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Revenue up 54%, $89B in Q2. M1 macs are a hit. Services are a hit. It's remarkable to see the success that AMD and Apple are having without Intel.
by InTheArena 5y ago
Revenue up 54%, $89B in Q2. M1 macs are a hit. Services are a hit.
It's remarkable to see the success that AMD and Apple are having without Intel.
- 1cvmask 5y agoThe macs are unfortunately still a sideshow compared to iOS devices (written on an iPad now).
- faitswulff 5y agoAll related - iOS has never run on Intel.
- ant6n 5y agoIn the emulator, err, simulator it does, doesn’t it?
- qeternity 5y agoOnly because the dev hardware ran x86. Now with M1, you won’t need to.
- philistine 5y agoWhat's most important is not how the apps are developed, but what the hardware runs on.
- busymom0 5y agoiOS apps do run on Intel using catalyst. I recently ported over my hacker news client from iOS to MacOS and it works well on catalyst with small changes to handle right click and toolbar color etc. I was legit pleased to see how easy it was to get it working.
- twobitshifter 5y agoI’ve been considering dropping Spotify for the “Apple One” plan, looks like I’m not the only one from that huge jump in services.
- vmception 5y agoI really questions people's decision making process when I see them on Apple Music or Apple Maps I'm not the only one
- epistasis 5y agoI've had terrible terrible experiences with Apple Music, and there are far better options out there. But the alternative for Maps is Google, and the last thing I want to do is give them a bead on my current location and all the places I want to go and explore. With Google's ownership of so much information, I think anybody avoiding Google Maps is very well justified.
- vmception 5y agoThe point is to be navigated to the correct location. Just as recently as December in Los Angeles, an address on the beach sent a skin starved date to an alleyway 10 minutes inland that she was totally cool with being in, and I had to tell her to Apple Maps likely did that, whereas Google Maps matched my much more romantic location. Could the opposite happen? I guess. Does it though?
- epistasis 5y agoThats never been my experience, but I really only have my own to go on. However, in the early days of Google Maps, when MapQuest was still around and before cars had in-dash navigation, Google Maps did give me bad directions for driving, that I had printed out, and made me late. I still ended up using Google Maps, and they got better. I will still use Google Maps to discover biking routes in unfamiliar areas, so I do give up my location to them occasionally, but in my experience that's the only edge that Google Maps has these days.
- loloquwowndueo 5y agoSorry, I doubt AMD would be where they are now had they not been a second source for Intel’s x86 chips, that’s what really bootstrapped them.
- lurkerasdfh8 5y agoM1 is meaningless. To 99% of their market it is just a new vague number to justify an upgrade (like ram sizes, 3/4/5G, etc). What is masterful is how they redirected the desirable-number-du-jour to be something that is both 1) proprietary and 2) not cutting into their service revenue (e.g. larger storage = less people shelling out for cloud storage)
- valine 5y agoThe M1 is far from meaningless. Apple's new MacBook Air is by far the best laptop I've ever used. It has fantastic battery life, stays cool without a fan, and competes with the Intel i9 in terms of performance.
- lurkerasdfh8 5y agoYou are literally repeating the same marketing/self-justification that everyone said for every new Air model. Don't take my word, look it up. Around launch date, everyone in the universe will post "new MacBook Air is by far the best laptop I've ever used. It has fantastic battery life". Then the same model 6-12mo later "I loved the thinness, but now it's being too slow for X so I might get a macbook"
- valine 5y agoApple had never release a MacBook Air that's faster than the previous top of the line MacBook Pro. This is a first. The air has had great battery for a while that's true, but now it has great battery and great performance.
- TheRealSteel 5y agoI find it very interesting that due to the existence of the Emoji Bar, and the lower performance and worse battery life due to Apple Silicon, the MacBook Air is now a far more Pro machine than the 15 inch MacBook Pro.
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