Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41995701 (171 comments)
Not exactly. Apple released 2 press releases today, the article you link to is about the laptops, this discussion is about the CPUs.
Readit Newsvalley_guy_12 commented on Apple Introduces M4 Pro and M4 Max apple.com/newsroom/2024/1... · Posted by u/griffinli
valley_guy_12 commented on Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement gov.uk/service-manual/tec... · Posted by u/artbristol
To be fair, here is the RFC meaning:
SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
carefully weighed before choosing a different course.
Unfortunately, in many organizations, "the library we use doesn't follow this recommendation" is a valid compelling reason. Which means that in practice "SHOULD" effectively means "WOULD BE NICE IF".
valley_guy_12 commented on Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement gov.uk/service-manual/tec... · Posted by u/artbristol
This translation guide is usually helpful.
https://polish2english.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/55551980-...
I'm afraid I don't know what RFC English is and neither does Google.
Huh, for me the very first non-ad result for googleing RFC English is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments, which is the correct citation.
valley_guy_12 commented on How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era thechipletter.substack.co... · Posted by u/chmaynard
In 2006, Intel supplied their XScale design to Palm for the Treo 700, to Blackberry for the Pearl and Curve AND to HTC for use in the XDA/MDA Windows Mobile line, in 2006 arguably the much bigger wins as all those were established constantly-growing product-lines already on sale globally.
Apple demanding a (probably much) lower price-point to have the SoC applied in a mysterious unknown project without a volume-commitment could as well have destroyed the business and profit-margin for the entire Xscale business for Intel and its other customers...
There's no reason Intel had to give the same price they would have given Apple to another customer.
Intel often cuts prices to favored customers to win business, for example they did so for the original Xbox CPU, to prevent an AMD from being used.
valley_guy_12 commented on How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era thechipletter.substack.co... · Posted by u/chmaynard
> They came out at the height of texting and ringtone era, and we were pretty set in our ways, and it took years to change that behavior.
Nah. The only reason the iphone didn't take off faster was that, for its time, it was extremely expensive.
$600 upfront plus a 24-month, $60/month contract [1]. That's $2000 back in 2007, or $3000 today.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/26/iphone_contract_price...
Second reason it didn't take off faster was that iPhone was typically a carrier exclusive, and in most markets, the iPhone carrier was typically one of the smaller carriers. So iPhone wasn't available to most mobile phone users in a given market, unless they went to the trouble of switching carriers.
FWIW the linked article is reporting on a 5 minute YouTube video montage of Jonathan Blow interview snippets. Might be worth it to watch/listen to the video directly.
I remember seeing a Vector Graphics computer at a computer store around 1978, when I was shopping for my first computer. I was excited by the name Vector Graphics, only to be disappointed to learn that it was a meaningless name, and their computers had nothing to do with vectors or graphics. I vaguely remember that it was a generic business machine (maybe with a 16 bit version?) with nothing to recommend it to a hobbyist over the competition.
In that era Apple had an enormous lead in graphics, software, and peripheral cards.
valley_guy_12 commented on Steve Jobs and the actually usable computer (2011) w3.org/blog/2011/10/steve... · Posted by u/lproven
It probably hit just the right time in terms of available CPU power and network speed for a text-based format to get accepted.
The web could have plausibly existed as early as FTP did. Which would have been 1972. Plenty of documents from that era had URL-like manual links of the form "pub/foo/bar.txt at MIT-AI", and many FTP servers supported anonymous login and
were fast enough for real-time text document retrieval.
It is kind of embarrassing that it took 20 years to invent URLs and browsers.
valley_guy_12 commented on A VC bought the Flatiron Building and didn’t pay for it hellgatenyc.com/some-guy-... · Posted by u/laurex
If you like triangular buildings, the original Apple HQ was:
5300 Stevens Creek Blvd
San Jose, CA 95129
Until around the early 1990's, it had the multicolored Apple II logo on the side facing I-280.
Accolade with Peter Harris was a tenant at one point.
I don't think that was the original Apple HQ, I think it was just one of many buildings that Apple occupied around Cupertino in the '80s.
https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/narrative-mas...