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  • Report suggests Apple's A15 Bionic lacks significant CPU upgrades due to chip team brain d...

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    Personally I'm not bothered by a lack of CPU upgrades. Back in the day Commodore offloaded all graphics stuff to the GPU and all audio stuff to the Audio processor. This meant the CPU didn't have to be as powerful because it wasn't doing as much work. Given that GPUs these days do a lot more heavy lifting than they previously did the supposed lack of a CPU upgrade isn't that much of an issue.
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  • Report suggests Apple's A15 Bionic lacks significant CPU upgrades due to chip team brain d...

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    swineone said:

    RudolfGottfried said:

    appleinsider said: 
    Apple failed to detail the relative performance gains achieved by its new A15 Bionic SoC during Tuesday's 
    iPhone 13 reveal, a rarity for a major hardware launch.



    Not true. Apple made exactly the same kind of performance claims as last year. No comparisons with the previous generation were made there either. So why does the media continue to serve this clearly false narrative? On the one hand, of course, to generate clicks, and on the other hand, to promote moronic elaborations like this one from Daylan Patel. He already spread stupid stuff about the A14 last year, and this year you could also set the clock until he would once again spout absurd nonsense about Apple's chip development on his ridiculous rumor platform. This time the hook is: Apple is suffering terribly from the loss of engineers and therefore had to postpone its core development. Yes, of course. In 2019 about half a dozen Apple engineers (and not more than 100 as good Daylan claims) went and founded Nuvia, a startup that until today has produced nothing more than hot air and bizarre graphics sheets, but created so much wind that they were bought by Qualcomm. And since then, nothing more has been heard from them. Two more engineers went to Rivos this year and that's it. Daylan, who likes to speculate about how unbelievably startups will change the chip scene and who also claims that Google's self-developed chip (in reality a modified Exynos) will replace 10 million Intel chips, simply can't stand the fact that Apple's chip development generates such enormous performance increases year after year. So, he tries to fight it year after year in the short time frame between keynote and launch to get at least a bit of media attention. Okay, at the end of next week the spook is over. Until next year. 
    DED, is that you?
    Whatever happened to DED? I haven't seen anything from him for ages.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple TV+ review: 'Losing Alice' a suspenseful, sexy thriller from Israel

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    anantksundaram said:
    crowley said:
    anantksundaram said:
    StrangeDays said:
    Looking forward to it.

    As for that unfounded rumor that ATV+ was gonna be all family content, I think it was squashed when Morning Show and See were released -- "Two Fucks Jackson" in Morning Show, and horribly gruesome disfigurements and masturbation in See. Yeah, that rumor was squashed on day 1.
    You have some pretty low standards for quality. 
    They're talking about family friendliness, not quality?
    Have you watched "Mandalorian"? The show that cleaned Netflix's clock this past quarter?

    Get serious. 
    Mandalorian was a slow, tedious show that made me realise that Disney+ was going to be nothing more than a platform for milking Star Wars and Marvel. Outside of those Disney+ doesn't really offer anything of worth. Even then Star Wars and Marvel super heroes are quite boring.

    Each to their own for sure but I do find that the content on Apple TV is quite good and stuff that no one else is keen to pick up. That, to me, makes it a more refreshing platform than Disney+ or Netflix.
    watto_cobra

  • Coronavirus closes Apple Stores, Hollywood slams MacBook Pro keyboards -- February 2020 in...

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    I love the fact that people were listening to Taika. I mean he’s not really an expert on anything except making movies. Jojo Rabbit wasn’t his best work in my not so humble opinion. But from what I read with his tweets it seems to me like he’s holding it wrong. Hunched over the keyboard? Definitely not correct posture and that’s on him, not the design of a keyboard.
    watto_cobra

  • Tim Cook responds to Facebook's attack ads with tweet about privacy

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    Here's the thing that irks me about Facebook. Sure, collect data about my spending. That's fine. I don't have an issue with this per se. What I do have an issue with is tying it back to me. Is there really a reason why you need my name, financial details, address, and phone number? No. There is no legitimate reason for this.

    When I get, what we collectively call junk mail here in NZ, it's unbiased. If I want a deal that's in that pamphlet then I'll do it but mostly it just goes in the rubbish bin.

    Now, we have targeted ads. To many this is evil but the act of targeted ads isn't evil in itself. If a cookie says, "Oh, you bought a motorcycle comms system" then assuming that I have a motorcycle and I might be interested in motorcycle stuff is not a bad thing. It means I'm not seeing a bunch of ads selling me erection medication. After all, if I'm riding a motorcycle then I must be a manly man right. 😂

    Where targeted ads are bad is when they tie it to a specific person. "Oh, Loweded Wookie bought a motorcycle intercom system. He's into motorcycle stuff".

    On one hand it's a cookie about some random guy, on the other hand it's tracking the movements of a person. This is where I draw the line. My bank has all this information. I trust my bank more than Facebook. It's the reason I store my money at my bank rather than give Facebook my credit card details. The heinous thing is that even though I did not give Facebook my credit card details, they still have it because of locations that I have used my card who sell that data to Facebook who then onsells it to others.

    If Apple is not only saying that it is asking the user if they want to supply this data, but it's also anonymising that data so that I stay me. If anyone says that Apple is hurting people then maybe you need to look at the people doing the complaining. Are small businesses really going to be harmed if they don't have advertising tracking? NO!!! Anonymised data is just as effective as data that contains someone's name, more so in fact because there becomes no bias.
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