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True of Mac. Not true of iPad Pro

You can always Jailbreak it of course.

But aside from that, I can keep using an iPad of any kind (pro or not) as long as the hardware stays alive. I can replace the battery. I can program anything I like for even my oldest iPad.

The iPad absolutely is a computer, and like any computer can do anything you are capable of making it do.

So how Is it not true of any iPad, pro or otherwise?

Mac as a whole was around $5.3 billion for Q3 2018; Macbooks are not the only Macs there, so it's safe to assume Surface is a fairly large percentage of Macbooks, at $1.1 billion.

That would be 11).

The same routine played out for the graphics chip problems in the 2010-2013 MacBook Pros. Granted, it was a problem with the lead-free solder that other vendors experienced too for the same graphics chips, and Apple did do the right thing and extend the warranty for this type of failure for years after the regular warranty (i.e. #9). They deserve credit for that, eventually.

I'm typing this on a late 2011 MBP that had its logic board replaced for exactly that reason, years out of warranty, so I'm very familiar with this cycle. But on the other hand, ~1.5 years after the logic board was replaced it experienced the same symptoms. I had to disassemble this thing and reflow the graphics chip solder to temporarily cure it (because it will fail again, and I don't have $700 for a board replacement that will probably fail again).

I can handle design flaws like this one with the graphics chip, because A) like I mentioned, Apple was not unique for this problem, it was industry-wide, B) after a lot of complaining Apple did the right thing, and C) honestly, this machine is great and I can't really complain about 5+ years of uneventful performance from a laptop that got a lot of work done before the problem occurred. I'm not a disatisfied customer. I got my money's worth.

But ... this keyboard issue is *entirely* on Apple in their vain, unnecessary, and useless pursuit of "thinner" at the expense of all else, including the basic functionality of a keyboard (the new keyboards *suuuck* for touch typing compared to the previous generation). It's not an industry-wide flaw. It's just them. They goofed. My guess is, this is what happens when you test your stuff in a lab with machines rather than real humans shedding skin cells, hairs, and all sorts of other crap. Add the crappy keyboard to the insanity of dropping most of the legacy ports, SD card slot, the magsafe connector, plus the "soldered-and-glued" non-upgradable approach to the internals, and the new MBP are completely unappealing to me, even though I want to upgrade somehow.

I want a FatBook Pro, not a glorified, overpriced MacBook Air. Apple does still offer 2015-era MBP new. They're still making them, but alas they've dropped the dedicated graphics as a build option because they presume only people interested in the entry-level model would want the "old" design. Not so, because the new design is so screwed up in multiple ways.

Sorry for the rant, but it's sad seeing a true classic of laptop design fail so thoroughly on the next iteration. I felt that way before the keyboard issue became obvious, but that situation solidifies my assessment. No sale.

It's my device, I should be able to run whatever I want.

So what is stopping you? Just because Apple isn't cooperating with you is irrelevant. As you said it's your hardware so wipe off iOS and put whatever idiotic mining software or malware you want on it. Hell, run Android on an iPhone if you want.

That's why I prefer Android.

A distinction without a difference. If you like Android better that's fine but it doesn't change the fact that you own the hardware and you can compile and run whatever software you want on it. If you want to argue that Apple should cooperate with you running whatever software you want, then you have an argument. It's a walled garden with all that entails. But if your argument is that you should be allowed to run whatever software you want then your argument is moot because you already have that right. The flipside is that Apple is not and should not be under any obligation to cooperate with you if they don't think it is in their interest to do so.

But if they had let Electroneum in they'd have to let them all into the store or they'd be picking winners and losers, so I guess it had to be all or none.

That's kind of the point. Most of the activity surrounding cryptocurrency mining is nothing more than transparent get rich quick scams. There also is quite a lot of organized criminal activity surrounding them including bitcoin. While there is undoubtedly some amount of honest activity, there is no practical way for Apple to determine who is "honest" and who isn't. Allowing such software also would tend to make their devices perform like shit and Apple would of course get blamed for this. Apple isn't stupid so it makes sense to ban all mining software because there is no upside for them nor for virtually any of their users.

If you want to do this sort of mining on a mobile phone for whatever reason buy some other sort of phone. I assure you nobody will care - Apple least of all.

