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  • Apple provides new iOS design resources compatible with Photoshop and Sketch

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    dysamoria said:
    If only Apple guided developers on, and demonstrated, better design standards, such as readability (contrast and color usage), comfort, clear distinction between objects, meaningful graphics, large enough touch zones, self-evident controls that actually look like controls... 
    They do - in both the HI Guidelines and sample code ( e.g., controls).
    watto_cobra

  • Safari not able to play new 4K videos from YouTube homepage, likely due to VP9 shift

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    MnMark said:
    What gets lost in the comments blaming one or the other company for pride or whatever is - what's best for the consumer. Does anyone care? Or is it always what's best for the company?
    I care a bunch. Performance is the issue for me, and of course quality. I could give a flip if it is only half as large as a 4K that uses a different codec. Apple (and their consumers) have a large enough presence on the internet that if we all use something besides Google products then Gaggle will knuckle under and add 4K HD support the same way they did with HTML5. I really don't want to see Apple tied to some proprietary codec again - anyone remember Flash.
    justadcomics

  • Peter Thiel says 'age of Apple' at its end

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    tbuzzz said:
     "everything that can be invented has been invented."

    Charles H. Duell-  Commissioner of US patent office- 1899.


    In 1943, Thomas Watson - Chairman of IBM stated "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". Bill Gates, founder and Chairman of Microsoft, in conjunction with IBM decided that 640K of RAM was large enough for anyone since the norm was 64K. the list goes on and on...
    watto_cobra

  • Programmer who spearheaded Swift to exit Apple [u]

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    blastdoor said:
    I wonder if he's going to IBM? 
    As long as it isn't "Alphabet" or Samsdung! Seems to sharp for that. Perhaps it is just itchy feet after 11+ years at Apple?
    mwhitepatchythepirate

  • Intel launches new Kaby Lake chips suited for Apple's MacBook Pro, iMac

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    dick applebaum said:
    Soli said:
    Soli said:

    Couldn't multiple Apple ARM chips be used to outperform a single Intel chip?
    Possibly, but then we'd lose the ability to virtualize which is (sadly) still a requirement for some of us who use our Macs in the enterprise.
    Don't look at it as an all-or-nothing option. Just because they re-introduce the MacBook with an ARM chip and with a much lower MSRP, doesn't mean that the MacBook Pro wouldn't still get Intel chips for the foreseeable future.
    Wouldn't that cause the same kind of software compatibility issues Microsoft ran into with RT? "This software works on this Mac but not that one, whereas that title works on that Mac but not this one."
    Not at all. What MS did for Surface RT is not unlike their 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. It was poorly thought out and implemented. Apple, on the other hand, has made the transition from discrete architectures many, many times throughout their history, and today it's even better for them since they have the Mac App Store, many low-level coding elements which will allow developers to build for multiple architectures with relative ease, and since their most popular platform is already ARM there will be the ability to use these advancements to further the App Store for an ARM-based notebook without forcing every device they sell to be shifted to ARM when they are ready to include a low-end option. However, I don't expect this to occur until their desktop OS reaches an evolutionary state that makes less instructive and offer a shorter learning curve like iOS.
    "However, I don't expect this to occur until their desktop OS reaches an evolutionary state that makes less instructive and offer a shorter learning curve like iOS."

    I've been going on about a proOS in several threads -- specifically something in between iOS and macOS -- to exploit the iPad Pro hardware.

    Implemented correctly, proOS could subsume macOS over time.



    eeh gads! not another OS to support. I seriously hope that you are wrong! This proOS sounds like what Microsoft has done for years (that has not worked) i.e., with their so-called tabletbooks going back well over a decade. They have all sucked IMHO - your mileage may vary ;-)
    Solibkkcanuckjahaja