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Smartphones can be just as easily trivialized into being something which lets us "do the same things as before, but faster and with less plugs". I think it is
by shawnz 6y ago
Smartphones can be just as easily trivialized into being something which lets us "do the same things as before, but faster and with less plugs".
I think it is wrong to say there is a clear difference between these kind of changes. We won't really know how "revolutionary" M1 was until we see the landscape of the market in the future, but I think the simple fact of dropping x86 alone is enough to enable some major new ways of looking at desktop computing.
- wpietri 6y agoThey cannot in fact be that easily trivialized. You'd welcome to try, though if you think you can demonstrate the point. If you really believe that non-x86 laptops are what makes for a revolution, then the credit here doesn't belong to Apple. For example: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/6/21050758/lenovo-yoga-5g-snapdragon-qualcomm-8cx-x55-arm-windows-laptop-ces-2020 https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/6/21050758/lenovo-yoga-5g-sn... or: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/cnn-underscored/galaxy-book-s-review/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/09/cnn-underscored/galaxy-book-s... But personally, I'd say that those are an interesting step, but not particularly revolutionary.
- shawnz 6y agoThe credit doesn't really belong to Apple for big screen primarily-touch based communication devices either, except that they popularized them.
- wpietri 6y agoI think that's incorrect. As a user of a pre-iPhone smartphone, I don't think Apple should get credit for inventing the smartphone, but I do think the iPhone was revolutionary. They didn't just popularize it; they created a true consumer-grade device via relentless user-focused polish. It's the same deal with the original Mac, which was also revolutionary. But here, there's nothing radically different about M1 Macs that will open up vast new markets or notably change the daily lives of a purchaser.