Regarding ARM servers, all big cloud companies with the possible exception of Apple have been deploying ARM-ba
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True dat. Although I'd still add that a lot of the tech community sometimes forgets about financials. I rememb
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Thanks for the context, both your comment (streams) put what you wrote into context and it makes more sense no
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Yeah, but I don't see how this is relevant to the discussion. At best we are discussing whether Intel is 1.5 g
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Intel has sold XScale >10 years ago (a company that made then competitive ARM cores), and has bet the farm
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Tipped off sounds like there was some Apple insider meeting an Intel person at a bar, and divulging Apple’s
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This comparison masks so many issues. Apart from the fact that there are several versions of N7 and evolutions
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Likewise, Apple’s SoCs have been around for a decade (their A4 was the first step towards completely custom
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Except that this still allows Google to spy on: Google’s login window still remembers my sister’s Gmail ad
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No, but people do care about longevity, and I think on average most iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) outlast th
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One thing on price: if you factor in longevity, I am not sure this is true. I bought my iPhone 7 when it came
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It is moderate. On iOS the biggest sticking factors are Messages and FaceTime. They made my sister switch from
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Big fat no. I don’t care about the actual product, it suffices that it is Facebook that is building this. I
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@j5's point was reliability of updates, not speed. In the grand scheme of things, who cares how long they take
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Welcome to the Mac. Until 2014, I had an unbroken record of straight upgrades starting from 10.0 till whatever
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Once you start thinking of the announced features as being rolled out in the course of the year, it’s fine.
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I think you are a bit late to the party. When Apple switched to *Intel* in 2005, their stated reason was perfo
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Except that this kind of battery life we are talking about here is not academic. E. g. when I (used to) freque
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You can of course run x86 Windows on ARM-based Macs, you just have to use Parallels. You just can’t boot int
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Why? The Air is still as fast as the others in single core workloads, and it has more energy-efficient cores.
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These are high-end machines. The MacBook Air is a cheaper alternative that still has plenty of power and very,
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Yeah, that’s what I said: the distinction is no longer integrated vs. discrete, but fast vs. slow. For a lon
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The distinction between integrated and discrete GPU is no longer important. In the past, integrated graphics w
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I beg to differ: battery life is something *every* user, including non-technical users feel. So the increased
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Yes, but most people don‘t get Amazon Prime for reasons unrelated to Amazon Prime‘s video library. Amazon
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Epic was only fighting for itself, not for anyone else and I am surprised anyone thought they were. Epic is a
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I’d be totally cool if Apple Pay was one of several different payment processors. But I think Apple’s insi
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They’re not. That’s what makes the suit itself a bit more interesting, but also the reason why we shouldn
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In what way is nVidia coming from behind? They arguably make the fastest GPUs and GPU processing cards, and ha
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Another issue is noise: my 16” MacBook Pro is unusably noise for when I want to record lectures. An M1-based
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Was there every any independent testing to confirm this? I'm not doubting nuvia's chip designers are good, but
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Transistor density is indeed an important metric, but not the only one. Two more that come to mind are yields
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There are several issues with that: most people are not aware what the ad industry can do and what it knows ab
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It’s choice: IMHO the search engine space needs innovation in the realm of business models. I have been usin
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Look at it from the other side: this just says that your data about your online and offline behavior is worth
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I like the idea of Microsoft revamping the UI — provided they are thorough. With the current version when yo
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You can connect >64 GB via HBM (i. e. the same way RAM is connected to the M1). nVidia is doing that for it
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The iPad is already replacing traditional computers in many applications, e. g. illustrations (relevant for my
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Why are you doubting what has been confirmed many times by independent benchmarks? Have a look at Anandtech’
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How so? Apple uses ARM’s IP, and it is quite likely that Apple will release ARM v9-compatible CPU cores befo
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I don’t think Microsoft’s APIs will matter in the grand scheme of things. Google has Flutter and Dart, App
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Relax, I was being facetious. (Not so much about the state of Android on tablets.)
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You and all 15 other people who bought one. As far as I can tell, Google isn’t even trying anymore to make A
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Another vote for the Apple Pencil. It is a big step up from the Surface, not least because modern iPad Pros ha
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This seems like a squandered opportunity. The narrow focus on music services means that we cannot really deriv
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Yes, customers in the EU got a dialog during installation asking them whether they wanted to download competin
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In reply to RobertJasiek:“Are there actions (especially when writing books) that simply do not work with tou
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In reply to RobertJasiek:“Could you briefly describe file transfer and copy&paste between iPad and Mac?
