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  • It's time to drop apps that don't support Apple Silicon natively

    shaminoshamino
    So the author is saying what?

    Apple will someday cut off support for apps that don't upgrade, so you should summarily stop using them today.

    To what purpose?  Make sure you suffer today instead of waiting for some unspecified time in the future when you might (or might not) be forced to?

    That sounds pretty counter-productive to me.  Especially when Apple hasn't even completed their hardware transition.
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  • Apple fires leader of #AppleToo movement

    shaminoshamino
    I don't know any more about the case than what's already been reported, but I wonder why anybody would be keeping personal apps/data on a work phone.

    If she was actually running Robinhood, Pokemon and Google Drive on a work phone, i wonder why.

    Don't people know that your work phone is property of your employer and they therefore have a right to anything and everything you put on it?

    If you want to run personal apps, keep them on your personal phone, which your employer has no right to access (although they may also prohibit you from bringing it onto a corporate campus or connecting to the corporate Wi-Fi).

    Ditto for your work laptop.  Don't put any personal apps/data on it that you wouldn't want your employer to see.  Keep personal stuff on your personal computer (which, again, you might not be allowed to bring to the office).
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  • iPhone gets USB-C thanks to creative robotics engineer

    shaminoshamino
    flydog said:
    Wireless charging is never going to be as efficient as wired charging,
    Never?

    That comment won’t age well. 
    Makes sense to me.  It's a matter of physics.  Every time you convert energy from one form to another, there are losses.  Converting electricity to magnetism and back to electricity is going to have to transfer less power than simply sending that electricity directly to the device with a cable.
    omasou said:
    ... Apple stopped including the USB A 5W charger, which Apple stopped shipping b/c it was insufficient to charge the iPhone...
    Who says it is insufficient to charge the iPhone?  I'm using one of those 5W chargers on a brand new iPhone 13 and it works just fine.  Sure a 20W charger would go faster, but not everybody needs fast charging.  For me, a charge lasts all day, and 5W is more than enough to bring it up to 100% overnight while I'm asleep.
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  • iPhone gets USB-C thanks to creative robotics engineer

    shaminoshamino
    I don't think it's so much a matter of want to as one of see a clear benefit.

    USB-C is very trendy right now, and the new EU law is definitely going to have an impact on Apple's business logic, but there are other things that they need to consider in addition, including:
    • Cost to add higher speed communication to the iPhone.  If a USB-C iPhone continues to use USB 2.0 data rates, that eliminates much of the technical advantage.
    • Other Lightening capabilities.  Lightening was originally designed to replace the 30-pin Dock connector, which had several things like analog A/V, that Lightening later incorporated.  I don't know how many of these features are still used, but they will be important to any transition plan.  For instance, a Lightening headphone adapter only has to (as far as I know) identify itself as such (via the ID chip) and then connect the analog I/O pins to the connector - so it can be a cheap and simple adapter.  But a USB-C adapter needs to include a full USB audio interface into that adapter.
    • Ticking off existing customers.  People over the years have bought a lot of Lightening-based devices.  When Apple dropped the 30-pin connector, there was a lot of complaining from people who had to toss out peripherals or buy adapters.  The Lightening-based ecosystem is even bigger and will probably generate an even bigger wave of complaints.
    Ultimately, it is (as you wrote) a business decision, but there are a lot of factors involved.  It's not just a matter of whether Apple management "wants to".
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  • iOS developer turns vintage iMac G4 into an M1 Mac

    shaminoshamino
    rob53 said:
    After reading one of the referenced links, I'm assuming I would need a legitimate monitor and connection that supports HDCP so videos will play properly. 
    Ow.  I forgot about HDCP.  It's unlikely that the internal panel has support, so you'd be OK putting your desktop on that display, but copy protected content might not play via Apple's software.  (Maybe VLC would work?)
    mattinoz said:
    Remember there is a 3.5inch Drive sitting above to the optical. The MacBoorAir M1 and maybe the iMac24 Board would fit in there, doesn't look like the MacBook Pro would. 
    Both of those have all the ports on sub boards so could be cabled down in to the space used for the old G4 motherboard to fudge together a USB-c "hub" and Power supply to make all the old ports work or convert them to newer versions.

    Problem is still monitor support, sure could treat it as an external but I think both those boards would still want an internal connected to the socket which seems to carry the webcam as well on both.
    The space used by the hard drive could obviously be used for an ATA-USB adapter, but I think you'd need an ATA extension cable of some kind.  Most of the adapters i've seen have a pretty large plastic box that connects directly to the drive that that definitely wouldn't fit.

    Trying to put a laptop or iMac M1 board in there may be more difficult.  And as you point out, it's unlikely that the internal display could be driven from those boards' internal display connector.  That's a good reason to start from a Mac mini board (as described in the article) - so you can tap its HDMI connector and still have a Thunderbolt connector for an external display.

    If you're willing and able to swap the iMac's display panel then i suppose you could, in theory, use a laptop's display panel with a laptop motherboard.  But I don't know if the display would physically fit in the mounting, since the iMac's display has a different aspect from modern laptop panels.  That would, I suspect, be really difficult to do in a way that looks good afterward.
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