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  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 public preview coming in next few months

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    That is very interesting. .NET already runs on Linux as well. Microsoft is reaching different levels and is competitive to other technology solutions. Considering that it even opened up to PostrgeSQL in addition to porting SQLServer to Linux platform this is real world of opening options now. While Apple hardware is not really commodity to run any business servers or enterprise except boutique publishing and graphics, this will at least give option of using macOS for development. I think they may be into mobile development, but honestly they probably target much wider goals.
    dewme

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 public preview coming in next few months

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    dk49 said:
    dewme said:
    This will be a very big deal, especially the availability of .NET 6.0 with Mac and Mac Catalyst support for both x64 Intel and Apple Silicon.

    Who's really using .NET these days?
    Everybody and maybe you should stick out your head out of small yard. You will not find single iOS or macOS in financial business, but you will most of Java and .NET. All your finances run on them so, do not judge based on what you use in your home attic.
    dewme

  • Steve Jobs shot Desktop Pictures for OS X Leopard

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    Beats said:
    This man continues to amaze years after his death.

    No he does not. If someone missed that he was above his times with vision and creativity at his times. He was jacka$$  to his family an toxic outside business, but he was type that pushed this world forward. So do not mix few things about Jobs while being amazed by him. I am missing his ways from Apple because that was the time that Apple quality, support and directions towards technology accomodating person was what made me left from Microsoft and other companies and conveinced family to move too. Now the company is not the same as in Jobs' times so pay attention. People like myself notice that and leave Apple. Direction is unclear and there is no hard demanding person with vision like Jobs was. There are so-so and half aestetic solutions that I am not even sure if Johnatan Ive would approve if he was at helm of what he was years ago.

    You can consider Elon Musk the similar type and mark my words what happens in next 10 years with Musk's ideas. There are only few in this world like Jobs and Musk who turned this world to advanced technologically and close to human needs and behaviors with that technology.
    marklark

  • Apple kept iMessage off Android to lock users in to iOS

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    cloudguy said:
    Why is this a headline? I thought it was:

    A. common knowledge

    and

    B. standard business practice

    Before people say "but Google" ... when did YouTube, Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps etc. get released on Windows Phone again? Or even in the Windows Store so that they can be installed on Microsoft's various attempts to compete with ChromeOS (Windows Education, Windows 10S and soon Windows 10X)? Microsoft fans to this day grumble that Google's refusing to release Windows Mobile apps for their services killed any chance that it had to survive. (What they leave out was that Microsoft's locking out Google services from their mobile platforms is what caused Google to create Android in the first place. A decision that Microsoft surely regrets to this day.)

    No it is not standard practice. Are these Apple standards? You may check other messaging systems to verify you "standard practice" claim. BTW redirecting SMS/MMS traffic that is telecommunication standard may be considered illegal (and it was challenged) and not  "standard practice" as you stated. Apple is subject to telecommunication standards and SMS/MMS was not their invention.

    The fact that two perpetrators try to violate standards and rules established by industry does not qualify for "standard practice" - it qualifies for both being violators and subject to penalties.
    elijahg

  • Apple kept iMessage off Android to lock users in to iOS

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    I am pretty sure this was case especially when messages were redirected from normal telecommunication system SMS/MMS and redirected to Appple Messenger. Apple used dumb and very painful technique of misidentifying receipient based on phone number which should be prohibited by FCC. This ended up (also for me) that if you bought multiple their devices and register for yourself, but gave as present to family members your messages were misdelivered to family members and frequently did not reach your iPhone. I had freind law enforcement officer sending me important messages like that that ended up thousands miles away on my family iPad and never on my iPhone.

    Apple also had suit because they locked phone numbers with messaging system and if you moved to Android your messages would not reach you. In addition to that if you wanted to send SMS messages to person who had iPhone you were notified that other person uses iPhone and you caannot send SMS messages to that person from other device or unregistered (phone number) iPhone that was outside iCloud. I expereinced that personally. This again should be prohibited by FCC and Apple should be punished. SMS/MMS system is no Apple enterprise or standard and they should stick to standards properly. Their phone number unregistering tool sucked and worked only if you had Apple computer which again does not sound like legitimate approach. In any case tool did not unregister you permanantly and you had to call their support. That I have done personally and they apologized for this mess.

    Many people moved to Android including myslef for those exact reasons of Apple strategy that started resembling what Microsoft was doing in '90 and few years after year 2000.
    It is not that hardware or solutions are bad at Apple, but strategy becomes arrogant without consideration about competition and alternatives and brainwashed.

    Today we have other means of sending messages and far more secure than Apple solutions working on all devices. One of them is encrypted traffic Signal and we do not need Messenger anymore. At least Signal while requires phone number it does not misidentify devices as every device is associated with phone number and you transfer communication to only one device when you are logged in.

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