Tim Cook said under oath that they don't need to differentiate themselves because they don't have to compete.
Re:Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
by ladyanita22 on Friday July 29, 2022 @06:06AM
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Sorry to bother you, but I read this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31101384) and I was wondering myself: how did XP managed to have the transparent rounded corners? AFAIK, it doesn't use any compositing, yet the system is able to tell what should be "behind" the window to whatever that was in the transparent regions of the corners. The same thing applies (I guess) to the shadows of the right-click menus.
The transparency is a 1-pixel mask bitmap. There's no partial blending required. Shadows of right click menus are different -- Windows actually had a secret, weird compositor ever since Windows 2000 called "layered windows", but the app has to be rewritten to use them.
Re:Apple Reports Third Quarter Results
by ladyanita22 on Sunday July 31, 2022 @05:03AM
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Thank you for your great explanation, it's super interesting. I read Raspbian has a patched openbox that has aliased rounded corners.
I believ it uses this patch https://github.com/dylanaraps/openbox-patched
Well, seems like it would be relatively easy to make growth happen then. Imagine if Apple properly applied itself and brought the magic from the early iPhone to its cloud services.
Just need to resurrect Steve Jobs to belittle everyone until it's good.
Too bad Apple is still so, so very bad at this. Their services are barely functioning, at best, with multiple WTFs daily.
When they work, they are not even magic. They are the bare minimum of what you expect them to do (like, for example, to quickly and correctly sync photos between me and my family).