More like famous places on Earth. According to https://www.macworld.co.uk/fea..., cat names stopped after OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Also, notice "Mac OS X" was changed to "mac OS" between OS X 10.11: El Capitan and macOS 10.12: Sierra. I didn't like going back to its original classic "mac OS" name. I was fine with "Mac OS X"!

... sold 1% more iPads in Q1 2018 then they did in Q1 2017.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/new...

You outright LIED to your friend, you stupid, uninformed FUCK. You need to aplolgize to him IMMEDIATELY, and tell him you are a stupid, bigoted fucker.

How does Apple "lock you into their ecosystem" any more than Android locks you into their ecosystem?

By making iTunes the only legitimate way to interact with the phone.

1. It doesn't keep you from having another music player. Plus There are other applications that you can use to load music onto an iOS device. Here's a few free (and non-free) alternatives. Do try to keep up, Hater:

https://www.easeus.com/iphone-...

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how...

https://drfone.wondershare.com... ...and there are literally dozens more alternatives. So, next bullshit objection?

BTW, that search took zero time on Google. So you are either stupid beyond belief, or actively using willful blindness as an excuse for your bigotry. Take your pick.

2. Other than doing certain very limited operations, such as encypted backups, you don't have to use it for anything. I have never hooked my iPhone up to iTunes, for example. And with iCloud Backup for iOS, you can even forego that functionality (and get automatic backups, too!).

But, as I have said, I haven't ever hooked my iPhone 6 Plus up to iTunes for ANYTHING; but the pricing of iCloud backup has me pretty interested, and can even be shared among your family.

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

But as I said, please don't let any of this disturb your fantasy of unabashed Apple Hatred.

How does Apple "lock you into their ecosystem" any more than Android locks you into their ecosystem?

By making iTunes the only legitimate way to interact with the phone.

1. It doesn't keep you from having another music player. Plus There are other applications that you can use to load music onto an iOS device. Here's a few free (and non-free) alternatives. Do try to keep up, Hater:

https://www.easeus.com/iphone-...

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how...

https://drfone.wondershare.com... ...and there are literally dozens more alternatives. So, next bullshit objection?

BTW, that search took zero time on Google. So you are either stupid beyond belief, or actively using willful blindness as an excuse for your bigotry. Take your pick.

2. Other than doing certain very limited operations, such as encypted backups, you don't have to use it for anything. I have never hooked my iPhone up to iTunes, for example. And with iCloud Backup for iOS, you can even forego that functionality (and get automatic backups, too!).

But, as I have said, I haven't ever hooked my iPhone 6 Plus up to iTunes for ANYTHING; but the pricing of iCloud backup has me pretty interested, and can even be shared among your family.

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

But as I said, please don't let any of this disturb your fantasy of unabashed Apple Hatred.

Imagine...phones with better quality release cycles, at least from reports I'm reading on the iPhone X release.

https://www.macworld.co.uk/new...
http://www.techradar.com/news/...
https://www.engadget.com/2017/...

No, the argument is that if I want a simple, easy-to-remember passcode, I can decide that for myself. The phone should not be limiting me to a simple passcode at setup, and make me jump through hoops to "unlock" stronger passcodes and have to change it later. That's idiotic and very obviously counterproductive for security.

Bullshit.

If you consider flipping a switch in the Settings App to be "Jumping through hoops", then I pity you for feeling put-upon to have to jump through hoops like "pressing Accept on your phone just to answer a call", or "entering your PIN to access your bank website AFTER you already logged-in with your username and password", right?

I know who you are: You're that guy that makes me create a password with so many special features that it becomes TOTALLY un-remember-able, and so I end up HAVING to write it down somewhere; which, guess what? TOTALLY defeats the purpose of a "secure password".

Actually, these seem like very similar "hoops":

Android:

https://www.howtogeek.com/2531...

Apple:

  Seems like the option to decide what passcode strength you want is right there when you enter your passcode. How much less of a "hoop" do you want???

https://www.macworld.co.uk/how...

TL;dr

You're demonstrably an idiot Apple Hater. Nothing more.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/mac-software/el-capitan-disk-utility-3634604/

Shit changes like that are why I haven't moved to anything newer. At the time there were articles about how to get the older, full featured, Disk Utility to run under El Capitan. Can that older version still be made to run in Sierra and High Sierra?

Workable, and thankfully Time Machine and Apple's Recovery Mode works so well, but damn you'd better have a reliable Time Machine drive, and better yet some install media with your last working Mac OS.

