But Macs don't have touchscreen, so honestly, how is that gonna work?
Easy. They have multitouch trackpads on MacBooks back to at least 2011 (and possibly before), and the ones on the 2016-2017 MacBook Pros and the external Trackpad are already nearly the size of an iPad mini and have force-touch and multitouch; so...
OS X is dead. It's macOS now. Which mean's it's going to be iMac OS.
People have been saying that since OS X 10.7, you realize. And here we are at macOS 10.13 (SIX major revisions later!) and it STILL hasn't happened to any great extent.
This revolutionary innovative feature is only 5 years after Microsoft pulled off the same trick with Windows, and 2 years after Google pulled off the same trick with Chrome.
Apple doesn't even have a touch friendly computer operating system... Kinda getting a bit ahead of themselves with talk of iPad apps on a Mac.
Hate to reply to an Anonymous COWARD; but it is not at ALL the same with iOS Apps running under macOS.
Although they have the same kernel (Darwin), iOS and macOS diverge quite a bit above that level. Windows tablets run Windows; so, duh. Don't know as much about Chrome; but thought it was designed from the ground-up to be the same across "Desktop" and "Mobile" incarnations; so again, duh.
But iOS was never originally intended to be a subset of macOS; so it is a lot less "duh" for Apple to pull that trick off.
Yeah, dealing with medical equipment isn't the same as dealing with a phone. You should see some of the people who are 50+ in the office who literally cannot even write an email. It's kind of astonishing. Also, the base premise remains -- "wireless off?" should mean "wireless off." Not "yeah, mostly off... we're just going to leave on a little wireless, so you can use location services/be tracked. ok?". Off means off, particularly when radio signals can be blamed for interfering with equipment (whether they can or not is a whole other story. I've yet to see one airline crash due to some dude leaving his cellphone on, or whatever, but the liability is there).
You obviously love Apple, so I'll give you a bone -- they've got a better security model than Android. That's really their only upshot at the moment.
I never use the Wifi Off (nor Airplane Mode); but I would imagine the reason they made the Control Panel "sort of" disable WiFi is that Apple's Support line glowed red-hot with people calling in mad as hornets because they turned their WiFi off in the Control Panel, and then couldn't use this or that feature (like AirDrop), or simply forgot to switch it back on the next day, and then thought their "WiFi was broken".
As you said, "old people" (and some not-so-old) are tech-averse, and simply REFUSE to dig-in for even 5 minutes to discover how something REALLY works.
Bottom line: It is literally impossible to make something truly "idiot proof"; because idiots are a maddeningly-determined bunch! Determined to NEVER LEARN,that is!!!
You are basing your remaining battery capacity on Apple's down app. When they used that app to check my girlfriend's battery they found it had 87% remaining, but that didn't stop it from suddenly jumping from 50% charged to 2% charged, or randomly powering off.
I think all the app does is measure the amount of energy that the battery stores, not its ability to deliver high currents. As such even if your battery still stores 90% of its rated energy, it might not actually work properly in your phone.
I was using a third party app that many people on MacRumors were recommending as "agreeing" with the Apple "Genius-Bar" Diagnostic.
It is called "Battery Life", and displays a "quickie look" of battery "wear", or you can look at the Raw Data. In the "Raw Data" view, it shows both the current battery charge, as well as an obviously-averaged "Capacity", in which it compares to the design-spec for the particular battery. So, for example, that bargraph shows that my "Capacity" is 93%, or 2700 mAh, rather than the "ideal" of 2915 mAh for my iPhone 6 Plus. So, there's your numbers, and how they are derived.
How do you know how much capacity is left in the battery? Is there a diagnostic that shows?
I have a iPhone 6 Plus that has some weird battery behavior (jumping battery charge levels from like 80% to 49% and then staying at 49% for ages).
I believe that Apple is going to add that to a future version of iOS; HOWEVER, there are several Apps that show Battery "Health" as a Percentage.
