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  • FireWire may finally be dead in macOS 26 & Apple isn't looking back

    chelgrianchelgrian
    There’s going to be a small but vocal number of pro audio people clinging to old FireWire audio interfaces who scream blue murder about ‘Planned Obsolescence’ and how Apple are terrible for not supporting their 20 year old interface.
    ciawatto_cobra

  • Intel app compatibility on Mac is holding you back and will never get better

    chelgrianchelgrian
    twolf2919 said:
    I, and perhaps quite a few others, are in an even worse predicament: we rely on x86 apps that were never even ported to macOS!  In my case, for the last 15 years, I've had to run Intuit TurboTax for Business in a Windows 10 VM on my x86 MacBook Pro.  Intuit - a pretty large software house - has never seen the need, despite user pleading, to publish a Mac version.  But besides shaming them in forums like this, not much I can do.  Anyway, it ran just fine in a Parallels VM over the years, so I resigned myself to keeping an x86 Mac around just for that - and for building x86 Linux installers (again in a VM) of a commercial app I support.  But that Mac is getting a little long in the tooth.  I had hoped that Parallels would provide a Rosetta-like solution so I could run x86 VMs on an Mx Mac at some point.  And, to their credit, they recently came out with such a thing - but very crude and very slow.  Not really useable really, from what I hear.

    I wish Apple provided a performant x86 interpreter a la Rosetta to the VM makers, so those of us who need to use or build x86 apps can do so on current Macs.
    Firstly they do, Rosetta is available in virtual machines although only Linux guests take advantage of it.

    Secondly ARM Windows 11 runs in a Parallels VM and has its own fairly performant Rosetta like support for running x86 and x86_64 programs.

    As someone who has written system level emulators trust me you DO NOT want to run an OS designed for one architecture in a emulator on another architecture it’s just slow and always will be, you want a native OS running under virtualisation and user space emulation.
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • Apple turns to Anthropic to speed up coding & fix buggy tools

    chelgrianchelgrian
    Massiveattack87 said:
    So... Apple can´t solve it alone. Apple is way too late in the game.
    It shows that Apple is really behind in AI. 
    RIP Apple. 
    *yawn* Apple has always had numerous external suppliers however like other strong brands before them they are very good at presenting their product and their brand. Nokia did a very similar thing with a very similar supply chain management strategy in the early 2000s

    As to being late in the game, what game? Approximately the only people making money out of generative models at the moment are Nvidia and power companies.

    The current state of the market is a bubble and cannot last.

    danoxwilliamlondonForumPostwatto_cobra

  • Processor cost could drive prices of the iPhone 18 range up

    chelgrianchelgrian
    Kuo seems to not understand how this works. Apple lock pricing in years in advance of the process even being available by providing money towards the development of the process then pre-buying the entire output of the new process for some exclusivity period.

    Yields would affect the volume and mix of product they launch but not the price.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • China escalates US tariff war by halting rare earth mineral exports

    chelgrianchelgrian
    libertyandfree said:
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    DAalseth said:
    China is NOT the only place on earth that has rare earth elements. Large deposits are in Canada, the US, Australia, and elsewhere. It’s just that China was the cheapest place to get them so the other sources have not been developed. It will take time to get the operations going, but the process was started during the first Trump term. 
    This is mostly addressed in the article. The folks we've spoken to about it say that spinning up rare earths in the US will take at least another five years, if at all.
    Just another great reason to get some of this critical production out of China who is not a friend of the US or the West.  China imposing these restrictions will accelerate the development in other geographic regions to produce these rare earths, and that’s a good thing. 
    You don’t appear to understand that what is being done means there is a good chance there will not be a US economy left to consume the materials regardless of source. It is economic vandalism.

    Trying to undo half a century of integration in days does not work it has to been done slowly in many cases simply getting the capability to manufacture could take a decade. Trump doesn’t care all he cares about is that this is popular with his supporters, when you have no products to buy later this year when stockpiles are depleted and all the tariffs properly kick in and a food shortage in the fall due to farm subsidies being slashed and farmers literally not planting due to the uncertainty are you still going to support this insanity?
    thtdanoxradarthekatsinophiliawatto_cobra