MacsWithPenguins

There have been a lot of open source projects maintained by Apple, for well over a decade and even longer than that (I just don’t have a timeline in my head to refer to right now). The fact they are promoting this now is promising, though. 

ericthehalfbee said:

iFixit can’t be happy. They sell all-in-one repair kits for all sorts of common repairs (like batteries).

When do we see the antitrust case against Apple for harming competitors like iFixit by entering their market?

On the contrary, I think they are thrilled about it. It’s sort of like how smartphones won over feature phones when Android phones came out and flooded the market. In short, this move makes iFixit look even better than before.

I would never work for Apple with conditions like these, with no trust in employees. This is basically assuming they steal. Why not keep track of their inventory and raise questions with staff if something actually happens? Did they frequently have incidents in the past which made Apple act this way? I have so many questions about Apple’s reasons.

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.

ITGUYINSD said:

neilm said:

Interesting. The obvious question is this: how inefficient is it?

The obvious question to me is, how do you pronounce this?  I walk into Ikea and ask for a "ess-joe-markee"? 

I'm Swedish. The word to look out for in a English-Swedish dictionary is "sjömärke". There are at least two ways to listen to this pronunciation: either by installing the Siri voice for the Swedish language in iOS/iPadOS/macOS, or by using a web-based solution. Google does provide a Swedish-English translation option, and reverse lookup. However, please note that while the pronunciation itself is ... fine .. the intonation is completely wrong. It sounds French – not Swedish at all. SwedeOfTheDay already posted the Google link, though.


And yes .. sjömärke is a navigation mark at sea. Worth knowing about IKEA (pronounced Ih-ké á) : their names are hilarious to Swedes, because they sometimes have nothing at all to do with the product. And yet .. sometimes they do, but a good example is "Socker", which means "sugar". That series has nothing to do with baking or food at all, unless IKEA implies a connection that goes way back to the early 1900s or 1800s. "Kallax" (a shelf) is an airport in northern Sweden, also known for being one of the well-known brands who make Surströmming (the fermented fish you may have seen in Youtube "surströmming challenge" videos). On the flip side, IKEA has got a shelf called "Hyllis", which is what someone in kindergarten would use in place of the more correct word "hylla" (yet another shelf). Also, some IKEA product names seem to be named after product attributes which the designer thought was fitting. For example, the FIXA series contains a hammer, screws, etc, among other things.

Lastly, in regards to the SJÖMÄRKE product, I was looking at the product picture and think they named it a navigation mark because it looks like a map with an X on it, to mark the spot for charging.