danox

It hasn’t even been a year since Apple announced Apple Intelligence and what their roadmap was for it, in the last 25 years many of the major projects Apple took on took years of iteration design engineering to come into existence, however far too many short-term thinking people believe everything should be instantaneous, and conversely, when a carnival barker comes along and spins a massive yarn/fantasy Elon, or the whole bitcoin, crypto industry, no problem give them infinite time.

Apple isn’t even close to Microsoft, (Recall AI, Blizzard acquisition, CloudStrike Kernel presence, Surface Computers, or the wasted Billions-financing OpenAI) in 12 to 18 months. (I count five possible class action suits for Microsoft alone).

Take a look at this link, the ultra M3 Mac Studio debuted at number 12 on the blender benchmark test 40 positions higher than the ultra M2 Mac Studio released one generation ago. Nvidia feelings will be hurt soon enough, and because they are a tech company they can see that convergence is probably only one generation away even the geeks on the tech sites are riled up because they can also see Apple’s trajectory. (Which is probably within a year).

What does that mean? It means that Apple’s hardware/software future is very bright. (The ultra M5 or M6 will be at the top of the chart within one or two generations?). Iteration takes time it’s only been 9 to 10 months since Apple announced anything for Apple Intelligence.

What this chart can’t show is the fact that the energy efficiency of the Apple Silicon chips are second to none at this time, most of the chips (Nvidia) featured on this list require 1000 watts or more, the Apple Silicon chips require less than 140 watts for everything CPU/SOC and GPU…. Users/Investors should look ahead. Apple is executing behind the scenes probably too much for the EU however, who thinks Apple should share everything with their competition for the sake of fairness.

That would be a home run out of the past it’s currently a penny stock, at one time it’s high watermark was $22 a share, coincidentally I bought 12,000 shares for pennies back in 2005-2012 (kept them for fun), you can still buy shares on E*TRADE for .0548 per share…… I also bought 400 shares of Apple and a bunch of shares of Pixar, which had a two for one split and later was converted to Disney stock when Steve Jobs sold Pixar to Disney.

9secondkox2 said:

Terrible value proposition. 

I’ve a theory that Apple could sell this for much less and end up making more due to volume. Right now it’s very niche. 

Would be great to see apple get the accolades it deserves as not only a performance per watt leader, but as an all-out straight up performance king. 

It’s too bad they went with m3 ultra instead of 4. Would have been perfect timing to hurt Nvidias feelings. 

Javert24601 said:

lotones said:

There's a real simple solution here: Apple should just make a separate model, the iPhone eu, sold only in the EU, with it's own version of iOSeu, that has no privacy protections, very few features, and complies with their stupid DMA, but doesn't give away any intellectual property. When it becomes riddled with bugs, malware, spyware, let it crash and burn.

When they see the rest of Apple's customers worldwide moving on, EU customers will have to make their choice, and remove those responsible for this obnoxious DMA policy, and repeal or modify the DMA to be more practical.

The issue with this approach is that they will have to fork iOS development again.  I already wonder if there aren't already too many iOS versions that Apple uses for itself.  And, what would be the point of offering new hardware?  

The fork is coming not because Apple wants to, but it will have to. It was nice while it lasted, but you’re gonna have to have different devices for a different regions of the world.

xyzzy-xxx said:

Any app on a Windows PC can communicate with any app on a Mac via networking without any problem.
This was enabled by Apple itself when they discontinued AppleTalk and replaced it by Microsofts SMB protocol.
Apple can do this for iOS too (and has done with restrictions), using WiFi, Bluetooth and RFID / NFC.
Some restrictions that need to be lifted is that a third party host app on an iPhone / iPad would need to be able to run in the background while the device is locked.
In addition to that, apple would need to make some private APIs public.

This would allow third party devices to communicate through an iPhone or iPad.

While they’re at it maybe Apple should allow third parties to operate in kernel space of all their devices why not for the sake of competition goodwill to all? After all, that’s what Microsoft has been stupidly doing.

Apple stick a fork in the road……