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I wonder how much of this is Apple being abusive and how much of this is down to Masimo being greedy with the terms of the licensing? Is anyone aware of these details?

tyler82 said:

How many years until Apple actually has decent AI though? They're not really a leader right now. I'd wait until then to buy a current computer that could actually take advantage of AI advancements.

What do you mean by decent AI and how do you define AI? Also AI for what purpose? 

razorpit said:

Isn't this just a matter of re-compiling to 64-bit?

Not always. For example, if there were any assumptions made about the size of an integer, for example that can break things or an assumption was made on how an external function does things, but that function has its own bugs revealed with the change in bitness.

Some other are indicated here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9728250/migrating-from-32-to-64-bit-releases

If Apple sees themselves as a gaming company, then there are a few things they need to do:

   - Be game developer friendly, in attitude.
   - Make it easy to port games to the platform.
   - Further improve Rosetta 2 to make performance of Intel games well on the M1 processors.
   - Sponsor or provide code contributions to common frameworks used by game developers.
   - Demonstrate that games can run at the best settings on an average current generation Mac, otherwise they aren't really competing in any meaningful way.

I am sure there are plenty of other things they can do too.

Just looking at the history of console gaming consoles we can see what business and technical decisions created challenges for games developers. Modern Vintage Gamer covers quite a few aspects here.

Just banking on AI without a real purpose is crazy. Good AI is invisible and solves real problems. Bad AI is just making the non-technical Wall Street people happy, through gimmicky functionality, without doing anything really useful. Of course there is another class of AI, but it’s hard to know from the outside whether it is AI or algorithm. 

gatorguy said:

DAalseth said:

seanismorris said:

Frivolous lawsuits should have consequences.  

Pay for wasting the courts and Apple’s time...

Yes, I've come to support Loser Pays all expenses in these kind of suits. I understand the arguments against the model, but I've come to feel that the benefits outweigh the costs.

Sometimes lawyers (actually the plaintiffs) are ordered to pay, it depends on the specifics of a case. Apple right now is demanding recompense from one of he companies who had brought a frivolous case against them and so far the judge has looked favorably on it. 

Loser pays as a general rule of law tho would not be a good idea IMO. 

Any 'loser pays' rule should be surrounded by a bunch of conditions, because while it could help dissuade frivolous lawsuits, it may also dissuade legitimate lawsuits. For the latter the offending corporation could just pad the bill and scare off any plaintiff. At the same time, if a lawyer is in the business of organising the class action, in the sense they are the one who initiated it and recruits members, then they should certainly be on the hook, since it then could be considered suing 'for income', as opposed to 'for cause'.

Without iCloud support 128GB isn't much, but coupled with iCloud storage and an internet connection it actually works out to be enough in many cases. I say this, because the phone will quietly offload images and videos to the cloud when the images and videos start reaching a certain threshold.

Where the storage fails is if you are an app hoarder or a music buff that needs stuff to stay on the phone. Or... you are dealing with apps that create large files without any auto-offloading support.

Taiwan is a very important technology manufacturing location, as this article indicates. Many motherboard manufacturers are also located in Taiwan, so it won’t just be Apple impacted by the earthquake. 

Knowing how well the Amazon Fire store was managed, I am foreseeing a future of fake apps and malware. Of course, I may be wrong, but unless any of this regulation has language for safeguards, then I’ll watching very carefully.