Was I crazy in thinking that this WWDC was supposed to address MacBookPro's being outdated?
Yes. Groundbreaking new animoji technology is far more important.
Apple introduces macOS Mojave
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Nice marketing campaign here a couple years ago. https://developer.apple.com/opencl/ Make up your fucking minds. Developers aren't hamsters. I now declare MacOS to be deprecated, if that's how it's going to be.
Aw, crap. MacOS is deprecated!? How could you!?
Yup, you will see a deprecation notice when booting MacOS now.
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#363Is there word on Mojave's improvements to performance? I got bitten horribly by moving my 2014 rMBP to High Sierra from El Capitan... GPU issues galore, with a baseline CPU and RAM usage increase.
Would be nice if I didn't have to fear this upgrade quite as much.
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#364This was exciting enough for me to get over how bummed I was about Github selling out. All those little finder and facetime updates will add more value to the apple products I've invested in.
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#365So, everything we could do with Linux and Skype almost 15 years ago.
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Pretty ballsy, it didn't work well for Microsoft when they said "Use DirectX or die" I doubt it will work well for Apple. This is especially true for OpenCL (also deprecated) which nobody on big Linux server farms with GPUs is going to be using "Metal on Linux" for their code.
How exactly did it not work well? Windows is THE gaming platform for PC.
It kept a lot of commercial software off the Windows platform and left it on Workstations like SGI and DEC had. The movie houses that were rendering movies were using OpenGL on their renderfarms and its lack of availability on Windows kept windows off those desktops.
The key being that if you've got a technology that works on both server farms for production and workstations for development, you support that so that your OS is a viable candidate for the developer workstation. I don't see a Metal port coming to Linux in any reasonable way any time soon, and I don't see researchers giving up OpenCL or even OpenGL any time soon, so it just means that Apple is going to forego that business.
With the recent github purchase it gives the oddly dissonant experience of having Microsoft being the 'developer friendly' OS company and the MacOS being the 'developer hostile' OS company. Where, and this is important, support for cross platform tools determines hostility or support. I would not argue that Apple is not the best development environment for the Apple platform, or Windows for the Windows platform.
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And OpenCL too. This is terrible. I was thinking about adding GPU support to a numerical simulator I am working on, and I was planning to have nice cross-platform support with OpenCL. Whelp, that's no longer the case. My code is in C++, and I refuse to use proprietary, vendor-locked, Objective-C-only Metal. If people want GPU support, they'll just have to use Linux, which doesn't artificially constrain you with corpo…
Aren't most people running those kinds of workloads doing so on Linux already? Doesn't seem cost-effective at scale to run on beefy Apple machines.
Not necessarily. Many media editing apps use OpenCL to speed up processing. I know Capture One uses OpenCL, and I think Adobe's Lightroom and Photoshop use it also. At this point even Pixelmator and less well known alternatives use OpenCL, too.
Sadly, most companies won't have any choice but to port their app to Apple's proprietary APIs. It's really a net loss for consumers because most of these devs have better things to spend their time on than Apple breaking compatibility on a whim.
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#368MacOS will not be replaced by iOS, but they will bring UIKit to MacOS so you can port apps. That sounds like they are unifying the two OS's to me, or I am mis-remembering the question Tim Cook answered with a definitive No?
They are just making it easier to port your ios apps to macos, how is that related to replacing macos?
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> For most people emojis (and animojis) have opened a whole new way to communicate with each other Wow that is an extremely generous characterization. At best they're just prettier versions of :) and :( and I don't see how they allow people to convey ideas they couldn't do just as well via text.
Yeah I agree. Why would anyone prefer something that looked nicer than an old thing? Has anything like this phenomenon ever been observed in the past?
“I had fun once. It was awful.” — one of Kate Beaton’s characters.
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> For most people emojis (and animojis) have opened a whole new way to communicate with each other Wow that is an extremely generous characterization. At best they're just prettier versions of :) and :( and I don't see how they allow people to convey ideas they couldn't do just as well via text.
They don't really convey ideas, they convey emotions and reactions. It pretty much solves the "tone is hard to convey over text problem."
How did they do that beyond `:)` or `xD` or `-.-` does?