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  • Bill Gates said Steve Jobs caught Microsoft 'flat-footed' with launch of iTunes Store

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    Steve jobs caught a lot of people flat footed. Microsoft often had some good ideas, but didn’t have that human experience orientated drive and philosophy to get the magic right. If they cared it didn’t make itself apparent. 

    Microsoft already had a phone and a tablet, but they were targeted towards a business market. This is a market where as long as you have the functionality the rest is extra. Steve targeting more of a consumer market and having created the Mac knew that the offering had to be as much an emotional one as it was functional. 

    seanjwatto_cobra

  • Microsoft Windows 11 revealed with dramatic increase in system requirements

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    MacPro said:
    tmonline said:
    TPM chip requirement! Well, that may be a bummer for bootcamp/dual boot mac owners who like to have windows for work or other reasons.

    Not sure if VMs can get around that, anyone? 
    That would be a bummer. I have several older Macs running Windows 10 Pro as servers for MySQL.
    Did you mean MySQL or SQL Server? If you mean the former, then moving to a Linux would make much more sense, especially due to reduced license cost and the fact Linux does run both natively and in VM form on Mac hardware. If you mean the latter, then you may be better off running it on a dedicated Windows host.

    One article describing installing Linux on a Mac: https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/how-install-linux-on-mac-3637265/
    watto_cobra

  • Intel-based MacBook Pro is Intel's latest anti-Apple campaign target

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    Intel drops the ball, AMD picks it up and Apple decides they'd go with ARM. Intel is now in the process of doing damage control.

    Apple on the other hand never targeted gamers and has always been a joke for gamers. Deprecating OpenGL and leaving it in a seemingly unmaintained state does not help the game developers who do want to port to macOS. On the other hand, while this is a barrier for a certain number of game developers, that iOS has a healthy selection of games, may mean there is a chance that these games will be ported to macOS. Also, I wonder how many Apple users simply turn to a console for the gaming experience?
    watto_cobra

  • Game engine maker Unity expects $30M hit from Apple's App Tracking Transparency

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    Gaby said:
    Personally I think Apple should purchase unity and retain the engineers. Then slowly integrate it into their SDK. It would help in myriad ways with the benefit of stifling Epics betrayal and scheming. Moreover if any of these court cases do result in Apple having to open up iOS somewhat and allowing 3rd party stores or payments then it would be another way to justify the commission model, and provides an additional incentive by offering a seamless high quality platform to retain devs and apps for the Appstore, rather than them having to pay Sweeney and Co. And additional percentage of revenues on top. All the while allowing for increased competition. Thus regulators would have no justification to complain. 
    Given that Unity uses C#, it would be more suited for Microsoft to purchase them, than Apple. 
    watto_cobra

  • Discord spokesperson blames Apple for NSFW content removal

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    Others have made the point that given that Discord is in many ways simply a transport of content, it should not be treated any differently from Safari. 

    This means Apple should either make Safari 18+ or accept that a generic platform should receive the same rating as Safari. 

    Individual Discord servers can already warn about content rating, which you need to click through before seeing. 
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