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Apple making their own swamp with new MacOS
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Apple’s newest OS drops support for 32-bit applications, which will unnecessarily render a huge library of software and games unusable on Mac

    It is no surprise as it is major request by top software corporations. Plus it is just cheaper for Apple, as you can fire expensive old and relocate newbie developers.

    Apple will require developers to register, pay an annual fee, and notarize every build they want to distribute

    Same thing, as Apple plans to move into iOS aka iPad OS aka new MacOS X NextGen, they want to keep it all same as iOS.

    And note - demand for their cut from each of your sales will come next! Soon!

    We will have two major steps in coming 2020 and 2021 with Apple fully securing their Mac hardware both via special chips and codes and by destroying many independent repairs legally (next prices hike will follow this!).

    And after this we will see next big move into proprietary ARM cores, where Air lineup will lead the sales. Rumors in the industry are that marketing funds that Apple will throw into this must be staggering and can reach tens of billions of dollars in 1-2 years.

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Apple announced that its Testflight tool, which allows developers to share their apps with non-developer beta testers, is finally migrating to MacOS. Testflight had until this point been an iOS exclusive but with this move, developers will be able to more quickly and easily test in-app purchases and other Mac features.

    Another small step to fully closed ecosystem.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    A new bill introduced in the North Dakota Senate might have far-reaching consequences for app store operators. The bill, Senate Bill 2333, seeks to ban stores like Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store from mandating developers only use those app stores and their respective in-app payment systems. It also bans retaliation against developers in the event they choose an alternative distribution channel or payment system.

    “The purpose of the bill is to level the playing field for app developers in North Dakota and protect customers from devastating, monopolistic fees imposed by big tech companies,” said Sen. Kyle Davison (R-Fargo)

    https://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/67-2021/documents/21-1044-01000.pdf

    They want money, Apple money.

    Just watch on how it'll sink and few guys will become very rich.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Management changes reflecting new reality

    Apple’s hardware team is getting its biggest shakeup in nearly a decade, as Dan Riccio — who served as the company’s senior vice president of hardware engineering since 2012 — transitions to “a new role” at the company. He’ll be replaced as Apple’s head hardware engineer by John Ternus, who led the hardware team designing the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, in addition to working on Apple’s M1 chips. Ternus has been vice president of hardware engineering at Apple since 2013.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Apple is closing iOS apps installation possibility outside their store

    Apple has already started blocking the installation of iOS applications on Mac computers with the M1 chip, bypassing the App Store. Earlier it was reported that the company plans to do this soon, but no one expected it to happen so soon.

    We are talking about installing iOS applications using a third-party utility iMazing, which is generally intended to manage media content on iOS devices, but users have found another use for it. Now, when trying to install an IPA file, an error window appears with the text: “The application cannot be installed. Please try again later. "

    Same thing will happen soon with any sideloaded application.

    After participating in Baiden coup Apple meetings tone changed and now they want to speed things up a lot.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Got one important message from devs

    Apple is preparing some bad surprise in software department in 2021, idea is to "milk the notebooks user base" and the found the way to do it. How they will do it I have no idea, as one big manager accidentally told it on meeting smiling, no details.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Many Mac users reported that their computers have been running slower than usual on Thursday with apps launching slowly or not at all, alongside other Apple service issues.

    It appears that the problem is due to many people rushing to download macOS Big Sur, which was officially released today, which in turn seems to have crashed Apple’s OCSP (online certificate status protocol) service — which is used for several key aspects of macOS, including validating digital certificates for both Apple and third-party software on the Mac

    It is time to leave such system. Until it is too late.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Within 2 months Apple will stop software developing for x86

    Exclusions will be made for some drivers and some OS parts.

    All other software now will be developed for ARM only and new features won't be ported or shared with x86 versions.

    Some software will also get new crypto protection and reversing protection, so CPU will dynamically decrypt the code inside itself (decryption key will be secret and will be flashed into CPU on factory).

    All hardware will be serialized and cross signed, so none of authorized service will be able to replace any significant chip and keep machine working.

    Apple will market all new computers as "impossible to repair", it will be only total replacement with controlled destruction of older products that will be allowed.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Apple’s new laptop lineup will include:

    • 16 inch MacBook Pro
    • 13 inch MacBook Pro
    • 13 inch MacBook Air

    Chinese OEM Foxconn will be assembling the smaller models for Apple, while Taiwanese company Quanta will be working on the 16 inch MacBook Pro.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Apple has announced a “One More Thing” event for November 10th, which will presumably see the company announce its first Arm-based Macs that run on Apple Silicon chips instead of the Intel processors the company has used since 2005.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    New Apple custom GPU coming

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    To confirm, there IS a November ARM Mac event. I’m hearing November 17th.

    Nice.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Twitter leaker Komiya told that Apple has two chips coming, they will feature eight and twelve cores, respectively. The actual core configurations are unknown at this time. Considering that the silicon is intended for notebooks, it will need to pack a bit more punch than its mobile and tablet counterparts; Hence, a 2+2+4 and 4+4+4 (ultra-high-performance, high-performance, efficiency) configuration is possible. Komiya also rounds things off by saying that Apple will launch a sixteen-core version next year.

    One thing is certain - Apple new ARM based notebooks will be much slower compared to AMD Ryzen 5000 based competition in 2021.

  • endotoxicendotoxic

    This is so ingenious!!! This fucks sure know how to milk the cow to death.

    Apple assuring that you are gonna be a debtor all your working life

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    New info

    Main measurement of new ARM closed system success will be extra income from services and subscriptions.

    In late 2021 Apple must be starting offering OS, OS+ and OS+Creative packages subscriptions.

