KITA

StrangeDays said:

Chica said:

radarthekat said:

First, it wasn’t until Apple showed the way.  Par for the course on that one.

Second, sound quality is subjective, but okay, Samsung makes good hardware.

Third, if they’re saying the Samsung product serves the Android market better and AirPods serve the iOS market better, what’s the point?  

Or was it Samsung that showed the way with gear icon X, wireless buds and a charging case. Came out before the first gen AirPods. 

Apple did it first of course though. 

Incorrect. Both products were released in December, 2016. Dunno date of iconX but AP came out December 13. 

It came out July 15 2016 - https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-gear-iconx-cord-free-earbuds-hit-the-shelves-today

I did however notice that you decided to edit Wikipedia just so you could claim they "both" came out in December:

The Apple M1 scores ~18,000 in OpenCL (1) and ~20,000 in Metal (2) on Geekbench.

The Macbook Pro with M1 Max 32 core scored ~60,000 in OpenCL (3) on Geekbench. The ~68,000 Metal score above is likely the 32 core version as well.

The RTX 3080 scores much higher than 90,000. A 130W version of the RTX 3080 in a laptop scores ~120,000 in OpenCL (4) on Geekbench.

Apple used a 165W version of the RTX 3080 in their comparison:

macplusplus said:

KITA said:

Interesting. This may impact iOS/macOS gaming even further, potentially making third party developers choose to drop support of iOS/macOS or find a new game engine.

It told Epic that by August 28, Apple will cut off Epic’s access to all development tools necessary to create software for Apple’s platforms—including for the Unreal Engine Epic offers to third-party developers, which Apple has never claimed violated any Apple policy. Not content simply to remove Fortnite from the App Store, Apple is attacking Epic’s entire business in unrelated areas. 

If the Unreal Engine can no longer support Apple platforms, the software developers that use it will be forced to use alternatives.

Apple would lose out on Unreal Engine 5 as well it sounds like.

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Although they are the owner of Unreal Engine, there are less than fifteen iOS games developed with it, according to Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games

A recent mainstream game for the Mac is Borderlands 3, but it requires a graphics card of 8 GB on the Mac ! What a game engine is that !

So not many people will miss them once they are gone, and the whole affair will be forgotten in a couple of months even in the blogosphere that feeds it and life will continue as usual...

I think that list is probably missing quite a few games. For example, this Apple Arcade game uses Unreal Engine and does not appear on that list.

lkrupp said:

How generous of this asshole. Everybody stoops to mocking Apple to no avail. From Samsung, to Microsoft, to Google, to Michael Dell. It’s the main reason I’ve stuck with Apple all these years. Apple has to be doing something right to get under these asshole’s skin. 

Ironically, those "assholes" must be doing something right to get under your skin.

Despite the tone of the tweet, adopting a universal standard that's set to replace SMS will benefit everyone. There isn't a need to segregate users by rejecting it.

AppleInsider said:

Now, a year later, Apple is prepping WWDC 18 to show off the next advancements for its platforms. You can expect it will involve more than just a copy of what others did last year, and that its advancements will rapidly deploy to a huge installed base.

Google rapidly deploys features through apps, not OS versions. In thinking that Android works the same way as iOS, you've missed the bigger picture. Everything from Google Assistant to the launcher, and ever the dialer, are updated separate from the OS. For example, to use Google Assistant or Google Play Instant (instant apps), all you need is a device with Android 5.0 or later.

AppleInsider said:

Microsoft also has the Surface Connect port, its own take on Apple's Smart Connector for attaching accessories.

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For the current crop of Pro tablet devices, the 12.9-inch iPad Pro wins against the Surface Pro 8. What clinches it is that Microsoft has gotten close to making an iPad Pro, but it's stopped short.

It's "Pro," but not iPad Pro yet.

