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  • Latest VMWare Fusion tech preview brings Windows 11 to Apple Silicon Macs

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    jayweiss said:
    ...VMWare Fusion has always been second fiddle to Parallels on Macs. 
    You're joking right?  VMWare is a professional-level hypervisor while Parallels is more an afterthought.

    I've been using VMware Fusion since the v4 days and it has been fantastic.  I use it on my Mac for enterprise-level solutions whereas Parallels (and its support) would leave me wanting.  One time I could not get a hardware device functioning in Windows via Fusion, and VMWare invited me to their engineering offices in Silicon Valley to sit next to one of their engineers while we both figured out the problem.  They released an update incorporating our changes shortly thereafter.  That's support.  Parallels would have been "so sorry, not supported." - Fact.

    So long as VMware continues Fusion, I will continue to support them by buying their new releases every year as I've always done.

    Parallels would be a last-resort Mac Hypervisor for me.
    Alex1N

  • Latest VMWare Fusion tech preview brings Windows 11 to Apple Silicon Macs

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    I wish AI and others would write clarify Windows 11 compatibility in a clearer way.

    They are referring to Windows 11 ARM right?  VMware Fusion will NOT bring Windows 11x64 to ASi Macs right?
    tokyojimuappleinsideruserAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • China loves the iPhone, but is cooling on the App Store

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    Beats said:
    My typical slightly off topic rant:

    About a decade ago I suggested Apple cater directly to outside countries by offering country-specific apps and services. It’s frustrating because I know Apple has the money for this. Facebook used their money to lock-in customers all the time and they’re using them.

    Imagine if Apple had acquired WeChat 11 years ago. Maybe CCP wouldn’t have allowed it(or not, money talks look at Didi) but the growth was obvious and at the least Apple could have striked up some deal with big App developers. Why the heck did Apple blow $1B on Didi? It’s been 6 years and I believe Didi offers. nothing special for Apple users.

    Apple should have acquired or partnered with Line in Japan a decade ago(which I suggested). Imagine how expensive it is now?

    I’m glad Apple is gaining the market share they deserve (in my opinion they deserve about 98%) but this could have been done faster and way way better.
    Assuming Apple was even able to purchase WeChat, the CCP would still shackle Apple.  The CCP does not like Apple having that much control over the App Store, so then here came WeChat - fully endorsed by the CCP - that has an embedded App Store outside of Apple's control and Apple can't do a single thing about it outside of of banning WeChat and being booted out of China's market.

    China's ultimate objective is to turn the iPhone into a dumb terminal where everything goes through WeChat and the iPhone is just a bare-bone host to run WeChat on top of it.
    darkvader

  • Mystery Apple network adapter surfaces in FCC filings

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    I wish Apple would get back into the router business.  The Airport Extremes were such solid devices.  I still have about a dozen of them running 24/7 for almost 10 years without a hiccup.  They're just so reliable and solid.  The rest of the industry never could match that.
    opiniondarkvader

  • Anker's new USB-C dock lets M1 Mac users run three monitors

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    MST is garbage.  Period.  These dock manufacturers do more damage to the industry by trying to apply bandaids to save a few dollars and leave users to deal with problems on their Macs that MST is notorious for.  

    Someone in our shop had their Mac plugged into a similar dock that use MST and his frustration levels were at a new level that they involved me.  I saw what he was using, threw it out, put in a proper Thunderbolt Dock (From Caldigit) and his drama disappeared.

    Make the darn thing a Thunderbolt/USB4 dock and provide proper display ports that go with it.
    Alex1N