    Last will include new Final Cut X (software will have parts that you could subscribe to for extra if you want things outside basic features) and other creative software

    Apple is working with banks on offering subscription packages using credit system, so students could pay for them after graduation, for example.

    Buyers of new hardware will be getting 2 years of free OS level subscription. All software OS+ or OS+Creative features or advanced software will be provided on the one month trial basis.

  • endotoxicendotoxic

    Less probable now with all problems with UV light and lies from tsmc.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    On A14 CPU

    Apple’s A14 Bionic, a 5nm chip with a six-core CPU (two high, four low), and 11.8 billion transistors. Apple is promising a 40 percent performance improvement over the last iPad Air and improved graphics support, thanks to a new four-core GPU.

    Apple says it’s the “most advanced chip” it has ever made, and it even includes specific machine learning accelerators that apps will be able to use. Apple demonstrated a variety of apps during its press event today, promising that app developers will be able to take advantage of the power of this new chip for their apps.

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    Rumors is that Apple new notebooks will be all based on A14X or A14Z, that will have active extra two high powered cores that are disabled in A14.

    Some previous rumors talked about equal 8 core CPU, but it seems much less probable now.

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  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Apple has been stepping up its purchases of datacenter server components since second-quarter 2020 with related shipments in full-year 2020 expected to double on year and to continue to grow in 2021

    Apple is preparing new MacOS (aka iOS desktop edition) section of their app store for new ARM computers.

    They also will send record amount of telemetry (to improve your security, no less!) so thousands of new servers are required.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    In June, we announced that all Mac software distributed outside the Mac App Store must be notarized by Apple in order to run by default on macOS Catalina. In September, we temporarily adjusted the notarization prerequisites to make this transition easier and to protect users on macOS Catalina who continue to use older versions of software. Starting February 3, 2020, all submitted software must meet the original notarization prerequisites.

    If you haven’t yet done so, upload your software to the notary service and review the developer log for warnings. These warnings will become errors starting February 3 and must be fixed in order to have your software notarized. Software notarized before February 3 will continue to run by default on macOS Catalina.

    As a reminder, all installer packages must be signed since they may contain executable code. Disk images do not need to be signed, although signing them can help your users verify their contents.

    With announcement of new ARM notebooks it'll be next step, as despite all the fight related with iOS Appstore Apple wants to turn MacOS into full iOS copy in this regard, blocking any ability to install third party apps and getting at least 20% cut from everything including update and subscription plans even.

    Inside Apple the attack on their Appstore is now related with recent Apple plans to rise cut from 30% to 35% from certain apps categories and up to 50% on online games category, hence we had big game developers going against Apple, as they had sources inside Apple.

    Apple is now extremely pressed by investors to keep profits relative to stock price and only way to do is is to rip every Apple device owner and also rip each developer working using Apple infrastructure.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Industry insiders pointed out that Apple has cancelled support for AMD GPUs in the macOS Arm 64-bit operating system, indicating that Apple will be adopted in the future. Silicon’s Mac personal computers may use a GPU developed and designed by Apple. Recently, the industry has reported that in addition to Apple Silicon processors, Apple’s iMac desktops launched next year will also be equipped with self-developed and designed Apple GPUs.

    According to relevant sources, Apple's self-developed GPU is progressing smoothly. The research and development code is Lifuka. Like the upcoming A14X processor, it is produced using TSMC's 5nm process. Apple has designed a series of processors for Mac personal computers. The new GPU will provide better performance per watt and higher computing performance. It has tile-based deferred rendering technology that allows application developers to write More powerful professional application software and game software.

    From Chinese site

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Upcoming MacBook Pro 13”

    • Apple CPUs and also option to have Intel CPU
    • Magic Keyboard
    • Bezels as thin as current 16” model
    • $1099 for cheapest model, simplest ARM 8GB RAM, 256 Gb SSD
    • 1080p FaceTime Camera
    • Unveiled at Oct Event
    • Shipping in Oct
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    New round of leaks

    Mid level MacOS X managers got from top meeting very happy, part of leaked info from lower level of management is that Apple made final decision to go all in considering subscription model.

    This will include both MacOS X, Final Cut X and few special software packages, including educational one. They plan to increase income 10 fold from MacOS X software and do it using subscription and fully closing MacOS X system for third party developers. In case of Baiden win lot of it will happen in early 2021 already or will be shifted depending on overall situation in case of low probability Trump return to office.

  • endotoxicendotoxic

    If apple drops pcie buss there ale lots of new buses technologies to gather.

    Real problems with marketing something is not up there with competition. The only way to regain some performance control may be super hyper duper software so optimized that...is pretty impossible to make.

    I really do Not understand why they think powerfull prosseeing they can use RISC. Yes can be optimized ! but at an extent, and always needs hardware upgrades to the chip level. DECODERS, ENCODERS, COMPRESSION and DECOMPRESSION are key words on this race for optimization.

    Either way I don’t see to many pros real pros switching to this ARM in the near future.

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Apple is working on their graphics processing more and more, but we most like won’t see this come to anything major (like a dedicated GPU for Apple desktops) for a few years

    My estimate according to software developers talks is 1.5-2 years tops.

    GPU architecture will be fully closed, design made to maximally prevent reverse engineering, even bus is expected to be encrypted in realtime (Apple wants to try to use non standard PCIe like bus).

  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev

    Apple A14 performance rumors

    • CPU single thread peak performance will rise 40%
    • GPU peak performance will rise 50%
    • First Apple LSI to have severe thermal issues (even in smartphone version)
    • All cores performance will rise only 10-20% as it will attempt to resuce frequency to keep thermals
    • All cores + GPU will also rise only 25%, this mode will be most problematic
    • Some testers reported 3x times performance drop in demanding long benchmark
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