards with Jobs stepping back to just be Chairman for the remaining months of his life. The stagnation you refer to happened under Cook.

What made Jobs such a revolutionary in tech was that he wasn't trying to guess what the market wanted. He made the product he wanted to use and made it the best way he could. We hear the same philosophy over and over from those from that era like Ive. We don't hear that so much any more. Jobs didn't try and fulfill the need you thought you had. He figured out what you and everyone else wanted because he wanted it too. And no one knew that that was what they really needed all along until Jobs and crew released. No one knew they needed a touch screen phone, or a table for that matter, until Jobs and his team made the phone and tablet that they themselves wanted to use.

It was actually because he focused on what he wanted, rather than try and guess the whims of the market like Gates was doing, that these innovations happened. Not in spite of it.

Aren't they about a century too late to be patenting radio (sending audio to a speaker wirelessly)?

Lion was far, far worse. Mountain Lion was the literal fix for many issues that persisted throughout the cycle with Lion and Mavericks was the literal fix for the issues that remained at the end of Mountain Lion's run. Mavericks was the first useable (but far from perfect) OS after Snow Leopard. Lion truly was Apple's Vista. Catalina by comparison is almost problem free, such were the level of issues with Lion. I skipped Lion on my personal Macs because all my clients were having problems regularly. I delayed purchasing a new Mac until I couldn't delay any longer (just before Mavericks was released). I'm skipping Catalina on some of my personal Macs because of the 64-bit stuff that breaks some older software. There's still one or two where I'm waiting on an update or replacement (replacement is more likely at this point). But they'll get Catalina or Big Sur eventually. On my work laptop, Catalina has been fine.

Rayz2016 said:

hmlongco said:

I agree that the new M1 chip looks like it could run any of those apps and get great performance. My question, however, is whether or not it can run Resolve, Final Cut [Pro X], Frame.io, Adobe and Nuke all at the same time... given the 16GB limitation on RAM.

That's the question.

Having said that, a lot of it depends on what kind of optimisations they've done with the OS.

But conventional thinking would reckon 16GB is quite tight for high end video work.

16GB is tight for high end web browsing. But the real constraint is the gpu. Especially since it's sharing RAM with everything else. A slow GPU means far fewer real time renders of transitions and effects. This as a massive impact on speed of workflow. I don't see this Mac Mini being used for any serious editing work. But perhaps there will be a future model that has expandable memory, or at least more memory options, dedicated gpu or egpu support, etc. Has anyone seen any gpu benchmarks posted?

I've never had a problem with iTools/.Mac/MobileMe/iCloud. I remember creating my iTools account way back in 2000 a couple of days after it was released. I've used services from iCards through to all the new iCloud hotness of today and never had a problem. My email always works. Calendars and contacts always sync. iDisk always worked for me, in both incarnations. I hosted a website in my account for several years without any problems. But I've seen many other people have strange problems, especially with sync issues. I helped some people with issues during the .Mac days which is when the syncable services started, but it was mostly during the MobileMe era that I saw people have the most issues. But again, mine has never once skipped a beat in over 20 years. I'm feel rather old all of a sudden.

I'd like to see actual benchmark results, especially for graphics performance, including against a mac mini with an egpu with a reasonable card in it, like a vega64 or something. Saying the integrated graphics are 6 times faster than the previous intel one is fine, but that isn't a particularly high bar when you're removing any option of more powerful gpu technology which the previous one had. The new integrated gpu is competing (from a performance perspective) against the fastest gpu you could get in an egpu box that was supported by the previous model. I doubt the new model is actually faster than that, but it may well be fast enough to beat a moderate egpu setup, and without the expense, meaning a win for Apple. Or maybe it isn't and people will wait longer to upgrade until performance catches up to what they're leaving behind. Or switch platforms.