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It's amazing how remorseful companies are when they get caught doing something silly :|

Here's a thought:

Fix it before you release it to the public and you won't have to apologize and tarnish your reputation.

It was actually Intel's fault. They didn't change the TDP for the 6-core CPUs. MacRumors has a more complete (and less biased) Report, encompassing three Articles:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Fortunately, it didn't require a hardware rev. to fix...

Kudos to Apple for getting right on this issue, instead of issuing denials. No "You're holding it wrong" here!

Depends on the coin. It's not all that crazy to think a mobile platform as an alternative to ads could pull in enough revenue from mining and selling alt coins to be a viable product.

Nearly 5 years ago, there was a plugin for Unity (game engine) to mine Bitcoin. Not sure if it was ever deployed, but your device was already running something intensive, so the miner would be hidden among the normal execution of the game anyways.

I think this was basically just prior to the bitcoin mania. Not sure if it ever left beta, but I do recall there being an extremely negative reaction to the article.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Macrumors reported that IOS12 will support CarPlay with third party navigation apps, specifically including Waze. This is huge for me! I hate all native car navigation apps and will use my phone mounted on my dashboard just to get Waze. Enabling CarPlay is a huge deal.

Yes they can remove apps from user's phones. https://www.macrumors.com/2008...
And if you do not believe in this, then consider that they can always send a deletion order in the next iOS update.

The German manufacturer, Braun might like a word if it still had an independent existence. Dieter Rams their industrial designer was an inspiration to Jony Ive and in particular the rectangular device and display with rounded edges. If you have a display with rounded edges, then rounded icons are a an obvious extension.

Yawn. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/te...

Dieter Rams on Apple

I have always regarded Apple products – and the kind words Jony Ive has said about me and my work – as a compliment. Without doubt there are few companies in the world that genuinely understand and practise the power of good design in their products and their businesses.

https://www.macrumors.com/2016...

Dieter Rams and Over 100 Top Designers Support Apple in Longstanding Samsung Lawsuit

but apple does not work that way.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...

https://forums.macrumors.com/t...

Ahh, protection of data from Apple! I guess that's why they now allow Google to sift through all your iMessages, because they value your protection and privacy!

There you go, champ!

He took the machine apart, dummy, that's why Apple refused to service it. He was the one to blame. https://www.macrumors.com/2018... . Get your facts straight.

Then the shareholders and investors own the shame, too. Not that many would care, I agree. But take a look at this example, where investors urge Apple to do more to protect children from smartphone addiction. Such things could have potential impact to "profit", but one could reasonably state that it's the right thing to do.

I doubt the investors think there's any real risk to their bottom lines. The moment there's money to be made it's easy to rationalize an action. In this case it's actually pretty easy, the drug was priced based not on raw materials but to recoup R&D + profit. So if people suddenly discover the correct dosage is only 1/3rd as much as before then the correct action is to triple the price of the product. Heck, it means your product was 3x as effective as people thought!

People hold up Shkreli as the poster boy but he's really a distraction making people think the problem is that sociopaths are in change. The problem is that capitalism is a terrible system with which to deliver health care, pharmaceuticals included.

Then the shareholders and investors own the shame, too. Not that many would care, I agree. But take a look at this example, where investors urge Apple to do more to protect children from smartphone addiction. Such things could have potential impact to "profit", but one could reasonably state that it's the right thing to do.

Wow, a recycling robot that can reuse every part! How environmentally friend...

NOT SO FAST says Greenpeace, who instead demand that Apple make all products more easily upgradable.

Its almost like computers can be programmed to do things. Scary.
If apple was not run by the technology ignorant they would know that.

I'm not sure what your private criteria is for "technologically ignorant"; but at least Tim Cook actually knows how to Code:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Apple has done two successful CPU transitions in the past, from 86K to PowerPC then PowerPC to x86. I'm sure they'll be able to handle x86 to ARM quite successfully.

Apple's A-series processors now have comparable power to Intel and better built-in graphics capabilities. We can only imagine they would be even more powerful within laptops (bigger batteries) and desktop computers (no battery limitations at all, much better heat dissipation).

Apple loses the economies of scale that Intel enjoys, eating into cost savings.

