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  • Adobe releases public beta of Premiere Pro for Apple Silicon

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    The problems Adobe has in porting are going to be because of code for their image processing operations that were developed over many years  and highly optimized for Intel CPUs.

    Some examples might be  taking advantage of AVX instructions ( not supported by Rosetta)  perhaps even some assembly code and the use of highly optimized libraries from Intel , such as Intel IPP or MKL - which will never be on M1. Some parts of those Intel libraries have no open source or exact equivalent on MacOS M1 - and Intel has bluntly stated they will never be "ported" as they are designed to show off Intel CPUs.  Intel also has of course abandoned their compiler suite for OS X.

    Apple has screwed many developers by jumping from technology to technology for high performance computing - many developers are probably feeling burnt.
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  • Judge rules Tim Cook must sit through seven-hour 'Fortnite' deposition

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    I have been deposed and have endured a 10 hour deposition. It’s a nightmare for even the best prepared. You are questioned relentlessly by the opposing counsel. I can understand how people crack under the pressure of interrogation.
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  • How Linux was ported to the Apple Silicon M1 Mac mini

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    A pointless intellectual exercise. You can run a full blown ARM Linux as a VM inside Parallels,VMWare  etc. 
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  • Boss Audio Systems introduces new $399 aftermarket wireless CarPlay unit

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    As mentioned  before the car2airplay adapter works brilliantly for anyone who has "wired" CarPlay and wants wireless CarPlay. Works perfectly on my VW with iOS 14.3
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  • Apple Silicon M1 Mac mini review - speed today and a promise of more later

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    cloudguy said:
    But, no pun intended, the failures are the edge cases, and compatibility is the norm.

    Yeah, no, that is not true at all. As predicted, lots of major apps are either running very slowly, frequently crashing or not running at all. 

    https://news.softpedia.com/news/it-s-not-only-milk-and-honey-terrible-app-experience-on-apple-silicon-531592.shtml

    https://www.extremetech.com/computing/317715-early-adopters-of-apple-m1-macs-should-be-cautious-about-compatibility

    https://mspoweruser.com/too-good-to-be-true-plenty-of-software-not-compatible-with-apple-m1-laptops/

    The initial reviewers were mostly "journalists who write about tech" types - including one who literally stated "who cares about Linux ... it is hard and practically nobody uses it" - who mostly rely on first party Apple software, browser stuff as well as software that Apple "helpfully" recommended. None of them applied a QA testing "let's see what works and what breaks" type of rigorous approach because that wasn't their background.

    Of course, I wouldn't expect Apple Insider to do such a thing ... but a lot of the folks at the alleged "independent tech-oriented sites" have egg on their faces right now. I have noted for years that when you read those sites, their "tests" of computing devices include video/photo editing (which virtually no one in the workforce outside of a few jobs/industries does) and they always compare everything to their MacBook Air/iMac/iPad/iPhone. But the first person to get the ball rolling was Patrick Moorhead. The guy doesn't like Apple much - so sue and boo him - but he is a tech consultant who regularly uses Macs for his job. He states:

     I have experienced application crashes in Microsoft Edge, Outlook, WinZip and Logitech Camera Control. I got installation errors with Adobe Reader XI, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, a Samsung SSD backup application, and Xbox 360 Controller for Mac. I couldn’t even install Adobe Reader XI 11.0.10. The installer just sat there, and I had to hard reboot the entire system. Acrobat DC would not install either. Given how many incompatibilities the M1 chip is having, a samaritan has created a site called “Is Apple Silicon Ready” documenting incompatible apps."

    https://isapplesiliconready.com/

    Granted, this is to be expected. We are basically a week into the launch of both a new hardware stack and a new operating system version. However, I felt that I had to reply to the "the failures are the edge cases and compatibility is the norm" when major applications like the entire Intellij suite - used heavily for programmers/developers - and Adobe applications aren't working and Outlook is unreliable. No one should buy M1 Macs as their primary work machines right now, but as secondary machines for specific applications. 


    Pretty absurd statement “no one should buy ... as a primary work machine”. In fact the great majority are not affected by edge cases, and it’s likely those edge cases will be made compatible by their developers within a very short time by going apple silicon native or by the 11.1 Big Sur update which has some rosetta2 fixes. Seems like a lot of sour grapes commentary in the PC/Intel world.
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