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  • Google takes six years to copy Apple in releasing 'Switch to Android' app for iOS

    tobiantobian
    Android is so bad. I have to use it everyday as a work gear. Company is providing us Galaxies with their own apps and kiosk. Even through it’s almost fresh install, just two dedicated 3rd party apps, it fails to keep up with our needs to swift clicking, app switching and so on. 
    For example, when I need to switch an app, Android takes the screen shot of the app, making it a thumbnail “card” in app switcher. When you do it too quickly, it takes the screenshot a bit later - of another app. Result is card with proper app icon on top, but thumbnail shows another app. It’s pretty confusing. And it’s only one of many Android system services outages. This sh*t never happens on iOS.
    Android is so shitty under the hood.
    h4y3sravnorodomjas99lolliverjony0watto_cobra

  • Apple's iPhone SE and Mac mini spring event is on March 8

    tobiantobian
    5G SE with touch ID… first in the row! :)
    lkruppwatto_cobra

  • iFixit calls Apple Self Service Repair program a 'total shift in perspective'

    tobiantobian
    caddyman33 said:
    Get ready for all the horror stories about shady repairs.  
    But good bye to large scale AASPs dirty tricks, parts wastage, unqualified repair charges! Thank you Apple for allowing good independent technicians to help people without being part of this…. (with such selected companies)
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple not a monopoly but must allow alternate payment methods for apps, judge rules

    tobiantobian
    This is no tragedy. If external payment system link should be added as an option next to Apples in-app purchase, not replacing, and that option must be the same price, than it gives people choice to give it all to Epic, or to award Apple it’s 15% cut. If I was gamer, I would choose in-app purchase ; )
    watto_cobra

  • Parallels Desktop 17 brings Windows 11 to Mac with enhanced M1 support

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    GeorgeBMac said:
    Peza said:
    It was going so well, till they mentioned it’s a subscription service fee! No way is this worth paying 80 dollars or pounds EVERY year for! They’ve seriously miscalculated their market with that.

    My grandson is returning to school soon and, without Windows, his MacBook would be essentially an expensive paperweight.

    While it's ridiculous that he would have to pay for something that has, historically, been standard (Bootcamp), it would nevertheless be necessary -- IF HE BOUGHT AN M1 MACBOOK.  But that's a very big IF.  He would not only have to pay an exorbitant rental fee but then be dependent on the whims and fortunes of some private company he never heard of?  I've always stressed to him "Don't do stupid stuff."

    Right now, fortunately, his x86 MacBook is running both MacOS and Windows OS very well.  But, if and when it dies, it is unlikely he would buy another MacBook. 
    That would be 'doing stupid stuff'.

    It's great that Parallels is out there.   But it's really just a life preserver for those who made a mistake buying an M1 Mac when they also had a need to run Windows -- say to run a school or work application designed for Windows (which most are).

    There are few who need to run MacOS.   For most it's a "want" not a "need".   But there are millions who need to run Windows  -- at least part of the time.
    Edu apps might run okay under wine environment. It would be pretty sad to surrender the most comfortable OS - macOS, due to some primitive win32 exes.
    dysamoriawatto_cobra