Posts by bsimpsen

This makes sense. Microsoft, Sony, Ericson and RIMM don't want Samsung-Android steamrolling through the mobile market, so they let Apple purchase the most useful patents for their existing fight, while taking a license for them. They...

Quote: Originally Posted by Realistic  ARM doesn't run iOS otherwise there would already be Macs running on ARM chips. Show us any links saying, showing or even claiming that ARM chips can run OS X. I believe...

Quote: Originally Posted by renner.david.b  Its been reported already that Apple has ported OS X to ARM for testing and was favorably impressed with it's performance on a 32 bit processor. Keep in mind that the A6X has...

Quote: Originally Posted by v5v    This is good news for shareholders, irrelevant to Mac buyers. Apple eats up cost savings in margins, not reduced product prices. As evidence please see the iPad Mini and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bregalad  Apple is never going to choose a chip that's twice as big as the competition. Smaller, thinner, lighter applies to the inside of the Mac just as much as the outside. They...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross  If that's your assumption, then you have a lot to learn. We bandy about the term "OS X". But OS X is the entire OS, not just the core, which is in iOS. Take away the desktop, and...

Don't ask me how running Office on Apple hardware is better, ask all those who say Apple is doomed without that capability. I haven't used Office in ten years. I'm simply saying that Apple is capable of addressing that issue, if it is...

Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna  Lets talk about that after they have proven without a reasonable doubt that it is effective Agreed, Microsoft's move to ARM is reactive. Apple's agglomeration of chip design...

I'd much rather see Apple make Windows compatibility irrelevant by fielding good native applications (or creating an environment attractive enough for others to do so), so I agree that Win RT emulation will probably not be a big deal....

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross  Are you claiming to actually know something here? I have no doubt that they could write OS X to run directly on ARM, but that doesn't help the many thousands of programs out there...