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

    Dan_DilgerDan_Dilger
    k2kw said:
    corrections said:

    Given that you can continue to run 32 bit apps on your hardware in Mojave, it's hard to understand what you're upset about. It's a free OS update, it's not mandatory, it's reversible, and you can non-exclusively update while still maintaining a Mojave boot alternative. What has you so upset about it? Sounds like manufactured outrage.
    Are we going to get a new Apple TV unit?   new Remote? new controller like you wrote?    Apple Arcade is out.   Guess I can wait till the Mac event.
    Oh I thought you asked an honest question. You were trolling, surprise! 

    I've anticipated a lot of things that took longer than expected to arrive. I predicted Apple would use Apple TV to deliver apps and games long before tvOS, and that it would fund its own original content a very long time ago. I anticipated that Apple would integrate an iOS device into its MacBooks as a secondary touchscreen display as a way to differentiate its laptops from PCs well before it shipped Touch Bar. I expected Apple to add Siri functionality and wireless surround capabilities to its Beats speakers too early. But I didn't represent any of that as being a leak or gained from "people familiar with Apple's plans," I just saw it as the natural next thing to deliver. 
    fastasleepwatto_cobra

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

    Dan_DilgerDan_Dilger
    k2kw said:
    Another new aspect of gaming that Apple has addressed in both iOS 13 and Catalina is support for popular Bluetooth gaming controllers. In addition to existing MFi controllers, Apple has also expanded controller support to Sony's PlayStation DualShock 4 and Microsoft's Xbox Wireless Controllers with Bluetooth. This enables Mac, Apple TV, iPhone, and iPad players to dive into more complex and sophisticated gaming titles from the App Store and through the new Arcade.
    DED: Do you still predict a new Apple TV and/or gaming machine. I ask because I need something like the apple TV but can't stand the remote but have held off from buying Fire Cube or Roku.
    I did in September . If the Siri Remote is your issue, why not use the iOS Remote app, or any other remote? You can generally train your TV remote to also run Apple TV.   
    fastasleepwatto_cobra

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

    Dan_DilgerDan_Dilger

    I stopped reading after this...
    —to the whimsical, excessively ornamented but minimally useful Dashboard of widgets. Dashboard is finally going away entirely in Catalina, but Widgets are still there, they're just architecturally better and easier to access from the Today panel of the Notification Center.
    What a load of doodoo. Dashboard is not minimally useful. It just failed to get the love that it needed to thrive properly. I use it daily in my "real job" to do "real work". To claim that Notification Center is a better replacement for it is misleading. There's barely any widgets available for Notification Center. I just opened the App Store section and count "15" widgets. Yup, that's it. And none of them do what I currently do in Dashboard.

    And how do I four-finger swipe to open up Notification Center? This is a breeze with Dashboard. Always there, ready to serve. Okay, so a two-finger swipe to the left on the right edge of the trackpad does the trick., so I'll give it a star for not being any harder to access.

    I don't agree that "Notification Center" is the right name for a place to access productivity tools. But since we're stuck with it, we need more widgets. Way more.
    What Dashboard widgets do you use? 

    Notification Center is a two fingers from the left edge gesture (see Trackpad configuration). Saves you two fingers!

    And the comment on "architecturally better" relates to how they work. In NC they are native app extensions. In Dashboard they were basically HTML&JavaScript mini webpages, and required launching a browser instance to run them.
    fastasleepwatto_cobra

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

    Dan_DilgerDan_Dilger
    crowley said:
    crowley said:
    Not sure which part was supposed to be crucial?

    I may install it on a partition when I have some time to kill, but ditching 32-bit apps... that's a tough pill to build up to, it'll take a while.
    What 32 bit apps do you use? 
    Games mainly, most of which will never be updated https://www.macgamerhq.com/opinion/32-bit-mac-games/
    So you spend a lot of time playing "Unreal Tournament 2004," and "Quake 4" from 2005? BullCrowley!

    The newest games on that list are many years old. If you want to play AAA Mac video games from the 2000s, go buy an old Mac at a pawn shop. 

    But you don't really play ancient games do you? Sounds like you just dredged up a list of discontinued games and are trying to promote the idea anyone cares and that Apple is doomed for 32-bits. Or perhaps you're an ML algorithm trained on comment section FUD?
    watto_cobra

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

    Dan_DilgerDan_Dilger
    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.
    What do you need any of those things for? Sounds more like talking points. 
    watto_cobra