In this economy?
AllNewTypeFace
joined 3 years ago
If iOS and macOS 26 were about AI everywhere, making them the “fuck around” release, 27 can be the “find out” release. Freeze new features and focus all effort on making the system as RAM and space-efficient. Cut the fat, and replace the convenient, memory-heavy data structures we use today with old-school lightweight alternatives (i.e., never use a string when a word-sized numeric value will do — and on a 64-bit machine, it’ll do a lot of the time, coalesce multiple booleans/enums into bitfields, replace top-heavy formats like XML where there isn’t a good reason for them, and so on).
Padme: “…and then they’ll drop, right?”
There’ll probably be several to choose from on AliExpress at that price point.
That’s not entirely fair. DogeCoin was, by all accounts, created by fairly decent people as a low-stakes joke, before Space Trump settled on it as his ticket to being popular and liked and, after spending some pocket change on a Shiba Inu for display, barged in and skunked it with his musk.
Well, since he bought Instagram, he did turn it from a social hub to a slot machine whose payout is fragments of connection to people you care about, carefully metered to be just enough to keep you coming back without leaving ad money on the table.