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  • Apple presses on with headset that's an iPhone on your face

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    They’ll be doing it to stop patent trolls.

    No one could claim their patent if Apple already has it so all they need to do is periodically make minor changes and the trolls have nothing.
    watto_cobra

  • Tim Cook sells Apple stock worth in excess of $50 million

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    oksure said:
    Does no on else find this gross, and at the systemic root of wtf is wrong in our country?  Seems like a nice guy you'd root for but then no.  Just another greedy fuc*ing cog in the wheel.  Don't really think he moves the needle either, other than a somewhat impressive Jobs facsimile come wwdc.  Bullshit human being unless I'm really missing something.
    Like Steve Jobs the guy doesn’t get paid a salary. Selling stocks is his income. Stocks are only worth something when cashed in.

    You’re reading far too much into this than there is to read.
    fastasleepStrangeDaysmacxpressmarklarkBart Y

  • Judge not impressed with Apple's request for more time in Epic case

    lowededwookielowededwookie
    Or could it be that the legal system is so bad it needs things in writing which means Apple needs to print out 1.3 million documents?

    Thats a tough ask for even the largest print house let alone a corporate office.

    Even if they can be delivered by email, someone has to check each of those documents to ensure they are what is being requested. Algorithms are pretty poor at the moment.
    appleinsideruserwatto_cobra

  • Apple could completely ditch Qualcomm's 5G modems by 2027

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    nubus said:
    9secondkox2 said:
    It’s exactly what o think it is. As part of ieee, Apple has always been about developing things for the hood of people, not just proprietary standards. Universal standards. Working with others to ensure its everything it needs to be is also an Apple hallmark. 
    Apple fought against standard connectors for iPhones, iPads, and accessories for 15 years after agreed to follow standards. A lot of e-waste caused by proprietary connectors and chargers and more so for all those proprietary chargers and dongles the Mac had for decades before USB-C and DisplayPort.

    Apple is mainly about Apple and keeping products nice but plan for something even nicer or more Pro/Max/Ultra to replace them. Mediocre by design.... someone should write a book.
    Apple has had to develop their own cables because the existing stuff sucked.

    If you don’t count the FireWire iPod Apple has only ever had 3 types of cables for every iPad and iPod and iPhone ever - 4 if you count USB-C but that’s not every model yet.

    USB-micro and USB-mini were the worst cables ever to grace our planet and so Apple was never going to implement such a crap standard.

    And let’s not forget that, prior to adopting USB-micro, Nokia had a different communications cable for EVERY SINGLE MODEL they produced. You call Apple out for land waste? You clearly don’t know history.
    MplsPthtstompydanoxwatto_cobra

  • Apple could completely ditch Qualcomm's 5G modems by 2027

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    danox said:
    ecarlseen said:
    Building a cellular modem is crazy-difficult.

    While the overall specifications are public, how to make them work in the real-world involves lots of very carefully-kept trade secrets. The successful vendors, especially Qualcomm, use these trade secrets instead of patents so that they don't have to disclose them publicly.

    Essentially, Apple is having to re-discover / re-invent these trade secrets internally. It's a long process driven by trial and error. It's not something you can arbitrarily schedule a completion date for. Intel sucked at this, which is why their modems generally sucked, why they never had a decently working 4G model, why they were never going to get to 5G, and why they more or less had to give away their modem division.  If Apple is planning on having a chip taped out, debugged, and in production next year that means feel they've cracked everything. Once they're started with actual production, they will probably be able to produce modems for existing and upgraded standards at a reasonably fast pace. 

    An interesting revenge move for Apple would be to publish everything they've learned about building cellular modems (all of the industry trade secrets). This would nuke Qualcomm's balance sheet as cheap competitors would spring up all over the place. Qualcomm would still control the bleeding edge in the short term, but if it creates an inability to over-license their patent portfolio (they force customers to license patents they're not using and are widely considered exploitative in their licensing practices for their chipsets) it will cut hard into their earnings.

    A few years ago, could you imagine Apple giving Intel the bums rush, most of the tech industry and most of the tech forums (some Appleinsider participants too) said Apple should stick with Intel the Golden Child they would be utterly lost without them or Microsoft compatibility.

    Apple probably wants to build new devices incorporating a modem (their modem), and Apple can’t do that unless they have their own Apple Vision almost assuredly would’ve had an Apple modem in it. If it was ready, Shrinking the Apple Vision to the size of a pair glasses (which critics cry about) can’t happen without an Apple modem inside it at least not in the way Apple would want to design it?

    How long did it take Apple beginning to end to replace Intel CPU’S about 12 years? P.A. Semi  Acquired in 2008, M1 Mac released in 2020.
    Actually yes I could because in 2006 when Apple announced the move to Intel my colleagues mocked me because now Apple would be no different to any PC.

    I told them then that it would only be a stopgap until Apple developed their own chips because Intel won’t be giving Apple what they needed. I told them straight up Apple would get to that decision within 10 years.

    I was bang on. 10 years from 2006 was 2016. Given that Apple said it took 5 years of development that means 2015 was when they realised they could pull it off.

    All the chip manufacturers have rested on their laurels because why rock the boat when the fish are just jumping in?

    This attitude has NEVER served Apple and so they just make what they want. We’ve seen it time after time and to doubt Apple is folly. The industry is only just waking up to this now which is far too late.

    They are the hare to Apple’s tortoise.
    danoxwatto_cobra