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It's not that surprising. Have you ever been in a meeting with members from multiple companies? You can hear a pin drop, they are all afraid of spilling secre
by foobarian 4y ago
It's not that surprising. Have you ever been in a meeting with members from multiple companies? You can hear a pin drop, they are all afraid of spilling secrets or just deferring to management (which is usually also in the room since those tend to be high profile meetings). The only way to get this done is to do it in-house like Apple does. I think MS has sincerely pushed on this with the Surfaces but I don't think they control enough of the vertical below chipset level to match Apple.
Basically Intel and MS would have to merge and on a deep cultural level. That's what Apple has.
- ubermonkey 4y agoThe "we own the hardware and software" is a HUGE HUGE HUGE advantage for Apple. I don't know how you get to the battery life and basic stability levels of a Mac without that integration.
- Kirby64 4y agoIt's a similar situation to Android vs. iPhones in terms of device integration. Although iPhones don't really get much better battery life than the best Android devices around, if you compare battery life/perf to the battery size, the amount of battery life they extract out of (comparably) small batteries is extraordinary. The biggest/best Samsung phone is 5000mAh, whereas the biggest/best iPhone is 4300mAh. You just throw away efficiency at a system level when you design a phone based on another company's design (i.e., Qualcomm, usually, for Samsung). Qualcomm doesn't have appropriate incentives to make a device as integrated/efficient as Samsung/Apple do.