michelb76

If anything this model will make people look at Android phones at the same price point. Not great.

Regardless of who might want this, this is a great steppingstone into robotics for Apple. Now imagine this with a tablet on its end that show a face, has a light that can project info onto a wall or ceiling. Much better than a static Siri tablet on your wall or counter.

applesauce007 said:

Great news for the Swift community.
Apple says that open-sourcing Swift Build will encourage participation from the corporate sector, academia, and other open-source projects.
Swift's popularity should take off like a rocket for the awesome programming language that it is.

That depends on how Apple will stewart it. Many of the previous contributions and suggestions by the community have been shot down because Apple doesn't need it. It's gone from a simple, elegant language to a monstrosity since Lattner left. Some critiques: https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-killing-swift

Swift would be perfect if it wasn't dying a death by 1000 cuts thanks to the inherent conflict in its governance.

Swift is caught between two clans: the Swift Working Group™ open-source community, and the Apple corporate entity who pays most of their salaries. Both have their own incentives and their own imperfections, but you guess who has the majority influence.

Ridiculous, permanent, tech debt such as hardcoded compiler exceptions are permanently living in the compiler codebase. Even worse, half-baked concepts such as result builders are pushed through without any real discussion because Apple wants the SwiftUI syntax to look pretty.

It's an amazing language still, but I can't see it surviving as nicely in the next 10 years if Apple doesn't learn to let go.

twolf2919 said:

"...and disable JavaScript when not needed. Browser extensions that block scripts can also help." - anybody else find this advice useless?  Seems to me that you wouldn't be able to use a high level , interpreted language like Javascript to exploit a  machine instruction level  bug.

You can definitely use Javascript to escape the browser sandbox, potentially opening up a path to executing code outside of it.

JohnyTuga said:

I believe that Apple would have a lot to gain if they buy TikTok, it could attach to their the appleTv app that would be present in much more divices then just smartphones, it would have a much stronger, more diversified application and could compete directly with Youtube.

In addition to being able to use the company's AI that is excellent at the video level and also with that being able to enter the Chinese market.

I don't someone agrees or if that makes sense?

Apple buying Tiktok would be the weirdest thing ever, as it in no way aligns with their values and priorities at all.