ericthehalfbee

lkrupp said:

Meanwhile they give Google a gold star? WTF?

They don't give that to the entirety of Google - only to RAPPOR, a tiny subset of their data gathering.

Though many people like to throw around Google and differential privacy together to infer Google uses it in all their products/services.

avon b7 said:

A follow up to my previous post. Huawei just let slip some information by accident.

http://www.techradar.com/news/huawei-just-accidentally-revealed-the-mate-10-chipset-early-at-ifa-2017

They are claiming the world's first mobile AI processing unit.

The official presentation isn't until tomorrow but if what is being claimed actually works on the device, they may have upped the ante a little. This makes me think Apple might also have something along those lines for their big reveal on the 12th.

Nobody cares. Even "if" they have a machine learning processor on board, how will it get used? The biggest problem with Android is device makers adding their own custom hardware that isn't actually supported by Android. So none of your Apps will properly take advantage of those features.

The rest of the 970 is generic off-the-shelf A73, A53 and Mali parts. Nothing new here, just another SoC based on ARM cores. At least Samsung and Qualcomm are now trying their hand at making their own custom cores, although they are still WAY behind Apple in this regard. The A11 should hit 4,000 single core, which makes it literally double that of the 835 or 8895. Quite amazing how far ahead Apple is. 

Count me as one of those. Returned my SP4 after only a few days.

Had one, returned it after 3 days. Useless as a tablet. Better to just get a good Windows laptop (many to choose from).

We do, however, use one at work. For a very specific function which it excels at (and which normal consumers would never come across). So it does have its uses, however limited they are.

Considering Bixby is actually Viv (who Samsung acquired) I don't buy their excuses for having trouble with English. There's something else going on. 

Viv is an American company based in San Jose. And I'm pretty sure all the demos they showed over a year ago were in, wait for it, English.