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Well that's true for anything, so it means nothing. I know someone who was told with a straight face, in a meeting about an out of control memory leak in some software, "not leaking memory wasn't in the requirements."
> Apple is going to save $200-$800 cost per Mac shipped

Whom is Apple going to sell binned A14s to?

Where does everyone think margin comes from in the chip business?
Browsers other than safari will give you a prompt to either open as webpage or in the dedicated app. But then you have the 2nd stage problem of the web page with an obstructive in page pop up asking you to download the app or open it in the app.
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>Graphic Design repo it emphasises Kubernetes, Packages and Security features that have zero relevance. And there is no way to disable them.

You can do it in Settings > General > "Visibility, project features, permissions"
Did you read your own link?

> In virtually all of the SPECint2006 tests, Apple has gone and increased the peak power draw of the A13 SoC; and so in many cases we’re almost 1W above the A12. Here at peak performance it seems the power increase was greater than the performance increase, and that’s why in almost all workloads the A13 ends up as less efficient than the A12.

> The total power use is quite alarming here, as we’re exceeding 5W for many workloads. In 470.lbm the chip went even higher, averaging 6.27W. If I had not been actively cooling the phone and purposefully attempting it not to throttle, it would be impossible for the chip to maintain this performance for prolonged periods.

In other words, to get those good specint numbers, power was sacrificed to do it. 5W per-core power draw is right in line with a typical x86 laptop CPU, too. 4800HS sits at 35w, or 4.3w per core.
I mean, it's not like the consoles are very custom GPUs. They were pretty standard GCN last gen, and pretty standard RDNA this new gen.

Apple's custom GPUs they use in their SoCs are arguably more effort on their part.
It seems like this is something that Apple plans to relinquish control over time with. I hope that Apple finds the move to be a net positive for their ecosystem and decides to make more "defaults" changeable in the following releases.
I appreciate aesthetic beauty of rooms, buildings, and interfaces, but to me what has jumped the shark is the entire conversation about icons, fonts, and toolbars.

No one can explain why the icons, fonts, and toolbars from 3 years ago aren't good enough anymore. No one can explain why we need constant "refreshers".

Let's say you have a new microwave. Every microwave's controls are a little different, but you know generally the conventions of their limited interfaces. There are presets; separate non-microwave functions like timers; maybe a light and a fan control.

The first few times you use it, it's a little weird. But you use the same one for like 5-10 years at a time. It becomes effortless, second nature. Food in, door shoot, beep-boop-beep by muscle-memory. Your food is ready.

Imagine someone snuck into your home and rearranged the buttons, and changed some underlying functions. Now, when the timer is done, you don't hit the timer button to clear the display--you hold the cancel/stop button that also turns off the microwave. They think it's more logical that way.

It doesn't matter, but it's frustrating. "Why was that necessary?", you might ask yourself. Neither way is fundamentally more or less logical. It's just different.

It's not that changes are bad, but semi-annual changes for utilitarian things seem excessive. You accept a certain amount of change when you replace your microwave, or your car, or your computer. But not when you take your car to be tuned up. They don't replace the break pads, and then change the location of the stereo's volume knob.

I think he philosophy of heavy handed redesign was useful in bringing computer interfaces to up to new hardware specs early on in tech, but we're reaching a point where they should be slowed down in favor of utility. The claim that it is design in the name of usability is no longer true. Call it what it is. It is merely seasonal fashion and nothing more. Some fashions are timeless. We should find them and stick with them as defaults that we are very hesitant to change.

Consistency can facilitate clean design, allowing you to conceal and expose complexity by strongly established conventions, helping to achieve balance on the beauty-utility continuum.
It can give beginners a place to start. Until you have that critical base of understanding it can seem very frustrating starting from scratch.
> That sort of statement requires data to back it up.

