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brakken said:

Doom for Apple as Microsoft Retakes Market!

Just as has been anticipated since the 2009 freeze then meltdown of the global PC monopoly, Apple is finally being handed its hat. Over the next few models, we can expect to see the Surface, which with its m3 CPU can't compete against a Chromebook, let alone the old iPad Air 2, to increase in performance and price. Eventually, Intel may even be able to match its lowest-rung 'mobile' processor with the A10, at which time Apple will finally be defeated!

Top commenters are now reaffirming the end of Apple's dominance of the mobile computer market, and are waiting for this strong quarter to introduce a new era of non-dashed expectations with full legacy compatibility. Some bloggers are even rallying support for the reintroduction of CD-drives and serial ports in a new Surface-d model.

The end of Apple is nigh! 

Thought you were serious till 'roundabout "CD-drives", funny stuff.

Approaching this from a semi-serious perspective I think it really does make sense profitability wise. The sport isn't worth 8 billion dollars especially when American viewership is at its highest yet still around 250k per race. It's very undervalued and apart from that F1 has a huge crisis looming on the horizon for when Bernie passes away. The sport's at an all-time low in visibility simply due to the fact that its being marketed by people who are considered "young" when they're in their 60s. The sport has lost that connection with the general public that it had in the '50s-'60s around the world as back then attending a Grand Prix was affordable and the sport was traveling to the most gorgeous countries across the globe as it was finding popularity due to the fact that its content distributors were pretty young themselves and weren't shoving a product in way that were antiquated for those times. The sport could return to that if it embraced digital content, something that the top shot caller (Ecclestone) is very against as he said last week he hasn't ever even created an email account. Tim Cook has shown one thing as the CEO of Apple, he excels at establishing distribution channels for content and products and getting Apple out there. People bemoan the fact that the emerging products from Apple don't have that "x" factor that left since Steve Jobs passed but thats not coming back I believe. Apple must play to its strengths and distribution is one of them. If the purchase for Formula 1 goes ahead it can kill so many birds with one stone. It'll solve Apple's dilemma of the Apple TV having no exclusive content worth watching (which still makes me regret purchasing one), F1's dilemma of how to survive by moving away from its elderly leader's antiquated distribution formats, the sport can finally embrace the United States as Bernie Ecclestone has made clear he could care less if F1 ever catches on here so he doesn't even make an effort, added bonus in that it can serve as a marketing vehicle for Apple. Yes I understand fossil fuel vehicles are dying but America's largest motorsport is NASCAR, F1 would finally arrive and it would seem much the more modern motorsport and that alone is worth an intangible amount of money in marketing when you consider that traditional auto manufacturers derive exposure that translates into sales in the mass American auto industry from NASCAR (Toyota, GM, Ford, Dodge). F1 could bury NASCAR if Apple was running it, as most Americans are pretty well aware of what NASCAR stands for (rednecks, low thermally efficient V8 engines compared to F1's hybrids, etc etc). This could be massive and I'll admit my bias, I'm an American F1 fan with almost no way to watch my favorite sport as its hardly shown here and I just want to have anybody in a 100 mile radius who knows what F1 even is, but I see huge potential for it. But hey, maybe its just a shitpost rumor from a usually reliable F1 reporter in Saward as he tries to fill his weekly rag with some paragraphs who knows.

New Skylake processors, Polaris GPU's, new instruction sets & DDR4-2133 RAM. The world awaits anxiously.

It's time to go Verizon boys.

ericthehalfbee said:

Besides thieves who download music/movies, who else uses BT?

Its not theft if you torrent stuff, content like movies/music, apps & other content are free on torrent sites for a reason.