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Hands-on with Apple's new Core i9 iMac 5K with Vega graphics: benchmarks and first impress...
Unigine is a useless benchmark, but if Apple had modernized their OpenGL stack to 4.5 you'd earn well over 100fps on average. Then again I'd rather see tests against Metal 2 Benchmarks.
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Apple promises to pay Cupertino $9.7M for transport projects in exchange for delaying tax ...
Stop pissing in the wind about Apple having to pay taxes. They have long since avoided > $100 billion in off-shore shell games. This amount is peanuts. Infrastructure is a constant upgrade problem. They most certainly benefitted from all the tax delays while the area was torn up and traffic rerouted in an abysmally crowded zone. They ow it and will gladly pay for it.
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Apple News+ wrangled more than 200,000 subscriptions in first 48 hours, report says
Subscribing was a no brainer for me.
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Apple engineer who led development of A7 through A12X chip cores departs company
Leaders of departments don't develop the actual products, folks. I know my former company. They are extremely high level and manage the assets and have weekly report meetings with key members. That's it.A little, FYI, several of my fellow NeXT alum have returned to Apple of late--especially Engineering to ``fix'' stuff.
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Alongside efforts to drive coding competency, Apple releases Swift 5 with ABI compatibilit...
For myself, ObjC and C are far more accessible languages than Swift.hmurchison said:MisterKit said:I have dabbled in programming just enough to realize that it was not my calling. This is probably a threshold point for the Apple development field with unity among the Apple platforms. Xcode on iPad is probably close to being a reality.
Lot's of people find out quickly it's not their cup of tea. I laugh whenever I read "Swift is an easy language" yeah ...easy for someone that understands the principals of modern day programming languages. If you're a person that looks at AppleScript and gets queasy coding may not be for you unless you're willing to address your fears.