Apple would gain even better economies of scale because they already need to manufacture their A-series CPUs for the iPhones and iPads. If they can somehow simply link more ICs together for parallel processing, their cost per IC would be even lower. As a bonus, they would stop filling Intel's bank account.

I'm not sure what your wife's definition of "Barely" is; but I don't have ANY kind of experience that I would call "barely working".

The brokenness of multi-display support in the last two releases of macOS her her biggest issue. It's a battle to get her late 2015 5k iMac to wake her 2nd display after the machine sleeps, which has only been an (widely reported, mind you) issue since Sierra. It's not the Mac, either; nor is it the display. Every Mac we have with Sierra or newer (2 personal laptops, 1 business laptop and the iMac) exhibits this issue when this, or any other display is connected. These are Macs and displays which worked together just fine prior to Sierra.

Milti-display support isn't a niche feature; it's integral to the workflow of many a graphic designer -- drawing tablets with built-in displays are quite popular among that crowd -- and the vast majority of professional users who actually have a desk to work at. It's quite a major issue for them to seemingly be ignoring; it's the kind of thing you'd expect they'd have addressed in an early point release of Sierra, not something they'd let linger nearly half a year into the following release (and still not have fixed).

That's just one of many issues she's encountered in the past handful of years; to someone who remembers Macs "Just Working" since the mid 1980's, though, that's a world-breaking issue.

I'm speaking less in terms of product direction and more in terms of release quality at this point. Yes, bugs happened under Jobs; no, passwords being stored plaintext in log files didn't happen. "Just Works" was true under Jobs; it's still true today, though the definition of "just" has changed from "only" to something more closely resembling "barely". Those aren't my words, I'm paraphrasing my wife, a life-long Apple fangirl.

Well, the list of bugs fixed in iOS 11.3, for example, clearly shows they are on a "Bughunt"; so give that a point-release or so to get better.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

And I would imagine that macOS is getting the same fine-toothed-comb treatment.

I'm not sure what your wife's definition of "Barely" is; but I don't have ANY kind of experience that I would call "barely working". I'm pissed-off that the last-most-recent version of TVOS seems to have somewhat broken AirPlay from Safari on my ancient, iOS 9-equipped, iPad 2 (Mirroring still works, though), even though it still works from the YouTube App; but other than that, I report a pretty solid "Just Works" experience.

Instead of puking all over a solution because Apple, you should be treasuring a company that actually values security and takes the effort to make it all fairly secure.

Security is not the same as privacy. Apple shares your data with its "strategic partners". And more.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/fut...

https://www.wired.com/2016/06/...

https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/...

As with VP9 earlier, the first reference AV1 encoder is absolutely slow: currently it's an order of magnitude slower than x265's veryslow preset (which is extremely slow to begin with).

At 40% better efficiency than x265, slowness is a given and perfectly forgivable. For all intents and purposes it's like a next generation codec, but license free. Now it "just" needs the hardware to enable it as a viable choice.

Apple joined the alliance just a few months ago when the development was almost over, which means Apple most likely didn't really contribute to it at all.

I don't see it being a problem except maybe for Apple. The fact they joined shows they reckon its value and I guess it's more than enough "contribution" at this point.

As with VP9 earlier, the first reference AV1 encoder is absolutely slow: currently it's an order of magnitude slower than x265's veryslow preset (which is extremely slow to begin with).

AV1 is not currently supported by anything under the sun except an alpha build of Firefox (where it struggles to decode even a 3Mbps video on powerful PCs).

Most likely ffmpeg will include its own decoder (implementation) because ffmpeg and AV1 developers have contradicting views on coding styles. ffmpeg has its own VP9 decoder.

Apple joined the alliance just a few months ago when the development was almost over, which means Apple most likely didn't really contribute to it at all.

The spec is 619 freaking pages long.

Logitech has one for $49 for the iPad... also keyboard and case.
https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Seems I was wrong, and you need special mice and an app for it: https://forums.macrumors.com/t...

You'll be delighted to know that in the years since xprivacy came out, iOS now lets you set a "only use location services while using the app" for each app. Applications have to be able to function with this restriction: https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

Moviepass can try to track my location before and after I'm using the app all it wants to -- it won't work. I don't care if they track it _while_ I'm using the app, of course, since that's how it works.

0.15 percent. Wooo....

The banks are REALLY hurtin' now!

https://www.macrumors.com/2014...

