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sflocal said:

The only think I got from this article is that the CEO is ignorant and lazy.  Jeez, at least he could have summoned the head of mobile development at Patreon before the interview and ask the person how it works.

I just lost a huge amount of respect/care for Patreon.  Boot this CEO out and get someone that knows about tech.

Jack is neither ignorant nor lazy. I strongly suggest you read the Verge interview that AI is paraphrasing here. While the summary here on AI is solely about App Store policy,  it was maybe 5% of the actual interview The Verge had with Jack. Also, The Verge called Jack out point blank on that "I don't know" response:

"This sounds like something you should definitely know. Isn’t this a long-term risk to Patreon? That Apple will listen to this and wake up and give you a call and say, “Time to pay the fee.”

That is the question directly following the quote where Jack doesn't really know why they don't pay it and the resulting convo goes into a far deeper explanation of why they likely aren't afoul of the rules (and wouldn't really care of Apple does start making them pay the fee).

If you read the full interview and still think Jack is ignorant or lazy ... well, I'm all out of crayons, sorry.

jgreg728 said:

Apple has the right to enforce their policies. Tbh they should double down with the likes of Netflix to set that precedent.

What IS wrong about the whole thing is that iOS doesn't give the option to load apps from anywhere other than the App Store. That's what needs to change.

No. No No No. No! The locked down nature of iOS is paramount to its security and appeal. If I want to have the wild, wild west of app loading I’d use Android. I don’t. Stop trying to make iOS like Android. Having such a tightly integrated platform is what makes Apple’s ecosystem work so well. It’s why I switched form Windows a decade ago, and its why I choose to use iOS and why I chose to primarily develop for iOS and macOS. This insane idea that they need to break that to let shitty apps made by devs who just want an easy way in or to bypass a cost of business that has been around for 10 years is not the correct path forward.

As for Hey specifically, from reading the Verge article about what they are doing With the app, I actually do think Apple is in the wrong here and it should be considered a Reader style app. The subscription isn’t specific to iOS and they aren’t advertising it in iOS, so it is exactly the same as Netflix. It appears to be a new email address as well, so it is even more like a reader app.

Damnit Damnit Damnit. I have been waiting for these M1 computers since the transition was announced, money set aside and everything, but as I also invested in dual LG Thunderbolt 4K displays (which are bomb I may add), there is no way I'm buying another non-matching display just to use the Mac mini.

Seriously, seriously disappointed. Apple absolutely dropped the ball here; there is literally no excuse to not support dual 4K over TB3. It was already frustrating that they dropped form 4 TB3 ports to 2 (I have zero use for USB-A now having already fully converted over due to the 13" MBP).

Seriously Apple, WTF!?!?

One thing not addressed yet is display connectivity. The M1 Mac mini says that is supports up to a 6K/60 display over TB, and a 4K/60 over HDMI. However, as someone with a pair of 4K TB monitors, I can't use the HDMI port and would have to use the TB ports. In the past, the 6K/60 limitation was due to bandwidth limitations of TB3, but if these are TB4, and the GPU so upgraded, then I'm hoping that it will support dual TB 4K displays, otherwise I can't use any oft he M1 devices (both laptops only support a single external display).

In fact, this article should probably be updated to note that the external display support has gone down a little, especially when comparing the laptops (my 2019 MBP supports dual 4K/60 and the built in display all at once).

kkqd1337 said:

Sounds good 

I’m interested 

But I’m getting that Gen 1 nervous feeling. I felt like the wool was being pulled over my eyes today. 

Lots of random benchmarks tossed about. 6x 8x faster than something vaguely described but not specified. 

kind of already feel best to sit back and wait here. At least until reviews are out, ideally Gen 2? Maybe they will update more frequently now 

The comparisons were generally to the previous version of that product (excepting how "best selling Windows PC" comparisons which have always been useless). So "6x faster GPU" on the Mac mini  was in comparison to the Intel Mac mini that you would have bought yesterday.

This is also why the MBA and Mac mini had comparably higher gains than what got mentioned for the MBP, since the MBP was already using 10th gen Intel chips, whereas the Mac mini was on 8th, and the MBA was on the i3 platform.

This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for, though the M1 Ultra is out of my price range. I was going to order a computer this past Tuesday regardless, and had decided if the mini wasn't updated I would order a 14" MBP M1 Pro 10/24 with 32GB RAM and 2TB SSD. It was $3800.

Thanks to the Mac Studio release, what I ended up ordering was a Mac Studio M1 Max 10/32 with 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD for $3200. So I saved $600 and got double the RAM, an upgraded CPU with more GPU Cores, and a faster SSD. I'm ecstatic, and super excited. Having played with my daughter's M1 MBP just enough to see how much faster it was than my outgoing 2018 13" MBP i7 16GB/1TB SSD; I can't even imagine how insane this new Mac Studio is going to be.