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The issue is this. Apple asked intel to make the chip for the iphone. If you partner with apple on this, then, together, and with billions of dollars, your entire ecosystem improves even if you were not originaly the best.

When you do this type of deal, you get to work with top class engineers and real major customer driving your power / efficiency story.Intel at the time had the process node advantage as well.

What's happened is Apple has SIGNIFICANTLY funded massive capital investment in the ARM ecosystem and in non-intel fab because now those non-intel providers are critical. Imagine all that money flowing to intel just on fab side.

Rumors around TSMC and Apple for iphones is that Apple funds some of the capacity at TSMC and pays for leading nodes. I'm not sure of the scale of Apple's orders, but they are going to be meaningful both in quantity and what apple is willing to pay.

I guess this is why folks can't catch up to zoom, which somehow has TOTALLY gotten what people want. They even support admin deployed virtual backdrops.

Our intern (who I'm sure is in a shared / crappy space) has a zoom background from their college they drop in - looks clean / professional and they can participate.

I snapped a shut from my zoom camera at the office, and use it as the background if I'm at home (with bed behind me not always made up, boxes from our move still stacked up). It's practically indistinguishable - I got rid of my green screen because the auto replace is that good on zoom.

I bill at $100/hr+. Maybe low by silicon valley standards, but people have expectations in my non tech field.

Is there anyone close to competitive in terms of user mindshare? We are on zoom. I'd love to get off.

Google Meet? - others on gsuite domains blocked from joining, rules around having accounts etc? We need background replacement or blur. I tried before and couldn't really make it a success (and so confusing with hangouts, chat, talk, duo, allo etc). Background replacement not as good as zoom.

Uberconference - audio latency is worse - we've dialed down our use for conference calls.

Jitasa - I don't see background replace on this?

AMD is doing fine. "The writing on the wall". Zen3 is going to very competitive, their interconnect on chip is great.

Sure, add a line for ARM.

What's interesting to me, I feel like a lot of this started when intel wouldn't do the chip for the iphone. All of a sudden you had this leading edge mfg pushing arm hard which drove volumes through the roof, and all the copycats (android etc) copied the chip selection, screen style etc as well.

I wonder how different the path might have been if intel had come up with something for apple.

Except people's complaint about google is that they kill products. These companies are so large they launch TONS of stuff to avoid being out innovated. Echo took off for example, fire phone flopped, book store did well, AWS took off, I'm sure some other things flopped.

But AWS just does not seem to actually kill their compute products. So my example was simply SimpleDB I'm not sure is even available in console anymore, but it all still worked (a few years ago - they've probably killed it by now I guess).

Agreed. I wonder how they arrived at this conclusion.

Has AWS ever killed a product? I used simple DB forever before switching to dynamoDb - I didn't remember I was using it - but it kept working

Agreed- they also did discounts for long term users. I can't beer bothered too switch so pay happily because it's always seemed like fair treatment

Ps5 / Sony?

The reason you are provided many free services is because you ARE tracked / analyzed and marketed to. That is the CORE of the business. The popup will say, do you accept this cookie and being tracked to use this free service. Everyone literally clicks yes. I can't believe the billions of wasted clicks and manhours that have gone into this charade.

Same here. and I'm on ublock origin and the rest. It's just ghastly, of all the scams (tech support and more) and other misery on the internet, the EU is just absolutely fixated on some of these random things.

Good lord, everyone needs banners and popups?

Why not just let browsers controls who sets what cookies?

I'm tired the endless cookie popups, can we come up with an "allow cookies if the browser accepts them" standard as long as that guarantees no cookie popups?

Then browser vendors can ship a delete all non same origin cookies on tab close or something.

The AB5 mess is just emblematic. I'm a "big goverment" supporter, but not so into the totally incompetent govt. The number of loopholes that had to be carved out of this law was ridiculous.

What happened to good infrastructure, education, safety, health care, raise the federal minimum wage etc?

Interesting - I wonder if not having the source code means coreaudio and video playback on apple is actually better behaved across the entire ecosystem of devices vs android. I've never seen a music production app I don't think on android now that I think of it.

