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Chris “Monty” Montgomery (a creator of Ogg Vorbis and I believe Opus) explains why you never need more than 16 bits of bit depth for audio playback.

The video segment in question starts at 8:40, though the entire video and its predecessor are well worth a watch.

Monty also tried making the argument against 24/192 music in written form in the past: https://web.archive.org/web/20130115154647/https://people.xi...

danmatteon Project Fuchsia: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/a-mod...

There's basically nothing new in the Bloomberg article.

danmatteon React Native on the Universal Windows Platform

As C++ is the native language for the UWP, surely it would map more neatly to the platform?

And the well-known performance and memory advantages, however small, are critical for mobile devices. I don't think Microsoft should commit long-term to C# on mobile just as both Apple and supposedly Google are migrating to Swift as the future of their platforms, for good reason.

My two cents.

danmatteon The Apple Watch Review

This is the first disclosure on the S1's CPU and several other things, for those interested.

danmatteon An 11.88” Retina MacBook Air

There are good reasons to think that they really are separate products.

danmatteon An 11.88” Retina MacBook Air

Actually, I would buy right away. Apple generally sources higher-binned (higher quality) components early on. i.e., only Samsung panels when the Retina MBP first launched in 2012.

Broadwell will be perfectly capable of driving the display.

danmatteon An 11.88” Retina MacBook Air

Good catch. I'll update the post.

To clarify, what I meant by three-tier:

11.9" Retina Air - slightly thicker than the current Air

13.3" Retina Pro

15.4" Retina Pro

And the older Air would stick around for a while.

I really doubt Apple would throw away the Air branding or thinner design.

danmatteon An 11.88” Retina MacBook Air

A Retina Air would be more like a thicker Air than a thinner Retina MacBook Pro.

As for power, I deliberately didn't go into detail, but the short answer is Broadwell.