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Thank you for yet another interesting article 🤓

The figure: “Windows units sold as a multiple of Apple devices. Source: Horace Dediu“ (link to source below) should probably have been made with the y-axis beginning at 1 instead of zero, as a ratio of zero doesn’t make any sense!

http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Screen-Shot-2014-01-13-at-1-13-3.09.51-PM.png

Or rather, the analyst should have been bold enough to predict the future that begins on Tuesday—for which the background and preparations are explained in this article—and illustrated how  reached parity with windows units, and then reversed the historical dominance of windows over  in the coming years, as explained in the last part of this article.

Exciting times!
I very much hope that Intel survives the transition to  Silicon for the same reason I hope that Windows, Samsung, Google, Android etc. also remains as major players in the future: Diversity, differences, contrasts and nuances Trump... 👀 simplicity 😉

OctoMonkey said:

I, for one, am not happy about this.  Moving away from x86 to something (anything) else will break sooooo much.  All of a sudden the ability to run Windows (at CPU speed) goes away, all the programs which rely on Wine stop working (or at least working well).  I liked the 6502 (and variants).  I liked the 68K series.  I liked the PPC series.  I (eventually) liked the x86 series.  But this change...  I just don't feel good about it.  That said, perhaps the Apple CPUs will be fast enough to make emulation tolerable (unlike the x86 emulators for the PPC!)...  Perhaps.

Well, skepticism—applied systematically—will presumably eliminate one’s risk of experiencing disappointment!

Interesting and funny to be reminded of the tiny size of our Denmark compared to how distances are perceived internationally :-)
Viborg, Esbjerg and Thisted are—from the perspective of most Danes—not even close to each other and their distinct dialects makes it almost impossible to communicate between these danish regions.

Anyways, any thoughts on the implications of this “Old World” data center in addition to the existing hubs in the US? Would anyone have noticed something had changed like faster emails and iMessages, if we hadn’t read this article?

rain22 said:

aderutter said:

ajl said:

Another stupid choice from the think different verb preachers.

One should pay thousands for a machine that is supposed to last a lot years without any possibility of later upgrades?

One should spec an iMac machine to last. I always do and my non-upgraded Macs always last me at least 6 years.
The whole point of an “all in one” is a nicer looking machine while sacrificing upgradeability that most of us don’t need.
My 2014 iMac currently runs off a choice of external SSD drives so I can switch from High Sierra to Mojave to Catalina on a simple reboot.
This allows me to use 32 bit apps when necessary, old versions of XCode for older enterprise apps built with older SDKs etc. all with one 6 year old iMac.

Please explain why you have to integrate the ssd into the logic board - other than Apple can charge $3000 for a HDD repair because they are the only ones who can fix it. 

You are completely out of touch. Completely. 
Nobody is drinking Apple's Kool aid on this. 

Well, the ass-hats at  that are busy tanking the stock value of the company... somehow got the idea that internal storage should operate at 3+ Gb/s! Totally idiotic.
Further, they wanted to encrypt everything to and from the storage! They are perverts, I tell you.
And so it was. Buy one of those ’s and you get blistering fast, encrypted and silent storage which is totally unbreakable—even if you bust open the damn case and connects the storage to your Death Star hacking PC!

The ports on the rear of the machine remain the same, with four Thunderbolt 3 ports,

Unfortunately there are only two TB3 ports on the iMacs (4 on iMac Pro).