Actually, in addition to the "Recovery Partition", OSX/macOS has had the ability for quite some time to automagically download and install the ORIGINAL OS for your particular Mac, and/or to create a USB Installer. No "Install discs", "Recovery Partition", or TM backup needed.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-...

Sorry, volume shipments means more, especially when the sell-through rate is very close to the shipments. Just shipping a shit ton of product to a reseller where it sits and rots doesn't count (Apple doesn't do this, but it's a trick used in the past to elevate reported sales numbers - Windows RT surface tablets come to mind here).

My point is that there are several metrics you could use for distinguishing "largest" - market cap is one, but it's not a very good one. Market cap is a multiple of stock price, and stock price is volatile and vulnerable to hype bubbles. It also takes into account the total assets of the corporation, and all business - does the mountain of cash that Apple is sitting on overseas really add anything to how many units they ship? How about real estate? Does that matter? Because it's certainly factored into market cap.

Unit shipments, market penetration, and market share are probably better metrics to use; and as I said before, unless you count phones in with everything else, Apple doesn't come up on top - not even second.

Include iPad all you want - iPad + Mac still doesn't beat Lenovo or HP. In Q2, Apple sold 8.92 million iPads, and 4.11 million Macs. Total of 13.03 million "computers". Note that my cited sources are hardly press that are unfriendly to Apple.

Lenovo sold 12.3 million PCs in around the same time period (and that's with HP taking the #1 spot), plus another 2.1 million tablets - hey, if you include iPad in Apple's numbers, you should also include Lenovo's tablets. That's a total of 14.4 million "computers".

13.03 million < 14.4 million. And Lenovo isn't even #1 in traditional PC sales - HP is with 13.1 million PCs sold - still more than Apple's combined Macs + tablets.

Yeah, I know - Apple makes more money than the other guys. You don't think some of that comes from the iPhone, do you? Or maybe the online services - I hear that iTunes is fairly popular. Or maybe software sales?

When you compare like numbers, Apple just doesn't hold the crown. And you know what? That's perfectly fine - they aren't looking to be #1 in market share, just the same as BMW and Mercedes aren't - selling a high quality product with a healthy margin on it has been Apple's business since the late 90s, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But let's not inflate them to be what they aren't.

-The tablet fad has pretty much come and gone.

I think you need to tell that to the people that bought $5.33 BEELION worth of iPads I Q1 2017.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news...

That ALONE is 6:1 of the ENTIRE Surface LINE (Surface Book, Surface Pro and Surface Studio).

So, if the iPad is a "fad", it's a pretty long-lived and vibrant one. MS, like almost every company on earth, would kill to have a "fad" like that...

And yet they are making billions off it. So maybe no one gives a shit about Apple sales of a completely different product with a completely different target market.

Come off it:

The Sales Figures seemed to combine the ENTIRE "Surface" brand of Products. That includes Laptops, Franken-Tablets, and even a Desktop.

Most of those products COMPLETELY overlap Apple target markets; in fact, they are CALCULATED to do JUST THAT.

So, if we want to include the iPad sales in with the Mac Sales (since the Surface Pro is at least tangentially aimed at that market), that 8:1 Ratio likely becomes more like 15:1.

In fact, even though Q1 2017 iPad sales were down, they still managed to completely eclipse the entire Surface line, at 5.3 BEELION dollars, or only slightly less than the 7.2 BEELION dollars in the more-expensive Mac sales. Read it and weep:

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news...

So, adding 5.3 BEELION in iPad Sales to the 7.2 BEELION in Mac sales, we have a grand total of 12.5 BEELION Dollars in sales of products that are DIRECTLY COMPETING with the Surface "brand". So, if you do the math, that comes to a Ratio of 15.1:1.

Now, aren't you glad you brought that up?

And If the figures were reversed, I can assure you that you wouldn't be trying to "distinguish" those target markets between the two companies.

So, I repeat: COME OFF IT!

While time will tell the extent of this, I have been recommending the following to my friends (copied verbatim from https://www.facebook.com/stuar... ).

