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  • Apple Silicon might get used for AI chips in server farms

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    jellyapple said:
    Apple is a sleepyhead in AI. All early birds have got their worms and Apple is slowly getting up from bed. 
    Maybe if you say it again in the next post your wish will finally come true.
    williamlondonssfe11watto_cobra

  • Meta needs other companies & developers to challenge Apple Vision Pro

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    charlesn said:
    AppleZulu said:
    With all that, it's hard to understand why no one, in some category or another, has ever adopted Apple's "in house" design paradigm as the best way to compete with Apple. It's certainly a harder uphill climb to get there, but the other way always ends up being a race to the low-margin bottom.
    Not "no one." There's a little company called Google that now has a pretty wide and expanding array of devices for which it also designs the OS. So you can have an "all Google" experience. Of course, unlike Apple, it also licenses its various OSes to third parties, which can make the customer experience of say, Android, very inconsistent. Where Google doesn't compete with Apple, in terms of offering its own hardware/OS solution, is computers. Fair disclosure: I despise Google for its wanton abuse of consumer privacy and won't use any of their hardware or software products, but there's no denying their continued creep into Apple's arena of designing both hardware and the OS that operates it. 
    What processors do they design for Pixel phones and Chromebooks?
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Meta needs other companies & developers to challenge Apple Vision Pro

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    avon b7 said:
    ssfe11 said:
    A social media company competing with Apple on hardware/software is just silly.
    In this case, isn't it the other way around? 

    Meta is the established and dominant player and Apple is the one stepping in. 
    Nice try, but he didn't say on VR, he said hardware/software which Apple has been doing since their inception.
    tmayssfe11williamlondon

  • The history -- and triumph -- of Arm and Apple Silicon

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    blastdoor said:
    The long-term goal was for Apple to design its own chips
    I’m doubtful this was true. I think that in 2006, Jobs had no plan for silicon independence and would have regarded that idea as fanciful. Intel was such a dominant force at that time — it was inconceivable that anyone could beat them.

    The M series chips we have today would not exist without a decade of blunders by senior executives at Intel. 
    Intel never had a good mobile chip. Apple never used Intel for anything but their Macs. (and the first Apple TV, which was a Mac running Back Row).  Considering they bought PA Semi in 2008 they clearly had plans to design their own chips before that. When that started I couldn't tell you, but I can say that these things don't happen in a bubble and it's very likely it was on the table for a long time.
    gregoriusmchasmtmay

  • Apple TV+ hits #1 in streaming movies, Top 10 in streaming TV series

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    beowulfschmidt said:
    It seems likely to me that the viewership of Argylle on Apple TV+ was precisely because of the poor critical reception in Theaters.

    "I've seen some bad reviews so I'm not going to pay ridiculous theater prices to go see it, but now that it's playing on the service I've already paid for this month, I'll give it a shot."

    And of course, as my daughter said, "but...Henry Cavill."
    I will say that the bad reviews but the fun trailer were enticing to me. I didn't want to watch it on AppleTV+ because I didn't want to pay for it in the theater,; rather, I wanted to watch it  because it was panned by critics so harshly. Basically I wanted to see a train wreck.

    However, it was not as bad as the critics made it out to me. It was basic action comedy that was by the numbers. Many fun moments to be had and a great cast. 

    watto_cobra