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Apple’s new ARM-based Macs won’t support Windows through Boot Camp

The Verge

Apple will start switching its Macs to its own ARM-based processors later this year, but you won’t be able to run Windows in Boot Camp mode on them. Microsoft only licenses Windows 10 on ARM to PC makers to preinstall on new hardware, and the company hasn’t made copies of the operating system available for anyone to license or freely install.

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Has Apple Pay made it too easy to spend money?

Vox

Apple Pay leads the tap-to-pay market, which has exploded in popularity in the last few years. Jeff Chiu/AP Tap-to-pay makes spending money fun, easy, and virtually invisible. Apple released iOS 17 on September 18 and now that the new operating system is here, you can probably leave your wallet at home.

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Has Apple Pay made it too easy to spend money?

Vox

Apple Pay leads the tap-to-pay market, which has exploded in popularity in the last few years. Jeff Chiu/AP Tap-to-pay makes spending money fun, easy, and virtually invisible. Apple released iOS 17 on September 18 and now that the new operating system is here, you can probably leave your wallet at home.

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The Lightning port isn’t about convenience; it’s about control

The Verge

Apple obviously prefers Lightning to USB-C. Notably absent from Apple’s argument, though, is the fact that cutting out a Lightning port on an iPhone wouldn’t just create more e-waste (if you buy Apple’s logic) or inconvenience its customers. And Apple takes a cut of every one of those devices, too.

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Apple’s been playing it too MagSafe

The Verge

It’s been almost a year since Apple first debuted the iPhone 12 lineup , and introduced its MagSafe accessory system. And that’s a big difference because of how Apple has designed the MagSafe standard. Anyone can wirelessly charge an iPhone 12 device using a Qi charger at Apple’s standard rate of 7.5W. Don’t get me wrong.

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Technology Short Take 170

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). As detailed in this article , it turns out BitLocker can be bypassed—assuming physical access to the hardware—with a cheap logic analyzer.

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Rosetta 2 is Apple’s key to making the ARM transition less painful

The Verge

Apple CEO Tim Cook in front of a silicon wafer platter | Screenshot: Sean Hollister / The Verge. Earlier this week, on what Tim Cook called a “historic day,” Apple announced that it’s moving Macs away from Intel processors to its own silicon chips. Apple claims improved performance over the original version of Rosetta from 2006.

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