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  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

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    kmarei said:
    Pema said:
    avon b7 said:
    Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

    The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 
    Absolutely spot on. 
    This is vintage Microsoft sloppiness going over 50 years now. Releasing substandard code, causing chaos first on the desktops, then when office networks became the norm and then the enterprise and now global. 
    Why we are still saddled with the worst o/s ever written I will never understand?

    Windows is basically a graphic interface bolted on to DOS. Anyone who has ever followed the path from DOS to Windows 2000, Windows XP and now the latest incarnation Windows 11 knows that it has never been a stable O/S. The only reason that it is still pervasive is because Gates licensed it for a small fee to any PC maker. The hardware was never a concern for Microsoft. You could install DOS/Windows on your toaster if you like. So long as you pay the $25 fee per box. You are good to go. 

    Apple, ever the company to maintain quality control, would not split the two. Well, ok, there was a brief period when the Pepsi Cola moron ran Apple that the company licensed the OS to a guy in Texas I believe who agreed to a very stringent hardware contract. But that arrangement fell apart after a year. And since then Apple, after Jobs came back from Next, has grown into a $3 Trillion company, always maintaining the highest standards. 

    We have the equivalent of DOS/Windows in the phone space. It's called Android. You build any junky phone and slap Android on it and you are good to go. 

    This particular outage had to do with Windows but also with the way Windows is managed from the cloud. A single component of CrowdStrike called Falcon was not thoroughly tested and it cascaded down to every Windows install out there. 

    And it will happen again. Get rid of Windows and you solve half the problem. 
    you started with your conclusion (MS s bad)
    then you made the facts fit this narrative

    only problem is, you didn't actually read the article :)
    Microsoft was not involved in this issue, it was Crowdstrike alone.
    which is why the solution came from Crowdstrike

    Yep. The geniuses at the EU made it so cloudstrike can bypass Microsoft safeguards entirely and push their own junk directly onto Microsoft systems. 

    Nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the EU giving unscrupulous developers unfettered access. 

    There should be a class action suit against the EU from all counties and corporations as well as all individuals affected. 

    While cloud strike deserves criticism, it’s not really their fault entirely. Any developer will have mistakes. But the big lawmakers, who are trying to steer the world where they want - bear responsibility for throwing the toddlers into the deep end of the pool and then doing nothing when they can’t swim. 

    Reverse these stupid policies. 


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  • Calls for Tim Cook's resignation over Apple Intelligence miss that he has made Apple what ...

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    People are weird. 

    Cook turned Apple into an unbelievably successful wonder machine. 

    Its products are the best in each category and the best quality out there. 

    Apple doesn’t have to invent something new all the time. They just need to make the best products on the planet. And they do. 

    Apple car wasn’t a failure. It was a skunkworks project that ended up not getting greenlit. It wasn’t something apple announced or sold that then failed. 

    Apple intelligence is more or less what was advertised, with some chunks needing revision and Siri not ready. 

    People also have to remember that apple went out of its way to respect privacy in training tje ai and ethically purchased the rights to the data it uses. So you can reward the criminals who steal or you can be patient with the only player out there still respecting you as a human being. 

    I’d gladly pay for the latter. 

    And that’s why Cook deserves his paradise even today. He’s not going to sell Apple’s soul for the sake of short term gain. He sees the long play. And in the meantime, it’s not like apple isn’t the best game in town as it is. 


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  • Tim Cook sells Apple stock worth in excess of $50 million

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    oksure said:
    Does no on else find this gross, and at the systemic root of wtf is wrong in our country?  Seems like a nice guy you'd root for but then no.  Just another greedy fuc*ing cog in the wheel.  Don't really think he moves the needle either, other than a somewhat impressive Jobs facsimile come wwdc.  Bullshit human being unless I'm really missing something.

    No. When you are responsible for growing a company by the billions, you make big bucks to. 

    The only things gross about it to me is that he’s making that money and I’m not. - and that you spent all of your one post in AI history to attack someone’s reward for their achievements. 
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  • Apple appeals against EU mandate that it freely share its technology

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    Not only is it a privacy risk, it’s STEALING - illegal in snd of itself. Apple paid its own money, blood, sweat, and tears building its tech. And the EU wants to steal it and give it to everyone else? What the heck? Pure evil. They really aren’t even hiding it anymore. 

