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  • Suppliers are backing away from Apple AR, says Kuo

    genovellegenovelle
    I wonder if Apple is moving to suppliers they may have more direct influence over to keep the constant leaks about their every move for such an important product from being plastered on the internet daily. 

    Remember what happened when he leaked that Hyundai was in talks about building Apple’s car and the CEO confirmed it publicly? The next leak was that talks were abruptly ended. 
    williamlondonwatto_cobrabyronl

  • TSMC managers think Americans don't work hard enough

    genovellegenovelle
    They’re not wrong 😑 
    dewmewatto_cobraBart Ykestral

  • Florida wants Apple & Google to label apps made outside US

    genovellegenovelle
    dewme said:
    What I will ask is, practically speaking, when we look at the statement:

    "We must ensure that consumers have the information needed to make informed decisions about their data privacy and security,"

    What exactly is the advantage, much less the mechanism, that ordinary consumers are expected to leverage to make their own informed decisions about data privacy and security? Do ordinary consumers receive daily briefings, receive periodic updates, or routinely peruse security threat reports from informed sources, private and government based, about how, when, and where security threats are a cause for concern? 

    Informed decisions? Let's get real. The vast majority of consumers don't know jack squat about cyber security and privacy threats, much less sift through the noise to separate fact from fiction to begin the process of making an informed decision. You know, the same consumers who routinely post private and personally identifiable information about themselves and their kids and grandkids on social media. What? Me worry? They've been conditioned and primed through shaky media coverage, bias, propaganda, innuendo, speculation, and bullshit-spewed-through-a-bullhorn to automatically associate "enemy status" with whatever and whomever they've been trained to react to in a predictably negative way.

    This isn't being "informed," it's being "indoctrinated." 

    Soft forms of indoctrination are still indoctrination. The big difference is that soft indoctrination is self-enforced through conditioning while hard indoctrination is government-enforced through guns and work camps.
    I think we should have the oath public officials take be continuous until they leave office and everything they say publicly is considered under oath and perjury if they lie then be punishable in a court of law. In fact they should have to take an oath of truth to be candidate running for public office. It would clear out a lot of garbage real quick. Get caught lying to the public and you get fined, removed from office, and depending on the lie, serve time
    watto_cobraFileMakerFeller

  • Apple making the case that Apple Silicon Mac & iPhone are great gaming machines

    genovellegenovelle
    jSnively said:
    Games are a hits-driven business and when 95% of hit titles don't even run on your platform then you're not a "great" gaming machine. Once in a blue moon you'll get a AAA title years late, but even in the most recent case, the Mac version of RE:VIII is one of the worst looking versions of that game you can play. 

    Also, Bloober team is... rough. Layers of Fear was a great horror game (some may say the best), but the 5 or so titles they've done since have been pretty mediocre-to-bad. Observer probably gets a nod, but that's about it. I don't think anybody has faith they will do a good job with the SH2 remake.

    The MetalFX stuff is good (and needed for the resolution Apple pushes in their monitors), but it's generations behind what DLSS offers at this point. If Apple were serious they would bootstrap a solution based off the work being done on the Linux side of things (Wine/DXVK/VKD3D etc.) instead of trying to get developers to port to their proprietary APIs which will never happen en masse. 

    Apple has *never* actually been serious about gaming, but it would be cool to see that change.
    This year is the first time I’ve heard them say they intend to make the Mac a gaming platform. That sounds like they are serious about it now. I think having their own cpu and gpu makes them more comfortable with focusing their efforts. They no long have to wait for someone else to deliver the chips they developed for on time. 
    danoxwatto_cobrafastasleep

  • Apple will try to talk its way out of a $40 billion fine on Tuesday

    genovellegenovelle
    Apple needs to say nope. Your policies don’t match our business model so we won’t offer these services in your region. It’s actually why so many Apple products never make it beyond the US. It’s just not worthy the effort. 

    They should label those countries or regions Apple Hostile and many just block the App Store there. Problem solved. 
    watto_cobra