Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by amelius on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:46PM (#26960576)

> The opportunity for competition exists

Perhaps, but I guess it would take on the order of a decade for a competitor to build their technology including an ecosystem with customers.

And who says they won't copy Apple's business practices?

> but everyone else is just sitting on their asses while Apple's chip team puts in the work.

That's because the complexity of the semiconductor industry is daunting. You need far more than a team of IC designers, especially if you want your product to become successful in a world where there is one main player.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by Bud on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:57PM (#26960708)

You mean the business practices wherein Apple is 10x better on privacy than everyone else to the point that Facebook and Google are now being forced to be honest with users, disclose all the user data they are stealing and selling, and disclose all the privacy and security risks inherent in their business models?

Sign me up for more of those kinds of "business practices", thank you very much.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by skinnymuch on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:04PM (#26960785)

Apple is reportedly beefing up their mobile ads business. Hard to say privacy is the reason when Apple immediately attempts to benefit directly financially and likely with some privacy hits.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by Bud on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:13PM (#26960918)

Would be helpful if you could support this with some links and evidence. I monitor this issue a lot, and haven't seen anything that presents added privacy risks, at least not yet.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by dep_b on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:41PM (#26961219)

Might be referring to App Store ads

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by Angostura on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @07:02PM (#26963088)

It depends entirely on how they beef up their ads, doesn't it?

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by GeekyBear on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @06:37PM (#26975135)

Ad targeting doesn't have to be based on violating the privacy of everyone on the planet. Surveillance Capitalism is just the business model that was chosen by Facebook and Google.

Ad targeting can be based entirely on the content of the page where the ad appears.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by fumar on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @09:28PM (#26964295)

The last I read Apple plans to add or expand one more ad slot on the App Store. Is there a bigger ads initiative?

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by mistersys on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @03:55PM (#26960678)

Sure if someone is starting from scratch. We have Microsoft, Android and Linux which are alternative computing platforms, and android + linux are already fully ARM. Apple's chips are still much faster than most Android ARM chips, but Android ARM manufacturers are not starting from zero.

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