hackintoisier

Apple already uses usb-c/thunderbolt on its laptops, macs, and on the iPad Pro and air.  Unclear why it can’t bring Usb-c to iPhone as well. 

Never quite understood the rationale for excluding the live text feature as well as the Apple Maps feature on intel macs. 

DAalseth said:

Microsoft that has been known for decades to buy up and kill its competition, https://fossbytes.com/microsoft-buys-canonical-kills-ubuntu-linux-forever/ is not included?

Lots of campaign donations in that IMO.

You do realize the article you linked to expressly states it’s an April Fool’s joke right? Ubuntu is far from dead. 

The alternative in the worst case could be rolling blackouts. Demand response is a cost effective way to shave the peak load so that the utility can keep demand and supply in balance, and Martian the grid frequency at or near 60 Hz. These programs are to help protect the integrity of the power system, not cause headaches for individual consumers. And as the utility said, customers can opt out at any time. Some utilities even give credits for participating in their demand response programs. 

AppleZulu said:

So Apple releases expensive hardware with obvious capacity for future expansion of operating system capabilities, and the complaint is that the OS doesn’t max out the hardware out of the gate. Got it.

Of course, if iPadOS already took full advantage of the capabilities of the M1 model, there would be much louder complaints about how last year’s pre-M1 hardware has been rendered obsolete so quickly by OS features the pre-M1 devices can’t handle. 

The M1 iPad Pro was released with iPadOS 14.5.  Version 15 is now in beta and doesn’t fundamentally change the multitasking experience.  What reason is there now to expect that Apple will ever make significant changes to the UI in the future, if they chose not to do so in iPadOS15?  

As to your second point, the A12 chips in the prior iPads were used in the developer transition kit to run an ARM build of macOS (with its much deeper multi-tasking and windowing support), and the chip ran macOS just fine.  Clearly they have enough horsepower.  So I highly doubt that if Apple added the changes requested here in this article that the 2018 and 2020 iPad Pros would be rendered obsolete.  

Until Apple makes fundamental changes to iPadOS, the M1 chip is a waste of hardware honestly.  The A12z in the 2020 version is just fine.  The only real difference with M1 is the addition of thunderbolt so you can connect to peripherals like 10gbps lan cards, high speed storage, etc. But other than that, there’s nothing about the iPadOS experience that is significantly different on M1 vs the A12x/A12z.  Multi monitor support is still limited to 4x3 and does not scale to the 16x9 or 16x10 aspect ratio of monitors.  iPadOS has some fundamental limitations, even though the hardware itself has been proven to not be limited in that regard, as M1 and A12x/A12z can run the more complicated window manager of macOS.   And we have to tell the truth.