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by xw39011 3y ago
There is no cash cost to the device. If you're accepted to the program, the deal is you agree to report any vulnerability found to Apple first in exchange for 12 month access to a research device and automatic consideration for the bug
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by xw39011 3y ago
> every ARM vendor other than Apple has failed to move the needle on ARM performance since 2017 You must mean, performance relative to Intel, not absolute performance. Clearly Qualcomm has improved Snapdragon over time as have a number
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by xw39011 3y ago
What company doing VLSI, with more than say 500 employees, doesn't have some kind of presence in Israel? That's got to be a short list.
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by xw39011 3y ago
The thing is, when one has a user base the size of Apple's what "feels" right actually covers a very large range of possibilities. Even when Apple "excels" and covers most of that range, there's still a ton of
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by xw39011 3y ago
> The second difference is that the iPhone foretold how people were going to use phones in the future. I don't know if I buy that. Watch the original iPhone announcement. Steve spent most of the time talking about what a great pho
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by xw39011 3y ago
On the other hand, row fast or you fall down virtual Niagara falls sounds like an entertaining game and might make the rowing interesting... to me anyway.
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by xw39011 3y ago
Tech optimism of the late 90s was a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_utopianism We were going to solve all the world's problems with file sharing via the internet. (Oh, to be young again...) Tech