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Very neat! I am wondering whether it could also recognize multiple fingers and thus sort of emulate multitouch gestures, although my guess is latency is not great with one finger already, so this might not work well.

Als interested to see how it works with different lighting and how dirty the screen can get before recognition fails because the reflection is too „muddled“ ;)

Most of the articles about it are in German, but the Spiegel published an article answering the most important questions in English as well:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-relotius-case-answer...

That is Video RAM for the GPU, though not the main RAM for the system. The minimum RAM amount you can buy the iMac Pro with is 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB configs are also available

Also, 18 GB was certainly a typo, if you look now, they are saying 16 GB now.

I guess it could very well be that the mentality of Apple and Google employees could lean somewhat into those philosophies.

On the other hand, your described Apple culture sounds to me a heck of a lot more sustainable in the long run (I mean, Apple has now been around nearly 40 years now), especially since the "become a bazillionaire" part from Google really only works for founders and early employees with enough stock and only for very few selected unicorn companies.

Maybe another reason why Apple spawned comparatively few startups might be that some of the areas of expertise for Apple and their employees are harder to do in startup-sized companies; namely hardware engineering and mass manufacturing innovation.

Apple does a lot of work in hardware and hardware manufacturing, both areas which are pretty capital-intensive and might not lead themselves as easily to the startup world.

Say, you are an Apple engineer working on the Ax chips for the next iPhone and have an idea for something great in CPU design, you cannot exactly rent a scalable 14nm chip fab from AWS to try to build it on your own and sell it market.

As far as I remember, Nintendo always did that, selling each console at profit, however small that may be, starting from NES, to Super NES, N64, Gamecube and now Wii (and I guess, soon WiiU).

So Nintendo was the only manufacturer who did not apply the "razorblade" model of the other console makers, which is understandable since they were and are a videogame company only and thus never had any other branches which could have been able to subsidize their console business in the beginning (unlike for example Microsoft).

I think the first console Nintendo made that actually sold at a loss is the current 3DS handheld and that may be after the very fast initial price cut after the slow reception on the market.