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Apple could be out $20 billion a year if Google loses DOJ antitrust case
Given the state of Siri compared to Alexa or the Google Assistant, I wouldn’t count on it.cincytee said:The immediate effect might be the loss of $20 billion in payments to Apple, but Apple would clearly then institute its own search engine, which would generate billions in revenue, much like Google, so the overall impact would be much smaller financially and also put Apple in charge of its own search revenues. The question then would be whether that in itself would raise regulatory scrutiny.
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USB-C on iPhone is good - but not as an excuse for a bad law
There are people that have lived in the United States their whole life and have no idea how government works. So that’s not exactly a credible “comeback”Mike Wuerthele said:
The author was in the EU for a while, so I'm pretty sure he has a good idea how it works.CheeseFreeze said:This is a disappointing article.
Let’s just start with the simple truth: a tech behemoth is STILL using an ancient standard they once invented that is slow and forces us to deal with many cables, and refuses to change.
Even this behemoth is using both standards throughout their own product portfolio for several years now. It’s highly inconsistent. Their new AirPods Pro still have the lighting cable. Their iPads: USB-C. Why? Why??? The argument of “more e-waste short-term” is a moot point since it’s already the case today - Apple designed it.
Secondly, there is nothing that prohibits the EU from amending their own laws with the acceptance of a future standard, granted they actually ARE a new standard (not another propriety AppleConnector 2.0 or SamsungSpeedyCable).
EU was very slow with this law - it took years and years. Apple had even more time to prepare for the inevitable seeing this law being drafted. If they were truly innovative in this respect, they would have abandoned Lightning years ago for a true standard. Instead their arrogance and priority to keep a profitable business around cables alive kept them on this course (sustainable company my ass - that’s just marketing).
And what about this pretentious introduction in respect to the EU. The author has clearly no understanding because it dramatizes this topic so much that it apparently needs to emphasize the EU is “political bureaucracy”. It’s so juvenile. -
Apple testing USB-C iPhones & new dongles ahead of EU mandate
My MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and even my Apple Watch Series 7 power cord use USB-C. It's about damn time that the iPhone got onboard.
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Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs
The 3x measurement is derived from the previous Intel IGPs used in their Macs. It really has nothing to do with the Radeon RX 590 AFAICT. None of the machines announced today -- 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Mac mini -- have used discrete Radeon graphics. They've always used Intel's IGP, which is crap. So for Apple to claim that the GPU in M1 is 5x faster or 6x faster only shows how crap Intel's integrated graphics PREVIOUSLY was. It's a bit faster than the 12th generation Iris Xe found in Tiger Lake, which seems like a fair mark, but nothing earth shattering.Mike Wuerthele said:
Apple likes to make this simple, to our detriment sometimes. TFLOP is a weird measure, and you need to be sure that you're comparing like with like half, single, double-precision, and we have no idea what that was based on.mazda 3s said:
Huh? Apple said the onboard GPU in M1 is good for 2.6 TFLOPs. Intel Iris Xe in Tiger Lake is 2.1 TFLOPs. Radeon RX 590 is 7.1 TFLOPsMike Wuerthele said:
Given the (limited) data that we have now for performance, the integrated GPU in Apple Silicon with eight GPU cores is about the same as a RX 590.curtis hannah said:
Well one of the main concerns was for most MacBooks, anything close to high end AMD GPUs wasn’t an option, we’ll just have to see how these perform to see if an eGPU option is really necessary (again, most pro users would save the eGPUs for the MacBook Pro or iMac or something that’s not today’s introduced Macs, so it’s a low bar).22july2013 said:Maybe it was just an embarrassment to Apple to support external GPUs that had slower speeds than their internal one.
The 590 comparison is derived from other measures that they've used like "three times faster" and the like for other machines. We'll all see together.
And Apple's 2.6 TFLOP figure is FP32, just liked the other quoted figures. A Radeon Vega 8 in a Ryzen 4800U APU is around 1.8 TFLOPs.
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Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs
Huh? Apple said the onboard GPU in M1 is good for 2.6 TFLOPs. Intel Iris Xe in Tiger Lake is 2.1 TFLOPs. Radeon RX 590 is 7.1 TFLOPsMike Wuerthele said:
Given the (limited) data that we have now for performance, the integrated GPU in Apple Silicon with eight GPU cores is about the same as a RX 590.curtis hannah said:
Well one of the main concerns was for most MacBooks, anything close to high end AMD GPUs wasn’t an option, we’ll just have to see how these perform to see if an eGPU option is really necessary (again, most pro users would save the eGPUs for the MacBook Pro or iMac or something that’s not today’s introduced Macs, so it’s a low bar).22july2013 said:Maybe it was just an embarrassment to Apple to support external GPUs that had slower speeds than their internal one.