On other social media websites that offer "pay to remove ads" versus "get personalized ads", like Reddit or Twitch, about 1% of users pay. Wikipedia asks for donations and very few people donate, percentage-wise. So I think if you want to show a substantially higher number, say even 10%, you'll need to provided evidence. Even if 10% of users paid, would they be willing to be $170/year?

> That would just mean that facebook is an unwanted and unprofitable service which then wouldn't exist. Which is not a problem at all.

I don't see how you jumped to that conclusion, that it's unwanted. I want Facebook, and I want it for free with personalized ads. Same with Gmail, Yelp, Reddit, Google Maps, Instagram, Youtube, and a bunch of other web services. Not sure how that's so hard to understand, that this is the business model I prefer.

Same with newspapers. I don't want to pay the full cost of making a newspaper (probably $10 or so), but rather I'd purchase a very cheap subsidized newspaper with ads for $1. Or free apps with in-app purchases. Doesn't mean it's unwanted if people aren't willing to pay the cost price for it.
Sure, that's definitely a worthy point that I gladly agree with, although it's a different point. I would maintain that older Android devices generally feel less out of date, feature-wise, than iOS devices of a similar vintage because far fewer features need to be handled by the core OS.
Even if the goal to transition is 2 years that still means there will be a long tail of having to support Intel chips for future updates to the operating system. I have a 2011 Mac Pro that is chugging along perfectly fine with zero issues.
I didn't know about this. Thanks for sharing. It does mention a 40% performance impact to running JITless. What is the power impact?
It's literally just made up in someone's head. It's a hypothesis without an experiment. You can hypothesise anything and everything.

If I similarly just made up a book where police surveillance was the best thing in the world would you cite that as an argument in favour?

How can you use a made up story to argue something when someone else could make up another story that disproves your point and proves theirs?
> I wish there were a clear bad guy here, but most of the hardship seems to have been caused by more diffuse social pressures.

Unchecked tech monopolies artificially driving up the cost of capital for startups seems like a large contributing factor. For sure VCs shouldn’t be engaging in sexist or predatory behavior, but that’s not really the root issue, just one of the more salient and proximate manifestations of larger industry-specific and broader societal issues.
Manufacturing chips, which is the subject of the article.
It really isn't, though. There's a lot of IDEs and text editors out there, sure (I seem to collect them, myself). But if you're specifically writing Mac apps in Objective-C or Swift, the entire development chain is tied to Xcode, and all the developers writing apps for Mac or iOS that I know of -- not "developers writing apps on the Mac," but the specific subset of people writing apps for the Mac or iOS devices -- are using Xcode. The only other IDE I know of that's remotely competitive on this front is JetBrain's AppCode, but it has a tiny market share in comparison, and people developing native Mac apps in other languages are an even smaller group.

(Also, it's not really like Apple to acknowledge competition in this space, especially anyone using non-native toolkits. They're not going to mention people writing Electron apps in the WWDC keynote, right?)
Yeah, the UI refresh they did a few years ago (Yosemite I think?) always felt like a halfway-done, superficial coat of paint to try and eke out some brand unity. Big Sur (I'll never be able to say that with a straight face) seems to be a genuine re-think. It says to me, "Apple isn't just doing the minimum effort to drag the Mac along, they actually care about it long-term". And while lots of things were clearly taken straight from iOS, I didn't see anything that felt like a real downgrade in terms of power user features or information density. I'm actually kind of excited about the control panel drop-down.
Do you have any examples? I was running VMWare Fusion until about 2015 for my office laptop for Visio and Project, at which point I felt no need on my next refresh to simply not request it due to cloud-based alternatives.
After almost two decades, this is the end of OS 10. Check this out:

https://youtu.be/GEZhD3J89ZE?t=5837

This one goes to 11!
Yeah, and arrest and imprison some black folks who smoke pot making it look on paper that the crime is reduced big time.
I am all for reducing crime and making the country safer for everyone. I don't think policing it more is the answer though. Going to the root of the problem is a whole lot more effective in the long term. Some reforms are clearly needed.
But it's what it is. Most people active on Facebook 10 to 5 years are not active anymore, and young people avoid it. If Facebook wants to attract young gamers, they will need a new brand for their gaming platform.
> I think I was scared of what others might think of me as a new mother and CEO, maybe because of my own insecurities, maybe because of the societal norms ingrained in me.

