Note that I said some Achips were faster than Mchips. I have no concerns with anything you stated. Actually very well said. Back to the original point - can Apple actually port macOS to the A chip? My point was YES and that they probably already have it in the lab. But to be fair to your point, the question is if Apple will ramp up the A chip to be able to compete with the higher end M chips or even the I chips from intel. Actually intel is already creating some ARM chips and I believe there already exists ARM based servers in the wild. So my thought is that the ARM architecture can support performances suitable for higher end PCs. Its up to Apple to leverage the architecture to create a competitive and performing chip. For the iphone the A9 is super fast. For the iPad Pro, it can already use a little more power. Let's see what the A10 brings. But if they grow the chip up to compete (and I believe they can) then there is no reason why I couldn't run macOS on the ARM other than marketing/company-politics.
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Note that I said some Achips were faster than Mchips. I have no concerns with anything you stated. Actually very well said. Back to the original point - can Apple actually port macOS to the A chip? My point was YES and that they probably already have it in the lab. But to be fair to your point, the question is if Apple will ramp up the A chip to be able to compete with the higher end M chips or even the I chips from intel. Actually intel is already creating some ARM chips and I believe there already exists ARM based servers in the wild. So my thought is that the ARM architecture can support performances suitable for higher end PCs. Its up to Apple to leverage the architecture to create a competitive and performing chip. For the iphone the A9 is super fast. For the iPad Pro, it can already use a little more power. Let's see what the A10 brings. But if they grow the chip up to compete (and I believe they can) then there is no reason why I couldn't run macOS on the ARM other than marketing/company-politics.
We've had this functionality for a long time between Macs via File Sharing and Back to My Mac.
Nobody knows that yet. The 'Open anyway' button does not work in DP1. Once it has been fixed, one can try it out. Anyway, even if it is indeed not possible anymore to launch apps whose signature does not match, you always have the option of removing the signature altogether (Apple signature tools can do it for you AFAIK, although I never tried it myself). So you can still hack around a third-party app if you want.
I can't disagree with this strongly enough. It is absolute censorship that will be controlled by one company. We have already seen this in iOS. There are plenty of examples where Apple has applied "rules" on a case by case basis for what gets approved for the app store.
We are quickly moving towards a world where you don't have any control over what you are allowed to have on your computer. Sure, there might be a way to get around it today but as you have seen over the last few releases they are making it harder and harder to run unsigned (unapproved) apps.
They are taking the frog in a pot approach. Slowly take the ability away until you never notice its gone. I don't want to live in a world where one company gets to decide what I can or can not have or use.
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Where is this a bad thing? I'm trying to think of a good reason that this wasn't the functionality from day 1.
That's simply not true. It is true that once Oracle acquired Sun in 2010, they closed down open development, but OpenZFS is alive and well and runs not only on Linux, FreeBSD, and Illumos, it also runs on OS X! Although I haven't tried it, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if ZFS on OS X is more polished than Apple's ZFS wannabe...
I was wondering the same thing about the iCloud storage. Unless things from your Mac will not deduct from the 5 GB.
Yes, and once more iOS lags behind tremendously.
iOS could detect - AirDrop-style - that one of your other iOS devices is nearby, create an ad-hoc network and then offer to browse your other device from the document/media picker.
Zero-set up even!
I doubt, albeit I have no interest in doing so, that Apple would be thrilled to host over 6TB of data for me for free.
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Yeah, I remember that well (I was quite excited at the prospect of ZFS coming to OS X at the time). My guess is that Apple didn't want to have to release the source code to any changes they made to the ZFS source code, as is required by the CDDL.
Signing an app and approving an app has nothing to do with each other. Nor do you have to sign an app, for what matters. OS X will simply tell you that the app poses a possible security risk at which point you can decide to still start it (by using context menu or security override in Preferences).
The developer of clicktoplugin and clicktoflash stopped updating them because of Apple policies.
Apple should make it easier not harder to develop for the MacOS
I listed several examples earlier:
- Older apps that are not being updated anymore which might have outdated or expired certificates.
- Unsupported mods to games that require going into the app container and changing around some files.
- Linux apps running in X11.
Look, I'm all for added security features as long as there is some mechanism or way, no matter how obscure or complex, to disable them. Throughout my entire life using computers, there have been rare situations where I needed to disable a security feature for one reason or another. I have also had by butt saved by security features, so I understand their value.
I am however principally against any restriction that cannot be turned off that is supposedly "for my own good."
I am mostly furious, but am smart enough to know why. It's just that my Pro is still a powerhouse that I have decked out over time, and I really don't want to put out money for a new one for so little in return.
Think its for the people who raid usb drives. Which is okay I guess. There are several options for this though that would be better used imo. enclosures that do this with their own internals. Know my NAS has reached you will get it from my cold dead hands status. I know with synology I get a lot of extras besides the drive array with DSM with applications offered/supported.
Beyond that...I like some have commented am scratching my head in confusion as official support dropped for gear that had the option to have 2 internal drives (some with modifications).
Has iCloud Photo Library or its 'optimise storage' been enabled by default? As far as I remember, their default state was off.
Everywhere is still available under my Security section of system preferences just to provide an alternate side to those who have seen it disappear.
It's not ready, and Apple wants a prolonged testing period before release, since it represents such a fundamental change.
End users might experience problems with case sensitive file systems:
Sue: "Bob, are the travel arrangements done for my London trip?"
Bob: "Yup, I'll copy London.doc into your drop box."
Sue scans icons, and double clicks london.doc.
Sue: "Hey, these are last year's plans!"
APFS is not an iOS 10 or macOS Sierra feature per se, though it is intended to eventually be the default file system for all Apple OSs.
I am sure they will re-add the other feature either cause they are making improvements or due to popular demand and complain during the beta.