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  • Mac mini: What we want to see in an update to Apple's low-cost desktop

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    A11X APU,  4GB RAM*, 1TB Fusion Drive*, 802 11ac, USB C, Gigabit Ethernet, 4" x 4" x 1" == $399 Base price.

    * Upgradeable
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  • Apple-owned FoundationDB open sources the core technology at the heart of iCloud

    dick applebaumdick applebaum
    I just posted another question to the  FDB forums, Asking whether ARM support is planned.

    https://forums.foundationdb.org/c/development/fdb-core

    FDB's core implementation is based on an Ordered Key-Value Pair -- basically an Ordered Dictionary.  macOS, iOS and most OSes do not support an Ordered Dictionary.

    FWIW, A while back, I was experimenting with iOS Swift Playgrounds and was able to approximate what FDB did with their Ordered Key-Value Pair.


    If FDB/Swift/ARM is viable, it opens up many opportunities, e.g. small business Point-Of-Sale-Terminals (iPads) WiFi connected to a FDB transaction server (cluster) running in the back room on a Mac Mini or an iPad while simultaneously running other clusters in the cloud.

    This could really be a game changer.
    I've never needed or used an ordered key-value pair data structure.  Under what circumstances is this better than a simple dictionary with a sortable key?
    The main advantage is range search performance.  With an ordered structure the search stops at => -- with a standard dictionary you search the entire dictionary to detect a not-found condition -- or some undefined number of records (randomly ordered) until you find a hit (or you have to access and sort the keys before each search).

    This is critical in a database that supports a large number of concurrent transactions with out locking the DB to other transactions.  When Apple acquired FDB, their latest release supported 14 million random writes per second.
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  • Apple-owned FoundationDB open sources the core technology at the heart of iCloud

    dick applebaumdick applebaum
    I just posted another question to the  FDB forums, Asking whether ARM support is planned.

    https://forums.foundationdb.org/c/development/fdb-core

    FDB's core implementation is based on an Ordered Key-Value Pair -- basically an Ordered Dictionary.  macOS, iOS and most OSes do not support an Ordered Dictionary.

    FWIW, A while back, I was experimenting with iOS Swift Playgrounds and was able to approximate what FDB did with their Ordered Key-Value Pair.


    If FDB/Swift/ARM is viable, it opens up many opportunities, e.g. small business Point-Of-Sale-Terminals (iPads) WiFi connected to a FDB transaction server (cluster) running in the back room on a Mac Mini or an iPad while simultaneously running other clusters in the cloud.

    This could really be a game changer.
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  • Apple shares take hit as iPhone chipmaker TSMC forecasts $1B dip in revenue

    dick applebaumdick applebaum
    AppleInsider said:

    A Morgan Stanley analyst, Charlie Chan, argued that some key factors were unconfirmed order cuts for the A11 Bionic processor in the iPhone X, and "around a month's delay of Apple's new 7 nm processor to July."
    Everything old is new again...



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BuC_Gel1KI
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  • Kuo: Apple losing AR lead to low-cost competitors, lack of software innovation to blame

    dick applebaumdick applebaum
    avon b7 said:
    StrangeDays said:

    avon b7 said:
    randominternetperson said:
    So the two platforms that can run this start of the art title are tens of millions of iPhones and some phone by a company that made a name for itself with a niche upscaling DVD player?   Can anyone in America even buy an OPPO phone?  Oh, is OPPO the latest iPhone killer??
    As for Oppo being a niche DVD player manufacturer, remember Apple used to be a niche computer manufacturer and it doesn't even have the word computer in its name now.
    Nah, your comparison is just wishful thinking. Apple isn’t a niche computer maker the way Oppo was a niche DVD maker. Apple helped pioneer the PC revolution and made major contributions to accepted modern computing paradigms. Oppo has not. Apple is the only still-standing PC maker from those days, with us 40 years later and still killing it, financially and with innovative advancements in PC hardware. Does Oppo even still make DVD players? Who knows. Despite minority market share I’d bet Apple had more PC market than Oppo’s DVD share, tho I’m only guessing there. 
    Wishful thinking? Nah!

    A niche is a niche is a niche.

    I couldn't resist a smile when you reminded us all that 'Apple pioneered...'

    Straight out of Apple PR. Do they still tag that onto every press release?




    Mmm... Remington Rand, Burroughs, Alwac, NCR, GE, RCA, Honeywell, Digital Equipment, Data General, Altair, Cromemco, Ohio Scientific, Northstar nee Kentucky Fried Computer, PET, Apple, Atari, Smoke Signal Broadcasting, Exidy, Heathkit,Radio Shack, IBM/PC, Grid, Wang, Corvus... 

    Shall I go on?   Those were just a few of the maimframes, mini's and microcomputers available in the 1970s and 1980s.  Interesting that among those many brands, only Apple still makes microcomputers and their progeny.

    Those who ignore history...
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