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  • M1X Mac mini will be thinner, use iMac's magnetic power connector says leaker

    OutdoorAppDeveloperOutdoorAppDeveloper
    I am really happy Apple stuck with the Mac Mini. I kept expecting them to discontinue it but people kept buying them so they kept selling them. Now if Apple would only sell a $300 Mac Nano and lay waste to the entire PC market, that would be sweet. Come on Tim. What would Steve Jobs do?
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  • Apple engineers dish on no macOS for iPad & why 11-inch model didn't get mini-LED

    OutdoorAppDeveloperOutdoorAppDeveloper
    "Broderick responded simply that each platform is unique and distinct and will remain so." Or, to paraphrase "Because we said so."
    This point has to be hammered home: Steve Jobs would have immediately released MacOS on the iPad and on a Mac Nano (that looks exactly like an Apple TV with an M1 processor) not because it would maximize short term profit but because it would maximize industry disruption and bring Apple a much larger share of the overall computer market over the coming decades. The PC industry has NOTHING to compete with the M series CPUs in low end small form factor PCs and tablets. They won't have anything to compete with it for YEARS. That's how you dominate. You apply your technological advantage in one market to disrupt another market. Cook is a fantastic CEO and has kept the product line full but he can't disrupt like Steve Jobs could.
    GeorgeBMac

  • Judge in Epic v. Apple trial presses Tim Cook on App Store model, competition

    OutdoorAppDeveloperOutdoorAppDeveloper
    The money argument is a loser regardless of who makes it. Epic says that 30% is unacceptable but 15% is perfect. Why? Apple says that they need the revenue from app sales. Why? People are buying iPhones and Apple makes a huge profit on those so more app sales equals more iPhone sales and more profits. The real argument is about the user's right to install whatever software they want on their devices. It doesn't matter that Apple thinks they shouldn't. It doesn't matter that you think they shouldn't. They have an absolute right to use their own property however they wish. That's why Apple could not legally prevent users from jailbreaking their iPhones regardless of what their license agreement said. It's risky and users should have to agree to take on that risk but it's their choice to make, not Apple's and not yours.
    GeorgeBMacelijahgFileMakerFeller

  • Craig Federighi blasts Mac security to prop up iOS App Store

    OutdoorAppDeveloperOutdoorAppDeveloper
    mattinoz said:
    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    There is a famous science fiction story called "The Humanoid Touch" by Jack Williamson in which millions of well meaning androids land on Earth and smother all humans with care. They make humans so safe that they are incapable of doing anything that involves even the smallest amount of risk. This is what Craig Federighi wants to do for Mac users. I have been using MacOS for decades now and have never had a serious problem with malware of any kind but in Craig's mind there is still a tiny chance I could download a bad app and so keeps adding layer after layer of security which serves mainly to break the apps I need to do my job. I am a software developer. There are exactly zero software development apps that run natively on iOS, you know, because they are too risky. There is a very simple way to make both MacOS and iOS 100% safe. Just get rid of all third party apps.
    Can you find a quote from Craig to suggest this is his thinking?
    Specially that Apple shouldn't be building platform for others to value add.

    I don't think he has. I recall Craig has said this himself at WWDC talk show maybe by certainly other times.  Apple's mission is to make life better or in other word to be a platform for all their customers to value add. 

    He seems, as other have already said, macOS isn't as secure, there are reasons it can be better and other reasons it will never catch up to iOS. 
    I am simply observing Apple's actions under Craig's leadership. Over time it has become more restrictive and harder to get basic work done. Meanwhile iOS is flat out impossible to use for many jobs due to Apple's restrictions. Users do need security but they also need to have control over it and make some of the decisions if they need to.
    muthuk_vanalingamelijahg

  • Apple VP calls Apple TV 4K an 'outsized value,' doesn't want to aim for a price point

    OutdoorAppDeveloperOutdoorAppDeveloper
    It would be an outstanding value, even at twice the price, if the Apple TV had a M1 processor and could run Mac OS. In fact it would disrupt the entire computer industry, the way Steve Jobs did long ago.
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