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  • Georgia's largest healthcare system switches to the Mac

    kelliekellie
    Even on a PC, the Epic user experience is nothing more than putting lipstick on a pig.  The back end has been the same for decades and they have a cluttered mess for a GUI.  This really isn’t earth shattering news. Whatever they put in the App Store will just make it easier to install a client on a Mac. The user experience will not be improved.  Epic isn’t writing a new app for Mac’s.  My medical center already has thousands of researchers and clinicians using Mac’s with Epic. There’s never been a barrier to using Mac’s. This new app will help with device management. Seems like Emory had a policy that restricted the use of Mac’s.  So it’s more of an Emory policy change vs. some big technical revolution.  I have to chuckle at the CIO’s comments on saving electricity using Macs vs PC’s.  Hospitals have Linear Accelerators for radiation treatment that use over 115 kw of power  just in standby mode, and 4 Tesla MRI’s which consume hundreds of thousands of watts of power.  Mac power savings vs PC’s are a drop in the proverbial ocean. Nice try though. 
    watto_cobra

  • iPhone 16 won't be compelling and Apple will get hurt because of it, says Kuo

    kelliekellie
    People think of Google as a tech company.  They certainly started that way, but now they are an advertising company with a technology subsidiary.  

    Similarly, Apple is a marketing company that happens to make hardware and software.  Apple has a massive amount of developed and ready to go technology.  The marketing people control the technology spigot and decide how much new technology to release in a certain time period.  I guarantee Apple has a foldable iPhone developed and ready to go.  However the marketing people have decided they don’t want to offer that technology at this time.  It’s a numbers game of units sold, revenue and profitability optimization.  Apple has an incentive to milk the deployed technology in their products for as long as possible so as to create predictable demand year after year.  They know the vast majority of people don’t do annual phone upgrades, so they have models that are used to predict how many customers with older iPhones would be willing to upgrade to a new phone based on price and new functionality/technology. There are other companies with more advanced technology in their products than Apple.  Apple doesn’t want new technology to be deployed any sooner than necessary.  So you get year over year marginal improvements in speed, performance and capacity. Hence Apple’s focus on non-performance attributes used to sell phones - such as case colors, titanium construction, thinness, weight etc.  These are designed to offer people superficial reasons to upgrade vs pure technology reasons. The smartphone market is saturated.  The Apple marketing people may need to open up the technology spigot a bit more in the not too distant future.  If they want to maintain or expand their annual sales volume.  
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • M3 Ultra Mac Studio rumored to debut in mid-2024 -- without a Mac Pro

    kelliekellie
    Apple shows no signs of wanting to offer products that compete with the ultra high end systems used for the most advanced animation and video editing functions.  They don’t want to offer systems that are open and extensible. They certainly don’t want to provide a means for Nvidia or AMD to inject their gpus into the Apple ecosystem.  Apple wants absolute control of their platform to optimize revenue and profits. The only upgrade path Apple wants to offer is chucking old systems and buying new systems.  You can’t even add memory or storage to any Apple product these days. For a company that hypes their environmental friendliness, their product strategy does not overall result in friendly environmental impacts.  They tout use of recycling. The best recycling is getting maximum life out of each product they sell through design and upgrade options vs recycling a three year old Mac book pro because the ssd failed and there’s no way to repair it. 
    9secondkox2williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • White House is tracking Apple Watch ban with no sign of intervening

    kelliekellie
    Apple is the gorilla in the room.  They have big money and big political influence.  Apple is not the squeaky clean, earth and LGBTQ friendly, wholesome company a lot of people think they are.  I have no doubt they’ve appropriated IP invented by others.  But the high costs to defend IP is a challenge for small companies.  So Apple gets away with it.  Apple is a competitive beast, but they do their best to keep that hard, rough and tumble personality out of the public eye.  They don’t want to give in to Masimo’s demands because they don’t want the bad PR of having been proven to have stolen IP, they don’t want to encourage other companies who feel they’ve been wronged by Apple and certainly Apple’s corporate ego prevents them from surrendering. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • M3 Ultra could have up to 80 graphics cores

    kelliekellie
    ApplePoor said:
    It seems all four M1 chips had nearly the same single core performance. We saw that all four of the M2 chips also had similar single core speeds and there was about a 15% increase in the average number. So, for me, there was no incentive to upgrade to the M2 series. The first three of four M3 chips repeat the average single core speed  concept of the M1 and M2. But there was a larger percentage increase in the average single core speed over the M2.

    I am intrigued that a M3 Max MacBook Pro can now be acquired that is nearly as powerful as my M1 MacStudio (128GB and 8TB SSD) with the same amount of memory and SSD in just two generations. I thought I had really future proofed my M1 MacStudio with those top go the line options. And the fully configured MacBook Prop price is fairly close to my MacStudio price.

    I thought we had a good performance boost going from the 68030 in my IIci to the 68040 in my IIfx. The Intel years were snoozers in terms of performance  increases over time.

    But I am concerned how many more rabbits are in the hat for this M series chip to continue this pace of spec improvements. The crowd that needs and can afford the top models is far smaller than the more modest needs and prices group. With the lower operating temperatures of the M series computers, one could expect much longer service lives of the M devices. 

    Like the iPhone, the incremental changes are getting smaller and the crowd seems to be wanting to spread their acquisition cost over more years.

    So could Apple turn off operating system support for the M1 series at some future time like they will Intel chips? And how many generations of M series will be supported?

    The computing power necessary for the average non-pro users is already exceeded. One usually does not see a Ferrari V8 in a Karman Gaia.
    The M1 architecture is the same as the M3.  There’s no reason Apple can’t support the M1 as long as it supports the M3
    9secondkox2