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Now they pay the price
That's what happen when your government consists of clueless warmongers
"Oh no, Samsung is developing their own homemade industry, sabotage! quick!"
I didn't read it as "Apple is the problem because they are evil", but as "Apple is the problem because they reached a critical scale in this industry".
No need to rush to defend Apple for being accused to focus on profit, no need to start 'Whataboutism' how other companies have similar goals. Someone describing how Apple took actions in the interest of maximizing its profit is NOT slander or bashing, it is FINE that they do that.
The article talks about Apple’s sheer size as a buyer and how their actions contributed (and partially even caused) the current state of this supply-industry, and how important it is to understand this and evaluate careful steps to counter this trend.
It also describes how Apple's narrative of being a "good corporate citizen" for forcing its suppliers to setup small-volume production in US is only half of the story, and WHY that is. And this is important to state as well, because Apple is and will continue to focus on maximizing its own profit, which is NOT making them the enemy, but also not an ally.
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I would call this "understanding" and reckon it you could use it as a reply to pretty much any comment. Unless you see things exactly as they are and apply no interpretation, then this is the mechanism by which humans "make sense" of the world. I guess you mean that the story is harmfully reductive or demands further critical examination, but I just want to defend telling oneself stories as a thinking tool.
I agree that as human beings we can’t live without stories as thinking tool. Although I wouldn’t call it “understanding” but “interpreting”. I wanted to say that good vs evil are hardly absolutes. No one at a large corporate comes to work saying: today I will be evil again. Instead they tell themselves they’re helping investors getting a good return, or that they’re “smashing Google for copying iOS”. There is a great…
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>It's one thing to assume the most nefarious intent from the start and then look at everything from that lens. It mostly leads to paranoia, not insight. That’s a marketing tactic that even works on HN I’m afraid. Create an enemy and then tell a story about that nemesis. Our human storytelling brains need to hear tales of good and evil. If you want to get an article like that ranking that’s one way to do it. Unfortuna…
On the other hand if you have ever worked at a high level in these companies they are hardcore evil. Maybe not in this case but they 100% do the evil thing and press it to their advantage.
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Well, Apple seems to have achieved this (for all intents or purposes) on MacOS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)#Rosetta_2 - "In some benchmarks, x86-64-only programs performed better under Rosetta 2 on a Mac with an Apple M1 SOC than natively on a Mac with an Intel x86-64 processor"), so there's no reason why Microsoft shouldn't be able to do the same for Windows? Of course, Apple designed the M ser…
The M1 was significantly faster than other ARM chips. Why? My impression is that due to Apples permissive licence, they are able to make more changes. If we just look at the mess that ARM is making of Qualcomm situation, where we finally have a performing alternative chip. Arm hasn't granted anyone else the ability to make significantly modified chips for multiple platforms, so Nuvia were fine while it was all just r…
> Arm hasn't granted anyone else the ability to make significantly modified chips for multiple platforms,
> so Nuvia were fine while it was all just research.
Qualcomm acquired Nuvia with the clear plan of using their IP for other use-cases ("powering flagship smartphones, next-generation laptops, and digital cockpits, as well as Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, extended reality and infrastructure networking solutions"). Apart from the fact that Nuvia had no license for these markets, the acquisition voided the license they had and the contract states that without license all the IP developed under the license has to be destroyed.
There is no dispute on this, Qualcomm confirmed this in court, but they argue that they have ANOTHER license they want to transfer the IP to, and that the terms of the ARM-Nuvia Agreement are offending and "a threat to the industry"
> Its rather telling that Qualcomm are allowed to make mobile chips, but not these ones because they want to "protect the ARM ecosystem".
ARM has designed new architectures (Blackhawk, Cortex-X) which achieve comparable performance to Nuvia's IP, but Qualcomm's assumption is that they can apply Nuvia's IP on top of their existing architecture without the need of licensing any new ARM design.
A weird article. Apple was not the first or the only company to look to East Asia for cheap manufacturing, elctronic equipments, chips, or cheap labor. The trend was started and accelerated by motor companies and hardware just followed suit. Then, some other points are just...there. Apple is America's semiconductor problem because Apple is so big it purchases things in bulk and gets discounts - like every other big c…
> Apple is America's semiconductor problem It isn't Apple who is the problem here, it is Intel who refused to manufacture ARM chips for Apple. So Apple didn't have much choice as there aren't much fabs around to choose from. Now Intel, sore looser, is competing for CHIPS money against TSMC/Apple (and Intel will definitely get and waste a lot of those CHIPS money thus making the problem even worse). The article, which…
Notable also is the omission of Nvida - which I also believe mostly uses TSMC.
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>It's one thing to assume the most nefarious intent from the start and then look at everything from that lens. It mostly leads to paranoia, not insight. That’s a marketing tactic that even works on HN I’m afraid. Create an enemy and then tell a story about that nemesis. Our human storytelling brains need to hear tales of good and evil. If you want to get an article like that ranking that’s one way to do it. Unfortuna…
On the other hand if you have ever worked at a high level in these companies they are hardcore evil. Maybe not in this case but they 100% do the evil thing and press it to their advantage.
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>It's one thing to assume the most nefarious intent from the start and then look at everything from that lens. It mostly leads to paranoia, not insight. That’s a marketing tactic that even works on HN I’m afraid. Create an enemy and then tell a story about that nemesis. Our human storytelling brains need to hear tales of good and evil. If you want to get an article like that ranking that’s one way to do it. Unfortuna…
On the other hand if you have ever worked at a high level in these companies they are hardcore evil. Maybe not in this case but they 100% do the evil thing and press it to their advantage.
- Screw everyone if I get more money and power
- Self-aggrandazing evil
- Hurt people for fun evil
- Comic-book style take over the world evil
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Why would Microsoft build something almost no customers were asking for? Even now ARM is niche.
ARM tends to have better performance per watt, leading to improved battery life and thinner/lighter devices at the same performance and price point. Are you sure nobody is asking for it?
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I agree that as human beings we can’t live without stories as thinking tool. Although I wouldn’t call it “understanding” but “interpreting”. I wanted to say that good vs evil are hardly absolutes. No one at a large corporate comes to work saying: today I will be evil again. Instead they tell themselves they’re helping investors getting a good return, or that they’re “smashing Google for copying iOS”. There is a great…
People committing genocide also presumably don't wake up saying they're going to be evil again. Being able to justify an act to yourself doesn't make it not evil.