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  • USB-C on iPhone is good - but not as an excuse for a bad law

    Madbum said:
    The EU is a Un -elected group of bureaucrats

    but they act like communists  
    Um.... while thus policy was certainly recommended by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels, it was enacted into law by the European Parliament, so just as elected as, say, Marjorie Taylor Greene. Then again, people in the EU enjoy the Eurovision contest, so there's no accounting for tastes.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra
  • Apple's latest security update is important, but the mass-media response is unhinged

    dewme said:
    Apple should consider setting up some form of opt-in notification service to allow Apple to directly communicate with customers regarding software and firmware updates. Apple’s lazy push update model coupled with the arbitrary Chicken Little media response to some but not all security updates means that the vast majority of Apple’s customers are getting “notified” about updates via third party sources. I get the vast majority of my update triggers here on AppleInsider. I’d even be okay with Apple coding the severity of updates using some sort of model, like red (immediate), yellow (at your earliest convenience), blue (optional) - or some other scheme. 

    I don’t care how Apple does it, but I’d vastly prefer to get important information about updates directly from Apple rather than anyone else. If I have to subscribe to notifications via iMessage and/or Mail, no problem. This should not be a technical limitation. I get notices from Apple when an artist in my Music library releases a new single or album, so why not get a notification when my device needs a security update? 

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    I guess Apple does a poor job of publicizing it, but they have a security announcement mailing list: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/security-announce/ .

    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra
  • Apple continuing full-court press against retail unionization efforts

    Madbum said:
    If these already very highly paid with industry leading benefits and very replaceable Apple retail workers wants to unionize in this economy, they do it at their own risk

    i know about 100 very computer and Apple literate 18 year olds from the high schools in my area that just graduated and would love to work at Apple .

    other retail workers simply do not get the benefits Apple workers get. 

    Stupid stupid greedy people will get what they deserve 
    Most people working at Apple Stores, which is where the organizing is going on, are anything but "highly paid." You're thinking of the engineers who work in the flying disk-shaped building in Cupertino. For wage slaves like the ones in the Stores, a union makes sense.

    And actually, union workers (there are probably two or three left) who were hired by Safeways in my part of the country before about 1985 have similar benefits, and better pay. Though admittedly they don't get discounts on Apple hardware.
    darkvaderronnAlex_Vpfhreak
  • The cheesegrater Mac Pro could still be the best Mac ever made

    Having used (for work) various PowerMac G5s, cheesegrater Mac Pros, and the "Mr. Fusion" Mac Pro, I can state that they all were good in their day for one application or another. If you had a variety of tasks, the 2013 Mac Pro, with its large number of ports and GPU/memory configurations, turned out to serve our needs better than the cheesegraters did. I'm certain the reverse was true for many people, especially those who couldn't bend their minds around the fact that Thunderbolt was a game changer, and external enclosures linked by it worked at PCIe speeds.

    I also owned a cheesegrater Mac Pro for home use (mostly for work), and found it incredibly useful — until workflows with ~ ten thousand times as much data/unit time made it obsolete. The world moves on, and thankfully, so does Apple.
    dewmewatto_cobrakillroyFileMakerFeller
  • Apple is just getting started with Apple Silicon

    As an owner of a 2019 MBP 16” Intel do I need to worry about Apple not supporting it anytime soon? 
    It depends on the country (and in the US, the state) in which you live, but the generic Apple policy in the US is that machines move to "Vintage" status (no support from or repair in App Stores or at Apple Authorized repair outfits unless they haven to have parts in stock) five years after Apple stopped selling that particular model (so roughly October 2026 for your model). At seven years, machines are classed "Obsolete," and no hardware service is available from Apple.

    All that said, Apple has stated that it's making spare parts and repair hardware available to consumers and repair shops (e.g. the recent iPhone parts and hardware made available in the last several months), so there may still be repair outfits that stock the parts for a year or two after the seven-year deadline.
    scstrrfjony0