With all due respect, Tim Cook should be doing a better job informing the public about future roadmaps and if they aren't going to announce something that Wall Street is expecting, then maybe they should have done a little better job with damage control.
Nope. There is no benefit for Apple in laying out future roadmap. No benefit to respond to rumors either.
Please do more research before you type something that's misleading.
No, there was an article which I posted that mentioned that Angela COULD have left within 30 days. It's just the right thing to do to the new employer and if she left money on the table as a result, then she should have left the money on the table and not hold up her new employer. I know several Apple Store employees that are eagerly awaiting her arrival because they do need someone to give direction out in the trenches.
It's funny you say that when Soli took you to task on everything that happened with Apple products last year.
Plus as for Angela, if you havent read her contract then you have no idea what you are talking about.
What would it take to get the MP4 guys to add ASS subtitle support? ASS is considerably more flexible than SRT…
No idea, but it would be nice to have.
Works so well for so many things here. Buying Samsung products, posting anti-Apple rhetoric…
To be clear, I am not against people buying Samsung's products (my next HDTV will likely be Samsung) and I don't mind comments that are negative against Apple (as you, I, and pretty much every other regular member hear has own complaints) but I wish the arguments most people had were better thought out and/or conveyed. Samsung arguably makes the best Android-based device on the market right now and Apple isn't perfect even though I feel they make the best in class products for all the areas the HW markets they are currently in.
Some moron gets it in his head to use AVI or MKV this side of 2005, you have to convert it.
Well, that's video conversion, I'm talking about 24 bit AUDIO conversion. I can't help video conversion and all of that goes along with it, because there are lots of people making videos using a ton of various formats. Isn't AVI indicative of Microsoft users?
Again, the MacPro was ANNOUNCED in Oct, but they didn't start SHIPPING the product for a couple of months while everyone is sitting around waiting until they can order the thing and it's still 4 to 5 week backlogged and it's now about 6 months from the initial ANNOUNCEMENT date, not the SHIPPING date. ANNOUNCING a profit is different than SHIPPING a product if there is more than a 1 or 2 day lapse. Going over a month until people can start ordering it is kind silly. How many did they actually SHIP in December quarter? You really need to READ more carefully, it would save us a LOT of time on this subject.
... but I think a wrist-worn device market ads a lot more complexity than Apple has ever seen.
I was struck by Jony Ives' answer to a recent interview question where he was asked what he'd do if he didn't work at Apple. He said he'd design cups.
At first I thought he was either joking or that it was a lame answer. Then I realized that it makes total sense for someone like Ives to want to approach a problem space where you're dealing with things like an object which is designed to handle the interaction between the endless variety and similarities of human faces, and something as dynamic as liquid. He likes to dig in and analyze aspects of things that other people gloss over.
Adding a new category does add complexity, but I think Apple is run by people who are hungry for those challenges.
HP and Oracle are direct competitors, and there was particular drama related to "the former CEO" having *already left* so of course it happened fast.
Burberry didn't already get rid of Ahrendts; they are trying to minimize the impact of losing their CEO! And Apple isn't trying to outmaneuver Burberry or disrupt its operations in order to get her started as their own chief of retail.
Anyone with a substantial retaining bonus doesn't leave millions of dollars on the table if they can help it. Apple was quite willing to shed Scott Forstall, but allowed him to stay in an advisor position a) ostensibly to help transition, b) to let him keep his huge retaining bonus and c) supposedly to prevent him from joining a direct competitor right away.
Angela could have left Burrberry's within 30 days of the announcement, so give me a better example. How about the guy that had her position at Apple? He left his former employer and went to Apple immediately. Give me 20 examples where a high ranking person at one company left to go to another and took 6 months to do it, that would convince me that your thinking is normal, otherwise I rest my case. It's not normal for people to move from one company to another and take 6 months. Every time I left from one to another, I put in my 2 weeks notice and stayed to clean things up, but I was gone in 2 weeks and I might have had a week or two between the start date, just get some down time. CEOs aren't that much different and I've gone to non-competiting companies several times.
