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Several Macs have been cut off the support list for macOS Sonoma
Well I’ve been cut off for a while. My newest Mac is a 2012 mini.
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Final Cut Pro and Logic for iPad are now available
I disagree. $49 a year or $5 a month is dirt cheap. Say you only need it for your summer vacation videos. You are only out $5 or if you are a professional then $49 a year is a drop in the bucket and the programs have to be updated especially on Apple operating systems as Apple often drops support for deprecated system calls when they update operating systems. Yeah, subscriptions do have negative aspects, but I’m ok if the subscription price is reasonable.georgie01 said:I’d support these apps 100% if Apple didn’t decide to do a subscription. A company of Apple’s size to use subscription payments for an app is absurd. Unlike mobile phone service, internet service, iCloud, etc., software has no required development cost after release. To say users should be forced to fund ‘ongoing development and updates’ is a manipulative stretch that only makes sense for very small companies who don’t want to go out of business after two years because they can’t sell their software past the first major release or two. Even then, it’s still customer manipulation.
Apple’s reach is so large and their pockets are so full that a subscription is ridiculous.
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Your ISP's Wi-Fi router is probably cheating you out of some Internet speed
Even worse is that my isp is in the habit of first increasing advertised download speed and saying that “Look, you are getting more speed for the same price” and a few months later increasing the price. To add insult to injury, I never get the speed increase and am stuck at 110 MBPS even though they advertise as being 200 MBPS. When I ask them what the problem is, I get the response that the speed isn’t guaranteed. My response is how about half the speed for half the price. That never goes over well.
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Apple Watch Series 9 may get speed boost from new chip based on A15
I'm still on a Series 3 but then again, my Mac is a 2012 mini and my phone an Xs Max.I never thought as a 'techie' that I would fall so far behind.
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Music changed forever with Apple's iTunes Music Store 20 years ago
I remember that before the iTunes Store existed that not only would people download MP3s from pirate sites that they would more often just copy a friend’s entire collection. That was much faster as downloads were still on slower internet connections than we have now. Easy to swap your 400 songs with your friends 300 songs and delete the duplicates later. The music companies didn’t want to do iTunes and sell a song for 99 cents but they really had no other viable options.
