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  • Zoom iOS update removes 'feature' that sent user data to Facebook

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    cgWerks said:
    Why the heck are people still using these social login methods?
    It wasn't a good idea back in like 2012 when it started to be pushed, and certainly shouldn't be a good idea these days when we know all the bad things that have resulted.

    They’re to lazy to use a password manager.
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  • Zoom iOS update removes 'feature' that sent user data to Facebook

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    The Zuckerberg Slurp...

    Quite disgusting.  You never know in which App/website that “feature” is hiding.

    Disinfecting yourself of Facebook only gets you so far.  The company has spread like a virus...
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  • Apple's A12Z Bionic chip could be a re-binned A12X

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    Intel used to limit clock speeds to meet different price points.  I’m not sure they ever disabled cores unless there was an issue.  I seem to remember a processor sold as 3 cores because of an issue with the 4th...

    I suspect that’s what happened here.  They probably fixed the 8th core a while ago, but left it disabled for consistency.  With a new product shipping, that doesn’t matter.

    I remember many years ago people hunting down certain batches of processors to maximize over clocking.  That’s a headache when a midrange processor is just as stable (fast) as the top of the line (break the bank) processor.
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  • The groundwork is set for Apple 'Pro' ARM Mac chips

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    bloggerblog said:
    elijahg said:
    ARM is great for power saving, and in some tasks they exceed the slower Intel CPUs. But there are other tasks they're much slower at, and generally even the best ARM CPU is miles off the mid range Intel ones. I don't really see the point in switching architecture again, people aren't complaining about the battery life on MacBooks, which is really the only advantage x86 in a laptop has.

    Moving from x86 not only means switchers to the Mac won't have the "safety net" of running windowis, whether natively or in a VM. The vast numbers of utilities for x86 Linux would also become incompatible, people who want to dabble in the occasional game can't reboot to Windows either. We used to dual boot Macs at the school network I ran for various Windows apps. Switching would mean developers would need fat binaries again (apart from MAS distribution) and no doubt it would be another chance for Apple to apply even more OS restrictions. There are a lot of downsides for essentially no upsides. Don't get me wrong - x86 is a crap architecture and if it wasn't for AMD bodging 64-bit support on we'd probably be back to a form of RISC architecture now, like Itanium, but ARM's disadvantages way outweigh the advantages imo.
    Windows 10 is already ARM compatible, so is much of Linux. This is long overdue, ARM Macs should’ve been here already 
    A flavor of Windows runs on ARM but it’s been largely a failure.  The performance is poor.

    Apple taking longer isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  There’s a lot of code to optimize.  There’s also the dev tools/software that needed to be written to make the transition more seamless.  Maybe the biggest part of the puzzle was the App Store and Apple's transition to 64bit in iOS.  I imagine MacOS on ARM being 100% native 64bit is important.  One bad driver (etc) could nerf performance...
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  • Why iPad Pro's LiDAR is a big step for Apple in computer vision and AR

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    Re:
    "consumers just don't see anything they want yet' in the field of AR

    This is a true statement.  The key word is “yet”.  

    Paying for AR before it’s useful is a waste of money.  It’s no more useful (at the moment) than a folding screen.

    Why spend $1000 for something, when you can spend $500 and get an already overpowered device...

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