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  • Rumored iOS 18 Siri boost will be driven by massive acquisitions over years

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    gatorguy said:

    Apple said Retina Display which was qHD or QVGA.
    Part of your unhappiness may be from over-simplifying at least one of those terms.
    Because you definitely over-simplified Retina.

    You mentioned Retina being the equivalent of this or that standard fixed resolution. That is plainly wrong. Retina has never referred to a specific hard resolution, that is not how things work now.

    Retina is more about the Device Independent Pixel (DIP), which is an industry-wide concept driving standards like CSS.

    The DPI resolution of the DIP is not a single fixed number. This is where you ran into trouble. The pixel size of the DIP is corrected for display pixel density and viewing distance, and the way they quantify this consistently is defining the DIP as a specific angle of view. This allows an object to be displayed at a constant apparent size to the eye, because the DIP corrects for screens being viewed at phone distance vs computer distance vs billboard distance.

    That is why Retina for a phone is a different DPI resolution that Retina for a laptop screen.

    The other way your analogy falls down is that if you look through all the desktop and mobile Retina screens Apple has made since 2012, the DPIs are all over the place! And many do not exactly match your QHD or QVGA!

    The uninformed view is that Retina doesn’t mean anything, but the informed view is that all those DPI values make total sense after you learn that they are consistent with what the DIP size should be at each device’s viewing distance.
    mattinozjony0

  • Elgato will disrupt the teleprompter market with its $280 Prompter

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    They are going to sell approximately 7 gazillion of these. I'm seriously considering it.

    It's not clear from the downloadable manual how the software hooks it up. The funny thing is, although it looks like it will appear as an additional USB-C display extending the macOS desktop, I am sort of hoping it does it a different way. The reason is the artificial limits Apple puts on multiple displays out of MacBooks. I already hang 2 desktop monitors off my 14" MacBook Pro, so it will refuse to add any more monitors. Similarly, a MacBook Air user already running 1 external display will not be able to add another monitor.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's live events are probably a thing of the past, and that's sad

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    What I’m reading is that there are really only two reasons to prefer live keynotes: “But…remember when Steve Jobs…” and “embrace the chaos.” Well….

    Steve Jobs is dead. If you want another Steve Jobs keynote moment, you are going to have to get another Steve Jobs on stage. Where is he? Is it Tim Cook? No. Is it Craig Federighi? No. Steve Jobs is dead.

    ”Embrace the chaos” is just a euphemism for “We wanna be there when stuff goes wrong.” Why is that? How does it help? I’m sorry, but “Embrace the chaos” sounds a lot like “Some people are here for the technical team craft of auto racing and all its details, but we are here just in case there’s a car crash.” You really want to be flown out to Apple Park just for that?

    The live events aren’t any more human than the recorded ones, because the live ones were so tightly scripted. Has anyone looked at how much more time we saved by not having to sit through all the applause and breaks when people walk on and off stage?
    radarthekatwatto_cobra

  • First Touch Bar MacBook Pro models will become vintage on July 31

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    tzx4 said:
    I don't quite understand Apple's declaring models vintage.  I have a 2011   11"MacBook Air, i7 processor, and it's still a remarkably usable computer. The cam has failed for whatever reason, but otherwise it's performance is more than adequate for my light duty tasks.
    I agree that a 2011 is usable for basic tasks, I have one. But the vintage designation was never about how usable a device is. It is more about the practicality of continuing to provide parts, service, and hardware/software support for hardware that is over a decade old. For many components that are no longer made because there have been too many generations of advancements since then. With newer macOSs taking advantage of things like Neural Engine and high core GPUs, that are completely missing on a 2011.

    Although I have a 2011 MacBook Pro that can still do a lot, it is very clear that it is not even close to being up to current standards. I can’t just do “light duty tasks”, I need to do what I would call “modest” multimedia work, some Photoshop and some video. But the 2011 era hardware is no longer up to the task, especially the GPU which is very weak compared to the system requirements of the latest software. My 2011 MacBook Pro aches and whines with its fans when asked to do modest photo/video editing tasks (those tasks would kill an Intel Air), but my M1 MacBook Pro barely needs to put forth any effort to do the same thing, and it does it much faster and much quieter. To the point where I would not go back to 2011.

    If a 2011 Mac is powerful enough for you, that is a good thing, because if that Mac was to ever die, instead of needing a powerful new Mac, you could get away with a used 2014-2018, save a lot of money, and get a few more years of support.
    watto_cobra

  • TSMC plans more 3nm chip factories in big Taiwan production push

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    cia said:
    When China takes back Taiwan it's going to really hurt the west.  All these chip facilities will disappear overnight.
    Kuyangkoh said:
    West….Diversify now forever be held hostage 
    That is precisely why the last paragraph talks about upcoming facilities being constructed in Arizona USA, and Singapore. TSMC and Apple probably are already deep into contingency planning for if/when China tries to turn Taiwan into the next Ukraine. Everybody knows China is likely to be as ruthless and unconcerned with civilians and scorched earth as Russia.
    h2p