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Intel's first 'Ice Lake' 10-nanometer processors aimed at notebooks are shipping soon
Dell has already announced XPS 13 machines with i7 and i5 Ice Lake CPUs, just contradicting what you are claimingprismatics said:Don‘t expect 10 nm to come anytime soon for devices that are more complex than dual core ultra low power, maybe quad core. The defect density in 10 nm will never get to levels where it is viable to replace 14 nm.
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Apple facing class action lawsuit over alleged iTunes & Apple Music data sale
titantiger said:Call me crazy, but yeah. It's not that I don't think a corporation would sell information on the side and not really tell you about it, or like Google make claims that privacy matters but sell your stuff anyway. But I don't believe Apple would brazenly advertise privacy as a core commitment and an advantage over their competitors while selling my info on the sly. Plus, it doesn't really make sense for Apple. It doesn't help their business model at all and in fact would kill their reputation. They couldn't make enough money from it to put all that at risk.Google does not sell your data. Google sells an advertisement service where your data is being used, but your data is never exposed outside of Google. I've done several ad campaigns with Google and I never got hold of the details of the persons who viewed or clicked the ad. It would not make sense for Google to sell the data if their whole business is built around it. Nobody sells its crown jewels.I do believe that Apple is not selling and exposing your personal details to anyone else. Also here, it would not make sense. But the marketing story Apple is sending out is slightly misleading. Any app developer can collect an enormous amount of data, even without asking personal details. You would be surprised if you would see how much personal data can be obtained just from tracking the IP address of your device. You can pay a visit the site of e.g. Maxmind who sells IP address related information to companies. If an app has a legitimate reason to ask for your e-mail address or your personal coordinates, then this opens up a whole lot of possibilities for the app developer without violating the app store guidelines
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Samsung Galaxy S10 5G now on sale via Verizon, but can only use 5G network in two cities
GG1 said:chasm said:I did in fact say that ever sub-6 “5G” would offer improvements, actually, but I used the term “more efficient” rather that you (better) “lower latency” term. But in more typical use — surfing, watching a video, texting, calling — there’s not going to be anything like the kind of speed increases the hype we’re seeing would suggest, and we’re many years away from a level playing field where every gamer has the same low latency you’re (over) emphasizing. That’s my point.You may be mixing up latency and speed (throughput). 5G's most obvious improvement is latency, so gaming (copr's comment) and other mission critical applications (remote medical procedures, such as surgery, and intelligent transportation, such as cars talking to cars and to infrastructure) would now be possible with even the cheapest 5G phone/modem. And this would happen over existing (legacy) frequencies. I doubt speed would increase much, if any (but I'm not 100% sure).But mmWave opens you up to far greater speeds vs. legacy frequencies purely by the virtue of much higher operating frequencies. That's where the marketeers are having their fun convincing you to buy 5G phones now (most of which are not mmWave-capable). Unless you meant "wait for mmWave for the speed increases," in which case you are correct.5G using the existing frequencies does increase the speed if the base station is used at full capacity. A mobile cell is a bit like a cable network, it is a shared medium. So If you have a 4G base station with 100 users connected each at 1 Mbit/s, the same 5G base station will be able to serve 100 users at 3 Mbit/s. This is a bit of a simplification of the reality because the bandwidth a user actually gets depends on a lot of parameters, like e.g. the distance to the base station. Nevertheless the principle remains, the total bandwidth of all connected users of 5G base station will be roughly 3 times that of 4G station
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Editorial: Arguing over iPhone 'Right to Repair' is good, but a solid middle-ground is nee...
In 2017 the HDMI port of my 2012 MacBookPro was defect. I brought it to the nearest official Apple repair center (1 hour driving) to get it repaired. They did the job as it should. 6 weeks later, when I submitted the tax declaration of my company, I discovered that the repair center made an administrative error on the invoice and so I called repair center. They acknowledged they made a mistake but they refused to correct it because it was "too late". This refusal costed me 90 Euro. I don't have to tell you that I was not pleased.In December 2018 an SSD failed on one of my macs and I brought it to a repair center in my neighborhood (but not an Apple certified one) . They were very friendly and professional, they fixed it in 20 minutes and they made no administrative error. And I did not have to experience the arrogant "Who do you think you are that you dare to complain about our service" attitude of the official repair centerThis is what right to repair is about. Giving the end customer a choice. Although I graduated as a electronics engineer, I am not intending to repair hardware myself, I leave it to professionals. Choice is a fundamental factor in any capitalistic system
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EU to investigate Apple following Spotify anti-competition complaint
That is not allowed my the Apple app store guidelines, and that is basically the core of the Spotify complaintrogifan_new said:Here’s an easy way to solve the problem. Let apps like Spotify use their own payment system in app along side Apple’s payment system. Then the user can choose which way they want to go. If they want all of their subscriptions managed by Apple they can choose that option, if they’re fine handling their own then chose the other option.