The one that I used, and that several people on MacRumors were citing as "coming up with the same value as Apple's Genius-Bar Diagnostic" is called "Battery Life". But beware! There are actually TWO Apps that have VERY similar Icons, both are called "Battery Life". But one gives you the "Battery Life" as a Percentage of "Wear", and the other gives you the Percentage of Life-Left. So, one would show "7%" (wear), while the other would show "93%" (life-left).
The one with the little lightning-bolt in the middle of the battery depicted on the icon is the "Wear" one. The one with the Exclamation Point in the middle of the battery depicted on the icon is the "life-left" one. Sorry I can't get back to the exact name of the App with the Exclamation Point...
But, something interesting just happened. I pressed the "Rate and Review" button in the App with the Exclamation Point; and it promptly said that the App "was not available in the U.S. App Store" (!!!) So???
So maybe the "Battery Life" with the Lightning-Bolt is the one you want. And this is the link:
Do you remember how Apples PR team quickly jumped at offering customers a solution of replacing their cell phone battery for cheap?
Well what good is a solution if the company will not "act" on it?
I have two clients that were turned away from Apple after attempting to get their battery replaced for their IPhone 6. They were told by the reps that there are no batteries available, "they may come in April". Then the rep immediately tried to encourage my client to buy a new phone.
Has anyone else experienced this?
It is becoming tiring that companies can say whatever suites them to make problems go away. Will we ever live in a world of corporate accountability?
Hey dumbass!
There ARE no batteries available, thanks to everyone FORCING Apple to replace batteries that are still at 90+ capacity, like the battery on my iPhone 6 Plus that is over THREE years old, and sitting at 93% battery capacity.
I'm an Apple fan (though I like to think I'm not a fanboy), and I'm okay with this investigation. While the facts about what happened aren't in dispute, the decisions that led to those actions are in dispute, and depending on what they end up being, they might point towards misdeeds on Apple's part. For instance, while I doubt the government will find any indication of it, if Apple was slowing already-purchased phones down for the purpose of driving people to purchase new phones, there'd be some serious problems for them, given that they would have effectively been engaging in a bait-and-switch.
I expect that the government will subpoena the relevant e-mails, investigate whether that was the intent, and then will almost certainly come to the conclusion that there's no evidence of Apple engaging in any wrongdoing. At the same time, I expect that the investigation will be dragged through the news cycles every few months whenever a politician or competitor who's opposed to Apple in some way needs a quick way to make Apple look like the bad guy.
I.e. Politics as usual.
Bullshit.
Don't you find it a bit COMBEENIENT that this "investigation" come STRAIGHT on the heels of the FBI testifying in Congress about "unbreakable encryption"? Especially since we ALL know who has the best track record I. That regard...
And don't let them weasel out of the class action lawsuit with their fake $29 battery replacement offer. A coworker's son works at the local Apple store, and he said they're refusing to do about 90% of the replacements. I know the devices I took in from work were all denied due to one excuse or another.
Don't sully the sacred memory and lyrics of the GREAT Francis Vincent Zappa (and the performances of Mark Vollman and Howard Kaylan) by making it into some dumbass, halfassed ad hominem attack on ANYONE, even cd Reimer!!!
What's there to investigate, really? They admitted that they did it. The information is public. Is it illegal to write software which could be construed to have a useful purpose even if it negatively impacts performance? That could describe features of just about any software out there. Is this something we really want the government doing?
This is nonsense. An IPhone 6 battery replacement is a ten minute job for someone who knows how.
Well, yes, but we're talking about Apple "geniuses" here. (No, really, that's what Apple calls their support people.) Is it any surprise that they don't know how? Or at the very least aren't allowed to?
The Geniuses don't do it. They have a dedicated repair tech in the back.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Fuck off and die, you stupid COWARD, or log in and take your Karmic whipping like an adult!
That's because they don't "replace" the battery in iPhones. They copy the data from the old one on to a new one, hand your that, and then ship your old one to be "refurbished" (which is, of course, basically just replacing the battery).
