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  • Editorial: Intel CPU constraints are sign on the road to ARM chips in the Mac

    TheBuccaneerGentlemanTheBuccaneerGentleman
    LordZedd said:
    I've been through the 6502-68K, 68K-PPC and PPC-Intel switches. If there is a switch to ARM, I'm out. No bootcamp, no VM, no games at all, no professional apps, no drivers for anything.
    Im sure that folks concerned with bootcamp and virtualization will mourn the switch, but those people are in the minority. Working at Apple retail for some years, we almost never had computers come in for repair with a bootcamp partition. Actually, I cant even recall one time. Now that's not definitive proof of anything, merely anecdotal. Even so, I think the majority of Mac users would trade bootcamp for faster performance through an optimized ARM CPU. I also believe the vast majority will trade virtulization for better battery life of an ARM CPU. Regarding drivers, the big manufactures like BlackMagic or others will adapt and release. Again, a tiny handful of Mac users have ever installed a driver on their machine. Adobe will for sure also release their suite and be featured by Tim on stage. Autodesk, Adobe and many other makers of Pro apps have spent years already making iOS (read ARM) versions of their products. It wont be a long time before everyone comes along. It will for sure be a painful switch for some; but just like PPC > Intel; ADB > USB; USB A > USB C; we will adapt. And for large swaths of users all they will see is a super fast Mac with great battery life and a vibrant App store and never notice the difference.
    Solifastasleep

  • Apple Card invitation problem leading to bogus international application emails

    TheBuccaneerGentlemanTheBuccaneerGentleman
    Its not so much as your physical location as its your citizenship/address. I am a US citizen who works abroad. I got the email to apply and was approved in less than 3 minutes. I have a US SSN and address but I'm physically in Israel right now.
    JWSC

  • Apple Maps vs Google Maps - smartphone mapping titans battle it out in 2020

    TheBuccaneerGentlemanTheBuccaneerGentleman
    Its really no comparison. Apple Maps may be good in the US or Canada or even parts of Europe but its terrible in every other part.
    1. No transit directions in many many countries. 
    2. Transliteration support is terrible. Meaning when writing in Roman characters with languages typically written in non-Roman characters
    3. No intelligence for misspellings. Get it exactly right or get nothing 
    4. Almost no support for things like "Embassy" or "City Center" or "Malls" or "Food Courts" (Google knows them all BTW)
    5. Terrible discovery for whats around you
    and many other complaints I have. 
    We travel a lot and live outside the US. We have to rely on Google as nothing else has the power all over the world.
    philboogiecropr