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Google Maps to get augmented reality, 'VPS' & other improvements
VPS was introduced last year, with the idea that it would work for indoor positioning. The example Google gave was navigating a big box retail store. As if people would be following their phone like a divining rod out in front of them. I thought the idea was stupid.
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Bloomberg obsessed with Google's Pixel, Apple's iPhone Supply Chain -- but not Google's Pi...
A primary problem for Google's custom chip development is that it can't sell hardware at any price. Recall that Apple had a lead with PowerPC in the late 90s, but because Macs were the only customer, PPC fell behind. Google is selling about half the Pixels as Apple was selling Macs back then, and developing a chip (or even a function) differentiatingly competitive with Apple's A11 or Qualcomm, etc is a bigger task than pushing the clock speed of a G5 ahead.rotateleftbyte said:
Not for much longer. They have a team of chip designers working on their versions of the Apple 'A' series.rogifan_new said:
Google is not a hardware company.
The question is... Will Aphabet get tired of it and like so many things, the close them down.
Only time will tell.
The point of Android was that the crappy PC makers were all supposed to lock arms and take down the big bad Apple in smartphones. Instead, they are competing with each other on price (just like they did in PCs!) and Apple is advancing in ways they can't keep up, while they're forced to spend lots of money to make very little profit.
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20 Years of iMac: Steve Jobs iconic internet machine that courageously reinvented Apple
ADB (as you know!) was implemented in 1986, a full decade before USB started taking off. There were tons of people who had nice ADB Keyboards who wanted to use them with an iMac or other USB Macs who complained about it. GeoPort was an early 90s extension of the Mac serial port to enable access to the DSP built into AV Macs. There were only a few things that took advantage of this, but everyone who had bought into it wanted to keep using this tech (which was barely 5 years old when iMac shipped).wozwoz said:Actually, I don't remember any quibbling at the time about dropping legacy ports such as ADB keyboards and GeoPorts. The latter were Apple proprietary ports that Apple was replacing with industry standard connectors that were insanely faster better, in every respect.
Contrast that with today's changes, where Apple is taking high-quality industry standard components (such as the 3.5mm audio connector), and replacing it with proprietary and inferior quality connectors (forcing mini D/A converters in your headphones). That's why Apple supporters are complaining today.In 1998, USB was an "industry standard" in the same way that Sprint's (LTE rival) WiMax was. As they used to say on usenet, the great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. ADB and GeoPorts were also "standards" that Apple created before there was anything of similar quality to use. The PC UART-based alternatives were garbage and most PC makers were still using PS/2--which couldn't even daisy chain and required two specific ports for the keyboard and the mouse(!).
Additionally, USB was also proprietary - it was owned by Intel. It didn't take off until Apple lit the fire under adoption. Many years later, PCs were still shipping with two PS/2 jacks. If it hadn't been for Apple, USB probalbly would have died to cheaper, lower quality tech.
Apple took the minijack off of iPhones to capitalize on the volume of internal space it was wasting and to avoid needing an external plug that needed to be weatherproofted (and which has historically contributed to lots of service repairs). The downside of needing a Lightning adapter for standard headphones is very minimal, and Lightning digital headphones can offer much audio higher quality (and other features) than the built in D/A attached to an old analog audio miniplug. Note that iPads still use minijacks because the tradeoff is less advantageous.
On a mobile device, being tethered to an Ethernet cable usually doesn't make any sense. And if you have super fast WiFi, it may not even offer any advantage (until you get into workstation tasks such as connecting to a NAS array. It's also no harder to connect Ethernet to a MacBook Pro via a USB-C adapter than it is to use an RJ-45 plug.wozwoz said:StrangeDays said:...sorry but consumer media card slots and ethernet jacks aren’t coming back to the pro portable. Thankfully those who need such use cases can easily plug in an adapter. The rest of us will use wifi.
lol - wi-fi is for noobs. Pros use Ethernet.
And even Apple realise it, with the new iMac 'Pro' supporting new 10G Ethernet built-in.
The only reason there is no Ethernet port on the Mac notebooks is because the connector is too large to fit into the ever shrinking frame (much the same reasons Apple shifted from USB to USB-C).
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20 Years of iMac: Steve Jobs iconic internet machine that courageously reinvented Apple
I mean except for iPhone 6/7/8/Plus, Apple Watch, AirPods, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, iMac Pro, iPhone X and HomePod. And accessories.ajmas said:Since Steve Jobs passed on we haven’t seen any iconic design innovations from Jonny Ive, at least in terms of the Mac line. Did Apple become too serious, did Ive lose his creative touch or did something else happen.
It really feels like it’s time Apple brought out a new fun model, as way of saying they can still do fun stuff, they do still have skills to design and they are willing to do something courageous for the anniversary. -
Apple bought back a record $23.5B of AAPL shares in Q1 as Wall Street peddled "full panic ...
Apple (like all public companies) is affected by its stock price in a variety of ways, including the delta value in stock-based compensation it can offer recruited talent, and the value of stock-based acquisitions.rob53 said:
Finally, someone else brings up the fact that no money gambled in the stock market ever reaches Apple the company's pocket. None of AAPL's $875B (as of right now) market cap money is available to Apple, it's all in the super Lotto gambling pot. Of course, employees of Apple would like to see AAPL continue to rise because they have shares they can sell but Apple the company doesn't really care. When will people understand the separation?gatorguy said:
Why would the stock market even matter to Apple now as a revenue-earning business? They don't receive any additional funding from their stock when it's bought or sold. I get that individual stockholders may benefit from the stock buybacks eventually but for general Apple owner, the vast majority of whom are NOT individual investors in Apple, I don't see why the stock price up or down or sideways matters at all to either Apple as a profit-making business or to their customers. When the stock price dives or goes up does it have any material effect on Apple's profit or loss or available funds?Rayz2016 said:Possibly a silly question then:
Is Apple trying to buy itself out of the stock market circus?
Many companies are effectively printing new stock for employment awards, which has the effect of eroding the value of outstanding shares (dilution). It's like a country printing money. Buybacks do the opposite and have a real impact on the value of a company's stock and what it can do with it.
Stock-based compensation is a critically important way for tech companies to recruit talent and experienced management, so Gater trying to blow this off as immaterial is totally incorrect. Google would love to have an extra $100 billion to buy back its stock with. Saying it doesn't matter is the height of willful ignorance.
