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  • New MacBook Pro model with Intel Coffee Lake CPU shows up in Geekbench database

    MacPro said:
    dougd said:
    If it has that silly Touch Bar I'm not interested
    Man, the touch bar is amazing, why would you say that?  Have you used a Mac for a week or so with one?  I find going back to any of my other Macs after using my wee MBP +TB is painful.  It is so damned useful. I reach for it all the time on my Mac Pro and slap my forehead.  In fact if Apple were to bring out an external butterfly keyboard with touch bar as a stand alone add on for Mac Pros and iMacs I'd but two immediately.  It's  contextual  in every application I run with multiple nested instruction sets and so intuitive to use.  What on earth is not to like ... ?  Go on please list all the reasons why you state it is 'silly'?
    No haptic feedback for the ESC key drives the productivity down.  The ESC key is one of the most used keys in all my applications I am currently using.  I can no longer type it blindly on a Mac with touch bar, which is a serious drawback.  If the touch bar was a little bit shorter so I could have a real ESC key I would not mind the touch bar.
    muthuk_vanalingamcgWerks
  • Apple's Siri director to speak at AI Frontiers conference in November

    Maybe he can avoid talking about Syria. Or, more seriously, why Siri is still such an underdeveloped piece of poorly implemented software five years after its introduction. 

    Buy Watson already, and restart from scratch, Apple. And Siri-ously, shut down this silly little toy project. 
    I’m no expert. But isn’t the level of privacy crucial together with the number of supported languages?
    About supported languages, I am Dutch speaking and the "Dutch" Siri is just an embarrassment for Apple.   It roughly understands 1 out if 5 questions I throw at it.  Using an English speaking Siri is an huge improvement in terms of understanding what I am asking, but it lacks the local context and the understanding of local names (persons, towns, ...). 

    Privacy is important. However I don't mind that an assistant collects my data to provide me a better service.   I do mind that the collected data is reused/abused in other circumstances unless I gave my explicit consent for it.

    argonaut
  • More than 75% of Nintendo's $60M Super Mario Run global revenues came from iOS

    Owning an app development company, I just give the situation of our company.  All our apps are built for both iOS and Android, are mainly targeted at an European market (90% of the customers are EU residents) and are not in the game segment.   Currently the revenue split of the paid apps is about 60% Android , 40% iOS.   So Apple generates relatively more revenue compared to the 25% market share it has in the EU

    We also have apps with a subscription, which is not paid by the user but by the organization the user belongs to.  This revenue is directly invoiced to these organizations and is as such not visible for Apple or Google.  Here the split of users is 65% Android vs 35% iOS.  

    So business models, regions and segments have an impact



    muthuk_vanalingamDan_DilgerIreneW
  • Cheaper MacBook Air, Face ID iPads, new Apple Watch coming later in 2018, report claims

    melgross said:
    avon b7 said:

    Does that mean the Touchbar is dead? ;-)
    I hope not. Despite the naysayers, most of who have never actually used the Touch Bar, it’s really very useful, and will become more so over the years. I have no interest in the fuddy duds who have no imagination, and who talk every new feature down. In the l(Bluetooth r8n, they’re almost always wrong.. if we listened to them, we’d still be using S-100 bus computers with C/PM.

    Nobody in my company is a big fan of the Touch Bar, which is a dead piece of weight for all the software we use. If Apple would make a Touch a little bit smaller, so we still could have a real esc key with haptic feedback, I would not mind the touchbar.
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam
  • A year with MacBook Pro: reviewing Apple's 2017 pro laptop models

    nunzy said:
     don't worry about the keyboard. The review says that there was no problem found during testing.

    A previous article confirms that the problem is only present in a tiny percentage of devices. People just hate Apple.

    MplsP said:
    Rayz2016 said:
    rogtuf said:
    The USB-C connector on the MBP is hopeless. It falls out as soon as there is the slighted tension on the cable. Putting USB-C on the Iphone would be a very bad idea.
    And if it didn’t do that, you’d be complaining that you tripped over the cable and pulled your laptop on to the floor. 
    ...and again asking why they didn't keep the MagSafe connector. I have a 15" 2017 MacBook Pro. It's a great machine, but I still think it was moronic to go whole-hog with USB C and ditch MagSafe and not have a single USB A. 
    Counting the number of MagSafe chargers I had to replace within 2 years,  I think I know the answer.
    nunzymuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra