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blastdoor said:

Ack. 

For the most part, I think Apple is right to purge old software in order to advance the platform. But there are some old games that are painful to lose. Is it possible to run older versions of OSX in a virtual machine in order to play these classics? Or would one be forced to run an older version of Windows in a VM to play the classics? 

I tried to play old games in a Virtual Machine running High Sierra and it was a complete no go.  Either for technical or political reasons, emulators like VMWare Fusion and Parallels cannot provide 3D acceleration for MacOS, but the issue is there's no software 3D emulation layer, so any app that makes any kind of 3D call (all of mine) simply exits with an error in the emulator.  Seems like the best you can do is have a dual boot into an old MacOS version, and that's only if you have Mac hardware old enough to support it.

Mike Wuerthele said:

lkrupp said:

USB 4 will almost certainly be an optical standard . Otherwise the cable lengths will be limited to about 6”. Copper just can’t go that fast no matter what the encoding scheme is. Copper has resistance, light doesn’t. And someone tell me why an iPhone would need a 40 gigabit connections, hmmmm.

Copper goes that fast in six-foot Thunderbolt 3 now. Did you mean six feet, and not six inches?

My guess is Ikrupp probably didn't realize this was actually 10 gigabits x 4 and thought it was a single 40 GHz serial line.  But yeah - this offers nothing to the Mac camp - we've had TB3 since 2016.  On copper.    I'm waiting and hoping for TB4, so we can have ever better eGPUs.

Guys, focus, this is about Xiaomi striking back against IDC.  If more of the little guys did that, IDC would lose all credibility.  But it's worth pondering how much this actually impacts companies - sure, their stock price might go down a little as investors switch - I'm not sure if customers would be swayed to buy a different phone because it shipped more units.  But this isn't so different from, for example, Apple stock recently plunging because Trump might raise Chinese Tariffs.  Trump also might not, or might not raise Tariffs on iPhones.So in theory the stock should recover.

I think this is wonderful.  As a game developer, we often watched finished games never get released because of companies going out of business who owned the original license to the game.  It will be interesting to see if they can get the licenses to enough dear and classic iOS games.  I hope someone does this for MacOS as well - almost 100% of my MacOS games are still 32-bit.

With touch ID, police must overtly coerce you to unlock your phone, something that is typically recorded and can be made illegal in places.  With FaceID, they can just yell, "hey, buddy, over here!", and when you glance over, your phone's unlocked.    Reminds my of the old school game "made you look!"