It's not a question of 'banks hurting' you retard. Do you honestly think the banks are going to absorb 0.15% and say "no worries--we have plenty of money", or do you think they'll end up ramming that down the throats of their customers? At 0.15% it's not that much, but keep that in mind the next time you 'bounce a check' and you get nailed for $40. Get off my lawn, but I remember when that used to be $5.

I wish they don't, because they charge a fee to the banks, and banks end-up passing that fee to the consumers and/or merchants (which pass them to consumers) one way or another.

I also wish banks drop support for Apple Pay for the same reason.

Yeah, Apple is REALLY putting the screws to the banks!
0.15 percent. Wooo....

The banks are REALLY hurtin' now!

https://www.macrumors.com/2014...

Ehh, the issue was fixed in the public betas before Mashable had even published their story about it.

For a better writeup, check out MacRumors' reporting on it (which was published prior to Mashable's). They mention that the bug was reported to Apple on Monday and was fixed at some point between then and now, so Apple has had a pretty quick turnaround on this one. Even so, it remains to be seen whether these fixes will be published in a minor update prior to their next intended release, or whether we'll have to wait for iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.4 before we get the fixes, which would likely be next month.

Meanwhile, Mashable's reporting is lagging. While they've found the time to update their article to indicate they finally managed to reproduce the issue, they apparently haven't had the time to update it with the fact that the bug was fixed before they ever wrote a word about it.

Ram is soldered in all the portable machines Apple sell. It's true the iMac Pro has socketed memory but as you point out you need to disassemble the machine to get to it. And the GPU, which is probably the component PC users upgrade most frequently is soldered.

The CPU and SSDs are upgradeable, assuming you can disassemble the machine and don't mind voiding the warranty but the SSDs are proprietary and even the CPU is apparently a custom device Intel made for Apple.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Apple is using standard 288-pin DDR4 ECC RAM sticks with standard chips, which iFixit was able to upgrade using its own $2,000 RAM upgrade kit. A CPU upgrade is "theoretically possible," but because Apple uses a custom-made Intel chip, it's not clear if an upgrade is actually feasible. The same goes for the SSDs -- they're modular and removable, but custom made by Apple. Unlike the CPU, the GPU is BGA-soldered into place and cannot be removed.

1) Pedantic response
2) If it doesn't provide basic features because of policy, why does it exist?
3) Pedantic response
4) If only there was a way to provide a great soundstage with 1 tweeter, thus avoiding comb filter problems. I'm sure it'll be much better in the future. Of course, that's how technology works - not much of a sales pitch.
5) Yes, they waded into the streaming device market, look how they own it. Roku got obliterated by the Apple TV, right. They waded into providing basic features like USB on their devices - look how they own that market. iOS devices swamp the Android market? Uh, no.

Yes, ignore the features people want and focus on one that's not hard to get right, audio fidelity. And then charge a premium. Audiophiles aren't replacing their Hi-Fi with these anyway...

1. Incorrect initial assertion.

2. You consider them "basic functions". Apparently, Apple thinks you have a phone in your pocket for that.

3. You mean "Correcting your limited understanding of the terms-of-art." Obviously, whenever you don't know something, those who do are "Pedantic". BTW, what sort of a response would have suited Your Highness?

4. Comb filter effects will exist anytime there are time-delays. IOW, they WILL exist, even outdoors in an open field. Fortunately, your brain is quite good at rejecting stationary comb filters. The "beam forming" is simply a way to make the sound-field less "spotty" by using "controlled interference", like with Phased-Array antenna systems. That is as far as I go on the subject, unfortunately. Perhaps you know more than I do on this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

5. They have never wanted to "own" markets where the main feature of devices is a relentless race to the bottom, like with Roku and Android. And how do you know what "people" want? You only know what YOU want. Apple's sales figures would seem to belie your alleged knowledge. Yes, there are more Android shitphones sold (or given away); but in the Apple price range of phones, they actually DO "own" that market-segment. Same thing with Roku. If you want a STB with a HORRIBLE user interface and HORRIBLE voice recognition and NO Apps, then by ALL means get a Roku box. And if "Audio Fidelity" was such a snap to get to happen in a device the size of the HomePod, why oh why haven't others done it so well? Why did Sonos IMMEDIATELY slash the price of their Speakers the VERY DAY the HomePod became available? Yeah, THEY know what's up!

