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> I'm worried that they may have played their trump cards already, so to speak. I'm not. Let them all scramble and pull out the big guns to try to compete. T

> I'm worried that they may have played their trump cards already, so to speak. I'm not. Let them all scramble and pull out the big guns to try to compete. That's capitalism at it's finest, which isn't exactly what we've been seeing in the CPU space for the prior decades. We got lucky that AMD caught Intel with their pants down recently (if only because it strengthens AMD and makes them a better competitor), but a duopoly isn't necessarily what I would consider a good market condition for progress (as we've seen with iOS vs Android). Lots of different experiments with feedback from people on what they find good would be much preferable, and while a constrained CPU such as Apple's isn't perfect, it does represent more choice and pressure on other players to evolve in ways they may have been resistant to previously. > And maybe they have a behind the scenes collab with Slack and select other app makers so that they can be a part of the "Marathon" program too. RIP the general purpose computer. :(

JohnBooty 5y ago
> And maybe they have a behind the scenes collab with > Slack and select other app makers so that they can > be a part of the "Marathon" program too. RIP the general purpose computer. :( Haha. I was truly truly not thinking along any such lines. Since heterogenuous cores are now a mainstream thing, with a mixture of full-throttle and performance-minded cores on a single die, and the performance cores may be hitting a wall until we get to smaller processes, perhaps the next frontier could be efficiency. Remember how some software proudly displayed those "optimized for MMX" or "optimized for 3DNow!" badges back in the day? What if there was something like that for apps that optimized for those efficiency cores, and what if the efficiency cores met them halfway by implementing some app-friendly stuff in hardware? Sort of like how some common Javascript string ops have dedicated CPU hardware dedicated to them now. Anyway, yeah. I'm probably just re-inventing CISC all over again, badly.

JohnBooty 5y ago

> And maybe they have a behind the scenes collab with > Slack and select other app makers so that they can > be a part of the "Marathon" program too. RIP the general purpose computer. :( Haha. I was truly truly not thinking along any such lines. Since heterogenuous cores are now a mainstream thing, with a mixture of full-throttle and performance-minded cores on a single die, and the performance cores may be hitting a wall until we get to smaller processes, perhaps the next frontier could be efficiency. Remember how some software proudly displayed those "optimized for MMX" or "optimized for 3DNow!" badges back in the day? What if there was something like that for apps that optimized for those efficiency cores, and what if the efficiency cores met them halfway by implementing some app-friendly stuff in hardware? Sort of like how some common Javascript string ops have dedicated CPU hardware dedicated to them now. Anyway, yeah. I'm probably just re-inventing CISC all over again, badly.