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I don't think they'd attempt it unless they had something that would disrupt the market. Intel has been rusting on its laurels without credible competition, and if Apple manages to…

That would put Intel in the crosshairs of anti-trust. The have a defacto monopoly on personal computer processors, and this sounds like an abuse of their market position to stifle …

If Apple needs to, they could buy either Autodesk or Adobe. To be honest, I'd prefer the buy and port Solidworks.

Reminds me of the old "Fixing Solaris" file from the '90s (and the Fixing SunOS that was its forebear.)

ARM is a very compeitive field of a number of manufacturers, building chips for billions of devices. The advantage is no longer Intel's. More, the Great Old Ones - IBM with their z…

This is absolutely true. Worse, those brackets each define a different modal state. Even more worse, some languages ran out of brackets for all the purposes they wanted brackets fo…

This is true, and MitM attacks are becoming less and less theoretical as more traffic moves to the various wireless protocols. Rogue AP's and cell towers are a thing in these moder…

I have $50/month Unlimited data iPhone plan, and 0% financing on the iPhone itself over 2 years. Coverage is much improved recently, too. Their marketing is terrible, and in-store …

> 1. Businesses would want features that individuals don't care about. More importantly, they would want features that I don't care about. Yes, but they know you don't care about t…

The MacOS X ecosystem is 25 years old now, counting NextStep, and has an installed base of close to a hundred million systems, most of them unsophisticated personal computer users …

Apple has always been exceptional in this regard as well. It usually drives people up a wall when this is pointed out, as the fanboys like to trumpet it a bit too loudly, but it's …

Firefox is Netscape. There's a reason you download it from Mozilla.org. It's an amazing demonstration of the power of open source to allow good software to exist and thrive beyond …

This is incorrect. The average user, globally, uses Android as their main OS. Desktops in developing nations are never going to reach the same level of ubiquity as in the US and Eu…