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Apple will start selling Macs that use in-house processors in 2021, based on ones in upcoming iPhones and iPad Pros, Bloomberg reported Thursday. The company is apparently working on three of its own chips, suggesting a transition away from traditional supplier Intel.
The initial batch of custom chips won't be on the same level as the Intel ones used in high-end Apple computers, so they're likely to debut in a new type of laptop, the report noted. These processors could have eight high-performance cores and at least four energy-efficient cores, respectively codenamed Firestorm and Icestorm.
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A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
(Score: 2, Flamebait) by epitaxial on Friday April 24 2020, @03:11PM (2 children)
You're so full of shit your eyes are brown. The cheapest iPhone now has a faster processor than the most expensive Android.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 24 2020, @04:46PM
Disclaimer: somewhat of an android fanboy here
While I do not dispute that Apple may have faster processors than the most expensive android . . .
According to the last state of this animated chart [youtube.com], android has about 8.5 x the market share of Apple. (btw, watching how mobile operating systems changed from the 90's until 2019 is very interesting and amusing.)
I was a fan of WebOS at one point (I think about 2009) but then it became clear to me that Android would absolutely win. If you watch that animated chart, as soon as Android appears, it rapidly sweeps away everything else.
Why?
Here is an insight.
In my younger days I was on the flip side. I was a true card-carrying loyal Apple fanboy and developer. And quite smug. After all Mac was clearly superior in every way to PCs with DOS and Windows 3.1. Yet the PC ecosystem was vastly bigger.
Apple didn't license Mac OS to other hardware manufacturers until it was too late. When they did, they realized that those other hardware makers could way underprice Apple, which Steve Jobs had refused to believe they could. After all, who could possibly make a Mac more inexpensively than Apple?
Consider this. If you were going to start making computers in the 1980's, what OS would you go with? What choices were there? Oh, yeah. There was DOS / Windows. Apple wasn't going to license Mac OS to you.
In 2007 with the iPhone, I saw the exact same thing. Superior product. Artificially high prices. No licensing to third parties. Like the Mac, only one design. The one true way. Period.
Meanwhile in the Android world (like the PC world before it) devices came in every size, shape, style color, feature set and price point. It was so obvious to me that a blind man could see it. Android would win.
Now, all that said. How long will it be before flagship android devices get more powerful processors. It is a myth (that I once partly believed) that Apple and their engineers somehow had magical powers that nobody else could replicate.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 24 2020, @04:49PM
Also, you get a +1 Informative
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