I see this so much from corporate career ladder focused women.

People literally feeling guilty for wanting some aspect of motherhood, or going through some aspect of motherhood.

(and then ironically apologizing about that, despite the core of their reconditioning being not to apologize unnecessarily all the time)

I am not sure how much this is talked about, as its always been a personal conversation when I hear it.
Apple signed a new licensing agreement with Imagination Technologies in January of this year. I suspect there was a major litigation threat somewhere behind that.

https://www.imgtec.com/news/press-release/imagination-and-ap...
Sounds kinda like the idea behind the Brave browser.
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It is not in the blog post probably because it is still in Alpha, but Gitlab now has a Dark Theme <3

Settings -> Preferences: there is a new theme called "Dark Mode (Alpha). Indeed still in Alpha, but I love they are working on this!
That is an amazing quote, but:

You could also put extra effort into being ethical, and just not tell anyone or publicize it in any way associated with increasing mind share.

The only problem is that it then is difficult to "lead by example" but I'm sure there are relatively quiet ways of accomplishing that, too.
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(1) OS X 10.0 through 10.3 were released for PowerPC only. Apple first supported x86 in 10.4 and last supported PPC in 10.6.

(2) It's not 2030. If you're reading this is 2030, HN won't let you reply. That's a separate but related problem.

(3) Time passed, so fuck you is not a customer-centered philosophy. Time passed, so I'm going to remove already shipped capabilities is a customer centered philosophy in the sense that it's centered on fucking the customer.

(4) I have an Apple IIe and a MacPro3,1 and a whole bunch in between: fool me once, shame on you; fool me fifteen times, shame on me.

[Dis]claimer: I have no long or short in AAPL. Anyone posting or voting in this thread should similarly disclose.
Using ARM will break Intel's optimized libraries.

Intel has been giving developers free libraries for many years which use code specifically optimized for Intel processors. It seems likely that any app that uses one of these libraries will break. Even if Apple's emulator or compiler can work around these optimizations, Intel might release new versions of the libraries that will not work on an ARM processor.

Also, even ordinary changes to MacOS tend to break music apps and plugins. I would expect a change to a new CPU architecture to cause havoc there.

Any app that uses assembly code optimizations that use unique Intel instructions seems likely to break as well. Maybe Apple has perfectly emulated all Intel CPU instructions, but that seems very complex and how often does new complex software work perfectly? Having to buy/upgrade apps to run on ARM may be necessary. And will drivers for USB and thunderbolt peripherals all just work on ARM?
I wasn't being clear with the maps-browser comment. I meant that they make no promise that they aren't tracking your location outside of the Maps app.

It's great that they claim to end-to-end encrypt their stuff. And after the FBI standoff around the San Bernardino shooters phones, I recommend that my friends and family use Apple because the options for most humans are between Windows and macOS on PCS, and iPhone and (stock, OEM) Android for phones. They definitely talk the talk and appear to walk the walk. We can never truly know, though.

I know there's no point in arguing further. I fully acknowledge that I have less objective reason to believe that Apple is tracking me than you have to believe that they're not. But all of my friends thought I was the crazy tinfoil hat guy in the period between the signing of the U.S. Patriot Act and Edward Snowden. And after that... they still think I'm the crazy tinfoil hat guy. Maybe I'm a broken clock and was right once, or maybe Silicon Valley is full of corporate scumbag liars and maybe companies lie about their encryption (Zoom) and about their stance on privacy (Facebook). Maybe Apple is the lone shining beacon of privacy in SV. Maybe.
And Maps? And Calendar?
My solution to a streamer moving to Facebook Gaming is simply going to be watching a different streamer.
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> What I expect we'll see are ARM chips that are power and performance competitive with x86 chips only for specific curated use cases.

