What Apple might bring, is the ability to create an application that runs on either device. But that application will have to be developed to explicitly support both, macOS and iOS devices. It will have to be able to handle a UI with either mouse or touch.
In essence, there will be one entry in the App Store and if you download the app you'll get the variant suitable for your device.
A Mac will not be able to just run any old iPad app.
Source... well, just ask anyone with a clue about macOS/iOS development.
OS X effectively keeps the empty title bar space he doesn't like
Actually, it doesn't.
It is now very easy to combine the title bar with the toolbar that traditionally was located just below. You can also add custom views to the title bar.
Actually, if you look at the sample code given to iOS app developers, they're definitely NOT doing it right design-wise. Everything's basically mashed together and depends on everything else.
Um... what?
I read that as "I didn't understand Apple's software architecture, therefore it must be crap". Yeah, well, that does not follow.
MacOS does not support arbitrary scaling. While the graphics system was built on Postscript, non-integral scaling factors turned out to bring too many problems. Fortunately, the technological progress in screen technology made high DPI-monitors possible and so Apple decided to stick with integral scaling factors. This is why all early Retina-displays exactly double the dimensions of older displays.
This works exactly the same way on macOS as on iOS btw.
For intermediary resolutions, macOS maintains a higher resolution backing store and uses graphics hardware to scale down the resulting image.
I mean you gotta be pretty masochistic both as a developer and a company if you develop apps in a native language. There may be some reasons to write parts of the app in a native way but then go for C so these portable. For anything else use Javascript.
Good god! Why would you torture yourself with Javascript when you could use Swift instead?
If I buy an Apple laptop or desktop, must I create an Apple account to use my machine?
No, you don't have to.
Can I not simply buy it, create an admin account and user account and go to work?
Yes, you can.
That said, there is support built into the system for several of Apple's services. And since the account itself doesn't cost you anything and you get some entry level services for free, there's really not much reason to not create one.
Accessing stuff outside the sandbox becomes either complicated or completely impossible.
Complicated can mean less convenient for the user and/or more work for the developer, e.g. more expensive.
As an example, on iOS each and every app is sandboxed. That's one reason there are things which are common with desktop operating systems, but virtually impossible on iOS. Like a simple file browser - an app per default only has access to files in its own sandbox. You simply can't get at files of other apps. To mitigate that either the OS has to hand out access to individual files (like with the photo library) or files need to be copied from one sandbox to the other.
I like my headphone port, you wanna be smart? Make it 2.5mm like Blackberry tried, let's take another shot at it, see if Nokia, HTC, LG follow suit - let's switch all 3.5mm jacks to 2.5mm over the next decade? But this no headphone thing is bunk.
How is an incompatible analog port better than an incompatible digital port?
At least the digital port can be used for other things. And to use your old headphones you'd need an adapter either way.
The analog adapter would be cheaper. But that's all I can come up with.
Wikipedia says his name is... um, Slashdot doesn't like Kanji - look it up here. The most commonly used transliteration in English is Nishimura Hiroyuki, according to the Hepburn system of romaji. It's Nisimura when written using the Nihon-shiki or Kunrei-shiki system.
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... sold 1% more iPads in Q1 2018 then they did in Q1 2017.
https://www.macworld.co.uk/new...
What Apple might bring, is the ability to create an application that runs on either device. But that application will have to be developed to explicitly support both, macOS and iOS devices. It will have to be able to handle a UI with either mouse or touch.
In essence, there will be one entry in the App Store and if you download the app you'll get the variant suitable for your device.
A Mac will not be able to just run any old iPad app.
Source ... well, just ask anyone with a clue about macOS/iOS development.
OS X effectively keeps the empty title bar space he doesn't like
Actually, it doesn't.
It is now very easy to combine the title bar with the toolbar that traditionally was located just below.
You can also add custom views to the title bar.
Here are some examples:
http://robin.github.io/cocoa/m...
Something is not a theory, unless it makes testable predictions.
So, what are those testable predictions in this case?
<crickets />
Thought so.
Nothing other than iStuff knows what to do with it. It's fine, but right now it's inconvenient, so JPG it is.
Does HEIC support transparent backgrounds? That's the only real shortcoming of JPG that has fostered the growth of PNG.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
In short, yes, HEIC does support alpha planes in addition to many other things.
Actually, if you look at the sample code given to iOS app developers, they're definitely NOT doing it right design-wise. Everything's basically mashed together and depends on everything else.
