swineone

sflocal said:

MplsP said:

OMG! We'd better stay out of New York - all the phones are going to start exploding because of dangerous repairs! /s

No... what will happen is those sketchy repair shops using crappy batteries for iPhones end up exploding, and then everyone blaming Apple.  That's what will happen.

Right, like they don’t do that already. If Apple was really worried about the safety of its users, it would sell genuine batteries to their party techs, knowing that people would go to these techs regardless. But since Apple only cares about the bottom line, they’re fighting this. And look, they really should worry about the bottom line, that’s the point of s company. Just don’t be such hypocrites about it. Apple only cares about you as much as they can shake cash out of you. Sorry, that’s the truth, regardless of the touchy-feels rehearsed to death lines you see on keynotes,

tstump said:

The average Apple tech is much less knowledgeable and skilled than quite a few independent technicianS. I would trust e.g. Louis Rossmann with my hardware over ANY Apple technician. I mean ANY. There is no technician working at Apple that could do their job as well as Louis does. BTW: I’m an electrical engineer, I design portable electronic devices, and I’ve spent quite a few hours watching Louis’ videos. He displays impressive skills. And often he has to fix a crap job done by, guess who, Apple technicians.

Look, it’s nice and all that people are mentioning the neural engine. It’s quite likely it’s being used for some of these features.

However, assuming Apple has decent software engineers that actually follow best practices in the field (something you can no longer be sure of since they’re so worried about the newest “racist” hire or pressuring Apple into taking sides in middle eastern wars), they have a machine learning API that can and should have multiple computational backends. So the code is the same regardless of where it is executed. One of these backends, sure enough, is the neural engine. But GPUs were there long before there was a neural engine, and even CPUs can handle simpler workloads in real-time — assuming real-time is even a constraint, which it certainly isn’t in some of these scenarios.

So yeah, this reeks of a marketing strategy to get people to upgrade.

StrangeDays said:

swineone said:

many of the best new macOS Monterey features will only work on Apple Silicon. And so they should.

Planned obsolescence much? Indeed that's the case as will be clear from the breakdown below.

[pretend engineering snipped]

Conclusion: yeah, it's all marketing, and Apple pressuring us into an upgrade we don't really need. So much for being so "green", it's all about the greenbacks (as well it should be, but let's not pretend Apple is a saint).

Nah, you just made up a bunch of crap and claimed it as fact.

Do you have any counterarguments, or only lame attempts at disqualifying my well reasoned arguments? Protip: that’s how you lose, not win, arguments.

As for “pretend engineering”, I do happen to be an engineer, and quite well qualified to speak on the matter. But let’s not turn this into an argument of authority. Just point out precisely where I am wrong. I’ll be happy to eat crow if you’re right.