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  • Apple takes Prepear logo trademark fight to Canada

    darkvaderdarkvader
    There's not even a passing resemblance.

    It's nothing like the time a company blatantly ripped off Apple's name and logo.


    (The Apple in question was a record company, and the computer company was Apple Computer Inc.  So they should know something about ripping off trademarks...)
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  • Vision Pro may use sensors to react to wearer's stress or attention span

    darkvaderdarkvader
    More patents gone mad.

    "We're not actually going to build this, and we didn't invent anything involved, but we're going to claim this is something new so we can make money if anybody else does it."

    Apple is sometimes a patent troll.
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  • T-Mobile activates 5G in more cities, delivers Sprint customers wider LTE access following...

    darkvaderdarkvader
    razorpit said:
    Is T-Mobile civerage as good as they show on their map? I have AT&T and my coverage is nothing like that.

    In my experience, yes.  It's much better than when I had AT&T.
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  • First ARM-based MacBook coming by end of 2020, says Ming-Chi Kuo

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    GeorgeBMac said:
    Just a thought -- or rather speculation:

    I am wondering if what is triggering this move from Intel processors to internally developed A series processors was Intel's failure in developing a 5G modem for Apple?

    Apple put a lot confidence in Intel when they moved their modems from Qualcomm to Intel -- and Intel pretty much did a face plant.   Not only were their 4G modems slower than Qualcomm's but they were unable to develop a 5G modem at all -- which forced Apple to return to Qualcomm with their tail between their legs and their checkbook in hand.

    I can easily see Apple hierarchy saying:   "Never again!  We will not let ourselves be that vulnerable ever again"

    There's a simple fix for that.  AMD would be an easy and obvious second source for CPUs.  Intel's exclusivity agreement expired years ago, there's no reason Apple can't start shipping Ryzen Macs.

    But ARM is sheer idiocy.  The ability to virtualize other operating systems is a vital feature for far more people than Apple seems to think.  I've been around a long time, MacOS is a great operating system, but if Apple dumps IA64 I may have to say goodbye after my current Macs hit EOL.  Every processor transition has been a huge pain, this one isn't likely to be any better than 68K -> PPC or PPC -> Intel.  And in many ways it would be far worse, we'd be trading performance and compatibility for Apple's "not invented here" stupidity.

    If Apple does this, it's profit motivated, not product motivated.  And I'm not playing.
    h2p

  • Vine relaunches as Byte, bringing six-second videos back to the web

    darkvaderdarkvader
    Byte?  That's infuriating.

    Now if I'm looking for old issues I'll run into stuff about this idiotic app.
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