skiwi

Appleish said:

Less than one hour of freelance time pays for the power and Dozens of apps/services I receive with my Creative Cloud subscription each month. 

First prize for missing the point!

The actual POINT being made is that the VAST majority of users are not “freelancers” charging fees, but casual users who, you know, LIKE photography ad graphic arts but most of whom earn FAR BETTER money doing other work, and so won’t swap careers….

For those users susbscription pricing sucks. Big time.

End of.

“Dynamic cashing” must be a new form of retail therapy….
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”Dynamic caching” please…..

zebratrain said:

My rights start where yours end. Full stop

Nope. Not even close.

Please explain how component-level repair is supposed to work in a Mac, an iPhone, or an iPad? And how much would you expect to pay someone for this?

I mean, your rights are all important, right?

y2an said:

… it has been watered down to effectively make it worthless for consumers.

A wholly unjustified statement.

Louis Rossmann seems to be stuck in the 70’s. A quick look at the mobo of an iPhone, iPad or Mac will tell you that it is practically impossible to replace any individual component short of a highly specialized operation with a flow-soldering  machine. Which is also ignoring the elephant in the room - how do you diagnose authoritatively to the individual component level? I’d wager Apple can’t do that. 

Rayz2016 said:

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red oak said:

Fun seeing washed up “ consultants” out there trying to push back the sea of Apple Silicon performance that is going to wash over x86

Some are saying that the M1 chip is not an Apple design at all and that they 'bought' it in. Oh well, it takes all sorts does it not?

Well, if it makes them feel better about things then they can go right ahead believing that.

Not really going to make any difference though is it?

I guess what they could do is start GoFundMe campaign to raise money to pay someone to claim that they've been doing all Apple's chip design from their fold-down table in the dining room.

The first true Apple design was the A4.  This is the 8th generation of 64 bit design. They have led the mobile SOC space since at least the a5, and the A7 (the first 64bit design) was years ahead of anyone else.

This is all Apple, one of the giveaways is how secretive they are, and also how much they stress "SOC" performance - they are not building discrete CPUs as their competitors do (noting that AMD and Intel have no choice due to the constraints with the ISA), they are building SOC with as much specialisation and as much integration as they can.