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maciekskontakt said:

netrox said:

I appreciate Apple's attempt to diverse though but the fact that rivals have difficulties show that Samsung is just the king of high quality manufacturing and has the talented team of engineers to do that. 
 

Not only Samsung. OLED originates from LG. LG as well and it has been for years. Now, Apple Samsung and Sony uses it in addition to LG.

That is displays for mobile devices, but guess who dominates OLED market for large TV's.... LG then Sony that got it from LG and now Samsung seems to be dropping their QLED and went OLED. Now Apple.

So it is not exactly Samsung that is root of OLED displays.

Im not sure what you mean OLED originates with LG.  Samsung produces its own OLED's, but have been focused on small form factor vs LG which has prioritized large form factors until more recently.  LG uses a WRGB OLED panel, and sold those panels to Sony, Vizio and other tv manufactures.  However Samsung just released QD OLED televisions, which instead of using a WRGB sub pixel layout like LG, which has individual white, red, green and blue subpixels, they are only using blue pixels and using the quantum dot sub pixels to either pass the blue or filter it to a Green or red.  So far, its allowing them to produce brighter more accurate colors than LG, since they don't have to pump in white light(the W in WRGB) to pump up the brightness.  Sony switched to Samsung panels for this benefit in their most recent high end OLED tv's due to these advantages.  

future man said:

I think that the progression of time has passed the Kindle device as an all-in-one iPad device offers so much greater device utilization!

The Kindle and iPad are great complements to each other.  I regularly switch between my iPhone, ipad and kindle when reading a book depending on my location.  When traveling, I generally don't have to worry about my Kindle's battery for a week long trip, its always ready to go.  If I could only have one, I would take the ipad, but would definitely recommend an Kindle to anyone who is an avid reader and is not tied to paper.  

slow n easy said:

dantheman827 said:

I wonder how many of those are users who have no choice because they use iOS?

There is a choice. You can download Chrome on iOS.

Chrome on iOS is not Chromium based, its Webkit based.  Apple requires other browsers to use the Webkit rendering engine, they do not allow other rendering engines on iOS(IE, not chromium based browsers).  So essentially, your using a skinned version of Safari if you opt into chrome.

lorca2770 said:

Sad that there is not Safari for PC, then, it would be different

Safari used to be available for PC, however support for it ended due to "lack of interest" around 2012.  It had a marginal market share in the PC browser space.

Beats said:

bulk001 said:

 

“They haven’t done much of anything”

I love how people pretend Apple Watch and AirPods aren’t some of the biggest inventions in human history and didn’t just happen within the past 10 years.

Heres some world changing products I can randomly think of from the past 2 decades:

iPod
iTunes
Nintendo Wii
Apple earbuds with mic
iPhone
iPad
Siri
Tesla Cars
ApplePay
Apple Watch
AirPods

People expect Apple to create a world changing product every 2 years but that’s just not probable. I mean if you look at the last 2 decades it’s hard to string that many products referencing ALL tech companies COMBINED.

But buying EA, a software company that doesn’t build hardware will be a revolutionary product or revolutionary decision? Come on man….

I find myself both agreeing and disagreeing with you, mainly because I don't think half of your list is "world changing".  I think its safe to say that the iPod was a revolution in the MP3 player market, but it was the iTunes store model that was truly market changing, resulting in standardizing market pricing and making purchasing music just as convenient as pirating.  The iphone and ipad were true revolutions, I would throw the M1 chip in their as its a revolution in performance per watt and gives you desktop performance(in many metrics) in very efficient/portable devices.  While I think its a stretch to say Applepay was world changing, it did helped popularize NFC based payments.  However, this already existed and was much more widespread in Europe using cards with NFC built in.  Siri has never lived up to the promise and has languished.  Apple Watch is the best device in its category(though I would argue for Garmin if your really serious about exercise tracking), but even it had to shift to a health and fitness device from the original fashion device category.  And airpods are top tier bluetooth headphones and very popular, but I don't think they are world changing, as brands like Sony and beats already existed in that market with basically the same feature set, other than the custom chips for pairing with iphones.  I also think the Wii was an absolute dead end and the Switch would go on my list as more revolutionary, but all this is just my personal opinion.

Sorry, long winded response, but I do agree that apple gains very little from EA.  Any creativity that EA used to have is gone, they are more likely to put out iterative, loot box containing sequels instead of anything exciting and new.  They have blundered multiple online game launches, had to strip out pay to win features after fans revolted, and continue to make a big chunk of their revenue of the Fifa ultimate league, which is pay to win.  So no, I don't see much good in buying EA.  Also, someone else mentioned EA's proprietary Frostbite engine, but I have always heard that it presents a ton of development headaches and has been forced onto the various development teams.  I think Unreal Engine 5 is leaps and bounds ahead of other engines, and we will see less and less proprietary engines.