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  • Editorial: As Apple A13 Bionic rises, Samsung Exynos scales back its silicon ambitions

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    blastdoor said:
    Kopfschmerzen said:
    Still not sure why others can’t achieve what Apple can in chip design. And, while every editorial praises Apple’s approach (concentrating on premium devices only), there must be companies making cheap devices. There’s nothing wrong with being a cheap device producer. You obviously can’t make more money from cheap devices as they priced less than Apple’s margin on iPhones.
    Great question.

    i wonder if it just isn’t worth it. Compare a pixel 4 or top Galaxy to the iPhone and it’s hard to see how the iPhone benefits from its better CPU by a margin that is large enough to warrant competitors making an investment large enough to compete. If Apple were taking serious market share from android then maybe the droid guys would try harder. But Apple has been in the 15 to 20 percent market share range for a long time.

    i think an even better question is — why does Apple bother making a cpu this good? I suspect the answer is that Apple also sells something called an iPad Pro, and they want the cpu speed for that product. Maybe also the Mac?

    if Apple didn’t sell iPads, I wonder if they’d invest less in cpu development...
    Apple makes better and better CPU's because a fast CPU is a power efficient CPU that extends battery life if you don't max it out.  That's why the iPhone 11's have such great battery life.  They don't HAVE to overclock the CPU to get max performance.  Also, there are functions that may be CPU intensive (AR?) that Apple is planning for a year or two down the road.  This makes current iPhones keep their value, and lifts the whole ecosystem.
    watto_cobra

  • BMW says annual $80 CarPlay fee needed for ongoing testing & development

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    atadams said:
    BMW is stupid. They could have increased the price of the car the same amount and made CarPlay standard and no one would have blinked an eye. Now they have a bunch of negative press.
    Exactly this.  You're buying a $60,000 car, and they tell you that the "super duper double extra high end" package for $3500 is needed to get the heated leather seats, back massage, Gucci trim, GPS, high end speakers and CarPlay, and nobody will care.  But if they tell me that I need to spend $80/year to support CarPlay, that's just nickel and diming people.  I'm sure its purely an accounting issue to deal with their recurring costs after the sale is made.  But it sounds stupid and petty.

    I've had to buy the damn navigation system (which I never use, because I use my phone with CarPlay) in my Chevy Volt just to get the better sound system. Every year I get a notice to "update my maps" for only $139.99. Never do it.  
    JWSCwatto_cobra

  • Editorial: Apple is neither doomed nor saved now that Jony Ive has moved on

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    nealc5 said:
    red oak said:
    Cook really dropped the ball not having a succession plan in place.  It’s nuts having this group now report to Williams.  Nuts.  Ive was there for 25 years and your telling us he did not groom a successor for arguably the most important function within Apple?   This is a breakdown in corporate responsibility 

    Almost as bad as having the head of HR run Retail 

    Ive has evidently been checked out for years.  Why did Cook not get better ahead of this? 
    How do you know Cook didn't have a succession plan? We are not privy to the inner workings at Apple.  Jony Ive has been stating for years in public that he'd like to move back to the UK.  As was said in the article "Apple as an institution probably knew when it promoted Ive to Chief Design Officer in 2015."  After 30 years with the same company, I'd imagine there are other things that Apple doesn't make that he'd like to work on. This was not unexpected, and it's naïve to imagine that one of the most successful companies in the world does not have a succession plan.  This was well known for quite a while within Apple, and they waited until the "right" time to publicly announce it.  All the gloom and doom is unfounded. 
    When did Jony Ive ever say he wanted to move back to the UK? Do you have a quote from him?
    This is from 2011: https://appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/27/apple_designer_jony_ive_rumored_to_be_considering_move_back_to_uk

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  • Editorial: Apple is neither doomed nor saved now that Jony Ive has moved on

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    red oak said:
    Cook really dropped the ball not having a succession plan in place.  It’s nuts having this group now report to Williams.  Nuts.  Ive was there for 25 years and your telling us he did not groom a successor for arguably the most important function within Apple?   This is a breakdown in corporate responsibility 

    Almost as bad as having the head of HR run Retail 

    Ive has evidently been checked out for years.  Why did Cook not get better ahead of this? 
    How do you know Cook didn't have a succession plan? We are not privy to the inner workings at Apple.  Jony Ive has been stating for years in public that he'd like to move back to the UK.  As was said in the article "Apple as an institution probably knew when it promoted Ive to Chief Design Officer in 2015."  After 30 years with the same company, I'd imagine there are other things that Apple doesn't make that he'd like to work on. This was not unexpected, and it's naïve to imagine that one of the most successful companies in the world does not have a succession plan.  This was well known for quite a while within Apple, and they waited until the "right" time to publicly announce it.  All the gloom and doom is unfounded. 
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  • Apple debuts new $5999 Mac Pro with up to 28-core Xeon processors

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    wozwoz said:
    Wow - this so Pro they might sell 100 of them. Cheese grater design is boring. After the criticism of the R2D2 Mac Pro for not being pro enough (when Apple didn't even offer upgrade options over 5 years!), they have gone to the other extreme and produced a machine that only a tiny proportion of Pro users will want, or be able to justify. Apple have lurched far too far to the other extreme. 
    Same goes for the monitor:  they should be providing a suite of monitors in different sizes for different users - not some ridiculously over-specced $6000 32 inch monitor with a an optional $1000 stand.
    There are so many good 4K monitors out in the world now, that Apple doesn't NEED to make something for everyone.  So they are sticking to the highest end.  If you don't want the Apple one, you can buy this Dell 8K monitor (https://www.cinema5d.com/dells-new-8k-monitor-is-gorgeous-and-really-really-expensive/) or 4K one (https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-ultrasharp-32-ultra-hd-4k-monitor-with-premiercolor-up3216q/apd/210-AFLN/monitors-monitor-accessories).  Lots of choices.

    Apple does have other Pro options available.  You can buy an iMac Pro, higher-end iMac, or even a Mac Mini.  And they will sell thousands of these. Not a lot of profit, or volume, but this needed to be done.
    cgWerks