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  • Tim Cook talks Apple innovation, health, and Steve Jobs in candid interview

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    avon b7 said:
    I have a hard time believing that Tim Cook ever speaks candidly. He seems like someone who always has a script.
    I think that's true although it's forgivable to a point and there are occasions when it really irks me because it comes over a so false and shallow.

    In those cases it would be better if he just didn't say anything at all. 
    I have come around to asking if Mr. Cook's strength is a remarkable left brain zeitgeist that supported and worked in concert with the right brain zeitgeist of Ive, and whatever unique combination of such the man in the middle (Steve Jobs) may have had... Could it be challenging on so many fronts now to have lost both a lead and a muse...?

    I have read that a 'core value' for Mr. Jobs was that profitability was essential in order to continue to create the best products for the customer, vs designing competitively to generate profit for the shareholders, and that the difference may seem subtle, yet fundamental...
    watto_cobra

  • Tim Cook talks Apple innovation, health, and Steve Jobs in candid interview

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    marc g said:
    Cook is the ultimate logistics man, shortly to retire, who brought us the monstrosity of the Mac Studio. He also ejected Steve Job's equal, Johny Ive. The trajectory for Apple currently looks irrecoverable. Burn-up. 
    Everyone is of course entitled to an opinion. I’ve been using macs for more than 3 decades. Have their been bad choices along the way? Absolutely. But I don’t think the Mac Studio is a monstrosity. I’ve got one on my desk and not only is it nearly silent, it also runs rings around my noisy 2020 27 inch iMac. In my line of work (music performance and production), having a fast, silent machine can be the difference between getting a gig and not getting one. Also, he didn’t eject johny Ive. As brilliant as he was, Johny ejected himself after designing many potentially great products into a corner that he couldn’t or wouldn’t design them out of. 
    For now. The Studio has no upgrade options.
    The (last SJ) 2011 mini offered dual ram and storage slots, and with faster silicon and egpu could such a format be a better option...?
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's CSAM detection system may not be perfect, but it is inevitable

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    ...Apple heralded Photos as an upgrade to iPhoto, yet the most glaring question for me was the inclusion of an auto image tagging with no off switch...?  That in concert with all enticements leading to iCloud...?  Think about it.. ?  Even the Apple system restore defaults to Apple servers (what are we downloading today?) and a drive I did a reinstall on recently was reformatted from HFS+ to APFS without warning ... Is there a systemic invasion ongoing with every (since 2011) annual macOS from Apple...?

    Is CSAM inevitable ? Would a study in human nature inform such a suggestion...?
    9secondkox2byronl

  • There's hope that older Macs will be able to run macOS Ventura

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    lkrupp said:
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    JP234 said:
    Mystifies me why anyone would want to do this. Running newer MacOS systems on Macs Apple classifies as "vintage" or "obsolete." They ALWAYS, and I mean always, run poorly, sometimes terribly. I worked for an Apple VAR as a service writer (what Apple calls a genius, but no way I'd make that claim), and we got many people who wanted us to restore their old OS, which Apple does not make easy for consumers. (We had the means, and we charged $129 for it.)

    If you can't afford a new Mac, or iOS device, just keep the last authorized OS. If there's a feature you just must have, then bite the bullet and get a new model that can use it. Just a cautionary tale from someone who has seen what these hacks can do.
    You are obviously unaware of the huge number of owners of the classical Mac Pro (last model mid-2012) that are able to run Monterey and Big Sur these days thanks to such enthusiasts and their workarounds!
    Huge numbers? Bullshit. Running current versions of macOS on old hardware is a futile exercise in vanity. The old hardware can’t take advantage of  many of the features of the current OS so you wind up with essentially the same features as the last available macOS for that old hardware. And the Intel code will be going away soon enough, leaving the hackintosh crowd and ‘Ventura on a 15 year old Mac’ in the Jurassic Epoch of the computer universe. But hey, there are still Amiga users out there, right? And Ford Model A clubs, right?
    ...I can think of a number of scenarios where someone may for example have a secondary laptop that is used very infrequently but needs to run current apps, a backup machine for emergencies, print server or when repairs are required, students on a budget, the ability to boot back into Mojave to run 32 bit apps or work with older client assets - obvious risks include lack of prompt tech or repair support, however that may be fine for non-critical or secondary machines. Budget may be another by way of example I understand the 5,1 Pro could be hopped up to similar speeds or even faster GPU than the base 2019 pro for maybe 25% of the cost... The list goes on...
    ukrunrmuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobraelijahg

  • There's hope that older Macs will be able to run macOS Ventura

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    Does the EULA allow this ?  If not should it ?

    I understand Apple may not be able to justify support + parts beyond 4 + 9 years, however would it be helpful if such could be possible via the 'community' given the shortened macOS cycles since 2011...?

    And please slotted RAM, storage & GPU where possible, sigh...
    muthuk_vanalingam