This has been an ongoing story fro a few years now. Anyone paying attention to Ax development has seen how fast they have become. They are putting up x86 numbers (in some cases) while running in a passively cooled no ventilation phone. Pretty amazing. But Apple has an issue using third party products. Not because they don't like the tech, but because they can't release features until someone else's silicon supports it. That isn't something a company planning on shipping 100+ million devices a year needs to worry about. Intel and AMD showed some major vulnerabilities in their chip designs, and probably lost a lot of support from companies like Apple regarding those vulnerabilities. Apple knows it can design and market its own chips now. No doubt they will take care of the backward x86 compatibility through virtualization. Imagine 2 or 3 or even four A10X chips running in a laptop, sucking almost no power, running custom GPU tech designed to work in a low power environment. Imagine 5-10 A10X chips running in a workstation spitting out 2-3 Teraflops of compute and supporting eGPUs for additional compute capacity and imagine Apple refreshing their lineup more regularly because they didn't have to wait for Intel to develop XYZ features in their chips for their custom boards. Not to mention RISC V chips are getting some attention from major companies as well. Apple knows RISC processing well. I think all of this points to the fact that x86 is starting to show its age and major companies are looking for alternatives. Apple just happens to be sitting on 20+ years of chip development experience and manufacturing acumen to pull off making it themselves.

Why would you ever need a cassette when you can download to your Zune. people these days.

the amount of butthurt on this forum is pretty laughable. Who cares? OS X is a polished and beautiful platform and something Linux Desktops should strive for in terms of core technologies and usability. That being said linux desktops are great platforms. They are fast, efficient, and are much better than they used to be. Perhaps he's sending a message that Linux for the desktop isn't where it needs to be? Either way I see the point of saying he should have presented on a Linux machine and shown off some really easy ways to open and start presenting on a Linux platform. But I won't fault him for using OS X. OS X has an open source legacy and Apple contributes to open source projects at a high level.

I thought tis was already found on the BLU phones long ago? Aside from a few dedicated Android flavors, most Android devices harvest data and send it back to Google or the manufacturer. why is this news again?

Google and Amazon make their money off advertising. Neither have released a consumer product in the last 10 years that DOESN'T make money off advertising (AWS is not consumer). So why are we surprised? its the same crap over and over. Free email, cheap phones, cheap voice assistants, discounted shipping, cheap streaming services, etc. all to mine your data. There are companies that don't sell your data out there that seems to be doing fine selling high quality products. I don't want to name names for fear of offending dire hards and fanboys, but its pretty clear that if someone values privacy and wants mainstream products, they need to focus their attention on other products that don't come from Google. The answer to this problem is not binary. we don't use something and give up all privacy or not use something to keep it. Companies do not have to sell your data to make money. its just easier and cheaper than creating a good product that protects the user and adds value to their lives. Its harder to solve for privacy. Its harder competing with differentiating hardware. Its harder to captivate consumers with things they need to pay for and value as devices. Its easier to give it away, to play to the lowest common denominator.

Took a long time to amortize that $8 billion Nokia purchase. Jeez.

I saw it wave from across the room.... Ill see myself out

I think one of the main reasons AR hasn't seen too much traction is that there aren't a lot of development kits for AR that make it easy to build environments on. I would like to think that when Apple releases AR kit and Google releases further iterations of its own Unity AR engines that AR will become more pervasive. But right now making a game like that would require quit a bit of technical expertise that goes beyond the game mechanics itself. I also agree with the sentiment that the screen on a phone is a bit difficult to render an immersive experience on. Maybe something like an iPad, but still a little unwieldy. That being said the demo showed off during Apple's WWDC of a real time game using AR was pretty cool. I would imagine this wasn't very easy to pull off graphically for the phone until a true AR engine was built for iOS. The same would go for Unity, since that hasn't been around forever and is still relying on raw compute power of a mobile device. Perhaps Qualcomm hasn't supported the tech as much as it needs to be truly viable on Android. To be honest Pokemon is pretty lame on the graphics richter scale.

in other words, who cares? Opera was never going to do well on any platform. iOS is no different and the server side bullshit was a non-starter to begin with. Ill take Apple or Google's security over that any day. Besides who wants a Chinese browser anyways? Other than harvesting user data and selling it to advertisers I'm not so sure why other companies keep clamoring into the browser race. Either offer a major compelling feature or find something else to develop. Safari is a fast and able browser, so is Chrome. Firefox is all but dead on mobile as well so seriously why are developers trying to move into a territory where they will own 1% market share regardless of feature sets?

I doubt they will do away with the touch bar, but might offer a model without one. I think the touch bar will go through iterations and its a precursor to moving keyboard design forward. Does it make everyone happy? Probably not. But then again nobody else has really tried this before at this scale. Its a way to introduce touch to OSX without redesigning the interface. Its quite clever but yes I see your point about it being inconvenient at times.

nah man its all holograms from now on, full VR with Smellovision.

this has every buzzword I love.

so your rebuttal to my comment is a superlative and a catch phrase? I respect Kaspersky because they are an open company the talks about threats openly, discusses relevant topics and provides insight most other companies keep close to the vest. I suggest you read their blog. you might feel the same way. Just because I respect them doesn't mean I use their products and it doesn't mean I feel they are completely divorced from the Kremlin. Just means i respect them and that they are probably trying to do the right thing, despite the murky waters they live in. https://securelist.com/

We are amidst the beginnings of a new cold war. I have a lot of respect for Kaspersky. Being so close to the Kremlin doesn't made me feel warm and fuzzy, but they have always spoken out against state actors. I wonder if they will respond directly to this as they have always seemed to be a fairly open company with regards to data breaches and cuber security risks. https://www.scmagazineuk.com/i...