swat671

My question is, why did it take them almost 8 years to sue? Shouldn't they of sued back in 2013 or 14? There should be a requirement that lawsuits of this type have to be brought with a certain amount of time- say, 5 years or something. 

Intel implemented hardware assisted x86 virtualization in 2005 (VT-X). I wonder if Apple is able and willing to do something similar...

AMD and Intel also license x86-64 ISA. It's used in other chips as well, like Via. Another thing I wonder if Apple would be able or willing to do is license the technology, or some subset of it, to make it easier to port over things like kexts and VM tech, as well as the ability to run something like Boot Camp. If Apple's not willing or able to do that, I wonder if they're willing to work with Microsoft to port over Windows 10 for ARM which already exists for Surface Pro's with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC's.

(Interesting. Apparently, MS just released an update that allows Windows 10 ARM to run virtual versions of Windows 10 ARM. So it is possible to run a virtual WIN10 ARM. Right now, it's only available on newer  Surface Pro X's with Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC's, but I'm sure that if Apple and MS REALLY wanted to, they could make it possible to run it on Apple chips...) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization#Intel_virtualization_(VT-x)

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/235181/microsoft-makes-windows-10-on-arm-available-virtually

Since when did we have so many Euro-Sceptic libertarians around here? Sounds kinda odd for fans of a liberal California company like Apple. Since when is it a BAD thing for all phones to have a common charger? Why is it a BAD thing for it to be easier to change a dead battery?  

pepe779 said:

dav said:

Is there an easy way to determine which apps (on my iPad) are currently 32-bit?  or which apps have been discontinued by the developer -- I have too many apps, and don't pay attention to which ones update, or how current they are.

Not within iOS as far as I know, Xcode would most likely be the only source of truth I'm afraid. This is yet another problem I have with Apple's decision to cut 32 bit support - it's nice that they're providing users and devs with such a long lead time, but they should also provide some basic tools for users to actually check what apps are going to be affected, so that they can search for alternatives (if at all possible) while there's still enough time. All they did was they introduced this annoying "this app may slow down your xyz" message, which only displays once unfortunately and by the time most of us figured out what this really means it's history and you won't find out anymore which apps displayed it. All I know is in my case it was roughly half of my apps and I don't think any of them have received any 64 bit updates since then.

On iOS 10.3 beta, if you go Settings > General > About >  Applications, it will tell you which apps have compatibility issues.