rcomeau

qwwera said:

Apple needs to hurry up and ditch Intel yesterday. I hope arm development is getting close.

So the company that makes the most powerful processors is not progressing at your desired pace, so Apple should ditch the entire platform (with all the obvious challenges and drawbacks) at the first sign of another chip company maybe catching up? Where is the logic in that?

"I'm guessing, heat under high load heats air quick, air takes more volume, escapes through a tiny hole (see balloon)."

Remember Steve Jobs used to toss iPods in the water and said if there were any bubbles, the iPod could get smaller? Look at how much smaller the phones are (and how much more is packed in there). There is no volume of air that can do that.

If it is actually there, it is electronic hum as others have guessed.

How many Apple employees are employed in the US? How much money from foreign sales help pay for that?

The days of manufacturing anything in one country (or even tracking that sort of thing) are over. Your customers are worldwide. Your supply chain is worldwide. Your manufacturing is worldwide. This is the world today.

Have a look at countries with protectionist rules like the ones Trump is suggesting: Brazil, Argentina, etc... How are they doing? Do they have a healthy middle class? No, they have worse rich/poor distribution than we do.