peteo

Interesting that the A chip looses on GPU speed, which was has always been touted as one of apples A chip strength.
3DMark's Slingshot Extreme graphics benchmark :

Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Reference Device

Snapdragon 855

5,603

iPhone XS

A12 Bionic

3,660

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/snapdragon-855-benchmarks,news-29129.html

 This is important for AR where rending 3D stereo (2 separate images) at 60+ FPS is important. 

I think they should change this to two streams if one of the streams is streaming from a home pod. Seems a little to restrictive to me.
I guess people who really need this can just go to the $15 plan, but $60 extra a year just to stream another stream seems like too much $$

If only i could get my apple watch to even transcribe my question and not say hold on a minute, i'll tap you when I'm ready. then do nothing. This happens over 50% of the time now with my series 4 and its making siri useless.

ksec said:

I don't like Qualcomm but they do have a case. Looks like the so call Door Step resolution from Qualcomm CEO meant going full on Attack to Apple and force them to settle. 

Will be an interesting 2019.

Yup going to be interesting. If this is the Intel modem, not much they can do but pay up. Also even if they decide to design there own modem chips they are probably still Qualcomm patents they will need to license. Not sure there is much apple can do. I think Qualcomm pretty much has cellular patents locked up. Only thing apple can really argue now is whether Qualcomm is charging too much for the LTE,4G,3G mimo standards.

100m for a crap show from the 90's really? wow the kids these days will watch anything