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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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