There is NO proof of your assumptions, but there is more proof of mine. Apple needs someone as quickly as possible. The Forstall issue was TOTALLY different. That's because they already had Ive and Federighi within the company, so there was no external search required. Apple had already fired the previous Apple Store exec. and they were conducting a search that took a little while.
As CEO, she was probably obligated to stay 6 months. Besides, the bonus stuff is just rumors.
Again, 35% growth rate is unsustainable. What's Amazon's or Google's growth rate? Those who want that are just money grubbers. The TV set and wearable markets are small relative to the smart phone market. In addition, the set market is a low margin affair. You're not getting 30% growth from that. In addition, wearables and TV sets aren't upgraded often. TV sets last years and I'm assuming wearables would last as long as well. My watch is almost 10 years old and my tv is 8.
I was struck by Jony Ives' answer to a recent interview question where he was asked what he'd do if he didn't work at Apple. He said he'd design cups.
At first I thought he was either joking or that it was a lame answer. Then I realized that it makes total sense for someone like Ives to want to approach a problem space where you're dealing with things like an object which is designed to handle the interaction between the endless variety and similarities of human faces, and something as dynamic as liquid. He likes to dig in and analyze aspects of things that other people gloss over.
Adding a new category does add complexity, but I think Apple is run by people who are hungry for those challenges.
1) The cups thing is interesting. Your argument as I why definitely helped me see cups In a different light.
2) By complexity I specifically mean that of the wrist-worn wearable a market, not just a new category in general. The iPad certainly required Apple to learn some new skills, mostly with the display, but most of it was reapplying skills they already had.
A wrist-worn device seems outrageously complex to me and outside their wheelhouse if Apple is going to make something that works for men, women and child-sized wrists, is reasonably affordable, and is something that Apple employees would want to wear even hough they can afford luxury watches. And all this has to be in a product that looks great and is useful.
So far between the current lot of fitness band and "smartwatches" it seems as though the technology isn't yet good enough for Apple to make a great a product… and since I don't expect Apple to release anything less than a great product I feel as though we're not ready for this in 2013 (I can emphasis enough how much I hope I am wrong about Apple's readiness.)
I'm not sure how you got that. One dud, no. But many duds and their competitors are now offerings better products at betters prices, absolutely.
Being loyal to a company means you'll only buy from them regardless of what they produce. I will analyze and scrutinize every single piece of kit that is out there and buy what best suits my needs. I don't love Apple because I can't have "an intense feeling of deep affection" for them. I have a long history of cooperative interaction with Apple but that is not an interaction I will continue to artificially force if they are become less than ideal for my particular needs.
Fair dos. I love Apple-because of everything they've done and everything they stand for.
good one. I actually use MacX Video Converter Pro for my video conversion needs. I haven't had a car with an actual handbrake in years, they usually had a footbrake. :-)
Apple used to have a LOT more than 35% yearly growth rate. They even had 50% yearly growth rate. Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, plenty of companies had 35% or higher growth rates until they reached saturation of 70% or higher in the markets they were in. What market does Apple have a commanding lead? They had it with the iPad in the beginning, but have lost ground due to other competitors coming in. They have that with the iPod, but they haven't upgraded the IPod with 24 bit technology which IS the new trend in digital audio for the masses.
Hardware and new markets isn't happening as quickly as they COULD. Instead of focusing on several iPhone models in different sizes, they only focused on one new model, whereas their competitors were focusing on various screen sizes, so Apple was caught sleeping at the wheel with different sized iPhones, which is a big market for them. Face it, Apple lost a lot of business over not introducing multiple sized iPhones and not getting into the ~5 inch model. Yes, they will capture a lot sales, but they lost a lot during the past 2 years. I know a lot of iPhone users that bought a larger screen Android phone specifically because of screen size and they told me they would have bought an iPhone if it had the larger screen size, so those types of customers are simply not going to buy a larger screen iPhone until their 2 year contract is up. There is a sizable amount of lost business. I am a candidate for a new phone and am waiting for the ~ 5 inch model and there are a lot others just like me.
