Its not uncommon for Apple and others to compare against two generations ago rather than the immediately preceding one
I referenced everything about comparing to M4. I left outside the comparison with M1.
Readit Newsoutcoldman commented on Apple M5 chip apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mihau
Marketing:
M5 announcement [1] says 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI compared to M4. I guess in the lab?
Both iPad and MBP M5 [2][3] say "delivering up to 3.5x the AI performance". But all the examples of AI (in [3]), they are 1.2-2.3X faster than M4. So where this 3.5X is coming from? What tests did Apple do to show that?
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1. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unleashes-m5-th...
2. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-unveils-new-14-...
3. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/10/apple-introduces-the-...
outcoldman commented on Users are downgrading from macOS 26 telemetrydeck.com/survey/... · Posted by u/outcoldman
> macOS 26.0 is continuing to appear more often with 28.61% as of end of September 2025. In our dataset, it had a spike to almost 40% in the middle of September, but came back a bit after that.
Compare to macOS 15 which exactly one year ago had 50% of the market share.
Obviously, it is just a subset. But the drop from 40 to 30% is pretty significant even for that subset. (Based on https://telemetrydeck.com/platforms/swift/ - 6,280 apps use it, but that includes macOS and iOS apps)
PS. I am a macOS indie app developer, but I personally do not use TelemetryDeck and I am not in any way related to them. Just found this data being really interesting, so decided to share.
Can anybody explain what is behind this statement? Tried to google, could not find much.
FYI: found information here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611748
Can anybody explain what is behind this statement? Tried to google, could not find much.
outcoldman commented on (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore ericmigi.com/blog/re-intr... · Posted by u/duck
What made you switch to an Apple Watch? I’ve been tossing up between a Garmin Forerunner 955 or an Apple Watch (I have an iPhone SE 2)
I have been using Apple Watch since series 0. I believe I switched from Garmin fenix 3. I feel like at that time Fenix had a lot of issues, I remember there were some about the maps, maybe they did not even had them at that time. And I was really into hiking. So thought that Apple Watch could be a better watch. Workouts were nice, listening music from the watch was a good addition.
I have not tried new fenix watches. And I would assume they are the same good as Apple Watches as well. But I do like my Apple Watch Ultra (2 or 3, whatever was released this year)
outcoldman commented on (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore ericmigi.com/blog/re-intr... · Posted by u/duck
I can't find the quote in the original post, so I don't know the context of that statement.
But generally, Garmins don't allow developing and installing 3rd-party apps on their watches
Sorry, I guess I was just reading about them, and went to the original blog post published on 2025-03-18 https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watch...
I was able to develop apps for Garmin Fenix 3, which was released in 2015 https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/160512/#specs it already supported building apps for the watch. They also had a funny name for the language they built, something like "Gorilla language" or something similar.
EDIT: found it, they call it Monkey-C https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/monkey-c/
outcoldman commented on (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore ericmigi.com/blog/re-intr... · Posted by u/duck
You don't get 2 weeks battery life with GPS. That drops it down to less than a day.
Pebble does not have GPS at all. You don't have to use GPS on the watch, if you don't need to. You have an option to choose to use it, if you want to. Garmin watches ~2 weeks just as a smart watch, 8-50 hours with GPS on. But you will not have it on, unless you need it for a specific workout.
outcoldman commented on (Re)Introducing the Pebble Appstore ericmigi.com/blog/re-intr... · Posted by u/duck
> No smartwatch on the market since the original Pebble watches offers this combination of features…until today!
Is that a lie? What about Garmin Watches?
Sure Google/Samsung/Apple Watches are not "Long battery life", because they are not "Always on e-paper screen", but I feel like Garmin Watches are.
Obviously some Garmin Watches are pretty expensive, like Fenix (I have not used it since I switched to Apple Watch), but there are ~200USD watches as well https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/741137/ with 2 weeks battery life, custom apps, screens, and even GPS.