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Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control by sangnoir on Monday November 23, 2020 @08:36PM (#25194268)
Steve Jobs incredulously derided both Android phablets ("no one wants these Hummer phones"[1]) and 7"/8" Android tablets ("They are so small, you'll have to file down your fingers to use them"[1]). All the while, Apple was working on both bigger iPhones and smaller iPads. When Apple's version of products were released, those niches weren't terrible, all of a sudden.

1. I'm paraphrasing

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Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control by pvg on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:48PM (#25194742)
Sure but that's hardly Apple promising you to do or not do something and then doing the opposite. Jobs's schtick in these presentations always included talking smack about other products, nobody set their watches by that stuff. What makes it even thinner gruel is that in his lifetime, he was pretty much right - the Android versions of these products were poopy and Apple eventually made better ones. Do you think Job's shittalking in keynotes is actually solid supporting evidence that... Apple is going to turn Macs into iOS devices 9+ years after he died?
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