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  • Apple debuts new MacBook Air with Apple Silicon M1 chip

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    elijahg said:
    I notice the price is the same as before, so rather than dropping the price due to cheaper CPU and increasing accessibility for people, they're just absorbing the extra profit. Great, that's the Cook Way. 🙄
    Well, this MacBook Air has more powerful CPU than my 2015 MBP. It also has 40% faster GPU (integrated) than my discrete GPU and 50% of the performance of the top discrete GPU in the latest MBP.

    All of that in a lower power envelope, no fan, and with extended battery life.

    So, actually, it is a massive upgrade compared to both the previous generation of MB Air and any other laptop on the market.

    When did other companies gave 2-3 time faster computer at a lower price?!? If anything, such an upgrade from any other vendor will come with significant price increase.

    You can think about it the other way around - there is a significant price cut for this class of performance.

    The very idea that Apple should lower the price because they pay less for the silicon is as absurd as it can get for a very simple reason - the costs are structured in a very different way.

    When Apple buys CPUs from Intel, the price includes research, development and production costs + margins.

    When Apple pays TSMC for printing their SoCs, the research & development costs are obviously not included.

    For that reason, pricing comparisons of the kind - Intel CPU is $200, Apple pays TSMC $70, so Apple adds $130 to their profit - are absolutely idiotic and inadequate.
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  • Samsung's Galaxy S8 facial recognition feature defeated with digital photo

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    konger said:
    Apple has never innovated, it only steals or buys ideas from other companies (cough Xerox, yeah, your first breath was stolen).
    I think you will have to read way more on the history of IT. Apple is the only company to get the Xerox technologies as part of a business deal. Everybody else stole it, starting with Microsoft.

    Actually, there are quite a few talks by Alan Kay on Youtube, I suggest you watch them all. What he says in brief is that all those technologies currently attributed to Xerox were 10-15 years in development, way before Xerox PARC was even established. Take a look at the Augmented Research Center (ARC) and what has been developed there.

    The rest of the claimed thefts are as real as that one.
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