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by rickdeckard 2y ago
What is often overlooked on this topic is, that ARM also has a duty to protect its ecosystem. By using its dominant position in Smartphone chipsets, Qualcomm is in progress to establish a custom ARM-architecture as the new standard for seve
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
No need to elaborate on that, as mentioned you made a very reasonable statement. Congrats on coming to a conclusion based on facts rather than brand-image. Rivian seems to have produced a good car, especially considering the young age of th
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
It doesn't change the meaning. The fact that Tesla generally delivered on spec but not on price is exactly what I was commenting on. It's not a quality, it's still bad management. Especially if you consider that they may ha
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
> I'm pretty sure I'm never going back to Tesla if Rivian and other auto companies deliver better value and quality EVs Which is a very sober and reasonable statement. If other companies deliver better value and quality, the on
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
> Tesla has missed on pricing with new vehicle programs before, > But when it comes to specs, Tesla has generally delivered on its promises. That's an easy cop-out. If in good-faith, it just means that Tesla knows how to build th
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
So no Apps. Also no iTunes, Apple Music, Apple Messages, Apple Pay, Apple Fitness, any kind of native Mac integration (Safari Bookmark sharing, Shared Bluetooth devices, clipboard sharing, Continuity Camera, AirPlay,...)? No Apple Wireless
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
As of today, there is no player in the Smartphone space who has even remotely the amount of secured income to come up with a similarly volume-scaled device, and there is little incentive for anyone to enter this space. A new entrant would b
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
> There's also webOS, which was originally funded by Palm and doesn't seem to have any open source development any longer, After a short stint at HP, webOS is now owned by LG, they use it as the OS for their Home Entertainment
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
> Perhaps he did it because heat gun would have impacted other parts of the PCB Most of all the components on the other side of the PCB. Even if the NAND was not additionally covered in resin, due to the large amount of contacts (and p
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
Great description on what happens especially in scaled organizations, where sprints/iterations are supposed to be in-sync across departments (so you can align interdisciplinary tasks etc.). In most cases I've seen, it basically in
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
I don't know which process you follow, but while sprints are created in collaboration, in mid/large organizations everything is supposed to be in-sync across departments (so you can align interdisciplinary tasks). In most cases I&
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
No need to feel sorry. I never had a NES, I was actually thinking of Super Mario Land on GameBoy when I wrote this, but ultimately wrote it a bit more generic... I do however have a vivid memory of LucasArts' Indiana Jones and the Last
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
Yes. But modern games also evolved to appeal to people who don't like to be challenged and look for a casual rewarding experience. It becomes quite obvious when you play a game of the early 90s and compare it to gameplay of today. If y
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
Agree. But the company also pays a large chunk of its services R&D and operations by bundling it with the hardware and have people pay upfront for it. New hardware would not be needed for most of it, but then Apple would have to make ev
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
No doubt: If tombstones would move around in public, they would be branded for decades already... "I branded his stone with Pepsi, because he always drank Pepsi..."
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
> The first time Angel Giuffria saw the logo on her bionic hand, she felt a sense of pride. [..] > But the more she stared at the brand’s orange-and-black logo slapped across the top of the hand [..] > Not everyone minds the brandi
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
And Apple only decided to own its chip design-capabilities after the iPhone became a smashhit and Steve Jobs felt betrayed because Samsung used the same ARM CPU-architecture to build the first Galaxy S Smartphone... It's anyway a big c
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
There's no reason for other customers to strangle Intel or move (again) to TI OMAP platform when they find that Apple as a new entrant in their market got favorable terms from one of their suppliers... In 2006, Intel has just won back
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
That's not what I'm saying. They developed the next generation iPod on the next generation of their iPod CPU supplier platform. And then they added a modem and made it a phone. They literally utilized their existing iPod supply ch
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
Which was already the case at that time, with Blackberry, Palm and HTC dominating that market using Intel XScale. Intel tried to corner that market by deviating from ARM with their custom MMX architecture. It worked with Windows PocketPC as
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
yeah, but according to the article it wasn't even clear at that point that it's a phone project. It was too early to even make such predicitions. At that time, it could as well have been Apple's attempt to a build an Apple TV
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
> Even to me, a nobody, had guessed at the iphone rumor, before the magically reveal, that it will be become Apple's main product, way surpassing even the ipod. At the time of discussion with Intel, it was not an explicit phone proj
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
Apple used a newer generation of Samsung's CPU used in the iPod to develop both the iPod Touch as well as the iPhone, both introduced in 2007. That's also a reason why the iPhone was not designed around a more power-efficient SoC
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
In 2006, Intel supplied their XScale design to Palm for the Treo 700, to Blackberry for the Pearl and Curve AND to HTC for use in the XDA/MDA Windows Mobile line, in 2006 arguably the much bigger wins as all those were established cons
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
In 2006, Intel supplied their XScale design to Palm for the Treo 700, to Blackberry for the Pearl and Curve AND to HTC for use in the XDA/MDA Windows Mobile line, in 2006 arguably the much bigger wins as all those were established cons
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
> Thirdly, the success of an Apple phone would not have been hard to predict. In 2006 Apple sold nearly 40 million iPods. I don't like how this whole article is framed as how obvious it was that Intel made a huge mistake. Hindsight
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
> Musk is, if nothing, the old school fail fast valley type. Fix it and do it again. Iterate. He is moreover the type who is not willing to face responsibility for damage his failures caused. A strategy which is not matching well with th
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
For a "remaster" I would have liked to see them officially integrate the Voxel Doom mod [1], as it's a really impressive and respectful addition while keeping the original look of the game. The mod is an incredible achievemen
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
> Arm hasn't granted anyone else the ability to make significantly modified chips for multiple platforms, Of course they have. Many of the licenses are TLA (Technology License Agreements) but ARM has also made ALA (Architect
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by rickdeckard 2y ago
Seems like I read this article different than many others here... I didn't read it as "Apple is the problem because they are evil" , but as "Apple is the problem because they reached a critical scale in this industry&q

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