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This seems like a squandered opportunity. The narrow focus on music services means that we cannot really deriv

Yes, customers in the EU got a dialog during installation asking them whether they wanted to download competin

In reply to RobertJasiek:“Are there actions (especially when writing books) that simply do not work with tou

In reply to RobertJasiek:“Could you briefly describe file transfer and copy&paste between iPad and Mac?

In reply to RobertJasiek:“Proofreading is not an advantage of the iPad - a Windows (or theoretically Linux)

In reply to RobertJasiek:I use my iPad Pro several hours a day for productivity tasks. E. g. I am currently wr

In reply to cnc123:Apps on iPads are a whole different ball game than on Android tablets. It gets worse for An

In reply to MikeCerm:I use Signal on iOS, and I like it precisely because of its user privacy-centric approach

In reply to paul-thurrott:You criticized Apple for using iMessage as a way to pull users into its ecosystem. Y

In reply to paul-thurrott:I agree that all services being interoperable would be better for us users. But the

In reply to brduffy:All cross-platform frameworks produce mediocre apps. The more OSes they support, the lower

In reply to RobertJasiek:Regarding the Finder, there is Apple’s Files, Dropbox and similar apps for Google D

In reply to Prebengh:This is not correct. The M1-based MacBooks supports one external screen at resolutions of

In reply to curtisspendlove:You’re right about Homebrew. I switched back to MacPorts, which seems to work be

In reply to lvthunder:It is, but Teams, Zoom and the like are very inefficiently coded (with cross-platform AP

In reply to curtisspendlove:The TL;DR is that at best Intel’s very fastest next-gen parts — mobile and des

In reply to RobertJasiek:According to what Intel has released, Amberlake will still be missing plenty of piece

In reply to wright_is:Qualcomm has had the same amount of time to do the same, perhaps longer than Apple. They

In reply to sevenacids:Apple’s slowest ARM chips are beating the pants off of any Intel x86 chips in single

In reply to lvthunder:Precisely. Google is smart enough to know that their best course of action is to keep th

In reply to nbplopes:Sure, but in the end, that isn’t happening and won’t ever change voluntarily. I run a

In reply to jdjan:Yup, and IMHO that worked very well. Most people don’t know what kind of processor they ha

In reply to paul-thurrott:Regarding performance, your article is unnecessarily negative. There are benchmarks

In reply to ghostrider:IMHO Apple phones are a good investment. I bought my iPhone 7 four years ago and I plan

In reply to paul-thurrott:There is also a “real direct relation” between Android handset sales and Google�

In reply to paul-thurrott:Google is making the same ungodly margins with its ad sales. The money is not the pr

In reply to wright_is:Although I think the story is way more complicated than that. Apple and Google make most

In reply to HellcatM:Sorry, but it *is* Google's responsibility (I prefer responsibility over fault), bec

In reply to paul-thurrott:Updates matter a great deal even if Google isn't adding any features — they c

Android 11 does nothing to fix the most glaring problem of the platform: availability of updates. Android 11 w

While I think Apple’s App Store should be regulated, I don’t get Facebook’s premise: AFAIK all of Facebo

I was a bit disappointed by the knowledge gaps of both hosts on that topic. Apple can already cover their enti

In reply to lvthunder:But we already do know. Server-class ARM Neoverse N1 Cores consume about 1 W per core at

@pthurrotOverall, this is a reasonable take. But why do you have to claim that Apple was lying when it claimed

I used to be on top of things when it came to the CPU market, and I have thoroughly given up on keeping track

In reply to MikeGalos:Up until iOS 13/macOS Catalina/etc. most of Apple's file system drivers run in kern

In reply to skane2600:Maybe you want to suggest that to him? ;-) (I totally agree with you, though.)

In reply to Synoge:I'm extremely excited about the possibilities that foldable screens can offer. But giv

In reply to skane2600:You are assuming that Intel will remain interested in the non-server CPU market, and tha

In reply to skane2600:It is true that ARM servers don’t have the market share yet, but all major companies w

In reply to skane2600:As long as Microsoft wants to continue with its Windows product line, it is smart at thi

In reply to skane2600:Chrome books are extremely popular in the US education market — not least because of t

In reply to skane2600:ARM is not a hype, modern ARM CPUs are besting Intel cpus in all market segments. They a

In reply to jaunty:Explaining why something did not work out is not the same as giving Apple a free pass. I fi

In reply to obarthelemy:Since Flutter is Fuchsia's native API, I don't think we can discuss the two

In reply to skane2600:Agreed. I personally think that almost all cross platform apps are mediocre at best, but

In reply to skane2600:Fuchsia is only half the story here: the API on top of it is inherently cross platform (

In reply to RM:Don't let your disdain for Apple blind you. The problem is much bigger than Apple, because

In reply to red.radar:Agreed, it will be interesting to see whether there is a general decision on double dipp

In reply to Waethorn:My guess: patent issues. For example, Apple still apparently has a licensing agreement wi

In reply to MikeGalos:The licensing fee was already paid for by the component manufacturer, and they don‘t h

In reply to Andi:No, it has not been normal in the cellular world, because patents essential to cellular stand

In reply to skane2600:Two wrongs don‘t make a right.

