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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by spideymans on Saturday October 03, 2020 @03:35PM (#24674173)
Beyond what others have mentioned, we also mustn’t discount the possibility that Apple Silicon could be a strategic move to lower device MSRP, thus increasing market share and Apple services revenue.

People will instinctively write off this idea, but this is the new pricing strategy Apple has been employing with the $329 entry level iPad, $399 iPhone SE, and the new $279 Apple Watch SE. The Macintosh now remains Apple’s only major consumer product line that hasn’t seen aggressive price reductions to make Apple services accessible to a broader range of consumers. The move to Apple Silicon, which could save Apple potentially hundreds of dollars per device, is the perfect time to move the Mac to this pricing strategy. If this happens, it would absolutely eat into Intel’s consumer market share.

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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by Dahoon on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:47PM (#24674550)
Not by much unless they come with Windows as default OS.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by wmf on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:01PM (#24674302)
Eh, every chip company has lower-end models that are cheaper. There's nothing stopping Apple from putting i3s in Macs.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by bobbylarrybobby on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:55PM (#24674972)
The point is that apple's models would not be lower end, just cheaper.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by mulmen on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:23PM (#24674768)
But what if Apple offers a Macbook with i7 performance and i3 price?
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by The_Colonel on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:56PM (#24674983)
Typical Apple - undercutting other companies on price \s
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by thekyle on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:47PM (#24675240)
I know you're joking, but looking at some Geekbench scores there doesn't seem to be a single Android phone on the market that can outperform the iPhone SE in single-core performance. The OnePlus 8 is the closest, but still not really that close.

iPhone SE: 1321

OnePlus 8: 898

On multi-core it's a little better since there seem to be seven Android phones that can outperform the iPhone SE:

iPhone SE: 2737

OnePlus 8: 3281

OnePlus 8 Pro: 3216

Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G: 3107

Samsung Galaxy S20+ 5G: 3102

Samsung Galaxy S20 5G: 3078

Huawei Mate 30 Pro 5G: 2918

Huawei Mate 30 Pro: 2835

However, all of those Android phones cost quite a bit more than the SE.

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks

https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks

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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by srndpty on Monday October 05, 2020 @12:40PM (#24689349)
They do in the mac mini.
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Re:For years, Intel sat on its CPU monopoly and now the tide... by solarkraft on Saturday October 03, 2020 @04:23PM (#24674431)
With low-end branding and possibly sub-par performance.
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