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longpath said:

flydog said:

longpath said:

Sounds like extortion & racketeering to me.

That’s because you have no idea what those words mean. 

On the contrary, I am perfectly aware of the fact that government is, of its nature, a protection racket, and using the state to compel peaceful parties to specific actions is extortion.

The word your looking for is “coercion”.

danox said:

hypoluxa said:

A tad weak campaign....but I think they know they're slipping. Apple is a minor player at the moment in the desktop PC chip market, but maybe not for long. If MS releases Win for ARM. in the next yr or so, it's game over I bet.

The problem for Microsoft is ARM as it stands now isn’t good enough, they need to put in the work and money to make it so, off the shelf ARM won’t work.
Qualcomm, Intel, and AMD are even further behind they have no in house OS.

Actually the problem for MS is they have too much cruft in Windows (x86) that cannot be ported over to ARM without incurring a huge performance penalty via an abstraction layer around the said cruft.  They could just deprecate the old code but that would cripple their vaunted backward compatibility.  It’s not as much of a catch-22 as it sounds though.  They could take a page from Apple’s playbook and do some serious auditing in order to figure out which specific functions need trimming and then lay down some custom blocks in silicon to accelerate the wrappers for the cruft.  It’s hella expensive (time, research, production) and would be just a band-aid until they can come up with a real solution (rewriting Windows into a truly portable codebase unhindered by legacy crap). 

longpath said:

Considering that the US Federal Reserve has presided over a greater than 98% loss in value of the dollar, is your confidence in central banks really that well placed? Additionally, it’s historically flawed. Not every national currency has a central bank. The US Federal Reserve, which is actually a private bank that the US Congress unlawfully delegated their treasury duties to in 1913, is the second central bank in US history. Most of US history there was no central bank. 

The Fed, for all it’s supposed power, can’t make up for decades of fiscal mismanagement by Congress.

The first rule of negotiating with Apple is don’t talk about negotiations with Apple

Apple is likely working on the second iteration of the Apple Car.  Not that the first won’t benefit from having a competent systems integration s guy, but where this hire will really shine is in the development of a cohesive, well thought out automotive IP portfolio.  Apple will pay royalties when they must, but they’ve shown their propensity to moving to their own stack ASAP.