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Apple is engaged in a 'silent war' against Google, claim engineers
AppleZulu said:It's pretty clear at this point that the decision to create Apple Maps was based on a lot more than a dispute over turn-by-turn directions. That may have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but what was clear at that point was that mapping and location services were going to be a core function of iOS, not just a standalone app. GPS wasn't even included on iPhone until the 3G model was released. Fairly quickly for Google, location data was becoming one more data goldmine to sell to advertisers, and Apple didn't want iPhone to become an unrestrained sellout of its customers. More importantly, Apple couldn't cede what was rapidly becoming a central function of its device to its primary rival. So a decision was abruptly made to take a hard turn off the previous course and it took a few iterations to get through the "recalculating" phase.
Meanwhile, Google started putting real GPS based turn-by-turn directions onto their Android devices. Apple wanted that feature as well. That's when Google laid out the demands to Apple to provide user data in exchange for that level of Maps services. Apple was very privacy minded and unwilling to do that, so they created their own mapping service. Whatever rift existed between Apple and Google at time from Google copying Apple was more of a sidebar than the driving decision for Apple to role their own maps service. -
Apple's redesigned iPad Air sports 10.9-inch display, A14 Bionic chip
cloudguy said:tmay said:cloudguy said:A14 is only hexacore. Strange. Was certain that it was going to be octa-core. Hexacore is good enough to replace the i3 and i5 in the Mac Mini and MacBook Air, but for MacBook Pro and iMac they are going to need an octacore design at minimum. -
Apple loses lead Apple Silicon designer Jeff Wilcox to Intel
dewme said:Ouch. But congratulations to him in his new and expanded role with Intel. -
Apple's shift to ARM Mac at WWDC will define a decade of computing
elijahg said:Another point no one seems to have factored is that Intel has tons of extensions to x86 which are essentially never compared in benchmarks against ARM. SSE1/2/3, AVX, MMX, Quicksync etc. Lots of cross-platform software uses these extensions to speed things up, and the code can be directly ported from the huge market that is Windows to the smaller Mac market. Software that makes use of those extensions is much much faster than that which uses general x86 instructions because they come with much less legacy cruft. If Apple switches, cross platform devs aren't going to waste time optimising their software to double the speed on the tiny Mac market, Mac users will just get an inferior experience, again. -
Apple's Mac mini has outlasted Intel's NUC
michelb76 said:Xed said:bsd228 said:The Intel NUC hasn't died. Like the IBM PC, it has been coopted by legions of OEMs offering original NUC sized compute units for $200-500.
$270 got me a hex core AMD with 2.5gb ethernet, 16gbs, and a win 11 license to toss as I please. Smaller than the Mac Mini of today, and in the same ballpark on power. Takes an M2 and a 2.5" drive.
They won't have the GPU, but that's not what they're used for.
https://www.tomsguide.com/reviews/intel-nuc-12# -
Quicken 2018 for Mac debuts, switches to subscription-only model
randominternetperson said:In the age of online banking, who still buys programs like Quicken? $35/year or more? No thanks. -
Mac Pro M2 review - Maybe a true modular Mac will come in a few more years
No matter how you spin it, the M2 Mac Pro is a real disappointment. Full stop.
The only excuse I’d give Apple for this disappointment is if they felt it were more important to formally complete the Apple Silicon transition than it was to provide a proper pro machine. So, if this is a stop gap measure to hold us until this time next year, then fine.
The Mac Pro is meant to be the flagship device… the pinnacle of Mac performance. Instead, it’s a Mac Studio with PCI slots. At the very least, an M2 Extreme (2 M2 Ultra chips) is what users are expecting. Apple seems content on comparing to a 4 year old Intel Mac Pro while ignoring the current Intel / nVidia 4090 based solutions. That would address the CPU / GPU scalability concerns or at least help mute them.
The other concern is memory. 192 GB is fine for most solutions, but there are very high end needs which go well beyond that. -
Cook justifies Apple's advertising on X as a 'town square' for the Internet
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DxOMark says iPhone 13 Pro has a great camera with 'outstanding video'
blastdoor said:I'm always a little surprised that Apple isn't more dominant on this ranking, given how Apple's custom silicon dominates in many areas.
I never use Android phones, so I don't have first hand experience. But I'm wondering if iPhones have an advantage in something not captured by this particular group's reviews? For example, is the iPhone faster at processing a photo once snapped?
https://www.androidauthority.com/dxomark-ranking-troublesome-805633/
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New & colorful 27-inch iMac starts production, reportedly won't have mini LED
indieshack said:Really…27”?