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hackintoisier said:

A large part of the reason why Intel and AMD continue to remain dominant is because of Microsoft’s dominance, especially in enterprise.

I think this is simplifying a bit too much. If Microsoft was truly dominant, they would have successfully moved to ARM years ago. Instead, the dominance is the combination of Windows + x86, and while Microsoft might be influencing it they're not really controlling it. Maybe in the future, once the Qualcomm deal ends, if Microsoft puts more might into ARM.

y2an said:

So what did the Thunderbolt Display cost, back in the day?

The US retail price at introduction was $999.

The only real risk here is that if the steering gets out of control it could damage users' trust in the App Store, and that would certainly hurt developers and Apple. For instance, what about a link labeled Pay with ApplePay that actually led to some third party payment mechanism? With a ban on anti-steering, Apple presumably isn't allowed to block it (though I'm pretty confident they would anyway, and would fight for it). Constraints on anti-steering, allowing ethical and transparent steering, would make more sense than a ban on… banning the practice.

Too many negatives, ugh.

spheric said:

It's sort of like if I forget to lock my front door and a burglar just walks in and steals stuff — yes, I should have locked my door, but it was the burglar who actually ruined the day. 

That's not a great analogy, because it's more like all that but when the thief came the house spontaneously sank into the earth.  

melgross said:

No, there is no eight core on the A12x. The chip photos dont show an eight core. Stop writing FUD.

The A12X is an 8 core processor (4 Tempest, 4 Vortex) with 7 graphics cores.