Yes, he said "ARMY of new products". I think that quote was said after WWDC. I can't recall the exact date but he did say that.
History is past history, in this world of High Tech it's "What have you done lately?" since the shareholders are looking at what are they doing NOW and in the FUTURE. People don't buy stocks based on what a company did a year ago, 2 years ago, 3 years ago, 4 years, etc. They buy or sell stock based on what they THINK they are going to do in the FUTURE. You obviously haven't taken any investment courses. Maybe you should study Finance and Investments, then you'll have a different appreciation for what the Analysts are doing and how they look at companies.
The iPod market is shrinking because Apple hasn't made any significant product announcements to spurt sales. 24 bit is what's going to do that. Along with increasing storage, functionality in the iPod Touch (802.11ac), etc.
Why do you twist words around? I never said the word "TOWER", I said a midrange workstation that's in between the Mac Mini and MacPro that's headless. It could be the same case as a MacPro or a larger case than a MacMini for all I care, it's just got to have the guts of the higher end iMacs, with maybe a little more to satisfy people in the prosumer market that want something in between the MacMini and MacPro, so get off this "TOWER" nonsense. and please stop twisting words around to suit your agenda.
Well, the rumor mill and the market in general was touting Apple's entrance into wearables and they were expecting something by the end of 2013. Apple did trademark iWatch in several countries.
You OBVIOUSLY don't get it. In order for WALL STREET to get excited about Apple, they have to have more product refreshes and get into new markets that they can see some growth. That's what WALL STREET and SHAREHOLDERS are looking at. If I was a shareholder, I would probably be a little upset the stock price isn't at $700 a share. Apple did take a little hit in Net Profit margin. That did take a little dip. so they aren't making the profit margins they once were, or at least temporarily.
YOU CAN'T READ. It's painfully obvious to me. Now, go and take some courses in Investments and Finance to analyze a company.
What does that matter if they ignore it when they receive it?
And given that Apple always proves them wrong, shouldn’t they have learned by now not to do that? It’s their fault and theirs alone.
Why? Who cares? What would it have done for them?
But they never said that.
How can Apple magically build more factories for technology that physically cannot be created any more quickly?
There was someone that had mentioned that they were playing around with a HDTV, I forget if it was Jobs or Eddy Cue or someone fairly high up on the food chain. They didn't say anything that specific, but it was certainly enough to fuel a TON of rumors that lasted so far about 2 years.
Guidance to the analysts is VERY important, especially with all of the visibility to Apple in the media. There was a lot of angst over no major MacPro announcements and Cook took a long time before he addressed it.
Apple has to plan ahead a little better. Putting 2GB instead of 1GB is a no brainer, I know building factories is a major hassle, but they were always focusing on one screen size, when they should have been focusing on two at least a year or two prior to them taking the ~5 inch screen size more seriously. Others have had larger screens several years earlier. Apple just took a little too long in addressing it and lost business in the mean time. As far as building factories, it would have been interesting if Apple just bought Nokia and started using their factories and really screwed Microsoft. That would have funny. Apple does have PLENTY of cash in Europe to do such a thing. They could have bought Motorola and used their factories. What's Apple sitting on? TONS OF CASH to buy pre-built factories. :-)
I get that people still want an xMac. No matter what Apple delivered there will always be something else they want which will then be the new xMac. What I don't get is why this is now a fault with Cook as CEO that Jobs would have never done despite the design for the Cube to be reborn ever since it was aborted under Jobs.
I notice that their argument has subtly changed. It used to be: give us a headless mac! The iMac isn't powerful enough! Now, it is: Give us a headless mac! The Mac mini is too weak! The Mac Pro is too powerful!
