Speak of which, do you have any suggestions to running PPC apps in 10.7+?
Having to dig up an old copy of 10.6 and cajoling it to install under Parallels seems like overkill.
The only LEGAL way to do it is to install a copy of Snow Leopard 10.6.8 SERVER. You have to hunt around to find how to install the package for Rosetta (it isn't installed by default on SL SERVER). I assume Pacifist would do it.
But there's no "cajoling" to it. There are tutorials galore on the intarwebs explaining how to install under Parallels or VMWare Fusion.
But it starts by you CALLING Apple Support, and ordering the magic part number for $19.99. They will usually deny having it, but be insistent. Make them check with their "supervisor":
Use the latest internal parts.* Revert to including headphone jack. Go crazy on edge-to-edge screen. Make an "SE" version. For the love of storage include a MicroSD slot. Please revise / update iTunes, it's horrible.
Apple's success will depend on how much of this fantasy they can bring to reality. I've used both iOS and Android for some time now; they each have their foibles. The above phone would get me to buy an iPhone in spite of Apple's OS path diverging from my personal preference (i.e. Trust everything in our cloud! No 3rd party cloud allowed!) *I don't personally care about touch ID sensor.
If anything, the loss of the home button will be a bummer:
They've reached the point where they're just making "courageous" changes which benefit their own assembly & engineering but lack significant user value and don't solve obvious consumer problems with the device. Case in point, the headphone jack.
My guess is they are on the cusp of a "Windows 8 Start Menu" kind of change where the fuck up the design enough to seriously damage their user base.
Very doubtful. Unlike MS and Linux/Android, Apple moves VERY slowly and carefully with UI paradigm shifts.
For example, In the computer world, a user familiar with a 1984 Mac would have less difficulty acclimating to macOS 10.12 than a Windows 7 User would have with Windows 8. And in the mobile world, a person familiar with iPhone OS 1.0 for the most part would feel right at home with iOS 10.3. I can't speak for Android, but I think they have far too many "customizations" to say anything close to the same thing.
Windows can't do it without hoop jumping either idiot. The difference is that it came pre-installed with an OS where ASUS already configured it. You are one stupid motherfucker.
Then I guess they are BOTH inferior to macOS, which handles BT keyboards right out of the box.
I didn't think we could do any worse than that. I have a Surface Pro 3 which regularly has missing icons, as far as I've experience since they released a beta this has been an on and off issue. I always hated Apple for their quickly dropping hardware as "supported", it seems I need to readjust my expectations of Microsoft now.
Windows 10 is a constant stream of lackluster "improvements". All a person has to do is open the "settings" to realize you still need a Control Panel, but in their infinite wisdom Microsoft doesn't give you quick and easy access to that now.
This whole upgrade strategy is bizarre if you ask me.
Excuse me, but other than a few 32-bit Mac models, the last of which was discontinued in August, 2007, and some of the very earliest 64-bit machines, nearly every Mac since 2009 is STILL supported, even in the not-yet-released macOS 10.13 (High Sierra).
if intel would of gone all 64 at the same time AMD then maybe 10 would of been 64 bit only. 2012R2 was the start on server.
It does take awhile. For example, Apple ditched OS support for 32 bit CPUs in 2011, with the release of OS X 10.7 (Lion). But the OS STILL supports 32-bit APPLICATIONS (and a damn-sight more conveniently than Windows, I might add!) to this day, and Apple is only NOW starting to put its foot down about 32-bit Application support, saying that the upcoming High Sierra (macOS 10.13) is "the last version that will run 32-bit Applications 'without compromise' ". Notice that hints at the fact that 32-bit Application support will STILL not be completely gone even in the NEXT-NEXT version of macOS (10.14), even though they will have dropped support for 32-bit CPUs in the OS over SEVEN years prior, and even though the last 32-bit Mac rolled off the assembly line in August 2007, ELEVEN years prior to 10.14's assumed release in mid-2018.
Yes and no. This is maybe the very first battle for territory... hardware rights and planned obsolescence in the Microsoft ecosystem. Windows 10 is the newest walled garden where the software publisher is allowed to expire hardware a customer has purchased. This is an echo.. of something that another vendor has relied on. Apple 101 - you can't make money on hardware by supporting legacy software platforms for more than a couple of years. For better or worse... Microsoft is now "owning" this plan which requires PC/Windows users to pony up more money to stay current... as Mac users have unfortunately become more complacent to. Honestly if you read up on it... the latest generation of the Microsoft Surface is glued together which is designed to never be upgraded... thus the hardware is stuck at a "point in time".
