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Quote: Originally Posted by tooltalk No, Samsung is the only manufacturer Apple relies on ARM chips. Apple initially used PortalPlayer's ARM chips in earlier iPod, but switched to Samsung's custom ARM based SOC's since 2006. Samsung collabor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheOtherGeoff Apple by nature (since it's NeXT days) has fully supported universal development [at one point RS6000,HP-RISC, Intel, 68K, and rumors of MIPS binaries for OpenSTEP existed as 'fat' binaries]. That's …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheOtherGeoff you forget that Samsung can take the open source code and convert themselves. The don't have to wait for Google to do it. The bigger issue is that what about all those fragments and developers cro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by scottt732 PaulMJohnson, BigMac2 -- The pain around the 32-bit to 64-bit was felt by the developers, not by consumers (unless you were waiting on a developer to update an app you needed). It works like this. You have…
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Quote: Originally Posted by scottt732 Here's what the 'raw power' of 64-bit actually means. Instead of a pointer to a location in memory being 32-bits, it's 64-bits. Each bit can be 0 or 1 (2 states). So instead of 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 by…
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Quote: Originally Posted by narnio From a technical standpoint, 64 bits is not needed for a mobile device. This change is all about bragging rights. Hopefully consumers will wise up to the lack of need for 64-bits and save themselves some mon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by scottt732 A 64-bit processor isn't a big deal unless the device has > 4GB of RAM. The fact that either company is using it for marketing purposes at this point is ridiculous. Will it make Apple's life easier to hav…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Constable Odo Anything Apple can do, Samsung can do it better by copying and sell it for less. They've been doing that for years and beating the hell out of rivals with that business model. Samsung will likely prove …
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Quote: Originally Posted by YourBuddy A couple of things... First, don't bash Samsung for making junk. Why? The A7 is made by Samung, at least in part if not entirely: http://************/2013/07/31/apples-upcoming-a7-iphone-chip-will-have-sa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BUSHMAN4 5C is a respectable IPhone however wouldn't most people that are buying this iPhone rather spend another $100 and get the 5S?? Pricing is too high for the China market where Apple wants to be big in You …
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I wonder how much time the competition while take to follow Apple 64bit steps. While I do think an 64 bits mobile processor is a kind of waste for a phone right now, eventually every mobile device will go with a 64 bit processor. Apple as play thi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rain The iPod... innovation. The first iPhone... innovation. The first iPad... innovation. iPhone frame made of antenna array... innovation. The new Mac Pro's... innovation. As far as the competition in computer/mob…
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Quote: Originally Posted by PJWilkin The 5S for me is a mixed bag on the plus side ... it supports more LTE bands and has a fingerprint sensor, and 64 bit on the minus side ... No 128GB model, and no NFC I feel the Fingerprint reader would…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rain Drop the fanboism... it's tired and old. You didn't list a single 'innovation'. A faster chip is not 'innovation' - it's progress. "Much better camera" is not innovation - not when competitors have better ones …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lowest Skil now 3%.... Mmm Samesong stocks is down 2.48% today without announcing anything does it mean they go bankrupt?
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Can't wait for next year revision with a bigger screen. /s
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Quote: Originally Posted by timgriff84 Also the MVC model used by wpf and winrt are identical there both xaml based. As is windows phone and silverlight. Also im not a mac or ios dev but I would be surprised if it wasnt the exact same situation.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by timgriff84 Metro apps are not mostly HTML + Javascript. The last stats I saw put HTML at around 5 - 10% of the stores apps. The overwhelming majority are still being written in C#. The .net framework for metro (whi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil That's not a consideration. Content has to be available first. Computers tend to adopt higher resolution first because it not depend much about content. I still remember my 1920x1200 ElectronBlue C…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DroidFTW Remember this post of yours when iPhones add 4k video recording capability at some point down the road. Sure, but Desktop PC and TV screen aren't even there yet.