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  • More Spectre-style chip flaws discovered in Intel processors

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    rezwits said:
    seems like a great time for ARM, the timing is just... (proaly been stated b4)
    No, that's as bad an idea as it was the first time it was suggested.

    We DO NOT need another architecture transition.  And we definitely don't need it right now, Apple can't even handle bug fixes on their mail client, they're in the midst of what is turning into a VERY messy file system transition (you haven't seen the data loss incidents like those of us in IT have), and some of the bugs they introduced in 10.13 have been horrific, things like root access vulnerabilities and the SMB server connection crashes have been nightmares.  I'm typing this right now on a MBP running 10.13 with no Spotlight, no fix I've tried has worked to bring it back, and I'm probably going to end up having to change the drive, do a fresh install, and manually copy my data.  I'm NOT looking forward to it.

    Throw an architecture switch into the mix and you'll be lucky to get a Mac to boot half the time with the current software quality level.

    Oh, and then there's the lovely loss of binary compatibility with a few other popular operating systems out there, that's let me put quite a few Macs into the hands of users who would otherwise be stuck running Windoze all the time.
    brian greenirnchrizuraharadysamoriaAlex1N

  • Apple to shut down Texture's Windows app in July

    darkvaderdarkvader
    What's the point of this thing?

    I'd never heard of it.  It sounds like a ridiculous idea, when you can read magazines or whatever on the web.

    Hey, Apple, stop buying silly companies!  You want to buy something and shut down their Windoze apps?  BUY ADOBE!!!  Keep Acrobat alive on Windoze, put the rest apps in the Mac app store, and kill the subscription model and stop idiots from buying Windoze garbage and trying to do anything with graphics.

    You've got more than enough cash in the bank to buy them outright. 

    And, bonus, you can kill Flash dead immediately.

    (It might be a good idea to release some actual Pro hardware first though - your current "Pro" lineup is a sad joke.)
    berndog[Deleted User]watto_cobra

  • Disgruntled MacBook Pro users petition Apple to recall defective keyboards

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    macxpress said:
    bloggerblog said:
    macxpress said:
    Dongles, keyboard, touchbar, MagSafe. A renewed love/hate relationship between Apple and their pro users. Thanks Tim, you’re doing great!
    I have taken my MacBook Pro in 3 times for keyboard issues and looks like the 4th time is not far away. Tim Cook is such a joke. He doesn't care about the end user. Only his $$$$$$$$

     
    Yep...Tim is the designer of the keyboard. Can we fuckin stop with the Tim Cook shit. Its getting old! We can't blame Tim for every single god damn problem at Apple. 
    Chief Executive Officer, he sets and communicates expectations. He used a valued Apple moniker "Hello Again!" as a cheap shot to induce hype, and all we got was a gimmicky Touch Bar.
    I don't care what he said...he's still not the designer of the keyboard and its getting really tired of every single time there's an issue at Apple everyone is so quick to blame Tim Cook when its not even something he's in charge of. Tim is not in charge of making a keyboard. Thats why he (or the hardware exec) hires engineers and designers for. I find it really hard to believe that if Steve were still CEO everyone would be this hard on Steve Jobs and don't give me this BS that it wouldn't have happened. Plenty of shit like this happened when Steve CEO. This is what people seem to forget or, maybe they're too new to Apple to know what it was like "back in the day" when Steve was CEO of Apple. 
    And if he doesn't have personal responsibility to approve every single new model of Mac that Apple releases, he's utterly neglecting his job and needs to be fired. 

    I'm sorry, but it's not like Apple releases a hundred models a year.  It's well within his expected job duties to have some concept of what Apple is shipping, and he needs to take a closer look at them, rather than the quick glance he's apparently giving them, or he needs to leave.

    Jony Ive, on the other hand, absolutely should have been fired about ten years ago.  These new hardware designs are directly his responsibility, he IS responsible for these awful designs, and it's inexcusable.  Hire a competent industrial designer, and fire that idiot.  The first MacBook Pro without a user-swappable battery should have been the clue that he'd lost his mind, and he should have been out the door the day he proposed that stupidity.

    And I'm not saying anything about Tim that I haven't said about Steve.  Steve absolutely let some garbage out the door that should never have shipped, and he made some incredibly stupid decisions.
    dysamoria

  • In software development 'cultural shift', Apple won't hold features for major annual point...

    darkvaderdarkvader
    I keep hearing the same thing over and over.  Apple's focus on features is sacrificing stability of the platform as a whole, and allowing "new features" to be spread across the entire range of releases means that there will be absolutely no benefit to Apple in fixing old problems.  

    These "old problems" are compounding on themselves, and will eventually lead to huge performance, efficiency, and reliability problems.  I would rather Apple focus on NO NEW FEATURES and devote time to fixing some of these problems before they cripple the platform; sadly, that's apparently not the world Apple lives in.

    New features aren't the problem.  Apple keeps on removing features, they're completely destroying Server, I just discovered today that Bonjour no longer works in Messages in 10.13, they're breaking AFP, they're going to break 32-bit apps, they can't seem to stop f*****g up what they've got.  Or when they decided I don't want to be able to manage my iOS apps on my Mac - because yes, I f*****g well do.  Upgrading back to iTunes 12.6.3 from 12.7 was a real pain.

    Well, maybe the new features are the problem, because they're mostly useless fluff, or worse actually disastrous like the iCloud desktop sync that they decided to turn on by default.  I have exactly one client who wanted that feature, and I've spent a lot of time helping a lot of others recover from it.  Even worse was when they decided to actually remove files from computers and store them only in iCloud - literally nobody wants that to happen ever, but Apple turned it on by default.
    SpamSandwich

  • Mac sales continue decline in Q3, Apple drops to 5th place worldwide

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Soli said:
    Remember when Acer was rising up through the unit sales ranks with shitty* netbooks?

    * I know, that's redundant.

    dysamoria said:
    This is not a surprise, since their software is atrophying. I mean, with the way they gutted iWork, what's the use in having a mac if you're just going to put a crippled MS Office installation on it? Apple have de-professionalized every product they have. They're addicted to Wall Street BS and repeat iPhone sales. They have no vision, no leadership that isn't just more tonerhead mindlessness, no sense of useability (slowly killing every bit of usability that drove them up to 2013)... all the compelling excellence that Apple used to be known for has been ditched, replaced with ugly flat, minimalism, bugs that never get fixed, and missing functionality. iPhone was both a critical success for Apple and the lure to follow mindless cart-before-horse business practices that are killing the mac, Mac OS, and every piece of software Apple still has left.
    The Mac HW and macOS have never been better.
    They've both been better, the 2012 MacBook Pro was much better than the current touchbar "Pro", the 2012 Mac Pro was much better than the "current" 2013, the 2012 Mac mini was much better than the "current" 2014.  The 2011 MacBook Pro had a maximum of 16GB RAM, and a brand-new MacBook Pro has a maximum of... 16GB RAM.  You can put a 4TB SSD in the 2012, the 2017 maxes out at 2TB.  If you give up the internal optical drive in the 2012, you can put 8TB of SSD in, the 2017 maxes out at - yep, still 2TB.

    And lots of things in Mac OS X haven't been right since 10.6, and it got much uglier with 10.10.  It's not more stable, it's not faster, it's not more usable, the server version is a joke, and we still don't have scroll arrows.
    sunwukongdysamoria