All of them? The author points at some particular issues they have had and concludes that all Apple services are garbage?! Well, except for iMessage and FaceTime.
I’ve been using Apple Music, iCloud Drive, bookmark sync, etc. for many years with zero issues. I even host my email at iCloud (since Google pulled the rug on the free Google Apps tier)—no issues whatsoever.
My family has also had zero issues.
Google Maps has a disgusting UX and I hate it every time I need to use it (for the reviews). Apple Maps has been great for the past few years.
And don’t get me started on Dropbox with their monstrosity Electron client. F*ck that.
Or the silly Spotify client that can’t do smart playlists and has no concept of genres.
IME, while not perfect, Apple’s services’ quality is far above the competition’s.
Yeah same here. Sure they're not perfect, but in 2025/2026 what services are perfect exactly?
To me, the article reads with a lot of exaggerated hostility towards Apple specifically for issues that are so commonplace nowadays. Not defending them, but I think it's unfairly targeting one company.
A lot of people suggesting paying for Premium. Value for money arguments aside, I see a huge problem here: sharing even more data (personal financial information) with Google.
I, personally, have zero trust in Google. That’s a company that went from “Don’t be evil” to “Be as evil as needed as long as it’s profitable.”
You’re right, it doesn’t mean anything related to a physical dimension. Its sole purpose is to show shrinkage (in terms of density) compared to the previous generation.
That being said, assuming that the Chinese “3nm” is comparable to the rest of the industry’s nodes, I highly doubt they can make it.
“7nm” is/was the last node size that could be produced without EUV (while still economically viable). And that was with multiple-patterning on Immersion scanners.
China doesn’t and can’t have EUV. They do have Immersion, but that’s now also under export controls.
If the US desires so they can block software technology and laser technology for exports to ASML using de minimis rules (which doesn't bother if the end product uses less than 25% of US tech), in that sense, they send that number to 0% and a fight broke up
Hopefully they won't and the human race can advance further
I believe EUV was licensed to ASML since it came out of a defense department research project. So the US probably does have a say for machines that use EUV.
Well maybe. But without further experimentation it would probably not that viable. It also needs a lot of tech which is also developed by a European company, that has basically 90% of that market.
And know the us has a president that is not eu friendly, we will See what happens.
Last time they navigated thru Trump. The last ASML book (April 2024) said the Biden administration was able to reinstate a united front to recover from Trump's mishaps:
"The Trump administration spelled chaos for the National Security Council: key figures abruptly departed, and a large amount of people were dismissed. Under the Biden administration, however, the staff expanded to more than 350 people, all united in orchestrating the plan to halt China’s advance and boost the American chip industry with billions in state aid. The NSC also ensured that the relevant departments adhered to the established strategy. Geopolitics demands discipline, not a cackling henhouse. Even before he was sworn in, Joe Biden pulled out all the diplomatic stops to coordinate export restrictions with allies. America started playing chess on several boards at once. In the Trade and Technology Council (TTC), a strategic dialogue between the EU and the US, discussions included export restrictions and stimulus plans for the domestic chip industry."
China has tried to create them in house, they have brought talent from TSMC, chinese employees whom worked in ASML, yet it is way too complex. No country in the world has all the pieces and even though it took decades to ASML to breakthrough with EUV.
And now they are working with high numerical amplitude (high NA) systems, even further.
My fear is after Wennick and Van Den Brink, we don't know if the show may go on. Hope they found their Tim Cook.
The US still has Jepsen Huang and Lisa Su. But I'm sure the next generation of semiconductor golden boys is growing up in China. The military discipline and community values they exude is admirable. In that sense Taiwan, Japan and Korea served the US, who shared the bonanza of being the benign world hegemon for almost a century.
Even though, I may be wrong, the words of Buffet always follow my analysis: never bet against the US
How does Avalonia do native look-and-feel? Does it use its own custom controls (with themes) or does it try to do what Qt does (using native theming APIs)?
Uno currently uses some native controls on mobile iOS/Android/Catalyst (text input, mostly) to provide platform features, but the rest is rendered using graphics primitives. On Web, the same happens where CSS is used for most of the rendering. Input interactions are managed entirely by Uno. This allows to have a visually identical UI across platforms, unless the developer chooses otherwise.
On Desktop targets, Uno is rendering everything on an HW accelerated Skia canvas, with GL/Metal backends.
Uno Platform is a cross platform implementation of the WinUI+WinRT APIs. That cross-platform implementation never used the official WinUI/WinAppSDK implementation on Windows.
When running on Windows, which this is where some confusion may lie, you can choose to use the Uno implementation (the netX.0-desktop TFM), or the original WinAppSDK by Microsoft (the netX.0-windows10.YYY TFM), since both implementations share the same API, making user code compatible with either ones.
On the other platforms, Wasm/Linux/iOS/Android/Catalyst/macOS, only the Uno implementation can be used.
Is the hot reload in Platform Studio limited to just UI changes or can any code in the project be hot reloaded? If the latter, what are the limitations?
Exactly this. Athletes are an outlier when it comes to BMI.
Furthermore, I reckon the majority of the people discussing BMI, as in these comments, would tend to be outliers, too, based solely on the fact they care/understand.
The majority of the population has no fucking clue, and can’t even read nutrition labels. And I am not blaming them. This stuff should be taught in school—basic nutrition education.
And even most athletes I personally know fall under what's considered a healthy BMI (< 25). Some sports require a body composition that pushes the boundary of it but as a general proxy of the health of millions in a population it's a pretty good one.
I’ve been using Apple Music, iCloud Drive, bookmark sync, etc. for many years with zero issues. I even host my email at iCloud (since Google pulled the rug on the free Google Apps tier)—no issues whatsoever.
My family has also had zero issues.
Google Maps has a disgusting UX and I hate it every time I need to use it (for the reviews). Apple Maps has been great for the past few years. And don’t get me started on Dropbox with their monstrosity Electron client. F*ck that. Or the silly Spotify client that can’t do smart playlists and has no concept of genres.
IME, while not perfect, Apple’s services’ quality is far above the competition’s.