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  • Apple Pay abruptly dropped by JCPenney, is no longer accepted in store [u]

    maltzmaltz
    soundvision said:
    They probably want the shopper data back, simple as that.
    This.  Honestly, I'm sometimes surprised that Apple Pay is as widely accepted as it is, given that.  Then I remember that it's likely that only a small percentage of iPhone users even use it, and iPhone is only about ~15% of the market itself.  I've never once seen someone other than myself pay with it.  The percentage of all customers paying with Apple Pay is very small, so vendors generate more goodwill by accepting it than they what they lose in customer data.  I wonder how merchants would react if it ever REALLY caught on.
    lostkiwi

  • Two critical zero-day Safari vulnerabilities exposed at Vancouver security conference

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    DAalseth said:
    maciekskontakt said:
    What's Safari? Who uses that? It was good 10 years ago, but now it is Chrome or Firefox only.
    Not in my house. Chrome is just a data mining tool and I won't install it on my systems,.
    Firefox is pretty good though.  Probably better than Safari in regards to privacy, with built-in tracker blocking and browser fingerprint resistance.  (Both are off by default, but they're there.)  The tracker blocking is actually fairly comprehensive ad blocking, since almost all ads are also trackers these days.
    lostkiwi

  • Apple cuts prices on high-end MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac mini SSD upgrades

    maltzmaltz
    The story is missing the raw numbers, which are kind of important.  Even with the price cuts, the prices are insanely high, especially as an upgrade that doesn't include the cost of the base drive.

    15" MacBook Pro with 256GB SSD
    512GB upgrade is $200
    2TB upgrade is $1200
    4TB upgrade is $3000

    To put that in perspective, many high-end NVMe drives are going for around $250 per terabyte up to 2TB.  I don't know of any 4TB NVMe yet, but I assume Apple is getting there by adding more chips, since it's presumably soldered to the board and not constrained by M.2 slot shape/size.  That extra space requirement is perhaps the reason the 13" can't have it.

    I get that Apple is a captive market when it comes to upgrades, especially lately, but RAM and storage upgrade prices are really getting out of hand.
    Pylonsboboliciouscurtis hannahanantksundaramwatto_cobra

  • How to pick the best monitor for your new Mac mini

    maltzmaltz
    As common as dual-monitors are these days, I was amazed that I couldn't find a USB-C to HDMI or Display Port adapter on Apple's website, other than the rather ungainly AV Multiport adapter.  I ended up going with a third-party, which isn't a big deal, but it seems like a common enough need that it should be in the Apple store.
    williamlondon

  • What to expect at Apple's September iPhone release event and when it will be

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    Rayz2016 said:
    wozwoz said:

     To force every program to be re-coded and re-written. For what? Move on ...

    And why would every program need to be re-coded and re-written?

    Take your time.

    You must have missed the PPC and Intel migrations.  Every program will have to at least be recompiled or run significantly slower as its Intel code is converted on the fly.  Most big-name applications also have processor-specific code that does indeed have to be re-written, and some companies don't bother to for years, sometimes until Apple removes the emulation.  (Often then blaming Apple for their program suddenly not running on the new macOS sans emulator. lol) Other programs that are no longer well maintained fall by the wayside entirely since the developer is no longer supporting it and/or the effort required to update the app is deemed not worth it.

    And for things like Parallels and Fusion, and even boot camp, it's simply game-over.  Virtualization/dual-boot is a very different thing than emulation, and the latter doesn't produce usable performance when trying to run one OS on top of another.
    tycho_macuser