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So it was Apple's moves into ARM that finally prompted Microsoft to improve Windows' support for ARM, whereas Microsoft's own forays into ARM were largely ignored and forgotten, even by themselves.
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Only on HN bubble does it matter. Apple devices are out of budget for most countries, and they only own 10% of the worldwide market share in computing. Outside desktop, Android owns the mobile market. Really, it is just US analysts going crazy with M1.
HN's "bubble"? Absurd. We are talking about the most valuable company in the world, and the M1 release was covered enthusiastically the world over. The notion that it's US-only is absolutely preposterous. Apple is a significant player in mobile in the entirety of the West. Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands. And it's PC saturation is virtually the same in Canada and Europe as the US. Even in Euro…
Source? That means one in every five has an iPhone in China.
I hope that the possibility of an industry-wide switch to ARM doesn't take away the flexibility we now have with the PC. Standardized parts and a well defined firmware interface (and thus "standard" bootloaders instead of a multitude like on ARM) is what makes the PC truly special. Moving to a world where you can't install Linux or where every single machine has incompatible firmware would be disastrous, IMHO. Curren…
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"Current PCs can last for decades" this might not sound as an advantage for PC computer producers. Surely they would prefer mobile devices model in which many people switch device every 2 years. I bet there are some higher ups in Dell, HP counting how wonderful it would be to force people to switch to the new model more often. Or maybe even sell hardware subscription. This would be terrible for the environment, but w…
Tim Cook on an earnings call, explaining that reducing the price of battery refurbishment to $29, lead to fewer sales as people held on to devices for longer: >According to Cook, while analysts suggested Apple shouldn't do it, the company "strongly believes it was the right thing to do for [its] customers." https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/29/apple-lower-upgrades-ex... >“We also make sure to design durable products,…
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said the Apple fan boy who created the account 20 days ago to argue violently and offensively :) > This all started with an insanely stupid comment that Apple only matters in the US, It's true Apple is losing market share everywhere on mobile market and it's not gaining in computing devices You might be surprised how much irrelevant the US bubble is outside of the US > LOL, I deleted it because I realized there were…
Neat. How many accounts are you trolling under? You're boring, and probably super poor. Cool.
Even if I was poor, which is not a shame outside of the US, I live near the Colosseum in an historical buildings older than the USA, so I think I'm ok.
I hope Apple pays you, it would be sad to know that you really believe what you say...
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OK, sure, "we got to the moon with 4Mhz" but try watching youtube, editng photos and google docs with that configuration. What you probably mean by usable computer is either an embedded system or some ssh server but what most people actually do with computers is access the web and the modern web is so bloated that without fast hardware and proper software it becomes a pain to do anything remotely productive or fun. T…
You can run X11 with a non-compositing window manager on very low performance hardware.
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> Apple -- at 20% or so in most of the world's economies Apple has 17% (and dropping) of the mobile market share in Europe and around 9% in computing. There aren't many other richer economies in the World. Ferrari is worth now more than General Motors and Ford, so market share and net worth are not comparable. Their market share is small because they make a luxury limited edition product. They limit their production…
This is so intensely boring and stupid. Firstly, you profoundly misunderstood the inclusion of Ferrari, hilariously trying to twist that into an Apple critique. Secondly, Apple is selling as many or more iPhones than ever in Europe (19% in the EU). And Japan. And the US. And Canada. And Australia. And CHINA . And Singapore. And South Korea. Literally every rich area on Earth. Contrasted with pjmlp's "only the US" (ac…
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We had that in the form of Windows CE based smartphones. As open as a PC, no walled garden, no app stores, just load your app and launch it. The market spoke decisively in rejecting it in favor of the iPhone and Android devices.
Are you really arguing the that Windows CE platform was more open than Android? Back in 2005, an open source Linux based phone was a hippie pipe dream, and carriers were FIRMLY against allowing anything open source on their networks. Android blew all of that wide open, and now the most popular phone OS in the world is an open source Linux based OS. This is what we were all dreaming about back then. I feel like this i…
The fact that it uses Linux kernel and related features is an implementation detail, only visible to Google and OEMs.
What regular developers see is a Java/Kotlin based userland, with a native layer having a set of predefined stable APIs, which includes ISO C, ISO C++ standard libraries, a POSIX subset, GL/Vulkan and a couple of Android specific ones.
Tomorrow Android can be another Fucshia subsystem, and again, only Google and OEMs will notice the change.
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We had that in the form of Windows CE based smartphones. As open as a PC, no walled garden, no app stores, just load your app and launch it. The market spoke decisively in rejecting it in favor of the iPhone and Android devices.
They rejected it because the experience was garbage not because it was open. My least favorite part is constantly manually pruning open apps to fit in tiny memory.
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TV tax it's just for the UK.
How are you so certain it's only in the UK? It's definitely a thing here in Germany and Austria, and a relatively expensive one at that for just possessing a TV, and I'll bet my hat it's a thing in most EU countries.
I have lived half of my life in Germany and still find it strange having GEZ, or whatever replaced it now, instead of everyone pays approach that most countries on the continent do.