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iPhone 18 Pro expected to have a variable aperture camera system
It’s not a flop. Sony could only make 400,000 to 500,000 pairs of screens. That’s a hard limit on sales. Apple NEVER expected large sales of this. The most important thing about this is that companies are taking this up very well. They’ve sold most of them and have finally opened it up to sales in a number of other companies. That’s why it’s called “Pro”, because it’s not expected to sell in high numbers.pulseimages said:Speaking of the Vision Pro, when’s the last time Apple had as big of a flop on its hands?
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iPhone 18 Pro expected to have a variable aperture camera system
You really don’t know what you are taking about.Pema said:
Clearly you are not all that bright! You missed the whole point about PRODUCTS THAT CHANGE THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE. Services is just that services. The fact that it is growing in leaps and bounds is not relevant. Apple is in essence and always has been a hardware/software company not a services company.charlesn said:
Thank you, Pema, for a such a superlative summary of all your posts. Have you considered therapy for your Jobs fetish? Gosh, I hope you're not stalking Laurene just to feel "closer" to him. My advice: please avoid anything criminal and just buy a piece of Jobs memorabilia from ebay. Surely there must be a pen or something that he touched once that you can buy and worship... maybe make it the centerpiece of a homemade Steve altar, although I suspect that you've already created one.Pema said:What a complete and total miscue.
Apple is the world's most valuable and admired company today for a long list of products and developments having nothing to do with Steve. Chief among them is the Services Division, now the 2nd highest revenue generator for Apple after iPhone and--most importantly--the fastest growing and most profitable segment for Apple BY FAR. Services now equals one half of iPhone's gross revenue, but... Services gross revenue is growing SIXTY TIMES faster than iPhone: 12% annually vs. 2/10ths of 1%. Services gross margin is also about 80% higher than iPhone gross margin: 74% vs. 42%. Do the math. Apple would be in terrible shape right now if it were relying on the products that were created under Steve--essentially, there would be little to no growth and little prospect for growth. Thanks to Tim, it has Services, Wearables and Apple Silicon that are powering an enormous amount of profitability now and a bright future for the company.
But in your limited understanding you equal revenue = visionary products that change the way we live and communicate: iPhone, iPad the Mac.
All that Cook & Co. are doing is reaping the seeds he sawed. But that can only go so far. What's next iPad 95, iPhone 101 etc. etc.
We need something groundbreaking. Not some dumbass Mixed Reality headset.
But you can't see that.
If Steve were at the helm we would have the next big thing. Not services. Apple is not a digital supermarket. -
M5 Pro may separate out GPU and CPU for new server-grade performance
I’ve been saying for some time that Apple could do this so that they could use larger GPU assemblies, but was struck down every time.
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iPhone 18 Pro expected to have a variable aperture camera system
Correct. I simply don’t understand the purpose of this other than to help exposure in extremely bright situations. It could help there. But first depth of field considerations, where the ultrawide already has an enormous depth of field, it would do nothing useful. Though, it might help corner sharpness a bit. But how many stops are we talking about? One would do nothing g for depth of field, but would help sharpen ul these corners a bit. Two stops could bake a big improvement in that. Ut his corrected is this lens now? If it’s highly corrected, diffraction might set in with just one stop. So corners might be sharper, but overall, it might be less sharp. A few years ago, Samsung tried a variable aperture and it didn’t go well. Nothing was gained.mino21 said:"With a variable aperture, users who want the real thing can actually get it without any post-processing assistance. "This is not correct. It is exactly opposite. Variable aperture will allow you blur the background less, not more. The lens has some size through which the light can go. For iPhone 16 Pro main camera, it is 3.8 mm. Variable aperture will not allow you to make this hole larger than 3.8mm, but smaller than that. Have you seen Stargate SG-1 and the iris there? It is not making the opening of the stargate larger, but smaller up to zero. When the opening is smaller, depth of field is larger, the background is blurred less, not more. The problem is that the background blur is so large today that we are facing different problem, tooooo much blur. Variable aperture will allow the photographer to get rid of the blur, increase corner sharpness and being able to have more things at focus.
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Apple-Nvidia collaboration triples speed of AI model production
Good one! Apple has had a feud with Nvidia for a long time. It started with CUDA. Apple came up with their own software for that which was better. ATI embraced it, but Nvidia didn’t allow it in their GPUs. That was the first problem. The second was as linked to above, when Nvidia changed their production to different solder balls. It didn’t tell the manufacturer of the sub boards the chips were then soldered to. When the incompatible solder connections began to fail for all manufacturers, and we had two iMacs that failed because of this, Nvidia refused to take responsibility. Eventually they had to put $500,000,000 into an escrow account for manufacturers to dip into, but it wasn’t adequate.netrox said:
What makes you think Apple wasn't friendly with Nvidia?elijahg said:So Apple is finally friendly with Nvidia again?
Apple hasn’t used Nvidia since. So this is interesting and somewhat surprising.
