Posts by Blastdoor

mutually assured annoyance. 

I did not mean to suggest that all progress should stop and that Apple should never introduce an A7. Instead, I only meant that for the iPhone 5S, I'm not sure that it's really necessary to improve SOC performance. I think that given a...

Quote: Originally Posted by ankleskater    I understand your POV. Why the need for a V8 over a V6 when you can still go to 100 mph in 7.5 second. But there is more to the need for speed than how a driver...

This desperate attempt to prop up Windows by denying other platforms timely access to Office is costing MS billions of dollars yet appears to be doing very little to prop up Windows. On the other hand, maybe Windows would be doing even...

Unless iOS7 has some new features that really need a faster SOC I would think that the best interests of consumers would be served by just die-shrinking the A6 and pocketing the power savings and associated extra battery life. My...

I know a certain class of person goes ape-s**t whenever someone says what I'm about to say, but here goes: Offering two screen sizes for the iPhone with the same resolution but different pixel density (just like with the iPad and iPad...

Quote: Originally Posted by igriv    The problem with Option 2 is that the margins suck. Apple, for example, makes much more off their devices than their entire supply chain (probably by a factor of five or...

This could be mostly BS -- just management propaganda designed to motivate employees.    But it would be more interesting to consider the possibility that he's serious, and to guess at what he sees as Samsung's primary...

Could be that he will have nothing to do with products but a lot to do with production. Robots don't commit suicide (or if they do, nobody cares).

Quote: Originally Posted by mstone  Knowing Blastdoor from his other comments, I'm sure he meant the reverse. The US being the country ruled by law and China being the glorified junta. bingo.    I'm...