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StephaneB said:

The EU institutions are populated with people struggling to justify their jobs, so they come up with dumb and hurtful ideas that they hope will make them look busy. They will now mandate USB C, preventing any better solution to be developed.

It will not prevent any waste, this is ridiculous, most new phones sold are wirelessly chargeable, making that legislation obsolete before it is even written. Will it mean that phone suppliers will be mandated to keep a useless charging connector? Isn't that electronic waste? Will the next step be to forbid Magsafe because it is different to Qi?

Given it’s the EU they’ll probably mandate phones should have RS232 ports for charging instead of something like USB-C…

I wonder how many people realise that Amazon is a cloud service provider with a small gift shop tacked onto the side? The shop side of the business lost money for years, and only recently became profitable.
The huge profits are from the cloud services.

GeorgeBMac said:

For all those defending the "Everything Glued together & soldered together" assembly of the MacBooks by saying "Nobody ever upgraded a computer", Andrew just called bull!

His biggest (only?) complaint about his M1 MacBook Air is that it can't meet his needs because it is frozen in time with what it came with when he bought it -- versus his MacPro which grew and developed with enhancements as his needs, wants and requirements grew.

Likewise, my 9 year old i7 Thinkpad runs perfectly well and meets all of my needs -- because it's been upgraded to a 500Gb SSD, 16Gb Ram and an internal harddrive used for ongoing, real time backups.  Without those cheap and very simple to install (5 minutes or less) upgrades the machine would have been scrap

Only a tiny percentage of people tinker with the computers, it’s a niche market that’s similar to those that add nitrous oxide to their cars...
Most people just want a computer they can do things with, rather than do things to, in other words a consumer product. With Apple they get that, which is why customer satisfaction is so high.

If you have a 9 year old Thinkpad then you’re probably either running XP (good luck browsing the Internet securely) or you’re running Linux. If it’s the latter then if you happy with a limited number of professional applications then that’s fine.

crowley said:

ionicle said:

Would have made more sense to open this in the UK

Why?  The UK doesn't have any particular advantage in wireless or networking does it?

A lot of Qualcom’s wireless technology comes from its acquisition of Cambridge Silicon Radio which is still based in Cambridge.

The world’s most densely packed mobile radio network exist within Ocado’s robot-staffed warehouses. A proprietary technology licensed to other retailers around the world, such as Walmart in the USA. Developed by another Cambridge based technology company.

Should I continue?

BTW - guess which city ARM is based, it begins with a “C”...

cloudguy said:

We have always known that this was possible, as modern (meaning a ARM Holdings design base and not the Sun Sparc and other early RISC servers that go back to the 1980s)

WRONG AGAIN.

The ARM design, just like the other RISC systems you deride, also dates back to the 1980’s. I saw a demo of the very first desktop that used an ARM chip, the Acorn Archimedes, in a consultancy in Cambridge, U.K. - where it was developed - in 1989. Even then, it blew away everything else on the market.
Sadly it’s technical and performance brilliance want enough to withstand the WinTel monopoly stream roller.