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2021 Apple Silicon 14-inch, 16-inch MacBook Pro release expected to boost market share
cloudguy said:Losing 7% of their business, the vast majority of which will be Core i3 and Core i5 used in MacBook Air and entry level Mac Mini and MacBook Pro devices, won't "put pressure on Intel."
Look, this article https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-many-pcs-are-still-running-windows-7-today/ states that 90-100 million fewer PCs were sold in 2019 than in 2012 because of the rise of Android and iOS. And Intel is still fine. Why is this? Because the 200-250 million PCs that still sell a year is a huge number. And Intel makes most of their money on workstation and server chips anyway ... the Core i9 and Xeon chips. (Apple sells less than 1 million Mac Pro workstations a year, and about that many iMacs with the Core i9. The vast majority of their sales are Mac Mini, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air devices that use dual Core i3 and dual Core i5 CPUs.)
Please stop it with the idea that losing Apple's business will cripple Intel. It won't. Intel was fine before Apple adopted them in 2004 in the first place and will continue to be thereafter. If anything would pose a threat to Intel, it would be Windows on ARM becoming viable AND not costing 2-3 times as much as Wintel machines do. And it would be (predominantly Linux) data center and cloud servers as well as workstations moving to ARM.
As far as AMD goes, you are pretending as if the back-and-forth between Intel and AMD is something new, or that AMD is somehow a bigger threat to Intel - and especially to their workstation and server business - than they were before. And that AMD being this growing mortal threat to Intel just happens to coincide with Apple switching to ARM ... what a coincidence right?
Apple moving to ARM is a great development for Apple users, especially those who also have iPads, iPhones and Apple TVs. But it will have little to no impact on anyone else. Apple fans have been predicting the imminent collapse of Windows, Android and everything else ever since the iPhone took off. Isn't going to happen.
I don't think you understand the paradigm shift going on here. 7% is GIGANTIC is business terms and that 7% may grow into 8% and 10% and so on.
The knockoff products from Samsung/Huawei/Lenovo etc. are becoming more and more fragmented as Apple becomes more unified. And yes The iPhone destroyed everything before it and all that remains are knockoffs, some of which are no longer in business. Soon you'll see people with a real iPhone connected to an Apple Watch connected to AirPods Max which can naturally continue onto an Apple Silicon Mac flawlessly. Maybe a game they're playing on their iPad they can continue on their Macbook. Things are only gonna get better as Apple controls the most advanced consumer chips in the world! Imagine what's coming next. Glasses? New inventions like the foldable product they've been working on for years? Car? etc. etc.
Compare that to someone who has a knockoff iPhone from Samsung running Android, Bose headphones, knockoff Apple Watch from Fitbit and doing work on a MateBook Pro running Windows and finally a knockoff iPad from Amazon running Amazon's OS using Alexa. That's BEST CASE scenario.
"Android and everything else ever since the iPhone took off. "
What a stupid end to a sentence since Android took off as iPhone took off. That was the sole reason for it's existence was to be an Apple knockoff that collects data.
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Google and Facebook allegedy working together to combat antitrust lawsuits
gatorguy said:Great article! So much goes on between competitors and things are almost never as they seem. Certainly seems to play in favor of the antitrust actions against both companies. Assuming there's other behind-the-scenes agreements between companies like Apple and Google, and Microsoft and Apple would be a safe bet. Nice work on the reporting. Well done.
Supposedly there's a contract between Apple and Google that says Apple can steal any ideas from Google to add to iPad/iPhone for Google developing knockoff Apple devices.
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Apple in 'prolonged' talks to acquire two John Lasseter films
lkrupp said:jimh2 said:This is troubling to me as this guy was run out of Pixar for being a creep towards the female staff. A quick search will give you all the details you need to know.
Right, no second chances, no redemption, no acknowledgment of decades of artistic excellence. Apology not accepted. Cancelled. Another example of the tolerant, accepting, loving philosophy of the left.
Be as ‘troubled’ as you want. You know almost ALL of Pixar’s titles are Lasseter’s films. Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc. I suppose you want them taken off the market and banned, right? You are a joke.
Actually companies are already doing this. They're banning content from MALES who have allegations. Not the other way around though.
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Epic Games calls for Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi to testify over 'Fortnite'
ThinkmanDuv said:Epic and Trump - two abject failures unwilling to admit defeat. Go ahead and rant about not being political on this forum……to me the comparison is stark and cogent………they're both simply pathetic!
And this just in, Facebook (the pariah of our democracy) is buying full-page ads against Apple because of its privacy controls in their latest updates. Nothing would make me happier than to see Facebook drop off the face of the earth.
Google is probably worst with their acquisition of DeepMind and how they gave it full access to our data.
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Workers riot at Wistron iPhone plant in India over shorted pay
Goodness I thought this place had the smartest posters. This is sounding almost as bad as MacRumors.
1. This is NOT Apple. So no, Tim Cook did not cut these people's pay nor is Apple in any control of what happens here. This does not reflect Apple's human rights and none of these people are Apple employees.
2. Apple cannot snap their fingers and materialize a new 3rd party manufacturer out of thin air, with property and employees and all.
3. Apple should ONLY be concerned about employees striking as it slows down production. THIS is what we should be concerned about as Apple contracted this company to fulfill a purpose and this company not paying employees fairly gets in the way of this purpose.
Again this IS NOT APPLE!!! Apple has a contract in place and the fact management is failing at this contract gives Apple the right to sue the sh** out of them. I'm sure the contract has quotas in place and punishment if these company rips Apple off. This is basic business practice here.tzeshan said:
Apple was forced to do so. A few years ago Foxconn employees jumped to death. The responsibility is on Apple suppliers. Human rights hypocrites stretch everything to suit their agenda.lkrupp said:
I agree. Apple should tone down the virtue signaling about human rights, privacy and security. It makes them look very hypocritical at best. While Macs and iOS devices may be somewhat more secure than the competition they are not in any way bulletproof, as has been demonstrated time and again when security researchers find flaws. And in terms of humanistic reputation Apple is doing business with some truly nasty actors, both primary and secondary. Think about mining in Africa.Alger said:Welcome to India. Supposed democracy where 98% of the population are treated like human garbage, due to barbaric, medieval caste system, mindless religious zealotry and grotesque overpopulation. If Apple don't want to see their humanistic reputation (what's left of it after almost selling their soul to capture Chinese market) sullied even further, they had better tighten their grip and sense of responsibility over their proxies there.
What iKnockoff morons failed to realize is that the employees that jumped to their death WERE NOT employees of Apple and most were not even working on Apple products. Most were from the XBox division. No one gave a sh*t except Apple who installed nets to reduce suicides. Every state in the U.S. has a higher suicide rate than Foxconn. Every University in the United States has a higher suicide rate than Foxconn. The irony when iKnockoff morons blame Apple for suicides(that they had no hand in) and yet don't care about what's going on in their own back yard.red oak said:- The employees who caused damage should be immediately identified, fired, and banned from ever working at Wistron again
- Individual criminal charges should be filed
And let the managers go? This sounds like some right-wing nut nonsense.
I FULLY support a dog biting it's owner after being abused for too long and I don't support the owner euthanizing the dog because he's become violent.
