DanielEran

rogifan_new said:

So it's curious because The iPad didn't score #1? Hasn't Apple been #1 with this survey before?

I don't think of Surface as a tablet but I guess because it's multi touch and the keyboard is detachable it's classified as such. 

Curious in that JD Power has been doing this for 6 years, and each report is based on a different set of criteria. Microsoft Surface wasn't in previous reports (despite being more of a tablet 2012-2014 before canceling the whole ARM WinRT thing. Microsoft bills Surface Pro as a MBA competitor.

freeper said:

Honestly, this story has nothing to do with Android. For example, the Motorola Atrix wasn't "Continuum". It just offered a charging dock with HDMI out and a USB 2.0 hub for a laptop and mouse ... (What the Motorola Atrix DID actually innovate by the way was a fingerprint scanner. Somehow DED's column failed to mention that). 

 Canonical's idea was not "the android of Android" or "the android of Android androids" because it had nothing to do with Android whatsoever.

I was going to congratulate you on your first comment, which added something of value to the conversation without delving into conspiracy theory and personal attacks. 

Then you started in again. 1) article doesn't say Motorola did continuum. It said it tried to make a phone into a PC of sorts. Google it if you've forgotten. I also linked to an article. Phone brains for a laptop shell:

  



Its other features aren't relevant, but the fact is its fingerprint reader stopped working by the end of the year and was dropped. 

Being the "android of Android" is a reference to being a half-assed knock-off copycat that paints oneself as innovative and novel, to another of the same. 

wizard69 said:

I suspect that some of the performance improvements noted are related to better SSD and RAM subsystems.

In any event an interesting update that won't be around long.    Why do I say that?   Well if the rumors about Apple stopping payment to Imagination for their GPU tech in two years is accurate, then that mean all Imagination using SoC will have to be out of Apples product lines by then.    In fact for this to happen and Apple to maintain their current release strategy I'm expecting this years new iPad Pros and iPhones to have this new Apple GPU.    That would allow them to phase out the old imagination hardware next year as the chips are handed down to the cheaper product lines.

Things are about to get real interesting for the tech standpoint in iOS land.

Apple has redesigned existing A-series chips for new devices, such as Apple TV. Also, Apple Watch Series 1 paired the original design with a new dual core S package. iPhone 5c is also an example of refreshing an existing product with a newer, faster baseband processor while keeping the rest of the internals largely the same.

sog35 said:

Chris Hedlund said:

Paul Thurrott already told us this device wasn't a game changer way back in October of 2010...

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paul_Thurrott

So a 200,000,000 user base is not a game changer? GTFO

iPad installed base is now ~400M, Mac base is ~100M. 

carnalimr said:

It's scary how deceiving the past few articles by you are. Not sure if you understand Nvidia as a company to be honest. You do understand at least the major working parts that are driving Nvidia's growth and potential future success correct? I'll assume not because of the article you wrote so here:

• Consumer GPU's have been funding Nvidia's main revenue driver but powering the following stuff:
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• Highend GPU's for workstations and HPC (high performance computing) are very spontaneous blips in revenue but proving to drive wider adoption (data scientists now creating tools allowing more common people to tap into both workstation and home GPU, ie TensorFlow is a good example or CUDA based programming)
• Changing form factors and building full scale embedded platforms (tegra, drive) 
• Building a software ecosystem around Nvidia and CUDA (Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Advanced Rendering, etc)
• Cloud Providers now lowering cost to take advantage of the above (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) now providing the average worker ability to use frameworks originally designed by people having access to very high end hardware now can rent it out cheaply
• VR/AR growth being driven by GPU's ability to drive rendering at a speed to make immersion more viable 

Are you starting to understand Nivida as a company and what is going on? I'll continue to be an ass because I don't think you get the concept of screen grabbing a point in time on a stock where a downgrade was announced and using that with no correlation to Apple dumping Imagination. 

Apple and Nvidia are in very much different sectors and going after completely different land grabs. 

The condescending tone of your post reminds me of the Zune fans who used to list off the promises Nvidia was making about Tegra and how awesome is was going to be, for year after year for years. Today, of course, Nvidia is working on big products, but it currently makes most of its revenues from PC gaming. Perhaps it can get its GPUs established in cars and server closets and actually make significant money there, but remember that it faces competition from other seeking to do the same thing.

What the article outlined is that Nvidia had been largely competing against other GPU makers. Mobile put it in the position of having to compete against a disrupting innovation on the low end. It failed to respond. So what if Nvidia is forced to compete in new ways, from former partners who are now massively larger?

"I'll continue to be an ass because I don't think you get the concept of screen grabbing a point in time on a stock where a downgrade was announced and using that with no correlation to Apple dumping Imagination."

This line is nearly unreadable, but it sounds like you're trying to suggest that I planned Img's announcement to occur at the same time as a minor retreat in Nvidia's stock price and am seeking to correlate the two events. What I actually intended to convey is that Nvidia has been limping along as a PC GPU vendor for years, and then suddenly excited investors over just the last year with huge expectations that it will be the only company building cars and AI engines. 

It sounds like you're an NVDA investor, so I understand the rage (and being an "ass"). Try to separate your emotions from your intellectual capacity when posting comments.