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  • 2023 HomePod review roundup: similar sound, same price

    nicholfd said:
    elijahg said:
    nicholfd said:
    Component availability, production capacity availability, etc.  COVID was happening...

    Yeah the 2018 manufacture date of HomePods delivered in 2021 really supports that theory too. I know, maybe they couldn't get components so they had to use their backup supply from 2018? Looking forward to how you twist that one.
    You really need to re-read what I wrote.  I didn't twist anything.  I make no statements of fact - only possibilities.  

    You're claiming fact without any proof - only speculation & opinion..
    And yet I completely refuted your "possibilities". As I said, it is well known that Apple has an excellent supply chain. But since this is apparently only my "opinion" and not the truth, you must believe that they in fact have a crap supply chain and want product sat around in warehouses for years. 
    muthuk_vanalingam
  • 2023 HomePod review roundup: similar sound, same price

    nicholfd said:
    elijahg said:
    nicholfd said:
    charlesn said:
    Wow. This one is a head scratcher for me. I can't ever remember a tech product failing in the market and then being brought back shortly after in essentially identical form.  
    Uh - maybe because it didn't fail?

    Apple never made any statements about poor sells, or how it did in the market.  Apple never made any statements about why the 1st gen was discontinued.

    So what do you base your "failing in the market" statement on?  Hopefully not ANALyst who pull shit out of their ass... 

    PS - we have 8 x 1st gen HomePods.
    It failed. It was too expensive (why else did Apple cut the price? Apple never cuts prices), and restricted to Apple’s own ecosystem. Those issues haven’t been resolved but at least it’s$m $50 less than the old one, though missing some hardware soo really about the same price. 

    Besides, just before it was discontinued people were buying them and the serial number indicated a manufacturing date of 2018. You think Apple wanted to have HomePods sat around in warehouses for 3 years unsold?
    No proof in your statement that it failed.  You're welcome to your opinion, but no evidence provided.

    Billions of people in Apple's ecosystem.  For most, that's not a con & definitely not any indication of failure.

    "Those issues haven't been resolved" - what issues?  All of ours work just fine, and were purchased from release date until discontinue date of the 1st gen.  Most of ours are definitely from different production batches - we generally bought one at a time, and only 1 x pair purchased together.

    Sure Apple cuts prices.  New Mac mini M2 is $100 cheaper than previous version.  The new HomePod is released at $50 cheaper than the previous version release price.

    So people got old inventory?  So what?  Doesn't mean there was old inventory everywhere or that old inventory was the only inventory.  

    People always want to jump to conclusions...  
    I literally provided proof which you chose to ignore. 

    Apple doesn’t cut prices of products mid-cycle. 

    You’re evidently clueless as to how warehousing works. You really think Apple shoves new stock at the front of a massive shelf in their warehouse then only pick from the front so that inventory never gets turned over? Apple’s well known for its tight inventory control, stock sat in warehouses costs money. In any case why have people never received old stock with any other product? 

    Why did Apple cancel it if it was anything but a failure? 

    You’re making the most absurd statements to try and support your ridiculous conclusion despite all the evidence pointing to the contrary. 
    muthuk_vanalingam
  • 2023 HomePod review roundup: similar sound, same price

    nicholfd said:
    charlesn said:
    Wow. This one is a head scratcher for me. I can't ever remember a tech product failing in the market and then being brought back shortly after in essentially identical form.  
    Uh - maybe because it didn't fail?

    Apple never made any statements about poor sells, or how it did in the market.  Apple never made any statements about why the 1st gen was discontinued.

    So what do you base your "failing in the market" statement on?  Hopefully not ANALyst who pull shit out of their ass... 

    PS - we have 8 x 1st gen HomePods.
    It failed. It was too expensive (why else did Apple cut the price? Apple never cuts prices), and restricted to Apple’s own ecosystem. Those issues haven’t been resolved but at least it’s $50 less than the old one, though missing some hardware soo really about the same price. 

    Besides, just before it was discontinued people were buying them and the serial number indicated a manufacturing date of 2018. You think Apple wanted to have HomePods sat around in warehouses for 3 years unsold?

    That said, I’m thinking of getting one or two so I can put the two og ones I have together to make a stereo pair, but I am balking at the price. 
    muthuk_vanalingam
  • Apple chipmaking stumbles led to less impressive iPhone 14 Pro

    tht said:
    Calling it 5nm makes it sound like there isn't improvement, and that's factually incorrect. It's a half node improvement that TSMC has done for basically a decade now.

    If in 2021, Apple was expecting TSMC 3nm to be in mass production by summer of 2022, which would be in time for fall iPhone shipments, they would have designed a chip given TSMC 3nm capabilities, like hardware ray tracing features. Once TSMC and Apple saw that 3nm was going to make it on time, and they would have figured it out in 2021, they would fallback to the half node step, TSMC 4nm, and get the typical half node improvements, like 10 to 15% performance, 10 to 15% less power, some combination.

    Strategically, I kind of think the Jade C die (M1 Max), Jade C chop (M1 Pro), Jade 2C (M1 Ultra), and the failed Jade 4C was a mistake. It didn't scale in the manner that buyers wanted. The M1 Max and on down appear fine. The M1 Ultra and on up? There have been issues. Apple's designed itself into a box that can't get them to ship higher end machines. That's a bigger issue than TSMC being late.
    Good analysis. Designing themselves into a box was my concern right from day 1 of the Intel -> ARM switch. Apple's CPU team had the advantage that they could design their own architecture which meant specific hardware optimisations for Swift, Javascript, low power, AI etc and then not worry about backwards compatibility. This gave them a huge jump ahead performance wise right out of the gate with M1. However, that is a once-only jump. Future improvements are incremental, optimising aspects of the silicon and adding hardware to improve particular software functions. Apple does still have an advantage with this as they write the compiler so they can remove lesser-used silicon and emulate it in software if they want to keep the die size down, keep backwards compatibility and add new instructions to the silicon.

    Apple's CPU team is tiny compared to Intel's or AMD's. Generational Apple Silicon speed improvements are nothing like they were, and in many ways the M2 was a disappointment. I don't think we're going to see Apple staying so far ahead of Intel on the performance front. Power consumption wise though Apple will always have the lead as they don't have a huge amount of silicon dedicated to RISCifying the complex CISC x86 instructions.
    dewme
  • Users report horizontal lines on iPhone 14 Pro display at startup

    The Tweet says when waking the screen, not when starting up. Almost all the Reddit posts refer to when waking the screen, not when starting up. That is a significant difference, a mild lack of polish vs a major fault impacting usability. 

    Maybe try reading the quoted and linked posts before writing an article @WilliamGallagher ? Does this place not have an editor at all anymore?
    muthuk_vanalingamapplebynatureCluntBaby92