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  • MacBook Pro 16-inch M3 Max review: Battery-powered Mac Pro power

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    GeneT said:
    Wait! In what world does a 16 core CPU, keep pace with a 24 core CPU on multi-core score? Even allowing for 16% faster single core score, this math doesn't work.
    M2 Ultra: 24 (16× high-performance + 8× high-efficiency)
    M3 Max: 16 (12× high-performance + 4× high-efficiency)

    75% of the M3 cores are high performance, and only 66% of the M2 Ultra cores are.  Maybe that has something to do with it?  
    killroywilliamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Volvo to focus on value adds outside the infotainment system, will leave CarPlay alone

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    22july2013 said:
    My current Honda forces me to manually alternate, every day, between my Carplay ecosystem and my Honda ecosystem. That's a hard fail. I don't want that. Unless I'm reading it wrong, Volvo wants to support CarPlay/Android but have a separate "Volvo OS" ecosystem for users. I would never use it. I want one ecosystem. Two is too many. And there's only one ecosystem that I currently trust. If Volvo wants my money, they should create a Volvo app inside the CarPlay ecosystem. Then I would consider them.

    Manufacturers think that they can create an ecosystem so that they remain the "interface" between the user and the car. They don't want people to "think Apple" when using their own cars, because that diminishes their brand value. The problem is, creating an ecosystem that people like (and trust) is a huge undertaking. The world is littered with failed ecosystems, and I doubt they can succeed where so many have failed. In the meantime, since most car manufacturers make some good/reliable cars nowadays, my main criteria for my next car will be how well it implements CarPlay. And if Apple builds a car, I know the CarPlay integration will be excellent.
    There is no way that any car manufacturer is ever going to ship a car that requires their customers to have an iPhone to use the entertainment system.  Two ecosystems is obviously the only way they're ever going to go, with the in-built system mandatory as a fallback.

    That's not to say that manufacturers don't have a way to go to make the transition between the fallback and the user's choice easier.
    FileMakerFeller13485

  • Japan to require companies like Apple to pay taxes in place of developers

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    Developers would then need to adjust prices to account for this price increase. Some developers were already paying the tax appropriately, so this shouldn't affect their annual income.

    If the presumption is that developers have been evading the tax (i.e. only "some" developers were behaving appropriately) then this rather highlights how necessary this is.  

    Sensible move.
    FileMakerFellerAlex_V

  • MacBook Pro 16-inch M3 Max review: Battery-powered Mac Pro power

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    The Flow browser for Raspberry Pi was built as a multi-threaded browser proof of concept, and was blazingly fast, but had compatibility issues.  Would be cool if one of the big players would sink some resources into it.
    Ofer

  • Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, Magic Trackpad didn't get USB-C -- but it's still coming

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    omasou said:
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    omasou said:
    Japhey said:
    omasou said:
    These are last remaining devices that I'm waiting to upgrade, so that I can get rid of my USB C to Thunderbolt cables.

    The EU laws have really benefited the environment. I have over 20 old and new lightening cable headed to the landfills. /s
    Maybe try recycling them?
    You miss the point. In EU's attempt to create less electronic waste they caused a massive spike in it. Even if temporarily or until the new connection standard is released.
    The EU did not vapourise all devices that use Lightning cables.

    You and others may not upgrade annually but the numbers that do adds up. Gov't needs to stay out of telling companies how to design products. If they wanted to kill a connector how about micro-usb that is the most useless/refuse to die cra**y connector ever designed.
    What do you do with your old phone when you upgrade?  As long as the answer isn't "throw it in the trash", do something similar with your cables.
    muthuk_vanalingam