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  • Apple Store union must negotiate to get new employee perks

    sbdudesbdude
    Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. If your whole goal was "collective bargaining" for better wages/benefits/perks established by contractual agreement, don't be surprised when you're stuck with said wages/benefits/perks for the duration stipulated in the contract. And even if this is a "passive aggressive" attempt on Apple's part, it illustrates perfectly the idiosyncrasies of union membership. Hindsight . . .
    Madbum

  • Apple Watch battery blowout sends man to emergency room

    sbdudesbdude
    If the back my apple watch cracked, it would be staying in my house for whatever was going to happen next. Also, treatment for lead poisoning?!? That alone sounds scammy.
    lolliverkillroyravnorodomwatto_cobra

  • Dynamic Island expected to replace notch on all iPhone 15 models

    sbdudesbdude
    Unless all iPhone 15 models are OLED (or mini-LED, for that matter) I don’t see this as well-executed on the “lesser” iPhones. Without the absolute black you get with an OLED panel, the dynamic island will look funky on an LCD.
    watto_cobraravnorodomlkrupp

  • There's hope that older Macs will be able to run macOS Ventura

    sbdudesbdude
    lkrupp said:
    Pdybman said:
    JP234 said:
    Mystifies me why anyone would want to do this. Running newer MacOS systems on Macs Apple classifies as "vintage" or "obsolete." They ALWAYS, and I mean always, run poorly, sometimes terribly. I worked for an Apple VAR as a service writer (what Apple calls a genius, but no way I'd make that claim), and we got many people who wanted us to restore their old OS, which Apple does not make easy for consumers. (We had the means, and we charged $129 for it.)

    If you can't afford a new Mac, or iOS device, just keep the last authorized OS. If there's a feature you just must have, then bite the bullet and get a new model that can use it. Just a cautionary tale from someone who has seen what these hacks can do.
    You are obviously unaware of the huge number of owners of the classical Mac Pro (last model mid-2012) that are able to run Monterey and Big Sur these days thanks to such enthusiasts and their workarounds!
    Huge numbers? Bullshit. Running current versions of macOS on old hardware is a futile exercise in vanity. The old hardware can’t take advantage of  many of the features of the current OS so you wind up with essentially the same features as the last available macOS for that old hardware. And the Intel code will be going away soon enough, leaving the hackintosh crowd and ‘Ventura on a 15 year old Mac’ in the Jurassic Epoch of the computer universe. But hey, there are still Amiga users out there, right? And Ford Model A clubs, right?

    Vanity, eh? "Practicality" and "economy" seem like better adjectives to me.

    My "obsolete" mac supports sidecar, continuity, and all the other "sideshow" gimmicks apple builds into the os these days. I'll take the plunge when intel is no longer supported, but there's no reason to ditch a perfectly good computer when it isn't broken. I'm sure we'll all be saying the same thing about ARM, too, when the next thing comes along and Apple forces everyone onto a new platform (again. and again. and again. and again).
    ukrunrmuthuk_vanalingamelijahgllama

  • There's hope that older Macs will be able to run macOS Ventura

    sbdudesbdude
    JP234 said:
    Mystifies me why anyone would want to do this. Running newer MacOS systems on Macs Apple classifies as "vintage" or "obsolete." They ALWAYS, and I mean always, run poorly, sometimes terribly. I worked for an Apple VAR as a service writer (what Apple calls a genius, but no way I'd make that claim), and we got many people who wanted us to restore their old OS, which Apple does not make easy for consumers. (We had the means, and we charged $129 for it.)

    If you can't afford a new Mac, or iOS device, just keep the last authorized OS. If there's a feature you just must have, then bite the bullet and get a new model that can use it. Just a cautionary tale from someone who has seen what these hacks can do.

    You must have missed my post, which is strange because it was the very first post here. New versions of macos on "vintage" or "obsolete" macs (designations which have nothing to do with software, btw) don't 'always run poorly.' I'm running monterey (12.5.1) just fine on a ten year old macbook pro retina. And, based on the devs' efforts, the only reasons monterey and big sur don't run on kepler macs are a few animations (metal 3 support), and the desire to no longer support certain bluetooth and wifi devices.

    If anything, you can say my mac runs monterey just as "slowly" as it ran catalina. And it will save me $2k the next time I have to do my taxes, now that turbotax requires big sur.
    muthuk_vanalingamdewmewatto_cobra