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  • New Firefox 84.0 update adds native Apple Silicon support

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    wood1208 said:
    It's kind of Gold rush. Race to run Apps natively on M1 to take advantage of higher M1 performance,longer battery life,etc.
    Yeah, really is.
    lkrupp said:
    So when Apple said most developers would only need a couple of clicks to update their apps for native Asi they weren’t kidding. M365, Firefox, Quicken, iMazing, the transition seems to be chugging along nicely.
    It's not their first rodeo (I know you know that); 100% agree though. Their 'secret' roadmaps which lots of people complain about really allow them to take the time (most of the time) to delivery something and make it look easy. As others have pointed out, 3rd huge and successful transition (68K -> PPC -> Intel -> ARM/ASi). Who else has done it and done it so well.
    watto_cobra

  • Epic sues Apple after Fortnite removed from App Store

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    urahara said:
    About time. They are our devices, we should be able to run whatever we want on them including a competing app store. If Apple thinks 30% is fair then it can try competing with app stores where the cut is 10% and see how well it does. What if a $10 app cost only $8 on another app store? How many customers would stick with Apple then?
    Why are you not suggesting to compare 30% with an alternative App Store with no fee at all? Of course lower price will win. But there are costs to run the store; and other related costs like developing Swift, xCode etc. 

    Developers have to pay $99 to be allowed to develop & publish apps. That fee goes towards developing developer tools.
    The annual $99, which even I (gladly) pay, doesn’t mean that if I have a massively popular free app which Apple hosts and distributes for me, securely, securing an OS which people trust (for x number of years across x number of devices, with regular updates), and so many other unconsidered features/services, that that costs them nothing?

    how can people say that costs them nothing? An argument about how much it costs them would make more sense, but even there, when you look at what people used to pay to distribute on mobile before for a fraction (orders of magnitude smaller!!!) of the reach, 30% is not horrible.

    And this is not an Apple bubble / blind defense thing. This is greed. A thriving marketplace was established and now people/companies want to dismantle it. Apple built iOS, so now they should let everyone and their mother launch their own app stores, payment systems, oh and now Apple can’t update their!! OS (we own the phone, not the OS) because they have to worry about who’s going to sue them when their app breaks saying Apple broke their app on purpose (actually because they do t want to or aren’t forced to keep up with technology or bug fix their App Store).

    people, perspective. I do not miss loading games on a TI calculator or playing snake on my Nokia!! As much fun as those were at the time...
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  • 'iPhone 12 Pro' again rumored to boast 6GB of RAM, 'iPhone 12' stuck with 4GB [u]

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    entropys said:
    I strongly doubt I will ever feel the slightest bit memory constrained over the life of my future love, the 5.4 inch iPhone 12.

    edit: I will certainly be more memory constrained than the phone, just say in’.
    If everything above holds, my gf is getting my current iPhone 11 Pro (she should like, coming from an iPhone 8) and I’m doing the same as you! +1 for future love, 5.4” iPhone 12. Miss the feel of the 1st gen SE! hope this will be a great substitute; maybe the first time I order on launch day, IIRC, as well.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple releases list of Macs that will run macOS Big Sur

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    frantisek said:
    riverko said:
    So, my MacBook Pro Retina mid 2012, the very first Retina, not supported anymore... Well, almost 8 years support of latest OS releases is still amazing... Will wait what hardware will be introduced with the Apple Silicone later this year...
    Do not worry that much. There is great community keeping old Macs happy. Writing from 2009 MPB nd Catalina.
    Great machine - I just traded in my 2012 15" MBP Retina with Apple/Phobio for some $. Got a 2019 13" which will be handed down much more quickly (2 family members who need new computers soon) and expect to get the next 16" model, if that happens this year.
    watto_cobra

  • 2012 MacBook Pro with Retina displays obsolete on June 30

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    adyb said:
    bakerzdosen said:
    Man, what a difference a year makes. My old 2011 15" MBP went obsolete 3.5 years ago.
    I went for the Retina model not long after they came out in the hope that as a new model it would be supported for the longest time - I haven’t been disappointed. 

    I’m still really pleased with it performance wise and hope that it will give me many more years of service!!
    I just traded mine in with Apple/Phobio for more than some new (Not so great) computers/laptops sell for, albeit really cheap one, though @ 8 years old, it would probably still perform better than them! 😂
    watto_cobra