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Post by agumonkey »

jcfrei wrote: post #97
MitjaBezensek wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's amazing that so many bright minds are wasting time on *oji.

Always interesting to see the divergence between HN and what the average user cares about. For most people emojis (and animojis) have opened a whole new way to communicate with each other. I can't think of another linguistic feature in history which saw such widespread use within a decade and I feel like emojis don't get enough credit for that.

maybe that's still not worth a wwdc talk but more like 'obviously we added support for this emoji thing'

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Post by dillondoyle »

toasterlovin wrote: post #116

IMO, the most interesting thing happening with Apple right now is the surprising (to me) amount of effort being put into their News and Stock apps (which are being ported to macOS). The only reason I can come up with for them to be pursuing this with so much effort is that they saw what happened as a result of Facebook dominating news and decided to put their best foot forward in the hopes of bringing some semblance…

Perhaps that's part of it, but I think $ is a bigger factor.

Apple News has a surprisingly large (and fast growing) usage numbers/readers (1, 2). Add in news of Apple re-booting ads and allowing simpler multi-site news subscriptions I think News is going to continue to grow profit and importance for Apple (3).

It's where I read 90% of my news now. It works with consistent UI+readability, it's way faster than the mobile versions hosted by pubs, and with minimal ad bloat. I highly recommend!

Though they might have potential FB-style think-alike algo problems with the love/hate data and personalization News does.

[1] http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/after-a-slow-start-apple-ne... [2] https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/07/apple-news-user-numbers-nbcun... [3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-looks-to-expand-advertisi...

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by saagarjha »

smcl wrote: post #304
saagarjha wrote: post #234

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s wrong with the address bar?

Check linked the screenshot out - there's a LOT of empty space that could easily (and previously did) display the additional path/query string information in a URL. The screenshot does look a wee bit silly

But that’s the full URL, is it not?

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Post by pjmlp »

protomyth wrote: post #169
0x0 wrote: post #33

Wow, they are DEPRECATING OpenGL from both macOS and iOS: https://developer.apple.com/macos/whats-new/ This is in addition to last year's announcement that "macOS High Sierra is the last version of macOS to run 32bit apps without compromise " I wonder if we will soon see a new lineage of Macbooks fitted with Apple-specific arm64 chips. The most scary thought is if UIKit-on-macOS starts requiring Developer ID entitlem…

Doesn't Core Image use the OpenGL Shading Language, so is that going too?

That was gone last year, check WWDC 2017 Metal 2 related sessions.

When it was introduced, the Core frameworks were updated to use Metal instead, with OpenGL left for backwards compatibility mode.

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Post by n42 »

dillondoyle wrote: post #312
toasterlovin wrote: post #116

IMO, the most interesting thing happening with Apple right now is the surprising (to me) amount of effort being put into their News and Stock apps (which are being ported to macOS). The only reason I can come up with for them to be pursuing this with so much effort is that they saw what happened as a result of Facebook dominating news and decided to put their best foot forward in the hopes of bringing some semblance…

Perhaps that's part of it, but I think $ is a bigger factor. Apple News has a surprisingly large (and fast growing) usage numbers/readers (1, 2). Add in news of Apple re-booting ads and allowing simpler multi-site news subscriptions I think News is going to continue to grow profit and importance for Apple (3). It's where I read 90% of my news now. It works with consistent UI+readability, it's way faster than the mobi…

> Though they might have potential FB-style think-alike algo problems with the love/hate data and personalization News does.

this is my biggest concern with it, and it sounds like they might be making changes to the interface to help:

> Apple News is redesigned to make it easier to discover new channels and topics or jump straight to favorites, and on iPad, a new sidebar makes navigation even simpler.

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Post by vvanders »

0x0 wrote: post #33

Wow, they are DEPRECATING OpenGL from both macOS and iOS: https://developer.apple.com/macos/whats-new/ This is in addition to last year's announcement that "macOS High Sierra is the last version of macOS to run 32bit apps without compromise " I wonder if we will soon see a new lineage of Macbooks fitted with Apple-specific arm64 chips. The most scary thought is if UIKit-on-macOS starts requiring Developer ID entitlem…

Say what you will of Microsoft they still understood how important backwards compatibility was and didn't do the same to OpenGL back when they were pushing D3D hard.

I really hate to see such a focus on a platform lock-in API when viable alternatives(Vulkan) are available.

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Post by MitjaBezensek »

jcfrei wrote: post #97
MitjaBezensek wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's amazing that so many bright minds are wasting time on *oji.

Always interesting to see the divergence between HN and what the average user cares about. For most people emojis (and animojis) have opened a whole new way to communicate with each other. I can't think of another linguistic feature in history which saw such widespread use within a decade and I feel like emojis don't get enough credit for that.

I have yet to see animoji used by anyone outside of Apple events.

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Post by stevedekorte »

0x0 wrote: post #33

Wow, they are DEPRECATING OpenGL from both macOS and iOS: https://developer.apple.com/macos/whats-new/ This is in addition to last year's announcement that "macOS High Sierra is the last version of macOS to run 32bit apps without compromise " I wonder if we will soon see a new lineage of Macbooks fitted with Apple-specific arm64 chips. The most scary thought is if UIKit-on-macOS starts requiring Developer ID entitlem…

Will this effect Safari (and other browsers) supporting WebGL on OSX/iOS?
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