Because they can't do the battery replacements in-store (because the phone is glued shut and impossible to open without special tools), that's the best they can do to enable a "quick" repair. (Still takes a couple of hours to do the copy.)
You're full of shot, Hater!
If every third party cellphone repair shop can do it nearly while-you-wait; so can someone in the back of an Apple Store.
Awwwww poor apple worshipper upset? Kneel before jobs!
Sez the Anonymous COWARD about the LOGGED IN User.
Slashdot REALLY needs to figure a way to reign-in the ACs. Perhaps Slashdot's comment system could keep track behind the scenes of who the AC TRULY is, and have the Karma against their particular Postings be visited upon the AC's REAL account.
That way, those who wish to remain anonymous could still do so; but it could no longer be used as a way to spew hatred and bigotry (I'm looking at you, "NIGGAS" poster-person!); which is EXACTLY is what it is used for 99.999999999999% of the time on Slashdot.
I just don't get all the rage over throttled CPUs. Everyone is fine with throttled bandwidth. Gov won't even investigate that. Gov is just mad at Apple because they don't help the gov spy on iPhones. Oh! I do get it.
Well, look at it this way: American immigration officers ask you for your social media account passwords. Would they want your/. password, too, or not?
Interesting way to make hackintosh machines more difficult to build, but an arm core can be emulated with qemu.
Nice try.
macOS will still have to install on the dozens of Mac models WITHOUT an ARM coprocessor; so, for the next foreseeable while, that paranoid fantasy will remain just that.
Are Hackintoshes even still a thing?
Honestly, that's the first time I've heard that term in what must have been 5 or 6 years... I don't think many have bothered on a serious level because Windows 7 was good enough and Apple made it too hard. I imagine the only people doing it now are doing it just for the LoLs.
However welcome to the beginning of the end. The Mac User is now just an Ipad user with a bigger bill, its only a matter of time before the Intel processor is dropped and MacOS and IOS become one. No-one does serious work on a Mac, despite your forthcoming protestations.
Hackintoshes are most CERTAINLY still "a thing", especially with the long-time since the Mac Pro refresh, and the fact that some have been pining for the "return of the tower" since the Cylindrical Mac Pro came out in 2013. Plus, some people are just "cheap"...
Apple will not be dropping Intel (buy they may switch to AMD, if they can get their power consumption down to a reasonable level); because they know they sell a LOT of MacBook Pros (and some iMacs) to people running primarily Windows or Linux, and those aren't switching to primarily ARM any time soon. There is just TOO MUCH software out there that is still x86, and Apple is WELL AWARE of that!
As far as "no one does serious work on a Mac", you're simply full of shit. Period.
1. False. The price will be $349 to $382.02 (depending upon where you live).
2. False. If you believe Apple does not use your data for its own needs - you're a fool. But you're the FakeTimCook, so...
3. False. "Deep bass" implies sub-bass. That would be significant output below 40 Hz which this does NOT have (a good acquaintance of mine designed that woofer). "Boom" is actually deep bass, as the typical boom car is tuned around 33 Hz.
4. False. Imaging clues are not in the high frequencies, our imagining is dominated between ~700 Hz and 3 kHz, by ITD and IAD effects.
5. True! You got one! But only because there are a legion of Apple Acolytes like you that would buy anything from Apple because Apple.
6. (Apple killed SONOS) False. What happens if you are streaming music at home, then you head out? The music stops with Airplay, meaning your wife/significant other must now pair to the device and stream. SONOS streams for you - the smarts are in the speaker. It doesn't use the Bluetooth speaker model of Airplay, it makes the speaker itself play the source -meaning you don't even need a phone to control it (Amazon Echo, Google Home, tablets, etc.)
