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  • Apple is now providing 'jailbroken' iPhones in the Apple Security Research Device Program

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    lkrupp said:
    Human nature being what it is Apple can place as many restrictions and demands on these special iPhones as it wants but they WILL make it into the wild and black hats WILL get them and exploit them. Period.

    I certainly hope so.  It would be nice to be able to install this on every iPhone, it would make them actual computers!
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Ghislaine Maxwell's iPhone and bullets in an iPhone box in the Apple Crime Blotter

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    Poor Brits.  When I want 9mm ammo, I just order it online.  https://ammoseek.com/ammo/9mm-luger

    Prices aren't great right now, though.


    razorpitSpamSandwich

  • Apple's Federighi answers developer's questions on Siri, Apple Silicon, and more

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    “Ok guys, we have an important decision to make. Our laptops are burning. We can’t control the heat. Our design roadmap is no longer applicable with current CPU. The damn thing heats up too much. We are getting so much heat from our customers. Our engineers can’t keep up with finding thermal solutions to mitigate without doing the whole chassis revamp. It’s screwing up our product launch plans. We’ve complained to them [Intel] and are not getting any resolve. What can we do?”

    "We can make them thicker.  It's what our customers want anyway, almost nobody really cares about having a laptop that's a quarter inch thick.  We can keep making thin and underpowered 'MacBook Executive' models for the few idiots who do, and sell them for stupid money.  For everybody who actually needs a computer to use, we can make the MacBook Pro an actual professional laptop again.  Oh, and why are we still exclusive with Intel?  AMD has some nice x64 chips now.  Let's use those too.  Our customers will love us!"

    I mean, that's how it obviously should have gone.  Instead they took the stupidest route possible.
    xixocommand_f

  • Apple's Federighi answers developer's questions on Siri, Apple Silicon, and more

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    michelb76 said:
    SkylightActive said:

    Decoy tactics. Cause Intel / AMD / Nvidia / Qualcomm are laser focused on what Apple will do next. Why would Apple handedly let the cat out of the bag before prime time? If I’m gonna launch my own chips, why would I let the competition know? I’m gonna trick them into thinking that our chips are weak. Then, launch a surprise. Shake up the market. Take the crown for my self. 

    What Craig said, pretty much answered most of the worries. It supports what I just described. You guys should watch it. 
    I doubt they will take a crown, maybe in the watt/perf portion of the market. Both Intel and AMD suffer from the same architectural problems, although AMD is actually trying something. For the foreseeable future (several years) Apple will not have a chip that rivals the higher-end consumer Intel/AMD chips. So it obviously first targets MacBook and iMac users who don't care about performance. A great testcase though. Keeping the beefy Intel CPU's for the Mac Pro, and iMac 'pro', although that will be even worse value for money in a year from now. 

    Windows exists on ARM, but many Windows software does not support it. So like most scientific software that has moved away from the Mac, there will be more software unavailable for Mac users, even with VM capability available. This will mean a lot of students will now have to buy a Windows laptop. Games will not be playable under Windows on the Mac since they are not playable on Windows ARM either.

    It will be interesting to see if they will make a CPU that will be relevant for use in the MacBook Pro. And I'm very interested in developer tests with regards to build times.



    They don't stand a chance of taking any crown.

    ARM/Awhatever is "good enough" in mobile devices.  It's not good enough for a real computer.

    Apple has made a MASSIVE mistake, and they're about to lose a lot of customers.  Virtually everyone who moved to the Mac after the Intel switch because they could still run a few critical Windoze apps WILL be leaving.  Thousands of IT departments that allowed the Mac will be banning it again.  Developers will abandon the platform.  The already mediocre Mac game scene will evaporate, virtually the only games on the platform will be iOS games.

    Apple just killed the Mac.  The death throes will last years, but they're already beginning.
    xixo

  • Rosetta 2 lacks support for x86 virtualization, Boot Camp not an Apple Silicon option [u]

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    Rayz2016 said:
    darkvader said:

    The Mac's best days are behind it now.  And I'm not coming along for the ride, I'm done.  I'll still work on the ARM Macs for clients, but I will never own one.  And I'm going to be brushing up on my Linux and Windoze support skills, looks like I'm going to need it. 

    Apple just killed Macintosh.

    Yeah, I said the same thing when they switched to Intel.

    Anyway, byeeeee!! 👋🏾


    I didn't.  I was exceedingly annoyed by how quickly support for PowerPC Macs got dropped, especially considering the quad-core water cooled G5 that was on my desk.  That was a serious beast of a machine, and despite Steve's claims otherwise it was faster than the first Intel Macs by quite a bit.  But being stuck on 10.5 quickly became a problem.

    Overall though, that switch mostly made sense.  The Pentium chips of the day were absolute garbage, but the new Core series were much better.

    What was an absolute smack in the face was 10.7, with Rosetta being gone along with my beloved scroll arrows.  At least I've still got a few G5s, sometimes legacy software is better than the "upgrade" and sometimes there simply is no upgrade.

    The inexcusable dropping of 32 bit software has been an absolute nightmare, particularly since as with 10.7 many users were hit with it with absolutely insufficient warning.  I've made a decent chunk of money upgrading users from 10.15 to 10.14 since it's not a simple upgrade. 


    Yes, it's not only possible to run 32 bit software on Windoze 10 without any problem, it's still possible to run 16 bit software - literally decades of backward compatibility.  Apple could easily still support as far back as the Classic environment, but instead they intentionally and maliciously broke software from just a few years ago.  It's inexcusable.

    And now they're going to do it again.  Screw it, I'm f***ing done.
    elijahg