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Comment Re:Meh, I'll hold out for iOS Vista (Score 1) 58

... it requires an artificial development schedule to declare a 2026 version and a 2027 version and so on...

Apple already releases operating system versions annually, so renumbering won't change anything. They haven't skipped a year for macOS (variously called Mac OS X or OS X) since 2010, and they've never skipped a year for iOS.

Comment Re:Who else? (Score 1) 105

It would shake things up a bit if Apple bought them. They are on a big push to bring chip fabs in-house. But my money is on Dell or Oracle. HP and IBM have the ability, but I don't see them being agile enough to pull it off. Bezos could too, if he wanted to get into tech manufacturing; it just doesn't seem his style.

Apple has done well with its own chips, running as far away from Intel as possible, and they've achieved impressive results. What does Intel have to offer Apple, besides fabrication facilities?

My gut, not my brain says Samsung, and I'm too lazy to research further. Samsung would do very well with Intel. But with Trump coming into office, I'll discount this theory right now.

Not to mention Intel's fabs are years behind TSMC, so making the next A- and M-series SOCs at Intel fabs is a non-starter, unless Apple wants its iPhones and Macs to be fatter, slower, and with worse battery life.

Comment Re:That's answered in the paper. (Score 3) 31

Thanks for that link. The full text was behind a paywall in the original story link. It goes on to say

Further work to identify how vocal labels are encoded in elephant calls will be necessary to definitively determine if different callers use the same label for the same receiver.

So the jury is still out, but there's at least a chance that Eep Opp is Eep Opp is Eep Opp.

Comment Re:8GB is only to claim lower starting price... (Score 1) 465

Apple = Mediocre over-priced crap.

No, no -- it's really quite good over-priced crap.

Chrome on top of that makes the perfect shit sandwich.

Well, yeah, that's true. I use Safari almost exclusively, even for things like Google Docs. The only time it's a bother is when some Google service pesters me to switch to Chrome. No thanks; I favor battery life and memory conservation over whatever Chrome has to offer.

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