1. Who cares?
2. I said nothing about data mining. Neither did the GP. Learn to read.
3. Your "definitions" are laughable. Plus, I would actually be surprised if the HomePod's woofer/enclosure combo is rasonably flat much below 50-60 Hz; so I would imagine it doesn't have a whole lot of response below 40 Hz. I could be mistaken; but I just don't see a sufficient Transmission Line or ported enclosure to extend the usable frequency range, despite the reasonably large Xmax of the driver. But then, neither does most pop music go much below 40 Hz, except heavy electronica. Afterall, kick drum centers around 63 Hz, 4 string bass bottoms out at 40 Hz, and 6 string guitar at 82 Hz. So, unless you listen to a lot of electronic music, or stuff with deep synthesizer bass lines, or stuff played on instruments like Chapman Stick or the Warr guitar, getting down to 40 Hz puts you in good stead with a lot of small bookshelf speakers that call themselves "HiFi". Certainly not subwoofer territory; but definitely listenable for a secondary system.
4. "Imaging clues" start not too much above 250 Hz, and go all the way up. The trick is, I don't know what the "tweeters" are crossed over at; but I assume it is fairly low, (likely no higher than around 1 kHz) since a woofer with that floppy of a surround (which is the only way to get that kind of excursion) is likely to not have good response into the midrange region, despite its small diameter. So you're likely full of shit. Again.
6. Never said "Apple killed Sonos." I don't think that will happen; but they ARE obviously a bit concerned. By the way, there is nothing to suggest that "the music stops" when the "owner" leaves the house. In fact, I read that all people in a household will be able to use the music functions, and not just as an AirPlay speaker. If you have actual PROOF to the contrary, I would actually like to see it. And you don't need a phone to control/stream to the HomePod, either. It has a control-panel on the topside.
I have absolutely ZERO social media accounts. You are mistaken. You have an account on/. And I would not wonder if there is one or two more Wiki/Forum/Discussion sites where you have an account. An old delicious account perhaps, or on reddit?
If you consider tech forums "Social media" (more like anti-social media around here!), then I have a VERY few of those (but no Delicious or Reddit); but I consider "Social Media" the usual subjects: Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, etc, which are not "Tech-focused". I don't even know very many, because I just don't give a shit about that stuff.
I only put up with Slashdot because it's like beating oneself over the head. It feels so good when you stop!
So by selling off a profitable item and reinvesting its money, you now have 2.5 times the profit.
Or you can just make a decent product that people actually like without having to race to the bottom with your dozens of exactly-alike competitors, and end up with $200 BEELION in the bank, and NO long-term debt!
In other words, you can be smart, like Apple; or just another "me too!" shitbox maker like Dell, circling the drain for the past 15 years or so...
This strategy worked well for Apple/NeXT, where NeXT bought Apple for negative $429 million. I'd imagine Icahn would approve.:-)
That meme has long passed its usefulness.
There was some technology-transfer, and some engineering and managerial talent came over, just like in any "tech" acquisition; but, other some significant parts of the OS (which is obviously what Apple REALLY wanted), Apple in no way became "NeXT".
1. No H. Ross Perot.
2. No change in marketing focus. NeXT was virtually unknown outside of large Universities. Apple was always much more "General Purpose".
3. No Display Postscript.
4. No Monochrome-Only monitors.
5. Longstanding backwards-compatibility with MacOS "Classic" through the CarbonLib API.
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But Macs don't have touchscreen, so honestly, how is that gonna work?
Easy. They have multitouch trackpads on MacBooks back to at least 2011 (and possibly before), and the ones on the 2016-2017 MacBook Pros and the external Trackpad are already nearly the size of an iPad mini and have force-touch and multitouch; so...
https://www.apple.com/shop/pro...
Problem solved!
OS X is dead. It's macOS now. Which mean's it's going to be iMac OS.
People have been saying that since OS X 10.7, you realize. And here we are at macOS 10.13 (SIX major revisions later!) and it STILL hasn't happened to any great extent.
STFU.
finder / non store apps / root to be removed next and in 2019 LTE in each mac
Not THAT meme again!!!
