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by npunt 7y ago
That's not my takeaway - I think they just critically mistimed the idea and didn't have much business sense to realize it. Even if their experience was bs-free and they were extremely well capitalized, they wouldn't have succ
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by npunt 7y ago
> "We could have had the iPhone 10 years earlier, at least." The fate of prototype techs is almost always to be remembered with these kind of wistful statements about how they could have been [market leader] except for [reasons
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by npunt 7y ago
They started an app store? They're in entirely the wrong market position for such an endeavor, they don't own end user relationships or have any software platform to leverage, let alone software expertise. In fact would have likel
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by npunt 7y ago
Agree, those are the longer term efficiencies when we have primarily / only autonomous vehicles on the road. At that point we can optimize from the system POV not just from the vehicle POV. But that's a ways off.
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by npunt 7y ago
On the other hand, Lyft Line and Uber Pool seem quite efficient. Supershuttle was concentrated pickup but distributed dropoff, whereas with network effects leading to more vehicles & considerably more efficient routing, you can even tha
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by npunt 7y ago
You're right, not the only thing, but I do think it is by far the primary. Efficiency-wise a large diesel vis-a-vis traditional car yes the bus wins by a lot, but with smaller multi-person autonomous electric busses I'm not sure i
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by npunt 7y ago
I appreciate that argument and in some/many situations it is likely true, but in others it is not. What matters isn't people per square foot, it's throughput. And the larger the vehicle, the more likely: a) people are to want
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by npunt 7y ago
The only reason busses are the size they are is the labor cost of the driver only makes sense with many, many passengers. When that is eliminated, the equation changes. Even if these weren't point-to-point, smaller vehicles can a) serv
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by npunt 7y ago
This raises some interesting points about social dynamics that emerge in creation-oriented engines like Minecraft/Roblox based on how their different business models work. Roblox sounds like a place where a sort of creative hustle unde
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by npunt 7y ago
The sum of many details that stir emotion is a whole that is emotionally compelling. If cars (or any consumer product) are purchased emotionally, and this feature is perceived as cool and futuristic, surely this will incrementally add to un
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by npunt 7y ago
Maybe that just means that we need to design more beautiful cities that better integrate art and nature, rather than the facsimile of it by way of advertising and sensory overload. These ads are the city equivalent of restaurants/pubs
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by npunt 7y ago
Yes I snapped mine within an hour after delivery. It may have been too tightly tensed (tho I did check with the app and it was fine), or it may have experienced stress during shipment. Whatever the case, did not instill confidence. Never ro
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by npunt 7y ago
The nature of conspiracy theories like these is they draw false connections between things that are often true, in order to make larger false claims. That means sometimes they raise the profile of true things, but that's just a side ef
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by npunt 7y ago
There are tons of hand dryers in hospitals. Completely self-defeating, facepalm-worthy infrastructure.
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by npunt 7y ago
Agree that they'll have devs submit ARM builds and all that. fwiw, the reason I think the co-processor idea is likely is that Apple has recently re-committed to the Mac and specifically some niche use cases therein (thus they can'
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by npunt 7y ago
See my comment on another part of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20292762 1. MacOS and iPad are similar, but distinct user experiences. Its more than hardware (one with keyboard, one without), its about t
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by npunt 7y ago
This is roughly my hypothesis, except they'd be separate CPUs and AMD wouldn't be involved. Due to the markets Apple is in with Mac, they can't just stop using Intel altogether - they need both x86 and ARM to coexist. How it&
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by npunt 7y ago
In everything from technology to culture to aging, Japan seems to be a portent for things yet to happen in the west. We tend to view suburbs as these static places that serve a particular purpose for primarily families and where nothing cha
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by npunt 7y ago
It's not at all expensive for what it is. It's just far higher specs than most here would find useful, which is the real disconnect. Others in this thread are wondering what the realistic difference between 4K and 5K is or talking
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by npunt 7y ago
> So MacOS which I imagine to be a more polished Linux That is... an understatement.
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by npunt 7y ago
Z8s can be configured >$100k. Also those have fewer usable PCIe slots. Dollar for dollar I'm not sure the HP or Dell workstations are much cheaper than the Mac Pro if at all. They seem like just a different spin on some standard Int
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by npunt 7y ago
Correct, that's just the max draw it can handle. Most configurations will probably draw no more than ~500-600w.
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by npunt 7y ago
According to Mixpanel, the 5S / 6 / 6 Plus together account for a bit less than 10% of iOS devices they see. So it's not as big of a drop as one might expect. https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ipho
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by npunt 7y ago
Take Geekbench for what it's worth, but the absolute fastest of the old cheesegrater Mac Pro's (dual 6core X5675) are just 56% the speed of a A12X single-core, and only about 40% faster multi-core. The next iPad Pro's A13X wi
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by npunt 7y ago
That's cool, it's not for you. I don't think they've ever suggested it as a laptop replacement for everyone - just general consumers.
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by npunt 7y ago
This article is a good read, adding a lot of context to my understanding of the Qualcomm/Apple spat and it's merits. You can see in the history there were several potential market opportunities that companies were unable to act on
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by npunt 7y ago
Microsoft had a 90%+ market share in computer operating systems, aka a monopoly. So there's that.
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by npunt 7y ago
ML & better imaging algorithms should help a lot. Times could be reduced from 45min to 15min [1]. Scanning a beating heart can be reduced from 4min+ to 25sec [2]. Also ML can aid in comparing past images to current ones [3], which would
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by npunt 7y ago
This kind of perception fixed in time is why eBay prices on vintage computers are so expensive. I feel it too, and own many vintage Macs because of it.
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by npunt 8y ago
Wifi/bluetooth chip is entirely different from the cell modem and on the iPhone X isn't made by Intel. See: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+X+Teardown/98975

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