Peace.
Kindly leave Apple out of this meme.
Here is the compatibility list for the upcoming macOS "High Sierra" (macOS 10.13).
Snow Leopard, BTW, was the FIRST Intel-Only version of macOS (nee OS X). IOW, that means that Apple has actually MAINTAINED support for essentially EVERY (64-bit) Intel Mac ever created! Support for 32-bit (CoreSolo?) systems was ended with OS X Lion (10.7); but there were only a few models affected (a Macbook, and a bottom-level Mac mini, IIRC).
So, stop saying that Apple drops support for Mac hardware prematurely. With few exceptions, if you have an Intel Mac, you should be able to install and use any of SEVEN major releases of macOS, even up to the not-yet-released High Sierra.
I fucking hate Microsoft, but I have an ASUS T100-chi with 32 but Windows 10 and 2GB of RAM. I haven't had time to put Linux on it yet because there is some hoop jumping related to Bluetooth only keyboard, so I am using Windows on it for now. In truth it performs quite well. In fact I will probably just keep Windows so I have the experience of developing on a Windows box, for the rare time when there is no other option ( i.e. it's all the client has available / is willing to use) Sorry to shatter your worldview.
God, no WONDER it will NEVER be "The year of Linux on the Desktop!"
2017 and Linux can't deal with a BT keyboard without "hoop-jumping"???
Back to the days of DOS and having to install MSCDEX from a floppy just to read a CD to then install Windows without resorting to the 32-floppy install procedure...
It boggles my mind how hard it is for people to understand such a simple point. No wonder you posted AC. You probably couldn't figure out how to use the login prompt.
Despite Apple's bad versioning, 10.6 and 10.7 were major releases, and there were announcements that Rosetta was being discontinued. So as annoying as it was to lose Rosetta, it didn't come as a surprise.
Furthermore, Apple didn't force people to upgrade to 10.7, and then take Rosetta away *after* they upgraded.
So you lose. Please play again.
Exactly!
And that is one of the reasons why a fair number of Mac owners were like "You'll pry the Snow Leopard (and its Rosetta) from my cold, dead fingers."
But Apple never released some "Update" that then RETROACTIVELY killed-off Rosetta in SNOW LEOPARD. They just made a very concerted effort to make their first FREE Upgrade as enticing to Snow Leopard "holdouts" as possible, by making sure ANY Mac that would run Snow Leopard would run Mavericks as well.
But, if they hadn't gotten rid of Rosetta, Devs would STILL be creating PPC applications, and people like Adobe and Avid would have NEVER converted their codebases.
You computer is now too old, it will not longer allow windows 10, buy a new computer but don't forget you previous copy of windows 10 is tied to the old computer we wont provide upgrades for
So it's like a Mac?
Ah, another day, another incorrect Apple meme to dispel...
No.
If Windows were like a Mac (or more correctly, macOS), in MOST cases, hardware would be supported for as long as reasonably practical. Right now, pretty much every, or maybe even every, Mac back to at least 2009 is supported up through the upcoming High Sierra version (macOS 10.13). That includes most Macs that shipped with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), which is SEVEN major revisions ago.
In other words, if it is a 64 bit Intel Mac, it will likely run High Sierra (and run it well, BTW). A few features might be excluded from the very oldest designs, and there is a peculiar anomaly in the "supported systems" regarding some "wrongfully orphaned" Cheese-Grater Mac Pros that the Mac hacker community has taken care of; but by and large, Apple has done a VERY good job at NOT obsoleting Mac systems.
Nothing has changed much in that regard. The recorded music industry only changed the medium and now we can buy a la cart songs instead of a CD with one good song and 9 to 10 fillers.
The model I have seen work is artists GIVE away their music (sometimes unofficially) so that folks will come to their shows and buy merchandise.
The recording is considering a marketing expense. And a few of them just let fans do all the heavy lifting of recording (even giving them access to the sound feeds) and distribution. Phish is an example.
Umphrees McGee actually has it down to a science. Phish's method is just a copy of what the Grateful Dead did for years (but then again, so is their entire band of Trust Fund Kids)...
What are you nitpicking about? Without an internet search you can not _easy_ buy them _here_. Any other tool is ready available at a shop that sells tools.