As a precaution, here are some prudent tips:
1. Log into your Apple Account at https://appleid.apple.com/ and enable two-factor authentication if you haven't already (see https://support.apple.com/en-a...) .
2. While you are there, if you have not changed your password in a while, consider doing that too (https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201355).
3. As the threats include the threat of remotely wiping devices, you can disable this on each of your iCloud connected devices. See Macworld's good article on how to do this for each device type: http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-... . Note that if you do this, you will also be unable to use the Find my iPhone/iPad/Mac feature. Until more details come out, personally I feel this is acceptable given the risk.
4. When you are logged in at https://appleid.apple.com/acco..., check to ensure there are no devices you do not recognise under 'Devices'.
5. For the next few weeks, periodically do a local backup using iTunes of your iDevices. See https://support.apple.com/en-a... and click on 'Use iTunes'. I recommend you also set a backup password, this encrypts the backup and stores additional information making a future restore easier.
6. As always, BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP. For your Mac, I would already hope you have backups in place. If not, my favourite is CrashPlan http://crashplan.com/ and I have used it for years/put many friends onto it also.
Time will tell what will happen with these accounts, it never hurts to take a few prudent steps until the community at large knows more.

That will never happen. :-(((

Sadly Apple no longer gives a fuck about us professionals -- you know, people who use their computers day in, day out, for creating content. They would rather everyone use iPads for consuming content.

Why?

Before Jobs passed away Tim Cook was responsible for getting Apple's supply chain down from months to days. Apple doesn't want to be holding onto millions of dollars of inventory just sitting there taking up space. This means they remove options and "dumb down" the machines so there is only 1 (or very few) parts. Tim Cook has continued this obsession that it actually has become counter-productive. You can't upgrade a MBP to more then 16 GB of RAM because the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard? WTF.

Apple also has a hard-on for wireless. My current MBP (Mid 2014) has a whopping 7 ports (2x USB, 2x Thunderbolt, 3.5 digital+analog audio, 1x HDMI, SDXC card) and I LOVE it because I use all of them. Apple TV gen 4 removed the audio port because they want everyone to use WiFi streaming. It doesn't take courage to remove an audio jack on the iPhone, they are a bunch of cowards. Gee, oh look, 2 out of 3 "solutions" are wireless.

It is a far cry from the days of Jobs when he actually cared about building not only a cosmetic computer and a functional one.

i.e. When is the Mac Pro going to updated?? It has been over 1075 days!

The only thing Apple cares about these days is making money whilst they whore our their brand. Apple would rather sell over-priced "Beats" garbage headphones to ignorant customers rather then make quality products for the power user. Those days are LONG dead.

It is hard to argue against "Oooh, Shiny!" when all they care about is profits.

Apple is Dead.
Long Live Apple.

Sadly, that page links to a page that no longer exists (it just redirects to a generic Apple welcome page). I have not been able to find OS X El Capitan on the App Store.

Have you tried those links FROM a "Mac that doesn't support Sierra"? If not, you may not be able to d/l El Cap.

Here's an article that has some additional suggestions.

Ask around. You may find someone that has an installer for El Cap. laying around. Then, you can use the Freeware DiskMaker X to create an Installer USB Stick.

One thing I discovered: If you go the DiskMaker route, before you do the Install, make sure you set your System Time & Date to the CREATION Date of the Installer "App" that you are Installing!!! Just look at the Creation Date of the Installer in the Finder, and set your Mac's clock accordingly.

Because that is not what most people want. It has 10 hours of battery life. That is good enough for most people.

How in the fuck do you know? Apple has a great rep for shoving things down people's throat. I'll bet you like your Brawndo with electrolytes as well.

This was an interesting year indeed, with the profits and sales on a downhill slide.

The glass and software are made in U.S.A. at least. Source: http://www.macworld.co.uk/feat...

The second one being the important one.

The glass and software are made in U.S.A. at least. Source: http://www.macworld.co.uk/feat...

Microsoft hasn't had to "attack" anything to prevent linux from gaining wider adoption (they pretty much did themselves in). This is a case of them helping developers.

But Developers already think macOS is the best to use for Developers.

They've been better about labeling their iPhones

They are? I can tell the difference between an iPhone 3, 4, 5, and 6. I cannot tell the difference between 4/4S, 5/5S, or 6/6S.

Is there anything in settings? Nope. Can Siri help me? Nope. You need to look up a cryptic model number.

google "alternate web browsers on ios"

The very first link: http://www.macworld.co.uk/feat...

7 best iPhone web browser apps
        - Dolphin
        - Chrome
        - Opera Mini
        - Opera Coast
        - Ghostery
        - Atomic Browser

None of those have adblockers? Not even Opera?