    If all else fails, leave the EU. That’s just wrong. There is no way to defend that. 
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  • Mac Studio gets an update to M4 Max or M3 Ultra

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    gwmac said:
    This is what I and a lot of other 27 inch iMac owners have been waiting on.  My only remaining decision is what monitor to buy. I want to get at least a 32 inch so was considering the

    Dell UltraSharp 32 4K Thunderbolt Hub Monitor - U3225QE

    Does this seem like a good monitor to pair with my new studio? I get a $200 Dell credit every 6 months with my Amex Business Platinum card so that will knock it down to $749. 

    Nah. We've been waiting on a new 32" iMac.
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  • Apple sues Jon Prosser over iOS 26 leaks

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    Afarstar said:
    Hopefully Prosser et al will feel the full weight of the law. Mark Gurman must be another leaker in Apple’s sights. 
    Pretty sure Gurman is a strategic leak partner of Apple’s. 
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  • Apple Intelligence transcription is twice as fast as OpenAI's Whisper

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    Finally a win for Apple Intelligence. 

    Hopefully it just goes up from here. 
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  • One of these three Apple executives will probably be Tim Cook's replacement

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    Hey Jony, here’s a dopey idea - make someone outside of Apple the CEO. Someone who can act as a massive talent magnet in AI. Someone with incredible vision.

    i sense that Apple would benefit from a 1997 Steve Jobs like entrance and transformation.

    Apple has had decades of incredible profits and share price growth, only to stagnate and likely suffer from common corporate malaise. It would not be hard to imagine most staffers cruise their stock options rather than want to change the world.

    Unpopular opinion - poach someone very senior from Tesla.
    implement Elons work ethic and relentless innovation ethos.
    i doubt you can get Elon but you can potentially get one of his protégées.
    So you want to replace the CEO of one of the most profitable and globally popular companies on Earth that continually pumps out astronomically successful products with someone from one of the worst run companies in the history of silicon valley with one of the worst reputations on Earth?

    Solid plan.
    Thank you, it is definitely an option. I suggest parking your likely personal views on Elon’s politics as it does not help your line of argument.

    Perhaps a brief moment reviewing his track record of innovation and building world class engineering teams can help. It is unparalleled and don’t take my word for it, listen to luminaries in the business. Most people would be exceptional running just one of the portfolio of companies. Tesla is an exceptional company (or collection of companies rather) taking huge risks shaping and building markets.

    Hence any protégée of Elon will have much of his innovation DNA which is what Apple needs to make a meaningful difference in the next couple of decades. This is the most evident on the software side where evolution speed has been a large meh for quite some time. Look at xAi moving from standstill to parity or leadership in model quality in about 2 years. Apple is slow coach evident of a stagnant company.

    Tim Cook says that Apple will be best known for its Health work in the future (paraphrased). Well ok, Apple Watch is nice and all but sorry it pales with the real hard problems that Neuralink is tackling which has a reasonably good chance at game changing improvements in the quality of life for many people. Yep, its an Elon company ;)

    While I agree with many of your points on a musk and how successful he has been - the guy is an absolute genius. I see a lot of similarities between him and Jobs.  

    But also some glaring differences. 

    Musk’s connections, visionary mentality, focus on innovation and success, along with ether efficiency in getting to market make him seem like a good fit in many ways.  

    But there are some other aspects of his persona that could be a liability. 

    A. He very publicly grts into political dogfights. Jobs was extremely careful to not do that. Though Steve had his bias behind the scenes, you never see him polarizing people where it was not necessary, no matter how strongly he may have felt personally. He knew Apple has a responsibility of being the best products for everyone. Not some favored group. 

    It works with musk’s companies, but will not fly at Apple. 

    B. Musk gets into personal spats in public. While we see countless politicians doing this nowadays, it’s no less petty than it ever was and belittles the image of companies represented by said leader. Neither Jobs nor z cook have done this. And Apple has been kept out of the mud as a result. 

    C. Musk is known to kill things if they seem to struggle whereas Apple stands by its products rven if they aren’t blockbusters (AVP, various Mac models, services, Apple TV, etc) for a very long time. If a customer buys an Apple product thst doesn’t fare too well, they aren’t simply abandoned. 