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

And as far as "audiophiles" not replacing their Martin Logans for HomePods, of COURSE not! But they WILL be having them in their bedrooms, kitchens, home-offices, garages, etc., and other places they just want to listen to some fairly-good-sounding tunes with no muss and no fuss. And the "fairly-good-sounding" part is something the other guys HAVE missed, and missed BADLY. Even Sonos has all SORTS of problems with syncing stereo pairs, unstable WiFi connections, software updates, etc., and "sound" is ALL they do!

I don't care what someone sells when the question is what programming language is easy to learn.

He might be someone to listen to when it comes to the question which programming language sells well, but aside of that, what's his expertise when it comes to programming?

Glad you asked!

Not only does he have an Engineering Degree; but he actually DOES know how to code, at least somewhat:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

I know Cook isn't an engineer, but what he is talking about has plagued computing from the start, engineers are notoriously bad at thinking out other aspects of things. This is why modern smartphones are so popular - the technology is mostly invisible. What he says is absolutely true. Now they must deal with the fact that, rightfully, *not everyone is interested in learning to code or becoming an engineer*. Kinda seems like the same clueless phenomenon all over again, yes?

Actually, Tim Cook not only has an Engineering Degree (surprised?); but he actually knows how to CODE:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

So there!

Just because the CEO of Apple says something doesn't mean he's not totally full of shit.

Of course not. If the CEO of Apple says something, that DOES mean he's full of shit.

You can say that; but he still knows how to code:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

I dunno, I think he's smarter than he looks.

Consider.

Back when people wrote code in Objective C it was easy to have some Objective C for the iOS UI, some Java for the Android UI and a big gob of portable C/C++.

Now if they write the whole app in Swift it will be easier to get it running on iOS. And it seems like there are various projects to get Swift running on Android too.

E.g.

https://medium.com/@ephemer/ho...

I.e. Apple have something which is a competitor to writing everything in C# and using Xamarin to target both platforms.

Xamarin has always seemed a bit horrid to me frankly. And doing the 'big gob of portable C/C++ with two sets of UI code is also horrid.

If Apple can build a platform that people use for IOS apps knowing they can run well on Android they've got a pretty compelling platform. And if it turns out not to work very well on Android they've got more iOS exclusive applications.

And unlike his predecessor, Tim Cook actually CAN code:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

And even better, his example in the above article sounds like it was a real-time control application, which has its own special difficulties.

If you believe apple. But they are not the more trust worth company. They claimed they where not throttling phones, but lo and behold they were.

Throttling old phones with bad batteries so the battery would last a few hours longer. That's not a bug that's a feature https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

why do people always post "cite your evidence.. i 'll wait" but cant seem to bother using GOOGLE??

Here is a 10 year old boy unlocking his moms phone https://www.wired.com/story/10...

here is a mask unlocking a phone https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

here is the face ID not working for apples own demo https://www.theverge.com/circu...

try using google..

And none of your examples demonstrate the AC's specific claim that a photograph can unlock Face ID. So please, by all means, go back to Google and find evidence of that. Once again, I'll wait.

why do people always post "cite your evidence.. i 'll wait" but cant seem to bother using GOOGLE??

Here is a 10 year old boy unlocking his moms phone
https://www.wired.com/story/10...

here is a mask unlocking a phone
https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

here is the face ID not working for apples own demo
https://www.theverge.com/circu...

try using google..

Exactly. A lack of products to sell and make a profit means a diminishing market share.

Not only did you misunderstand the OP's comment (he was saying that a lack of CES presence doesn't necessarily correlate to how well a company fares in the market, which is true for a number of companies, not just Apple), but the reasons you chose to bash Apple with aren't even factual. There are plenty of perfectly valid and legitimate complaints to levy at Apple (e.g. lack of upgradeability, lack of repairability, costs outweigh benefits for many users, etc.), but you managed to pick ones that aren't even true.

For instance, contrary to your suggestion that they have a lack of products to sell (which seems to be a prevailing sentiment in the nerd crowd since some of their recent updates were underwhelming to us), the fact is that all of their major products save one (the Mac mini) received an update/refresh or price cut within the last year and the iPhone line received its biggest update since its launch a decade ago. While many of those changes don't appeal to us, they do appeal to everyday consumers (i.e. their target audience).