Not to be weird, but when a record label records music, they either do it via analog tape, 16 bit, 24 bit, or now DSD. Then it is up to the label to master it a variety of ways. they are currently converting older analog tape into 24 bit and even DSD and selling downloads in either FLAC, AIFF or ALAC as they've done mostly 16 bit up to now and some were converted to SACD, but SACD was earlier DSD,now they are using double those rates for better sound quality. Apple, I know has been working on their Mastering for ITunes for 24 bit, but nothing has been released on itunes in 24 bit yet. But the market In terms of the masses is JUST beginning and Apple is the only player that can REALLY jump start it so the masses get the ability to get better quality music. This would enable the record labels to slit out both 16 and 24 bit versions and the users can choose. Rght now, we have to buy a DAC, which for portable devices is a little hassle and get our 24 bit content elsewhere. But most 16 bit is done with MP3, ACC or physical CD now. 24 bit was originally done with DVD-A and some TrueHD discs, but let's face it, most people are opting for digital downloads because of convienence DSD can be converted by means of software players like Amarra, Audirvana, Pure Music, etc. to 24 bit PCM so their PCM DACs can recognize it. and those players have additional functionality, better filters to choose from, automatically switch Audio/MIDI settings as the content needs to pass through to an external DAC to handle that playback, etc. iTunes by itself for the people that are playing 24 bit and DSD isn't up to the task, we see it more as just a library to organize content rather than being the player. There has only been a few times when I take a file converter like Xact and take FLAC and convert it to AIFF or whatever I wish. I'm trying to see how someone would need Handbrake.
So why would you want Apple to do it? I’d prefer Apple solve problems using their brains than otherwise.
By using their brains, Apple discovered that, hey, 2GB of RAM uses twice the energy as 1GB. They did testing and found that apps and the OS don’t generally use it, therefore that RAM would be powered without reason for most of the time you’re using the device. Time which would be diminished because power was being wasted.
Apple did the brainer and decided, “Hey, you know, we could just make our code better. We could just have it use less RAM in the first place. That way we wouldn’t need more RAM wasting more power.”
They’ve been doing that since ’84 when they had to shoehorn an OS into 128k. They wanted 512–and eventually made one–but they did it in 128.
In the near future, we’ll have RAM that only powers what is in use at the time. Once that happens, I can see Apple throwing 8GB into something that would have otherwise received 4, for example.
…should have been…
This just tells me they’re right in not.
Apple just took a little too long in addressing it and lost business in the mean time.
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What would it take to get the MP4 guys to add ASS subtitle support? ASS is considerably more flexible than SRT…
Works so well for so many things here. Buying Samsung products, posting anti-Apple rhetoric…
Nope. There is no benefit for Apple in laying out future roadmap. No benefit to respond to rumors either.
It's funny you say that when Soli took you to task on everything that happened with Apple products last year.
Plus as for Angela, if you havent read her contract then you have no idea what you are talking about.
No idea, but it would be nice to have.
To be clear, I am not against people buying Samsung's products (my next HDTV will likely be Samsung) and I don't mind comments that are negative against Apple (as you, I, and pretty much every other regular member hear has own complaints) but I wish the arguments most people had were better thought out and/or conveyed. Samsung arguably makes the best Android-based device on the market right now and Apple isn't perfect even though I feel they make the best in class products for all the areas the HW markets they are currently in.
So, you're starting with a question. Interesting. Do you know what that tells investigators?
I'm just raising the question and then answering it. Don't you know anything? I already knew the answers before you and the others did.
Some moron gets it in his head to use AVI or MKV this side of 2005, you have to convert it.
Well, that's video conversion, I'm talking about 24 bit AUDIO conversion. I can't help video conversion and all of that goes along with it, because there are lots of people making videos using a ton of various formats. Isn't AVI indicative of Microsoft users?
Mac Pro, anyone.
Again, the MacPro was ANNOUNCED in Oct, but they didn't start SHIPPING the product for a couple of months while everyone is sitting around waiting until they can order the thing and it's still 4 to 5 week backlogged and it's now about 6 months from the initial ANNOUNCEMENT date, not the SHIPPING date. ANNOUNCING a profit is different than SHIPPING a product if there is more than a 1 or 2 day lapse. Going over a month until people can start ordering it is kind silly. How many did they actually SHIP in December quarter? You really need to READ more carefully, it would save us a LOT of time on this subject.
