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DAalseth said:

Well that settles that. The First Choice was the Apple Mouse. I have one of those gathering dust under my desk so It's what I'll use.

I have never liked a single mouse designed by Apple, including the current model. Trackpads have been decent but even the first version of their standalone trackpad had a stupid mechanical design (the rubber feet are constantly getting caught on their openings, causing stuck clicks, stopping mouse_up events).

CheeseFreeze said:

johnbear said:

Microsoft gave up making smartphones and mobile software early on. Apple will give up the cpu business in couple of years when they realize intel and amd are light years ahead in terms of performance. Apple are attempting to control everything byt with the cpu this will be a failure similar to PowerPC.

on another note, I’m still waiting for the 720p webcam to be replace in the MacBook Pro, and the missing ports. shame on them for crippling the Mac 

“On another note” -> On a completely unrelated trolling note, you mean? 

And your first paragraph makes no sense. The situation is completely different. First of all, Apple didn’t make PowerPC chips, they bought them. Secondly their SoC business is highly, highly advantageous to Intel, in fact they have demonstrated to be ahead of them on many aspects. Thirdly, they are a 1.5 trillion dollar company now and they have the ability to pull this off & apply their SoC business to all their products. Lastly: who’s gonna be right, this 1.5 trillion dollar company and over a decade of experience with making SoC’s, or some anonymous dude on AppleInsider? They know way more than you and I.

Not about GUI design they don’t. Not any more. Well, maybe you’re as uninformed as current Apple “experts”...

The point I’m trying to make is that today’s Apple isn’t yesterday’s Apple, AND: Assuming the same level of expertise in EVERYTHING is a flawed argument, especially when the respect Apple earned in the past has been eroding. iOS is buggy as hell. Mac OS is catching up in terms of bugs. The pathological obsession with compact and thin hardware has repeatedly caused serious hardware performance, longevity, and therefore sales problems for Apple.

These are not good signs.

Ultimately, the real argument from JLG is whether or not this move to ARM-based CPUs will inspire other industry changes.

I hope it does.

The industry is garbage, compared to what it should be by now.

Apple introduced healthy competition with the iPhone in 2007. It had a major impact on the lazy and user-abusive computer industry. It was good change and it changed a lot (not just mobile; the halo effect was notable)... for a little while.

That’s no longer the case. The “good enough” mentality has reasserted itself in the industry, and Apple has since fallen back to lower effort for higher profits, and their delivery of bugs has increased with their unrealistic pathological Wall Street marketing expectations.

If Apple can trigger another progressive paradigm shift, we will all benefit.

What no one should be arguing is that Apple will, through Apple Silicon, suddenly beat WinTel, Dell, etc in the space where they continue to dominate. There are fanboys making these ridiculous arguments. That’s what LinuxPlatform is getting at.

What we, as Apple customers and Mac users should be concerned about is what desktop marketshare will be lost in this transition of Macs to non-Intel architecture. The move to Intel was a boon for software development and therefore users. This is effectively over. The question is whether development has advanced enough in general to make it less of a barrier to continue maintaining Mac OS ports on the new architecture. Having to purchase and maintain only ONE computer to develop for both Operating Systems is effectively over for future development. Developers frown upon expenses...

Microsoft hasn’t held on to backwards-compatibility just because they’re stupid (though stupidity and lack of vision is certainly an issue there). Industry and businesses relying on old software is a big market and MS have been happy to collect profits from it. They have failed to differentiate between progressive platforms and old platforms, though, and that’s where they continue to fail. Their effort at running x86 software on their ARM OS is something they ought to feel ashamed of. Instead, it’s barely even an issue because they continue to make money on the WinTel market as they always have.

But we’ve seen how Microsoft does things long term: they will keep throwing money at it until their own version of something gains traction and market share. IF there is money to be made in Windows on ARM, they will make it, eventually. Maybe Apple proving that usable x86 emulation is possible will be a fire lit under their complacent but perpetually plotting asses. Maybe not.

I will be incredibly surprised if Apple lowers prices on any Mac as a result of this transition, and IF they actually do, it will be a short-lived reduction to inspire transitional purchases.

mike1 said:

I'd love to have this info on my phone. Helpful for showing my license to buy alcohol at a bar or store. However, whatever is implemented needs to keep the phone in my possession. I am not handing over my phone to a police officer at a traffic stop for him to take back to the patrol car. Whatever agency is looking at the ID (police, TSA etc.) needs to be able to scan a bar code or 3D matrix code that gives them the info.

This is what I came here to comment. Totally agreed with you. I can just see the “I needed to take his license and while I had his phone, I found pot in his phone” or whatever. I’m not targeted by cops the same way others are but I STILL don’t trust them one iota. 

I’m absolutely with the developer here, on this issue.