melgross

It’s about time! I don’t know why Apple would think that the majority of people listen to classical through their phones, but I can assure them that it’s not true. I was very disappointed with the app therefor. My music server has always been a Macbook Pro. It’s currently the 13.3” Macbook Pro. It works very well, but classical is not a happy experience in Apple Music. The iPhone app was useless. I read about a month ago that Apple released a version for the iPad, but it was wrong. I’m going now to download it and I hope it works well on my Mac as many other apps do.

Just another thing to worry about in a world with plenty to worry about.

No, I don’t want a thinner phone. That boat has left the dock. The thinness wars have been over for two or three years now, and good riddance! All it did, to lose a couple of millimeters was to cut down on functionality. Smaller battery, more difficulty giving better cameras, etc. Moving to slightly thicker phones has seen improvements. Seriously, how may people really notice a millimeter, or even two, difference in thickness? Pretty much nobody. Yeah, yeah, some will claim it’s such a burden they cry over it.

but the cameras are really getting good. I want them to continue on that path. If they add another millimeter to the camera bump, then great, if it helps. Moulded glass lenses will help because, while there’s nothing special about them, other than optical glass can have greater refractive indices than the plastic lenses often used, they can be made in shapes that ground lenses can’t, because ground elements are ground on a machine that has elements on the surface of a spherical surface, the diameter of which duplicates the surface curvature of the element, one side of the element at a time. So obviously the greater the curve the smaller the sphere and so the fewer elements that can be ground and polished at once. That drives cost up dramatically, which is one reason top lenses cost so much. Aspherical elements can only be ground and polished one at a time, so mostly they’ve been molded for quite some time.

so if it’s true that we’ll “see” moulded optical glass elements next year, it’s pretty exciting. If they can stuff another element in there as a result of the thinner elements, that opens up possibilities. With periscope lenses, there is no reason why true optical zooms can’t happen. With more elements packed together, it’s more likely.

but a good 30 years ago, Phillips showed an element that changed its curvature with small electrical currents. Our eyes changes focus by muscles pulling and pushing on the lens. If someone could perfect that, we could have much better lenses.

If this is true, about three versions available quickly, at once, it mirrors what I’ve been saying. All the hard work has been dine with the M1 series. That’s where most of the R&D went and most of the design and production time and money. It became easier with M2 as they already knew how to do it and with version 3, M3, it’s pretty much a done deal, so they weren’t chewing their fingernails every time a new, higher end chip came out.

so there’s no reason why Apple, like AMD and Intel, can’t come out with several varieties of chips at once. Also, most likely, they don’t have that many types. The Extreme and Ultra are two chips with the on chip interconnects. So they can be made on the same wafer as the lower version. When tested, they would be separated by binning. If bothe chips connected are good, it’s an Extreme or Ultra. If one is good, then it’s not.

eightzero said:

NB: AAPL price falls scary fast following this event announcement.

Nothing to do with this. You might have noticed the entire market has been dropping.