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badmonk said: Thanks DED for another article and great ideas. I have a feeling Apple will be knocking on the door to hire you at some point. Just like Anand Lal Shimpi? Probably not. corrections said: And speaking of upgrades: do yo…
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Herbivore2 said: With Apple's assistance, TSMC is moving to 7 nm faster than anyone else in the industry and that includes Intel. Xiaomi and Huawei are all going to be stranded. It's really just a matter of time. Stranded in what sense? H…
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volcan said: Google Now launched July 9, 2012 Siri launched October 14, 2011 Voice control, search and integration existed in Android before Google started bundling it together and calling it Google Now. Mostly it evolved from Google Voice …
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linkman said: I know my observations are USA-only, but in real world usage I see about 45% iPhones, 45% Samsung, and 10% everything else. Are Gartner's market share numbers being skewed by repeat sales of junk phones that have to be replaced …
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zoetmb said:And as an aside, OPPO makes fantastic high-end Blu-ray players and does really terrific customer service. I haven't seen their phone in-person, but from the specs, it looks quite nice. OPPO Digital is independently operated o…
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volcan said: SnRa said: Android software and hardware has also had a major influence on iOS, from multitasking to notifications, NFC/mobile payments, voice commands, device size, etc. I'm not so sure I would characterize it as Andro…
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cropr said: Perhaps you don't realize it but in the $150 - $250 price range the quality of the smartphones has increased a lot in the last 12 months. Definitely, people are too unaware of what the actual competition is. For example, num…
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cali said: cnocbui said: Who stole iOS, I must have missed that? The narrative used to be that Samsung would suffer in the face of Chinese competition to the point they would soon be wiped out, yet they are holding their own and it'…
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There's quite a bit of competition in the Chinese market in terms of mobile payment services. Xiaomi's QuickPass, in partnership with UnionPay, is coming soon and Huawei's mobile payment service, also with UnionPay, has been slowly rolling out since…
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designr said: SnRa said: As in, the Apple Watch will be a standalone device? Or, that Apple will allow pairing with Android devices? I highly doubt the latter. As the technology evolves and improves, I suspect it will move towar…
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designr said: SnRa said: You've just described a limiting factor, the requirement of owning an iPhone. That's not amazing. I suspect this limitation will be lifted in the future. As in, the Apple Watch will be a standalone dev…
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sirlance99 said: How can his be an attack against iMessage when it's not even the most used IM in the world? Until iMessage is cross platform it'll never be the most used and you'll always have to have other messaging apps if you communicate …
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razormaid said: I think the thing that's even more amazing... the Watch requires an iPhone to run it so for every watch there's an iPhone user too. Knowing how many iPhone users there are world wide once Watch becomes more accessible (und…
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AppleInsider said: As a watch, it would need to be able to compete for attention against existing fashion watches, not merely be a block of technology strapped to the wrist of a minority of tech enthusiasts. Definitely! In 2010 we had…
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anton zuykov said: SnRa said: I'm talking about equivalent features, not the other standards themselves. You don't seem to understand. The PowerVR 6 series GPU's do NOT support these features. My point is that if you can throw away …
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anton zuykov said: SnRa said: No, they don't offer the same support. The 6 series can only support features up to OpenGL ES 3.1 or equivalent, hence the missing support for AEP. Vulkan can work on a GPU that supports OpenGL ES 3.…
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cpsro said: SnRa said: Instant Apps are actually quite interesting. Well, whadyaknow, you still have to download an app. It's just different. Like Facebook recently showed. Like webapps have been promising for eons. Like Apple will…
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LegacyAppleFansByte said: AppleInsider said: The smart home battle between Apple, Google and others continues to heat up, with Google on Wednesday announcing Home, a new voice-activated hardware kit that brings the Google assistant ser…
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Instant Apps are actually quite interesting.
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anton zuykov said: SnRa said:Previous PowerVR 6 series can technically offer some support, but with only equivalent features to OpenGL ES 3.1. Series 6 and 6XE/6XT offer EXACTLY the same support of Vulkan (Vulkan 1.0) as do 7XE/7XT/7XT…