Go the FUCK away, Hater.
This revolutionary innovative feature is only 5 years after Microsoft pulled off the same trick with Windows, and 2 years after Google pulled off the same trick with Chrome.
Apple doesn't even have a touch friendly computer operating system... Kinda getting a bit ahead of themselves with talk of iPad apps on a Mac.
Hate to reply to an Anonymous COWARD; but it is not at ALL the same with iOS Apps running under macOS.
Although they have the same kernel (Darwin), iOS and macOS diverge quite a bit above that level. Windows tablets run Windows; so, duh. Don't know as much about Chrome; but thought it was designed from the ground-up to be the same across "Desktop" and "Mobile" incarnations; so again, duh.
But iOS was never originally intended to be a subset of macOS; so it is a lot less "duh" for Apple to pull that trick off.
Yeah, dealing with medical equipment isn't the same as dealing with a phone. You should see some of the people who are 50+ in the office who literally cannot even write an email. It's kind of astonishing. Also, the base premise remains -- "wireless off?" should mean "wireless off." Not "yeah, mostly off... we're just going to leave on a little wireless, so you can use location services/be tracked. ok?". Off means off, particularly when radio signals can be blamed for interfering with equipment (whether they can or not is a whole other story. I've yet to see one airline crash due to some dude leaving his cellphone on, or whatever, but the liability is there).
You obviously love Apple, so I'll give you a bone -- they've got a better security model than Android. That's really their only upshot at the moment.
I never use the Wifi Off (nor Airplane Mode); but I would imagine the reason they made the Control Panel "sort of" disable WiFi is that Apple's Support line glowed red-hot with people calling in mad as hornets because they turned their WiFi off in the Control Panel, and then couldn't use this or that feature (like AirDrop), or simply forgot to switch it back on the next day, and then thought their "WiFi was broken".
As you said, "old people" (and some not-so-old) are tech-averse, and simply REFUSE to dig-in for even 5 minutes to discover how something REALLY works.
Bottom line: It is literally impossible to make something truly "idiot proof"; because idiots are a maddeningly-determined bunch! Determined to NEVER LEARN,that is!!!
You are basing your remaining battery capacity on Apple's down app. When they used that app to check my girlfriend's battery they found it had 87% remaining, but that didn't stop it from suddenly jumping from 50% charged to 2% charged, or randomly powering off.
I think all the app does is measure the amount of energy that the battery stores, not its ability to deliver high currents. As such even if your battery still stores 90% of its rated energy, it might not actually work properly in your phone.
I was using a third party app that many people on MacRumors were recommending as "agreeing" with the Apple "Genius-Bar" Diagnostic.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...
It is called "Battery Life", and displays a "quickie look" of battery "wear", or you can look at the Raw Data. In the "Raw Data" view, it shows both the current battery charge, as well as an obviously-averaged "Capacity", in which it compares to the design-spec for the particular battery. So, for example, that bargraph shows that my "Capacity" is 93%, or 2700 mAh, rather than the "ideal" of 2915 mAh for my iPhone 6 Plus. So, there's your numbers, and how they are derived.
How do you know how much capacity is left in the battery? Is there a diagnostic that shows?
I have a iPhone 6 Plus that has some weird battery behavior (jumping battery charge levels from like 80% to 49% and then staying at 49% for ages).
I believe that Apple is going to add that to a future version of iOS; HOWEVER, there are several Apps that show Battery "Health" as a Percentage.
The one that I used, and that several people on MacRumors were citing as "coming up with the same value as Apple's Genius-Bar Diagnostic" is called "Battery Life". But beware! There are actually TWO Apps that have VERY similar Icons, both are called "Battery Life". But one gives you the "Battery Life" as a Percentage of "Wear", and the other gives you the Percentage of Life-Left. So, one would show "7%" (wear), while the other would show "93%" (life-left).
