mjtomlin

tzeshan said:

Does Swift Playground work on M1 Mac? I will buy one M1 Mac if it works.

wood1208 said:

... It takes lot and years of handwork, innovation to create big successful company like Facebook, Google, Apple, etc...

chasm said:

Was I hallucinating when Apple appeared to devote a half-minute or so to the emulation powers of the M1, including an on-screen demonstration of some flavour of Linux running just fine on it?

Sure, that probably wasn't a native version, but if it runs fine in Rosetta 2 I don't see any rush to develop an Apple-native version -- not to mention that the software people tend to want to run in Linux won't be up to speed for a good long time. I'm glad to see another community understanding the great potential for M1 and beyond, but this project seems like an ego trip for "one guy" to take on rather than to organize a team to tackle such a big project.

I don't doubt Hector's qualifications but this just doesn't seem to be the right approach to solving this particular problem IMO.

dewme said:

mjtomlin said:

dewme said:

flydog said:

dewme said:

Interesting to see this here today because I got an email from Amazon about this earlier. 

Before everyone gets their skivvies is a twist, this is very likely an Amazon precursor to what Apple will do with AirTags. Amazon Sidewalk is all about providing a very low cost, low bandwidth, highly distributed, mesh network (using BTLE and 900 MHz) for locating and discovering identification tags and exchanging a few bits of data with simple sensors . It uses a small slice of each participants' WiFi bandwidth (1/40th with a hard monthly cap) as a backhaul to bridge sensor/tag data up to the cloud through your WAN connection. By meshing together all of the participants' data feeds they can achieve area wide coverage, i.e., several square miles.

There's nothing inherently nefarious about what Amazon is doing, and if you don't like it, don't use it. When Apple rolls out their wide area coverage for AirTags you'll be able to decide whether you trust Apple more than you trust Amazon, and sign up with Apple to help facilitate the same sort of service. Or not. Nobody has to do anything they are not comfortable doing. Until we have some sort of third-party or governmental infrastructure in place to support these kinds of services, companies like Amazon, Apple, and Amazon (and others) will try to utilize whatever connectivity opportunities are available to them. Amazon Sidewalk is just the first of the opportunists to hot the street, or should I say, the sidewalk.

From a privacy standpoint, Amazon has proven time and time again that it can't be trusted with personal information.  That in itself makes this scheme "inherently nefarious."

There is no logical connection between this and AirTags aside from the fact that both rely on radio waves.  But that's like saying AirTags is like ham radio.

Let's wait and see what happens with AirTags. If they are going to provide location services outside of the immediate vicinity of your device's Bluetooth range and your home's WiFi connection - how do you suppose they are going to do this over a wide area, as in many square miles? They will require some sort of opportunistic reuse of existing infrastructure, e.g., other people's WiFi and/or cellular phone connections that are already present in the coverage area. Ham radio? Actually, I prefer corned beef radio, served on rye with lots of dots and dashes.

We already know how Apple’s “Find My” network is going to work. They discussed it at WWDC19. In fact they went into great detail of it works and how safe and secure it is.

Currently it works for Apple devices (Macs, iPads, iPhones, iPod touch, watch, AirPods), but there is an API that will allow 3rd parties to make use of the network.

... which is exactly as I have described, with Apple consuming resources on other people's devices to detect your tags across a wide area. In Apple's case they are opportunistically using the Bluetooth on other people's devices to detect tags, in addition to using the device's WAN connections as a backhaul to feed tag information into the cloud.

I doubt Apple will ever allow Amazon to directly access the Bluetooth connection in iPhones/iPads for tab detection

tenchi211 said:

Is it possible to use this Mac mini with a 2017 27 inch iMac as a monitor?