Additionally, surely you're not implying that Apple doesn't know what's best for you in your walled garden? ;)

The Mac Pro is now ridiculously stale. ("Days since last release: 833")

I've read articles speculating that Apple might be re-designing the Mac Pro again as many of its intended users are disappointed that it has no internal expansion at all. So Apple could be sitting on a design refresh, waiting for these new chips.

I even read speculation that Apple would cancel the Mac Pro product line, but IMHO that is very unlikely. Apple sells a lot more notebooks than Mac Pros, but I just can't see Apple walking away from a very high-margin product.

So now that there are refreshed Xeons, maybe we will see a refreshed Mac Pro.

P.S. I was surprised that Apple didn't release a standard enclosure for lots of hard drives or whatever. You should have your Mac Pro and then one box with one cord, rather than a half-dozen boxes and a half-dozen cords. But I guess Apple left that for third parties such as Sonnet. I watched the video for that Sonnet product I linked... it said that Sonnet followed Apple's guidelines for how to best mount a Mac Pro. Therefore, Apple has guidelines for third party vendors for Mac Pro mounting products.

Even so, it's amazing how complicated the Sonnet enclosure has to be to solve the problem. Thunderbolt connectors can pop out, so they invented a retaining device that uses a bolt to keep the plug in. You need to run multiple Thunderbolt cables inside the box. And they said they were not able to offer a passthrough for Thunderbolt because Thunderbolt won't work with one (they didn't elaborate, something about needing active circuits on both ends of the connection, but I don't know why that rules out a passthrough).

And oh boy is that an expensive way to go: buy an expensive Mac Pro, then spend another $1500 on the enclosure.

The Mac Pros are using GPUs designed for the people who are creating content

And the Mac Pros were designed to be impossible to upgrade. Want to put in a "gaming" GPU? So sorry, you can't.

And the Mac Pros don't have a model that ships with a "gaming" GPU. Are you shouting "hey Apple, take my money?" They aren't taking it.

The weird thing is that the Mac Pro is really getting long in the tooth. Seriously overdue for an upgrade. According to an article I just found, Apple is likely to either update in 2016, or never as the Mac Pro has been something of a flop.

But it sure looks cool... it's like Darth Vader's own trash can (and I don't mean that as an insult).

Instead of an upgraded Mac Pro, Apple might come out with a model that actually has internal bays for things like drives, and actually has upgradeable video cards.

The current Mac Pro design would rock as a "Mac Mini Pro" if Apple would release a model just like it but $1200 and with a gaming GPU.

Apple's model of "only have a few different models, and make as much as possible on each model" is starting to hurt them in the high end of the market. The pro users who should buy the Mac Pro are not being well served, and they are getting tired of it.

How to install WhatsApp on an iPad

My Late 2009 Mac Mini is running Plex server and home theatre on 10.10.4. First quote I could find about system requirements (from a Mac World article here )

Like Yosemite, El Capitan can run on the following Macs:

iMac (Mid-2007 or later)

MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)

MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)

MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later)

Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later)

Mac Pro (Early 2008 or later)

Xserve (Early 2009)

So, which of your three-year old machines is not on that list?

OS X 10.11 El Capitan System Requirements:
MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008), (13-inch, Early 2009 or later)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or later), (15-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later), (17-inch, Late 2007 or later)

(source)

Mind you that's the unreleased OS X version currently in beta! And it definitely supports ANY MacBook or MacBook Pro shipped in 2009. And a lot of them shipped before then. (There was no 13-inch MacBook Pro shipped in early 2009.)

Furthermore your Mac doesn't support Win8 under bootcamp because the drivers that are included for your Mac model don't support windows 8. You can try to install it manually and then maybe you'll find up-to-date drivers for the hardware. It'll probably work, depending on what "unsupported" Mac you have but it's quite simply "unsupported."

Except I'm not American. I am British by descent, and have lived and worked on three continents. But your point is irrelevant anyway: The term is commonly used outside the USA as well. For example:

UK:
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gamin...
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/new...
http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news...
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/...

CA:
http://circanews.com/news/cord...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/n...
http://www.chathamdailynews.ca...
http://www.canadiancordcutting...
http://shayne.tablotvweb.nomad...

AU:
http://www.computerworld.com.a...
http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
http://www.businessinsider.com...
http://www.cnet.com/au/news/co...
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/...

