seanj

Please don’t say “European law markers”, when “EU bureaucrats” is far more accurate.
Switzerland 🇨🇭, Norway 🇳🇴, and very soon Great Britain 🇬🇧, are in Europe the continent, but not the EU trade bloc. 🇪🇺

BTW to my American friends, this is just another example of why GB 🇬🇧 decided to leave, the obsession by EU bureaucrats to regulate everything and anything.

The headline is wrong, the OECD isn’t a European organisation; eg USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan etc are all members.

hammeroftruth said:

seanj said:

I already have my Marvel watch...

Does that band ever pull on your hair?

Nope, never any - probably the first metal watch strap I’ve ever had that hasn’t trapped or pulled hairs.

GeorgeBMac said:

Well yeh, Duh!

Why else would Apple have capitulated to Qualcomm but to produce a 5G phone?

The only real questions is:   Why would they wait 14 months to release it?   Samsung, Huawei and others (as well as all the carriers) will be well into 5G by then,  If they sit on their butt and do nothing till September 2020 they will look real bad.

They should release at least one 5G phone in the first part of 2020 - not wait till nearly 2021.

Exactly. Last of the UKs mobile networks is about to go 5G, and for the Xmas shopping period people will be wanting 5G phones. Giving Android manufacturers an 18 month head start in sales of 5G handsets will just see Apples market share slide even further.
Apple’s 2019 phones will have Qualcomm 5G modems, the 2020 models will have Apples own 5G modem chips, with the 2021 models featuring a processor that includes the modem.

“the ARM architecture which was originally designed for mobile devices”

Err no. The ARM architecture, or using its original name the “Acorn RISC Machine” architecture was developed in the very later ‘80’s for desktop machines - the Acorn Archimedes was the most advanced desktop in the world when it launched.
Sadly PC domination had begun.

the main thrust of this article is correct, Apple has suffered in the past from being let down by the development efforts of suppliers, and is now focussed on total independence and vertical integration.
But it won’t switch until it can replace every Intel processor across its entire range of machines; including the insane multi cores than appear in the new Mac Pro. So while Apple could slip A series chips into Airs right now, it’s range of processing power isn’t sufficient to equip a Mac Pro... yet. But give them time, I would expect an Apple switch completely dumping Intel in 5 to 7 years.

(Assuming of course, they don’t buy Intel with their spare change!)