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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".

This has also been happening with ERS returns. Location: US.

Cook and O'Brien also dropped by the Apple Lakeside Shopping Center in Metairie, surprising employees there. Cue, Cook, and O'Brien were sighted at Domilise's Po-Boys & Bar on Annunciation Street in the downtown area.

I think you mean a) the Apple Store at the Lakeside Shopping Center in Metairie, and b) Domilise's Po-Boys & Bar on Annunciation Street in the Uptown area (which as "Uptown" might suggest, is not at all "downtown").

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beowulfschmidt said:

Apple could also just pull out of the UK entirely, fire all their UK employees, and stop buying UK goods and services.  I know they won't, but feck all fascist governments.

By that logic, they need to pull out of the USA immediately. 

Because Apple is in the US that means they should prop up fascism and a police state?

Not directed at you personally, but people need to learn what fascism is. Fascism is a type of authoritarianism but not authoritarianism is fascism. 

Fascism is a far-right system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

The U.K. is capitalist, and we can certainly argue that this would be a stringent movement control the rest of the definition doesn't fit at all. There U.K. isn't governed by the far-right, it isn't a dictatorship, there isn't violent suppression of opposition and the list goes on. So, yeah, not fascism at all 

“Agreed, the UK isn’t there. The US however…”

While what Trump is doing is disturbing, illegal and authoritarian, he is not a fascist. 

Experts on fascism — i.e., people who have studied fascism extensively and know exactly what it is and isn't — disagree with you. Here's one who changed his mind on the issue to declare that Trump is a fascist.

https://www.newsweek.com/robert-paxton-trump-fascist-1560652