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randominternetperson said:

Weird how October+November+December 2017 (31+30+31 days) is somehow a week less than those same three months of 2016.

(Presumably it's because they "close the books" on sales at the end of every week rather than daily, but still.)

Apple runs in periods that roughly correlate to months but are based on weeks. For instance, January may be a 5-week period, February a 4-week, March a 4-week, April a 4-week and May a 5-week...  this allows weeks to be measured more "Apples-To-Apples" aside from the 4/5 week differences.  If you use months alone, you have an issue where here are variable days in each month.

Some corporations fix this by dividing the year into 13, 4-week periods but they you can't evenly divide the year into quarters.

Unless you are an audio engineer, you would think it’s so simple to make a speaker and not understand why HomePod costs $349 or why you should be so thrilled.

As an audio engineer that understands the physics of sound and technology, when I saw the keynote at WWDC, I was floored. Basically Apple is shrinking what amounts to concert-level (room tuning, steerable audio, sub node cancellation, phase cancellation detection, audio engineer experience) into a sub $400 device. Are you kidding me???

I liked this company! They gave out free breakfast burritos at WWDC 2017! I was wondering why a suite like theirs wasn’t part of Xcode yet....

danv2 said:

I have to be honest, I kind of want to vomit now. This only underscores them backtracking on years, and years, and years, of research and design. The touch screen is not the desktop and vice versa. This is the Red Wedding of macOS essentially to me. Making these super universal apps will destroy ecosystems, and make people incredibly frustrated. It did not work for Microsoft, and it did not work for Google, why in the hell is Apple doing this? Who did they hire? I'm betting some Google or Redmond recruit has gotten his claws in deep enough to poison the well and destroy a good thing. I can be up front in saying Jobs is rolling around in his grave at the moment, and yeah, I take that and run with it because its the truth. And yeah, Jobs is dead, but this is ripping up the playbook and crapping on the idea of a tablet OS and a desktop OS. They are separate, they are different. Programmers and customers alike do not like to conflate them. Mark my words though: 2018 Apple will require you to build a Mac OS app as well, and then state you can't put it on the App Store unless you have a version of both. The end result: anarchy and hell.

I think you’re being a bit hyperbolic. Apple has done things incredibly well that other software firms have failed at. I’m not saying they are perfect, but it’s evident by Apple developers that iOS has been progressing rapidly and MacOS, not so much. In fact, Apple has mostly been backporting iOS development to MacOS for years now.

iOS has some serious changes but doesn’t appear much different on the surface. If you look at the changes they’re making under the hood, they are making iOS/tvOS more flexible to various screen sizes.

For instance, table cells are now automatically sized and fonts are sized according to dynamic type.  The UIToolbar has been changed in ways that I find buggy, but appear to make it more flexible to different size classes. Oh and there are size classes, changes to the tab bars... and huge changes in the view controller stack.

They’ve also made changes to the external screen system. I thought this had to do with AirPlay 2 (also an issue) but they could be prepping for handling multiple and different size screens.

Also, the @available syntax lets you target platform and version for specific SDK calls.

I think if Apple did this, they would do it “right”. They would also let developers opt into Mac as another platform by making it another target.

As a Developer, I’m hoping they do this soon. I’d also make sure it’s done well.

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