Just because you're ignorant of its usage, that doesn't mean the term isn't broadly used around the world in countries with large English-speaking populations.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news... Looks like you were in for a treat but your blatant and unjustified negativity towards Apple has just disqualified you. Now get a PC and start complaining to Dell. -Tim

...when they made the memory in the new Mac Minis impossible to upgrade and reduced their performance. The late 2012 quad-core model is still the fastest, best one they ever made.

Microsoft Word for Mac came out almost 30 years ago (1998). They've had Office software for Apple machines ever since. There's a new version under development now. I don't know about the Android version, but Office for Mac isn't just a crappy port either. It is a version written specificially for Mac that honors the Mac ways of doing things and has features that aren't in the Windows version.

Well, there was this.

Back in September 2011, Macworld UK reported that the "iPhone_4_is_the_world's_thinnest_phone,_not_the_Samsung_Galaxy_S_II".
That was because Apple obtained an adjudication_from_the_UK's_Advertising_Standards_Authority that Samsung cannot claim their Galaxy S II (thickness 8.71mm) to be the "slimmest smartphone in the world" and that the iPhone 4 (thickness 9.3mm) should have that exclusive honor as the Galaxy S II has a bulge at the camera that reaches 9.91mm !!!
So, the iPhone 4 Remained_The_Thinnest_Phone_In_The_World and kept being lauded for it..
You're not going to let such a great record be marred by a tiny protrusion now, are you? You're just looking at it wrong..
iPhones are best!.. Just ask Apple!

Right after they arrest Android developers for the huge malware problem on Android, and then Apple developers.

"91.3% of smartphone malware/viruses written for Android"
"Apple's iOS, Microsoft's Windows Phone and Blackberry are free of any malicious activity"

http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3448046

"Newly Discovered Android Malware Was Downloaded Millions Of Times"
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/20/newly-discovered-android-malware-was-downloaded-millions-of-times/

Last week, American security researcher Jacob Appelbaum found that malware on an Angolan human-rights activist's Apple laptop was "signed" with a legitimate Apple developer ID, allowing it to slip past Apple's baked-in Gatekeeper security software. A new and unusually sneaky piece of Mac malware, discovered last week, has been linked to a larger online espionage campaign being waged from India.

  The campaign, dubbed "HangOver" after a text string in the malware code, appears to be based in India and focuses on stealing industrial secrets from companies all over the world.

http://www.technewsdaily.com/18120-hangover-malware-india.html

How come the "Superior UNIX design" that have lead to tens of thousands of +5 Insightful Slashdot posts over the years doesn't protect Android and OS X? If the blame goes to the users, why are you trying to blame the Windows dev team?

When it was rumored that Samsung had lost the Apple contract (note, this was last month, over a year after this lawsuit was filed):

It is claimed that Samsung lost $10 billion of its market value following news that Apple switched suppliers. Wednesday’s decline was the biggest daily fall in nearly four years for Samsung.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3358556

This injunction is only a bargaining chip that will be used in the settlement conference that Samsung and Apple have agreed to. If Samsung thought they were going to lose Apple's business over this lawsuit, the Galaxy Tab would become the next TouchPad.

When it was rumored that Samsung had lost the Apple contract (note, this was last month, over a year after this lawsuit was filed):

It is claimed that Samsung lost $10 billion of its market value following news that Apple switched suppliers. Wednesday’s decline was the biggest daily fall in nearly four years for Samsung.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3358556

This injunction is only a bargaining chip that will be used in the settlement conference that Samsung and Apple have agreed to. If Samsung thought they were going to lose Apple's business over this lawsuit, the Galaxy Tab would become the next TouchPad.

Like Apple cares about performance. If they did they wouldn't be using Mach.

That statement is not even wrong. Mach has a bad reputation for performance because originally it was a microkernel, which meant tons of message passing and context switches. However, Apple doesn't use the Mach kernel in that way. The Mac OS X kernel is as monolithic as the Linux kernel as far as the hardware is concerned: passing messages is done by plain function function calls and the entire kernel, all drivers and all kernel extensions run in a single address space. Even the BSD and Mach personality run in the same address space and use the same system call interface.

