roundaboutnow

AppleInsider said:

You can go the other way and make a ringtone out of any music, but it requires a few steps to create a custom one. This version would probably be excellent as one.

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plovell said:

roundaboutnow said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I understood display scaling affects UI elements only. Content elements (photos, pdfs, cad, etc) are (or can be) displayed at native resolution. The lines in Autocad on my 27" 5K iMac look about as sharp as a laser print hardcopy.

I would expect that your 5K iMac would be running at native resolution, i.e. not scaled. But maybe I misunderstand your point (quite possible).

9secondkox2 said:

Apple can do this.  Why? Because they aren’t limited to industry standards that all OEMs, big and small, use. 

They don’t just take a standard from someone else, accept its limitations, and deal with it. They improve on those things where possible and even invent their own standards. 

If Apple wants to use Apple Silicon as the base structure and add helper cards, they can definitely do that and it will work. It won’t scale the same as having it all one one SOC, but it will work and it will outperform everyone else. 

A better option would be to introduce desktop specific SOCs without mobile limitations or power efficiency concerns. The MC Peo is THE perfect candidate for such a beast. Take the cheese grater case, the massive fan setup snd give it something to match. Give it all performance cores and lots of them, crank up the GHZ, pop the new ray tracing GPU cores in there also lots of them with jacked up clock speeds and let it rip. 

Aside from that, Apple could add an entirely new spin on the modular approach and instead of adding generic PCI-E  slots, throw that old stuff away and build out a light speed socketed “fabric” that allows multiple Apple Silicon SOCs to be plugged in as the user requires. Need more RAM? It happens to come with more CPU and GPU power also and vice versa. 

Apple has not usually just done what everyone else thinks is possible. iTunes, the iPod, iPhone, Mac Pro, Apple Silicon, Force Touch trackpads, etc. are all examples of Apple doing things way differently and better than everyone else, paving the way for a better computing landscape. 

All it takes os for Apple to want to do this. 

Sure Apple COULD do the PCI thing. But that’s the lazy and inefficient way. 

I could see either a desktop specific SOC and/or a system fabric that connect multiple Apple Silicon SOCs together as needed. I can also see each SOC module coming with its own cooling system. Apple could also have modular power supplies to handle energy needs per configuration and sell those after purchase as well. For example, if you buy an M3 Extreme Mac Pro, it comes with a suitable power supply. But if you add 3 more M3 Extremes later, you could buy the necessary power supply from Apple, replace the old power supply module, and presto, supercomputer. 

Apple has an opportunity to reinvent the desktop computer here, redefine modularity in meaningful ways, offer a good deal, while also opening up profit margin growth after the initial sale, and leave everyone else in the dust. This would also add continual shine to Apple Silicon as the ultimate platform. 

This is the Mac Pro - the absolute pinnacle of Apple performance snd represents the best computer Apple could possibly make. It’s their time to shine. Hopefully that’s what they do. Just don’t rush it. Even if it takes another year, get it right and set the tone for the next decade to 20 years. 

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ranson said:

Hedware said:

Somehow everybody gets asked except for consumers. As a owner of Apple products,  I do not want my privacy and security compromised because some lazy developers want to have open skies. They should attempt to build some decent apps. 

I fail to understand how this compromises YOUR security. It's very simple. If YOU don't want to use a third party store or sideloading to have access to an app, then YOU don't have to. See, no security problem for YOU. But others, who want to put software on their phone that Apple has declined to list in their App Store, should have that opportunity, given it is their device that they own.  None of that compromises YOUR security in any way.

I hear the argument that "well, there are apps that will move to their own stores instead of Apple's, and then we can't trust the app maker to not do nefarious things."  Fine, then don't install the app. If you can't trust their product because it's not in Apple's Store, then frankly, you can't trust the app at all and should not use it. Note that numerous scam apps are in the Apple Store already (see this AI article from just this morning), and popular apps like Tik Tok and Facebook actively track you in spite of the tracking transparency options. So again, if you think you wouldn't be able to trust them outside of the Apple store, those apps being in the Apple store is really no different. It's a completely false sense of security.

So nobody's security is unwillingly compromised here. We are adults, and we can make informed decisions about what apps to install, even when it runs counter to Apple's opinion. This harms no one except those who choose to go down that road and make bad choices.

It compromises everyone's security because if Apple has to modify iOS to allow side-loaded apps it makes it much, much easier, for criminals, the government, unscrupulous developers to maliciously load malware and spyware onto your phone. Period.

But remember how much cheaper software used to be before the App Store? Oh, wait, that's right, software got orders of magnitude cheaper after the launch of the App Store.