I understand that this is just the start of Marzipan, but the Home and News apps are just clones of the iPad apps. Even if the Marzipan framework supplies tons of extra features to make the Mac apps perform like Mac apps, it's still not going to stop 3rd parties from doing the same thing as Apple did: namely take their iPad app and run it through Marzipan to provide a sub-par experience on the Mac.

Maybe for new apps that get developed for all platforms at the same time with Marzipan in mind will turn out well on all platforms, but I see a future that's full of crappy iPad-like apps on the mac soon after this is available to developers because it's easier to do than to re-create your UI from scratch to accommodate such different UXes.

We already have a few Marzipan apps in MacOS 10.14, namely the News and Home apps. And your fears are well founded. I'm hoping that they're just proof-of-concept apps and that Apple will figure out how to expand the UI to encompass more Mac-like behavior on the mac, because right now, the only good thing that you can say about Marzipan apps on the Mac is that when you click on them, they launch.

There's only one thing missing from your analysis, and that's the FRAND contract Qualcomm agreed to when their patent-encumbered designs were selected for the LTE standard. Apple's argument is that the deal they're getting from Qualcomm isn't fair, reasonable, or non-discriminatory. I'm not sure if it is or if it isn't, but there's certainly enough gray area to dispute that this is all Apple's fault, hence the lawsuit.

'Twasn't there a minute ago.

Not even a link to the article?

nmap does a pretty shitty job of scanning a /48 ipv6 subnet.

That's why RH implemented Software Collections. The base install may contain an older stable-when-the-distro-was-new version of software, but a supplementary repo that's maintained by RH provides more current versions of most major tools. It's a couple of steps more involved than just "yum install python-3.6.5" but it's there and supported by RedHat.

Stupid and evil are not mutually exclusive.

This is Swatch internet time all over again.

Interesting. My bank isn't on that list, and I only used my card a few times the last time I traveled (ApplePay worked just about everywhere), but when I did use my card, I always validated with PIN and not signature.

Some credit card issuers will assign a PIN to your credit card if you request it. That way, when you go to Europe, you can use your card just like everyone else.

What could possibly go wrong?

No, that's not the case. Fusion drives are not hybrid drives. While the OS presents a single drive to the end user, a fusion drive is two separately addressable drives to the lowest levels of the operating system. Apple figured that the OS could do a better job of optimizing what data went on the SSD than drive firmware could, since it would know *what* the data was, not just how often or recently it was accessed.

Why wouldn't they upgrade? The old OS doesn't support APFS on fusion drives either. And it's not like Apple said "Buy this computer now, and get APFS on it later."

Here's David Pogue mentioning it: https://twitter.com/Pogue/stat...