ArianneFeldry

mfryd said:

chutzpah said:

mfryd said:

ArianneFeldry said:

macxpress said:

The EU might as well just be Apple's new design/engineering team. They're doing a great job at stifling innovation by mandating ports and speeds....let's not stop there! What's next, Apple has to make every new iPhone with a minimum 50MP camera? Or, perhaps they will mandate that all new iPhones must be able to run both Android and iOS? 

How exactly is telling Apple to get with the times and use a modern port that allows for a 40Gbps standard stifling innovation? Was Apple stifling innovation when they moved to only USB-C on the Mac? How about with the iPad? Or was Apple being innovative when they did nothing with Lightning to improve speeds? Oh, an adapter allowed for USB 3.0 speeds on one iPad. How innovative!

Why are you mad that the EU is telling Apple that they cannot sell you a device limited to 480Mbps when transferring data?

They are telling Apple that they can't use something better than USB-C for wired charging.

No they aren't.  The regulations do not say anything like that.

Perhaps I misunderstood the EU regulation.  My impression was that if the phone used wired charging, that had to be over a USB-C connector using the USB standard.

This would preclude Apple using a different connector that was rated for higher voltages and/or currents.  

The EU Directive specifically requires that devices specifically incorporate the USB Power Delivery standard, and that any additional charging protocol allows for full functionality of USB Power Delivery.  

The Directive imagines that divergent solutions might be developed in the future, and says that the Commission should take action towards promoting and harmonizing such solutions to avoid future fragmentation of the market.

In other words, if a company develops a better mouse trap, they need to share it with other companies, thus eliminating any competitive advantage.

The primary purpose of the directive is to make charging standard, and to eliminate proprietary (and perhaps superior) charging methods.  They feel that it is better to stick to the lowest common denominator, so that chargers/cables are interchangeable, than to let companies produce unique and better products.

Whether or not one agrees with this is a separate issue.  However, that's clearly the intention of the directive.   https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32022L2380

If Apple makes a magical new connector that completely supersedes USB-C, they can submit it to the USB Implementors Forum as a new standard. If this magical connector is so good, they won't have any problem with getting other companies to adopt it. If it's so good, customers will flock to it instead of USB-C.

macxpress said:

The EU might as well just be Apple's new design/engineering team. They're doing a great job at stifling innovation by mandating ports and speeds....let's not stop there! What's next, Apple has to make every new iPhone with a minimum 50MP camera? Or, perhaps they will mandate that all new iPhones must be able to run both Android and iOS? 

How exactly is telling Apple to get with the times and use a modern port that allows for a 40Gbps standard stifling innovation? Was Apple stifling innovation when they moved to only USB-C on the Mac? How about with the iPad? Or was Apple being innovative when they did nothing with Lightning to improve speeds? Oh, an adapter allowed for USB 3.0 speeds on one iPad. How innovative!

Why are you mad that the EU is telling Apple that they cannot sell you a device limited to 480Mbps when transferring data?

lkrupp said:

BiC said:

Darn it! Now I have to go back to Torrents. Sad Sad Day.  What am I going to do with all my computers with a DVD reader.

Are you proud of being a common thief? You’d rent a DVD but steal a stream?

That jerk stole the stream! Think of the poor family who won't be able to watch a movie become someone copied it!

Just support Vulcan. With that in MacOS games will come. Relying on developers to spend time for 5% of the market, of the which most are base units not running Apple Silicon, is ridiculous. Not only do you need to put in a ton of effort to port to Metal, you may not see returns for big intensive games because most users won't be able to run them. Meanwhile, if Vulkan is available, it's a simple checkbox in major engines. People are a lot more willing to make Mac ports if the effort is miniscule to make them.

It's going to revolutionize how we interact with search. I fed it a simple program I made in Python and asked for it to condense it. It threw me a program a few lines shorter, and had comments for each line it changed.

Because I had parameters for "Desktop" and the like it had a suggestion to change it to mobile. I clicked on it and the same program came up, except it replaced "Desktop" with "Mobile" and I noticed the URL parameters in my program had some more data. I asked it to explain what it changed and it told me that the site should recognize the requests I send as coming from a mobile device, and that the text file could be renamed back to the desktop variant if I didn't already have a mobile variant created. 

I then asked it to find what Microsoft plans offered a specific feature as Microsoft is always changing terminology and shifting stuff around. The change I wanted was made in the last two months or so and it brought it up with no problems. 

This isn't a replacement for search where you can go "oh, I can trust everything it says!". It's a new tool to be used. You have to use the same diligence you used when searching before. Trust, but verify.