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lkrupp said:

The Apple discussion forums are full of users who downloaded a sketchy app on their Mac only to be hosed by it, screaming for help and blaming Apple. Yet they still bitch and moan about macOS’s SIP and “signed” requirements. Triple that when developers can avoid the App Store and trick iOS users into installing all manner of scam software that compromises their device and/or privacy. Of course Apple always gets the blame when that happens. It’s like death and taxes.

It’s probably coming and it will hard to have sympathy for iOS users who get hosed by a bad app on their iPhone or iPad.

Care to share links to these forum threads where people got their Macs “hosed” by sketchy software? I’ve not seen it. I often download stuff outside the App Store because... it’s just normal to me. Most software I want to use isn’t in the App Store and never will be. I exercise caution like I always did in the 25+ years prior to app stores.

lkrupp said:

The Apple Discussion Forums still see an occasional original gen Apple TV (the one that looks like a Mac mini) owner raging about why they can’t get Disney+ to show up on the device.

Many of your posts are somehow focused on mocking people for being behind in buying stuff...

rcfa said:

And what would be the hardware constraint in this case? It’s not RAM (2-3 GB) is part of both A9 and A10 based devices.
It’s not neural processing, that came only with the A11.

The only significant difference, aside from compute power which would make the older phones simply run not as quickly, are the low-power CPU cores.

The only way that would be of more importance for iOS 15 than for iOS 14 is if Apple plans to massively increase “always on” background processing in such a central function that without it, iOS 15 wouldn’t just be itself, where without low power cores battery life would be intolerably short.

Otherwise, I would have expected the next device culling to coincide with the requirement for neural processing, i.e. maybe iOS 16 only for A11 and later.
Similarly, the A11 is the first CPU with an Apple-designed GPU, which would make it another reason for a natural next-generation cut-off.

So I hope Apple keeps supporting these A9 devices, which are otherwise modern in terms of mass storage controller, etc. until A11 is the base requirement for reasons listed above.

We all know it’s not about hardware constraints. It’s about being able to continue to sell us the same product every few years, while bloating up the OS with more “features” to attract repeat sales.

I’m unsurprised iPhone 6s is getting dropped. I’m still running iOS 12.x on mine because of how many reports of slowdowns and bugs (and the expectation of bugs still NOT fixed, such as bugs I’ve reported repeatedly every major revision that doesn’t fix them, some starting back at iOS 7!!!) in iOS 13 & 14, especially for this phone.

I’ll probably be forced into buying a new phone in a year or two just because of the inability to use stuff that requires iOS 14+. It’s annoying that the two camera features I find desirable in Apple iPhones over the last ten years has only just appeared (raw images, which I assume means literally raw, and not screwed with by processing we cannot turn off which makes every photo look crystallized in order to hide low ISO noise, which I’d rather see instead), and the other is only available on the big-ass version of the “pro” phone I don’t want to spend all my money on.

I’ll probably also be forced to buy a new iPad Pro just to keep up with iOS music apps, when they inevitably abandon the first 12.9” model, probably at a version of iOS that cripples it, performance-wise, which cannot be undone, so it’s basically gambling when you make the decision to “upgrade” or not...

I’ve been with the computer industry since age 14. I’m REALLY TIRED of this perpetual hamster wheel of built-in obsolescence. I’ve lately been playing around with the same computers that were around when I was 14. They’re less capable, but they’re also inherently less complicated, quicker to start and shut off, more predictable, and almost entirely consistent (except for part failures, and it’s remarkable that 30-year-old computers still work, and even have a small market of new retro tech and replacement parts made available by clever hobbyists).

elijahg said:

These are used for fitment purposes, so engineers can see inside to check everything fits together properly

A twitter reply says it’s also used to see where airflow goes (putting smoke inside to see where it travels).

This article could be a lot more concise if you left out all the restated stuff from the articles and news of the last several days.

If Apple sold a first-party Retina display that wasn’t $5000, and if the RAM wasn’t capped at 16GB, I might’ve seriously struggled to NOT buy the new mini. But...

So I’m still waiting to see what comes of the “smaller Mac Pro” rumors, and what they release without these constraints...

In the mean time, since boot camp is nearing the end, I’m also looking at buying a PC so I can finally move beyond 2011 with my gaming... sigh.