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  • macOS Mojave will drop support for some older Macs released before 2012

    ylonylon
    This is pretty disgusting. Perhaps the most upsetting thing to come out of Apple in some time. We're starting to see the writing on the wall. First Apple charges a hefty penny for their hardware, and we swallow that because we want quality and understand that our investments last a long time. Now they are turning back on us in this area. I am no longer compatible with their mentality as a developer. Apple was a developer-centric company because they understood that making developers happy first was the most effective way to get high quality software.

    There is still no option that is as good as macOS. That's just a fact, but at least Microsoft is trying. They look like a lumbering blind giant bumbling around and falling down on their face again and again (especially with the Windows 10 stability issues and their abysmal UI choices), but they are trying. Apple is basically not growing in this regard and is masking it's efforts as preparing for the future. Well Apple, it's definitely not for OUR future - but rather for YOUR future.

    MS could snatch away a huge and important group if they'd just emulate the user experience and interface we're used to on macOS and simultaneously bring Linux under its umbrella via a reworked macOS-like user experience. Jobs knew how to do this and he did it with NeXT.

    Apple has lost its way.
    williamlondon

  • Review: macOS Catalina 10.15 is what Apple promised the Mac could be, and is a crucial upg...

    ylonylon
    StrangeDays said:

    ylon said:
    This article disturbs me greatly. I've felt that AppleInsider is just not leveling with its readers for the last several years now. It has some fun and feel good articles, but this stuff about Catalina is a load of bullcrap. This OS release is the next solid step to the end of Apple and no one has the courage to stand up and talk about this. Do you realize how many of us our MOURNING this release of the OS and are carefully looking at Linux options at the moment (I know several colleagues who've actually "switched" again now). 

    Now granted, Linux can't fit the bill for any of us who need to do anything more than certain dedicated tasks that it's good at, but frankly the core OS has been suffering in macOS for many years now (and this is coming from both Apple engineers themselves and others who do low level system development).

    Apple is prepping us for a complete lockdown and I'll be darned if you find me fighting to jailbreak my workstation. I need low level kexts, I need better debugging facilities, I need kernel access and I frankly need to retain 32bit functionality. There's no actual reason to switch to 64bit fully from a technical standpoint (it's actually more optimized and efficient when you use 32bit apps. Period.). I can elucidate a lot more on these points, but to see Catalina spoken of so highly has completely obliterated my belief that AppleInsider can become anything more than lipstick for Apple now.
    Put down the crack pipe. This isn’t the DOOM of Apple, and if you had bothered to watch the WWDC keynote and state of the union, you’d know that. The future of app development on macOS is very bright. 

    But by all means, switch to the land of paradise known as Linux. But to answer your question, not many are mourning macOS. You’re just being dramatic because you fear change. 
    You're completely oblivious to reality.
    ElCapitanelijahgMplsP

  • Stop panicking about Apple's rumored switch from Intel to its own chips in the Mac

    ylonylon
    BS. We don't want this to happen because we want flexibility. I won't get into what that all entails here, but many, many, many of us much deeper and more experienced professionals do not want to see this shift.
    RealZoeSummersHabi_tweet

  • Apple will enforce app notarization for macOS Catalina in February

    ylonylon
    This kind of behavior from Apple is precisely why we haven't "upgraded" our 20 Macs to Catalina at our software dev firm. Clearly we won't be upgrading now until we can see more clearly Apple's roadmap and if we need to take other precautions. We will *NOT* allow ourselves to be controlled like this by an operating system that feels like it has some duty to enforce these kinds of "protections" for its users. It is not what we nor anyone we know wants.

    Shame be upon you Apple for losing your way under this guise or facade you've set forth. Mojave might be our OS of choice for the next 5 years or so until we figure out another option.
    elijahg

  • Watch: How to use Apple's native Screen Recording feature in iOS 11

    ylonylon
    Really disappointed by not having AUDIO recording with the screen recording. Users are having a hard time capturing issues without verbally explaining things.