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It’s coming full circle. The period when one company made a processor, a second made an OS, and a third made a compiler looks like it’s ending. Controlling eve
by alkonaut 6y ago
It’s coming full circle. The period when one company made a processor, a second made an OS, and a third made a compiler looks like it’s ending.
Controlling everything from start to finish like Apple with swift, m1, MacOS can give you a several percent advantage just because of the synergies you can take advantage of.
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y ago> Controlling everything from start to finish like Apple with swift, m1, MacOS can give you a several percent advantage just because of the synergies you can take advantage of. That's definitely true. Nevertheless, while Apple controls the whole chain for the iPhone, iPhones are not the most popular smartphones in the world. Depending on their use case, rational customers will buy not the best/most optimized, but the one that fits their needs at the lowest price.
- bmitc 6y agoUnless one listens to Apple’s marketing, Apple is not necessarily the best and most optimized. In my experience, iPhone’s always feel outdated. They’re often slower, clunkier in their user experience, heavier, and thicker.
- chokeartist 6y agoI completely agree with your statement with regard to the advantage but I will actually multiply the value, it isn't a few percentage points, it is an order of magnitude in my opinion. While I am happy to see movement in the chip/hw/sw stack ecosystem, I do have some concern. Will everyone just end up selling their own locked-the-hell-down, err, sorry... :) "Secure Boot"-enabled devices? I see the reasons for these things happening, but I do hope we don't end up inadvertently locking out critical sections of the stack from end users.
- pjmlp 6y agoThe PC was the outlier, a serendipity created due Compaq's cleverness, that is all.