williamh

I thought this was going to be about the Apple-Silicon-Killer Intel Mediocre Lake chips that I read about elsewhere yesterday.  In any event, what the people behind the "Apple Silicon Killers" fail to appreciate is that the performance alone is not the Mac's killer feature.  People buy Macs because of the whole package - hardware/software/ecosystem (or marketing and they don't really know what they're buying - for many of us it's the whole package.)

Macs have been on 4 distinctly different processor architectures that have sometimes been best-in-class and sometimes not.  (Motorola 68k, PowerPC, Intel, and now Apple Silicon) If Intel, AMD, or anyone else made a processor that really made Apple Silicon obsolete to such an extent that some other Apple software/hardware/ecosystem advantages were muted, Apple could switch to it.  

I believe this took place in the UK and the place the phone landed looked pretty soft. I don't know about Wales but some of the ground in the Scotland is so soft it feels almost like walking on a mattress.

JP234 said:

Wondering what the terminal velocity of an iPhone is? Guessing that a fall from 20-25 feet might generate the same impact force as falling from 14,000 feet.

I think it would be quite a bit higher than 20-25 feet to reach terminal velocity.  I think it would take closer to 10 seconds of fall to reach terminal velocity.

Funny, I was just there a few days ago and there was no sign of it.  The location described in the article is close to where the Tesla store was located and there was a Microsoft store there as well (maybe in the same location before Tesla got there, I don't remember.)  In any event, the new location in the mall is more heavily trafficked than where it is now.