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  • Epic Games expert says iOS could be like macOS without security drawbacks

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    Xed said:
    When the iPhone ecosystem was small, Apple’s level of control wasn’t really on anyone’s radar, but as the iOS ecosystem has ballooned to billions of users and billions of dollars of trade, I can see why governments and courts around the planet are interested in how the ecosystem operates.
    So you're asking why a store wouldn't want to allow a product to lead them to another store where products are potentially more profitable for the seller? Have you ever seen TV at BestBuy advertise about buying the same TV at Walmart to save a couple bucks?
    I think you’re looking at this wrong. You say Best Buy should not allow the tv to advertise about Walmart while the tv is in the store. Fair point. 

    But you’re not talking about what the purchaser of the TV does with it AFTER they purchased it. Would you want Best Buy to have the power to tell Samsung or Sony (device manufacturer) that they’re restricted from allowing users to look at Walmart ads after they took the tv home? That would be ludicrous. 

    But yet Apple has the power to tell Netflix (app manufacturer) what users can do with the App AFTER we purchase/download the app? Once the app is on our phones, that’s akin to taking the tv home in my example above. That’s where your analogy breaks down in my view. Netflix should have the right to tell its users about subscription details, etc. 
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  • Epic Games expert says iOS could be like macOS without security drawbacks

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    He’s right. macOS is much more open in terms of how users can install apps, and yet the Mac isn’t crawling with malware, unlike windows. Also, if iOS is opened to allow third party app stores, nothing would require users to download apps from those other stores if they didn’t want to. I’ve had an iPhone since 2007, but I recently started toying with android, and I’ve never used any other App Store besides the google play store even though others exist. 

    I think Apple is exerting too much control. For example, why is it that Netflix or any other app can’t tell me where and how to sign up for a subscription (if those apps don’t use IAP)? 

    When the iPhone ecosystem was small, Apple’s level of control wasn’t really on anyone’s radar, but as the iOS ecosystem has ballooned to billions of users and billions of dollars of trade, I can see why governments and courts around the planet are interested in how the ecosystem operates. 

    Others might disagree, but my view is Apple is in some ways restricting trade by disallowing the existence of other app stores. And the restriction of trade is why I believe it’s just a matter a time before the hammer drops, whether in the USA, or Europe or elsewhere. 
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  • Polymer cables could replace Thunderbolt & USB, deliver more than twice the speed

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    Say what you want about Intel, and I know they're in the middle of manufacturing woes, but they have helped push the world of connectivity forward in a significant way.  First with inventing and open sourcing USB, then came thunderbolt which is amazing.  Now they're researching ways to move beyond copper wires and increase the bandwidth. Just the other day on a Tomshardware podcast celebrating 10 years or thunderbolt, intel said Thunderbolt 5 should bring double thunderbolt 4 speeds. 
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  • AMD CEO says Apple's M1 chip is opportunity to innovate, underscores ongoing graphics part...

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    While Alder Lake is similar in concept to M1, I don’t think it’s fair to suggest that Intel Alder Lake design is a knee jerk reaction to (or plagiarism of M1). Silicon design takes years, from conceptual design to manufacturing to baking in support in the operating system. 

    Alder Lake is an iteration on the Hybrid Lakefield design that was released before M1 even made it to market that had one big sunny cove core and smaller atom cores. One could argue that Lakefield was just a test run to get working silicon out there. To enable Intel to work with Microsoft (and possibly Linux) to begin work on updating the OS kernel scheduler for efficiently scheduling processes and threads on a hybrid x86 cpu. Alder Lake was conceptualized long before it enters high volume manufacturing in 2021. 

    Of course with Apple, M1 is indeed amazing, and the competitive advantage Apple has over intel is it’s vertical integration allows it to design and co-optimize the kernel of the OS in conjunction with the silicon design. Also, TSMC is crushing it right now in terms of manufacturing on a leading edge node...whereas intel is finally starting to ramp 10 nm. AMD doesn’t seem to think hybrid x86 is all that relevant or necessary right now. So we will have to see how Alder Lake performs. It seems impressive, it will have IPC improvements above tiger lake, which in itself isn’t too shabby. Very interesting times ahead for the PC/Mac space. 

    Also, good to know that AMD is still working with Apple. Now all they need to do is release the drivers for Big Navi in Big Sur... 
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  • macOS Big Sur 11.1 now available with support for AirPods Max, App Store privacy labels

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    Agree with prior comments. Please include build numbers in your commentary. Would help your readership immensely. 

    Version is 20C69, same as the release candidate. 
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