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by dagmx 2y ago
Announcement video as well https://youtu.be/G0cmfY7qdmY?si=vbgIr8zn9EzB2Xam
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by dagmx 2y ago
The irony is that forward P/E is more similar to reading the tea leaves in your cup: it’s speculation.
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Apple have a range of ads to appeal to a range of people. Even back then they had the Mac vs PC or a variety of other ads too that weren’t “cool” but were funny. Tongue in cheek ads have been in their DNA since forever. Take for example the
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by dagmx 2y ago
This article is a prime example of why tech literate people aren’t inherently strong marketers for tech. What does the Ubuntu ad say to the user? How does it capture someone’s attention? None of the ad tells me why this is something worth p
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by dagmx 2y ago
You can mill them off and replace them with supported nands. People have videos on YouTube but it’s not very accessible to do. The issue is that Apple moved the storage controllers into their SOC. So they use raw nand chips, and you need to
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by dagmx 2y ago
They have better battery life and in some cases can come out ahead of Apple. But battery life alone isn’t a full story. You have to consider performance off the charger, and the percentage of compatible apps. Apple still pull ahead there.
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From earlier this year in fact https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2024/03/apples-restore-fun...
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iMac has active cooling, more ports and more power available to it to drive those ports (though the PSU is external, it’s still gotta have the internal circuitry to deliver that). Those all do have to go somewhere.
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You have a higher tier M2. This is the base M4. The comparison is apples to oranges.
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They actually had the majority of their patents invalidated during the legal process. The one patent they have remaining (that is what Apple are dealing with) is on a very particular sensor configuration not the concept or technology in gen
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The CEO has resigned as of a month ago (or forced out rather) The primary investors seem quite upset with his handling of this. Rumours are that he was hostile to a buyout but in his lawsuit has also invalidated a lot of their own patents.
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There’s two parts to it. Microsoft claims they need kernel level access to implement their paid for security product ( Windows defender while free for home use is not free for enterprise ) If they firmly believe that, then they cannot block
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by dagmx 2y ago
It’s definitely more vulnerable than macOS since macOS has more encompassing system protection (SIP), kernel extensions have been moved to user space (DriverKit and FSKit), and pervasive sandboxing.
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I wish more folks would acknowledge that it’s JPEG XL in a DNG. It is no more useful as a JPEG Xl than the previous DNG standard was as a JPEG. Instead I always see tons of articles about how this will help its case on the web. This one doe
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by dagmx 2y ago
But that’s precisely it. You don’t switch at home for games, others don’t for other compatibility reasons either. I’m not specifically talking about games but the whole user experience. That’s not a knock against Linux. It’s great but it’s
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by dagmx 2y ago
With all due respect, nobody but you cares that you had fun doing it, and nor should they. Nobody is saying you can't. Literally, it's not even part of the discussion. None of that is relevant to the discussion point at hand which
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by dagmx 2y ago
The win is ideological not focused on pragmatism imho. Which is fair, but imho one should be honest with themselves if that’s where they’re coming from. If I can use that premise , then all the incongruity makes much more sense.
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And in this long rant, you basically just did every single thing that I mentioned. You focused on the academic and niche use cases to try and counter an argument about standard user use cases. Something Linux hasn’t solved precisely because
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by dagmx 2y ago
ARM want to raise the royalties for the cores designed by Nuvia, whose IP has now permeated all of Qualcomms IP. Again, your comments are pure conjecture not based on anything factual. I might as well just start saying how QC wants to rip o
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by dagmx 2y ago
I very much agree with you, and I think you’ll hit the hornets nest on this one unfortunately. I’m all for more architectures but RISC-V has an absurd fandom behind it now. It feels like the fandom behind Linux on the home desktop or Vulkan
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You linked to the authors own comment fwiw
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I think it’s almost certain that Microsoft will not be changing their kernel to Linux. I think you’re over estimating what percentage of users use WSL. They’re an insignificant fraction of the user base. And with games, I think you’re also
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by dagmx 2y ago
The incumbent is not just x86 but now ARM as well. You have to think in network effects. You mention “the rest of the industry” yet ignore that it’s mostly arm , which would make arm the incumbent. x86 is the king for windows. But ARM has m
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by dagmx 2y ago
There’s a LOT of conjecture in your comment. Your very first line is one to begin with. ARM also doesn’t seem to care if QC design their own cores. They just care that they renegotiate the royalty agreement. This is clear if you actually re
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The first list is basically what I said: they use licensed core designs and don’t make their own. The second list is out of date. Intel has completely pulled out of ARM earlier this year and most of the others do not actually design their o
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They’re only losing their license to make custom cores. They’re still free to use ARMs own cores. The reason being that ARM gave Nuvia a license to design cores at a specific rate, then Qualcomm bought them to use those cores. ARM claims th
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by dagmx 2y ago
I think you just ignored the rest of my comment though which specifically addresses why I don’t think just relying on translation is an effective strategy. Users aren’t going to switch to a platform that has lower compatibility when the inc
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by dagmx 2y ago
Fair, though I don’t think translation is a good long term strategy. You need native apps otherwise you’re always dealing with a ~20-30% disadvantage. The competition isn’t sitting still either and QC already hit this with Intel stealing th
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ARM licenses cores for both CPU and GPU, not just the architecture. There are not “plenty of ARM chips designed by multiple companies”, almost all of them except for Apple (and now Qualcomm) use ARMs off the shelf design.
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How do you imagine ARM having helped?

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