indieshack

Mike Wuerthele said:

indieshack said:

As long as access requires a court order, I have zero problem with the NSA having access to my phone contents - I have a bigger problem with law enforcement attempting (but failing because of Apple's draconian security) to quickly gain access to terrorist cell information. Sorry, but that's the way I feel about it we all have different and equally valid opinions.

As a reminder, Apple can and does respond to subpoenas for data it has including iCloud backups and other data stored in iCloud, within hours. They detailed this at some length after the San Bernardino situation.

True, thanks Mike.

DAalseth said:

So, actual Geekbench testing said 4GB. Unnamed, unverified sources of unknown reliability say 6Gb. Uh, yeah I'd go with the actual measurement until I get more data. I suppose it is possible that the base version has 4 and ones with more RAM, or the Max version has 6. But the only way to know for sure is an actual measurement, not rumours.

Yeah, I assume they’ve done the same thing they did on the last pro iPads- two different RAMs Dependancy on storage size

appledapple said:

Family subscription? Or just per user option

I think that's the family sub price, which is good.

urahara said:

Apple canceled AirPower wireless charger after it was announced.
There is much unknown for a device which yet to be announced and appear in about 2 years. 
And I am sure Apple works and tries even more technologies and devices. And we could speculate ton of time about hypothetical devices. And how many of these devices will actually see the day of light?

Personally I appreciate hearing rumours even if they don't pan out, but you're of course correct that even if this is planned now, in two years this could change. 

randominternetperson said:

It does seem like Catalyst is a quick way to turn an iPad app into a bad or mediocre Mac app.  I'm not sure how many development shops want/need that.  If they care about Macs they already have a Mac development team; if they don't would they really want to create a quick and dirty Mac app and not provide the same for their Windows customers?  If I were in that boat, I would create a web interface to supplement the iOS app, not just port the app to MacOS.

I agree with this. I recall a few months ago needing to port a webkit-based iOS app I'd written to MacOS and it didn't much work to do that (I appreciate that more complex apps might require a hulluva lot more work porting, and perhaps that where the simplicity of Catalyst development might come to play). I can see Catalyst potentially being useful in an enterprise environment, perhaps less so for dev shops producing public-facing MacOS apps. But I do like the concept, and look forward to Apple releasing more catalyst updates. Nice article, appreciate the dev perspective occasionally.