Apple's first MacBook with USB-C/TB had only one port. The Pro's that came out a couple years later had 4.
Well, I agree that the first (non-pro) MacBook that had only 1 USB-C Port was a mistake; but it was not alone. There was a Pixel 2 (IIRC) notebook that was the same way.
I guess they both assumed that inexpensive USB-C Docks would take care of it, and they probably have to a large extent.
And they also dropped the ball by removing the classic USB 3.0 type A ports at the same time. What was the point of that? You can have both USB 3.0 and USB-C on the same computer.
And you can use any USB 3.0 device with a USB-C port with a cable change or a $2 passive adapter.
Working for a well known chip company here. I'm one of the DB guys. I know we dumped out in-house iOS team when the whole "port to Swift" BS started. Management took one look at the cost and out-sourced the lot to east Europe.
Yeah, it is true that Objective-C was also a lock-in language, but Obj-C itself is behind the times. Most userland is moving to managed code, and even Apple couldn't keep programmers away using a 30-year old outdated language. So Apple needed - and created - a new lock-in languages. It's called Swift.
Yeah, they're Lock-In Languages, alright.
Objective-C is part of the gcc compiler.
Swift is Open Source and already has ports in Linux and Windows.
Don't look for reasons why Swift may be technically superior. Look for reasons why Apple wants Swift to keep developers locked inside the Apple world. Every minute that a developer uses to learn Swift, is a minute not spent on learning a non-Apple technology.
Um, Swift is Open Source.
How does that lock ANYONE in to an "Apple World"?
You stupid Haters REALLY need to think before posting your stupid, imbecilic drivel.
Indeed. Sell it as the next greatest thing that everybody must use and then, when everybody not too smart is on it, change is so that there is no way out, support on other platforms gets very difficult and independent implementation become non-viable. Pretty classical attack.
And name me other Apple Open Source projects where they have employed your paranoid business plan.
Bonjour: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
launchd: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
GCD: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
Webkit: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
Swift: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
OpenCL: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific. (In fact, now even Deprecated by Apple).
CUPS: Acquired by Apple, and continues as non-Apple Specific Open Source.
LLVM: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
Clang: Not Apple owned, but Apple is the major contributor to the Open Source Project.
ResearchKit, CareKit. Open Source iOS Projects that are apparently not Apple-Specific.
Darwin: Open Source, and somewhat non Apple-Specific....and many more.
Is Linux a 'walled garden' since we can't take software using Linux-specific APIs like cgroups and ALSA and evdev and easily compile/run them on OSes like macOS and Windows?
Exactly this.
So many Slashtards want to assign the epithet "Walled Garden" to ANYTHING Apple does, regardless of how much they Open Source it, or make it as platform-agnostic as possible.
But that isn't a reason not to take them, it's a reason not to listen to people like you who claim they're "evil and awful" and then just stop without talking to your doctor.
Where did I EVER advocate stopping SSRIs cold-turkey?!? Oh, GOD no!!!
No, the trick is to not start them in the first place, UNLESS they are ACTUALLY effective for the SPECIFIC condition, and THEN, only when other methods have been tried and failed.
And if you want to STOP them, make SURE you are doing so under the guidance of your prescribing physician, and THEN only on a multi-MONTH "taper"...
There. Does that satisfy you that I understand the issue?
and why is apple getting rid of it, why? Fuck off.
Honestly, I don't know exactly why Apple is Deprecating OpenGL and OpenCL. I believe it has to do with the fact that Metal is significantly more "performant". And don't we ALL want that?!?
Frameworks and standards come, change, and eventually go. It is the way of software development. Kind of an evolutionary process, much like nature. And like all evolutionary processes, there are winners and losers.
From what I understand, at this point, Metal 2 is a pretty good API; why not give it a chance?
Not very many people said the sky is falling, just because DirectX was MS-specific lo these many years. If there is enough call for OpenGL and/or OpenCL for specific App Development, then I am sure someone in the F/OSS "community" will maintain those Frameworks in a compatible-fashion for macOS. Or at least I hope so. Or, those Libraries will just be built into Applications, most of which are already the size of a modern OS...
Just like when, citing security reasons, Apple decided to remove a couple of typical Unix Utilities (ftp and telnet, IIRC) from the standard macOS build in High Sierra, someone quickly came along and put together a package that brought them back. Easy-peasey. Done!
I suspect, such will happen with OpenGL and maybe OpenCL, too.
And before you whine, that's the way EVERYTHING works in Linux; so how would it be so bad for a few things to work that way in macOS, too?
The only possible "casualties" would be that those Applications that remain dependent on OpenGL and OpenCL may not be accepted in the MacOS (and iOS?) App Store(s), until they are re-written for Metal.
