Posts by THT

Quote: Originally Posted by KDarling  I think that's pretty darned close, although you're missing $100 on the BOM   Ouch. My quick mental math was quite meandering there. I'd put the not accounted for $100...

Quote: Originally Posted by KDarling  I wish they had put the iPhone 5 up also just for relative comparison (since that's all this kind of vague info is good for).   So I grabbed both.   Looks like the...

Mike Matas used to be member on AI!

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  Then how will they sell?    Like computers do. People will only upgrade every 3 to 4 years. It could be worse. It could be the car market where upgrades are...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  Ah, but that goes hand in hand. Take EA, for example.   Certainly a balance. But developers are more motivated by money than being demotivated by the difficulty of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil  None of those require specific screen sizes for development.   Perhaps it's better if users were happier than developers? And, if they were to support it, I'm...

"iPhone"   It comes in 4" and 5" versions. Same thing with "iPad". It comes in 8" and 10" versions. This is the same branding strategy as the MacBooks. They just call their MacBooks as "MacBook Air", "MacBook Pro", or "MacBook...

Chipworks took apart an Apple TV they bought and they have come to the conclusion that this new A5 is a 32 nm Samsung part.   So, either Apple removed half the chip (1 CPU core, 1 GPU core, 1 memory channel, maybe ISP as...

Macrumors.com is saying the background refresh of the AppleTV contains a die shrunk A5, not a A5X. So, original A5 was a 45 nm, 123 mm^2 SoC. The A5r2 in the 2012 Apple TV, iPad 2,4, and iPod touch 5th gen is a 32 nm, 71 mm^2 SoC. This...

Quote: Originally Posted by habi  Families! The apple ecosystem. What do you think happens if the family has 1 iPhone and several Ann droids? No ecosystem benefit, no more sales! Remember that its not always...