wallym

RAM is like closet space, there is no such thing as "too much."

From what I have read out in the semiconductor area, the problem is power utilization on the apple designed modem chips.  This is hard stuff to do.  you want fast.  You want low power.  Everybody's stuff is going to work great outside of my office.  The problem is what happens in the mountains, or on the autobahn/interstate, or in some country without the best infrastructure.  I can imagine that getting this right is hard and takes a long time.  if it doesn't work right for qualcomm, that is a major blow for them.  If it doesn't work right for apple, oh well, another year of buying qualcomm chips.

Funny thing in this is that when I got my 2018 iphone, I think it had an intel modem 4g chip in it, and I noticed that I got some better performance in a few areas where I had had problems before.  I never knew if that was because of the phone chip or improved provider service in the area.  Now that I have 5g, I'm on 5g just about everywhere except in a few mountainous areas.  I recently have been driving thru Appalachian mountains in tn/nc and I've been getting 5g pretty much all the way thru.

I've always been an Intel fan.  They always have just worked.  I'd actually like to see a move away from Intel to ARM.  I think Intel bungled their sizing of their chips too much in a competitive area, and that this change is justified.  However, there is a secondary issue.  Not all apps are available on Mac.  Not all of these apps are on the Mac and no, don't try to say that there are "apps of the same quality" available because in some verticals, they just are not there.  I have to run a virtual machine to run windows on my mac.  Intel x64/x86 emulation is going to be horrible on an ARM mac.  emulating one cpu instruction set on another cpu has always been horrible.

My fitbit is great.  I'm convinced that Google will screw up Fitbit.  If the Apple Watch had improved battery life (in the 5 day area), I'd probably switch on my next purchase.

Sounds like they got the message that people don't want to pay $1k.  Good.  It was a long way from an iPhone8 to an XS, really too far.  Everything is sounding good so far.