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In reply to RobertJasiek:“Proofreading is not an advantage of the iPad - a Windows (or theoretically Linux)
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In reply to RobertJasiek:I use my iPad Pro several hours a day for productivity tasks. E. g. I am currently wr
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In reply to cnc123:Apps on iPads are a whole different ball game than on Android tablets. It gets worse for An
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In reply to MikeCerm:I use Signal on iOS, and I like it precisely because of its user privacy-centric approach
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In reply to paul-thurrott:You criticized Apple for using iMessage as a way to pull users into its ecosystem. Y
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In reply to paul-thurrott:I agree that all services being interoperable would be better for us users. But the
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In reply to brduffy:All cross-platform frameworks produce mediocre apps. The more OSes they support, the lower
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In reply to RobertJasiek:Regarding the Finder, there is Apple’s Files, Dropbox and similar apps for Google D
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In reply to Prebengh:This is not correct. The M1-based MacBooks supports one external screen at resolutions of
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In reply to curtisspendlove:You’re right about Homebrew. I switched back to MacPorts, which seems to work be
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In reply to lvthunder:It is, but Teams, Zoom and the like are very inefficiently coded (with cross-platform AP
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In reply to curtisspendlove:The TL;DR is that at best Intel’s very fastest next-gen parts — mobile and des
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In reply to RobertJasiek:According to what Intel has released, Amberlake will still be missing plenty of piece
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In reply to wright_is:Qualcomm has had the same amount of time to do the same, perhaps longer than Apple. They
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In reply to sevenacids:Apple’s slowest ARM chips are beating the pants off of any Intel x86 chips in single
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In reply to lvthunder:Precisely. Google is smart enough to know that their best course of action is to keep th
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In reply to nbplopes:Sure, but in the end, that isn’t happening and won’t ever change voluntarily. I run a
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In reply to jdjan:Yup, and IMHO that worked very well. Most people don’t know what kind of processor they ha
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Regarding performance, your article is unnecessarily negative. There are benchmarks
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In reply to ghostrider:IMHO Apple phones are a good investment. I bought my iPhone 7 four years ago and I plan
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In reply to paul-thurrott:There is also a “real direct relation” between Android handset sales and Google
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Google is making the same ungodly margins with its ad sales. The money is not the pr
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In reply to wright_is:Although I think the story is way more complicated than that. Apple and Google make most
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In reply to HellcatM:Sorry, but it *is* Google's responsibility (I prefer responsibility over fault), bec
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In reply to paul-thurrott:Updates matter a great deal even if Google isn't adding any features — they c
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Android 11 does nothing to fix the most glaring problem of the platform: availability of updates. Android 11 w
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While I think Apple’s App Store should be regulated, I don’t get Facebook’s premise: AFAIK all of Facebo
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I was a bit disappointed by the knowledge gaps of both hosts on that topic. Apple can already cover their enti
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In reply to lvthunder:But we already do know. Server-class ARM Neoverse N1 Cores consume about 1 W per core at
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@pthurrotOverall, this is a reasonable take. But why do you have to claim that Apple was lying when it claimed
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I used to be on top of things when it came to the CPU market, and I have thoroughly given up on keeping track
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In reply to MikeGalos:Up until iOS 13/macOS Catalina/etc. most of Apple's file system drivers run in kern
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In reply to skane2600:Maybe you want to suggest that to him? ;-) (I totally agree with you, though.)
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In reply to Synoge:I'm extremely excited about the possibilities that foldable screens can offer. But giv
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In reply to skane2600:You are assuming that Intel will remain interested in the non-server CPU market, and tha
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In reply to skane2600:It is true that ARM servers don’t have the market share yet, but all major companies w
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In reply to skane2600:As long as Microsoft wants to continue with its Windows product line, it is smart at thi
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In reply to skane2600:Chrome books are extremely popular in the US education market — not least because of t
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In reply to skane2600:ARM is not a hype, modern ARM CPUs are besting Intel cpus in all market segments. They a
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In reply to jaunty:Explaining why something did not work out is not the same as giving Apple a free pass. I fi
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In reply to obarthelemy:Since Flutter is Fuchsia's native API, I don't think we can discuss the two
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In reply to skane2600:Agreed. I personally think that almost all cross platform apps are mediocre at best, but
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In reply to skane2600:Fuchsia is only half the story here: the API on top of it is inherently cross platform (
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In reply to RM:Don't let your disdain for Apple blind you. The problem is much bigger than Apple, because
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In reply to red.radar:Agreed, it will be interesting to see whether there is a general decision on double dipp
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In reply to Waethorn:My guess: patent issues. For example, Apple still apparently has a licensing agreement wi
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In reply to MikeGalos:The licensing fee was already paid for by the component manufacturer, and they don‘t h
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In reply to Andi:No, it has not been normal in the cellular world, because patents essential to cellular stand
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In reply to skane2600:Two wrongs don‘t make a right.
