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  • What keeps the Mac relevant for Apple, despite iPhone dominance

    godofbiscuitsgodofbiscuits
    twolf2919 said:

    godofbiscuits said:
    I call BS. I'm a developer.  There are far less than 10M Apple developer accounts total, while there are between 1 and 2 BILLION iPhones in use.  It's not Xcode that keeps the Mac relevant. It's that computers are still relevant, and that laptops are the most popular/useful form factor, and that Apple's are the most versatile and well made.
    Why would you call it BS based on what you said?  It's obvious that the apps written for those 2B iPhones (as well as however many iPads there are out there) were written on Macs.  So whether it's 1 or 10m or 1B developers - they all used Macs.  And they're 100% necessary for those developers.  What's more relevant than 100% necessity?

     But I do think the author is being a bit narrow-minded for sure.  I'm also a developer who uses a Mac.  And I don't write iPhone or iPad apps - I develop Java apps as well as web apps and the Mac is simply the best development tool available.  The only Apple-specific 'Xcode' tool I ever really use is notarytool (to sign my app installers on Mac).  Being UNIX based, most of, if not all, the tools available to Linux users are available right out of the box on Macs too.  But on top of that, it's got a great *and consistent* GUI - something Linux, after 30 years  of existence, still hasn't managed - and a good breadth commercial software offerings.  And one never has to worry about this driver and that driver not working on a Mac.


    You're making my point.  Xcode has little to do with what makes the Mac relevant for Apple.  I'd bet there are far more VSCode installs than Xcode installs, and EASILY there are more Mac owners who have never touched any developer tool of any kind, but need or want a Macintosh regardless of what other Apple hardware they own.  The Mac stands as important irrespective of Xcode.
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  • What keeps the Mac relevant for Apple, despite iPhone dominance

    godofbiscuitsgodofbiscuits
    I call BS. I'm a developer.  There are far less than 10M Apple developer accounts total, while there are between 1 and 2 BILLION iPhones in use.  It's not Xcode that keeps the Mac relevant. It's that computers are still relevant, and that laptops are the most popular/useful form factor, and that Apple's are the most versatile and well made.
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  • Apple share price closes at an all-time record high thanks to Vision Pro speculation

    godofbiscuitsgodofbiscuits
    I'm going to assume that the stock price can be at all-time high, but the valuation of the company isn't at an all time high because of all the stock buy-backs?   
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  • Will the Vision Pro headset disrupt the high-end TV market?

    godofbiscuitsgodofbiscuits
    Not in any large percentages.  For the truly high end enthusiast, they are not going to want to stream content at lower bitrates.  They may be 4k screens per eye, but the area the TV will  be taking up won't be 4K.  For audiophiles, they aren't going to get the base/volume clarity out of the built in speakers.  No sitting with family/friends/significant others.  I am not going to invite friends over to watch a game and expect them all to have AVP's so we can watch on different big virtual screens...

    I am very excited for its potential, but I really think this is a supplemental device in its current state.  I use VR headsets, you will hit a limit on how long you can comfortably wear this headset, even as light as it is.  It is going to squeeze your head to stay in place, you would not want to work all day wearing this headset.  Based on the hands on I am reading, this is a device that blows away prior AR/VR experiences, but it still has some of the same shortfalls of other headsets.  

    At least for the "won't be 4K" part, you're missing the crucial part.  "Foveated Rendering".  The Vision Pro tracts your eye movements and directs the highest resolution to where you're looking.  So yes, technically the TV + the surroundings are 4K total, so that the TV part isn't the entire 4K, but when you're looking AT THE TV, it gets the full 4K resolution and the periphery gets down-rezzed.  Looks over at the periphery and that gets the high-rez` budget instantly while you're looking there.

    I wouldn't make any assumptions one way or the other when it comes to Apple. Doing so runs the risk of sounding like Steve Balmer with the the iPhone, or the now infamous quote about the iPod when it first came out: "No wireless? Less space than a Nomad? Lame". 

    We all know how that one turned out.
    watto_cobra

  • iPad 10 and iPad 9 versus Google Pixel Tablet -- compared

    godofbiscuitsgodofbiscuits
    A strong argument could be made for comparing it price-wise instead of how you did it.  That would be the iPad mini.  At least post its performance as an additional column in that section of the article.  (Geekbench puts single and multi core at 2110 and 5248, respectively, because it has the A15 in it).
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