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Noise from Apple HQ
So they've got announcements coming up at Apple.
I wonder how much corporate self-harm they're about to commit this time. Seems as if a lot of the features that have made the machines they've made and I've bought over the last couple of decades have been getting set aside because "progress" and shaping how their customers define it.
I wonder how much corporate self-harm they're about to commit this time. Seems as if a lot of the features that have made the machines they've made and I've bought over the last couple of decades have been getting set aside because "progress" and shaping how their customers define it.
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I do not like that at all. They have so much money that they can put behind that. And who is their partner there? Goldman Sachs, the people who brought you the Greek hidden debt crisis, among other things.
I love my Apple products, and I can see the light of me getting a new (for certain values of new, i.e. 2012) laptop in the not distant future. But at the same time, I'm getting warnings that my many year old Photoshop "needs to be updated" to work with future versions of Mac OS. Well, I refuse to pay Adobe a subscription, which means I won't be updating to future versions of Mac OS on my iMac. I may consider running an older Mac OS in a VM, I don't have a problem with that, we shall see.
One direction they're considering is abandoning Intel and going with making their own ARM CPUs, so they'll have a single CPU family across iPhones, iPads, desktops and laptops, dunno about watches. While that simplifies their architecture, I'm not sure that's the best application space.
If you're looking to avoid subscribing to Adobe...
Re: If you're looking to avoid subscribing to Adobe...
Looks like it's for the iPad, not for the Mac in general. I picked up Affinity for Windows recently as part of a Humble Bundle deal. It looks quite capable, quite a learning curve to flip over from Photoshop, though. We'll see how long I can keep going with Apple products. Of course, if Apple pursues their push towards a unified CPU architecture and more seamless app infrastructure, soon an iPad app will work fully on a new Mac laptop or whatever. I'm not sure how old of equipment that'll work backwards on, we'll have to see when everything gets worked out and released.
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