Comment Re:Weird DOJ argument (Score 1) 61
The article doesn't, but the DOJ court filing does.
Comment Weird DOJ argument (Score 1) 61
In the suit the DOJ makes the interesting argument that Apple is a monopolist because Apple and Samsung combined have a large share of US smartphone revenue. Um, whut? Put me in there too -- combined, the three of us dominate! I'm also a monopolist!
For the record, I think Apple has some anti-competitive policies, but that's just a weird argument.
Comment Dang it! (Score 2) 36
This means I won't get another Uber Eats gift card.
Comment Pascal (Score 1) 86
My own use has dropped dramatically since I stopped programming in Pascal.
Comment Re:Meh, I'll hold out for iOS Vista (Score 1) 58
... it requires an artificial development schedule to declare a 2026 version and a 2027 version and so on...
Apple already releases operating system versions annually, so renumbering won't change anything. They haven't skipped a year for macOS (variously called Mac OS X or OS X) since 2010, and they've never skipped a year for iOS.
Comment Unit conversion (Score 1) 22
1 decibelgium is approximately equal to 1.06 billion square smoots, which, if you ask me, is plenty of the ocean floor that humans have explored.
Comment Re: Missed opportunity (Score 1) 72
My employer had a 4Si that just would not die. We printed a zillion pages on that thing.
Comment Missed opportunity (Score 4, Funny) 72
We should have wrapped Bill Hewlett and David Packard in magnets and buried them in alternator caskets. By now they're spinning in their graves so fast they could power the world.
Comment Misread one of those (Score 1) 39
I thought it said "Two minutes and 35.41 seconds to mentally multiply two eight-digit numbers times ten" and thought to myself I could probably beat that.
Comment Re:Who else? (Score 1) 105
It would shake things up a bit if Apple bought them. They are on a big push to bring chip fabs in-house. But my money is on Dell or Oracle. HP and IBM have the ability, but I don't see them being agile enough to pull it off. Bezos could too, if he wanted to get into tech manufacturing; it just doesn't seem his style.
Apple has done well with its own chips, running as far away from Intel as possible, and they've achieved impressive results. What does Intel have to offer Apple, besides fabrication facilities?
My gut, not my brain says Samsung, and I'm too lazy to research further. Samsung would do very well with Intel. But with Trump coming into office, I'll discount this theory right now.
Not to mention Intel's fabs are years behind TSMC, so making the next A- and M-series SOCs at Intel fabs is a non-starter, unless Apple wants its iPhones and Macs to be fatter, slower, and with worse battery life.
Comment Shingled? (Score 2) 79
If I've had the shingles vaccine, can I still use the 32TB drive?
Comment Re:Applesauce (Score 1) 137
You can also watch Apple TV+ in a browser. Soon (maybe already?) it'll be in the Amazon Prime app, which is available almost everywhere.
Comment 10 grand? (Score 1) 35
I'll just buy three Apple Vision Pro instead.
Comment Obligatory Elvis Costello reference (Score 1) 96
"There was a clown strike, and the clowns threw down their tools."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0zbZDn7juc
Comment Some people are so needy (Score 5, Funny) 93
The 10 bucks in Uber Eats oughta be enough compensation for anybody.
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