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  • Why Apple is now focusing on users, not units in Fiscal 2019

    ElCapitanElCapitan
    ElCapitan said:
    "churning out ever-increasing volumes of hardware units" isn't exactly what Apple have been doing for the Mac lately. In many ways they have gone to lengths to sabotage their own ecosystem and user base for macOS over multiple years.

    Seen in that light, the narrative on focusing on users rather than units is not particularly trustworthy. I believe the investors understand that. Cause and Effect!
    I don't feel like you read the editorial.
    I did and it is partly based on inaccuracy, lost history and wishful thinking. 

    Sentences like "At the same time, Apple also worked to adopt Intel chips, USB, and other technologies that ..." is cringeworthy. USB was introduced with the original iMac on System 8.1 in 1998 on a PowerPC based machine, almost 8 years before Intel processors .
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • Why Apple is now focusing on users, not units in Fiscal 2019

    ElCapitanElCapitan
    "churning out ever-increasing volumes of hardware units" isn't exactly what Apple have been doing for the Mac lately. In many ways they have gone to lengths to sabotage their own ecosystem and user base for macOS over multiple years.

    Seen in that light, the narrative on focusing on users rather than units is not particularly trustworthy. I believe the investors understand that. Cause and Effect!
    croprelijahg

  • New iPad Pro ad hammers home Apple's ongoing laptop replacement theme

    ElCapitanElCapitan
    entropys said:
    racerhomie3 said:
    entropys said:
    That is just embarrassing.too soon. And I say this as someone who uses an iPad Pro for mobile work purposes for hours each day.   Apple needs to supersede the software limitations of iOS before it can try this line on with any credibility.

    Mr Cook should just tap his heels together three times and repeat:

    ”I don’t have Steve’s Reality Distortion Field”
    ”I don’t have Steve’s Reality Distortion Field”
    ”I don’t have Steve’s Reality Distortion Field”

    Edit: I can can see the future myriad parody versions already.
    edit2: to replace computers the tag line should be “better than a computer”. But only once it is true. We aren’t there yet.
    Reality distortion field does not give you 1.4 Billion users. If you don’t like the iPad as a Mac replacement,stick with a Mac.Or go buy a futuristic & super capable Chromebook.
    Hmm, it seems Mr Cook has at least some kind of an attenuated RDF.
    At the moment it seems to only distort his own reality. 
    elijahg

  • Apple Pay adoption in Switzerland may have been hampered by colluding banks

    ElCapitanElCapitan
    Why is anyone surprised by that?  The same happens in Germany and the Scandinavian countries. 
    DAalsethkitatitmagman1979jbdragoncaladanian

  • Testing thermal throttling and performance in the 2018 i7 Mac mini

    ElCapitanElCapitan
    A full Xcode build that took 50+ minutes on a 2012 MBP 2,3 GHz i7 (4 core, 8 threads), now takes about 7 minutes on the mini with 3,2 GHz i7 (6 core, 12 threads). So that is a pretty good speedup!

    The MBP had SSD + 16 GB memory, as does the Mac mini. 

    Fans are running during the build, but it is much lower pitch than the MBP so not so annoying to listen to. 
    thtwilliamlondonwatto_cobralarz2112raoulduke42