I hope this isn't true - I got a projector in large part so my wife and I could do yoga together for apple fitness!

The issue is that the biggest evangelists and the CEO's and CFO's and CTO's with paid google accounts (which at that level you want so you can have some confidence in service) can't get their calendars on their home devices. So it's not an issue of multiple accounts, but paid accounts not working.

After 8 years of folks asking for this we got https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googleassistantforgsuit...

How in the world is this so hard? I look forward to checking out the link, it needs to be more than multiple accounts, it needs to support PAID workspaces accounts.

I've just been around this again though with google family accounts, I couldn't accept the invite. And it hits you everywhere.

Let me be cystal clear. I've worked in domestic violence. Cops will use various tools to stalk their ex'es despite your claims that back door or priveleged access will not be abused.

Jump over to healthcare, the worker with full access to the govt it system for cases WILL lookup their friend / family members / neighbors / famous person if they see them on site or realize they are in system.

I have one experience with a private health HMO. A close relative, senior doctor, absolutely knew they would be immediately fired if they looked up family records. It was crazy, they would not do ANYTHING related to family stuff even by request of person involved. Obviously this place had some type of audit trail, some type of monitoring team for non-assigned patient record lookups etc.

My govt IT job, to do billing you had to be able to see case notes, and the system was integrated across of a ton of agencies, so everyone basically had access to everything and because you had to share logins and passwords (it took like 6 months to get a new account setup) there wasn't any accountability (not that I think they monitored anyway).

I came away very unimpressed. We had to use outdated IE / Java combos etc. as well and block all system updates. The default landing page was an unregistered domain name.

Has this shown up everywhere. Govt agencies still had it in contract docs. That might mean fedramp or PCI or some other standard still mandates it.

Enforces minimum password complexity of case sensitivity, number of characters, mix of upper-case letters, lower-case letters, numbers, and special characters, including minimum requirements for each type; Enforces at least 5 changed characters when new passwords are created: Stores and transmits only cryptographically-protected passwords; Enforces password minimum and maximum lifetime restrictions of 60 days; Prohibits password reuse for 10 generations ...

Is you sense they will maintain the promise? That is commitment (and I wouldn't be surprised if true). Could they add a flag / toggle to the existing API you could toggle to change behavior or do they need an entire new API?

So pathetic. Despite the vast amount of documentation the FTC demands (which seems wildly overbroad), I can answer their question in pretty complete substance here - for free.

1) how social media and video streaming services collect, use, track, estimate, or derive personal and demographic information;

Everything is tracked, and they have a very good idea of your demographic information. They track all interactions on the platform in giant data lakes, including clickstream activity showing sequences of actions, they collect all browser features, ip addresses etc, they collect all referral information. If their code is used by other websites, they collect all the clickstream and profile data from those services. They use publicly available datasets, census tract information, and datasets the govt provides such as DMV databases and voter registration files to enrich the data. They may synthesis what are called "features" from this data.

This is used for social media updates, fraud control and ad targeting among other purposes.

2) How they determine which ads and other content are shown to consumers;

Based on a machine learning models which look at the qualify and performance of ad copy related to folks who have been a) targeted by advertiser by specific criteria they then b) develop and estimate of which other users would also be interested and their level of interest based on all data points they maintain in the user profile, scored along an economic axis and user engagement and satisfaction targets (ie, all ads vs no ads).

3) Whether they apply algorithms or data analytics to personal information;

Yes - they do on a huge scale, and AWS / Google and others are busy designing custom chips to help speed up this type of analysis.

4) How they measure, promote, and research user engagement; and

They make their platforms as addictive as possible, with notifications, stimiulations. A popular book for these companies might be "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" if the FTC actually cared about being educated at all in this space.

5) How their practices affect children and teens.

Affect them significantly, children are much easier to "hook", be it with computer games, e-cigs, or social media or even sugar or lack of sleep. The effects of all of these are very negative. Parents can have a power impact on these items.

Does anyone think social media companies do not use personal information and monetization of that to provide their hyperscale "free" services?

