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I tend to prefer some of the more 'flat' modern designs in many ways, but I do think people are too binary about the skeuomorphic stuff. They could have modernised the design and still kept some of the useful skeuomorphic cues.

I think what pushed people away from the skeuomorphic stuff is that it feels like the aesthetics can become to feel dated quicker? But I don't think that necessarily needs to be the case.

Like skeuomorphic design in itself isn't 'dated', but the aesthetics chosen can be.

That Pro is the old design. It's just Apple's usual thing of keeping an old design of a product around to serve some kind of gap they see in their market - it creates a confusing product lineup because this means you have:

New Macbook Air: New design & M2 chip

New Macbook Pro 13": Old design & M2 chip

Macbook Pro 14" & 16": New design & M1 Pro/Max chips

> Let's assume that all iPhones that are "repaired" by an Apple Store are actually replaced by the Apple Store. This matches my experience - go in with broken phone, walk out with brand new identical phone.

That used to be very common if not the default (this was my experience too, would always just get a replacement), but these days I believe they actually do a lot of common repairs in stores in a relatively short period of time (screen / back / button / battery replacements), etc.

As others have mentioned, the preference for the Windows desktop environment, but also Microsoft are putting work into development tools that integrate into WSL quite well.

For example, VSCode integrates fairly seamlessly into WSL, so your app can be running in WSL but your editor in native Windows and they manage all the complexity of the host -> vm communication for you.

It may eventually go that way - but I believe the Linux version was the first electron version.

1Password started out as a (well regarded) native Mac app, that they then developed a native Windows app for. By the time they came around to Linux, they decided on Electron (with a rust backend) - they're now moving the Mac and Windows versions to the Electron versions unfortunately.

Yep, Apple's operations and logistics are second to none in this industry.

Watching AMD, NVIDIA, Sony, Microsoft and others struggling so much manufacturing their products, and then having Apple launch: - 2 new Apple Watches - 4 new iPhones - 3 new Macs - Airpods Max - Homepod Mini

All with Apple's own custom designed chips, even relying on the same chip fabs as those other companies, and still managing to mostly avoid the huge shortages that those others have faced is impressive.

It's probably a combination of their operations, logistics, supply networks - their predictable yearly cycles that allows them to plan out further in advance, having higher margin products that allows them to outbid the competition for capacity, etc, etc...

But as someone who did the fight for the new AMD CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, been on the look out for the new Sony console, and bought a new iPhone, Apple Watch & Homepod mini on release - the Apple experience was such a breeze in comparison. It may seem like an odd thing to be impressed by, but with how much everyone else has been struggling - for it to appear to relatively easy for Apple is notable.

> If you are going to convince me, show me how the CPU stacks up to a top of the line Ryzen/threadripper and run Cinebench. If you want to convince me about the graphics/ML capabilities, compare it to a 3090 RTX using running Vulkan/Cuda.

These are chips for their low end, entry level products. Why on earth would you think that would be an appropriate comparison? That's absolutely absurd. They aren't putting these in iMacs or Mac Pros.

They aren't putting these in their high end MacBook Pros (they put it in their low end 13" pro, which has always been only a minor step up from the Air - the higher end 13" pro was more powerful, which they haven't replaced yet.)

Apple's "faster than 98% of laptops sold" line is obviously nonsense, like I'm sure it's technically correct - most laptops sold are cheap, low end things - but that's not a particularly huge achievement. I'm not sure why this line in particular is inviting people to make such ridiculous statements in response though.

No. Even if Apple terminates the 'Epic International' account - nothing will happen to existing Unreal Engine games on the store by other developers.

The issue is that Epic will lose access to Apple developer tools and will struggle to maintain Unreal Engine going forward and as such that may hinder development of those games in the future.

There's no indication or reason to believe Apple would manually remove all UE based games (because it wouldn't be something they 'revoke' and all UE games stop working).

I hope Agilebits considers adding local vault support. I’m a long time user and even a subscriber, but I don’t actually use the account I pay for, for anything except license to use the software - I still use local vaults.

I’m happy with this arrangement - it’d be a shame if the Linux client never gets this functionality.

Not everyone lives like slobs ;)

>Anytime we talk about "banning" something I prefer a very conservative approach (conservative as in let's not ban things unless we are really sure). We are constantly learning new things that upend what we used to accept as science regarding nutrition and how the human body works. I think we do ourselves a disservice sometimes by banning things that we don't understand (and sometimes we think we understand but really don't).

If you aren't sure, then I don't think I get the logic on the default being "okay, feed it to your kids!". Surely it makes more sense to be cautious about the things we ingest..

Also: https://medium.com/bbc-design-engineering

>On my Sony phone I can take a photo, press the "share" button to get a context based share menu and my most recent signal/email contacts appear right at the top ready to send without leaving the camera app at all. If I want to send it to someone not on that list I have to get into another screen but not two.

You can do that on the iPhone too. What the person you're replying to is talking about is if you're already in messages, the interface for pulling a photo in is now an extra step over what it was before.

> No I don't want to take hundreds of accidental screenshots a day & upload them to iCloud

I hear this is a thing, and fine, enough people seem to have this problem that they should probably look at that. But why are you screenshots uploading to icloud? That should only happen if you actually take the step to save the screenshots?

They offer fundamentality different experiences so I'm not sure we should be grouping them together as much as we do. It's like saying "It seems like cars are a lot more practical than boats" - but they're intended for different things.

There might be some cross over in some of the technology, and how you consume it, and the end game may be AR eyewear/contacts that can do proper virtual reality, but for now - they're quite far apart from each other.

