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Review: macOS Catalina 10.15 is what Apple promised the Mac could be, and is a crucial upg...
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.ElCapitan said:
You sound as idiotic as always. Get yourself pulled out of the Apple Stockholm syndrome you're locked into.StrangeDays said:
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...lolElCapitan said:
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.StrangeDays said:
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.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.
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.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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Editorial: Are Apple's incremental iOS 13 & macOS Catalina updates enough?
Everything that was Aperture is being rolled into Core Imaging and leveraged by Metal.baconstang said:It breaks Aperture and that's enough to keep me on Mojave for the foreseeable future.
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Ex-Workflow employee publishes library of 150 Siri Shortcuts
So is there no direct way to import the shortcuts library? Do you have to do these one at a time, I suppose?
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Bearish Apple analyst continues trend of bashing iPhone sales
You mean the exact same time Apple heavily bought back shares and never challenged any of these false assertions until after they had made their buy backs? Yeah, that time.sirozha said:
Those who rode the market went from $232 to $147 to $224 in less than a year and made nothing in a year on AAPL. Those who sold last fall and bought last winter made a lot of money.slurpy said:Imagine how much money you would have lost, and potential gains that would be in the toiler, if you actually listened to this fuckwit? And yet, he gets paid a shitload of money in order to publicize his "views", while I could do a better job of predicting Apple's stock price. What a useless asshole.On October 6, 2018, AAPL price of $150 seemed impossible. On December 24, 2018, AAPL cost $147.
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Bob Iger: Disney and Apple likely to have merged if Steve Jobs was alive
I'll say it as an Apple Engineering alum and NeXT alum, Bob is fucking high. Steve allowed PIXAR to be sold to Disney if and only if he picked the CEO. He was 100% committed to Apple moving forward and wanted the best conglomerate to oversee PIXAR and it was obviously Disney.
The other shit is laughable. Steve had a succession plan the moment he found out he had cancer and it sure as shit wasn't to merge with Disney. He wanted his legacy to be firm and that was Apple as Apple and not Apple as the next IBM.
