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lkrupp said:

Does Moore’s law continue on but without Intel in the mix? 

Moore's law is an observation by a person of the periodic increased of the number of transistors on a chip, based on the historical evolution of semiconductor manufacturing capabilities. It is not rooted in any science.  Moreover, the number of transistors on a chip is not the sole (or even the primary) determinant of chip performance. 

iloveapplegear said:

Crazy they are having to pay out for this as they wee only trying to prevent shutdowns on phones.

The issue is that it wasn’t disclosed, not that the act itself was wrong. 

It's a pretty disappointing release, especially given that it's the first major release since X was released almost 20 years ago.  A lot of sake for the sake of change, like redesigned icons, which actually look hideous, and goofy new sound effects.  Yes there is a control center and other tweaks, but still same bugs as X and no apparent performance increase.

This morning I had to delete 100 fonts due to an issue in Adobe. Each font deletion required entering my password.  Something that should have taken half a second took 10 minutes.

Simple absurd.

marsorry said:

Of course it’s not coming! There’s a Mini and an older SE still on sale - there’s no room for it! Did we really need an article to state the obvious or do investors need this level of handholding?

aderutter said:

The analysts have to be seen to be saying something to justify their existence.
Personally I wouldn’t be surprised if we do not get a new iPhone SE ever, the mini is the small iPhone now.

How about reading the entire article, then maybe digesting the info for a few seconds before commenting:

Kuo's latest investor note is specifically about supplier Yujingguang, better known as Genius Electronic Optical. He cautions that a belief that "the market overestimates revenue and gross margin" of the company.

"The market expects that [the first half of 2021] will see a new iPhone SE [which would] push up the shipment momentum of Genius Electronic Optical," says Kuo. "But we don't think that 1H21 will have a new iPhone SE."

This investor note has nothing to do with Apple, and is not intended to communicate to Apple investors or consumers that a new SE is not coming.  It is regarding a third-party supplier that manufactures components for the SE.  Other analysts and investors are overestimating revenue for this third-party supplier, and that would only be justified by a new SE.  The fact that is occurring means it is not obvious to those people, and that it is worthy of mention. 

curtis hannah said:

Hmm, I guess this isn’t a surprise, but it is interesting all the Macs that don’t support discrete GPUs were the ones updated today, implying in the future they will either introduce a chip with a much better GPU or otherwise are still trying to work with AMD to maintain their graphics options in later models.

No one is buying a Mac mini, iPad Air, or 13" MacBook Pro for the GPU power.  These are entry level machines for the average person. 

Much ado about nothing as always.