And contrary to your inference that this has led to a lack of profits, their profits appear likely to have been higher in 2017 than in any previous year in their history as a company. Likewise with their revenue.

And contrary to your suggestion that this has resulted in diminishing market share, Mac unit sales grew during a global downturn in the PC market, resulting in Mac marketshare growing from 5th to 4th globally for the year, putting them behind HP, Lenovo, and Dell. And for its part, iOS market share seems to have basically reached a point of equilibrium with Android, though it saw some unexpected growth in the US and most other markets prior the launch of their latest phones (I wouldn't put much stock in blips like that, though it is somewhat interesting).

All of which is to say, Apple hasn't had a physical presence at CES for as long as I can remember, and while they enjoyed an outsized influence at it over the last decade or so due to a combination of factors (e.g. prior to Apple leaving it, MacWorld Expo's news sometimes overshadowed CES; the gold rush years of the App Store led to knock-on influence at CES; etc.), it's unsurprising that their influence would return to normal levels once those effects faded, now that these markets are mature. Of course, that may also point towards a future where Apple no longer commands the outsized profits and revenues that they command now, so your suggestions may very well prove true in the not-too-distant future.

Exactly. A lack of products to sell and make a profit means a diminishing market share.

Not only did you misunderstand the OP's comment (he was saying that a lack of CES presence doesn't necessarily correlate to how well a company fares in the market, which is true for a number of companies, not just Apple), but the reasons you chose to bash Apple with aren't even factual. There are plenty of perfectly valid and legitimate complaints to levy at Apple (e.g. lack of upgradeability, lack of repairability, costs outweigh benefits for many users, etc.), but you managed to pick ones that aren't even true.

For instance, contrary to your suggestion that they have a lack of products to sell (which seems to be a prevailing sentiment in the nerd crowd since some of their recent updates were underwhelming to us), the fact is that all of their major products save one (the Mac mini) received an update/refresh or price cut within the last year and the iPhone line received its biggest update since its launch a decade ago. While many of those changes don't appeal to us, they do appeal to everyday consumers (i.e. their target audience).

And contrary to your inference that this has led to a lack of profits, their profits appear likely to have been higher in 2017 than in any previous year in their history as a company. Likewise with their revenue.

And contrary to your suggestion that this has resulted in diminishing market share, Mac unit sales grew during a global downturn in the PC market, resulting in Mac marketshare growing from 5th to 4th globally for the year, putting them behind HP, Lenovo, and Dell. And for its part, iOS market share seems to have basically reached a point of equilibrium with Android, though it saw some unexpected growth in the US and most other markets prior the launch of their latest phones (I wouldn't put much stock in blips like that, though it is somewhat interesting).

All of which is to say, Apple hasn't had a physical presence at CES for as long as I can remember, and while they enjoyed an outsized influence at it over the last decade or so due to a combination of factors (e.g. prior to Apple leaving it, MacWorld Expo's news sometimes overshadowed CES; the gold rush years of the App Store led to knock-on influence at CES; etc.), it's unsurprising that their influence would return to normal levels once those effects faded, now that these markets are mature. Of course, that may also point towards a future where Apple no longer commands the outsized profits and revenues that they command now, so your suggestions may very well prove true in the not-too-distant future.

They released it in iOS 10.2.1, which came out in January 2017. The iPhone 7 and iOS 10 itself was released in Sept 2016. So no, they didn't release it with the release of the iPhone 7 to get people to upgrade. They also said at the time that it was due to the unexpected shutdowns and it involved changes to their power management processes, so this isn't a post facto excuse now they they've been "caught".

Funny thing is that this bug is almost an example of Intel throttling old hardware. The KPTI fix is apparently less of a performance hit if you have a new Intel CPU with PCIDs

https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

Crucially, these updates to both Linux and Windows will incur a performance hit on Intel products. The effects are still being benchmarked, however we're looking at a ballpark figure of five to 30 per cent slow down, depending on the task and the processor model. More recent Intel chips have features - such as PCID - to reduce the performance hit. Your mileage may vary.

PCID - Process Context ID - means you can tag the TLB entries with a 11 bit process ID.

http://forum.osdev.org/viewtop...