The six patents, U.S. Patent No. 8,633,936, U.S. Patent No. 8,698,558, U.S. Patent No. 8,487,658, U.S. Patent No. 8,838,949, U.S. Patent No. 9,535,490, and U.S. Patent No. 9,608,675 enable high performance in a smartphone while extending battery life. Each of the patents does so in a different way for different popular smartphone features; https://www.qualcomm.com/iphon... While the technologies covered by the patents are central to the performance of the iPhone, the six asserted patents are not essential to practice any standards in a mobile device or subject to a commitment to offer to license such patents.
These are not in the general patent common license pool, are not of any standards required for mobile devices, but Apple wants them anyway and is using them without paying for them.
How is Apple "using them without paying for them" in a device that uses a LICENSED Qualcomm chip?
Most "Baumarkts" don't have Torx Screw drivers. Hence I pointed out they are here not easy to get.
Sure you can find them, now fine me one in my town, rofl.
If you wan one or a set of Torx screw drivers you most of the time have to order them. You can not simply go into the next shop and buy one.
And a "Baumarkt" is already a kind of specialized shop, most towns don't have one.
So thank for doing the googeling for me. I don *NEED* a torx screw driver. I only wanted to point out: they are NOT EASY to get, regards of your google foo.
There is no shop that has one in walking distance or less than 30 minutes local train right in my area... at least not one who is findable over internet and google.
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
Move the goalposts much?!?
First it was "my COUNTRY". NOW it has to be "Within 30 mins WALKING distance in MY (undisclosed) town!"
Well, yeah, if you live in a farming village 20 miles from the nearest traffic-light, then you will probably have to mail-order from a Blaumarkt. At least give me some credit for correctly guessing what that word meant!
It's my understanding that the patents that Qualcomm is contesting Apple using IP from are not the ones agreed upon to be placed under the 'common license'. Apple is going beyond that point and using Qualcomm IP that isn't licensed that way to other Qualcomm customers either.
However, Apple is involved, so people will climb out of Steve Jobs grave (where they live) to raise a hue and cry.
...and you can also be relied-upon to crawl out of whatever hole you inhabit, to put the most negative-spin on any and every Apple-related story posted on Slashdot.
The problem is most of these "inventions" are only small part of an actual invention and specified so vaguely in the patent that the documented "invention" or useful machine could not be recreated just using said documentation and has no function without being connected in just the right way to other "inventions". The whole point is to preserve, propagate and allow the use of inventions and devices while still allowing the "inventor" to make a reasonable income on said invention. Most of these patents are on the equivalent of bolts and screws for the electronics industry.
This. Especially since the chip manufacturer would already have paid Qualcomm to license their technology, otherwise the chip manufacturer would be the one being sued or Apple would be willing to pay Qualcomm directly as part of their agreement with said chip manufacturer.
Clearly they only have an interest in getting the keys of people who might have enough competence to be dangerous:^) Seriously, Your assumption that the don't have a tool for Mac just because this isn't it makes you look pretty fucking stupid.
And your assumption that it doesn't exist only because there is no interest is equally arrogant.
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It is not an add on / secondary keyboard idiot ... and Apple also pre-configures. You truly are a moron.
Apple does NOT "pre-configure". When you first startup an new (or newly-upgraded) Mac, you have to go through a little "Identify the Keyboard" dance.
But the DRIVERS are all there already. THAT's the difference!
So, it looks like it is YOU that is truly the moron, eh?
Speak of which, do you have any suggestions to running PPC apps in 10.7+?
Having to dig up an old copy of 10.6 and cajoling it to install under Parallels seems like overkill.
The only LEGAL way to do it is to install a copy of Snow Leopard 10.6.8 SERVER. You have to hunt around to find how to install the package for Rosetta (it isn't installed by default on SL SERVER). I assume Pacifist would do it.
But there's no "cajoling" to it. There are tutorials galore on the intarwebs explaining how to install under Parallels or VMWare Fusion.
But it starts by you CALLING Apple Support, and ordering the magic part number for $19.99. They will usually deny having it, but be insistent. Make them check with their "supervisor":
https://discussions.apple.com/...
Sorry, that's the only way, other than doing screen-sharing with a Mac that is running Snow Leopard or a PPC Mac running Leopard...
Hope this helps!
Use the latest internal parts.*
Revert to including headphone jack.
Go crazy on edge-to-edge screen.
Make an "SE" version.
For the love of storage include a MicroSD slot.
Please revise / update iTunes, it's horrible.
