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Hardware-Free WWDC Sets Stage for Busy Second Half of 2016
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Perhaps to help facilitate the migration to iOS-based devices. Shared clipboard and Siri are the "big" additions to macOS. Apple has been adding features to OSX that originated in iOS, even those things that don't make sense for a desktop/notebook.
Of course it is purely speculation. The danger is reading things into stuff where there's nothing to read into.
That they continue to update macOS on an annual basis and have not ported XCode to Windows are strong indicators that they are not intending to kill the Macintosh product line.
You still need a Mac (or Hackintosh) running macOS to develop applications for iOS.
Pretty much everything they have added from iOS to macOS has been something that benefits macOS. And there is plenty of features on iOS that are not appropriate for a Mac that they have kept out of macOS.
The irony when Phill slaps PC market at March 2016 event that there are 600 Million old PCs out there and here we go Apple is selling computers with specs from 2013/2014 
Not in a few years.
If you're talking about 10 years from who knows?
iPads will become more and more powerful and capable of running multiple apps, with an external keyboard and a pointing device they will be just like laptops. At home you could connect to an external display and work like on a PC.
If Apple really wants to replace Mac it will be necessary to improve iOS for what concern window management and the file system. It would be a fusion of iOS and macOS, but this is not something they can do in a few years, so let's wait and see.
Anyone who knows the code name of CPU is a nerd. That's not Apple's target market. Anyone who says "they don't have the latest tech"... meaning, anyone who in normal conversation uses the word "tech" like that is a nerd. That's not how normal people talk. This thread is loaded with nerd whiners. Apple runs the numbers and from an economic and business perspective, if their products were not selling, they would not still be for sale. Derp!
My old white Macbook of 2006 has a upgraded hard drive, that can contain more data, than the current best equipped Macbook Pro. And apple tells me, when I want to have more space, I have to buy it in the slow iCloud, for a huge amount of money every year.
But Apple doesn't care about us.
But Apple doesn't care about us.
iOS, but better, is, or at least ideally should be, OSX/macOS. iOS as a communication and media consumption platform in second to none; as an information aggregator it has serious deficiencies vs Google and Microsoft but is making decent strides toward competitiveness; as a desktop replacement, it's a disaster. There's a reason that SP has made serious in-roads into the hybrid desktop replacement market: the use of a traditional desktop environment.
Are you really so uncreative?
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My old white Macbook of 2006 has a upgraded hard drive, that can contain more data, than the current best equipped Macbook Pro. And apple tells me, when I want to have more space, I have to buy it in the slow iCloud, for a huge amount of money every year.
But Apple doesn't care about us.
External HD don't do it for you?
OS X is not a better iOS. iOS should not just stay a consumption OS. You're basically saying they shouldn't try to evolve it to be anything more than it is now and that workflows and uses should only be what they are now. That's not creative at all, that's not forward thnking at all.
All the signs seem to be pointing towards an Intel exit from Apple's laptop line.
Sooner or later guys in Cupertino will be fed up with Intel's inability to come up with faster chips that putting Apple-designed processors inside their laptops becomes a real possibility. Think about it:
Sooner or later guys in Cupertino will be fed up with Intel's inability to come up with faster chips that putting Apple-designed processors inside their laptops becomes a real possibility. Think about it:
- A9X is already powerful enough run "desktop-class apps". (Source: MacRumors)
- A9X processors are "faster at CPU tasks than 80 percent of portable PCs...and at graphics tasks, it's faster than 90 percent of portable PCs." (Source: MacRumors)
- OS X is renamed macOS, signaling further iOS-ification of the platform will likely continue. Notice that most of the major features in macOS Sierra is Continuity-related meant to complement iOS.
- Macs are not nearly as profitable as iPhones. Cost saving dictates that some hardware convergence of these two product lines.
- In fact hardware is converging, USB Type-C/Thunderbolt 3 will soon be the only connector found on all Apple products and SSD is already standard on most Macs and all portable devices.
- Apple's vigorous promotion of Swift, a programming language created specifically for Apple's four major operating systems. The trend towards making games available on both macOS and iOS is also already well underway.
- Speaking of SSD, APFS, Apple's new file system, is another piece of evidence of hardware/software convergence.
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The reference was found in an info.plist file, and is labeled “AAPLJ95,1”. The entry is part of a compatibility list for Macs. The 2013 Mac Pro’s codename is AAPLJ90,1, which means that “AAPLJ95,1” could very well be specific to a Mac Pro that may still be in the works.
The reference was found in an info.plist file, and is labeled “AAPLJ95,1”. The entry is part of a compatibility list for Macs. The 2013 Mac Pro’s codename is AAPLJ90,1, which means that “AAPLJ95,1” could very well be specific to a Mac Pro that may still be in the works.
I'm not at all saying that iOS shouldn't or can't, at some time in the future, function as an OS for desktop replacement, merely that it cannot do so effectively, for most professionals, at the moment.
The Macalope has a point - a decade ago, nobody paid attention to Apple outside MacWorld and WWDC so they had to announce hardware at WWDC. Now they can focus on the software and developers and have a separate MacBook launch event in August or September that will be standing room only.
If the new theater at Campus 2 is ready by then, they could even hold the event there.
If the new theater at Campus 2 is ready by then, they could even hold the event there.
Cool, but try developing a fully fledged application on an iPad. You cant.
It's not that though, the iPhone costs so much more now than phones which are better. Apple hasn't reduced the price of phones as the tech matures and when you look at the little difference an upgrade makes, its not worth it.
Most people I know only care about the diminishing battery life in 1 year old + phones these days, not the rest of the spec, as the rest doesn't really matter that much, the phones have essentially matured.
Same reason you dont need to buy a laptop every year. The cpu / storage / battery specs hardly change.
+1 to that. This is why the rMB has been released with slower processors. It's light, has a great screen, a terrible keyboard... okay, maybe that's not the biggest praise I could unleash on it... it has good speakers. But it doesn't need to be faster. Personally I'd take 1mm thicker, better keyboard and more slots than just one USB-C (this is why I bought an Air). But that's the direction things are going to go until those supermegadooperspeedy SSDs are actually on the market – and they won't make as much difference as we think anyway.
I could have continued using my Xperia Z3C for another few years had I not broken the headphone socket and passed it to hubby (who doesn't listen to music much). Everything about it was good enough – especially the battery life. I wouldn't trade battery life for 1 mm thinner, I already had a phone that needed charge twice a day (looking at you Samsung). Give me a thicker phone and 2 days battery life and I'm sold. I don't care if it's 20% faster than the previous one which was 20% faster than then one before it.