    D. Musk will take time from his CEO role to pursue political interests. No matter which side of the coin you’re on, he may have helped uncover waste and fraud, but his companies suffered in his absence. Neither Jobs nor Cook would ever do that. Apple is the ultimate priority. Musk would likely not see it that way. 

    Ultimately, while Musk may have the genius and leadership chops to lead Apple, he seems to lack the moral character, discipline, and fortitude necessary to prioritize Apple above all other ambitions and see difficulties through for the sake of customers. 

    Ultimately, it would be great to have a visionary CEO, but the reality is that tech has matured. This isn’t the dark ages of computing where literally every product to come out was an “innovation” because nothing really existed before. Now, we have exceeded science fiction in many ways. There’s not much left to do. AI isn’t even new tech. It’s scripts and algorithms (and piracy/plagiarism in many cases). 

    If we could have a Tim Cook for another 15 years, it would be great. But the guy has earned the opportunity to enjoy the fruit of his labors. Whoever the next CEO is, it almost certainly will be someone within, someone who already has authority, the respect of his colleagues, and who will be recommended by Tim Cook personally. We may see this person at the next iPhone launch and begin to be “featured” publicly often from here on. I don’t see that being Federighi, Khan, or Ternus. But it’s someone in that general circle. Whether they lead the company for a decade plus is another matter. But it’s definitely not Elon Musk. Nor should it be. 
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  • Oppo Find N5 foldable phone review: Apple's now on notice

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    yeah... I don't think apple's goalposts are what other's goals are. Apple isn't worried about getting it to be thin, etc. Apple isn't looking to solve the problems with someone else's product. 

    Apple wants it to have a reason to exist beyond... "Dude, it folds."

    When it makes sense for the category and when It is every bit as reliable as the current, solid bar iPhone, and when it adds something worthwhile to the phone, Apple will release such a thing.

    Currently, Apple hasn't seen the need ro benefit. I have to agree.

    That's not to say next year won't be a different story. Perhaps it will. But when Apple actually goes in that direction, it will be don't in such a way as to be plain common sense. it could be that Appel has an entirely different idea in mind than another flip phone with a flexible screen. 
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  • Oppo Find N5 foldable phone review: Apple's now on notice

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    Sibeheng said:
    9secondkox2 said:
    yeah... I don't think apple's goalposts are what other's goals are. Apple isn't worried about getting it to be thin, etc. Apple isn't looking to solve the problems with someone else's product. 

    Apple wants it to have a reason to exist beyond... "Dude, it folds."

    When it makes sense for the category and when It is every bit as reliable as the current, solid bar iPhone, and when it adds something worthwhile to the phone, Apple will release such a thing.

    Currently, Apple hasn't seen the need ro benefit. I have to agree.

    That's not to say next year won't be a different story. Perhaps it will. But when Apple actually goes in that direction, it will be don't in such a way as to be plain common sense. it could be that Appel has an entirely different idea in mind than another flip phone with a flexible screen. 
    How about "iPad Mini in your pocket" ?

    Being an iPhone user for freakin' 18 years, this is the first time I ditch iPhone 15 Pro Max for Oppo Find N5. It's a game changer dude. It is as thin as the latest Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7. Pick one up and you'll feel that long lost feeling again.
    LOL. I’m other words: “Dude… it folds.”

    yeah, no thanks. I have an iPad. And an iPhone. They don’t fold and they’re the better for it. In fact, I still have my original 2007 iPhone. And it still works. Such a thing will not be said about the oppo whatever it’s called. 

    I’ve checked out the Samsung folding phones. Ine just feels like it’s going to break well before it’s time. And the other folds in such a way as to be a total waste as you end up with either a tall phone screen, or a little square. That’s not an iPad in your pocket. That’s just a waste of a foldable screen. 

    Apple has a lock on what makes a top quality smartphone. That’s why everyone else rushed to all these gimmicks. Without them, they couldn’t stand out. 

    If and when Apple does such a thing, a reason for it to exist along with a way to make it solidly reliable for many years will have been discovered. 

    Until then, I’ll be happy to observe the other guys build the Frankenstein phones. But I’ll BUY the Apple one. 
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