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  • Apple Developer Transition Kits with Apple Silicon sports a A12Z chip in a $500 Mac mini

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    flydog said:

    rcfa said:
    A pity, with these specs a iPad Pro with MagicKeyboard would have been sufficient; was hoping one might just do an install on either the iPad or an USB SSD and use the iPad for development...
    The purpose is to test Mac apps, which generally are used with screens twice the size of an iPad.  Testing Mac apps on an iPad makes very little sense. 


    I think too, that the iPad Pros probably don’t have enough RAM. 

    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Hey email CEO says App Store policy dispute is not about the money

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    Apple should give in. Let it in the App Store. The App will tank. Way too expensive. As someone above pointed out the fees will be posted. That’ll scare away most customers. Then they’ll have no one to blame but themselves. 
    Apple’s position makes sense. No one wants download an app that doesn’t do anything unless you’ve subscribed already from their website. We can argue till doomsday whether 30% is too high. But at the end of the day, Apple has what a 20% market share in smartphones? Ignore that part market then. No one is forcing you to develop for it. 
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  • What to expect at WWDC 2020 - and what not to

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    I want the brand designers at Apple and I want Tim Cook and everybody else to hear my view on the nixing of Intel's processor chips.

    This has got to be, without a doubt one of the most regressive and monetary selfish moves that Tim Cook ever did.
    A) By nixing the Intel processors, it means that Intel's proprietary features, those tiny hardware building blocks that make Intel's processors more safe, will be gone from Macs.
    B) Intel will always perform better on next generation iterations, and Apple's argument that their custom Intel chips have taken too much time to be handed over to Apple is not relevant. The power of the processors is relevant.
    C) Intel is an American company, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) is an Taiwan. Apple will be spending our American dollars and NOT putting our money BACK into our economy. This is the result of Tim Cook's past behavior at IBM. He is a selfish cash flow hoarder.
    D) Apple's last argument that they will do better at having their TSM-based coded apps unified between iOS and MacOS is BASELESS. Apple has the capacity to CREATE an emulated environment app for MacOS, which could port an emulated TSM processor, if they needed to create cross platform unification, that is the way to go. It would be far less costly also.

    Tim Cook has ruined everything that I have learned to respect from the MacOS architecture, ever since I left the PC systems when I was 19 years old. I had been an extremely versed PC user from the age of seven years old, to the age of 19 years old. I personally lived the computer-era from START to FINISH, and I am convinced that Apple MacOS is superior to all other computers. Yet ever year Tim Cook goes above and beyond to erase the legacy of Steve Jobs. He is the most selfish money hoarded in any company. I hate you with all my life, for ruining the best computer ever designed. You do not need TSM processors for cross platform unification, you are a persistent liar, and you could create an emulated environment to accomplish that goal. You are going to ruin all of our progress and you are going to annoy a lot of app developers. Apple's market share is right near 20% and Apple, Tim Cook, you should be doing your best to grow that base, not shrink it. 
    Wow. You seem to be giving the impression that TSM designed Apple’s ARM chips. They don’t. They’re just a foundry. All this spending American dollars. You know, it’s funny really, they sell devices world wide. It’s not like Apple earns all its profits in the United States. In fact almost all the parts that go into Macs are made outside the US. Intel has been dropping the ball, I don’t blame Apple for moving on. As far as the power of the processors go, the A series right now is faster than the x86 in the MBP.
    Rayz2016alexonline

  • Apple sued for '$2 priceless trillion' following 2018 iPhone repair

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    I swear I thought that was an Onion headline. 
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  • Express Transit implementation in NYC delayed to December 2020

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    eyedocnj said:
    “According to one MTA official, unless OMNY is installed on both ends of a route, you cannot use it at either.“ That’s ridiculous and wrong.  The NYC subway system, unlike, say, the London Underground, doesn’t charge different amounts for different length routes.  And you don’t need to show anything when you exit. I have been using Express Transit for about a year on the subway and it is enabled, for example, stations that have more than one line, only one of which has OMNY enabled for the full line - but you can use it for any train that stops at that station.  This is true at Grand Central, for example.
    I totally agree. NYC subways doesn’t charge by destination. It’s a flat rate to get in and use it. There are no exit scanners. 
    watto_cobra