Oh. XLD, then.
... but I think a wrist-worn device market ads a lot more complexity than Apple has ever seen.
I was struck by Jony Ives' answer to a recent interview question where he was asked what he'd do if he didn't work at Apple. He said he'd design cups.
At first I thought he was either joking or that it was a lame answer. Then I realized that it makes total sense for someone like Ives to want to approach a problem space where you're dealing with things like an object which is designed to handle the interaction between the endless variety and similarities of human faces, and something as dynamic as liquid. He likes to dig in and analyze aspects of things that other people gloss over.
Adding a new category does add complexity, but I think Apple is run by people who are hungry for those challenges.
HP and Oracle are direct competitors, and there was particular drama related to "the former CEO" having *already left* so of course it happened fast.
Burberry didn't already get rid of Ahrendts; they are trying to minimize the impact of losing their CEO! And Apple isn't trying to outmaneuver Burberry or disrupt its operations in order to get her started as their own chief of retail.
Anyone with a substantial retaining bonus doesn't leave millions of dollars on the table if they can help it. Apple was quite willing to shed Scott Forstall, but allowed him to stay in an advisor position a) ostensibly to help transition, b) to let him keep his huge retaining bonus and c) supposedly to prevent him from joining a direct competitor right away.
Angela could have left Burrberry's within 30 days of the announcement, so give me a better example. How about the guy that had her position at Apple? He left his former employer and went to Apple immediately. Give me 20 examples where a high ranking person at one company left to go to another and took 6 months to do it, that would convince me that your thinking is normal, otherwise I rest my case. It's not normal for people to move from one company to another and take 6 months. Every time I left from one to another, I put in my 2 weeks notice and stayed to clean things up, but I was gone in 2 weeks and I might have had a week or two between the start date, just get some down time. CEOs aren't that much different and I've gone to non-competiting companies several times.
There is NO proof of your assumptions, but there is more proof of mine. Apple needs someone as quickly as possible. The Forstall issue was TOTALLY different. That's because they already had Ive and Federighi within the company, so there was no external search required. Apple had already fired the previous Apple Store exec. and they were conducting a search that took a little while.
The original iPhone was also not subsidized.
As CEO, she was probably obligated to stay 6 months. Besides, the bonus stuff is just rumors.
Again, 35% growth rate is unsustainable. What's Amazon's or Google's growth rate? Those who want that are just money grubbers. The TV set and wearable markets are small relative to the smart phone market. In addition, the set market is a low margin affair. You're not getting 30% growth from that. In addition, wearables and TV sets aren't upgraded often. TV sets last years and I'm assuming wearables would last as long as well. My watch is almost 10 years old and my tv is 8.
10 years old? My watch is about 28!
1) The cups thing is interesting. Your argument as I why definitely helped me see cups In a different light.
2) By complexity I specifically mean that of the wrist-worn wearable a market, not just a new category in general. The iPad certainly required Apple to learn some new skills, mostly with the display, but most of it was reapplying skills they already had.
A wrist-worn device seems outrageously complex to me and outside their wheelhouse if Apple is going to make something that works for men, women and child-sized wrists, is reasonably affordable, and is something that Apple employees would want to wear even hough they can afford luxury watches. And all this has to be in a product that looks great and is useful.
So far between the current lot of fitness band and "smartwatches" it seems as though the technology isn't yet good enough for Apple to make a great a product… and since I don't expect Apple to release anything less than a great product I feel as though we're not ready for this in 2013 (I can emphasis enough how much I hope I am wrong about Apple's readiness.)
I'm not sure how you got that. One dud, no. But many duds and their competitors are now offerings better products at betters prices, absolutely.
Being loyal to a company means you'll only buy from them regardless of what they produce. I will analyze and scrutinize every single piece of kit that is out there and buy what best suits my needs. I don't love Apple because I can't have "an intense feeling of deep affection" for them. I have a long history of cooperative interaction with Apple but that is not an interaction I will continue to artificially force if they are become less than ideal for my particular needs.
