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Apple's biggest innovation of the last 25 years isn't the iPhone
tomahawk said:Between 2015 and 2020 -- half a decade -- Microsoft contentedly sat on Windows 10. In 2011 it delivered Windows 11.That's a lot like saying Apple "contentedly sat" on Mac OS X from March 2001 to November 2020 because they didn't change the major version number. I may not be a big MS fan, but it isn't like they weren't providing significant OS updates in a roughly similar cadence to macOS. And let's also not forget that Apple is getting really good at announcing new "major" OS versions with features that won't actually be ready until multiple updates later.
Apple has exactly one WWDC a year, where they tell developers about their next major OS releases and all of their features. Those features are talked about and discussed at that time, you know, during a developer conference, even though they won't be released until sometime after launch. Do you really expect Apple to keep developers in the dark about upcoming features and API's?
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Apple's biggest innovation of the last 25 years isn't the iPhone
mpantone said:Apple's greatest innovation in the 21st century is the iPhone. Anyone who thinks otherwise is still living in 2005-2010.
Steve introduced the iPhone in 2007 as "the computer for the rest of us" then went on to remove Computer from the name of his own company. Today the revenue from the iPhone, iPad, and wearables dwarfs the Mac business unit.
Pretty much every single consumer-facing technology we have today has been driven by smartphones because they are the primary computing modality of today's consumers and have been for 10+ years. We've gone over this before, things like NFC contactless payment systems (which actually started on Japanese featurephones a few years before smartphones), biometric identification systems, computational photography, touchscreen displays, et cetera ad nauseam. Not all of these originated on the smartphone but mainstream popularity was pushed by smartphones.
Even today, you have macOS trailing iOS in features (this is particularly notable in biometric ID, Apple Intelligence feature rollout). Apple even debuted the M4 SoC on a handheld device (iPad Pro) rather than sticking it in first in a MacBook. The Retina Display showed up first on an iPhone. There are countless examples of where the iPhone leads the Mac, where iPhoneOS/iOS leads OS X/macOS.
Like clockwork Apple releases new iPhones every fall and lets the high-end Mac Pro fester years and years (where one might expect PC innovation to occur). What has Apple done on the Mac side in recent years? Let's see, they've removed the Touchbar, released a jumbo Mac mini called the Studio, and finally released a long-overdue Mac mini in a smaller form factor thirteen years after they discontinued their last model with a built-in 5.25" optical drive (which was the main reason for the old size).
Meanwhile, Apple spends far more time, effort, and resources on iOS than macOS. This is completely obvious if you pay attention to WWDC.
iPhone/iOS is where to see where Mac/macOS is going.
Some tech journalists and pundits hold on tightly to their "personal computers are king" mentality but those days are long gone. Staying in the past just ends up being less relevant as time goes by. I'm a longtime Apple computer user (i.e., pre-1984) and I still own a Mac. But I don't look at my Mac as where the innovation is happening.
Time to stick a fork in this petrified paradigm because the rest of the (sane) world already did a decade ago. This article might have sounded less nutty in 2010. Today it's like an SNL parody of a tech article.
While I agree the iPhone is Apple's greatest product ever, it wouldn't be the innovative, game changing mobile phone it is without OS X under the hood. All of Apple's operating systems share the same core foundation and have for a while now. (I forgot which release finally unified the code base? Maybe since the release of Swift?) The same core OS runs on all their devices with UX/UI being the differentiator across the platforms. Apple being able to push this OS onto new devices is in fact extremely innovative, and pretty damned impressive. It is what allows Apple to create new devices that seamlessly integrate with each other and create a cohesive ecosystem.
The biggest fault in the article is that it only concentrates on macOS, when the real innovation is the foundation that makes all their platforms possible.
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Power press: Fixes for Apple's oddly-placed Mac mini button
MplsP said:
The solution is to think more than a 3rd grader when making stupid design decisions. Give one justification for the placement (no, not excuses as to why it’s not that big of a deal. I’m talking a valid justification.)macxpress said:mrr said:This was incredibly bad design from Apple.My solution has been place a a small candy box that is about a half inch in width underneath my Mac mini, so that my finger can fit under it. It makes it appear that the Mac mini is floating.
How many times are you shutting down your desktop Mac? It's not a bad design at all. JFC people making a big deal out of shit that doesn't need a big deal made out of. It's maddening!
The solution is to not shut your fuckin Mac off...how about that? Just put it to sleep and then wake up when you wanna use it again. Is that so hard?????
1. Umm, you used to be able to power up your Mac from the keyboard... maybe Apple is devising an alternate method to "power on" ?
2. Maybe a lot of stupid users were accidentally pressing the power button when reaching behind to plug things in - and Apple was getting a lot of support calls?
3. Apple knows their user's habits, and they've concluded a vast majority of them never turn their Macs off and just put them to sleep, so it's not an issue.
Bottom line, only Apple knows why, however, they are not obligated to justify why they did it other than they simply wanted to. If it is such a BIG DEAL don't buy the new mini. I've owned my M1 mini for 4 years. the only times I've ever pressed the power button is after I've powered it off and moved it to a new location.
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Hands on with Image Playground, ChatGPT, and Genmoji in iOS 18.2
No, Apple has stated they will not generate life like images, it has nothing to do with being “behind”. The cartoonish effect is there for a reason. If you don’t like it, use another image generator.debonbon said:Those generated images look generations behind already. Ai is moving very quick and Apple needs to get up to speed real fast.
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US TSMC probe puts iPhone chips at risk
Definitely not going to happen considering just about all of the largest US-based tech companies rely on TSMC including the likes of, Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD and even Intel. Fined probably, but definitely not blocked.
