Users of QuarkXPress or other graphic design software can use Quark App Publishing Studio to publish, distribute, monetize and track digital content, with integrated analytics to see page views, time spent, most searched and shared topics, and more. Please follow me on Twitter, or join me in the AppleHolic’s bar & grill and Apple Discussions groups on MeWe.Quark App Publishing Studio Previewer lets you preview and test your print publications before publishing them to the App Store as iOS apps via Quark App Publishing Studio. And it must now figure out how to churn out the growing number of its proprietary processors quickly enough. The company is seeing the benefit of that migration in growing consumer and enterprise Mac sales. The bottom line is that Apple’s latest silicon transition is almost complete. Apple’s platforms now bring significant benefits, not just processor-driven, but also lower TCO and the impact of lower energy demands on businesses running fleets of computers. Macs can no longer be cast aside in contrast to Wintel. Later down the road, we anticipate a Mac Pro with Apple Silicon, with the first Macs to carry the next-generation M2 processor set to arrive toward year’s end.Īnticipate tweaks to the M2, specifically M2 Pro, to debut in professional Macs.Įnterprises should feel reassured they can now see a clear and visible future development strategy for Apple’s platforms. MacBook Pro and possibly also a souped-up M-series Mac mini and 27-in. We expect new Macs in the next few weeks, probably including an improved 13-in. This possibly reflects that the technology environment has also completely changed on the strength of the then non-existent iPhone and the mobile evolution it launched. While the delivery status for some apps differs, in general developers seem to be racing faster this time around to introduce native apps for Apple Silicon. Notably, Adobe Creative Suite, Office and QuarkXPress took more than a year to go native at that time. The company quickly moved most of its hardware to the new processors and most app developers followed suit. That was also a relatively painless transition. I can recall when Apple’s Macs moved to Intel processors in 2005. The Mac achieved 93% customer satisfaction this time last year. But where this really comes into its own is when using M-native applications, which deliver significant benefits to people trying to get work done.Īll of this generates what Apple CEO Tim Cook recently described as higher-than-ever scores across all Apple products, which surely includes the Mac. When users migrate to these machines, we’ve also seen really positive reactions to the speed and performance they get. This even includes Parallels Desktop, which runs Windows on M-series Macs faster than it runs on some PCs. Applications seem to be coming across rapidly, and most of the most widely used ones are already M1-native. The easiest transition yet?ĭevelopers really seem to have welcomed these new chips and appear universally happy with the tools Apple built to help them migrate. “It’s a huge leap in performance compared to the Intel hardware I had previously been using,” said Bare Bones Software CEO Rich Siegel. We recently heard from numerous Apple developers who are universally impressed by what these new Apple processors can do. This is fine in terms of engineering and product design, but how has the transition compared to previous moves? In contrast, Apple’s Macs will be slim, quiet, cost less to run (and maintain), and deliver better battery life. In theory, that means Intel-powered notebooks will be heavier, with larger fans, and denser batteries to run at peak. Intel, meanwhile, claims to have chips to compete with Apple’s current M1 iteration, but early reports suggest these demand vast quantities of energy to achieve peak performance. The eventual (delayed?) move to 3nm-process technologies will make for even better performance-per-watt and even longer battery life in mobile Macs. That matters to every user, but matters far more to enterprise purchasers. It signals the depth of Apple’s commitment to the Mac platform and shows a path of future evolution for these machines. The existence of a road map like this is important. That means we can already begin to speculate on what will follow. The M2, M2 Pro, M2 Max and possibly M1 Max Pro (and subsequent M2 version) are emerging into the light. In other words, we’re not just looking at the company offering its own silicon across its entire Mac range within just two years of the first product’s introduction, we also know it is already iterating. We’re so far down the road with this transition that we can already see the next generation of Apple’s chips, the M2, which some of the most influential reporters in the business think may even appear in the company’s consumer Macs this spring.
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