seanj

DAalseth said:

Because Windows Everywhere worked SOOOOO well for Microsoft
/s
No. Just no.

Yeah but that was like a lot of things Microsoft does, good idea but absolutely rubbish implementation. We all know Apple often isn’t the first to market with a product, but it is first to market with a working solution.

I’m guessing Thinderbolt is absent due to it being an Intel technology implemented using their chipset. However this will be an non-issue with the convergence of Thunderbolt and USB with USB 4 due next year.
So the first new Mac might not feature a Thunderbolt - as the 12” MacBook didn’t - or might not arrive until USB 4.

darkpaw said:

The NHS has not been involved in this app; it was outsourced by the UK government to Pivotal VMWare.

Don't denigrate the NHS by claiming they had anything to do with this Matt Hancock-up.

Nothing to do with Matt Handcock either.

Apparently it was the head guy at NHSX, Matthew Gould, decided not to use the AppleGoogle API and instead opt for a centralised app built by Pivotal at a cost of £4.5m. This was against the advice of the tech guys inside NHSX. Matthew Gould is a career civil servant and Whitehall mandarin who has no technology qualifications, experience, or background. Yet despite being woefully unqualified he has the job, screws up important projects, and gets paid £150k for it....
Pretty much the norm when it comes to bureaucrats in the UK.

anome said:

MisterKit said:

I have often wondered if it pronounced ARM or A, R, M.

I've only ever heard it as "arm", including back when the Archimedes came out (I knew a guy at uni who bought one from the UK, as they weren't generally available here), but when Apple got them to make the StrongARM chip for the Newton, it kind of became obvious.

I played with an Acorn Archimedes, the first ARM powered desktop, back in the late 80’s as I finished my Computer Science degree. It simply blew away the Intel PC’s of the time. Unfortunately it’s price and the emerging MS Monopoly meant it was never the success it should have been. But I saw them that Risc chips like ARM were the future.

rotateleftbyte said:

seanj said:

Apple and Google team up to destroy Microsoft’s monopolistic hold over corporations? Sure! 

Other ventures... not so sure...

Isn't Google a virtual Monopoly when it comes to search?

They are well up there with the level of data slurping. If Google were to return to the 'Do No Evil' days then fine but otherwise... Where's my 40ft barge pole to keep them away.

No there are plenty other search engines available, nothing to stop anybody using them.

BUT if you’re a company with legacy documents in Microsoft’s propriety file formats them you’re locked-in. Even if you’re not, you feel the need to be because other companies except documents formatted in Word or Excel etc. This is the only reason Microsoft and Windows refuses to die.

The post was about this monopolistic hold over the corporate market, a hold that Apple and Google have both failed to crack. Instead you throw in you paranoia about a search engine you’re not forced to use. Unbelievable.