Fair dos. I love Apple-because of everything they've done and everything they stand for.
In case of an emergency. HA!!!!
In case of an emergency. HA!!!!
good one. I actually use MacX Video Converter Pro for my video conversion needs. I haven't had a car with an actual handbrake in years, they usually had a footbrake. :-)
Apple used to have a LOT more than 35% yearly growth rate. They even had 50% yearly growth rate. Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, plenty of companies had 35% or higher growth rates until they reached saturation of 70% or higher in the markets they were in. What market does Apple have a commanding lead? They had it with the iPad in the beginning, but have lost ground due to other competitors coming in. They have that with the iPod, but they haven't upgraded the IPod with 24 bit technology which IS the new trend in digital audio for the masses.
Hardware and new markets isn't happening as quickly as they COULD. Instead of focusing on several iPhone models in different sizes, they only focused on one new model, whereas their competitors were focusing on various screen sizes, so Apple was caught sleeping at the wheel with different sized iPhones, which is a big market for them. Face it, Apple lost a lot of business over not introducing multiple sized iPhones and not getting into the ~5 inch model. Yes, they will capture a lot sales, but they lost a lot during the past 2 years. I know a lot of iPhone users that bought a larger screen Android phone specifically because of screen size and they told me they would have bought an iPhone if it had the larger screen size, so those types of customers are simply not going to buy a larger screen iPhone until their 2 year contract is up. There is a sizable amount of lost business. I am a candidate for a new phone and am waiting for the ~ 5 inch model and there are a lot others just like me.
Yes, he said "ARMY of new products". I think that quote was said after WWDC. I can't recall the exact date but he did say that.
History is past history, in this world of High Tech it's "What have you done lately?" since the shareholders are looking at what are they doing NOW and in the FUTURE. People don't buy stocks based on what a company did a year ago, 2 years ago, 3 years ago, 4 years, etc. They buy or sell stock based on what they THINK they are going to do in the FUTURE. You obviously haven't taken any investment courses. Maybe you should study Finance and Investments, then you'll have a different appreciation for what the Analysts are doing and how they look at companies.
The iPod market is shrinking because Apple hasn't made any significant product announcements to spurt sales. 24 bit is what's going to do that. Along with increasing storage, functionality in the iPod Touch (802.11ac), etc.
Why do you twist words around? I never said the word "TOWER", I said a midrange workstation that's in between the Mac Mini and MacPro that's headless. It could be the same case as a MacPro or a larger case than a MacMini for all I care, it's just got to have the guts of the higher end iMacs, with maybe a little more to satisfy people in the prosumer market that want something in between the MacMini and MacPro, so get off this "TOWER" nonsense. and please stop twisting words around to suit your agenda.
Well, the rumor mill and the market in general was touting Apple's entrance into wearables and they were expecting something by the end of 2013. Apple did trademark iWatch in several countries.
You OBVIOUSLY don't get it. In order for WALL STREET to get excited about Apple, they have to have more product refreshes and get into new markets that they can see some growth. That's what WALL STREET and SHAREHOLDERS are looking at. If I was a shareholder, I would probably be a little upset the stock price isn't at $700 a share. Apple did take a little hit in Net Profit margin. That did take a little dip. so they aren't making the profit margins they once were, or at least temporarily.
YOU CAN'T READ. It's painfully obvious to me. Now, go and take some courses in Investments and Finance to analyze a company.
No.
No, no one at Apple should EVER say this.
What does that matter if they ignore it when they receive it?
And given that Apple always proves them wrong, shouldn’t they have learned by now not to do that? It’s their fault and theirs alone.
Why? Who cares? What would it have done for them?
But they never said that.
How can Apple magically build more factories for technology that physically cannot be created any more quickly?
There was someone that had mentioned that they were playing around with a HDTV, I forget if it was Jobs or Eddy Cue or someone fairly high up on the food chain. They didn't say anything that specific, but it was certainly enough to fuel a TON of rumors that lasted so far about 2 years.
