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  • Chinese anti-counterfeit alliance demands Apple respect iPhone sales ban from Chinese cour...

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    LOL! If they care about respecting companies' IP, tell that to your own Chinese companies that blatantly copy the iPhone in every way, even the look of the software. Apple should continue ignoring these morons.
    watto_cobra

  • Mac shipments continue to outpace overall PC sales trends

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    Completely out of nowhere!
    MacPro said:
    auxio said:
    Agreed.  I passed my mid-2010 MBP on to my inlaws when I got the 2015 model and it's still going strong for them.  I still miss that 17" display.
    I can't fathom why no 17" new Mac Book Pro.  These days it wouldn't have to weigh a ton like the ones do (I know I still have one in my Mac collection.)
    Because the 17" was never a big seller. In its last year sold by Apple, it sold less than every other Mac.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple refreshes MacBook Pro with six-core processors, 32GB of RAM

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    Completely out of nowhere!
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  • The Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro is well implemented, but serves no useful purpose

    pmb01pmb01
    I've said it before, but the usefulness of the Touch Bar isn't necessarily Apple's fault. It's up to the developers to use it in their apps. It has so much potential, but so many people have their head so far up their a** they won't accept anything unless it's immediately good. People need to open their minds and start developing outside their comfort zone, thinking toward the future instead of hanging on to the past.
    radarthekatfastasleep

  • Apple to let developers port iOS apps to Mac, starts with own apps in macOS Mojave

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    lowededwookie said:
    bloggerblog said:
    It kinda sounds like they are though. iOS apps running on a Mac, you're running one UI inside another.
    What do you think the next step would be, separating them? Don't think so.
    Not really. This is NO different to using Wine to run Windows apps on UNIX based platforms. You're not running a UI per se you're converting a UI to run on another UI. For developers what this means is you write the app for one UI and the OS converts it into its own UI. There's not a huge performance hit doing this than say doing what Parallels and VMWare do because you're not running an entire OS in a virtual machine. There is however a small hit but given the way that iOS is built on the same foundation of macOS then the performance hit for this will be negligible especially given the processing power of a desktop/laptop processor.

    wizard69 said:
    Having fooled arond a bit with XCode and app development in general I really wish Apple would do something about XCode and how it works.    I suspect that the biggest problem with Mac development and the lack of apps there is that it is a strange platform to develop for.
    I'm a complete noob to Xcode but I don't agree with you at all. What's so difficult to learn with Xcode? I suspect you're thinking about Swift but then you're writing for a completely new programming language and one that makes far more sense than C++, C# etc.

    TEAMSWITCHER said:
    It sure seems like low hanging fruit to me. Apple might be deathly afraid of what might happen.
    Apple doesn't do low hanging fruit. It never has and never will. Get over it.

    TEAMSWITCHER said:
    No - I don't want to run iOS apps on my MacBook .. I want a mac that do all the cool things an iPad can do.
    I DO want to run iOS apps on my MacBook because there are apps I use on iOS that don't exist on macOS and this just seems to be a happy in-between.

    If you want a Mac to do all the cool things an iPad can do then get a sodding iPad that CAN do all the cool things a iPad can do because... well it's an iPad already. It's not rocket science.

    The reason I want iOS apps running on my macBook is simply because I need a macBook but I also have an iPad 3 that can only go to iOS 9. One app I use all the time will run on iOS 9 but it has issues with the share panel which is the way it does things to share the data files with iOS, Windows, and Android. There is no macOS version and using the app on iPhone can be tricky in order to get the most out of it. But if this app was useable on macOS then I can do that side of thing on the Mac then upload the datafile to the iPhone and use it in a reader capacity which works well.

    Just because the use case doesn't exist for you doesn't mean that it's a rubbish idea.
    That's not what this is. You completely misunderstood the presentation. This isn't "iOS apps running on macOS". This is Apple making it easier for developers to make macOS apps by adding UIKit so they can just take their iOS app and make UI tweaks so it's more usable on a non-touchscreen device. It's to get more apps into the Mac App Store. These are full-fledged macOS apps.
    watto_cobra