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  • Tim Cook responds to Facebook's attack ads with tweet about privacy

    But that also asks the question. Are they saying that iOS is 60% of their user base??
    David H Dennislordjohnwhorfinmacseekercornchipspock1234yoyo2222watto_cobra
  • Tim Cook responds to Facebook's attack ads with tweet about privacy

    It’s so scary on Android. Apps can basically do whatever they want and your only choice is to use it or lose it. 
    lordjohnwhorfinmagman1979viclauyyccornchipkillroyjohn.bBeatswatto_cobra
  • Apple Maps expands Look Around to four more US cities

    Look Around is available all over Canada. Not sure if it’s to the same extent that the few big American cities are covered, but it’s pretty decent.
    **just checked, and in Alberta, Canada, the cities of Edmonton, Calgary, and most small towns seem to be covered by Look Around.
    Apple this week rolled out the Apple Maps Look Around feature in Denver, Detroit, Miami and Fort Lauderdale, giving users a customized street level view of each city.

    Look Around is available in 17 cities worldwide, most of which are located in the U.S. Beyond the UK, Ireland and Scotland, Japan is the only other international locale to benefit from the feature.
    Umm… @AppleInsider as @NortherKiddo mentioned look around is pretty much located everywhere in Canada. Including the highways between cities. You can drive the Ice Fields Parkway from Jasper to Banff, stroll the beaches of the Okanagan, do the Robson Street walk in Greater Vancouver, check out the sites in Victoria, see the Prairies of Saskatchewan and the lakes of Manitoba and see the far reaches of Newfoundland and Labrador and the best places to get Donars in Halifax and Poutine in Québec City!

    I checked the images from Victoria and it looks like they are from the Summer of 2019.

    So Canada is way ahead in coverage! 
    gregoriusmStrangeDays
  • How Apple Silicon on a M1 Mac changes monitor support and what you can connect

    neilm said:
    neilm said:
    Very surprised the M1 MBP can only support a single external monitor. Probably half our current MBP users have a dual monitor setup, usually a pair of 4K, in addition to the built in display. This limitation takes the M1 off my list.

    Clearly it’s not an inherent limitation of the M1 GPU, since the M1 mini can drive dual monitors.
    So can the M1 in the MBP or MBA. The internal display just counts as one of the two.

    It is absolutely a limitation of the M1.
    Duh! Of course you’re right. 

    Then it’s a surprising limitation of the M1’s GPU. Guess we may have to wait for an M2 for that.
    I think you've got it exactly right about the M2.
    Or the M1X?
    watto_cobra
  • What the Apple Silicon M1 means for the future of Apple's Macs

    What specific things will the Apple Silicon Mac’s not be able to do that the preceding Mac’s could?
    Obviously we won’t be able to BootCamp and run 32-bit applications with an older system, but what else will not be possible?
    Will we still be able to boot off an external device? I assume with the integration of system memory that memory upgrades on desktop Macs will be a thing of the past too. So much for getting around Apple’s overpriced memory premiums, or will this be still possible somehow? What might this mean for PCI based expansion cards? Will these still work when in a thunderbolt enclosure or directly installed in a Mac Pro? 
    It’s an exciting new step but I will like to know how these things will be restricted too. Faster is good, but is it still extendable like our current and past Macs or are these more commoditized devices that will run Mac software but not the same types of Hardware?
    williamlondonwatto_cobra