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Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit

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Re: Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit

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Post by avar »

asendra wrote: post #164
rgovostes wrote: post #16

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I don't think this viewpoint is shared by the vast majority of people who buy personal computers. Gigahertz, number of CPU cores, Intel processor families, etc. mean nothing. I think the reason why they don't rev their hardware as frequently as they could is because it doesn't pay to. The number of people choosing between a Mac and a Dell who go for the one with the newest processor has to be vanishingly insignifican…

It shows a lack of respect for their users, and for their users money. They are charging the same for almost two years old hardware than they would if It had been updated, but the user gets a worst product, and in the long run, experience.

Apple has a ~40% profit margin, and you think them not updating their HW specs in a timely fashion is what shows they don't have respect for their users money?

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Post by amelius »

jsjohnst wrote: post #165
oblio wrote: post #151

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An iPhone is made by many different suppliers. Apple only makes a handful of chips. Important chips, but hardly everything in the phone.

Apple doesn’t even “make” the chips, they design them. TSMC and GlobalFoundry have been the fabs historically that have done the actual “making” of them.

The point is that if Apple's obsession with supply chain integration continues, then at some point even the fabs might be assimilated. This can happen e.g. if their CPU design division needs tighter control over fabrication, or if they develop a key technology at the silicon level that they want to keep out of the hands of their competitors.

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Post by jsjohnst »

skohan wrote: post #122
itslennysfault wrote: post #109

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Post 2015? Maybe I'm just spoiled, but I can't type on them to save my life. I had a 2006 MBP and every 3 - 5 years since, but after a few months with the latest line I jumped to a Dell XPS running Ubuntu, and I never looked back. Had to find new tools and learn new shortcuts, but after a month or so I adjusted, and I never have to endure that hellish keyboard again. edit: punctuation exists.

I know I'm in a massive minority, but I actually prefer the new keyboard (minus the touchbar - that is a joke). What I really miss are the HDMI port and SD card slot.

You’re not in the minority, it’s just the minority who hates the new keyboard also happens to be a vocal contingent here on HN.

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Post by josteink »

millstone wrote: post #168
jarym wrote: post #113

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I’ll add my pet peeve to the list: Sell me a £1k phone that can’t connect to the £3.5k laptop you sold me because the phone comes with a USB-A cable and the laptop only has USB-C sockets. This is precisely the sort of garbage Stveve was very much against yet Apple seem to now think ‘it’s ok’. It’s not ok. To the down voters, the fanaticism only emboldens Apple to become more mediocre. Think about that a moment.

Hey Apple thrives on "pet peeves," way back to missing function keys and second mouse buttons. Keep 'em coming. > Sell me a £1k phone that can’t connect to the £3.5k laptop you sold me Of course they can connect, via Bluetooth and WiFi and AirDrop... If you mean your iPhone can't charge off a MBP, well, OK: MBPs are admittedly not the best charging hubs. > This is precisely the sort of garbage Stveve was very much ag…

> Yeah, that's baloney. Steve would ask why the iPhone still has any ports at all.

If so, the Chinese have Steve beat with a product like that ready to launch[1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/1/23/18194178/m...

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Post by rutierut »

boyband6666 wrote: post #170
GuardianCaveman wrote: post #127

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Besides the connections the software doesn’t work between those two out of the box. My mom bought 2k MacBook Pro from the Apple store and a 1100 Iphone xs and we got home and plugged it in to back up her saved backup and iTunes wouldn’t let us. I can’t recall the exact problem but the solution was downloading the latest software for both devices. Several hours later it was working but out of the box? So disappointing…

Was there not also a point where a new MBP with USB-C only, and a new iphone wouldn't even be able to be connected out of the box?

Still the case unfortunately, had to go back to the store to get and adapter to connect my iPad to my Macbook.

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Post by millstone »

ulfw wrote: post #17
pentae wrote: post #6

When you can't make a laptop with reliable screens or keyboards, or an iMac lineup that has CPU's 2 generations behind.. Maybe it's time to shut down the stupid vanity projects and focus on your core business instead?

I have no idea why you're getting downvoted. If a company decides not to produce wireless routers (which were class leading) or monitors etc anymore, all because they're non "core" to a computer/mobile hardware company then I don't see how building automotive AI is core to a computer/mobile hardware computer company that has zero core competency in either car manufacturing or AI.

It's really not that confusing. Routers, discrete monitors, or cars are not core to Apple's existing businesses. But of the three, only cars represent a market large enough to be worth pursuing. So that's where Apple invests and attempts to develop competency.

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Post by millstone »

josteink wrote: post #174
millstone wrote: post #168

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Hey Apple thrives on "pet peeves," way back to missing function keys and second mouse buttons. Keep 'em coming. > Sell me a £1k phone that can’t connect to the £3.5k laptop you sold me Of course they can connect, via Bluetooth and WiFi and AirDrop... If you mean your iPhone can't charge off a MBP, well, OK: MBPs are admittedly not the best charging hubs. > This is precisely the sort of garbage Stveve was very much ag…

> Yeah, that's baloney. Steve would ask why the iPhone still has any ports at all. If so, the Chinese have Steve beat with a product like that ready to launch[1]. [1] https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/1/23/18194178/m...

Of course. Apple has rarely aimed to be first, they aim to be definitive.

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Post by pegasus »

baq wrote: post #139
thirdsun wrote: post #132

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That seems like a negligible issue. It's really not unusual that both device and software need to be on the same or latest version to work as intended.

steve would laugh you out of the room if he hadn't fired you on the spot... (unless perhaps you didn't hold it properly.)

as if in the days of steve all was working smoothly... gimme a break...

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Post by osullip »

lsc wrote: post #159
B1FF_PSUVM wrote: post #135

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If the phone could block "No Caller Id" calls it would be nice too ...

this seems like the biggest problem. there are a bunch of spam call filtering solutions available from third parties that require me giving third parties a lot more of my data than I'd like; if apple would come up with a solution to the spam call problem, I'd pay good money for that.

Really? It seems that it is a very easy thing to do. Obviously you need to grant permission to the app to monitor every inbound call, but I am sure that it could be an open source project that is not using that data for anything apart from the stated purpose. I'd pay for the same on Android
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