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I think it was a very smart move of them to hedge for exactly this situation by introducing the A series chips (and to this end building the capabilities in-hou
by baxtr 8y ago
I think it was a very smart move of them to hedge for exactly this situation by introducing the A series chips (and to this end building the capabilities in-house). Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and we’ll probably never know a 100% if that was the core reason to do that, but if it was the case, it was brilliant.
- MBCook 8y agoI’m not sure that was the plan so much as their ruthless search for power efficiency and integration on the phone. But wow does it look like it will pay off.
- robdachshund 8y agoThe A series is just custom ARM. It's really nothing groundbreaking. They created ARM chips to power phones and tablets. The possibility of moving full computers to ARM was just a bonus, not some genius plan.
- baxtr 8y agoLike iOS is just custom NetBSD?
- toasterlovin 8y ago"Just". Apple's mobile CPUs are several years ahead of all the competition in terms of single core performance.
- macintux 8y agoEvery successful Apple innovation goes through the same phases. 1. Well that's stupid. Why would they do that? Nobody needs this. Within a few months... 2. Huh. This is actually really sweet. Nobody else has this technology. And then a few years pass... 3. It's really nothing groundbreaking.
- baxtr 8y agoExcept for the things Steve presented... they started at 2.