Surface Connect is not Microsoft's "take on Apple's Smart Connector". The Surface Connect, which was used well before the iPad Pro launched, is a magnetic port on the side of the device that can be used for charging, dongles or docks (USB-C, USB-A, DisplayPort, HDMI, 3.5 mm, ethernet, etc.). The magnetic power/data pins on the bottom of the Surface are used for the keyboard.

The Surface Pro is the only "Pro" device of the two. On the hardware side, you can plug just about anything into it (external drive, network cable, dock, eGPU, display, printer, camera, scanner, legacy equipment, etc.). On the software side, it is literally an x86 based Windows 11 computer that can run essentially anything (virtual machines, development tools, CAD software, image/video/audio editors, scientific tools, games, etc.).

At the end of the day, the iPad Pro doesn't even come even remotely close to the range of options the Surface Pro has for productivity. iPadOS is still struggling with the fundamentals, while its ecosystem for desktop level applications is extremely small and even then, often limited in comparison to Windows.

crowley said:

Microsoft previously said that the reason the Surface didn't have Thunderbolt ports was for security reasons.  I wonder why they changed their tune.

Thunderbolt 4 fixes the security issue they had with Thunderbolt 3 regarding direct memory access (DMA).

apple_evo said:

reading the comments here is pretty sobering. 

1. QUALCOMM already makes laptop chips (for Microsoft) - Microsoft SQ1 and SQ2 

2. Windows 10 ARM64 exists and runs quite well. Old versions of Windows on ARM (Windows RT) were terrible failures. 

All that being said, Apple's M1 is running circles around the SQ1/SQ2 chips and runs Windows 10 ARM faster in emulation mode than the SQ1/SQ2 natively, which is very impressive. 

I don't think people really know what the SQ1/SQ2 are (I'd also add that Qualcomm makes the Snapdragon 7c, 8c and 8cx SoCs from other OEMs to use.).

For context, they use 4x Kyro 495 Gold and 4x Kyro 495 Silver cores. These are essentially the Cortex A76 and Cortex A55 cores from 2018 and 2017 respectively. All of this is on a 7 nm (TSMC N7) process.

The Apple M1 uses 4x Firestorm and 4x Icestorm cores from 2020 on a 5 nm (TSMC N5) process.

It's no surprise the M1 is far more powerful in CPU performance than the SQ1/SQ2, they're using really old tech.



For comparison, a modern stock Arm chip for laptops will use 8x Cortex X2 (Armv9) cores on 5 nm.



Single core Cortex-X2 would still lose out to Apple, but multi core would likely be higher in this configuration.

We might expect to see this from companies like MediaTek (paired with an NVIDIA GPU), Samsung (paired with an AMD GPU) and possibly Qualcomm (paired with an Adreno GPU) later this year / early next year.

There's likely a good reason to Qualcomm's $1.4 billion purchase of NUVIA given their first product will only come to market in 2022. This is also the same year new cores from Arm's Sophia design team comes to market - so it would be safe to assume Qualcomm is under the impression their NUVIA cores will beat those too.

mcdave said:

Wow, that’s all of them!  I was hoping it was an isolated affliction but it seems the butterfly design is fundamentally flawed.

They're also horrible to type on.

AppleInsider said:

According to sources of Bloomberg, Microsoft is working on an in-house processor design, one that could be used in its Surface lineup, but may also end up in servers. Thought to be ARM-based, the chip design unit is said to report to Jason Zander, the head of Microsoft's Azure cloud business.

That's a weird spin in the title to make it sound like Microsoft is following Apple to ARM.

First paragraph in the bloomberg article:

Microsoft Corp. is working on in-house processor designs for use in server computers that run the company’s cloud services, adding to an industrywide effort to reduce reliance on Intel Corp.’s chip technology.

Microsoft is going the ARM route for servers (Azure), similar to their largest competitor Amazon. AWS has already been using Amazon's own second generation ARM Graviton2 processors which, as Amazon claims, offers customers 40% better price performance than x86 based instances. A third generation Graviton3 (likely based on Neoverse V1 or Neoverse N2) is expected in 2021.

Seriously, this isn't all about Apple all the time.