Also, the Intel manual says bit 0-11 of CR3 is used as the PCID. Does it somehow related to the usual process id user mode code see? If yes, does it mean it imposes a limit on the # of user processes (4096) allowed ?

Which means you don't need to flush the whole TLB - you just invalidate the ones which belong to a process you're switching away from

http://linuxeco.com/?p=488

A PCID is a 12-bit identifier, and may be thought of as a "Process-ID" for TLBs. If CR4.PCIDE = 0 (but 17 of CR4), the current PCID is always 000H; otherwise, the current PCID is the value of bits 11:0 of CR3. Non-zero PCIDs are enabled by setting the PCIDE flag (bit 17 of CR4).

When a logical processor creates entries in the TLBs (Section 4.10.2 of the x86 prog reference manual) and paging structure caches (Section 4.10.3), it associates those entries with the current PCID (Oh ... such a loose association of PCID with PID). Note that this means that where the PGD is located is somehow being interpreted in the PID "process context". When using entries in the TLBs and paging-structure caches to translate a linear address, a logical processor uses only those entries associated with the current PCID, and hence flushes of the TLB are avoided.

Presumably you could have on PCID value for the kernel and the other 4095 for tasks and not need to go a TLB flush when switching until the PCID value wrapped.

Of course that means you need a sufficiently recent Intel CPU.

https://software.intel.com/sit...

FMA, AVX2, BMI1, BMI2, INVPCID, LZCNT, TSX - Haswell and later

I.e. you need a Haswell 4xxx processor or later

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

At least for the Linux KPTI fix it seems like it does support PCID

https://lwn.net/Articles/74060...

- Integrated all fixes and Peters rewrite of the PCID/TLB flush code.

So does the macOS fix

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Ionescu also says that performance drop on a system with PCID (Process-Context Identifiers), available on most modern Macs, is "minimal," so most users may not see an impact on day-to-day Mac usage.

Of course if you have an 2012 Macbook Pro you've got an i5-3210M so you don't have PCID so you'll either have an insecure machine or a performance hit.

Interesting thing is if there was a class action lawsuit, I wonder if you could get Intel to give you a new CPU with PCID to minimise the impact of the bug fix.

Old news, if you carefully read the story from last Saturday
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/30/apple-29-usd-iphone-battery-replacements-now-avail/

apple is in full PR and damage control; things change daily

I guess your just a typical slashdoter.

And yea there is this
https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-users-more-dishonest-says-study/
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/06/apple-drops-on-best-of-glassdoor/

You are doing a bang up just there squirt.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/battery-data-cycles-health-etc-gone-in-ios-10.1977954/

iTunes sucks: A GIF guide to why Apple’s desktop music app must be fixed

Why does iTunes suck so incredibly much?

iTunes sucks, we all know it. What are my options for music player (nonstreaming) on the iPhone 6s?

Why I Hate iTunes: Syncing Sucks And So Does Selecting Music

Can iTunes suck anymore than it already does?

iTunes Really Is That Bad

Apple’s iTunes Is Alienating Its Most Music-Obsessed Users

Eleven Reasons Why iTunes Sucks

Why does Itunes SUCK SO MUCH ???

Again: no, people are not happy using iTunes. People use iTunes because Apple requires it for their expensive iDevices. They hate it, but they want to sync music to their iPhones.

You're saying that my assertion about video players is a "no true Scotsman" fallacy? That's a laugh. You just didn't want to dig your hole deeper by responding to what I said. Video players are not designed to deal with large music libraries, nor should they be. A sports car can be used to take lots of cleaning supplies between cleaning jobs, but a utility van will be far better suited to the task. Your choice of VLC to support this notion is especially hilarious. The VLC media library is like only using the Winamp playlist for your entire music collection.

Or perhaps you meant that foobar2000 is not the true Scotsman. In that case, you missed my arguments about the interface being poorly designed.

Now here's a real laugh for you regarding your sneering at Winamp market share. While I don't have stats from anywhere today, Lifehacker did a survey in 2013 to find out what the readers thought was the best desktop music player and in the end Winamp was the winner. So at least in 2013, 16 years after Winamp was released, it was still the preferred player for everyone that read Lifehacker at the time. Unfortunately, most articles seem to omit or only "honorably mention" Winamp based on it no longer being developed which at this point is really only a problem for people who want double size mode to look better or want to sync a modern iPod with Winamp (yes, Winamp used to sync iPods.)

