Rayz2016

razorpit said:

Rayz2016 said:

melgross said:

but Trump has also said, and like most of what he says, bizarrely stated that the U.S. treasury should also get partly paid for this deal, if it happens. As I said, bizarre.

Trump has also said that the Mexicans will pay for the wall and that it might be possible to cure the coronavirus with an 'internal bleach cleaning' so let's not assume that any of this is actually going to happen.

Wow, genuinely surprised you didn’t include the “good people” lie. 

Well, if anyone is an expert in repeating a lie that isn't true, it's Trump. And about the "good people lie"? It's hardly the media's fault that your president can't form a coherent sentence.

The Mexicans are paying for the wall through the new trade deal

Ah, that old tactic: find something he's done that can be laughingly called an accomplishment and tie it to one his mountainous list of failures:

Mr Trump's campaign promised that Mexico would pay for the wall, but thus far the almost $10bn (£7.7bn) budget has come from taxpayer money.

What else? Ah, yes:

and contrary to CNN’s claims he never said to inject bleach or drink fish tank cleaner

Did I say that he told people to drink bleach or fish tank cleaner? Nope. Stop foaming at the chops and read stuff properly instead of just hoping it says what you want it to say (though given who you're supporting, I understand why you do it).

The infamous press conference when Trump talked about treating with problem with internal bleach cleaning and/or shining lights internally(?) did actually happen, and Dr Birx did actually sit there in chair, looking as though she was trying to swallow a small rodent.

The good news is that no one is going to remember that sh*tshow after the Jonathan Swann interview, where Trump tried to dress up 150,000 dead Americans as a success:

Getting back to the topic at hand,

Good idea.

TikTok would be a better fit for Microsoft. There acquisitions are about buying users and revenue streams, Apple's isn't.

Some may say, "What about Beats?"

Well, there again; Apple was buying Iovine's expertise and standing in the music business, which is what they needed to broker streaming deals. The headphones worked out very well, but they weren't the main reason why Apple dropped that much money.

melgross said:

dewme said:

pulseimages said:

If Apple buys TikTok I would download it again to my iPhone after removing it a few weeks ago after word that China is spying on users. 

Is there actual evidence of TikTok spying on users outside of the clipboard snooping that several apps have been caught doing? 

Since the dawn of cloud computing and service oriented architecture there’s always been concerns about data sovereignty. It’s a threat in all directions, and one of the reasons Apple and others have had to comply with hosting requirements from other countries. 

Please, don’t get off on a political tangent, but has the potential issues with TikTok or any of the many other applications with similar sovereignty concerns actually resulted in an actual breach or are we still talking about the potential for a breach?

There have been sever articles about how Trump is enraged over a female comedian (I’m terrible with names, and so don’t remember hers) who continually makes fun of him on TicTok by voice syncing to things he says. You know ?Trump. He hates being made fun of, and a number of people think that that’s a big part of this. Quite frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised, but it’s speculation.

You are talking about the GENIUS that is Ms Sarah Cooper. Yes, it's possible, because her work has been a lock down treat for us in the UK. 

There was a massive number of young TikTok users who organised themselves to get outdoor tickets for the Tulsa rally, and then didn't show up. So again, TikTok.

SpamSandwich said:

I’m a little surprised no one here has noted the astronauts in the Dragon space capsule after departing from the International Space Station had a problem with their iPad and couldn’t get it to connect to the ship’s WiFi.

In space, no one can hear you stream. 

However, I do have a problem with this:

Cook denied that certain larger developers are favored over others.

If Amazon didn't have to pay a 30% cut in its first year on the app store, then that sounds a lot like favouring a larger developer over a smaller one.

rotateleftbyte said:

I hope that Apple has a Plan 'B'? What if Nvidia start messing with Arm License terms and want a load more $$$$? Apple and Nvidia are not exactly good friends.

Apple should make sure that this can't happen or move to plan B, a different CPU architecture?

I really don't understand why people aren't getting this, so I think it might be a good time to speculate on some worst case scenarios.

Nvidia changing the license to the CPU architecture will not affect Apple because Apple licenses the instruction set spec and ARM compatibility tests, not the reference designs for the chips.

Apple chips aren't actually ARM chips; they're Apple chips that just happen to share the same (though I reckon Apple has modified it) instruction set.  Apple has effectively bought the instruction set and are free to change it however they want, regardless of who owns ARM. All they need from ARM is the compatibility tests.

So what is the worst case scenario?

Nvidia buys ARM and immediately decides they're going to cause mass panic throughout the industry by telling Apple they have to pay more money for ongoing access to the compatibility suite. 

Apple says, "You sure about that?"

"Hell, yeah,' says NVidia, "and we're going to tie you up in court to destroy confidence in your ASi programme."

"Okey Dokey," says Apple.

Other companies, meanwhile, see how this is going to play out in their future and immediately start looking at ways of getting out from under Nvidia.

Later that year, Apple makes an announcement at the WWDC: 

ASi has been a game-changer, so much so that they want to take it further: In order to further optimise what they can do with their architecture, the next generation of ASi chips will be using AIS – the Apple Instruction Set. Developers outside the app store will need to recompile their code; those on the app store won't need to do anything as the final stage compilation (when users buy an app) will take care of this. There will be an emulator (Rosetta3) based on the instruction set that Apple has been using.
Apple will be working with outfits that rely on the lower level stuff (virtualisation software) to make the transition (This is much the same as they are doing now with the likes of Docker).

ARM realises that they've been played, and in a moment of stupidity, decides to change the ARM instruction set to spite Apple. Without access to the new compatibility tests, Apple will not be able to verify that Rosetta3 will run the new ARM code.

From Apple's point of view, the situation is annoying.
For the rest of the industry, now having to deal with testing code to make sure runs on  old ARM and new ARM, the situation is more than annoying; it's a disaster.

The reason I mention this is because somewhere in Apple's chip design house, a group of men and women are sitting around a table, weighing the advantages/disadvantages of creating their own instruction set tailored for the Apple platform.

They'll probably decide there isn't any real advantage, since they can do whatever they want with the one they've got.