muthuk_vanalingam

eriamjh said:

Apple will select the target price range and do their best to provide the best phone at the best margin.   Bigger phone with lower specs or smaller phone with better specs? 

That is how I see them “deciding”.  Which one will sell more and make the most money is what they are trying to figure out.  

It is not that complicated with the iPhone SE lineup. Apple chooses a few years old iphone, replace the SoC with the latest one and call it a day. They don't do any major changes to Display/Design/Battery capacity/cameras etc. Changes (if any) are very minor usually.

beowulfschmidt said:

I suppose if you can get away with telling them "no", then tell them "no".

Two questions I wonder about (and have no idea of the answers):

1.  Who else can supply the type and volume of chips Apple needs without a major retooling effort?  Intel?

2.  Who does TSMC have queuing up for chip fab to use up any capacity left unfulfilled by a departure or reduction by Apple?

I would suspect the answers to at least one of those would give a clue as to who cries "uncle" first.

Qualcomm was literally forced to choose inferior Samsung foundry for manufacturing Snapdragon 888 and 8 Gen 1 chips (their flagship SoCs) in the last 2 years due to inadequate capacity availability with TSMC. Qualcomm and Mediatek would be more than happy to pay for the capacity left over by Apple. Huawei too (for their Kirin SoCs), if not for international politics. And who knows, Intel might join the queue as well in the future if they are unable to fix their own foundry issues.

foregoneconclusion said:

LOL...you get one option: iFixit. What happened to all the "competition" stuff? 

Lol. As the title of the article says, it is one more than what Apple provides (zero). And that one option provided is a pretty good one with a good reputation. Not a bad place to be in, as far as Google is concerned.

Xed said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

Xed said:

slow n easy said:

Xed said:

Remember when that old anti-Trump, pro-Putin invading Ukraine guy on here said that you should never listen to the Apple Watch saying anything about ECG readings because it was just a fashion accessory and only a single-lead ECG that could never amount to a real-world use that could lead to saving lives? I do.

Your comment is very contradictory. Trump is very pro Putin and very frequently praises him and says nice things about Russia. Also, why bring politics into a non politics story. Also, how do you know that the guy is even old when the ECG feature didn’t even come out that long ago?

My post is factual. You’ll have to ask the poster to whom I’m referring why he’s so contradictory. 

 But he (GeorgeBMac) is already banned by AI and he can't respond back to your post. So you can give it a rest now.

When and why did that happen? I figured he was tilting at some other windmill for the time being.

He was banned at least 2-3 weeks ago. Not sure about the exact reason for the ban, but I guess it was to do with one of the posts related to the Russia-Ukraine war.

Edit: He was banned on Mar-03-2022.

davgreg said:

iPad Pro?
They are due for an upgrade.

I have a MacBook Pro 14” that mostly stays home as a desktop and my iPad Pro goes everywhere. Ready to see the iPad Pro’s next act.

Not without significant improvements to iPad OS. They are already overpowered for running iPad OS in the last 2 generations (A12X/Z, M1 generations), Apple has to focus on improvements to iPad OS before launching the M2 version of iPad Pros.