Oh, that's all, is it.

Yep, you're right 1 hour max /s.

Browsers are the most insecure attack surface of any aspect of modern computers. Apple's s/w is built using standard engineering decision-making - can we rely on X being there ? Why yes we can, so we can delegate this function to that system framework which we've tested is all secure.

Except that all breaks down when someone installs a 3rd party browser. Now the security model of the system depends on the security model of the installed browser, and that's just not acceptable. It may be the user's fault that they installed but you can guarantee that Apple will be holding the can at the end of any argument over why their nudes are now all over the internet.

I have been using a web browser (since Mosaic / Arena) for over 30 years. Never in that time have I wanted the URL bar (and by extension the tabs bar since they're intimately linked) to be any other place than right there at the top of the window in plain view. The URL-bar/swipe-control is a heinous change that ruins literal decades of muscle memory and expectation.

It is not a "good thing", from my perspective.

For similar reasons, I loathe tab groups as well. I like the way tabs worked *anyway*. I have yet to see a single use-case (for me, and how I use them) that works as well as leaving the frigging things alone and letting me manage them as I see fit.

And yes, hiding UI is bloody annoying. I still haven't managed to work out how to use the phone in portrait mode properly yet. Instead of instant availability and instant access to what I actually want to do, I now have to study the damn thing and figure out how the hell I'm supposed to do

This Safari redesign is the first time I'm genuinely thinking of ditching Safari. It's that bad.

The author (mytek) made an 8-bit motherboard ... and then he made another one that fits into the XL disk drive chassis (so it fits with the rest of the XL/XE time peripherals).

To coin a phrase: “I wish I had mod-points” - orange man is indeed bad. Let’s see if this goes down too...

Chrome didn't kill Firefox, Mozilla killed Firefox with their user hostile changes (lets basically kill all addons, even though that was how we got 90% of our users), inability to implement proper memory management and no sandboxing or multi-threading.

Ok, so I might have been out of the loop, but how the hell does a package manager need a CEO. Perhaps equally as baffling, how could they afford to pay someone for that role

I can't answer your actual question, but I get the feeling you'd be better off trying to leverage existing hardware. Video encoding/decoding processes are broadly similar and you could probably leverage existing hardware acceleration built into video chips already by using the appropriate API's.

It seems exceptionally unlikely any OEM would add an extra ASIC to any sort of media player just to get hardware support for your particular codec without it being a revolutionary change, and even then I have my doubts

Tax cuts for the rich are almost exactly how you don't do it, because you need that tax money to build all those things in the first place

No, everyone switched because Firefox turned into the thing it replaced, a memory hogging, cripplingly slow browser that became actively hostile to it's users (seriously, the devs did so much stupid crap they deserve all they got)

Cube Sat's deorbit by themselves in weeks. These things won't be up there cluttering up anything

What they have lost is their mind... and that happened a while ago. Sadly this just proves it's still lost and roaming a desert somewhere

Not to mention battery technology

I work at Apple Park. It's the worst office environment I've ever had the misfortune to have inflicted upon me. Working in that gilded shithole has me looking elsewhere for work now, and I've been at Apple for many a year.

It's form over function, it's the fact that everyone has the noise-cancelling earphones (the good Bose ones, not the crappy Beats ones) and it's the complete lack of respect that is implied. My dog has a larger kennel (not that he uses it in CA weather very much) than I have desk-space.

Yes.

It seems to me that US people (I only say the US because that's where I live, I don't know if it's as common elsewhere) seem to think Brits are nice people, and you can get away with shit around them. Brits are *not* especially nice. Brits are *polite*, there is a huge difference. The velvet glove conceals an iron fist, and it's generally easier to be polite back than to piss them off overmuch.

I imagine his questioning will be somewhat more ... in depth ... than it would have been previously. There is no time limit on select-committee investigations, like in the US congressional hearings. If it takes several hours, then it takes several hours...

Um, no ?

I'm 48, have been working for Apple for the last 14 years or so, and live and work in the Bay Area. Sure, things are expensive, and once I stop being paid we'll bail to the Oregon coast or similar for retirement, but life is pretty good.

My wife is a full-time mum, my kid goes to a nice school (better than I ever had), the mortgage will be paid in 5 years or so, and we've just got a puppy (a Newfie :) I'm intending to stay until retirement. I'm hardly the oldest in my group (R&D) either, and I work alongside people who've been here for longer than I have (some of them go back 25 years) and who are older than I am. Age is not a barrier, at least at Apple, if you're good enough.