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Post by labster »

jimbokun wrote: post #105
Apocryphon wrote: post #64

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I deeply suspect that the lack of features is because the releases this year internally centered around responding to the negative buzz associated with iOS 11 problems. I remember when emojis were showcased at WWDC 2016, a fairly low-feature release. Whenever that happens the true feature is unannounced: it's simply stability.

"Whenever that happens the true feature is unannounced: it's simply stability." Can't remember which version it was now, but I remember when Apple heavily marketed a Mac OS X version dedicated almost exclusively to bug fixes and performance enhancements. It was very well received. I'm sure the same would happen if they announced they were dedicating an iOS version to bug fixes and performance enhancements. EDIT: I th…

Endangered Snow Kitten, er, I mean Snow Leopard.

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by threeseed »

mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #20

MacOS 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?

No it sounds like exactly what they said.

You will be able to use UIKit to help port your apps across. But they aren't going to be merging all of the other parts of the OS together. Especially since iOS and OSX differ significantly in parts e.g. security posture.

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by mistersquid »

engi_nerd wrote: post #112
jcfrei wrote: post #97

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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.

How is an emoji a whole new way to communicate? EDIT: I meant this as a genuine question, not as a "how could you possibly think this" response.

My significant other suffers from depression. We are long distance and much of our daily communication is through text-messaging.

We both rely on this one emoji to communicate more effectively: [0]

We use others, but that one emoji makes all the difference in the world. Often we send only that single sign to each other.

[0] https://emojipedia.org/smiling-face-with-smiling-eyes/

EDIT: Replace emoji with text description and add citation.

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by bitL »

MitjaBezensek wrote: post #73
janlukacs wrote: post #14

WWDC 2018, from underwhelming to boring. I will lose my mind if i hear *oji one more time. Will they ever stop with this nonsense? Favicons in Safari? It took them 6 years for the browser to remember the zoom setting per site, now we have the luxury of having favicons.

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

It's fun to develop it - computer vision, facial features detection, 3D mesh deformation - I programmed all those parts for another unrelated app and it was total fun. Not that it was useful or something, but I enjoyed it a lot.

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Post by skymt »

bla2 wrote: post #136
dmitshur wrote: post #125

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I would be a lot more okay with this if Apple supported Vulkan, the more portable comparable API, rather than just the macOS/iOS-only Metal. I also wonder what means for WebGL and its future. Right now, WebGL works in browsers on macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, which is incredible. There is no equivalent. Sure, Apple has started working on WebGPU, but that’s not yet ready nor is it guaranteed to gain Linux, Wind…

My guess is browsers will just implement WebGL on top of Metal and this will be transparent to web developers.

There's precedent: Chrome and Firefox both implement WebGL on Windows with ANGLE, which translates OpenGL to Direct3D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANGLE_(software)

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Post by mlindner »

EpicEng wrote: post #142
jcfrei wrote: post #97

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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.

> 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.

I assume you don't know any people born in the last 15 years or so. Emoji communication (using just emojis) is quite common, often several in a row.

Re: Apple introduces macOS Mojave

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Post by ryandrake »

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…

I guess we will be saying our last goodbye to “write once, run on all major platforms” graphics code. Does this mean that the only choices now are 1. Fork your graphics code into two separate implementations or 2. Go up the stack and use a cross-platform “game” engine like Unity? I suppose 3. Stop supporting macOS is another (sad) option.

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Post by stormking »

nicky0 wrote: post #137
engi_nerd wrote: post #112

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How is an emoji a whole new way to communicate? EDIT: I meant this as a genuine question, not as a "how could you possibly think this" response.

Because it uses pictures instead of words.

That idea was dismissed several thousand years ago, and for good reason. Text is way more powerful and precise than pictures. And I'm not saying having both is a bad thing, but this focus on Emojis is just idiotic.
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