Apple's success will depend on how much of this fantasy they can bring to reality. I've used both iOS and Android for some time now; they each have their foibles. The above phone would get me to buy an iPhone in spite of Apple's OS path diverging from my personal preference (i.e. Trust everything in our cloud! No 3rd party cloud allowed!)
*I don't personally care about touch ID sensor.
No 3rd party cloud allowed?
You mean like this?
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ho... ...or this?
https://venturebeat.com/2015/0...
In fact, it looks like most, if not all, of the major "Cloud Storage" providers work with iOS:
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/on...
And when iOS 11 drops in a few weeks, the built-in "Files" App will make 3rd party Cloud storage quite simple:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2...
So, you MIGHT want to revise your meme to comport with REALITY...
If anything, the loss of the home button will be a bummer:
They've reached the point where they're just making "courageous" changes which benefit their own assembly & engineering but lack significant user value and don't solve obvious consumer problems with the device. Case in point, the headphone jack.
My guess is they are on the cusp of a "Windows 8 Start Menu" kind of change where the fuck up the design enough to seriously damage their user base.
Very doubtful. Unlike MS and Linux/Android, Apple moves VERY slowly and carefully with UI paradigm shifts.
For example, In the computer world, a user familiar with a 1984 Mac would have less difficulty acclimating to macOS 10.12 than a Windows 7 User would have with Windows 8. And in the mobile world, a person familiar with iPhone OS 1.0 for the most part would feel right at home with iOS 10.3. I can't speak for Android, but I think they have far too many "customizations" to say anything close to the same thing.
Windows can't do it without hoop jumping either idiot. The difference is that it came pre-installed with an OS where ASUS already configured it. You are one stupid motherfucker.
Then I guess they are BOTH inferior to macOS, which handles BT keyboards right out of the box.
I didn't think we could do any worse than that. I have a Surface Pro 3 which regularly has missing icons, as far as I've experience since they released a beta this has been an on and off issue. I always hated Apple for their quickly dropping hardware as "supported", it seems I need to readjust my expectations of Microsoft now.
Windows 10 is a constant stream of lackluster "improvements". All a person has to do is open the "settings" to realize you still need a Control Panel, but in their infinite wisdom Microsoft doesn't give you quick and easy access to that now.
This whole upgrade strategy is bizarre if you ask me.
Excuse me, but other than a few 32-bit Mac models, the last of which was discontinued in August, 2007, and some of the very earliest 64-bit machines, nearly every Mac since 2009 is STILL supported, even in the not-yet-released macOS 10.13 (High Sierra).
if intel would of gone all 64 at the same time AMD then maybe 10 would of been 64 bit only. 2012R2 was the start on server.
It does take awhile. For example, Apple ditched OS support for 32 bit CPUs in 2011, with the release of OS X 10.7 (Lion). But the OS STILL supports 32-bit APPLICATIONS (and a damn-sight more conveniently than Windows, I might add!) to this day, and Apple is only NOW starting to put its foot down about 32-bit Application support, saying that the upcoming High Sierra (macOS 10.13) is "the last version that will run 32-bit Applications 'without compromise' ". Notice that hints at the fact that 32-bit Application support will STILL not be completely gone even in the NEXT-NEXT version of macOS (10.14), even though they will have dropped support for 32-bit CPUs in the OS over SEVEN years prior, and even though the last 32-bit Mac rolled off the assembly line in August 2007, ELEVEN years prior to 10.14's assumed release in mid-2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes and no. This is maybe the very first battle for territory... hardware rights and planned obsolescence in the Microsoft ecosystem. Windows 10 is the newest walled garden where the software publisher is allowed to expire hardware a customer has purchased. This is an echo.. of something that another vendor has relied on. Apple 101 - you can't make money on hardware by supporting legacy software platforms for more than a couple of years. For better or worse... Microsoft is now "owning" this plan which requires PC/Windows users to pony up more money to stay current... as Mac users have unfortunately become more complacent to. Honestly if you read up on it... the latest generation of the Microsoft Surface is glued together which is designed to never be upgraded... thus the hardware is stuck at a "point in time".
Peace.
Kindly leave Apple out of this meme.
Here is the compatibility list for the upcoming macOS "High Sierra" (macOS 10.13).
http://osxdaily.com/2017/06/06...
