Fidonet127

Potential problem with the research and conclusion is they used Chrome for testing Macs. Safari isn’t used or mentioned in the paper. Particularly, when they said M1s were more vulnerable, it was a comparison between Macs running Chrome. I’m wishing they used Safari and MS Edge as comparisons. Thankfully the paper was free to read through. 

For privacy, sure this isn’t good. As for a attack, not much. It isn’t installing malware or anything like that. 

Nice article. It is nice to see real groups pointing out how things are how they think it is going. Looking through this, Apple did a lot of listening to the Pro market with the Mac Pro, monitor and software. Yes the current Mac Pro is not for every professional. That was never the point. There is just too many needs. 

darkvader said:

CuJoYYC said:

"sooner rather than later"
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,

Later rather than sooner would be better.

I'm advising all my clients who are considering new Mac purchases to buy Intel Macs now, while they still can.

The M1 Macs are NOT as fast as the benchmarks would suggest, the Intels are faster in the real world, they can hold more RAM, and for at least some models they can still be upgraded.

And given that many users need x86 Windoze virtual machines, the M1s are utterly worthless to them.

Intel Macs are dropping on the resale market, so it is a bad idea to have this blanket push to buy Intel Macs while you can. If you absolutely need Windows, buy a windows PC, or wait longer for MS to allow it on the ASi Macs. These are low end ASi Macs, so if you need tons of memory, tons of processing power, software or hardware that doesn't work with Big Sur or ASi Macs, then yes, keep on Intel. For the vast majority, the ASi Macs out now will work great for them. I don't regret my M1 Macs. To me CPU and GPU improvements have been massive, though I'm coming from 2014 Macs.

mcdave said:

Fidonet127 said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

Removing Rosetta would be a disaster for Apple Silicon in any region. Rosetta is the technology that gives a customer confidence that their software will likely run on M1 Macs. If Apple removes it anywhere, everyone will wonder if their region is next. Watch as sales plummet. It could not only be the end of Apple Silicon, it could be the end of the Mac itself. If this is a patent dispute, Apple should fight it or pay.

This isn’t the end of the world. We have no idea if this will be used at all. Further a good deal of apps have native code already. Most of the apps I run use native code. 

It doesn’t matter, it’s a confidence play and Apple have screwed this up royally!
If Rosetta 2 infringes upon existing IP they should have gagged everyone whilst a protracted legal dispute ran its course. With major titles converting each month, diminishing Rosetta’s importance, they should have played for time.
This will be all over the press and lacking/poor x86 support may kill the transition (and by abstraction the Mac) as it did with Microsoft. Presumably the engineer that slid this in is on MS/Intel payroll.

So you say. In the real world, this code is not in production, nor does anyone but Apple know when this will be in play. In the meantime, many Apps have been updated with native code, and many apps are in production to be updated. Apple isn't going to stop the transition. I've seen many Apple "gate" stories which amounted to nothing. In the meantime Apple is selling lots of ASi Macs, while the resale value of Intel Macs has dropped. Were are the people who thought Apple couldn't support Thunderbolt on ASi Macs? Where are the people who thought Rosetta 2 would be a massive slowdown on apps? Opps, that didn't happen.