prismatics

Imagine the Apple Stores not opening and you can't repair your shit

If the US thinks about freedom this way, why don't people have freedom to do what they want with their devices.

Scot1 said:

Maybe Apple needs to come up with an iOS that once hacked, puts a Trojan horse back into the hackers network

Whatever

Well it obviously is inferior in a way that MU-MIMO and beamforming works much better with 3x3 or 4x4 compared to the 2x2 since there are one (or two in 4x4) more dimensions in which to solve the optimisation problem to maximise the spectral power at the receiver in uplink direction to the access point, it's not just a matter of parallel channels but a matter of receive / transmit power and certain tricks you can do with 4x4 that you can't do with 2x2 (or at least in a limited way) to improve signal quality (and therefor range, speed and efficiency). 4x4 is much, much more than 2x2 + 2x2. BTW, that's a lot of what 5G (or 5G in its higher bands of mm-wave with its massive antenna contraptions) is all about.

But of course, it's simpler to advertise not the other advantages of having more antennae but the theoretical PHY transmission rate for the layman.

So it is not 'inferior' but really inferior in what the word implies. Had I seen this I would have second thoughts buying an XR, but that's probably just my perspective as an electrical engineer / developer.

Thanks for the article, we don't get to see such interesting things (and the reporting around these things) in Europe ^^

Fatman said:

The reality: Steam can’t sell these things even to the larger installed Windows base. They need to cut costs because they are bleeding money. As I’ve said in past posts, no one wants these big bulky headsets! On a related topic - Apple NEEDS to embrace and natively SUPPORT Vulkan on MacOS and iOS. It can co-exist with METAL and will give developers another option for app development.

Lol no. Apple Management I believe or how it looks to me is rotten enough to appropriate the arrogance that has lead intel to fail like they are right now, of course financially not but the technology. At least the general purpose computing part of Apple.

avon b7 said:

YvLy said:

First of all, Anantksundaram ... Germany has SAP, no small fry. And secondly, I believe this is a good thing for Apple as it will be all about the things Apple values anyway ...

And without ASML (Holland), TSMC would not have the capacity to pump out its processors. Luckily, the EU is not the Wild West.

And Airbus, without which there would be no alternative to Boeing;
Siemens and Alstom for their high speed trains, rail infrastructure and power grid components,
ThyssenKrupp for their heavy industry solutions,
Bayer for their healthcare products,
BASF for important chemicals needed in production of technologically advanced compounds,
Thales Group for their exceedingly secure computing devices used almost exclusively in enterprise environments to accelerate encrypted communication,
 .... I could continue endlessly.

I'm absolutely sure the Anantksundaram person is simply trying to make an emotional statement.
Societies with specialised industries serve the world and meanwhile receive other products from other parts of the world.
We must strive to improve cooperation with each other and not segregate ourselves from each other as there is really no benefit.

I regret the UK choice to leave the EU and I dearly hope that other legislators do not fall for the short-term popularity of such movements that has such a powerful effect...