About 70% of the food in a US grocery store, and pretty much all food at restaurants, has added sugar (even *salt* has added sugar these days as an "anti-caking" agent...) Stop adding sugar to everything...
Apple has tried for years to make more from services income, but aside from the App Store, they haven't done very well. And the App Store is heavily tied to their hardware, which leads back to the original issue.
So Apple's services income for the last quarter was $26.6B. For FY2024 they brought in basically $100B for services alone, which would be enough to put them in the top 40 US companies - not struggling and certainly past trying to "make money" from services. Overall Apple (hardware + services) is #3 behind Walmart and Amazon with $383.4B in revenue for FY2024...
I would be all for this except that I regularly get web apps that either only work with Chrome (for no good reason) or perform very badly on alternative browsers. Chrome is the new Internet Explorer and we don't want people writing web apps for Chrome, we want them writing web apps to standards that all of the browsers support.
These days you can develop a web site that renders correctly on dozens of different web browsers and you can write complex web applications that run on those same browsers. Let's not prop Google up as the "savior of the Internet"...
You did read the title, right? The one that said "China launches HDMI and DisplayPort alternative — GPMI boasts up to 192 Gbps bandwidth, 480W power delivery"? That's a tad more than 120Gbps.
The Slashdot story only says 240W and 96Gbps, and the title says nothing. I didn’t bother reading TFA because honestly I could care less about 8k.
Thunderbolt 5 is already shipping, supports 120Gbps (more than 96), and supports 8k video...
... so I was just providing info from Apple, not making a (ridiculous) statement that a single M4 Max will out-perform this new supercomputer.
That said, even if we use a back-of-the-envelope "net" estimate of 75Gflops/W for the M4 Max (and that's just the GPU - the CPU and NPU cores would also contribute to the total), the 58.89Gflops/W efficiency of this new supercomputer can very likely be improved upon significantly.
Not sure about M4/M4 Pro, but M4 Max's GPU is rated for 18.4Tflops at 62W, or just shy of 300Gflops per watt...
It's needed for AirPrint, AFAIK.
No, it has two uses: to support old CUPS servers (1.3 and earlier) for newer CUPS clients, and to auto-add AirPrint/IPP Everywhere/Mopria printers for applications that refuse to use the CUPS APIs that were introduced in CUPS 1.1... As long as you add the printers you want to use, you won't need it running.
Sigh This isn’t CUPS, this is an optional add-on called cups-browsed that you don’t need anymore
As far as public school teachers go. I'm surprised they weren't replaced by VHS tapes, Scantron tests, and low-paid test proctors in the 1980's. It's long past time for public school teachers to be extinct other than the ones making educational materials. Their pensions and gold plated benefits can also go extinct.
Having grown up as a child of two teachers, my parents didn't get paid shit, their pensions are pitiful, and my mom got shafted by the first school she worked for because they refused to report her work as a full-time teaching position even though it was... So I don't know where teachers are getting "gold plated benefits", but in the US (at least) I haven't seen any evidence of it. Hell, when I lived in California the teachers would get pink slips at the end of the school year and then would be "invited back" in August if they had enough money to pay for them to come back for the fall.
I also know that a lot of kids need "in person" instruction and support. If the pandemic demonstrated anything, it showed that e-learning doesn't work for every kid. Schools need a lot more money and a lot more teachers/staff to support kids at every level of ability/need.
A perfectly calm voice telling you that you are a horrible person and that they will hunt you down, etc. Somehow I don’t think this will work as well as they think
It's not about the money they're bringing in. It's about the limits they impose. iOS users can't buy apps except through Apple, which means they are effectively gatekeepers for more than half of U.S. cell phone users. And Apple has used those limits to forcing third parties that make apps available through their App Store to take payments through Apple, thus allowing Apple's similar services to unfairly compete (because Apple pays maybe 3% for their credit card transaction fees, while Spotify likely pays 30%).
OK, so I hear this all the time but let's take a step back for a sec. I used to have a small software company that maintained its own online store which required hosting (back then this flip-flopped between colocation and a local high-speed connection, now I'd just use a $20-$30/month VPS) and my own time maintaining site code/security/PCI conformance testing (let's call that 20 hours/month for a small business) - budget about $1,000/month overhead for running your own e-commerce site and somewhat less if you use an off-the-shelf solution. Credit card processing fees for a small business are usually a small per-transaction fee (I've seen up to $1) + 3-4% of the order depending on the card. Advertising/search optimization will add more but you can choose how much to spend and there are "free" organic methods of getting the word out as well.
For a modestly successful app developer selling 5,000 copies of a $100 app in a year, you have $500,000 in revenue less $25,000 in credit card processing fees (worst case) and $12,000 in hosting costs for $37,000 in e-commerce expense (7.4%). Add a $24,000/year marketing budget and you have a total CoGS is $61,000 (12%) which translates into a gross profit of $439,000. The $100 price is arbitrary but you want to keep it above $50, otherwise you end up with lots of credit card fraud (I saw something like 1% of my sales get charged back until I raised the prices above $50).
The same app developer on the Apple App Store will pay a 15% commission on the $500,000 revenue ($75,000) and you'll likely still want to spend a little on marketing (let's say $12,000/year) for a total CoGS of $87,000 (~17%) and a gross profit of $413,000. But through the App Store you *don't* have to worry about chargebacks (people *can* cancel an order but it is harder to get the credit card company to cancel an App Store charge) so you might decide to lower the price or provide in-app purchases, etc. to *increase* your sales, offsetting the difference in CoGS. Oh, and you don't have to deal with e-commerce site issues, people having trouble getting their card accepted on your site, etc.
So as a small software developer, I am 100% OK with paying Apple's App Store "tax" for the convenience, flexibility, and security it offers. I wouldn't complain if they lowered it (10%?) but I also know they are running a very large App Store that handles far more traffic than my little private online storefront would ever see in my lifetime.
The minimum requirements for Unreal Engine games is a 12 core CPU with 64GB of RAM and a RTX 2080. Go ahead, download it yourself. No mac can meet this. Hell no MOBILE or Laptop device can meet this.
According to multiple sites, the M1 Max GPU is equivalent in performance/capabilities to an RTX 2080, and the M3 Max is equivalent to an RTX 3080. I didn't see anything definitive comparing the lesser (or greater) M chips to the various RTX cards, but my experience is that the recent M-series Macs are significantly better graphically than any prior Intel-based Mac offerings - my M1 Max MacBook Pro is *significantly faster* than my old iMac Pro 18-core system with Radeon Pro Vega 64X graphics.
Um, $67m -> $98m is an almost 50% premium - 98/67=1.462 A 30% premium (increase) would be “only” $87m per launch
There isn’t much. Both “standards” are based on IPP, mDNS+DNS-SD (“Bonjour”), and a few common formats - PDF, JPEG, Apple or PWG Raster (both based on CUPS raster), and (in the case of Mopria and Wi-Fi Direct printing) PCLm which is a PDF subset for streaming raster. There is also something called “IPP Everywhere” that is essentially all of the completely open bits with self-certification tools for printer vendors (this from the IEEE-ISTO Printer Working Group that defined IPP in the first place)
All of the standards are intentionally very similar (I’ve been directly involved with the development of all these standards except Mopria) because we didn’t want corporate bullshit or politics to get in the way of interoperability. Vendors can still develop and sell their own special software/solutions, they just use the same protocols underneath which makes life a whole lots easier for everyone!
Oh, and AirPrint was announced in 2010
"Virtual" means never knowing where your next byte is coming from.
