crowley

I don't add "in my opinion" to everything I say because everything I say is my opinion.  I'm not wasting keystrokes on clarifying to pedants what they should already be able to discern.

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  • iPhone must use USB-C by 2024, says EU law

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    tht said:
    crowley said:
    11,000 tonnes is not a small number, no matter how you try to bend and divide the figure. 
    Relative to the non-compostable landfill waste produced by 500m people in the EU, it's a small number. A plastic bag weighs about 2 grams. 1 plastic bag per person in the EU is 1000 tonnes. That's a plastic bag. Now think about how many plastic bags we go through per day. Shopping bags, storage bags, product bags etc. Things like blister packs in packaging, packing bubbles, and etc. Potato chip bags? Plastic (well polyethylene blah blah blah). 2 grams per bag. We compost and what is picked up by the trash service is basically plastic! So maybe 500 grams of it per week. Per week, for our household of 6. So, that's about 100x more per year than this 11k tonne estimate.
    There are initiatives to reduce the amount of plastic bags and packaging too.  I don't think anyone anywhere is claiming that this law will solve the problem of all waste in landfill, no law could.

    And again, 11,000 tonnes.
    spheric

  • A16 Bionic reportedly costs more than twice as much as A15

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    entropys said:
    I would have thought a smaller process allowing more SOCs on the die would help reduce costs?
    Depends how many of the SOCs are usable.  Die shrinks usually come hand in hand with yield issues.
    watto_cobraFileMakerFeller

  • iPhone must use USB-C by 2024, says EU law

    crowleycrowley
    11,000 tonnes is not a small number, no matter how you try to bend and divide the figure. 
    spheric

  • Tony Fadell wants to see iPhone move to USB-C

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    maciekskontakt said:
    chadbag said:
    Apple is considering the technology.  Which is why they’ve resisted USB-C.  

    Lightning does need to be updated to support higher data speeds and charging rates.  But USB-C and it’s lousy connector isn’t it. 
    Is it? So why did they decide to change to USB-C in the MacBooks if it is lousy?
    + iPad Pro

    If Apple had any interest in upgrading Lightning they’d have done it already. USB-C is definitely it.
    grandact73muthuk_vanalingamJP234

  • MagSafe Battery Pack review: One year later, still the one to beat

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    Are other parties not able to license whatever magic sauce Apple uses in its MagSafe charger to get those efficiencies?
    watto_cobra