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  • Apple A14 in 'iPhone 12' said to be as fast as the iPad Pro

    ericthehalfbeeericthehalfbee
    daven said:
    That begs the question... If the next generation iPhone is as fast as the current iPad Peo, how fast will the next generation iPad Pro be?

    Ludicrous Speed.
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  • Apple A14 in 'iPhone 12' said to be as fast as the iPad Pro

    ericthehalfbeeericthehalfbee
    ednl said:
    Multicore less than 1% better despite much higher clock, and Metal score lower. I wouldn't call this huge gains.

    A12X has 8 cores (4 large cores). To have a 6 core processor (2 large cores) score about the same is pretty good.

    A12X is the fastest ARM mobile processor on the planet, by a significant amount. To get the same performance from a phone SoC (not a tablet SoC that has higher power/thermals) is pretty impressive.

    Compared to the A13, the A14 results shown here are 25-35% faster in single, multi and metal. Apples lead over Samsung, Qualcomm, Huawei and ARM has been expanded even further.
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  • A8, A8X: How Apple's custom silicon hit Samsung with a one-two punch

    ericthehalfbeeericthehalfbee
    A few other points from 2014.

    - In Feb 2014 Samsung announced that Galaxy S sales hit the 200 million milestone.
    - iPhone sales over the same time period as the Galaxy S was available were at 413 million (Apple sales continued to climb for years while Samsung saws dropped).
    - Even at their peak, Samsung didn’t sell half as many flagships as the iPhone.
    - Though Samsung sold 200 million Galaxy S phones, they sold a total of appx 650 million “smartphones”.
    So even with the Galaxy S having their best sales ever, they still accounted for less than 1 in 3 smartphone sales (today it’s around 1 in 5 with most Samsung phones sold being low-end models).
    - Early 2014 was also when Samsung STOPPED reporting sales (they never reported actual sales - they only announced when certain “milestones” were reached, for example, hitting 10 million sales).
    - Samsung also stopped updating their webpage of “10 Million Seller Club” which listed all their phones that hit 10 million in sales.

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  • Apple under fire for onerous independent third-party repair terms

    ericthehalfbeeericthehalfbee
    Pretty common in automotive.

    For example, BMW will audit dealers and go through several ROs (repair orders). If they find an issue they will extrapolate back to the total number of ROs you’ve done with the same specific repair and then fine you. A single fraudulent RO of $1,000 could end up netting you a fine of $50K or more. They will assume all the repairs you’ve done were fraudulent (for that specific repair).
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  • The top malware threat for macOS infects one in 10 users

    ericthehalfbeeericthehalfbee
    macplusplus said:
    Security firm Kaspersky says that in 2019 the Shlayer Trojan infected one in ten Mac users,
    No it doesn't say that.

    It says "one in ten of our Mac security solutions encountered this malware at least once".

    https://securelist.com/shlayer-for-macos/95724/

    If their "Mac security solutions" are installed on 1/100,000 of total active Macs, the one tenth of that makes 1/1,000,000 of total active Macs.


    While I get what you're trying to say, your math is wrong.

    If 1 in 1,000 people surveyed had the malware then you'd have 1,000 out of 1,000,000 and so on. As long as the 1,000 is a representative sample of all users, then you can extrapolate the entire infection rate from that sample.

    What you're implying is that only users of Kaspersky products are seeing this malware.


    That said, the title is incorrect. It implies that 10% of the entire Mac user base has an infected computer, when Kaspersky is saying that 10% of users will see this attack show up. There's a big difference between an attempted attack (extremely common) and a successful installation of malware (far less common).
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