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  • Intel officials believe that ARM Macs could come as soon as 2020

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    lorin schultz said:
    qwwera said:
    The biggest companies will. Above Autodesk Absolutely. Others may die. But then there is opportunity with newer players. All the iPad prosumer companies can now go full balls. It’s a win for everyone.
    Others won't die, they'll just quit bothering to make Mac versions of their products. Users will just switch to Windows.

    Suddenly being presented with a new and almost certainly less capable platform to learn and, most importantly, integrate into a workflow with other contributors, is neither a "win" for me nor a gamble on which I'm willing to bet my livelihood.

    qwwera said:
    who uses Final Cut Pro
    Nobody.

    qwwera said:
    who uses Final Cut X.
    Almost nobody. That's a pity because it's a good tool, but the reality is I haven't been sent a project cut on Final Cut in at least five years, maybe longer. I don't know why. My broadcast clients are still using Avid, but my corporate and production company clients are all using Premiere. It seems weird to me, but also cautionary: Big changes may lead to big gains, but if not managed VERY carefully they can also kill you.

    Remember also that what may seem like an obscure, unnecessary feature to someone operating at a basic level may be an absolute, deal-breaker, essential requirement for a higher-end facility or operator. It's not as easy as just switching from one application to another. Take away a particular workflow function and dominos start falling all over the place -- asset interchange, collaboration tools, approval systems, delivery streams, integration procedures, versioning management -- any of which can cripple an entire team if not supported properly. If you think anyone is going to risk that kind of investment on a new, unproven, repurposed from iOS app, you're either very cutely naive or certifiably insane! :)
    FCP X and LP X have very large user bases. You don't know shit about either if you think they are insignificant revenue streams. Least you forget, FCP X and LP X are the two highest grossing apps in the AppStore for the respective categories. Each release FCP X keeps accelerating its professional user base. LP X is the gold standard for DAWs.
    watto_cobracanukstorm

  • Intel officials believe that ARM Macs could come as soon as 2020

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    tipoo said:
    mdriftmeyer said:
    BS. If it were coming to MacOS then AMD Threadripper and Ryzen would already be here.
    How does this statement make any sense? What does AMD have to do with Apple planning to switch to their own ARM chips, AMD using x86/AMD64? 
    It means Intel is deflecting. Apple needs Thunderbolt, period. It's the only reason they've stuck with Intel after Zen came out. Intel has ZERO threat of ARM supplanting them on the desktop and laptop, never mind the Data Center. They have every concern of AMD and future generations using their superior products for LESS COST.

    Apple was ecstatic when Intel announced Thunderbolt would be open sourced. Intel has dragged its feet for nearly 2 years since the announcement and it is still not royalty free and released.

    So there is no rational basis for Apple to invest heavily into augmenting their ARM designs for a workstation [Mac Pro], never mind the desktop/laptop [And no iOS is fast because it is very limited in multi-user/multithreaded, multi-core based processing that will be a must on macOS. There are literally hundreds to thousands of processess/threads that are and can be running inside OS X that ARM won't ever supplant what is coming down the pike.

    Basic threads and processes on my Macbook Pro 13: 1391 threads, 346 processes. The ARM would get slammed with that and that is nothing when pushing an iMac Pro or Mac Pro.

    If you think Apple is going to screw over developers with ARM with the Mac Pro you're effing nuts.

    Intel bound Apple when Apple [and as a former NeXT/Apple Engineer I was there] needed a fusion of legitimacy, especially when IBM crapped the bed. At NeXT we made a Quad FAT architecture for the OS because Motorola fucked us over more times than you can imagine on their designs. HP did the same thing. The HP PA-RISC ran circles around x86 at the time. HP did nothing to follow through.

    Sun was just a clusterfuck of stupid with regards to the OpenStep initiative. Sun wanted all revenues on the Hardware and to force us to cut the cost of OpenStep licensing. So people were ``shocked'' that didn't take off? Please.

    ARM dictates designs. Apple modifies but within those design specs.

    You keep believing those pissant benchmarks the mobile world shows as performance figures. Throw 500 processes and 2000 threads at an iPhone and it crashes. There is a reason Apple has very limited subsets of functionality tuned around the tightly coupled hardware constraints.
    dt17larryjwDeelronMacPro

  • AMD unveils Radeon 7 graphics card likely to appear in future pro Macs

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    The MI60 custom OEM ASIC will be in the Mac Pro. These are MI60 cut downs by 4 Computational Units (CU). They are a direct equivalent sans the professional drivers and focus being on Machine Learning.

    Apple will never use Nvidia as Apple's focus runs in-line with AMD and its hardware. Apple develops the entire driver stack for AMD's cards. Dual 16GB HBM2 Vega 20s will be a beast, and at a far lower price point.

    The RTX 2080 is slower than Vega II and over $100 more.

    Google Stream is using the Vega II for its streaming data centers along with EPYC 2. It's a value proposition combo that Nvidia/Intel can't touch.
    hodard_2baconstangwatto_cobra

  • Apple to detail revised down Q1 2019 revenue on Jan. 29

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    lenn said:
    HAHA. Looks like people are starting to wake up and refusing to pay these outrageous prices just to keep Cook's sky high profit margins going. At least I hope that's the case. So crazy to spend 1k or more on a damn phone!
    You didn't read or perhaps comprehend the article. With China banning the sale of iPhones it is accounting for the drop in sales revenues.


    "Lower than anticipated iPhone revenue, primarily in Greater China, accounts for all of our revenue shortfall to our guidance and for much more than our entire year-over-year revenue decline," Cook said.

    Specifically, Apple failed to foresee a deceleration in China's economy that was in part spurred on by increased trade tensions with the U.S.

    Beyond macroeconomic factors and U.S. dollar strength-related price increases, Cook blamed the revenue miss on miscalculated upgrade demand. In particular, the executive said low-cost battery replacements and fewer carrier subsidies are hindering the usual upgrade cycle.


    In summary:

    1. Trade War with China thanks to the lunatic in the WH has China retaliating against US phone sellers [It won't just be Apple getting fucked]
    2. Trade tensions grinding everything down
    3. Telcos are pulling back subsidy options across the board

    The Telcos want new contracts with the phone manufacturers and/or in on co-development. They also want the Fed to fully subsidize their asses while charging tiers to consumers.

    There isn't just tensions between the idiot in the WH and China, there is going to be and explosion of backlash by consumers for the Telcos ignorance of what they can leverage.
    dedgecko

  • Apple starts selling LumaForge video production servers to business customers

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    Here's the correct link:

    philboogie