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  • Who are Alan Dye and Evans Hankey, the design leads replacing Jony Ive?

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    Rajka said:
    Sorry, I don't see too much genius in either the hardware or software made by Apple today. Yeah, there's a glimpse here and there, but sparkly things do not always provide the best user experience possible.
    Who is providing the best user experience possible?
    StrangeDaysAppleExposedlolliverjony0

  • Eight unreleased AMD Radeon GPUs found in second macOS Catalina beta

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    saarek said:
    I wish Apple would just sort out their issue with nVidia. Not knocking ATI Radeon's here, but it would be nice to have the choice and it's Apple causing the block, not nVidia.
    Simply not true. This is Nvidia who don’t allow their processors to be programmed at the “Metal” level. Apple as a computer producer has right to access and control a processor using up to the most granular elements of the processor’s instruction set. As such, Nvidia is a consumer company. It produces some consumer graphics cards, mostly for gaming, mining and alike. It is not an “OEM partner” to Apple like Intel, AMD, or Samsung.
    You can read the article, Apple's management doesn't want Nvidia support in macOS . .  which goes into depth that's it's Apple, Not Nvidia who doesn't want support.
    saarek said:
    I wish Apple would just sort out their issue with nVidia. Not knocking ATI Radeon's here, but it would be nice to have the choice and it's Apple causing the block, not nVidia.
    Source? I don’t know why they don’t exist on Macs, but I’ve read it’s a dispute over drivers. What details do you have that settle the matter?

    See the link I posted above. Hope it helps.

    So what? The whole article you linked explains how Nvidia has spectacularly failed to be an OEM Partner. It just supports the fact that Nvidia is nothing more than a consumer graphics card company.
    The article goes into the history of Apple and nVidia and gives some background which isn't bad to share. I too wish Apple could support nVidia on the Mac platform. All Apple has to do is say let's forget the disputes of the past and hash out a deal with nVidia if they choose to do so.
    It omits almost anything about Metal though. It paints Apple high exec as some kind of a stubborn child but what benefit Apple gains by sticking to AMD only? Almost none. The article just failed to try to see another side WHAT nVidia did that prevented Apple to re-embraces it. All those history are just minor problems that can be easily solved. 
    tmay

  • Apple Watch Series 4 fall detection credited with saving another life

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    Soli said:
    matrix077 said:
    And think about in a couple of years S4 will be substantially cheaper, so much so that you can buy a few of them for your grandparents without blinking an eye, and you might have no need for iPhone too since the watch could be independent by then. 
    Apple Watch strategy is beginning to fall into place right before our own eyes. 
    Chances are they will fall at home. So long as there is WiFi you can access you can setup their Watches on your iPhones (which will carry over WiFi) so they can get that emergency option; or you could do the same with cellular Watches and pay the $10 monthly fee to your carrier.

    The real issue for them will be knowing how to and wanting to charge the Watch daily. My father wasn't about to do that so that the Watch was Neve going to be an option. For the majority of people there are less expensive, simpler devices with batteries that will last years. This will change over time as people familiar with wearable technology get older, but there will still always be a market for these other devices with other benefits. For instance, this wrist wearable device has an emergency button, but you need to get the one with the lanyard for it to detect a fall—but that could easily change in the next revision.

    Agree that charging will be the biggest hurdle for senior people. (Setting up will be easy. You just set it up for them like when you bought them iPad. And cellular will be better than WiFi version since if the watch replace mobile phone you could just shift phone cellular money to the watch. WiFi only is a bad idea.)
    (and btw, for senior people, using the watch to call their kids will be way easier than using iPhone since the watch will show contact photo in complication.)
    But they will hardly understand why they need to charge a watch so I’m prepared to tell them to think of it as a phone. My mother now knows to charge her iPhone 4 every night so hopefully when the time comes she could adapt to charging the watch every night as well. 
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  • New iPadOS button bar offers a shortcut for three-finger gestures

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    Why does it has both the old and new contextual menu?
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  • Apple Watch Series 4 fall detection credited with saving another life

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    And think about in a couple of years S4 will be substantially cheaper, so much so that you can buy a few of them for your grandparents without blinking an eye, and you might have no need for iPhone too since the watch could be independent by then. 
    Apple Watch strategy is beginning to fall into place right before our own eyes. 
    jbdragonAppleExposedwatto_cobraBart Y