Guidance to the analysts is VERY important, especially with all of the visibility to Apple in the media. There was a lot of angst over no major MacPro announcements and Cook took a long time before he addressed it.
Apple has to plan ahead a little better. Putting 2GB instead of 1GB is a no brainer, I know building factories is a major hassle, but they were always focusing on one screen size, when they should have been focusing on two at least a year or two prior to them taking the ~5 inch screen size more seriously. Others have had larger screens several years earlier. Apple just took a little too long in addressing it and lost business in the mean time. As far as building factories, it would have been interesting if Apple just bought Nokia and started using their factories and really screwed Microsoft. That would have funny. Apple does have PLENTY of cash in Europe to do such a thing. They could have bought Motorola and used their factories. What's Apple sitting on? TONS OF CASH to buy pre-built factories. :-)
I get that people still want an xMac. No matter what Apple delivered there will always be something else they want which will then be the new xMac. What I don't get is why this is now a fault with Cook as CEO that Jobs would have never done despite the design for the Cube to be reborn ever since it was aborted under Jobs.
I notice that their argument has subtly changed. It used to be: give us a headless mac! The iMac isn't powerful enough! Now, it is: Give us a headless mac! The Mac mini is too weak! The Mac Pro is too powerful!
Not to be weird, but when a record label records music, they either do it via analog tape, 16 bit, 24 bit, or now DSD. Then it is up to the label to master it a variety of ways. they are currently converting older analog tape into 24 bit and even DSD and selling downloads in either FLAC, AIFF or ALAC as they've done mostly 16 bit up to now and some were converted to SACD, but SACD was earlier DSD,now they are using double those rates for better sound quality. Apple, I know has been working on their Mastering for ITunes for 24 bit, but nothing has been released on itunes in 24 bit yet. But the market In terms of the masses is JUST beginning and Apple is the only player that can REALLY jump start it so the masses get the ability to get better quality music. This would enable the record labels to slit out both 16 and 24 bit versions and the users can choose. Rght now, we have to buy a DAC, which for portable devices is a little hassle and get our 24 bit content elsewhere. But most 16 bit is done with MP3, ACC or physical CD now. 24 bit was originally done with DVD-A and some TrueHD discs, but let's face it, most people are opting for digital downloads because of convienence DSD can be converted by means of software players like Amarra, Audirvana, Pure Music, etc. to 24 bit PCM so their PCM DACs can recognize it. and those players have additional functionality, better filters to choose from, automatically switch Audio/MIDI settings as the content needs to pass through to an external DAC to handle that playback, etc. iTunes by itself for the people that are playing 24 bit and DSD isn't up to the task, we see it more as just a library to organize content rather than being the player. There has only been a few times when I take a file converter like Xact and take FLAC and convert it to AIFF or whatever I wish. I'm trying to see how someone would need Handbrake.
Explain why a user would need Handbrake.
Video.
Putting 2GB instead of 1GB is a no brainer…
So why would you want Apple to do it? I’d prefer Apple solve problems using their brains than otherwise.
By using their brains, Apple discovered that, hey, 2GB of RAM uses twice the energy as 1GB. They did testing and found that apps and the OS don’t generally use it, therefore that RAM would be powered without reason for most of the time you’re using the device. Time which would be diminished because power was being wasted.
Apple did the brainer and decided, “Hey, you know, we could just make our code better. We could just have it use less RAM in the first place. That way we wouldn’t need more RAM wasting more power.”
They’ve been doing that since ’84 when they had to shoehorn an OS into 128k. They wanted 512–and eventually made one–but they did it in 128.
In the near future, we’ll have RAM that only powers what is in use at the time. Once that happens, I can see Apple throwing 8GB into something that would have otherwise received 4, for example.
This just tells me they’re right in not.
Mmm… no.
No one cares about 64bit but you guys.
Old fashioned phones running old fashioned software, give me cutting edge, give me Apple.