Sorry but there is no justification for this. With the same thermal constraints there is every expectation that an Apple / Arm CPU would be more performant and efficient than a comparable x86. Why? Because aarch64 doesn't have the historical legacy that x86 has and Apple has already shown what they can do in the iPad etc. Sure they won't be triple digits but it will enough to be noticeable.

And, as you say, they will have the advantage of Apple's custom silicon for specific use cases. So best of both worlds.
There's always MicroG and the MicroG-infused version of LineageOS:

https://microg.org/

https://lineage.microg.org/
It's tied to a clock frequency for a given chip. You can still make architectural improvements that increase single-thread performance.
> Last I checked and from what they’ve said in investor calls, daily active users are still (!!) growing.

How much of that is in US/EU users, though? I wouldn't be surprised if most of the growth is in other regions.

(And, this being the modern Internet: How many of those new DAUs are real people?)
Intel already license the ARM core IP and used to build their own ARM chips under the XScale brand. They sold the line off in 2007 IIRC but retained the ARM architectural license.

The only thing that stops them is their will to do it.
Uhhhh when have you been able to pop out a CPU in a laptop and replace it yourself? A decade, at least?
How much of the ACTUAL scope of work needs to be novel? I'd say a limited amount. There is a LOT of work that is just running ops. For example, a billing system doesn't need to be novel it's been pretty well worked out many times.
I feel you. I also upgraded both desktop (Mac Mini) and laptop (MB Pro) in the last months and now I'm unsure on what to do with them.
This article shows a nice summary of topics of news on major tv channels in India

Literally 0 discussion on anything that puts government in bad light. 0 discussion on issues like health, education, unemployment etc. Most of the discussion are on breaking communal harmony (which is in interest of ruling party) and bashing opposition parties.

https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/india/14-debates-on-ram-...
They've added padding to the design nearly everywhere - "menu bar is now taller", "Dock is lifted from the bottom", and the extra padding on the Sidebars is obvious.

As a power user of a Macbook Pro, this is cutting into my screen real estate and not very appealing to me.
It doesn't have to be either/or. An individual could pay and opt out of data mining.

Anyway, personalized ads is just the tip of the iceberg, the real problem with that data doesn't exist on a small scale. The problem is that mountain of data could be abused, for example to manipulate public opinion, elections, the stock market, etc, and blackmail.

Even if you aren't vulnerable to these things directly, the abuse potential of such data is so high that IMO it's only a matter of time before you're indirectly negatively affected by it.
> The fact that he is such a dick in public

I wonder about this aspect of his personality. For instance, if I knew gravity = 9.8 m/s^2 and everyone around me still thought the earth was flat, would the daily interactions with people start to grate on me? Probably.

Of course, if I really thought I knew, but was wrong, then I'd just be an idiot & a jerk.

Seriously though, what if he's completely right about something that other people don't see? Then is he really being a dick, or is everyone else being one for calling him that and not seeing the same answers he sees?

It's got to be hard to know something that nobody else does and still be patient with everyone while they question you incessantly.

A good proxy for me is being a parent and trying to explain something for the umpteenth time to my kid - it get frustrating at times.
It doesn't, as I noted in another comment - "absolutely fine" overlooks notable issues with the macOS system experiences.

Furthermore, while this is a point to be debated... the thread here is not about Firefox on macOS, but on whether it'd run fine on iOS.