The Mac OS X kernel does perform quite badly in micro-benchmarks like lmbench, and has a number of weaknesses related to memory mapped IO. On the other hand, it's quite good at keeping e.g. audio latencies low even under heavy load (and was much better at it than Linux in the past, although the Linux kernel has caught up in the mean time afaik). And in general, that sort of stuff (keeping latencies the same regardless of system load) is what Apple optimizes for, rather than top performance on an unloaded system. All of that is unrelated to the fact that the kernel is based on Mach code though.

And like McIntosh Laboratory, Cisco's iPhone, and the way the Mighty Mouse turned into the Magic Mouse. It's hard to feel sorry for Apple when they keep making the same class of mistake.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=14663&Page=1&pagePos=8

Yeah, I remember that when it was mentioned on Slashdot, and the usual low S/N ratio discussion that followed. And, surprise surprise, Apple made the source to the Intel versions available, so Apple didn't "close down OS X", they just hadn't gotten around to releasing the source yet. Way to jump to a conclusion, dude....

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=14663&Page=1&pagePos=8

"It's not likely that WebOS will supplant existing operating systems on PCs, but rather would run on top of Windows to be able to launch WebOS apps" link

`HP chief technical officer Phil McKinney told the Seattle Times that the company's PCs will have an "integrated WebOS experience." It won't be a virtualization, he said, but rather an "enhancement" to Windows' link

Not possible. On my mac they always used 100% processor power anyway.

Hurray for Apples fast reaction and ability to listen to developers needs... (In this case eventually related to such stupidities as flash on OS X (eventually fixed now if you got the latest versions of both the software and hardware) not decoding H.264 on the GPU.)

This will be moderated troll even if true. And even if it happens time and time over again, like for instance then (cached) Valve commented on gaming on macs (http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/10/03/valve.apple.isnt.serious/) or then everyone expected to be able to develop applications for the iPhone just to be told that they couldn't, which eventually they fixed and we all know what a huge success it has become. But it was obvious it was a good idea and should had been there since day one. Do you remember the days? I tried google it but I'm too lazy to link anything more than this link about how there was no possibilities for developing third-party apps then but that they had plans to develop in that area.

The OS X kernel is Open Source. If you sign up to ADC (free as in beer) you can have it and the kernel debug kit for free (as in beer).

What is this then? Did things change?

Speaking from experience, I wouldn't recommend trying it. Better just to isolate the bug, report it to Apple and let somebody who understands the XNU kernel fix it.

That only works if Apple cares about the bug, and it's a bug and not some unusual thing I'd like.

Also, what if my bug is "It doesn't work on Atom"?

The above is probably true for Linux too. Most people are just not technically competent to code in the kernel of any modern operating system.

I don't consider myself to be "most people" and aim a bit higher.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

The core system is open-source, up to and including the kernel, much of the drivers and the UNIX userland tools.

The kernel, not as of 2006 or so

UNIX userland is IMO mostly unimportant. It's quite standard, very stable, and there exist several versions of it. If OS X offered no source for ls, I could mess with the GNU version instead.

The display server, window manager, audio manager and other userland tools are closed-source. Not all of them (Safari/WebKit, for example) but most.

Right, precisely the stuff that makes OS X be OS X, and precisely the stuff I'd be interested in looking at.

The parts that are left open are mostly unimportant as they're generic and replaceable. And I can get them in Linux anyway, where I can have a fully open system without having to put up with Apple's hardware obsession and closed parts I can't debug.

Here's a Mac OS botnet...

http://www.macworld.co.uk/business/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=25756

Then there's that Linux botnet named Psyb0t made up of routers or whatever running linux.

And if you just mean "non-windows machines being part of a botnet" in the literal sense... I recall SunOS/Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, you name it running ircd as the controlling host for multiple botnets. And quite a few of those that I had to "clean" out were rooted (how ircd got put in place to begin with)

Then there's just those IRC bots on comprimised *nix boxes listening to whoever on IRC channels... which I'd classify as a botnet even if the media never makes a any mention of it (and who's idea was it to put a bot in a directory named ... anyhow?)

Well to be fair it's not really that much worse than squirting someone a song from your Zune.

Actually, it's much better for you to bing than than to squirt anything from your Zune if you live in Quebec.

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=15876

No, the total sales is 37 million: http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/news/index.cfm?newsid=25810 .

Which is a drop in the ocean compared to the hundreds of millions sold by the other companies, as I said in my other post.

Not to mention that the other phones are generally compatible with each other across different make/models - whilst Apple think their 37 million is an "enormous platform", the Java platform runs on 2.1 billion phones.