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Been looking forward to this for awhile. I have a Classical Archives subscription, but their app is absolutely awful. Their website isn’t much better.

I feel a little sorry for them because this will definitely affect their subscriber count, but they should’ve been keeping up their application which looks no different today than it did when it first hit the App Store over a decade ago.

ihatescreennames said:

As mentioned in the article, I can absolutely see her being urged to install a third-party store, having no idea what she’s in for, and downloading Onavo or worse, and being none the wiser, all from some ad on Facebook. 

Third-party stores and side-loading will be a boon to shady developers. 

I have to imagine Apple will make this an “opt-in” feature that will pop up warnings about how enabling third-party app stores could affect security and stability and that simply clicking on an add to install an app from a third-party store won’t simply be allowed.

For me the update broke my portable usb monitor. It works with a usb-c to hdmi adapter (plus the usb-c cable for power), but it no longer works with just the usb-c cable as it did prior to the update.

I had a love/hate relationship with Fry's. I remember when one opened up here near Seattle back in 2003 and I was so excited. I've always been a Mac guy but still enjoyed looking at electronics and marveling at the dozens of motherboards out on display. Back then the store was packed full of products and customers. The lines were long, and the staff was largely ambivalent and even somewhat rude. But it was still fun to drive down to Renton and find deals on recordable media.

Late last month I drove down there for the first time in about ten years because I wanted to try out red, brown, and blue cherry keyboards. The shelves were bare, and what products they did have on the shelves were all no-name crap. The huge section of furniture had nothing but a couple of random boxes in it. The audio demo rooms were empty and only had random wires sticking out of the walls. The appliance and car audio sections were roped off. The hardware section no longer had motherboards, CPUs, nor RAM on display. The cafeteria looked like it had closed long before COVID would have shut it down anyway. I saw a grand total of five other customers and three employees (one of whom, to her credit, actually asked me if I needed any help - something that never happened back in their heyday).

I did not get to try out any keyboards.

Last time I was there, all 25 checkout stations were open with lights flashing to identify the next available cashier. Thankfully I found nothing to buy this time because it looked like none of the registers were open. I wondered how many days they had left. Judging from the timestamp of the photos I took of the empty store that day, it turns out they had exactly one month left.

CNYMacUser said:

In over 20 years and Thousands of both Mac & Windows Users I have serviced, I have yet to meet ONE person who wants or needs to run Windows on a Mac. It's two separate Worlds plain and simple. Anyone who thinks otherwise is FUBAR.

Perhaps you need to get out more?

Up until I changed jobs in January, I literally ran Windows in a VM every day. Now I don’t have the need for Windows very often, but I do run Linux-based applications inside Docker containers every single day.

A large percentage of developers do the same on their Macs, so you can’t discount the need to virtualization technologies.