Notice that the compatibility goes back to Macs built in 2009. That means that these Macs were first released with OS X 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") on them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Snow Leopard, BTW, was the FIRST Intel-Only version of macOS (nee OS X). IOW, that means that Apple has actually MAINTAINED support for essentially EVERY (64-bit) Intel Mac ever created! Support for 32-bit (CoreSolo?) systems was ended with OS X Lion (10.7); but there were only a few models affected (a Macbook, and a bottom-level Mac mini, IIRC).
So, stop saying that Apple drops support for Mac hardware prematurely. With few exceptions, if you have an Intel Mac, you should be able to install and use any of SEVEN major releases of macOS, even up to the not-yet-released High Sierra.
I fucking hate Microsoft, but I have an ASUS T100-chi with 32 but Windows 10 and 2GB of RAM. I haven't had time to put Linux on it yet because there is some hoop jumping related to Bluetooth only keyboard, so I am using Windows on it for now. In truth it performs quite well. In fact I will probably just keep Windows so I have the experience of developing on a Windows box, for the rare time when there is no other option ( i.e. it's all the client has available / is willing to use) Sorry to shatter your worldview.
God, no WONDER it will NEVER be "The year of Linux on the Desktop!"
2017 and Linux can't deal with a BT keyboard without "hoop-jumping"???
Back to the days of DOS and having to install MSCDEX from a floppy just to read a CD to then install Windows without resorting to the 32-floppy install procedure...
It boggles my mind how hard it is for people to understand such a simple point. No wonder you posted AC. You probably couldn't figure out how to use the login prompt.
Despite Apple's bad versioning, 10.6 and 10.7 were major releases, and there were announcements that Rosetta was being discontinued. So as annoying as it was to lose Rosetta, it didn't come as a surprise.
Furthermore, Apple didn't force people to upgrade to 10.7, and then take Rosetta away *after* they upgraded.
So you lose. Please play again.
Exactly!
And that is one of the reasons why a fair number of Mac owners were like "You'll pry the Snow Leopard (and its Rosetta) from my cold, dead fingers."
But Apple never released some "Update" that then RETROACTIVELY killed-off Rosetta in SNOW LEOPARD. They just made a very concerted effort to make their first FREE Upgrade as enticing to Snow Leopard "holdouts" as possible, by making sure ANY Mac that would run Snow Leopard would run Mavericks as well.
But, if they hadn't gotten rid of Rosetta, Devs would STILL be creating PPC applications, and people like Adobe and Avid would have NEVER converted their codebases.
You computer is now too old, it will not longer allow windows 10, buy a new computer but don't forget you previous copy of windows 10 is tied to the old computer we wont provide upgrades for
So it's like a Mac?
Ah, another day, another incorrect Apple meme to dispel...
No.
If Windows were like a Mac (or more correctly, macOS), in MOST cases, hardware would be supported for as long as reasonably practical. Right now, pretty much every, or maybe even every, Mac back to at least 2009 is supported up through the upcoming High Sierra version (macOS 10.13). That includes most Macs that shipped with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6), which is SEVEN major revisions ago.
http://osxdaily.com/2017/06/06...
In other words, if it is a 64 bit Intel Mac, it will likely run High Sierra (and run it well, BTW). A few features might be excluded from the very oldest designs, and there is a peculiar anomaly in the "supported systems" regarding some "wrongfully orphaned" Cheese-Grater Mac Pros that the Mac hacker community has taken care of; but by and large, Apple has done a VERY good job at NOT obsoleting Mac systems.
Um, no. It's convenience and it's the way people prefer to consume their music.
All of the same RIAA bullshit is still there. And artists are getting screwed even more so.
Nothing has changed much in that regard. The recorded music industry only changed the medium and now we can buy a la cart songs instead of a CD with one good song and 9 to 10 fillers.
The model I have seen work is artists GIVE away their music (sometimes unofficially) so that folks will come to their shows and buy merchandise.
The recording is considering a marketing expense. And a few of them just let fans do all the heavy lifting of recording (even giving them access to the sound feeds) and distribution. Phish is an example.
Umphrees McGee actually has it down to a science. Phish's method is just a copy of what the Grateful Dead did for years (but then again, so is their entire band of Trust Fund Kids)...
No, you are simply not listening.
I said: "they are not easy to get here"
Emphasize on _easy_ and _here_
What are you nitpicking about? Without an internet search you can not _easy_ buy them _here_. Any other tool is ready available at a shop that sells tools.
There you go again!
Grow up and get a life, willya?
A citation for you.
