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hmurchison said:

I don't think there's much doubt that Windows still rules the biz sector but I agree with 
Sog35 it's simply  not that important to Apple's future that they ship computers with 
Intel Hardware. 

70% of their Rev comes from iOS. 

So what? We're talking Macs.  Macs are huge in enterprise now.  Removing x86 business apps would crater Mac enterprise sales which is a growth area for Macs:

For the increase in Mac and iOS adoption now at 91 and 99 percent, Jamf notes that 74% of organizations saw an increase in Mac adoption and 76% an increase in iPhone and iPad adoption in 2016 versus the year before. IBM has now almost reached its goal of deploying 100,000 Macs, the report confirms, making it the largest company Mac deployment. IBM, which uses Jamf software to manage its deployment, first announced the goal during the JAMF Nation User Conference (JNUC) last October. At the time, IBM said it was saving on average a minimum of $265 per Mac versus a comparable PC due the cost of device itself, OS, support, resale value and deployment.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/03/07/jamf-apple-enterprise

Especially as Apple positions iPad Pros for lighter workloads.

hmurchison said:

asdasd said:

hmurchison said:

karmadave said:

Here we go again. Apple is NOT abandoning Intel on the Mac! I wouldn't be surprised however to see an AMD processor show up, in the Mac, at some point.

MacOS = Intel/x86
iOS = ARM

Any questions?

I'd be surprised.  Apple gains nothing by going with AMD.   I don't think Apple abandons Intel entirely but they are likely going to shift a majority of their high volume hardware running Mac OS to ARM within a couple of years. 

It depends on how many dual boot or use VMWare or parallels. The Mac book is becoming increasingly the dev machine of choice as you can use it to build iOS, Android and Windows products. Lots of people in fact like the hardware and run Windows primarily. Intel is not going away on the high end, and at the moment it is all high end. 

Will they re-introduce the Mac mini with ARM? Possibly. 

  
VMware and Parallels are passé running VM on your local machine still happens but all the movement in development is in containers which often are accessible in the cloud (Docker, Kubernetes etc).  The Cloud has never really been the driver it's the fast broadband access to the cloud that is propelling new ways of development.   Where I live they've been rolling out Gigabit internet speeds which makes accessing containers fast and flexible. 

Its not passed for enterprise users who need to run excel "apps", ms project and Visio locally.  If I wasn't able to open Windows Excel to do all the earned value, costing and other stuff that's embedded into Excel workbooks that don't run on the Mac I wouldn't be able to get a Mac for work.  If I'm locked into always logging into a windows VM to run these apps I might as well not own a Mac either.

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EngDev said:

nht said:

EngDev said:

macseeker said:

Seems like the iPhone 7+ picture is sharper.

Source: Macworld

In this case the iPhone is applying blur and Note 8 isn't.  The iPhone is attempting to do a very thin DOF with focus only on the face.  It's as the more aggressive of the two in terms of attempting bokeh.  Also, it appears that the iPhone missed focus in this capture.  I wonder if she was moving during the shot.

Whether her chest would be in focus or not in a real DSLR depends on how busty she is.  Not very so likely in focus.  

The Note 8 is obviously less aggressive as seen in this comparison where the iPhone gets it more right but the Note doesn't

Both seem to have problems with blur depending on the scenario. I think Macworld did a decent job outlining these cases. They're right about the iPhone focusing too much on the face.

Not when it's called "Portrait Mode".  Typically the face is the thing you want to get in focus for portraits.  In particular, the eyes.  With a thin DOF even ears are out of focus.  Here's an example.  Eyes in focus, ears not.



Often pros do additional post processing to make the eyes pop even more.



Eyes in focus, ears and shirt not.



Eyes in focus, ears and blouse not.  The DoF is an inch or two deep at most.

Post processing includes upping the exposure just for the iris to enhance eye colors, increasing sharpness and contrast, etc, cleaning up the whites of the eyes, artificially adding light reflection or enhancing the light reflection in the eyes.

In basic portraiture you focus on the eyes.

Saying that the iPhone focuses too much on the face for portraiture is plain stupid.  

The primary criticism for that iPhone 7 shot is that it missed focus...not that it focused too much on the face.  It actually got the blur correct but the eyes and face are a bit muddy focused.  Since the iPhone nailed focus in other shots I mark that down as user error.

Frankly, the entire piece from Mac World is shoddy.  The model is posed differently for each phone.  Adam, despite being "Video Director & Photographer, MacWorld", apparently doesn't own a DSLR with a prime lens to shoot for reference.

Adding a reference would have taken a few extra moments...it's literally "hold the pose" Snap, switch, snap, switch, snap.  Not let me be a dumbass and shoot each camera in series and then end up with different poses, distance and worse...lighting.  

What did we learn from Adam's comparisons?  That he doesn't actually know how to run photographic comparisons.

TL;DR;  Its called Portrait Mode.  Focusing on the face is entirely the point.

Geez people it's 2017.  There'a this thing called Google.  Maybe you've heard of it?  Typing "Simi Valley Mall failing" gets you a couple articles from a few years ago about how stores were closing and a link to the yelp page where locals describe a mall that was too upscale to fit the town, doesn't like teens and was a weirdly designed open air mall to begin with that's now a ghost town except for the restaurants.

A decade ago it had a bunch of higher end boutiques including stores like Coach. Apple fit right in.  Those stores are gone and so is Apple.

There's no mystery or involved backstory. Just yet another poorly planned mall that never got traction and is in the process of failing.