Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ramp Up

Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by pjmlp on Thursday June 27, 2019 @11:53AM (#20295533)

As developer I can run anything thanks license.

As consumer, app stores are more than proven.

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Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by Crinus on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:03PM (#20295653)

> As developer I can run anything thanks license.

I cannot parse this, what do you mean?

> As consumer, app stores are more than proven.

I do not have any problem with app stores as long as they are not tied to a locked down OS. See Steam or any Linux repository front-end as an example of app stores that do it right.

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Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by pjmlp on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:14AM (#20301905)

Apple developer license.

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Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by Crinus on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:54AM (#20302585)

So you need Apple's yearly approval to run your own software. Personally i consider this a major dystopian flaw of iOS and one of the main reasons i do not buy their devices (the other being their disregard towards backwards compatibility).

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Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by scarface74 on Monday July 01, 2019 @02:13AM (#20322850)

How dare they drop support for 68K software! How far back do you think they should stay backwards compatible? The newest ARM chips in iOS devices don’t have any support for 32 bit instructions and MacOS hasn’t supported 32 but processors for over a decade.

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Re:Apple Hires Key Chip Designer From ARM as Own Efforts Ram... by jotm on Thursday June 27, 2019 @12:38PM (#20296056)

As the owner of my hardware, I need to be able to run anything. Make it hard, but not impossible.

But yeah, it's still a choice and Apple is not one of them.

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