Apple Reports First Quarter Results

Post by easton » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 3:16 AM UTC

zamalek wrote: post #163

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #91

25.1% Mac growth. For professionals and enthusiasts, you either just got your M1, you’re saving for one, or waiting on the Pro Desktops. I’m curious to see if there’s any change to the replacement rate of Macs. It seems normal for people to use the same laptop for four or more years — a far sight longer than the two-year life expectancy of laptops twenty years ago, but about half of the replacement rate of smartphone…

> you either just got your M1 Yeah, and hold off for now. I'm the guy making sure that new onboards don't get blocked by M1 (as you can't but Intel anymore). Segfaults in docker/qemu (amd64 and arm64) are numerous: I can't build our otherwise boring (and recent) docker images locally - it has to go to a Linux ARM server. What truly bends my mind is that I am getting framerate/audio/input hitching on the desktop when…

Post by smoldesu » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 3:24 AM UTC

cassianoleal wrote: post #168

smoldesu wrote: post #144

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It's funny how people come out to celebrate in droves when Apple does the bare minimum to not break their own tooling. Another equally likely scenario is that their changes broke internal tooling, and so they added the raw image mode to give Mac engineers a more reliable entry point for prototyping and testing on the new devices. Regardless, when my mail carrier changes their route to get to my house 30 minutes faste…

> Another equally likely scenario is that their changes broke internal tooling, and so they added the raw image mode to give Mac engineers a more reliable entry point The second tweet in the thread reads: Seriously, I can't think of a single reason why they'd add that for themselves. They build real Mach-Os with their own process. They have no use for raw images. They are saying "hey, use this, it's easier and we won…

Post by unix_fan » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 3:46 AM UTC

broknbottle wrote: post #165

sneak wrote: post #159

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It seems that everyone forgets that approximately 100% of Apple's manufacturing is in China. There are some scattered final assembly here and there, like screwing together the Mac Pro in Texas, and I think the iPhone production in India is non-trivial, but for all intents and purposes the vast, vast majority of Apple's production happens in China, performed by Chinese nationals, who are themselves subject to Chinese…

Last time I checked TSMC is in Taiwan and Taiwan is not a part of China..

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 3:54 AM UTC

genmud wrote: post #167

JimDabell wrote: post #155

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The iPhone is a once-in-a-generation product. Virtually no company ever creates a product this successful. Why are you treating that level of success as if it’s the new norm that Apple must repeatedly reach in order to keep up? What happens if they don’t catch the next wave? In that case, they will still be wildly successful. They’ve already had the iPad, which is the clear winner in the tablet market. They’ve alread…

Blackberry? Nokia?

Post by wtallis » Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 4:19 AM UTC

messe wrote: post #152

smoldesu wrote: post #144

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It's funny how people come out to celebrate in droves when Apple does the bare minimum to not break their own tooling. Another equally likely scenario is that their changes broke internal tooling, and so they added the raw image mode to give Mac engineers a more reliable entry point for prototyping and testing on the new devices. Regardless, when my mail carrier changes their route to get to my house 30 minutes faste…

I think a lot of people are seriously overestimating the amount of work non-apple hardware manufacturers put into linux support, and have also become far too accustomed to 30+ years of IBM PC backwards compatibility.