In which case all this talk is moot. Apple comes to an end. Samsung and others take up the slack. But I won't count Apple out just yet and since they are committed to continuing to evolve and fix the software (success yet to be seen) then it makes sense to not lay off the hardware people but instead keep them going on the next generation. As I said, it's not as though those hardware folks can help fix the software anyway so either use them for hardware or lay them off.
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Kuo: iPhone 18 Models Will Feature 2nm Chips
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Hardware folks sadly seems are building aerial avenues for bicycles, if you allow me this silly comparison.
What we’ve seen is that Siri hasn’t gave a step forward since its first day, so talking about “committed to continuing to evolve and fix the software” is pretty far from accurate and acceptable. Sorry, but I really don’t know what you’re talking about.
I’m not defending Apple but what bugs am I not seeing?
I know the software isn’t flawless nothing is but I can’t even remember the last time I encountered a bug.
I have never owned a single stock option from Apple. I’m just talking as a consumer as we are millions in the world who have purchased some devices from them. What I personally see is Apple decadency.
Once a fan. Now I’m not longer sure.
Don’t care its time to update my 12 pro max to the rumoured 17 pro max design refresh.
Maybe i will see a 0 nm node in my next 3 to 5 year update.
Maybe i will see a 0 nm node in my next 3 to 5 year update.
Siri is not end of the world and its update delay is even less important cause on mac and ios u can use ms copilot and gemini plux alexa if you want. They all more or less similar and also suck. I am not buying macs to use Siri
This website is devoted to Apple news and very little else. So they report about pretty much anything they hear that may be coming.
Simple.
nm terminology derives from older planar transistor nodes. When finfet came out, the industry kept the nm terminology for historical sakes and each lower nm is equivalent to a planar node shrink.
This website is devoted to Apple rumors and very little else. So they report about pretty much anything they hear that may be coming.
Processor speed and power efficiency are 2 characteristics (measurements) of a very same single processor, so sure can be both of them.
A few things that come to mind that I've encountered:
* Problems with MacOS spaces. Command-tab to an application that's only open in another space can move to the correct space but not bring that window to the front. Swiping between spaces temporarily raises a window of the current app to the front before correctly showing the app that was already at the front on the space you've navigated to.. these issues are jarring and break your concentration when trying to fluidly move around desktops. It has been like this for two major OS versions.
* Quickly opening the iPhone camera, swiping to the video and hitting record *on the button that is there*. It doesn't start because the app isn't ready to receive the record input. I've missed some amazing opportunities when going to end the recording and discovering it hadn't started! A bug like this is unforgivable. (iPhone 15 Pro Max, so it can't be blamed on a laggy device).
* Safari always trying to open a favourite site of mine over https when the site only supports http and the links and bookmarks only include http.
* Airdrop working only when it feels like it
* Plugged in devices popping up a "do you want to allow device" window so briefly that you can't accept it
* Siri
I haven’t been seeing a large number of bugs. I see posts sometimes about bugs in Apple Mail but I never use that so maybe that’s why I’m not see bugs. Some people seem to really believe that everyone is seeing tons of bugs. I’m not convinced.
Except tsmc 3nm process has a transistor gate pitch of 45nm, which is what nm means. So 3nm is already 15x smaller than reality. So yeah, its a number that people understand, but its completely misleading and dishonest. Somewhere along the way, their marketing numbers became over an order of magnitude off.
The fact that people keep thinking nm has anything to do with size shows how effective their lies are. The industry needs to stop using the term and come up with something more honest. We live in a time where facts don't mean anything.
M1, M2, M3 also have numbers that people understand, so that is an example that tsmc might want to look into. There is no need for chip manufactures to lie. They aren't doing it so people understand their products better. They are doing it to deceive people.
Auto manufactures should start adding 10 MPG every time they improve fuel efficiency. I look forward to my new car that gets 1,000MPG.
Okay, I am done ranting…
Looks like if you're not upgrading to the 17, it'd be better to wait until the 19. Every time they switch to a new process, apps and battery life seem to suffer, like how it did when they switched to 3nm chips. By then Apple should have worked out the kinks of their modem chip as well.
I can't wait for the IT hype cycle to forget about "AI", and chatbots wedged in every conceivable place. I'm not going to hold my breath in hope that whatever the next obsession is will be any less irritating than NFT/Blockchain, or LLMs. I wouldn't notice if they just deleted Siri entirely, along with ChatGPT, Gemma, et al. I have no use for them. I'm looking forward to their technologies being just more tools and techniques to power things that are actually useful.
It will be interesting to see how yields go as processes get smaller, and what new processes will emerge to change current design.
It will be interesting to see how yields go as processes get smaller, and what new processes will emerge to change current design.
Good to hear about it. Will definitely be having good performance gains. The 2nm chip along with Apple's C series chip should bring improvements to battery life.