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On Youtube I watched a Mac user who had bought an iMac last year. It was maxed out with 40 GB of RAM costing him about $4000. He watched in disbelief how his hyper expensive iMac was being demolished by his new M1 Mac Mini, which he had paid a measly $700 for.
In real world test after test, the M1 Macs are not merely inching past top of the line Intel Macs, they are destroying them. In disbelief people have started asking how on earth this is possible?
If you are one of those people, you have come to the right place. Here I plan to break it down into digestible pieces exactly what it is that Apple has done with the M1.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday December 07 2020, @02:39PM (2 children)
No argument about the profitability of Apple.
That comes at higher prices of their products. And arguably, better products with better experience. (I have not used any Apple products since about 2001 as my last PowerMac got used less and less, and Linux box got used more and more.)
But if you want to control the world (ala Microsoft) you've got to own the market share.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 2) by theluggage on Wednesday December 09 2020, @04:20PM (1 child)
Maybe Apple are happy making a shedload of money and exerting a huge influence on the industry, but leaving the me-tools the hard work of selling the low-margin clones. Apple popularised (even if they left the actual inventing to others) the GUI, DTP, laser printers, local area networking, desktop video editing, the modern laptop layout, the personal “(not) mp3” player, the modern smartphone & “App Store”, the tablet, the “ultrabook” concept, better-than-full-HD displays... And now it is possible that that M1 could be the watershed moment in the move away from x86. That’s a pretty good score sheet without ever having a dominant market share, and I don’t see their shareholders complaining about the emoluments... If they had dominance, like MS, they’d probably never have taken those risks.
Currently having fun working out how to rescue a bunch of old websites with Flash content (justified - The alternative at the time would have been RealPlayer or MS-centric Dynamic HTML). For the greater good, of course, but annoying. It may have taken Flash 10 years to die, it may belong dead, but the fatal wound was inflicted by the iPhone.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday December 10 2020, @04:26PM
I had mixed feelings about Steve banning Flash on iPhone. I recognized the good long term effect. Something needed to kill Flash. And this was it. But in the short term it was going to cause a lot of problems.
Hopefully, if your old websites are simply using Flash as a "media player" then you can find much better modern solutions.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.