The one with the little lightning-bolt in the middle of the battery depicted on the icon is the "Wear" one. The one with the Exclamation Point in the middle of the battery depicted on the icon is the "life-left" one. Sorry I can't get back to the exact name of the App with the Exclamation Point...
But, something interesting just happened. I pressed the "Rate and Review" button in the App with the Exclamation Point; and it promptly said that the App "was not available in the U.S. App Store" (!!!) So???
So maybe the "Battery Life" with the Lightning-Bolt is the one you want. And this is the link:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...
Sorry for the confusion!
Do you remember how Apples PR team quickly jumped at offering customers a solution of replacing their cell phone battery for cheap?
Well what good is a solution if the company will not "act" on it?
I have two clients that were turned away from Apple after attempting to get their battery replaced for their IPhone 6.
They were told by the reps that there are no batteries available, "they may come in April". Then the rep immediately tried to encourage my client to buy a new phone.
Has anyone else experienced this?
It is becoming tiring that companies can say whatever suites them to make problems go away.
Will we ever live in a world of corporate accountability?
Hey dumbass!
There ARE no batteries available, thanks to everyone FORCING Apple to replace batteries that are still at 90+ capacity, like the battery on my iPhone 6 Plus that is over THREE years old, and sitting at 93% battery capacity.
I'm an Apple fan (though I like to think I'm not a fanboy), and I'm okay with this investigation. While the facts about what happened aren't in dispute, the decisions that led to those actions are in dispute, and depending on what they end up being, they might point towards misdeeds on Apple's part. For instance, while I doubt the government will find any indication of it, if Apple was slowing already-purchased phones down for the purpose of driving people to purchase new phones, there'd be some serious problems for them, given that they would have effectively been engaging in a bait-and-switch.
I expect that the government will subpoena the relevant e-mails, investigate whether that was the intent, and then will almost certainly come to the conclusion that there's no evidence of Apple engaging in any wrongdoing. At the same time, I expect that the investigation will be dragged through the news cycles every few months whenever a politician or competitor who's opposed to Apple in some way needs a quick way to make Apple look like the bad guy.
I.e. Politics as usual.
Bullshit.
Don't you find it a bit COMBEENIENT that this "investigation" come STRAIGHT on the heels of the FBI testifying in Congress about "unbreakable encryption"? Especially since we ALL know who has the best track record I. That regard...
Conveeeeeenient, indeed.
And don't let them weasel out of the class action lawsuit with their fake $29 battery replacement offer. A coworker's son works at the local Apple store, and he said they're refusing to do about 90% of the replacements. I know the devices I took in from work were all denied due to one excuse or another.
Prove it, or STFU.
Don't sully the sacred memory and lyrics of the GREAT Francis Vincent Zappa (and the performances of Mark Vollman and Howard Kaylan) by making it into some dumbass, halfassed ad hominem attack on ANYONE, even cd Reimer!!!
Just. Don't.
What's there to investigate, really? They admitted that they did it. The information is public. Is it illegal to write software which could be construed to have a useful purpose even if it negatively impacts performance? That could describe features of just about any software out there. Is this something we really want the government doing?
Mod Parent UP!!!!
This is THE crux of the biscuit!
Score 100 Insightful!
This is nonsense. An IPhone 6 battery replacement is a ten minute job for someone who knows how.
Well, yes, but we're talking about Apple "geniuses" here. (No, really, that's what Apple calls their support people.) Is it any surprise that they don't know how? Or at the very least aren't allowed to?
The Geniuses don't do it. They have a dedicated repair tech in the back.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Fuck off and die, you stupid COWARD, or log in and take your Karmic whipping like an adult!
That's because they don't "replace" the battery in iPhones. They copy the data from the old one on to a new one, hand your that, and then ship your old one to be "refurbished" (which is, of course, basically just replacing the battery).
Because they can't do the battery replacements in-store (because the phone is glued shut and impossible to open without special tools), that's the best they can do to enable a "quick" repair. (Still takes a couple of hours to do the copy.)
