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  • Ex-Apple engineer explains why the first iPhone didn't have copy and paste

    alezvicalezvic
    Beats said:

    Only for Android to come along and copy all the hard work. Imagine how that felt?
    A huge corporation copying another big corporation, cry me a river. Kocienda got paid by Apple and kept being paid regardless. 

    The real sad thing is when a big corporation copies a small team of devs who seamingly get their main source of revenue destroyed overnight.
    Remove.bg, Camo, Pillbox from the top of my head, this WWDC alone. 
    Watson, f.lux, Growl, Duet and Luna Display and many other before. 









    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • Apple 'M1X' chip specification prediction appears on benchmark site

    alezvicalezvic
    saarek said:
    I hope this isn’t true.

    I’m hoping for a true performance king that humiliates AMD & Intel and sets the bar in terms of performance. Primarily GPU based upgrades over the M1 wouldn’t be the big step up in the true “Pro” Macs over the current M1 that I was hoping for.
    Well, there's a limit on what you can put into a 14-inch chassis without overheating, throttling, increase fan noise of all the above. It's just physics. Everybody is losing their minds about a super incredibly M1X but while Apple Silicon architecture is extremely efficient, it can't do magic. Better more efficient cores will come with the M2, M3 etc, but as of right now, the M1 performance cores is what we have.

    I think we are going to see three SoCs this year:
     - M1:           4E + 4P cores + 7/8 GPU cores -> 15 watts.
     - M1T or S: 4E + 6/8P cores + 10/12 GPU cores -> 25/30 watts -> 14-inch MacBook Pro, some iMacs, Mac mini.
     - M1X:         4E + 12P cores + 16 GPU cores -> 45/50 watts -> 16-inch MacBook Pro, iMacs.

    I'm waiting for the rumoured 14-inch MacBook Pro to replace my current 13-inch and simply speaking I'd be more than happy with an M1Whatever with 6 performance cores. It'd theoretically have more CPU power than every Intel iMac except for the 18-core iMac Pro, it'd be extremely light and have great battery life. What's not to love?

    If you want to have more power, well you'll need to start compromising in regards of size and weight of the laptop, for those scenarios we have the 16-inch MacBook Pro.
    watto_cobra