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  • Epic Games expert says iOS could be like macOS without security drawbacks

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    He’s right. macOS is much more open in terms of how users can install apps, and yet the Mac isn’t crawling with malware, unlike windows. Also, if iOS is opened to allow third party app stores, nothing would require users to download apps from those other stores if they didn’t want to. I’ve had an iPhone since 2007, but I recently started toying with android, and I’ve never used any other App Store besides the google play store even though others exist. 

    I think Apple is exerting too much control. For example, why is it that Netflix or any other app can’t tell me where and how to sign up for a subscription (if those apps don’t use IAP)? 

    When the iPhone ecosystem was small, Apple’s level of control wasn’t really on anyone’s radar, but as the iOS ecosystem has ballooned to billions of users and billions of dollars of trade, I can see why governments and courts around the planet are interested in how the ecosystem operates. 

    Others might disagree, but my view is Apple is in some ways restricting trade by disallowing the existence of other app stores. And the restriction of trade is why I believe it’s just a matter a time before the hammer drops, whether in the USA, or Europe or elsewhere. 
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  • Polymer cables could replace Thunderbolt & USB, deliver more than twice the speed

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    Say what you want about Intel, and I know they're in the middle of manufacturing woes, but they have helped push the world of connectivity forward in a significant way.  First with inventing and open sourcing USB, then came thunderbolt which is amazing.  Now they're researching ways to move beyond copper wires and increase the bandwidth. Just the other day on a Tomshardware podcast celebrating 10 years or thunderbolt, intel said Thunderbolt 5 should bring double thunderbolt 4 speeds. 
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  • AMD CEO says Apple's M1 chip is opportunity to innovate, underscores ongoing graphics part...

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    You're right, its not a knee-jerk reaction to the M1. It's a long term reaction to the A-Series (M1) chips that have over a decade met and now surpassed PC chips. They all saw it coming, yet they are behind and it's the x86 instruction set that is crippling them.
    If and when x86 chips are produced on a smaller manufacturing node (e.g., 3 nm) we’ll see if it’s the x86 ISA holding the platform back or if a newer manufacturing node helps increase efficiency and performance per watt. Either way, ARM’s efficiency is not in dispute. It’s very impressive what apple has done. 
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  • AMD CEO says Apple's M1 chip is opportunity to innovate, underscores ongoing graphics part...

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    While Alder Lake is similar in concept to M1, I don’t think it’s fair to suggest that Intel Alder Lake design is a knee jerk reaction to (or plagiarism of M1). Silicon design takes years, from conceptual design to manufacturing to baking in support in the operating system. 

    Alder Lake is an iteration on the Hybrid Lakefield design that was released before M1 even made it to market that had one big sunny cove core and smaller atom cores. One could argue that Lakefield was just a test run to get working silicon out there. To enable Intel to work with Microsoft (and possibly Linux) to begin work on updating the OS kernel scheduler for efficiently scheduling processes and threads on a hybrid x86 cpu. Alder Lake was conceptualized long before it enters high volume manufacturing in 2021. 

    Of course with Apple, M1 is indeed amazing, and the competitive advantage Apple has over intel is it’s vertical integration allows it to design and co-optimize the kernel of the OS in conjunction with the silicon design. Also, TSMC is crushing it right now in terms of manufacturing on a leading edge node...whereas intel is finally starting to ramp 10 nm. AMD doesn’t seem to think hybrid x86 is all that relevant or necessary right now. So we will have to see how Alder Lake performs. It seems impressive, it will have IPC improvements above tiger lake, which in itself isn’t too shabby. Very interesting times ahead for the PC/Mac space. 

    Also, good to know that AMD is still working with Apple. Now all they need to do is release the drivers for Big Navi in Big Sur... 
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  • How Apple Silicon Macs can supercharge computing in the 2020s

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    “ Apple can radically take future Macs in a new direction that will leave behind standard PCs the same way that iPad has left simpler Android tablets in the dust, or the way iPhone silicon has rapidly advanced beyond what is even available in an Android phone.”

    This article fails to consider AMD’s innovation on x86. Zen 3 is a dominant part and Zen 4 will be on 5 nanometer. Kudos to Apple to innovating, but x86 has such an entrenched install base, both in the consumer and server markets that it’s unlikely the bulk of users will move, especially given AMD’s performance. What may end up happening is, both intel and  AMD innovate , and their chips will exceed Apple’s offerings. And the question will be, was Apple wise to move on? 

    Only time will tell. 
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