You're full of shot, Hater!
If every third party cellphone repair shop can do it nearly while-you-wait; so can someone in the back of an Apple Store.
Stupid fuck.
Awwwww poor apple worshipper upset? Kneel before jobs!
Sez the Anonymous COWARD about the LOGGED IN User.
Slashdot REALLY needs to figure a way to reign-in the ACs. Perhaps Slashdot's comment system could keep track behind the scenes of who the AC TRULY is, and have the Karma against their particular Postings be visited upon the AC's REAL account.
That way, those who wish to remain anonymous could still do so; but it could no longer be used as a way to spew hatred and bigotry (I'm looking at you, "NIGGAS" poster-person!); which is EXACTLY is what it is used for 99.999999999999% of the time on Slashdot.
I just don't get all the rage over throttled CPUs.
Everyone is fine with throttled bandwidth. Gov won't even investigate that.
Gov is just mad at Apple because they don't help the gov spy on iPhones. Oh! I do get it.
Exactly!
it will put you where you would have been if this feature had not been implemented.
It will give people back all the time they lost waiting for their slow-assed phone all this time? No? Yeah.
It won't. It does not people people where they would have been. Stop apologizing for apple using insane bullshit logic.
You know the one thing you can't receive in any Court Judgment?
Time.
So, in that sense, no Court Judgment can make anyone "whole".
So give it a rest.
Well, look at it this way: /. password, too, or not?
American immigration officers ask you for your social media account passwords.
Would they want your
I honestly don't think so.
Interesting way to make hackintosh machines more difficult to build, but an arm core can be emulated with qemu.
Nice try.
macOS will still have to install on the dozens of Mac models WITHOUT an ARM coprocessor; so, for the next foreseeable while, that paranoid fantasy will remain just that.
Are Hackintoshes even still a thing?
Honestly, that's the first time I've heard that term in what must have been 5 or 6 years... I don't think many have bothered on a serious level because Windows 7 was good enough and Apple made it too hard. I imagine the only people doing it now are doing it just for the LoLs.
However welcome to the beginning of the end. The Mac User is now just an Ipad user with a bigger bill, its only a matter of time before the Intel processor is dropped and MacOS and IOS become one. No-one does serious work on a Mac, despite your forthcoming protestations.
Hackintoshes are most CERTAINLY still "a thing", especially with the long-time since the Mac Pro refresh, and the fact that some have been pining for the "return of the tower" since the Cylindrical Mac Pro came out in 2013. Plus, some people are just "cheap"...
Apple will not be dropping Intel (buy they may switch to AMD, if they can get their power consumption down to a reasonable level); because they know they sell a LOT of MacBook Pros (and some iMacs) to people running primarily Windows or Linux, and those aren't switching to primarily ARM any time soon. There is just TOO MUCH software out there that is still x86, and Apple is WELL AWARE of that!
As far as "no one does serious work on a Mac", you're simply full of shit. Period.
They'll ditch compatibility when convenient, regardless of what the community has to say. Never forget that Apple is the king of planned obsolescence.
They've been "looking the other way" regarding the Hackintosh community since OS X debuted nearly TWENTY years ago.
I really don't think they are using the ARM coprocessors to do that, overtly; but if macOS starts DEPENDING on their presence...
1. False. The price will be $349 to $382.02 (depending upon where you live).
2. False. If you believe Apple does not use your data for its own needs - you're a fool. But you're the FakeTimCook, so...
3. False. "Deep bass" implies sub-bass. That would be significant output below 40 Hz which this does NOT have (a good acquaintance of mine designed that woofer). "Boom" is actually deep bass, as the typical boom car is tuned around 33 Hz.
4. False. Imaging clues are not in the high frequencies, our imagining is dominated between ~700 Hz and 3 kHz, by ITD and IAD effects.
5. True! You got one! But only because there are a legion of Apple Acolytes like you that would buy anything from Apple because Apple.