Hah! I have a Late 2013 MacBook, and they completely dropped CUDA support for the GPU on it.
Upgraded OS, tons of my software now runs at an unusable speed. And good luck trying to obtain an older version of the OS to install.
You actually can get SOME older versions from Apple for $20, IIRC. Plus, you SHOULD be able to do a "Recovery" to the same Version of OSX/macOS that the machine originally shipped-with.
Plus, you may know someone with another install image floating around. Then you can use a free utility called Make BootX (IIRC) to make a bootable installer stick out of any USB stick 8 GB or larger.
Apple can barely write Mac software that works. If they needed to put together a team to write the Android and Windows Facetime client, people would fight to stay off that project, which would be located in some shitty warehouse far away from the Heavens Gate spaceship building.
The result would be terrible shit, like Windows Itunes or qUicktime and the mess that Windows Safari was.
Apple's coders can barely code for the hardware directly controlled by their own teams.
Duo pretty much always works for me. The best part is that I, with my Android phone, can video chat with my family who pretty much all have iPhones. The experience was simple enough that I was able to walk my 94 year old grandmother through using it. The most difficult part for her was installing the app.
Well I cannot answer for how it works in the US but over here you will not get it prescribed just for complaining that you are feeling down. The suicide rate of people with bipolar disorder is magnitudes higher if they are not prescribed with SSRIs, I know because I'm married to one and before we found the particular dose and SSRI that worked for her I spent uncounted amounts of time in the ER to try to reverse her suicide attempts.
Well, I am TRULY glad they worked for your wife, seriously.
But they are WAY over-prescribed here in the U.S.; and often lead to more problems than they fix, especially when people try to DISCONTINUE them...
Skype 15 years ago worked superbly. No idea why several vendor/owner changes and rewrites fucked it up so badly. However I still use Skype for video calls.
Thanks for telling us. We will note that in your file.
Does Facetime actually bring anything useful to the table?
Yes, as a matter of fact it does.
It works.
Unlike the "System Formerly Known as Lync".
I don't think skype and lync are really related. Lync was a copycat product made by Microsoft just as facetime is a copycat product made by Apple. Neither of them brought anything interesting to the table. If "it's better than LYNC" is all that Facetime has going for it... that doesn't bode well for the future of facetime on platforms where users have a choice.
"Skype For Business" is what I meant by "The System Formerly Known as Lync". They are the same product, just rebranded by MS.
He did not claim that 100% of the suicides where due to that. These two people where celebrities and it looks like bipolar and depression is very high among celebrities and those two groups have a high suicide rate.
Because they are almost always prescribed those awful SSRIs.
Same reason we have all these school shootings.
We're turning knobs in the brain without knowing which way to actually turn them, let alone how much...
SSRIs are good for only ONE thing: OCD.
Unfortunately, they are prescribed for anybody who complains about "feeling down". And when they make the patient feel even MORE "down", guess what? THEY UP THE DOSAGE!!!
The lying sacks of shit at Big Pharma are almost WHOLLY to blame, just like with the Opiod Crisis; by filling the "Peer Reviewed Journals" with Pharmatisements disguised as peer-reviewed STUDIES, and then pushing samples and brochures which echo these LIES at YOUR family doctor, who is likely too busy looking at the cleavage of the "Pharma Rep" than critically asking questions about the crap she's pushing...
Back in 2005 time AMD was making significant headway in becoming the Chip for your PC right before Intel released the Core duo chip. The Pentium Line was getting aging and the Pentium-5 wasn't that popular and AMD was the chip for your PC. AMD had about a year or two of popularity.
Then Intel made the Intel Core Duo and the Core 2 Duo chip (64 bit) which put AMD back. But right before then, Intel was seen as the dying giant.
Wasn't there also something about AMD selling some of their fab-lines to Motorola/Freescale at a most inopportune time, or something like that?
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But it's still Android, so it's less secure than the iPhone.
That's what I came to say...
Apple's first MacBook with USB-C/TB had only one port. The Pro's that came out a couple years later had 4.
Well, I agree that the first (non-pro) MacBook that had only 1 USB-C Port was a mistake; but it was not alone. There was a Pixel 2 (IIRC) notebook that was the same way.
I guess they both assumed that inexpensive USB-C Docks would take care of it, and they probably have to a large extent.
And they also dropped the ball by removing the classic USB 3.0 type A ports at the same time. What was the point of that? You can have both USB 3.0 and USB-C on the same computer.
And you can use any USB 3.0 device with a USB-C port with a cable change or a $2 passive adapter.
Now what?
apple missed it up with too few ports when 1 is needed for power.
Who was talking about Apple?
And you think FOUR USB-C/TB 3 Ports is too few?!?
