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  • iPadOS 16 may be delayed until new iPads ship

    tewhatewha
    I'm not sure I'm buying this. Of the three, iPadOS seems the most ready to launch. macOS is definitely the least ready. It's stable, but as implemented on macOS Stage Manager just doesn't seem useful even were it bug free.
    williamlondongilly33

  • Compared: Apple Studio Display vs. 2011 Thunderbolt Display

    tewhatewha
    y2an said:
    So what did the Thunderbolt Display cost, back in the day?
    The US retail price at introduction was $999.
    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • Mojave is Apple's last version of macOS to support 32-bit apps

    tewhatewha
    ylon said:
    From a technical side and OS design standpoint, this is not necessary.
    No, because Apple did something smart. Back in Mac OS X 10.5 with Objective-C 2.0 they used the 32-to-64 bit transition to hide some big changes to the OS — most noticeably, the ability to make changes to classes under applications: Classes are no longer fragile. Rather than introduce a second version of 32-bit and make developers pick which to target, they just left it alone and moved on with 64-bit code. This meant that maintaining those classes was going to be a pain. Either they didn't update them at all, they came up with ways to update them just for 64-bit, or they came up with a way to patch in 32-bit support.

    None of that is a big deal in the short term, but there comes a point where that game has to end and you need to move on. The new runtime went public in late 2007. 10 years is a long time to drag that legacy runtime behind.
    maximaramaximara