In reply to skane2600:Yes, I agree, and in an ideal world, I would scrap the idea of patents. Patents nowadays

In reply to MikeGalos:Apple has not lost the suit, but Qualcomm has received an injunction and Apple had to su

In reply to skane2600:I don't think this is what is happening at all: Qorvo, the company that made the co

In reply to skane2600:Compatibility is not nearly as important now as it was before. x86 and x86-64 have been

In reply to skane2600:That’s a very, very narrow-minded point of view. Just to list a few professional use c

In reply to skane2600:I don’t quite understand your point, and I am not even sure whether and where we disag

In reply to obarthelemy:The difference has nothing to do with screen size and all about the UI paradigm. Of co

In reply to obarthelemy:Legacy OSes will be with us for years and years and years, the only thing different wi

In reply to skane2600:MS killed it because it never gained traction in the market. Its market share plummeted

In reply to truerock2:But Microsoft's support of obsolete technologies is biting it in the rear end now.

In reply to JG1170:I still read an undertone of “Apple is ripping off its customers”, and I don't thi

In reply to NT6.1:Numbers are announced four times a year in their quarterly earnings.

In reply to Chris_Kez:Why don't we wait for the next quarterly report instead? We have seen this exact sa

In reply to JG1170:First of all, I'm a permanent resident in an Asian country, so I don't think my p

In reply to JG1170:Building customer loyalty is hard, and the opposite of “living fast and burning bright”

In reply to SupaPete:If you are a manufacturer of, say, toys, you don't get a say in where Toys'r�

In reply to JG1170:Fundamentally, I think you just use the wrong measure of success, revenue and profits. What

In reply to JG1170:I don't have the impression being the most valuable tech company is the goal of either

In reply to SupaPete:What drove prices down was intense competition between app makers — which is the opposi

In reply to JG1170:Well, then Apple and Oracle are also competing?!? I mean what is your point beyond trying t

In reply to Stooks:Apple is in a position to offer both, touch-based and mouse-based computers, and as long as

In reply to JG1170:There's always non-sense about Apple's best days being behind them, and even the

In reply to Bob_Shutts:I think the argument would be that Apple should allow users to install apps from *any*

I remember quite a few stories of “disappointing” iPhone sales, and so far none of them have turned out to

I think Paul is focusing on the wrong CPU (and GPU) in his comparison: the MacBook Air is priced about the sam

I think the discussion here is very myopic as it only centers around Intel CPUs. Once Apple unveiled what beas

In reply to dontbe_evil:According to Anandtech's benchmarks, the current CPU in the iPhone “outperforms

In reply to skane2600:I am not sure I understand what you are saying. These days no die is dedicated 100 % to

In reply to skane2600:“As you state later in your comment, a lot of ARM chips integrate additional functions

In reply to Stooks:Plenty ARM chips do. Apple's A11 has comparable IPC to Intel's Core CPUs, and the

In reply to skane2600:TSMC has started 7 nm chip production in Q2 2017, i. e. a year ago. That is plenty of ti

In reply to Stooks:It is not true that the chips of the others are “way less complex”. Apple's ARM co

In reply to karma77police:The blanket statement that ARM “doesn’t know as much about CPU design as Intel a

Paul, I think you dodged a bullet when you left winsupersite.com and created Thurrott.com. You are no longer p

In reply to skane2600:Redesigning a custom interface definitely does add work for developers, so it wouldn

In reply to skane2600:While I agree that the transition from ARM v7 to ARM v8 was much easier (Apple has much

In reply to FalseAgent:Yes, Apple's SoCs are competitive with Intel's mobile CPUs. To give you an id

In reply to Bill_Strong:You are right here: Apple could mess this up despite its successful history. But I thi

In reply to skane2600:Apple's most recent three CPU architecture transitions (32 bit —> 64 bit ARM,

In reply to Daekar:Apple had OS X run on x86 since at least 2001, and there have been consistent rumors about

In reply to JG1170:I think there is harm in that: you’d make the touch-based OSes worse. Microsoft has tried

In reply to skane2600:Ideally, we should start the discussion from which is better for students. And I agree t

In reply to waclark57:Touch-based computers already have taken over the world. There are roughly 2 billion And

In reply to JG1170:Android and iOS are real OSes, and for quite a few jobs, the world has already switched to

In reply to JG1170:The generation that grows up with touch-based operating systems (e. g. because their first

I don't think this is such a one-sided issue, because in principle both can be correct, the new MacBook Pros c