chelgrian

Gurman doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. In order to maintain a yearly cadence Apple will have to have multiple design efforts at different stages of development running concurrently.

In order to hit a product launch in mid 25 volume production of the chip would have had to begin months earlier. Allowing for several revisions to fix issues before you go to volume means you have to have taped out that initial rev sometime in 24. That means the design must be well advanced now.

That makes sense as they must be at least in the test phase if not in production ramp up for the A18 in order to hit a product launch in sep/oct 24.

sirdir said:

This was 100% clear from the beginning. An Appstore is not “sideloading”, who would have guessed . Now just the fees have to go. If you don’t use any of Apple‘s services, why would you pay them.

To pay for the development of the platform, you want fee free AppStore then you get to pay $1000 per seat for XCode. Why should Apple have to give it to you for free?

This is exactly how Visual Studio works for Windows if you don't fall in to the carve outs for the community edition then you pay.

Yes it will be a security disaster of the EUs own making. You will get exactly the malware situation that exists on non-iOS platforms. Apparently the EU commission neither understand nor care.

It's not just EU citizens who will lose someone will workout how to make the hooks to install stuff work on phones outside the EU and we'll have a wave of malware based on that.

Apple should have pulled out of the EU entirely rather than cave to a law essentially written specifically to destroy Apple's business model.

The people who consider the Mac Pro a massive fumble are not the target market and do not understand why the machine exists at all. Apple was never going to make a direct replacement for the x86 Mac Pro.

The current Mac Pro exists only to host Avid HDX cards for ProTools and to host 8K video acquisition cards from AJA or Blackmagic Design.

The instant that neither of those applications need an internal PCI-E slot then the Mac Pro goes away for good.

darkvader said:

It's already been shown that USB C will work in the older iPhones. 

Apple should get their act together.

The cost of retooling an old design for any variation is so great that it is not economically viable. Apple would just discontinue all lightning models when the mandate came in to force and only sell the iPhone 15. It would remain that way for a few years until a USB-C based shell gets in to a lower cost iPhone. The most likely thing being a retool of an existing design for a iPhone SE 4