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In reply to skane2600:Yes, I agree, and in an ideal world, I would scrap the idea of patents. Patents nowadays
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In reply to MikeGalos:Apple has not lost the suit, but Qualcomm has received an injunction and Apple had to su
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In reply to skane2600:I don't think this is what is happening at all: Qorvo, the company that made the co
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In reply to skane2600:Compatibility is not nearly as important now as it was before. x86 and x86-64 have been
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In reply to skane2600:That’s a very, very narrow-minded point of view. Just to list a few professional use c
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In reply to skane2600:I don’t quite understand your point, and I am not even sure whether and where we disag
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In reply to obarthelemy:The difference has nothing to do with screen size and all about the UI paradigm. Of co
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In reply to obarthelemy:Legacy OSes will be with us for years and years and years, the only thing different wi
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In reply to skane2600:MS killed it because it never gained traction in the market. Its market share plummeted
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In reply to truerock2:But Microsoft's support of obsolete technologies is biting it in the rear end now.
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In reply to JG1170:I still read an undertone of “Apple is ripping off its customers”, and I don't thi
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In reply to NT6.1:Numbers are announced four times a year in their quarterly earnings.
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In reply to Chris_Kez:Why don't we wait for the next quarterly report instead? We have seen this exact sa
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In reply to JG1170:First of all, I'm a permanent resident in an Asian country, so I don't think my p
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In reply to JG1170:Building customer loyalty is hard, and the opposite of “living fast and burning bright”
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In reply to SupaPete:If you are a manufacturer of, say, toys, you don't get a say in where Toys'r�
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In reply to JG1170:Fundamentally, I think you just use the wrong measure of success, revenue and profits. What
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In reply to JG1170:I don't have the impression being the most valuable tech company is the goal of either
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In reply to SupaPete:What drove prices down was intense competition between app makers — which is the opposi
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In reply to JG1170:Well, then Apple and Oracle are also competing?!? I mean what is your point beyond trying t
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In reply to Stooks:Apple is in a position to offer both, touch-based and mouse-based computers, and as long as
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In reply to JG1170:There's always non-sense about Apple's best days being behind them, and even the
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In reply to Bob_Shutts:I think the argument would be that Apple should allow users to install apps from *any*
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I remember quite a few stories of “disappointing” iPhone sales, and so far none of them have turned out to
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I think Paul is focusing on the wrong CPU (and GPU) in his comparison: the MacBook Air is priced about the sam
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I think the discussion here is very myopic as it only centers around Intel CPUs. Once Apple unveiled what beas
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In reply to dontbe_evil:According to Anandtech's benchmarks, the current CPU in the iPhone “outperforms
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In reply to skane2600:I am not sure I understand what you are saying. These days no die is dedicated 100 % to
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In reply to skane2600:“As you state later in your comment, a lot of ARM chips integrate additional functions
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In reply to Stooks:Plenty ARM chips do. Apple's A11 has comparable IPC to Intel's Core CPUs, and the
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In reply to skane2600:TSMC has started 7 nm chip production in Q2 2017, i. e. a year ago. That is plenty of ti
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In reply to Stooks:It is not true that the chips of the others are “way less complex”. Apple's ARM co
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In reply to karma77police:The blanket statement that ARM “doesn’t know as much about CPU design as Intel a
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Paul, I think you dodged a bullet when you left winsupersite.com and created Thurrott.com. You are no longer p
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In reply to skane2600:Redesigning a custom interface definitely does add work for developers, so it wouldn
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In reply to skane2600:While I agree that the transition from ARM v7 to ARM v8 was much easier (Apple has much
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In reply to FalseAgent:Yes, Apple's SoCs are competitive with Intel's mobile CPUs. To give you an id
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In reply to Bill_Strong:You are right here: Apple could mess this up despite its successful history. But I thi
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In reply to skane2600:Apple's most recent three CPU architecture transitions (32 bit —> 64 bit ARM,
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In reply to Daekar:Apple had OS X run on x86 since at least 2001, and there have been consistent rumors about
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In reply to JG1170:I think there is harm in that: you’d make the touch-based OSes worse. Microsoft has tried
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In reply to skane2600:Ideally, we should start the discussion from which is better for students. And I agree t
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In reply to waclark57:Touch-based computers already have taken over the world. There are roughly 2 billion And
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In reply to JG1170:Android and iOS are real OSes, and for quite a few jobs, the world has already switched to
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In reply to JG1170:The generation that grows up with touch-based operating systems (e. g. because their first
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I don't think this is such a one-sided issue, because in principle both can be correct, the new MacBook Pros c