6. (Apple killed SONOS) False. What happens if you are streaming music at home, then you head out? The music stops with Airplay, meaning your wife/significant other must now pair to the device and stream. SONOS streams for you - the smarts are in the speaker. It doesn't use the Bluetooth speaker model of Airplay, it makes the speaker itself play the source -meaning you don't even need a phone to control it (Amazon Echo, Google Home, tablets, etc.)
1. Who cares?
2. I said nothing about data mining. Neither did the GP. Learn to read.
3. Your "definitions" are laughable. Plus, I would actually be surprised if the HomePod's woofer/enclosure combo is rasonably flat much below 50-60 Hz; so I would imagine it doesn't have a whole lot of response below 40 Hz. I could be mistaken; but I just don't see a sufficient Transmission Line or ported enclosure to extend the usable frequency range, despite the reasonably large Xmax of the driver. But then, neither does most pop music go much below 40 Hz, except heavy electronica. Afterall, kick drum centers around 63 Hz, 4 string bass bottoms out at 40 Hz, and 6 string guitar at 82 Hz. So, unless you listen to a lot of electronic music, or stuff with deep synthesizer bass lines, or stuff played on instruments like Chapman Stick or the Warr guitar, getting down to 40 Hz puts you in good stead with a lot of small bookshelf speakers that call themselves "HiFi". Certainly not subwoofer territory; but definitely listenable for a secondary system.
4. "Imaging clues" start not too much above 250 Hz, and go all the way up. The trick is, I don't know what the "tweeters" are crossed over at; but I assume it is fairly low, (likely no higher than around 1 kHz) since a woofer with that floppy of a surround (which is the only way to get that kind of excursion) is likely to not have good response into the midrange region, despite its small diameter. So you're likely full of shit. Again.
6. Never said "Apple killed Sonos." I don't think that will happen; but they ARE obviously a bit concerned. By the way, there is nothing to suggest that "the music stops" when the "owner" leaves the house. In fact, I read that all people in a household will be able to use the music functions, and not just as an AirPlay speaker. If you have actual PROOF to the contrary, I would actually like to see it. And you don't need a phone to control/stream to the HomePod, either. It has a control-panel on the topside.
I have absolutely ZERO social media accounts. /.
You are mistaken. You have an account on
And I would not wonder if there is one or two more Wiki/Forum/Discussion sites where you have an account. An old delicious account perhaps, or on reddit?
If you consider tech forums "Social media" (more like anti-social media around here!), then I have a VERY few of those (but no Delicious or Reddit); but I consider "Social Media" the usual subjects: Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, etc, which are not "Tech-focused". I don't even know very many, because I just don't give a shit about that stuff.
I only put up with Slashdot because it's like beating oneself over the head. It feels so good when you stop!
So by selling off a profitable item and reinvesting its money, you now have 2.5 times the profit.
Or you can just make a decent product that people actually like without having to race to the bottom with your dozens of exactly-alike competitors, and end up with $200 BEELION in the bank, and NO long-term debt!
In other words, you can be smart, like Apple; or just another "me too!" shitbox maker like Dell, circling the drain for the past 15 years or so...
*shrugs*
This strategy worked well for Apple/NeXT, where NeXT bought Apple for negative $429 million. I'd imagine Icahn would approve. :-)
That meme has long passed its usefulness.
There was some technology-transfer, and some engineering and managerial talent came over, just like in any "tech" acquisition; but, other some significant parts of the OS (which is obviously what Apple REALLY wanted), Apple in no way became "NeXT".
1. No H. Ross Perot.
2. No change in marketing focus. NeXT was virtually unknown outside of large Universities. Apple was always much more "General Purpose".
3. No Display Postscript.
4. No Monochrome-Only monitors.
5. Longstanding backwards-compatibility with MacOS "Classic" through the CarbonLib API.
The list goes on.
Eat those words well, Michael Dell.
Apple has ZERO long-term debt, and $200 BEELION in the bank.
NOW who's laughing?!?