Working for a well known chip company here. I'm one of the DB guys. I know we dumped out in-house iOS team when the whole "port to Swift" BS started. Management took one look at the cost and out-sourced the lot to east Europe.
Mmmm. Bet that is going just peachy.
Stupid PHBs.
...What a dumb argument. That applies to most other programming languages, too....
Except that Swift is Apple's language. Duh. :)
You are a fucking sad excuse for a sentient-being.
Kill yourself immediately.
Yeah, it is true that Objective-C was also a lock-in language, but Obj-C itself is behind the times. Most userland is moving to managed code, and even Apple couldn't keep programmers away using a 30-year old outdated language. So Apple needed - and created - a new lock-in languages. It's called Swift.
Yeah, they're Lock-In Languages, alright.
Objective-C is part of the gcc compiler.
Swift is Open Source and already has ports in Linux and Windows.
Sounds Locked-In to me.
Idiot.
...And that was true of Obj-C for the last 30 years, so... yeah, solid argument there....
Obj-C was not developed by Apple. It was used by Apple (and, btw, NeXT), but it was developed separately from Apple by StepStone.
Yeah, for awhile, then it was licensed by NeXT in 1988, who extended the language a bunch, then it was transferred to Apple when Apple acquired NeXT.
It is currently listed as being owned by Apple.
Don't look for reasons why Swift may be technically superior. Look for reasons why Apple wants Swift to keep developers locked inside the Apple world. Every minute that a developer uses to learn Swift, is a minute not spent on learning a non-Apple technology.
Um, Swift is Open Source.
How does that lock ANYONE in to an "Apple World"?
You stupid Haters REALLY need to think before posting your stupid, imbecilic drivel.
That's what you get for coding with Apple's proprietary garbage language instead of a standards-compliant one like C or VBA.
You're calling VBA "Standards-Compliant"?!?
Ok, I think we're done now.
Objective-C is still a better language than Swift.
I think even Apple would agree at this time.
But since Objective-C was born out of Smalltalk about 1981, lets see how good Swift is in about 40 years...
Indeed. Sell it as the next greatest thing that everybody must use and then, when everybody not too smart is on it, change is so that there is no way out, support on other platforms gets very difficult and independent implementation become non-viable. Pretty classical attack.
And name me other Apple Open Source projects where they have employed your paranoid business plan.
Bonjour: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
launchd: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
GCD: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
Webkit: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
Swift: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
OpenCL: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific. (In fact, now even Deprecated by Apple).
CUPS: Acquired by Apple, and continues as non-Apple Specific Open Source.
LLVM: Open Source, and certainly not Apple-Specific.
Clang: Not Apple owned, but Apple is the major contributor to the Open Source Project.
ResearchKit, CareKit. Open Source iOS Projects that are apparently not Apple-Specific.
Darwin: Open Source, and somewhat non Apple-Specific. ...and many more.
Is Linux a 'walled garden' since we can't take software using Linux-specific APIs like cgroups and ALSA and evdev and easily compile/run them on OSes like macOS and Windows?
Exactly this.
So many Slashtards want to assign the epithet "Walled Garden" to ANYTHING Apple does, regardless of how much they Open Source it, or make it as platform-agnostic as possible.
It's just ridiculous.
But that isn't a reason not to take them, it's a reason not to listen to people like you who claim they're "evil and awful" and then just stop without talking to your doctor.
Where did I EVER advocate stopping SSRIs cold-turkey?!? Oh, GOD no!!!
No, the trick is to not start them in the first place, UNLESS they are ACTUALLY effective for the SPECIFIC condition, and THEN, only when other methods have been tried and failed.
And if you want to STOP them, make SURE you are doing so under the guidance of your prescribing physician, and THEN only on a multi-MONTH "taper"...
There. Does that satisfy you that I understand the issue?
and we should just trust that.... because?
and why is apple getting rid of it, why?
Fuck off.
Honestly, I don't know exactly why Apple is Deprecating OpenGL and OpenCL. I believe it has to do with the fact that Metal is significantly more "performant". And don't we ALL want that?!?
Frameworks and standards come, change, and eventually go. It is the way of software development. Kind of an evolutionary process, much like nature. And like all evolutionary processes, there are winners and losers.
From what I understand, at this point, Metal 2 is a pretty good API; why not give it a chance?
Not very many people said the sky is falling, just because DirectX was MS-specific lo these many years. If there is enough call for OpenGL and/or OpenCL for specific App Development, then I am sure someone in the F/OSS "community" will maintain those Frameworks in a compatible-fashion for macOS. Or at least I hope so. Or, those Libraries will just be built into Applications, most of which are already the size of a modern OS...
Just like when, citing security reasons, Apple decided to remove a couple of typical Unix Utilities (ftp and telnet, IIRC) from the standard macOS build in High Sierra, someone quickly came along and put together a package that brought them back. Easy-peasey. Done!
