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huckdaisy1 said:

I love apple pay with my watch.  Anybody know how much of a cut apple keeps from each transaction?

I agree -- ApplePay plus Watch is a great experience. 

Allegedly Apple gets 0.15% of the value of a transaction. Note, that's not 15% or 1.5% -- it's 0.15%. 

Also, the merchant doesn't pay extra for ApplePay. The credit card company shares part of their fee with Apple. 

Why do they do that? Primarily because the security of ApplePay reduces fraud and therefore saves the credit card companies money. 

http://www.digitaltransactions.net/news/story/Apple-Pay_-No-Charge-for-Merchants_-But-Transaction-Security-Fees-for-Issuers

zroger73 said:

This change doesn't come without a cost. In addition to a "more complete and rich experience", it also encourages code bloat and reduces the number of installable applications.

Dude. That would have to be some pretty bloaty code to take up 4GB. 

This is about assets, not code. 

The 200MB limit was stupid. This is long overdue. 

Apple could make the AppleTV a decent gaming console if they lifted half a finger. This change is lifting maybe 1/10th of a finger. 

AQ said:

Makes perfect sense to disable the cache. CR is testing a browser retrieving content from a server, not local files. The animosity from my fellow Apple fanboys is disappointing.

I totally agree. 

Everyone has handled this well except for the rabid fanboys. 

I think CR's rationale for turing of cacheing is perfectly reasonable: 

http://www.consumerreports.org/apple/apple-releases-fix-to-macbook-pros-in-response-to-consumer-reports-battery-test-results/

I don't think anybody did anything wrong here -- neither Apple nor CR -- and both are handling it appropriately. 

melgross said:

Bah! I find this hard to believe. Everyone now attempting to produce 10nm has run into delays from yield problems. Considering the cost of these factories, there is just no way they are going to produce 10nm for less than a year before jumping to 7nm. I don't believe it.

The GPU guys tend to lag a year behind Apple in adopting a new process. Part of that's about finances, but a big part of it is that Apple's SOCs are smaller than GPU chips, which makes Apple's SOCs easier to manufacture on a new process. In order to get decent yields on big GPU chips, TSMC needs to gain experience with and refine a new process. 

So it's not like the 10nm fabs will be sitting idle after Apple moves to 7nm. They will be cranking out GPUs (among other things). 

Also, Apple does still sell older SOCs in older products. For example, the A8 is still being used in the AppleTV and the A8 is a 20nm chip.