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"Plagiarism"? Are you kidding me? I'm sorry, but this is horrible reporting. They successfully accused Samsung of many things, but none of them were even similar to plagiarism.
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This is exactly why I think Apple will move to ARM for Macs soon, even though most Apple users find that hard to believe.
As someone who would have liked an 11" MBAir but got the 13" because there isn't enough space in the 11" to hold batteries to run an x86 cpu as long as I'd like, this makes sense to me. There's only one way to go thinner, smaller, or lighter on their laptops at this point, outside of some huge breakthrough in battery technology. What doesn't make sense, though, is apps (built for x86)... Though an app-store-only mode…
It's completely feasible. The problem I see is that mapping 64-bit addresses into a 32-bit space is expensive. I can't think of anything in ARM that will make things more performant at the moment, but I'm sure there's some sort of way to pull it off. If OS X binaries are relocatable by default, that'd be an easy solution.
> The year Apple became the biggest company in the world, successfully accused Samsung of plagiarism in court, and finally released the iPhone 5 — a beautifully fine-tuned device. "Plagiarism"? Are you kidding me? I'm sorry, but this is horrible reporting. They successfully accused Samsung of many things, but none of them were even similar to plagiarism.
This article is moronic. > Cook yesterday unveiled the long rumored iPad mini, a move the purist Jobs condemned just two years ago... Cook reacted, quickly plugging the final hole in Apple’s consumer electronics empire. Steve Jobs routinely panned the product configurations and strategies of other companies, only to turn around and release something that entirely contradicted his earlier stance. This was a guy who sl…
This is exactly why I think Apple will move to ARM for Macs soon, even though most Apple users find that hard to believe.
But, who knows? My sample set is fairly small. I'm sure Apple have a better idea than me about the truth of any these suppositions.
I was never a fan of Jobs, but I have to hand it to him that he always upped the ante with new product releases. With the Mini, Apple bring an inferior product late to the party.
This article is moronic. > Cook yesterday unveiled the long rumored iPad mini, a move the purist Jobs condemned just two years ago... Cook reacted, quickly plugging the final hole in Apple’s consumer electronics empire. Steve Jobs routinely panned the product configurations and strategies of other companies, only to turn around and release something that entirely contradicted his earlier stance. This was a guy who sl…
This is exactly why I think Apple will move to ARM for Macs soon, even though most Apple users find that hard to believe.
Only Apple could make this kind of huge transition as they've worked for years to be able to put an OSX-derived OS on a tiny iPod form factor (and thus creating the iPhone and iPod touch).
Bringing that back to the laptop world would be truly awesome. They have the ecosystem, toolchain, and numerous successful similar transitions from 68000->PPC->Intel already.
The biggest surprise was how indifferent the Mini is.. $429 for the 32GB model versus $249 for the soon-to-be-announced 32GB Nexus 7, and with inferior hardware (much lower resolution screen, half the RAM, slower processor, etc). I hope for Apple's sake that this isn't a sign of things to come now that Cook is in charge. I was never a fan of Jobs, but I have to hand it to him that he always upped the ante with new pr…
This article is moronic. > Cook yesterday unveiled the long rumored iPad mini, a move the purist Jobs condemned just two years ago... Cook reacted, quickly plugging the final hole in Apple’s consumer electronics empire. Steve Jobs routinely panned the product configurations and strategies of other companies, only to turn around and release something that entirely contradicted his earlier stance. This was a guy who sl…
This is exactly why I think Apple will move to ARM for Macs soon, even though most Apple users find that hard to believe.
There are other things that people could point out or discuss but they're a little more subtle. For example, I wonder about the following:
- Are there more leaks from/about Apple now? Perhaps the new management isn't as zealous about shutting them down? Or is this simply a result of more scrutiny?
- The explicit comparisons with competitors products seems out-of-whack with keynotes of old. Almost makes them look desperate? Would this have happened several years ago? I don't remember seeing outright comparisons with windows machines.
- Way too many jargon words in this keynote, which takes away from the 'magic'. Do I really care about 'plasma deposition' or 'nits' of brightness?
I feel there are difference between old-Apple and new-Apple but I don't know if I'm imagining it. Regardless, I'm pretty confident that we're not close to seeing any of new-Apple's products just yet.
This article is moronic. > Cook yesterday unveiled the long rumored iPad mini, a move the purist Jobs condemned just two years ago... Cook reacted, quickly plugging the final hole in Apple’s consumer electronics empire. Steve Jobs routinely panned the product configurations and strategies of other companies, only to turn around and release something that entirely contradicted his earlier stance. This was a guy who sl…
The iPad mini was defense. So I credit Cook with the speed of timing more than anything. Zero games. We asked for it, we got it. When has that ever happened in Apple's history?