beeble42

Now that Apple is moving away from Intel I look forward to Phil participating in one last shootout (hopefully more than one) like in the old days where Steve drove a PowerPC Mac and Phil drove a (snail pace by comparison) Intel powered PC. But with a twist. Make Joz drive the Intel powered PC and have Phil drive the new Apple Silicon Mac so he can win for the first time in his career.

killroy said:

"Developers will also be required to ask a user for consent before obtaining their location"

That old bugaboo, consent. There goes find my wife or find my 16 year old kid.

The consent is established when you set them up then you can see their location anytime. It's been that way since the very first release of Find My Friends eons ago. I can always see where my wife is (or other friends) and vice versa because we each gave consent on the front end one time. Either of us can also stop sharing our location to each other at anytime. I can't imagine significantly changing the way Find My currently works just to make it so you have to get consent every time you want to search for someone. That would be a lot of extra work just to make the user experience worse. That's more a Microsoft design pattern.

Aren't they about a century too late to be patenting radio (sending audio to a speaker wirelessly)?

mikeinca said:

I so don’t care about this. Maybe this is an issue for what... 1% of users?

im not a developer.  I’m in education.  At most we need MS Office.   Most apps are web apps. 

Wtf you guys complaining about?   You, all of you whom so boldly proclaim you are the hardcore and future users, don’t know squat!   All the apps I need are web-based.  

All the apps I need are web-based!!!!

read that over and over again!!! 

You hardcore users are so out of touch it’s actually amusing.  

Get over yourselves.  

So why are you buying a Mac instead of something like a Chromebook or iPad? Same web browser based experience but far less money. You declare that you aren't actually using OSX for anything but running a web browser so what is it to you that other people actually do use OSX and applications that depend on it. No one is disputing that many people don't need the "truck", as Steve Jobs put it. What people are complaining about is that Apple appears to be taking away some of the important truck features that many of the truck users need.

The Mac will stop being the best and most cost effective development platform available because it could do and run EVERYTHING. Without the ability to run critical Windows based business applications that most businesses still rely on, it will simply disappear in the corporate market where it's had massive growth in the last 5 years. For those who do desktop gaming (flight simulation, high end fps, complex strategy - games that require more than a simplistic d-pad controller) the Mac has always struggled but had gained some momentum in recent years in spite of poor GPU support from Apple. That's all dead. I can't imagine game developers investing effort into porting these games when none of the community plugins that bring much of the value to these games will work. But simpler games from iOS will be everywhere. Except why play them on a Mac instead of an iPad or iPhone?

So many small market segments are losing the things that have made them choose Apple. They will have little alternative other than to switch to Windows. All those little segments add up to a very large number of customers. Having been an Apple customer for over 20 years, developer and a former Apple employee, for the first time I'm not sure what OS will run on my next desktop. For the first time in well over 2 decades I'm actually finding myself questioning whether I can justify the risk of buying another Mac. I know that a Windows PC will do the things I need it to do. I know a Mac will be well built and be far more pleasurable to use. I know that it specifically won't do a number of things I need. And there are many, many things I don't know that could be non-issues or deal breakers. I don't have to make a decision right now. Time will tell and things may change as more information comes to light. But none of those questions exist when I consider switching to Windows. In fact, there are certain things with 3rd party software I could do on Windows I can't do on my Mac.

When a tool stops doing the thing you need it to do, it doesn't matter how much you love the tool, or how good it looks, how satisfying it is to use. It becomes nothing more than a fancy paperweight. For the time being the Mac is undeniably, by far the most versatile technology tool in existence. But it looks like the clock is ticking before it loses that claim.

Prior art decades before filing, even before FaceTime was invented. Another worthless patent that should never have been granted that is now clogging up the courts and wasting tax payers time and money, as well as Apple's. Making the loser pay costs is a nice idea but I don't think it'd work. You'd see thousands of companies that own one patent have zero assets. So when they lost, the company goes into bankruptcy and the innocent party still gets nothing but a big legal bill and the tax payer is out of pocket for the courts costs and time. Government of the people by the lawyers for the lawyers at work.

The only way to fix this is to fix the patent system. Protect inventions. Ideas alone aren't inventions. Make a prototype or proof of concept implementation of the idea. And the patent office needs to be a lot smarter in what they're granting patents on. They keep granting patents on things that are covered by prior art over and over and keep getting overturned by the courts. They are clearly failing in their purpose by any practical definition. The patent office should be accountable if they grant a patent that a court later rules was invalid. The patent holder should be able to get all their fees back and sue for damages. While that hits tax payers, it'll bring the patent office some much needed scrutiny.