Um... what?
I read that as "I didn't understand Apple's software architecture, therefore it must be crap".
Yeah, well, that does not follow.
Unfortunately, what you write is just not true.
MacOS does not support arbitrary scaling. While the graphics system was built on Postscript, non-integral scaling factors turned out to bring too many problems. Fortunately, the technological progress in screen technology made high DPI-monitors possible and so Apple decided to stick with integral scaling factors. This is why all early Retina-displays exactly double the dimensions of older displays.
This works exactly the same way on macOS as on iOS btw.
For intermediary resolutions, macOS maintains a higher resolution backing store and uses graphics hardware to scale down the resulting image.
There are many "star systems". Our is called the Solar System because our sun's name is Sol.
Actually, sol is just latin for sun. Not sure that counts as a proper name.
I mean you gotta be pretty masochistic both as a developer and a company if you develop apps in a native language. There may be some reasons to write parts of the app in a native way but then go for C so these portable. For anything else use Javascript.
Good god! Why would you torture yourself with Javascript when you could use Swift instead?
macOS doesn't even come with a built-in Paint alternative.
Most people seem to use Paint to crop and annotate screenshots.
On the Mac you can use Preview to do that.
It's a real shame the Germans don't get South Park.
What are you talking about?
https://www.fernsehserien.de/s...
If I buy an Apple laptop or desktop, must I create an Apple account to use my machine?
No, you don't have to.
Can I not simply buy it, create an admin account and user account and go to work?
Yes, you can.
That said, there is support built into the system for several of Apple's services. And since the account itself doesn't cost you anything and you get some entry level services for free, there's really not much reason to not create one.
As a daily Mac user, I think it's safe to ask...does anyone really still use a Safari on the desktop? Doesn't everyone just use Chrome?
And why exactly would I use Chrome instead of Safari?
So it's easier for Google to track me? Besides, I hate tabs on top.
Say what you want about Apple, but they would never do shit like this.
Not true, practically every time I start chrome up pops an advert for safari, even though I have disabled every "notification" setting I can find.
I have never seen this. Do you have screenshot?
I can't believe how many think Elon is some swell guy, even after he created that rabid parasitic overlord called PayPal with his mates.
PayPal is still the only service that let's me transfer money fast and easily internationally.
So, yes, Elon is a great guy.
And the rest of your post is just as much of a lie.
What do people mean when they say "make America great again"?
I think most of those people actually mean "I want the world to revert back to how it was X years ago". With X depending on personal experiences.
Of course, that's impossible.
It's Vandenberg, not "Vandenburg"!
May I help to explain the difference?
http://www.harmless.de/images/...
Wood burning can be considered clean in this context because the CO2 that is released was captured from the air in the first place.
So no additional CO2 is released when burning wood.
Accessing stuff outside the sandbox becomes either complicated or completely impossible.
Complicated can mean less convenient for the user and/or more work for the developer, e.g. more expensive.
As an example, on iOS each and every app is sandboxed. That's one reason there are things which are common with desktop operating systems, but virtually impossible on iOS. Like a simple file browser - an app per default only has access to files in its own sandbox. You simply can't get at files of other apps. To mitigate that either the OS has to hand out access to individual files (like with the photo library) or files need to be copied from one sandbox to the other.
I like my headphone port, you wanna be smart? Make it 2.5mm like Blackberry tried, let's take another shot at it, see if Nokia, HTC, LG follow suit - let's switch all 3.5mm jacks to 2.5mm over the next decade? But this no headphone thing is bunk.
How is an incompatible analog port better than an incompatible digital port?
At least the digital port can be used for other things. And to use your old headphones you'd need an adapter either way.
The analog adapter would be cheaper. But that's all I can come up with.
You worry about the radiation from Bluetooth? And you call the vendors idiots?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ad blockers happened?
One more reason to be in favour of ad blockers. ;)
4chan board of directors: Martin Shkreli, Palmer Luckey, ...
... Donald J. Trump, ...
It's just a different spelling for the same name.
Wikipedia says his name is ... um, Slashdot doesn't like Kanji - look it up here.
The most commonly used transliteration in English is Nishimura Hiroyuki, according to the Hepburn system of romaji. It's Nisimura when written using the Nihon-shiki or Kunrei-shiki system.
(Knowledge totally stolen from https://www.italki.com/questio...)
...I believe it would be easier, and far more sensible to just ban children.
That would definitely solve a lot of problems.
Especially in the long run ...