georgie01

The saddest thing about this is that in our culture there is a chance enough consumers will just accept it.

The ability for someone to think for themselves and have principles has diminished tremendously. Nowadays, a person’s principles are largely just, ‘If it make me happy or feel worthwhile then it’s good. Even if I see something bad about it, if I have to sacrifice anything at all then I’ll just accept it.’ This inability to think, research, and have principles has multiplied over the last two years in our response to the coronavirus, and people in power absolutely love it and exploit it. 

jimh2 said:

This won’t pass. I would not think Pelosi, Schumer or even Biden would entertain this. 

Are you kidding? This administration has by far the most authoritarian policies of any administration in my lifetime (40+ years). Just because Joe seems like a nice kind grandpa doesn’t mean anything. Trump was an arrogant smack but his policies were not at all authoritarian in comparison.

This shouldn’t even be an issue worth discussing.

Once upon a time people knew that liberty was worth dying for. We’re so spoiled now that we’re wanting more and more government control over ‘bad terrible things’. These past two years have revealed that under the fear and threat of a virus the vast majority of people can fight off, we will accept invasions of liberty that two years ago 99.9% of people would have soundly rejected as un-American and even conspiracy theorist (such as people back in spring-2020 predicting there would be invasive vaccine mandates and who were dismissed as foolish).

So we see Apple with their own product and ecosystem they’ve worked hard to develop, but a spoiled population wants what they want and is fine with the government wielding power over Apple’s liberty so they can get what they want, even when they could just switch to a quality competitor. They want zero sacrifice for themselves. They want others to bend to their own wishes, and are fine sacrificing liberty to get that. Ironically…

The tactic here is obvious:

‘Entity A’ expresses grave concerns about how ‘Entity B’ is doing something bad so that it will distract from the fact that ‘Entity A’ is doing exactly what they’re criticising ‘Entity B’ of doing.

The democrats have mastered this technique with their increasing desire for an authoritarian state. ‘In the public’s interest’, because the population are babies and need protection from the evil coronavirus and the evil Trump and the evil misinformation, and they want the population to suckle at the government’s teat. And the population is happy to submit out of fear.

rob53 said:

It’s funny Intel calls them mobile processors when the only way to get their documented performance is to have them plugged in while in cold storage. Every comparison I’ve seen shows Intel processors dropping 70-80% when unplugged. I bet Apple could dial up the M1’s power and beat Intel’s scores but no reason to. The M1 runs the same whether plugged in or on batteries yet I doubt Intel will admit their results were all done with the computer plugged in. You might as well call it a desktop. 

Don’t tell that to DuhSesame…

Not meaning to criticise Intel, good for them in working to compete with Apple and producing some results. But for mobile, efficiency is not just an afterthought or nice second feature. If someone is obsessed with maximum performance they aren’t going to use a mobile device when they want that performance.

Intel is still playing catch-up in mobile processors regardless of how fast they claim their processors are, since performance isn’t the only metric in mobile.