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  • Rumor: Apple working on new device family under codename 'Star' [u]

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    This is exciting news because if Apple wants to retire the Mac I would rather move to an iOS notebook than to Windows.

    Also, when Apple retired the Airport a few weeks ago, I and others said it might be because they were moving away from WiFi and focussing on 5G cellular (where the puck is going). And now we have a rumor of a notebook with cellular (joining the phone, ipad and watch). 
    I wouldn't bet on Apple getting rid of Mac or getting rid of WiFi.
    I don't think Mac will die, it will just transition to being iOS with a desktop mode. Someone made a Tweet today pointing out that macOS/OS X is now older than classic MacOS was when Steve gave it a mock funeral. Did you regard the Mac as having died when it made that transition? Because if not, the switch from current macOS to iOS desktop actually be a smaller change. It wouldn't even be a kernel change this time. So if the Mac didn't die that time it wouldn't die this time.

    I don't think they will remove the WiFi radios from their devices, they're cheap enough to just leave in, but they will/have stop selling WiFi infrastructure of their own and start including cellular in everything. A future where little cellular radios are ubiquitous in most smart devices seems to be the future. This how small the Apple Watch is and even it has one.
    You can really see an iMac booting up with iOS on it? I see no future where that happens. Zero chance it's just a bunch of giant icons designed for the iPad on a 27" iMac. macOS on ARM, absolutely; but iOS instead of macOS on a Mac that has no touchscreen display, absolutely not. The OSes are defined by their respective UIs and I/O, not their processor architecture. This is why iOS is unique from tvOS while all running similar ARM configurations.
    As a programmer I see an OS as primarily defined by its APIs not its user interface, and adding a new shell to iOS does not seem like that big of a deal to me. 

    From what I can see they've already started, iOS now has a Dock and a Finder (in the form of the Files app). It can also now run multiple apps split screen. Behind the scenes that is probably implemented with the same window server the Mac uses, with the two side-by-side apps actually being side-by-side borderless windows. It's really a small step from there to 3 or 4 apps running at once in windows you can move around. So then you have a Finder, a Dock, and apps running in windows you can move around. Not too far from a Mac, with the one obvious missing thing being a menu bar. iOS desktop probably won't have menu bars.

    As you say the CPU model is neither here nor there.
    williamlondonradarthekatGeorgeBMac

  • Rumor: Apple working on new device family under codename 'Star' [u]

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    This is exciting news because if Apple wants to retire the Mac I would rather move to an iOS notebook than to Windows.

    Also, when Apple retired the Airport a few weeks ago, I and others said it might be because they were moving away from WiFi and focussing on 5G cellular (where the puck is going). And now we have a rumor of a notebook with cellular (joining the phone, ipad and watch). 
    thtcornchip

  • Editorial: More companies need to temper their Artificial Intelligence with authentic ethi...

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    I would like to see Apple implement client-side speech recognition. After all they are a client-side focussed company and claim to use "on device processing wherever possible" in their privacy literature.

    Then they could make ads claiming that with HomePod, "No recordings are *ever* sent," which would be a clear differentiator from other products.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's Atlantic City store to close, displacing 52 workers

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    Well there's your problem. Look at the photo, they've got hardly any stock :)
    donjuanjbdragonmelodyof1974watto_cobra

  • Apple's Siri could decline phone calls with context-sensitive text responses in the future...

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    You really want a way for people to know you're unavailable to take a call before they dial, rather than letting them try first only to get fobbed off by a robot.
    mattinoz