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Obviously no traditional RAM, but many workflows that require that can already use RAM disks and virtual memory.

I think part of the GPU story is being missed, but we will see. Apple knows they have a hole to fill in preview rendering and they have been putting a lot of effort in to making metal ready on the software side. No idea what the plan is, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they create some type of rendering acceleration card that might not work as a normal GPU. I can’t imagine they will say they have the embedded GPU– end-of-story. As great as that GPU is, it isn’t quite powerful enough for people buying $50K machines which need a minimum 4X more GPU performance. I’ve thought that either they are getting AMD support for compute or maybe something out of the 2020 partnership with Imagination Technologies. Imagination has been helping with hardware ray tracing. Maybe they also have an ace up their sleeve. Originally Apple was building a discrete GPU for these machines code named Lifuka, but it was rumored to have been canceled for being too slow at the tasks it needed to perform. The Imagination contract was signed pretty close to the time that GPU was rumored to have been canceled. This is all conjecture, but I think we will see a surprise when the Mac Pro is launched.

I've never had an issue with Apple's store fees, but there are some rules I'm not fond of. Although I'm a Steam user, I'd like to see Xbox Game streaming allowed at least outside of the game category out of principle. I don't like that Apple requires IAP for things like one-on-one consultations through an app. There are other similar categories where it just doesn't feel right to force IAP. Out of "free" apps, Apple needs to make it easy to tell if it is truly free, freemium, trial with onetime IAP purchase, or subscription.

It is really hard to tell the price of anything on the App Store. Prices shouldn't be hidden under a disclosure button. IAP for freemium games is out-of-control. Angry Birds has $100 IAP. Allowing $100 IAP purchases should not be allowed at least not without specifically opting in to them. Freemium games also make discoverability very difficult since most of them are just reskinned versions of basically the same games and they clog up the store with unoriginal works. Freemium games generally target addictive tendencies and I think the App Store feels pretty toxic these days because of it.

I'd like to see Android-like side-loading with hoops to jump through so it doesn't become the dominant system for some niche situations like emulators, highly sensitive internal software that shouldn't go through app review, or GPL software. Hopefully that is where things are headed, but I'm not holding my breath. If there is another distribution method, maybe Apple could be a little more selective about app quality on the store too. This would also lower the risk to developers that might worry about their app being banned for arbitrary reasons.

Makes sense. They would need to announce it before starting mass production.

The changes to HomeKit were a huge improvement for me–no more Siri confusion about the state of the home, but some of my devices took about 30 minutes after the home app launched to "update accessories" with no warning from the app that it might take that long. A lot of people probably thought the app locked up.

bonobob said:

TheObannonFile said:

bluefire1 said:

In the short term Musk will use the expertise of his extensive team to iron out the kinks, flush out the excess, learn from initial mistakes and make Twitter better then ever.
My money’s on him long term.

Absolutely. He’s not an idiot, by a long shot. This will go how these things always go. There’s a lot of buzz right now, and everybody is paying attention. Companies are trying to virtue signal like crazy right now.

Twitter will be up and running functionally in no time. People will forget. And all the advertisers will return.

All the keyboard CEO’s who know better than Elon will move on to something else.

And all the morons who are going to “boycott” any business or brand advertising on Twitter will be patronizing all of them without a thought.

No, he's not an idiot.  He has a very high IQ, for sure.  His problem is his EQ (emotional quotient).  It seems to be in the low single digits, thanks to his narcissism and sociopathy.  He does well when working with things, and horribly when working with people.  Twitter is all about people, so he's floundering.

Maybe a hint of narcissism, but what leader doesn’t have that. Musk certainly doesn’t have any EQ issues. Most of his prior employees love him. He obviously cares very much about people’s and societies problems. Just as different people learn differently and one size fits all doesn’t work for education, I think the same is true for corporate culture. I think Musk works better starting from a smaller company. Musk has people that thrive under the culture developed at Tesla and SpaceX. Twitter was built under a different culture and you can’t expect those people to thrive if it suddenly changes. At some point Musk will either replace most of the staff at Twitter with those that like to work his way or learn to live with the staff in place and work their way. It might be best for Musk to assign a different president and he could just run a skunkworks team inside Twitter aimed at some of his goals.