The six patents, U.S. Patent No. 8,633,936, U.S. Patent No. 8,698,558, U.S. Patent No. 8,487,658, U.S. Patent No. 8,838,949, U.S. Patent No. 9,535,490, and U.S. Patent No. 9,608,675 enable high performance in a smartphone while extending battery life. Each of the patents does so in a different way for different popular smartphone features; https://www.qualcomm.com/iphon... While the technologies covered by the patents are central to the performance of the iPhone, the six asserted patents are not essential to practice any standards in a mobile device or subject to a commitment to offer to license such patents.
These are not in the general patent common license pool, are not of any standards required for mobile devices, but Apple wants them anyway and is using them without paying for them.
How is Apple "using them without paying for them" in a device that uses a LICENSED Qualcomm chip?
Most "Baumarkts" don't have Torx Screw drivers.
Hence I pointed out they are here not easy to get.
Sure you can find them, now fine me one in my town, rofl.
If you wan one or a set of Torx screw drivers you most of the time have to order them. You can not simply go into the next shop and buy one.
And a "Baumarkt" is already a kind of specialized shop, most towns don't have one.
So thank for doing the googeling for me. I don *NEED* a torx screw driver. I only wanted to point out: they are NOT EASY to get, regards of your google foo.
There is no shop that has one in walking distance or less than 30 minutes local train right in my area ... at least not one who is findable over internet and google.
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
Move the goalposts much?!?
First it was "my COUNTRY". NOW it has to be "Within 30 mins WALKING distance in MY (undisclosed) town!"
Well, yeah, if you live in a farming village 20 miles from the nearest traffic-light, then you will probably have to mail-order from a Blaumarkt. At least give me some credit for correctly guessing what that word meant!
Is this the same money.cnn.com that declared math racist?
nah, can't be them
When are you people going to stop citing CNN as a credible source? What is it going to take?
There's LOTS more sources. That's just the one that came up first with a good side-by-side picture.
Why not look at THAT. It tells you ALL you need to know.
Oh, I know why: Willful Blindness.
It's my understanding that the patents that Qualcomm is contesting Apple using IP from are not the ones agreed upon to be placed under the 'common license'. Apple is going beyond that point and using Qualcomm IP that isn't licensed that way to other Qualcomm customers either.
However, Apple is involved, so people will climb out of Steve Jobs grave (where they live) to raise a hue and cry.
...and you can also be relied-upon to crawl out of whatever hole you inhabit, to put the most negative-spin on any and every Apple-related story posted on Slashdot.
Citation or it didn't happen.
So, what was your point, again?
you don't charge somebody more for a sofa just because they want to put it in a more expensive house.
GREAT analogy!!!
The problem is most of these "inventions" are only small part of an actual invention and specified so vaguely in the patent that the documented "invention" or useful machine could not be recreated just using said documentation and has no function without being connected in just the right way to other "inventions". The whole point is to preserve, propagate and allow the use of inventions and devices while still allowing the "inventor" to make a reasonable income on said invention. Most of these patents are on the equivalent of bolts and screws for the electronics industry.
Oh, please...
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money...
This. Especially since the chip manufacturer would already have paid Qualcomm to license their technology, otherwise the chip manufacturer would be the one being sued or Apple would be willing to pay Qualcomm directly as part of their agreement with said chip manufacturer.
Exactly!
In fairness, this is the karma train hitting Apple. They tried to pull this same shit with Samsung over goddamn rounded corners.
Oh, it was a LOT more than just "Rounded Corners", troll:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/1...
Clearly they only have an interest in getting the keys of people who might have enough competence to be dangerous :^) Seriously, Your assumption that the don't have a tool for Mac just because this isn't it makes you look pretty fucking stupid.
And your assumption that it doesn't exist only because there is no interest is equally arrogant.
Look at my name? Email?
Ok, Mr. Smartypants!
Here is a thread where people are discussing where to get Torx drivers in Germany. I don't recognize these business names; but you probably will.
And as they say at the bottom of this thread, "probably any baumarkt will have them." I believe that means "Hardware Store" in U.S.-ian.
https://www.toytowngermany.com...
For example, here's what a Search for "torx" on the Toom Baumarkt site uncovered:
https://www.toom-baumarkt.de/b...
Same thing for the OBI Baumarkt:
https://www.obi.de/search/torx...
So, don't feed me bullshit about "Can't find Torx in your Country". I. Just. Did.
It's just a python script. It could probably be easily tweaked to run on MacOS.
Spoilsport!
But NOT macOS.
Tee Hee.