That must mean that Samsung is charging about SEVEN times what the hardware is worth; since they manufacture most of the high-cost components of their Smartphones themselves (displays, CPUs (outside the US), Flash and RAM), and yet charge as much, and sometimes more ($1299 Note 10+ 5G, anyone?) for their essentially feature and performance-equivalent (to high-end iPhones) models.

Samsung could price their smartphones in such a way that nobody could compete with them; but instead, they greedily suck up "what the market will bear". ..and for that, Samsung treats you pretty shabbily the rest of the way...

Jus' sayin'...

However it seems to be a trend with Samsung and other Android phone makers to be much worse than Apple [...]
FTFY.

I personally have never directly received a new-product marketing message from Apple.

Along with Linux, it appears that macOS is not affected by this vulnerability:

https://iphone.appleinsider.co...

Jusâ(TM) sayinâ(TM)...

Yeah, that $900 Mac mini or $1100 iMac is just like a "bazillion dollars".

LOLwut?

You don't get out much, do you?

In the mobile space, nobody but nobody beats Apple's SoCs nor their GPUs. They are consistently at least a generation ahead of everyone else, performance-wise, while using almost half the battery-power.

You don't have to take my word for it:

https://www.imore.com/why-appl...

https://www.androidauthority.c...

It does appear, however, that with the Snapdragon 855, Qualcomm is FINALLY catching-up with the soon-to-be replaced Apple A12; but Apple will no-doubt leap ahead again with their next-generation SoC, the A13, which will debut this Fall:

https://www.tomshardware.com/n...

https://wccftech.com/apple-a13...

https://www.inverse.com/articl...

https://www.tomshardware.com/n...

That was probably a very wise move, strategically.

1. It Keeps Qualcomm's Licensing bullshit at bay.

2. It keeps Samsung from buying it.

3. Considering Apple's chip design expertise (although not necessarily in this arena... yet!), they may end up with a MODEM significantly faster than Qualcomm's, using half the power, just like with their ARM SoC's compared with, well, everyone else's.

4. I'd say it would be a cost-saving; but, considering how much they paid Intel for the MODEM I/P, you can probably pay for a lot of Qualcomm Licensing, even at their userous rates!

I would think, flufferNUTTER, that, as an iOS Developer, you would have a vested interest in the success of the Apple App Store.

But you're too much of an Apple Hater to understand that you are biting the hand that feeds you.

Idiot.

FUCK RIGHT OFF!

Apple's lightning to 3.5 mm adapter costs a princely $9. Or you can just use the INCLUDED Lightning headset.

Not in the minds of cost-reduction-minded computer OEMs.

Let's face it: There are thousands of "budget" OEM computers sold for every "high-end" model. Cost-Reduction is THE name of the game for those machines.

So, if an OEM spec-ing an AMD GPU can shave a few dollars off of the total BOM-cost vs. especially Nvidia, and especially with no appreciable difference in performance, they will start "winning more sockets" in the higher-volume PC world.

And oh, BTW, the people and corporations purchasing those "budget" systems could care ZERO fucks about CUDA support. So there's THAT argument out the window... ...and that is how they are playing their game, which will give them the extra cash to invest more in good GPU designs, which will win them more higher-end (and higher-profit) sockets, which will give them even more cash...

So yes, "cheaper" (especially at the essentially same performance) can be a very "winning" strategy.

I believe you are sadly mistaken if you think that AMD is just taking a break from GPU development right now.

To wit: The lastest builds of macOS 10.15 (Catalina) betas show evidence of several heretofore unknown and unannounced new GPUs. See:

https://appleinsider.com/artic...

Now, obviously these are variants of already-existing GPUs, and therefore certainly not earth-shattering news; but it does show that AMD isn't just running their big silicon copying-machine, stamping out copies of existing mask-sets; but rather, currently still investing at least some R&D effort into their GPU Division.

Citation, please?

Other than IOKit in macOS (actually, Darwin, IIRC), it does not appear that great amounts of macOS, iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS or TVOS are written in C++. In fact, Objective-C seems to be the hands-down winner in macOS. Not surprising, actually, given its NeXTStep heritage...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://stackoverflow.com/ques...

So, you were saying???

Perhaps... If it were true; but it is not. Not even close:

https://developer.apple.com/se...

Note: Apple is pretty pack-rat-y when it comes to documentation and Help files:

https://developer.apple.com/li...

Note that the Documentation Archive goes all the way back to 1985. That's pretty damned excellent, IMHO...

Don't be so sure. While I doubt that a 1,023-track version of LPX will be forthcoming on the iPad anytime soon, you might be surprised to learn that GarageBand for iOS has much more in common with LPX than you would imagine. In fact, they are fairly identical under the hood.

For example, I just learned last week that all of the software instruments in GarageBand are based on the same EX-24 monster softsynth that is prominently used in LPX for everything from the Acoustic Grand Piano to the Drummer. They just don't expose all the controls in GB, like they do in LPX.

So, I'm pretty sure Apple could do something like a 24-track version of LPX for at least iPad Pros right now; but I submit that an iPadOS version of Mainstage 3 would make a lot more sense, marketing-wise. (Here's hoping!)

But, no matter what, I'm pretty sure we'll start seeing some of those classes of products, now that iPad has a way to really grow into itself...

Apparently, some of the Remote Desktop-like Apps (e.g. Jump), have been doing Mouse Support with a companion App for some time now.

But this will definitely be helpful for those wishing to stretch the Application Envelope of iPads into the "light laptop use" cases.