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  • Microsoft may follow Apple in creating own chips for Surface notebooks

    danvmdanvm
    danvm said: 

    And I don't get why you think it's ridiculous to copy good ideas.  Was Apple ridiculous when copied MS with the Pencil, keyboard + trackpads, FaceID and multitasking in tablet mode to iPads?  
    I don’t think it’s like that. Having now been with just an iPad Pro 12.9’ as my only computer for the past 5 years and an iPad owner since the iPad 2 came out I see it a bit differently. 

    I think it would be difficult to argue that Apple did not think about adding those features, they are just too forward and methodical in their thinking. I think it’s a combination of them not feeling like the technology was at a place where they could develop what they wanted how they wanted (we see this all the time with companies coming out too soon and under delivering). I also think that that’s Apple’s way of driving change in behaviour. If you really want to drive a new paradigm you need to change peoples behaviour. To do this one could choose to limit options. In this case, I think that if they offered everything then people are going to gravitate to what they know and nothing changes and opportunity to really drive change you stall out. I think Apple probably balanced these and other reasons for taking their time. 

    Regardless, it would difficult to argue that Apple did not consider the implications of leaving certain things out. I for one am glad they did as they forced me to reconsider how I interact with a computer. 

    Cheers. 
    Apple did think of adding those features to iPads.  For example, they had studies that the show how vertical screens were terrible from an ergonomic POV.  And also they criticize the "toaster/fridge" devices.  What is interesting is that at the end, that is what we have with the iPad w/ Magic Keyboard today.   At the end, it looks like you are glad  they forced you reconsider how to interact with a computer similar to MS had 5 years ago with the Surface Pro. 
    watto_cobra

  • Microsoft may follow Apple in creating own chips for Surface notebooks

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    williamlondon said:
    The consummate copier/stealer that prefers profit over quality assurance is looking to spend its hoards, falsely believing once again a Zune is an iPod, a Surface is an iPad or MacBook, the audacity that a crappy software company can produce a CPU and put it in one of their reproductions and be successful, ha fucking ha! Go ahead and waste your stockholders’ wealth, your demise is imminent anyway.
    The "crappy software company" have one of the largest cloud infrastructures in the world, and it's clear they will benefit by moving to their own ARM chips.  I see no reason to think the knowledge and experience they'll have in their datacenter will influence and benefit in many ways the development of ARM for their devices.  Different from you, I could see them succeed in the transition.  What option do they have?  Wait for Intel?  
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Microsoft may follow Apple in creating own chips for Surface notebooks

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    lkrupp said:
    It’s a great tome to be an Apple enthusiast. Like Hockey great Wayne Gretzky Apple skates to where the puck will be instead of where’s it’s at. And it remains funnier than hell to watch Apple do something, get mocked by the competition, declared DOA by the trolls under the AI bridge, and see the competition and the critics follow suit. 
    Sometimes good ideas are worth to follow, as when Apple followed MS in iPads with the Pencil, keyboard + trackpads, FaceID and multitasking in touch UI.  
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Microsoft may follow Apple in creating own chips for Surface notebooks

    danvmdanvm
    sdw2001 said:
    LOL.  One could not write a more ridiculous 30 year story about Microsoft copying and following Apple.  Windows. Luna UI.  Zune. Windows phone.  Surface.  It’s comical!  
    I don't see something wrong for MS following Apple, and going with their own chips.  You just have to consider the benefits for their Azure datacenter, a pass that knowledge to their devices.  That could be huge for the Surface line.  

    And I don't get why you think it's ridiculous to copy good ideas.  Was Apple ridiculous when copied MS with the Pencil, keyboard + trackpads, FaceID and multitasking in tablet mode to iPads?  
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Foreign hackers breach US Treasury Department

    danvmdanvm
    sflocal said:
    I'm guessing it was an infected Office365 document that was clicked by someone.  
    It looks like it was more complex than someone clicking a file,

    Customer Guidance on Recent Nation-State Cyber Attacks – Microsoft Security Response Center
    Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor | FireEye Inc


    GeorgeBMac