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Quote: Originally Posted by Jon T Are you NUTS? I want Flash to go and die in the fires of hell where it belongs. (My MBP, 27% battery after 3 plus hours, then ran a few Flash videos and 5 minutes later it was at 5% battery). Your MBP would…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ViktorCode 16:10 screen format eliminates black bands when watching video. But it makes everything else worse: books are formated to 4:3 so people will have to get used to ?weird? layout, browsing will require more scr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Weren?t you just saying last week that the PlayBook?s battery life be like so super great because it will use the more power efficient Cortex-A9 over that crappy Cortex-A8 in the current iPad? Even if App…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SockRolid Oh really? Corporate IT buys whatever product they think is most cost effective. But only if their CTO thinks the company and product will be around for years to come. Sounds like RIM is either giving them…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Yes it is and for good reason. A company will have to balance size, weight and battery usage to even begin to have a good product. So far, few companies achieve that consistently, and al the ones I can think …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Not following your logic. The iPad has about double the screen area, more pixels to push, and gets 25% more battery than what RiM executives are shooting for. Not to mention that interactive Flash sites on t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism The demonstration and UI looks really slick, certainly better than the Galaxy Tab using Android 2.2 and better than the mockup video of Android 3.0 “designed for tablets”, so WTH is going on that it only has …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro And what did that have to do with any of the posts in this thread? It sure didn't fit as an answer to mdriftmeyer. Oh well, off to dinner. No it fits with the argument because all people talk about "custom"…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Right, and even then you were the only one with your viewpoint. And it wasn't just me, I'm just the one who didn't give up in exasperation. I remember something about you likening yourself to Neo from the Matrix…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Maybe if you stopped making up terminology others would be able to follow you. There is nothing "compatible" in a Snapdragon or a Marvell core. Compatible coloquially boils down to "different but works with". Th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer A custom processor for an embedded device better not be your selling point to own a market. If so, you're dead on arrival. It's and end-to-end solution that wins the market. Intrinsity was dead the da…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum I checked all the posts on this thread. You are the only one talking about Apple building a compatible core. You raised an argument to a point that no one was making -- a strawman... It is all b…
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If you mean a dual-core cortex a9-based A5, then say it that way --- because that's how I would say it because I am precise. There is NOTHING spectacular about Intrinsity's tweak --- we ain't seeing the Hummingbird capturing massive amount of mar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum What is a "COMPATIBLE core"? What does that have to do with what Apple and Samsung are doing? . Qualcomm and Marvell sells chips that have cores that they designed themselves. They don't use t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum OK, given all that, why do you continue to assert: "EVERYBODY" ... "takes about 6 years"? By the dates you provided, Samsung/Intrinsity took a little over 2 years for the Hummingbird. I suspe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism It didn?t occur to you that ?A4? could simply refer to Apple?s versioning of ARM CPUs as a whole because there is no other known term for Apple?s A4 marketing. For all you know Apple will keep ?A4? for ARMv7 …
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It didn't take long for Intrinsity to make the Hummingbird for Samsung. http://www.redorbit.com/news/technol...wer/index.html
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum @Hiro refuted every one of your prior post's points! No, he hasn't --- because he kept changing his arguments (while my arguments have been the same). He was originally talking about Apple releasin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro You ignore all of this and get absolutist in that if someone doesn't subscribe to your flawed timeline they are just plain wrong. Well as usual, absolutist makes for a fragile, brittle stance that just doesn't ho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hiro Lets not go down this road again shall we? You failed utterly in another thread on the same set of related arguments. Your factoids don't mean all companies see the same failure rates, especially when what t…