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>Apple chips famously have Imagination GPUs Not anymore, Apple switched to in-house GPUs recently.
That makes it worse? The Imagination crap is shipped on Android phones, too, so there are at least vendor kernel drops to work from.
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Also, they're literally the developers for the mobile platform. iOS has a very long way to go before you can develop on it.
Not really. The main issue is software. Add a Bluetooth keyboard and you can code just fine on iOS. The problem is that there are no native tools for it (that we have access to). That’s actually a very minor hurdle, not a long way at all.
I wish Apple would make a sort of Raspberry Pi like board with an A series chip, ethernet, HDMI, GPIO, SD Card, etc... for $50-$100 that runs Linux. I would also like a flying unicorn. Seriously, a high power SBC at a reasonable price point would be insanely useful for projects like portable MAME cabinets, video transcoders, scene displays, etc... I love the Pi but it's so old tech, especially the video cores, that i…
Make a version of iOS that companies can build off of; maintain the OS patch cycles but let them put their own app / front end on it.
Tons of smart devices exist now a days; TVs, refrigerators, bikes, etc... There's a market for an Apple based system for sure.
But yes - I'll taking a flying unicorn also in the interim.
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Also, they're literally the developers for the mobile platform. iOS has a very long way to go before you can develop on it.
iOS is not particularly different from OSX. That's why Apple developers get to use a super fast simulator instead of the dog slow emulator we Android developers are stuck with.
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That makes it worse? The Imagination crap is shipped on Android phones, too, so there are at least vendor kernel drops to work from.
The vendor kernels are worthless, tainted, piles of crap. Vendors rarely, if ever, maintain them once they are posted publicly. The GPU still requires proprietary blobs to be even remotely useful.
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>Apple chips famously have Imagination GPUs Not anymore, Apple switched to in-house GPUs recently.
That makes it worse? The Imagination crap is shipped on Android phones, too, so there are at least vendor kernel drops to work from.
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The vendor kernels are worthless, tainted, piles of crap. Vendors rarely, if ever, maintain them once they are posted publicly. The GPU still requires proprietary blobs to be even remotely useful.
Of course. But they contain non-zero amounts of information on the chip so you can do a proper implementation or, much less ambitious, update it for newer kernel versions.
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Also, they're literally the developers for the mobile platform. iOS has a very long way to go before you can develop on it.
Not really. The main issue is software. Add a Bluetooth keyboard and you can code just fine on iOS. The problem is that there are no native tools for it (that we have access to). That’s actually a very minor hurdle, not a long way at all.
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I think it was, but if most people who use them for work are sticking keyboards back on them then it might make sense to offer a clamshell or hybrid design.
How about a DualPad - it's a clamshell with an upper and a lower iPad. When you separate them, they're just iPads, but when combined they become something more powerful with different features.
I wish Apple would make a sort of Raspberry Pi like board with an A series chip, ethernet, HDMI, GPIO, SD Card, etc... for $50-$100 that runs Linux. I would also like a flying unicorn. Seriously, a high power SBC at a reasonable price point would be insanely useful for projects like portable MAME cabinets, video transcoders, scene displays, etc... I love the Pi but it's so old tech, especially the video cores, that i…
Worse is the array of smart devices that are forced to use Android type hardware / Android OS. Looking at the Peloton cycle I have specifically which clearly runs Android OS. Could be so much better if it was on faster hardware / could link up to Apple Watch for stats. Make a version of iOS that companies can build off of; maintain the OS patch cycles but let them put their own app / front end on it. Tons of smart de…