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

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    ElCapitan said:
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    elijahg said:
    Bloody hell is DED trying to break the world record on longest article? Catalina really doesn’t add enough for what’s taken away for me, namely 32 bit application support. Seems a bit ridiculous to eliminated 32 bit support entirely. 32 bit apps can be sandboxed for security and 32 bit libraries can stay linked but unloaded until they’re required, so the extra RAM usage and security is a non-issue. 
    Christ, they’ve deprecated and announced the planned end of life for 32-bit apps years ago, and yet people are still gonna get butthurt and whine about it when it finally happens. 

    No man, it’s not ridiculous. It streamlines the OS, the future processors, and is the direction the future is moving. Move past the denial stage and accept it. 
    Let the migration to other platforms begin.  Am in the process of moving a lot of solutions that ran brilliantly on Apple kit to Linux as it is no longer viable for macOS. 
    Awesome. Guess that means we won’t have the constant butthurt to look forward to in the near future? Have fun playing the drivers game on Linux, the bastion of easy computing...lol
    You sound as idiotic as always. Get yourself pulled out of the Apple Stockholm syndrome you're locked into. 
    Having 30 years of NeXT/Apple OS X and 20 years of Linux the ABI broken model that is Linux is one of the most crippling aspects of the platform, never mind the UX which has taken basically everything Apple HIG develops and slowly adopted it within GNOME. KDE is a swiss cheese approach to everything is modifiable and slow as molasses on the desktop.

    Linux has focused primarily on the server space in order to stay feasible and it came with billions invested by IBM, Oracle, RedHat [now owned by IBM], Cisco, Qualcomm, Google, etc.

    After nearly 30 years of development it is still a constantly broken [it's our philosophy update often] platform. It is the reason the Long Term versions of a few select distributions have been picked and supported by AMD, Intel, ARM, IBM, etc. With roughly 3 major kernel releases per year the typical Professional Linux distribution is 2 to 3 years old.

    Apple will never port their Frameworks to third parties. I recall being interviewed by Real Networks and ultimately finding out they hoped I would give them a shortcut into Apple's plans for QuickTime as they wanted to buy it. Real Networks never was too bright.

    During the early merger days I'll never forget the shit storm when Linus arrived at Apple Engineering and overreached his importance when he was interviewed to become a member of the Kernel team.

    He wasn't the only person in the industry who has interviewed over the years with Apple to be irritated that he really wasn't going to have the same ``influence'' he did before interviewing. I guess people really don't research Apple before interviewing because when you arrive you discover it's a hive of the top minds the world has to offer. Back on topic.

    32 bit deprecation and Linux


    Linux is deprecating and nearly completely deprecated 32 bit apps itself. Debian, Ubuntu and RedHat have all deprecated them. When Debian says goodbye very soon that will include Ubuntu and many other ``Debian derived distributions'' who survive solely because of the hard work by the talented folks that make Debian continue to sustain itself.

    Steam will soon move to 64 bit only. That should end the whining on 32 bit. Adobe dumped 32 bit quite a while ago. Hell, they dropped it in Photoshop back in 2012. Move on or become obsolete.
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  • Final Cut Pro X update paves the way for the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR

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    Final Cut Pro X update paves the way for the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR


    So does Motion and Compressor.
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  • Editorial: Are Apple's incremental iOS 13 & macOS Catalina updates enough?

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    baconstang said:
    It breaks Aperture and that's enough to keep me on Mojave for the foreseeable future.
    Everything that was Aperture is being rolled into Core Imaging and leveraged by Metal.
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  • Hollywood studios hit by Avid shutdowns on Mac Pro [u]

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    lkrupp said:
    Everything points to a software update or malware but my money is on a software update. That’s why I think auto-updates to system software is risky. Safari 13 appears to have some nasty bugs right now. You would think these Hollywood studios are smart enough not to apply updates on production machines until they have been tested, Avid as well as macOS. 
    Safari 13 is beta software and not currently in the wild otherwise.

    There have been no MacOS updates to systems prior to High Sierra for a long time, and Safari 13 doesn't run on even High Sierra.
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  • Bob Iger: Disney and Apple likely to have merged if Steve Jobs was alive

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    SpamSandwich said:
    bruce ketchum said:
    If Steve Jobs were alive today, I imagine he'd more likely be in cahoots with Elon Musk than with Bob Iger.
    Oh, I don’t think so. Jobs would’ve laid into Musk for his over promising and under delivering. 
    Steve wasn't a fan of Musk, period.
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