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Sweeney is such an idiot.

[The Apple Silicon transition] was, by far, the easiest transition that Apple had made, and it had done so twice before as we've talked about already.

It's really more than twice they have done this, and you have to start with the NeXT lineage, not [Classic] MacOS, because [Classic] MacOS was a dead end and what we today call macOS is a descendant of Next/NeXTSTEP, not [Classic] MacOS.

NeXT started out on Motorola processors just like Apple did with the Macintosh, but from fairly early on they worked on moving it to Power PC and Intel. It was also ported to PA-RISC and SPARC. The Cocoa frameworks were also ported to several environments under the OpenStep name, including Windows NT. And the development of WebObjects brought more experience from turning it into a web development environment.

So when NeXT effectively took over Apple (and was paid by Apple to do so) they brought with them all that individual and institutional experience as well as specific experience in designing portable operating systems, application frameworks, etc. Most of the things that have made the subsequent transitions so apparently simple — the application frameworks, fat binaries, etc. — had already been thought out and refined for years before "Apple" released Mac OS X (and it's always been at least rumored that they kept the Intel version up to date while they were selling Power PC hardware, which would have made the Intel transition even easier).

So, the foundations for how simple these hardware platform transitions have appeared were laid years before they started happening at Apple, and they, as an institution, have done this a lot more than "twice before".

One thing not mentioned in the article is that what it refers to as the "widgets" inside the weather app (wind, humidity, avgs., ...) don't alway appear in the same locations on the screen. They can be in different positions for different locations, and also at different times for the same location.

Also, at least on iPhone, if you are at the top of the weather screen for any individual location (see 1st pic in article), swiping down will show you a list of all the locations you have setup, allowing you to view basic conditions at these, or to select 1 directly rather than swiping right or left through other locations.

Wow, what a blockbuster report from Gurman! Who'd have thought Apple was working on future processors? This is really quite the scoop by Bloomberg. 

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Unfortunately, all the robot arms — as well as legs, heads and torsos — will be subject to tariffs.