I'm sure iTunes can play music back on garbage hardware while multitasking. Maintaining a 44.1 kHz 16-bit stereo audio stream while multitasking was easily done by Winamp in 1997 on an original Pentium, so why wouldn't it be possible to do the same thing today on a bargan-basement Celeron that's slow for browsing but still two orders of magnitude faster than an original Pentium? It's not hard to have a realtime-priority and heavily optimized thread that does nothing but decompress music file data and pass it to the sound system. Good luck switching between iTunes and other stuff in 2GB of RAM while trying to do some actual work.

One more thing was never addressed. You never elaborated on why "underlying frameworks" is some sort of selling point. Last I checked, no one went out looking for media players and said "I want one that has underlying frameworks."

Unfortunately, handling ''typed too fast' actually was one of the iOS 11 bugs...

Why not offer their content on rival devices through an App?

You mean like they just did earlier this month?

And basically this is entirely invalidated by designing the phone such that the battery is not user-replaceable.

Apple designed a device that will intentionally run slower without the end user paying someone else to disassemble the phone to replace parts. Given the cost to service an older device weighed against the cost of a new device, a lot of users are going to opt for the new device, especially if they don't realize that the reason the phone is operating poorly is because of the battery.

This throttling theory has been bench-marked and debunked: https://www.futuremark.com/pre...
MacRumours even featured a discussion of the above benchmark report: https://www.macrumors.com/2017...
What he is describing there is a declining benchmark rating as the battery charge is diminished. That could just as easily be a bug in the power managment system as some grand conspiracy.

Oh, and iFixit also rates the iPhone on par with many Android phones in terms of repairability: https://www.ifixit.com/smartph...

Add this to your list https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/07/apple-ios-11-2-homekit-vulnerability/

For a company that has their minions running around screaming privacy and security; they sure do suck at software.

Yes, and testing is hard. Excuses are easier. Enjoy your patch. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/security-update-2017-001-breaks-file-sharing.2091913/

I thought it required physical access, as well; then I read reports of people being able to access screen sharing and AFP shares using this method. I don't have a system running High Sierra to be able to verify those claims, but it seems plausible.

This just isn't a bug you accidentally introduce into a properly designed auth system. That means either someone was acting maliciously, or the system was designed with extreme incompetence. Since we're talking about Apple, I don't think many fanbois will accept the incompetence explanation, so we'll go with malice to avoid triggering them. Since they allow Apple to maliciously empty their wallets, they seem to be okay with malice... ... ... I write as I check the shipping status of my new MabCook Pro.

But, then, I'm a user, not a fanboi -- and I placed the order before this was made public.

What's the big deal?

Apple already published a simple workaround, which will completely fix the issue until a properly-tested update can be released. (Note: Yesterday's article had a link to an Apple Knowledge Base Article on how to fix the bug temporarily; but now that the Update has been released, MacRumors edited that out of their article, so here's what's left of the original workaround).

https://www.macrumors.com/how-...

And in fact, here is the REAL Update:

https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

Less than 24 hour turnaround? I'd say that's about as good as it gets!

I thought it required physical access, as well; then I read reports of people being able to access screen sharing and AFP shares using this method. I don't have a system running High Sierra to be able to verify those claims, but it seems plausible.

This just isn't a bug you accidentally introduce into a properly designed auth system. That means either someone was acting maliciously, or the system was designed with extreme incompetence. Since we're talking about Apple, I don't think many fanbois will accept the incompetence explanation, so we'll go with malice to avoid triggering them. Since they allow Apple to maliciously empty their wallets, they seem to be okay with malice... ... ... I write as I check the shipping status of my new MabCook Pro.

But, then, I'm a user, not a fanboi -- and I placed the order before this was made public.

What's the big deal?

Apple already published a simple workaround, which will completely fix the issue until a properly-tested update can be released. (Note: Yesterday's article had a link to an Apple Knowledge Base Article on how to fix the bug temporarily; but now that the Update has been released, MacRumors edited that out of their article, so here's what's left of the original workaround).

https://www.macrumors.com/how-...

And in fact, here is the REAL Update:

https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

Less than 24 hour turnaround? I'd say that's about as good as it gets!