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bad time to be finding bugs in High Sierra

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The Nix folks found this bug before 10.12.0 came out; it was actually known well before the more recent bugs of infamy.

Apple just haven't done anything about it until the upcoming 10.13.2 release.

Idk it seems particularly good to me.

Thank goodness they were able to squeeze in those new emojis in the latest release, however!

Finding bugs of this serious nature should always be welcomed, but it should happen in advance of production release. As a result I imagine there will be some new positions opening up in the OS quality testing group, and lower management. Imagine the Steve Jobs rant that would have resulted. (shudder)

I would imagine that Apple is already considering getting out of the macOS market given the latest round of advertising for their iPad Pro.

How do you build apps on iPad Pro?

No reason they couldn't port XCode to iOS, and given the nature of skunkworks projects in Apple, this may have already occurred. Plus they also have their current installed base of Macs that can still be used even if Apple stops development of new features for macOS while they transition the tools to iOS.

I hope they simply get out of the desktop marked and let us use Linux to build.

I hope not, I like too much having a laptop that actually suspends correctly.

True, I was blown away by this.

If it makes you feel any better, my Mac has a sleep/wake failure every week or two and reboots instead of waking up.

Usually it works though!

FWIW, the MacBook Pro (late 2016 model with TouchBar) that I'm typing often gives kernel panics on attempting to resume from sleep, but on my new ThinkPad T25 (running NixOS, of course), suspend and resume work OOTB and I've yet to see a problem occur with it.

The GNU+Linux world is always changing, and Linux's hardware support gets better every year. I get the joke-- I've lived through suspend/resume hassles on laptops running Linux before, compiled the custom `tuxonice` kernels, etc. But no manufacturer who sells Linux computers has to ship laptops that have any trouble with suspend/resume, and my luck has been pretty good with a lot of recent, formally non-supported hardware I've tried.

Seems unlikely considering the huge amount of APIs shared between ios and macos that would make porting a working simulator a herculean task. CoreAudio, AVFoundation, Metal, Mach kernel APIs and ports, XPC, CoreGraphics, CoreAnimation, etc etc etc

Playgrounds! :D

As far as I can tell, the only people the iPad is suitable for as a full time computing device are bloggers who write about iPads

If Apple's Mac business was it's own business, it would be in the Fortune 500.[1] I agree that they're pushing iOS hard, but I think as long as revenue is as strong as it has been, this new Post-Jobs Apple won't be getting rid of Macs.

1. https://9to5mac.com/2017/11/02/apple-earnings-fy17-q4/

I get your point but it's rather tiresome to repeat this Emoji jab since clearly the people drawing new emoji will be artists who would hardly be fixing code bugs instead.

But their salaries are paid from the same huge hoard of cash. Infungibility of developer effort is more reasonable excuse for community-driven open-source projects than macOS

I, uh. I think Apple has enough money to hire artists and developers. Their net profits in 2016 were high enough to buy Iceland.

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