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Apple's Blue Ocean

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Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by AdamN »

ttfkam wrote: post #77

Two things I've been waiting on for years: • MST (DisplayPort daisy chaining) in MacOS. The hardware has supported it for over a decade. The OS is the weak link here. It's the difference between spending $75-$300 for a dock in addition to the cables and just connecting the monitors together along with a single cable to the first monitor. • Non-soldered storage. Seriously. Storage is the most likely component to fail.…

* Just use TB monitors and daisy chaining works fine

* Nothing to add.

* Hardware enclave is a requirement for most corporate/government computers so you're just comparing two different classes of computer. All the enterprise Windows machines also do this.

* Same as above

Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by [deleted] »

Reason077 wrote: post #174
JodieBenitez wrote: post #146

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> doesn't yet provide this option on most of it's devices it has this though: https://www.macinstruct.com/images/2022/optimized-charging.p...

Yeah, that doesn't work very well in my experience. Not aggressive enough about stopping at 80% unless your routine is very regular. I want it to always stop charging at 80% unless I say otherwise.

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Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by al_be_back »

I much doubt that giants such as Microsoft, Apple etc, rely on strategies such as "Blue/Red Ocean", it's too fancy/romantic to be practical at their level. They tend to focus on established markets, which is very messy and competitive.

Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by AdamN »

SoftTalker wrote: post #99
xnyan wrote: post #74

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Ikea and generic home depot LEDs have lasted 13 years of daily use with zero failures. Also, I've never seen that high a rate of LED failure. You may want to have your house checked out by an electrician for peace of mind.

No trouble with any other electronics in the house. Just the bulbs.

Probably an old dimmer or something in the light circuit or you're getting some weird off-brand LEDs - my LEDs last for years.

Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by blkhawk »

threeseed wrote: post #101
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #61

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On the contrary, I find in amazing to see the lengths that Apple apologists will go to point out these spurious reasons why Apple included non-removable batteries. The only point that you really list that is defensible is waterproofing. Lighter devices? Cheaper to manufacture? The idea that making a removable battery would make a phone noticeably heavier or impact the cost more than a cent or two is laughable. Even w…

Removable batteries requires valuable space for the mechanism to hold the battery, transfer the power from the battery, eject the battery etc. It doesn't come for free. At least based on what I've seen on camera mechanisms you're taking about 10-20% reduction in the battery cell.

Since the EU law is about making batteries "removable with normal tools" one could argue that encapsulating the battery like a camcorder battery with a plastic hull isn't needed. A normal pouch with contacts will do.

Assuming "All day battery life" (24h) a 1% reduction in battery life is about equal to 15minutes but frankly I can't see the replaceable battery reduce the capacity at all if you are doing halfway good engineering - there is plenty of void space in an iPhone even now. By that I mean space over/under PCBs where the battery cannot go because it is still just a rectangular polygon even in say the iphone 15. I think it has 2 rectangular smaller cells with a casing around them to make an L shape.

So why doesn't apple forgo the "casing" and take that sweet 10 to 20% extra capacity? :)

Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by reactordev »

I call BS on this. Apple’s strategy is not battery tech. It’s personal computing devices. Always has been. Always will. Wearables, services, AI-capable hardware, is where Apple wins. Wearables beyond the watch and the vision pro. Meta and Ray-Ban teamed up for some Google Glass-like shades. Apple will come out with Shade (TM) if they choose to go into that market.

The point is, Apple has had a strategy for a while now. It’s not going to win against Android in the phone wars. It’s going to win in the AR/XR space if they can manage to get a decent wearable out and provide cores within cores within cores for AI NN’s.

Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by ace2358 »

LaSombra wrote: post #176
matwood wrote: post #52

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Marco was always disconnected because he's well off and could do whatever he wanted (good for him). When Casey and John had jobs, they were able to keep Marco grounded and the trio really worked. Now that Casey and John both only really do the podcast now, they all are a bit disconnected. I'm happy for all them to make money doing what they love, but the show definitely changed once they all became essentially full t…

I didn't know John pivoted to full time podcasting. This actually explains, IMHO, the shift towards a more forgiving view of Apple's product directions.

Indeed, if I remember correctly, he quit about 12 months ago or so. It made me wonder what the earning of a high profile podcast can be! Also how much that can fall away when the advertising business drops (as they constantly like to remind me, multiple times on every show…).

It makes me confused that while they’re working on the show(s) full time, the quality is dropping? It’s less interesting somehow?

Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by ekianjo »

Apple never had a blue ocean strategy. Almost none of their products sold because they were innovative. They sold well because they had a better execution and integration.

Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by bogantech »

AdamN wrote: post #181
ttfkam wrote: post #77

Two things I've been waiting on for years: • MST (DisplayPort daisy chaining) in MacOS. The hardware has supported it for over a decade. The OS is the weak link here. It's the difference between spending $75-$300 for a dock in addition to the cables and just connecting the monitors together along with a single cable to the first monitor. • Non-soldered storage. Seriously. Storage is the most likely component to fail.…

* Just use TB monitors and daisy chaining works fine * Nothing to add. * Hardware enclave is a requirement for most corporate/government computers so you're just comparing two different classes of computer. All the enterprise Windows machines also do this. * Same as above

> * Just use TB monitors and daisy chaining works fine

Not everybody has a zillion dollars to spend on expensive thunderbolt displays and they shouldn't have to when the Displayport standard (and other operating systems) support daisy chaining.

Re: Apple's Blue Ocean

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Post by thombat »

smcl wrote: post #172
thombat wrote: post #170

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And if a man mates with nine women he'll be holding one baby this time next month? With both electronic devices and gestating females concurrency is common.

No, you don't understand. SSDs begin to encounter problems over time after some number of read/write cycles. This is entirely expected and when one sector has issues it gets remapped to one of some spares that are built into the drive. Once those are exhausted it's a matter of time before you have an unusable SSD and, if it's soldered to the motherboard, an unusable laptop. A sister comment to mine referred to this t…

But where did they say they only used each device for 1.5 years? That seemed like your assumption based on the quoted dozen laptops across twenty years; I certainly have a number of devices concurrently, with the oldest now being 14 years (still working though only on a power supply as the battery is badly degraded). That said I also strongly prefer a replaceable drive, but more because I don't want to buy the capacity at today's price that I'll only truly need in a few years time, if ever.
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