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  • Apple has reportedly dropped Qualcomm modems on two 2025 iPhones

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    This is great news.  The stunt that Qualcomm pulled back then with their predatory practices began what is now will be their downfall.  Judging by QCOM's selloff today when the market opened this morning, Qualcomm has a lot of wounds to lick.

    When Qualcomm demanded not only the price of the chip, but also a percentage of every iPhone sale Apple made then I knew this company was doomed.  Good riddance Qualcomm.
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  • Apple Silicon Macs are staying in use longer than Intel Macs

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    sandor said:
    blastdoor said:
    kiwimachead said:
    Apple silicon is a game changer but people forget how much of a difference SSD hard drives made when they were introduced. Our 2011 MBA (SSD) died this year. It kept going well beyond software support ending and the only repair was a battery replacement. Without SSD the Intel processor would have been practically unusable a long time ago. I had a MacBook Pro with HDD (also 2011 model year) for work around 2014-2016 and it was so slow as to be almost unusable compared with the humble MBA.
    SSDs were definitely a huge upgrade.

    ...Mac OS does a great job of prioritizing system responsiveness to the user,...
    We must not be working with the same Finder. 

    I have seen no substantive reduction in beach balling from 10.13 through macOS 14.

    in our environment, i would estimate at least one daily force restart (hold power button down) because of a beach balling Finder.

    Kernel panics have definitely improved - we have 10.14 & 10.15 machines that panic at least once per week, however we very rarely see the macOS 13/14 machines panic.
    I go for months without rebooting my Mac.  If you're doing a daily restart to resolve this, sounds like there's something completely different going on.  Troubleshoot and figure out what's going on.  
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  • Apple Watch SE may switch to an all-plastic chassis to lower costs

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    I think there materials have their place, just as much as more premium materials for those willing to pay for it.  I don't think apple is going to do an across-the-board material replacement but just limit it to the more cost-conscious market.
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  • ChatGPT for Mac app logged queries in an unencrypted file before getting caught

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    AppleInsider said:

    "We are aware of this issue and have shipped a new version of the application which encrypts these conversations," OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson says in a statement to The Verge. "We're committed to providing a helpful user experience while maintaining our high security standards as our technology evolves."


    This is such a pure BS response from them.  "As technology evolves"?  Bullsh!t.  Some jackass over there made the conscious decision to do this, or out of sheer coding laziness.  There ought to be more consequence than just a typical "lol... sorry, my bad" on ChatGPT's part.  How's about banning them from MacOS for a year?  Something?
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  • How to use iPhone Mirroring in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia

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    appleminded said:
    Doesn’t work in France (Europe)
    Maybe that's why this is BETA?  

    Jeez... people expect production-level quality with beta releases.  
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