The UI is fine. Seriously folks - get a grip.

That said, there is no question that things rot at google.

One thing other companies do but google does not - listen to customers just a bit.

My favorite is of course, google home can't get gsuite calendars, but I can setup alexa to get them fine (so whatever technical / secuirty argument there might be doesn't really hold).

This has been a top request for years? I wouldn't be surprised if it turns into a decade. Zero action.

This is just throughout things - they do the 90% solution, and WILL NOT touch the 10% you stub your toes on. If they just would tweak and fix a few things ANNUALLY they'd be very competitive.

XML

I'm amazed people can get it as right as they do half the time? I do think Go will get fixed eventually. It's just too weird if they couldn't fix the core issue? But I've never used XML if I can help it, so I'm absolutely no expert on what would make it impossible to fix something like this.

A couple of quick notes:

1) The OPM hack and now this all illustrate - if govt gives itself the big backdoors into everything, it's likely they will give it to russia, criminals, ex-boyfriends stalking ex-girlfriends etc.

2) My own impression of govt IT is largely security theatre in the area I was involved. In particular such massive complexity that agency staff think going around the rules is normal, because it's the only way to actually get work done. And then such glaring weaknesses that no one cares to fix. With google I've had one password for 20 years (my google account) which allows a hardware key for 2FA or google authenticator with what I imagine is sensible monitoring, new device authentication etc (I find this pretty secure).

Govt you are forced to write down these insanely long passwords with super complexity that cannot be cut and pasted that change very 30 or 60 days.

Because lost passwords are so common in these settings, the password reset process is usually a MASSIVE weakspot. I've seen it just be a phone call to a third party, you give them your username, they give you a new temp password - that's literally it. And the passwords end up everywhere. In lots of documents that float around, emailed around etc etc. And lots of password sharing when you get locked out of a tool and it will take a long time to get a new account setup (months). Pretty soon the procedures manual also gets you root access to everything.

These are at least credible suppliers. If you replace w an eBay battery the results can be laugh out loud terrible. Years ago I thought of saving money this way - but didn’t - I actually don’t fully understand why apples batteries are so much more reliable than these third party ones - what type of bms is in them?

Ironically HN was railing about the non genuine notification appple provides buyers of used devices - very much worth checking when buying though.

Folks - you control your browser / if cookies accepted / how long to keep them.

While scammers rip folks off for huge amounts each year (Microsoft technical support scams etc) regulators are busy with this.

I just wish there was a button that said I accept all cookies and I’d never see these damn pop ups again.

Or simpler to buy from a brand I trust?

Seriously- who is more likely to put app ads in my start menu (candy crush and friends) when I pay for the ‘pro’ version of their os? Apple or windows?

Can you guarantee my Samsung TV won’t start showing me ads? Hint - they already do.

My next Samsung smart phone from Verizon won’t have trash bloat ware on it and won’t prompt me endlessly for Samsung pay?

That I can get an item fixed easily at any of their retail stores?

Sure - stuff out there works - but figuring out the perfect phone carrier / phone provider for example is annoying. Where is download boost on Verizon? Oh, it’s disabled.

Even apples phone experience is much more consistent across all carriers. Why these other folks bundle 10 Verizon and another batch of junk themselves as user value enhancing boggles my mind

I actually used whatever was pre iPod - I think it was a phone I loaded your favorite 20 songs on? Either way, for all the talking down of the iPod when it came out - for folks who wanted to listen to music it was total magic. I bought the first iPhone too, and didn’t have a clue that it wasn’t a good email device. I still use only windows / Linux server side - but this new “gimmick” of the M1 does have me interested

Same issues updating a file - you’d update on s3, then trigger processing and even though it was 50ms later - you’d get OLD version. I didn’t know gcp didn’t have this issue - would have been a big selling point

Please provide a citation- apple is doing amazing things with metal - particularly on the M1

Don’t they already do this to block access to domains they think may be negative for user experience? I think chrome does this for phishing sites, malware sites? If not they should consider something like googles blocks