The thing is, Apple does allow this sort of thing. Look at apps like Google Play Movies. You can't buy or rent from within the app, so google doesn't get their cut - you can only buy and rent from google play movies on the website, thus bypassing Apple entirely.

You can then play that content within the iOS app. All in direct competition with iTunes.

I've really appreciated ghost, been using it pretty much since launch in one way or another. Been really cool to see it develop over the years.

Because it's a standard. You're no longer required to spend a lot of money on Apple's proprietary chargers, anyone can make a good charger.

And you can get magsafe-like USB-C chargers. I don't see why, given that option, you'd choose to limit your options to only being able to buy a legitimate charger from Apple, and that charger only being useful for that one device.

Why are you changing your number just because you switch carriers?

There's more to congestion than just the particular tower you're connected to though.

Not according to this:

https://egpu.io/forums/thunderbolt-enclosures/review-razer-c...

Which has photos of the chipset which is labeled TPS65982.

FYI, this block was found back at the launch of the first Thunderbolt 3 Macs to be because Apple (for whatever reason) didn't wish to support the older Thunderbolt 3 chipset, according to peripheral manufacturer, Plugable:

The version of OS X on the new MacBook Pros (late 2016) will not work with existing Thunderbolt 3 docks and adapters that were certified for Windows prior to the release of the MacBook Pro. These existing devices use first generation of TI USB-C chipset (TPS65982) in combination with Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 chipset (Alpine Ridge). Apple requires the 2nd generation TPS65983 chipset for peripherals to be compatible. Certification of solutions across different device types is still in-progress for this 2nd generation chipset. From the Plugable product line, our dual display graphics adapters for DisplayPort and HDMI (TBT3-DP2X and TBT3-HDMI2X) are affected… We’ve also postponed our TBT3-UD1 Docking Station to update to the TPS65983 chipset and re-certify to make this docking station MacBook-compatible. Our Flagship TBT3-UDV dock with Power Delivery/Charging was already planned to use the next generation controller chip from TI, and will be compatible with the 2016 Thunderbolt 3 MacBooks.

I still don't think we exactly know why, but the allegations that they're doing it for profit or for some attempt to control the ecosystem don't seem to hold up, especially since most of these peripheral manufacturers since updated their devices with the new chipset to work with macOS just fine.

These third party blocks have been in place since the first Thunderbolt 3 Mac launched. They didn't start blocking anything in particular 'shortly' before they announced this dev kit at all.

These third party devices that Apple blocked were not just enclosures, there were other TB3 devices (e.g. dual display adapters) that Apple to this day have not announced or endorsed a competitor to, and in fact those same companies (e.g. StarTech) then released Mac compatible versions, which suggests Apple were just enforcing a standard that they wanted OEMs to meet before allowing them to work by default.

The blocks have been found to be based on an earlier chipset version, and that devices made using later versions of the TB3 chipset work just fine.

This is what a peripheral manufacturer said (Plugable):

The version of OS X on the new MacBook Pros (late 2016) will not work with existing Thunderbolt 3 docks and adapters that were certified for Windows prior to the release of the MacBook Pro. These existing devices use first generation of TI USB-C chipset (TPS65982) in combination with Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 chipset (Alpine Ridge). Apple requires the 2nd generation TPS65983 chipset for peripherals to be compatible. Certification of solutions across different device types is still in-progress for this 2nd generation chipset. From the Plugable product line, our dual display graphics adapters for DisplayPort and HDMI (TBT3-DP2X and TBT3-HDMI2X) are affected… We’ve also postponed our TBT3-UD1 Docking Station to update to the TPS65983 chipset and re-certify to make this docking station MacBook-compatible. Our Flagship TBT3-UDV dock with Power Delivery/Charging was already planned to use the next generation controller chip from TI, and will be compatible with the 2016 Thunderbolt 3 MacBooks.

This does still fit with your argument?

It's the same, except it has a built in battery and is rechargeable with a lightning cable (which the port is located on the bottom of the device, so you can't use it whilst charging).

I'm not so sure the reviews would have been _quite_ so positive if they hadn't also announced they're releasing a 'modular' traditional Mac Pro.

I think the knowledge that a new 'modular' Mac Pro is coming gives a different context to this machine. I think people are framing this on the idea that: if you want a quiet, good looking machine with a great screen and the other 'benefits' of an all in one (and don't mind the trade offs), then it's good to have this option. If the trade offs don't work for you, then wait for the more traditional Mac Pro.

If it had been released without any mention of another option coming for pro users, then it would have been framed as "if you need workstation grade hardware running mac os, then your only choice is now an expensive, non-upgradeable all-in-one which has traded off performance for quietness and for other thermal constraints".

iOS apps can access third party services..

Yeah, Apple taking so long to update their Macs (for instance) isn't a manufacturing issue, it's their own development issues (all of which were brought on themselves).

It hasn't - they don't intend to update it either. For now, the newer Macbook and Macbook Pro 13" (without touchbar) are intended to be the 'newer' Macbook Airs.

To ask 'are any of their products even new anymore' is a bit odd though.

A lot of those look like traditional British names (also foreign).

Ah - fair enough. I made some assumptions based on some of the hurdles seen by some of the more recent moves to HTTPs on smaller BBC sites, not of any real knowledge of the current situation.

(FWIW, your article from Dec 2016 played a part in me joining the BBC recently as a developer, and I know of at least one other developer currently at the BBC who also was motivated to apply after your article :))