OutdoorAppDeveloper

Take this one step further: An extremely high tech society is incompatible with the kind of wars experienced in the last century. Everything is inter-connected. The attack on the Ukraine causes immediate protests in Russia due to live video streams showing the destruction being caused. Sanctions on Russia mean that their space agency can't get the high tech parts it needs to keep the International Space Station in orbit. When Russian's find out that they can't buy any new technology or replacement parts for existing equipment, they won't be happy. It's like a slow EM pulse turning off the modern world a piece at a time. 

Fines can always be increased. The Netherlands could say that the fines will double each week for example.

ricmac said:

lmasanti said:

Thinking that Apple will ‘copy’ HoloLens strategy is… obviously… possible…

…the same way that Apple…
…copied mp3 players with the iPod…
…copied BlackBerry with the iPhone…
…copied Microsoft and HP tablets with the iPad…
…copied some ‘watch’ with the Apple Watch…
…copied Intel with the M1 chip…

...ummm,
...Nope...
...Nope...
...Nope...
...Nope...
...Nope...
Not even close.  

Exactly. It is the fact that Apple didn't copy those other products which made it the most valuable company in the world.
Many companies did copy those products. None of them are worth 2.73 trillion dollars.

Trendforce likely has guessed very wrong here. It is far more likely that Apple will be targeting developers with the new headset for the first year. It is even possible that Apple will subsidize the cost of the headset so developers can afford them (as it did with the M1 Mac Mini prototype). I expect that the headset's biggest issue will not be the cost or a subscription. It will be whether or not a developer can get one. Apple does not really target the enterprise market any more other than with software features for otherwise consumer products.

Xed said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

At this rate, it will take Samsung several more years to simply catch up with the iPhone 13. They have not been able to break out of their performance curve. This is alarming because competition is good for the industry as a whole (including Apple) but other ARM makers are falling behind badly. Hopefully NVIDIA can work some magic with their ARM processors.

They'll have to far exceed Apple's YoY increase in performance to even catch up and I don't see them doing that.

I meant catch up with the iPhone 13 not the current year's iPhone. By the time Samsung catches the iPhone 13, Apple will be even further ahead. Unless something major changes at ARM or Qualcomm, they will never catch up with Apple based on the performance curves.