MacsWithPenguins

Shareef777 I do not agree that MacOS on iPad is a good idea at all. It is completely designed for mouse input in almost every regard. Since Big Sur, it has changed somewhat, though.

I use a lot of remote desktop from iPad to my M1 Mac. It works "OK" (except for different amounts of lag when done wirelessly between rooms and walls), but there are a few issues: I got a 6th-gen 9.7" iPad. The screen size is too small to view the complete desktop at once – it's tiny. If I zoom in a bit, things work okay. However, the tiny buttons to minimize, maximize and close are extremely hard targets to hit with a finger.

On the other hand, you'll notice right away that Windows 10 is no problem to use on a 9.7" (and even better with 12.9" I presume). Much of that is how easy it is to access the window buttons. It's made for touch, albeit more like a hybrid mouse/touch OS.

I guess discussing this name change is kind of, ehh .. meta now …

I agree with the article. Personally, I have Objective-C hobby projects that still compiles in the latest Xcode 13. It’s very clear that devs who follow Apple coding guidelines are going to have to make extra efforts from the start (not taking shortcuts and be careful about using 3rd-party libraries), but the reward is big if you do.

It was also very clear that companies who cheaped out by using Electron for portable web apps got punished hard when they had to wait for the Electron project to get their act together.

I know this an Apple user forum, so naturally there is not as much engagement with Microsoft news here. However, I know a few things about this after reading about it years ago on the WindowsCentral website in particular, that the Surface line of products with the Windows OS on them, was not designed to overtake the PC industry in sales and make Microsoft the global leader and supplier of laptops for Windows PC customers. Surface was put out as a reference computer that manufacturers could use as inspiration, as a template if you will, to build their own cool and innovative design from. Microsoft looked at the market many years ago and probably realized that they had this vision for a tablet-friendly OS (Windows 8 at first) and by making the Surface laptop hardware they could demo to laptop manufacturer what the future looked like for the Windows platform.

To be clear: Microsoft has restrictions on how they price their Surface computers depending on which version of their own OS they use. For instance, if they use Windows 10 Home on a Surface laptop, it must be cheaper than a Surface laptop running Windows 10 Professional. Microsoft also puts exaggerated prices on their Surface line of PCs to not upset the big players in the PC market such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, et al. Sales of the Surface computers is a nice income for Microsoft, but it's not meant to compete fiercely with others.

22july2013 said:

cpsro said:

Tim Cook now has a fiduciary duty to devote all M1 Max production to bitcoin mining.

If a large PC manufacturer placed an order for 10 million M1 Pro CPU chips at $1000 each, Tim Cook would have a fiduciary duty to take their $10B. Not just for the $10B, but for the $100B in orders that would come shortly thereafter when everyone realized it was time to leave Intel. Why would anyone turn down $100B in orders?

It would make sense if Apple was in deep financial trouble, but now it’s the opposite situation. Also, if they were to make their most attractive selling point part of their competitors’ lineup, that would be like giving away a golden goose.