snow66

In my house the Apple TV interface is more then worth the price of admission. With the Apple TV every television from the 19" in the kitchen to the 108" projector in the home theater has the same interface. No confusion about how to watch or search on the Samsung vs Sony vs LG vs Panasonic. They all have same Apple TV interface without the distraction of ads or attempts to get you to sign up for a new free trial of whatever. I have other family members who use the smart TV Aps and various flavors of streaming players and while they sometimes do a decent job of displaying the content, the noise it takes to get to the content is excessive. My mother has a post it note containing the steps it takes to watch her streaming service on the television in her bedroom. That IMO is a technology fail. I look forward to the next AppleTV hardware upgrade. Most of all, I hope they rethink the remote. I'd love to see a couple of additional dedicated keys to improve usability and a speaker that could be used to find the stupid things when they get lost in the furniture.

samrod said:

I hope Apple doesn't transition Macs to ARM chips. The benefit of having a POSIX *n*x running on the same hardware as the rest of the world is hard to overstate. The thinking with the transition is that since ARM chips are so powerful sipping such little energy on iOS devices, imagine the workhorses they'd be on desktops? Sure? Maybe? But this would only be a short-lived advantage until the same physical obstacles affecting Intel come up. The reason to transition is that progression on the Intel architecture has decelerated. But this is universal and will affect the ARM architecture as well. The laws of physics won't give Apple's ARM engineers any advantages over Intel engineers. ARM may have a head start, but it WILL hit the same limits at 4nm process with yield problems, etc.

Apple isn't moving to ARM to avoid physical obstacles of CPU design.  Apple is doing this to manage processor costs and to control the processor development path.  Intel has a terrible record of delivering against their own processor roadmap for some time now.  This has been a significant problem for Apple, who doesn't just refresh their Mac lineups with the latest and greatest chips every x months the way some hardware manufactures do.  By taking processor control in house Apple will have the same type of advantage they have today with iPhones where they control the timeline and feature set so it is much easier to release on a schedule.  Using their own ARM chips will also increase Apples ability to differentiate their products from the competition.   

Interesting.... Apple takes heat when they don't update projects regularly. Apple takes heat if updates are incremental. So the group mentality is that Apple is supposed to reinvent every product every year? Over the last year or so Apple has updated almost all of the projects that they had let get stale. Especially the Mac lineup. Things seem to be humming along quite nicely.

So based on this article... STOLEN iPhone prototypes are being used by hackers to create exploits that law enforcement agencies are taking advantage of to get data off encrypted iPhones. If this is true then law enforcement has determined it is OK to pay companies for services they have because the company knowingly acquired and used stolen goods. Not the type of activity I want out of law enforcement. Looking at it from the other side, do we think law enforcement is doing their best to help Apple track down the stolen devices?