Talking about platform control on a website that hijacks browser history. Give me a break.
Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control
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#12In one of the older threads someone asked whether you'd eventually be able to run Linux on this, and someone responded that this would be annoying to do, since there aren't any docs. Is that actually true? The Apple A SoCs don't boot random kernels, so I would think the Apple M SoC does not, either, and requires bootloader/kernel to be signed by Apple, just like iPhone firmware.
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#13While the point of Apple Silicon is undoubtedly for Apple to have more control over their ecosystem, this article doesn't make that point very well. For example: > However, there’s a clear nudge for developers to publish their recompiled apps to Apple’s store. That doesn't make any sense. Where is the "nudge" coming from? The article doesn't make any argument for how that works, given that you can share universal bin…
> That doesn't make any sense. Where is the "nudge" coming from?
I had the impression that the person that wrote the article believes that Universal Binaries are an AppStore-only feature.
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#14Always one guy who shouts about control and submission. Don't like it don't buy it?
They're shouting at you not to buy it!
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#15It will be interesting to see how long Rosetta-2 will be supported. macOS 10.15 took away 32bit apps, which was a sizeable chunk so clearly Apple is willing to alienate some of its users in the name of progress and slimlining.
Is that even a serious criticism? Users had about ten years of warning before 32-bit went away. The real impact of that on real users is minimal.
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#16> At some point in the not too distant future, old x86 applications will cease to run on Macs, as emulation support won’t run forever
One thing I can credit Android some, and Windows a lot (even 10 with all its manifold privacy and user-hostility problems) with is that they are backwards compatible.
exceptions to every rule, etc., but I can run all old versions of Android apps on an Android 11 phone, same for Windows programs going back to 1996 or so with few tweaks, and can squeeze that back to 1993 if I fuss and cuss and so on.
yes, this is arch to arch emulation, but the idea od taking that feature away in ~4 years vs Android's best effort continued compatibility or Microsoft's compatibility layers is a cost/benefit that I apparently disagree with Apple decision makers on.
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#17While the point of Apple Silicon is undoubtedly for Apple to have more control over their ecosystem, this article doesn't make that point very well. For example: > However, there’s a clear nudge for developers to publish their recompiled apps to Apple’s store. That doesn't make any sense. Where is the "nudge" coming from? The article doesn't make any argument for how that works, given that you can share universal bin…
> That doesn't make any sense. Where is the "nudge" coming from? I had the impression that the person that wrote the article believes that Universal Binaries are an AppStore-only feature.
They mention a couple of lines before that you can "share or submit [them] to the Mac App Store", so they seem to be aware that you can share Universal Binaries.
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#18I also think the marketing was genius.
NOT labeling that graph they showed did exactly what they wanted. It was impressing the non tech people and the tech people ALL kept talking and talking about it - because it wasn't labeled.
Apple's marketing is brilliant. It really gets the kind of people who think they are too smart to be marketed to AND the normies, all in one message.
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#19Always one guy who shouts about control and submission. Don't like it don't buy it?
I bet there were people like you back when slavery was legal.
If you don't like slavery, just don't buy slaves. Nothing wrong with that, right? YoU hAvE oPtIonS aS a CoNsuMer.
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#20I don't understand why exerting better control over hardware + software would mean we are being duped. A more cohesive experience provided by Apple can only be a win for them and their customers.