danvm

dewme said:

Didn’t AI recently publish an article about how the iPad Pro, even with its multi-gigabytes of system RAM, was still setting a HARD LIMIT on how much RAM an application can utilize? That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about why the current XCode will not run on the iPad Pro.

 iPadOS != macOS

There are more underlying architectural differences between macOS and iPadOS than you may believe, despite the fact that they are rooted in a common code base at the kernel level. As long as Apple is intent on maintaining and enhancing Mac and iPad separately there will always be a gap between these two products. The “solution” to the Blown Pinto dilemma is to put macOS on the iPad Pro, the “MS Surface Model,” but Apple has not yet demonstrated a desire to do so.

The problem with Surface Model is that it is a compromise. Another phrase for “compromise” is “both sides are losing something.” For Surface this means a shitty tablet user experience for tablet aficionados and a puny ass screen for desktop PC aficionados. With compromise everyone loses something. Apple is not yet willing to commit to pushing this sort of compromise on its customers. 

The iPadOS is also compromised.  iPadOS is an excellent as a tablet, but as soon as you add keyboard + trackpad it's terrible.  That's the opposite from the Surface, which is not that good as a tablet (even though Apple had to copy some elements, like multitasking and side-by-side apps) but it's very good with keyboard + trackpad.  At the end, every device has some compromise.  Now we have to wait and see what they do with iPad.  Are they going to keep the current set of compromises we are seeing today, or they will move to a "Surface (toaster / fridge)" device/?  It think we'll have the answer in the next few years.  

22july2013 said:

JinTech said:

This is one feature that blew me away and that I am most excited about.

Most features for users announced at most WWDCs are features that most people won't become aware of or use a lot. However this Live Text feature will amaze everyone and word about it will spread quickly. I presume Google will immediately launch a competitive feature for Android. Did Apple trademark the words "Live Text"?

Maybe you didn't knew, but Google Lens already does what Apple showed today with Live Text.  

9secondkox2 said:

Wgkrueger said:

ITGUYINSD said:

get serious said:

Interesting that the Mac has now become the the computer for "Serious" computer users and Windows/PC the computer for those that play games.

Nice logic there!  Because Windows excels at gaming, you're consensus is that no one uses it for "serious" computing?  Tell that to the 90+ percent of businesses that use Windows servers and clients for their business.  How many businesses would you estimate use Mac to run their business (accounting, HR, management, etc.)...you know the real "serious" stuff?

Sure, Windows business computing like waiting for virus scanning to complete, living in fear of whether your system will boot after the weekly MS OS fix update, hours of researching what tedious registry manipulations are needed to make your system work correctly, wondering what the heck is on your computer screen after corporate IT pushed out their monthly changes. Yeah, Windows Business Computing.

This. Windows made a whole e I system out of duct taping it together. There are multiple industries that thrive due to the steaming pile that is windows. 

Used to be a die hard ms guy. Fortunate enough to have me engineers instructing my mcse classes. 

Then one day a friend at work challenged me to do some basic tasks on my Alienware windows desktop destroyer and his lowly Mac laptop. 

The laptop won. Impossible I thought. Something is tricky. 

Then I bought a Mac so I could learn it in and out in order to support a growing user base. 

And one day it hit me: I’d grown so familiar with windows and office and the NEED to baby the software, maintain, troubleshoot, and fix it so often, that I never thought there could be any other way of computing life. 

Enter the Mac. A laptop. 

Never had to do anything. Turned it on, performed admirably. Reliably. Always. Closed the lid to sleep and reopened. Guess what? It awakened to life flawlessly. Every time. This was a pipe dream in the windows side. Never knew what would happen. Pc Basically needed a reboot more times than I’d care to count. 

Mac users were supposed to be “non techie” and “simple” people who valued aesthetics more than the “smart people who do real work” on the windows machines. 

Yet, the Mac users needed the least support by far (other than tutelage on how to master software usage-just like the windows users) and were more productive as they didn’t have the number of hardware and software issues, note the lengthy troubleshooting when an issue had arisen. 

Windows is just bad business. They talk ROI forever. But it’s a lie. The true ROI is had with Macs. You spend a little more up front - then reap the rewards and dividends for years to come. 

I don't know how long was your experience, but with Windows 10 neither me or my customers had major issues.  Some of them +7 years PC's working without issues.  I know that there are cases where users have problems with Windows, but the same can be said of macOS.  Looks like there is no perfect OS.  

radarthekat said:

Gamers have a bit of a reputation for being more introverted and maybe not so social.  Apple is a very social company.

Among the most compute demanding games are the many first person shooter variety.  Violence is an accepted part of the gaming realm.  Apple isn’t so much into the whole violent games scene.

You don't have to make violent games to succeed.  Just look at the library of games from Nintendo.  Even Sony and MS have very successful non-violent games, like Ratchet & Clank and Ori, among many others.  

The cutting edge of the gaming market demands a lot of juice, often drawn through a wall socket from a coal- or oil-fired power plant.  I believe this makes Apple ‘uncomfortable.’  Yes, Apple wants to make machines that rip through compute and graphics tasks, but I think the company feels more comfortable doing that for productive tasks; those that have some real-world value.  Gaming doesn’t cross into that realm so easily as crunching video files or other intensive tasks that can (don’t always) serve society and are more necessary.  This is, I believe, part of the reason we haven’t seen Apple making a big push on Intel Macs in the high-end gaming market.  This, I believe, is why, when we see Apple touting a video game, it’s usually on their iOS hardware, which is far less power hungry versus their Intel Macs, and touting how those much more power-efficient iOS devices can run games as fast as [far less power-efficient] PCs .  But I think with Apple Silicon we may finally see Apple feeling more comfortable pushing high-end gaming on Macs.  

Apple "feels more comfortable doing that" because they didn't succeed in gaming.  I'm sure they had succeed, they would have push Mac to gamers.  I don't see how the M1 chip could change that.  Gaming has been huge with "inefficient" Intel chips.  Same as Nintendo, which has massive success with the Switch, the device with the lowest specs compared to Xbox and PS. 

I don't think that Apple pushing gaming in iOS is related power efficiency.  It's just market share.  iOS devices are massively more popular than Mac's.  If Apple want to move gamers to their platform is with iOS devices, not Macs.  Plus Apple POV of upgradeability is the oposite to the gaming market.  You see gamers upgrading their devices in a frequent basis.  Compare that to Apple, which forces you to replace a device when you want to add RAM, SSD or replace a GPU.  

Maybe Apple have something that could make gamers move to Mac.  But as today, I don't see that. 

Beats said:

danvm said:

Beats said:

baconstang said:

applesauce007 said:

I think Epic will eventually lose.  
They cannot call Apple a monopoly nor anti-competitive in this case.
All they can do is build a better or cheaper product to compete against Apple.  Good Luck with that.

Microsoft should be ashamed of itself for testifying against Apple in this case.

Microsoft ashamed?

You're talking about the people that delivered Vista having shame?

The company who makes knockoff everything Apple. 

I suppose Apple have knockoffs too, 

Surface Pro / iPad Pro
Tile / AirTag
Spotify / Apple Music
Netflix / Apple TV+
Sonos / HomePod
GamePass / Apple Arcade

Looks like nobody is perfect, including Apple.  

You can’t be that stupid are you?

If you wanna move the goalposts and call all speakers a knockoff you’re gonna have to go way back in history. Idiot. 

I was talking about smart speakers, not dumb speakers.  BTW, for some reason I forgot about the Amazon Echo, which was the one who innovate and still lead in this market.