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I suspect, such will happen with OpenGL and maybe OpenCL, too.
And before you whine, that's the way EVERYTHING works in Linux; so how would it be so bad for a few things to work that way in macOS, too?
The only possible "casualties" would be that those Applications that remain dependent on OpenGL and OpenCL may not be accepted in the MacOS (and iOS?) App Store(s), until they are re-written for Metal.
Hah! I have a Late 2013 MacBook, and they completely dropped CUDA support for the GPU on it.
Upgraded OS, tons of my software now runs at an unusable speed.
And good luck trying to obtain an older version of the OS to install.
You actually can get SOME older versions from Apple for $20, IIRC. Plus, you SHOULD be able to do a "Recovery" to the same Version of OSX /macOS that the machine originally shipped-with.
Plus, you may know someone with another install image floating around. Then you can use a free utility called Make BootX (IIRC) to make a bootable installer stick out of any USB stick 8 GB or larger.
Apple forked KHTML to form Webkit. Then Open Sourced their Fork.
I don't know about Clang; but isn't Apple also responsible for much of LLVM?
And as for CUPS, Apple BOUGHT it outright. But then, they continued to maintain and License it under a FOSS license (can't remember which one).
Worse than that. They now prescribe antipsychotics for being grumpy (Abilify).
Antipsychotics make normal people psychotic.
Funny how that works...
Apple can barely write Mac software that works. If they needed to put together a team to write the Android and Windows Facetime client, people would fight to stay off that project, which would be located in some shitty warehouse far away from the Heavens Gate spaceship building.
The result would be terrible shit, like Windows Itunes or qUicktime and the mess that Windows Safari was.
Apple's coders can barely code for the hardware directly controlled by their own teams.
Of course.
Duo pretty much always works for me. The best part is that I, with my Android phone, can video chat with my family who pretty much all have iPhones. The experience was simple enough that I was able to walk my 94 year old grandmother through using it. The most difficult part for her was installing the app.
If true, That sounds pretty sweet, honestly!
Well I cannot answer for how it works in the US but over here you will not get it prescribed just for complaining that you are feeling down. The suicide rate of people with bipolar disorder is magnitudes higher if they are not prescribed with SSRIs, I know because I'm married to one and before we found the particular dose and SSRI that worked for her I spent uncounted amounts of time in the ER to try to reverse her suicide attempts.
Well, I am TRULY glad they worked for your wife, seriously.
But they are WAY over-prescribed here in the U.S.; and often lead to more problems than they fix, especially when people try to DISCONTINUE them...
Skype 15 years ago worked superbly.
No idea why several vendor/owner changes and rewrites fucked it up so badly.
However I still use Skype for video calls.
Thanks for telling us. We will note that in your file.
Does Facetime actually bring anything useful to the table?
Yes, as a matter of fact it does.
It works.
Unlike the "System Formerly Known as Lync".
I don't think skype and lync are really related. Lync was a copycat product made by Microsoft just as facetime is a copycat product made by Apple. Neither of them brought anything interesting to the table. If "it's better than LYNC" is all that Facetime has going for it... that doesn't bode well for the future of facetime on platforms where users have a choice.
"Skype For Business" is what I meant by "The System Formerly Known as Lync". They are the same product, just rebranded by MS.
He did not claim that 100% of the suicides where due to that. These two people where celebrities and it looks like bipolar and depression is very high among celebrities and those two groups have a high suicide rate.
Because they are almost always prescribed those awful SSRIs.
Same reason we have all these school shootings.
We're turning knobs in the brain without knowing which way to actually turn them, let alone how much...
SSRIs are good for only ONE thing: OCD.
Unfortunately, they are prescribed for anybody who complains about "feeling down". And when they make the patient feel even MORE "down", guess what? THEY UP THE DOSAGE!!!
The lying sacks of shit at Big Pharma are almost WHOLLY to blame, just like with the Opiod Crisis; by filling the "Peer Reviewed Journals" with Pharmatisements disguised as peer-reviewed STUDIES, and then pushing samples and brochures which echo these LIES at YOUR family doctor, who is likely too busy looking at the cleavage of the "Pharma Rep" than critically asking questions about the crap she's pushing...
Back in 2005 time AMD was making significant headway in becoming the Chip for your PC right before Intel released the Core duo chip. The Pentium Line was getting aging and the Pentium-5 wasn't that popular and AMD was the chip for your PC. AMD had about a year or two of popularity.
Then Intel made the Intel Core Duo and the Core 2 Duo chip (64 bit) which put AMD back. But right before then, Intel was seen as the dying giant.
Wasn't there also something about AMD selling some of their fab-lines to Motorola/Freescale at a most inopportune time, or something like that?