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  • Apple leaders join Sun Valley billionaires' summer camp for 2025

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    rob53 said:
    The sad thing is that none of these people actually do the work necessary to make a billion dollars, they simply lead lots of vastly lower paid employees who are the real people who design and build the products these people get the credit for. Sorry Tim Cook, you haven't designed an Apple product and only got your job because Steve Jobs unfortunately died. Of course even Steve wasn't the one who designed the first Apple products, he was the great(est) salesman (not snake-oil salesman) in history.
    Apple's market cap in October 2011 (when Steve Jobs passed away) was approximately $180 billion. It was $3000 billion at the end of last year - subsequently the US government tariff policies have knocked about 15-20% off that, but still... that's a pretty big increase and you certainly shouldn't be condemning Tim Cook for shepherding the company through to those giddy heights. I'd say he's done a stellar job.
    muthuk_vanalingamjem101

  • Apple leaders join Sun Valley billionaires' summer camp for 2025

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    Well this isn't going to trigger either the conspiracy fantasists or the 'fire Tim Cook' trolls at all, is it‽   :smiley: 
    jem101

  • Apple stocks plummet, as Trump threatens 104% tariff on China

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    auxio said:
    I have no doubt that there's an endgame where him and his insiders get rich by tanking the economy, then buying up stocks and bankrupt companies at rock bottom. Everyone else just got conned.
    I'd wager someone somewhere in his orbit was shorting Apple stock and just made a killing.
    auxiobadmonkronnmike1apple4thewinwatto_cobra

  • Apple stocks plummet, as Trump threatens 104% tariff on China

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    This is lunacy.

    And people used to complain about Biden being senile...
    lordjohnwhorfinJaiOh81blastdoorpurplepearMisterKitGraeme000londorbadmonkstarof80hmurchison

  • Benchmarks show that Intel's Alder Lake chips aren't M1 Max killers

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    waveparticle said:
    cogitodexter said:
    Serious question:

    What does an Intel Core i9 do that requires it to be as power inefficient in the same processing circumstances as an AS M1 Max?

    Presumably there's a reason why it draws so much more current to achieve the same ends? Are there features in it that are not replicated in the M1 Max? 

    I'm assuming the architecture is radically different, but what stops Intel from changing to that architecture?
    Power is consumed when a transistor switch from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. Switching is controlled by clock cycles. The more switching the more power is consumed. 
    Well, that is presumably a given. And possibly at a slightly lower level than I was alluding to. More specifically, is there some set of processing or overall design feature that Intel does wrong? Or does it do more 'stuff' that the M1 doesn't do? Is it required to support legacy ways of doing stuff that the M1 is free from? 
    watto_cobra