It was only intended for highway travel at best.
But hey, you can scroll at 120hz now, right? Think different!
All this tells me is that Intel and AMD are the only manufacturers making leading chips that you can do anything with.
Edit: Fixed last sentence.
You're talking about a company that limits you from having a comma on the front of the iPhone keyboard. Why?
> Intel is the only manufacturer making leading chips
lol wat
From context you seem to be talking about overclocking. In which case only a handful of Intel chips are unlocked per generation. By contrast, most of AMD chips are unlocked.
For whatever reason the community now is filled with a weird mix of corporate bootlickers who want to give the largest corporations money while they take away our freedoms and they simultaneously want to make known their entitled behavior by claiming individual developers and small businesses should only ever give away their software for free.
It was bad enough people here chime in technical conversations that they have no experience with loudly contesting the points of actual experts and practitioners, but now they also want to tell us that we don’t have a right to use our property how we want.
Yeah, I grew up tinkering with Linux since 1994; was good times. I've changed.
For whatever reason the community now is filled with a weird mix of corporate bootlickers who want to give the largest corporations money while they take away our freedoms and they simultaneously want to make known their entitled behavior by claiming individual developers and small businesses should only ever give away their software for free.
A bit after the turn of the millennium I became legally blind and I also needed to eat. Apple was able to serve my needs with their accessibility tools and keep me fully functional without additional costs beyond the hardware and base software, and still to this day. Nothing had come close back then nor now. While I appreciate Stallman's ideals and how he wouldn't use assistive technology if it isn't free software, I can't succumb to those artificial restrictions. The reality is that I would have been much worse off financially, being self-sufficient, going through studies, progressing in my career, etc. if it wasn't for Apple's accessibility tech. So yeah I'll own the whole corporate bootlicker nonsense, and it's why in later years of my life I now invest in Apple, because they deliver usable solutions to real problems to the vast population rather than cater to an insignificant population with piddly ideals.
It must be nice if your only issue with tech is that you need it to go brrrrrrrr.
And sure, you could go looking elsewhere in the market, but the same thing could happen with any vendor, and there's no guarantee that the specific set of features you desire is going to be available at a price point that makes sense (especially if your income changes due to further disability).
What if the current US federal administration continues its fascist descent and decides that supporting disabled people is "woke DEI shit" and puts incredible pressure on companies to discontinue features for, or even surveil and report, its disabled users? Eugenics is part and parcel of their ideology after all. Or more likely, the US govt requires a ChatControl-like feature in all commercial software.
Free software is a matter of personal self-reliance -- not just some hobby.
Your devices become useless, and the ability to run free software becomes the only way to salvage them.
Free software is a matter of personal self-reliance -- not just some hobby.
Free software provides me negligible utility, I can't rely on it for anything, since it has virtually unusable accessibility and assisitve tech. The chances free software can come to the table with something usable is a lot less likely than the scenarios you have dreamt up, so we'll be fine in the long run.
Like if the Stallman life works for you, go for it; but I would've been left stranded in many areas of my life having stunted growth (not physically) if had not found another way to use tech/computers, which would probably involve spending stupid amounts of money on (again) proprietary niche accessibility tech. Stallman and his FOSS sycophants only care about their ideals, not actually empowering people.
The hacker culture is something that fascinated me as teenager and the reason I am able to pay the bills today. I don't really know what would be of me without it.
Right now Intel is losing a lot, lucky to them Nvidia invested. So far I would only use AMD. In my desktop is an AMD, because it is just the fastest desktop CPU und the threadrippers are absolute multicore beasts for servers.
These phones record 4K video at 120 frames a second.
They play high intensity video games.
They run on device language models.
People keep their iPhones for years — this power will ensure these phones can run iOS versions 5, 6, even 7 years from now.
And the uArch you’re seeing here will end up re-purposed for big brother M series chips in laptops and desktops.
So what exactly do you want?
The iPads even more so, as some literally have the same kinds of hardware as a MacBook already (minus the keyboard detaches).
Buy a laptop you’ll be ok.
> Buy a laptop you’ll be ok.
This kind of comment is uncalled for. Anyways, as mentioned, I do the screenshare to a MacBook today. The advantage of having both is clearly for Apple though, not me.
I've heard that Nvidia makes some GPUs that you can do things with.
What workload are you envisaging to be run on an iPhone where this even matters? Hyperbole aside, what target population of iPhone users even care about overclocking, and specifically what tangible benefit will they get out of it?
But there’s good news — this architecture will end up in MacBooks, Mac minis, Mac Studios etc.
It’s like complaining that they put a good engine in a civic when you can also buy that good engine in other configurations that will let you do more with it.
So why insist on doing it on a phone?
In practice, the engineering effort to enable that just doesn't seem worth it. And in a zero-sum world of engineer time, a cost better spent elsewhere. Let my laptop be a laptop, and focus on making that experience the best it can be. And let my phone be a phone, and focus on making that experience the best it can be.
I think people fundamentally don't understand Apple when they want them to engage in the same kind of "jack of all trades master of none" pursuits that led to subpar Windows experiences and the fragmented Android ecosystem.
You can kind of see Apple dabbling with this a bit with iPadOS. And it's an absolute mess. My least favorite operating system Apple makes. All available evidence right now points to Apple simply not being able to neatly converge different computing paradigms. They are right to show restraint with their most important product.
I'm ok with them experimenting with this with the iPad, because frankly, the iPad does not matter. But I do not want Apple to mess up the phone for the two people on hacker news that want to hook theirs up to a thunderbolt dock.
If I pay for hardware, I want to use it however I want. I know that is a fucking crazy idea for them corporation bootlickers.
To me feels like you have a paratistic relationship with the brand of your phone maker. And you will fight other individuals to defend their monopolistic actions.
But to address your concern, Apple is clearly not for you and that is fine, you have choices, like the premium value and control you get with PinePhone. No corporate bootlicking required!
The choices are to run a worst OS or a worst CPU. How did not I see how many choices I have, I must be blind! Thanks for opening my eyes mate.
So a market already exists for those that want full control over hardware and embrace hacker culture and don't subject you to corporate bootlicking, yet this is still not enough? I actually meant what I said when I say Apple is not for you, because this is a segment of the market they're not interested in.
If it matters to you, put your money where your mouth is, and support the markets and initiatives that embodies your values; you never know, you could contribute to efforts in creating a CPU that surpasses Apple or whoever is the incumbent.
Don't make me laugh.
You are just not only a bootlicker, because you defend corportations monopolistic practices, but a troll.
M silicon is very efficient on workstations for dev work.