Given the performance of Firefox on Macbooks in general, I maintain my position that it would not fare well. The iMac has little to do with this. Given that they'll eventually need to have this running well on Apple Silicon, though, I'd be happy to eventually be wrong.
I'm on android, and I really have no idea what you're talking about -- they're both fairly useless. What apps do anything notable with notifications beyond reply-inline function? Which iphone's have had at least since last year, when I dropped off it

Though I'm on samsung so they might have customized useful features right out (they do have the neat notification bubble thing + non-fullscreen apps, but it doesn't seem to be fully developed -- lots of small bugs -- so I'm assuming that's non-standard android).
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There is one (as in, one) certified AMD motherboard and I can't Intel rushing to help Apple out with TB3 when they are ditching their CPU. No, it will be USB 4.
Dear Google. If I promise to set Gmail as my default email client on iOS, will you then let me keep Safari as my default browser when clicking a link in that app?
> The complaint of "black lives matter" is that there is a pattern of police abuse towards non-violent black people.

Again I have yet to see any convincing data that supports this. There's a marketed list of names of victims, some with video footage, but I can also show you names and video footage of non-violent victims of other races being killed by police.

I certainly support police reform (within the bounds of common sense), and continuing to try to lift black folks up, who I agree have been systematically discriminated against for hundreds of years. But doing it under false pretenses has already opened up a Pandora's Box of racist moral panic when it's simply not there.
This usually comes down to whether you need a FB id to sign into something. Its "Facebook" if you need to be logged into facebook to get to it. In this case, its a way to keep you on the Facebook site longer, instead of fracturing off another uninteroperable (inopreable, teroperable?) platform.
I can't remember the last time I've had a crash on Catalina. That being said, I did do a clean install when I upgraded out of fear of issues. Not sure if that had something to do with it.
The article was explicit about this. The A->C message was initiated from thread A before the A->B message. So causally the B->C message is after the A->C message, because it's after the A->B message (which itself is after the A->C message). But in this case causality was broken.

It wouldn't be confusing if the A->B message was sent first, because then the B->C message would be unordered relative to the A->C message. Depending on the processing at B it would be totally normal that one or the other would reach C first.
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In addition to some of the other well-thought-out replies, much of the allure of streaming comes from live interaction, donations, chat, etc. Streaming to multiple platforms at once is more feasible for events like esports competitions, but would really make it difficult for a streamer to engage with their audience.
Have you tried box86? https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86 Let's you run x86 (not x86_64 though) programs on ARM Linux. It does a neat thing where system library calls are converted to ARM system library calls rather than using x86 ones for better performance.

Lots of games work fine with it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4aGNqZ724
it’s exciting to imagine what Apple’s fully vertically integrated company could do controlling hardware, OS and ML stack

So true! But from a market dominance perspective, it's also a bit terrifying.
If these claims of censorship were true, where would you expect to find a citation?

If I linked you threads of people like Tariq Nashad calling for racial violence against whites, my post would likely be flagged and I'd be banned for posting flamebait.

I don't think there's an explicit conspiracy but the forces are aligned such that they suppress content and naturally suppress criticism of suppression, and that creates an internet-wide false consensus.
thanks for this -- in antifagile he mentions how he reads 30-60 hours every week. assuming that is true, he must be reading hundreds of books a year.
DNS infrastructure is really interesting. I did a bit of a deep dive on it a few months ago, culminating in running my own authoritative name servers [0] for a while.

[0]: https://www.joshmcguigan.com/blog/run-your-own-dns-servers/
> Simple, useful information.

For you and people like you. Those people make up a minority of Apple's audience. It would be stupid for them to alienate everyone else in their marketing materials. But that doesn't mean there isn't real work being done under the hood.
Apple will simply use different bins in different products. The A12X is arguably a "binned" A12Z, after all. Higher bins for pro lines, lower bins for consumer lines.
Yes, that's what I mean. But you're moving the goalposts. I, too, fear that there will not be a usable, open source OS for smartphones in the near future. But that's not what I said above and it's not what you appear to be arguing.

Today, AOSP is absolutely open source. You're acting like it's not.
I see a lot of different personalities and demographics including women coming out of coding academies.

But everyone in the bay area flirts with "getting into tech".
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