TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm mutiny

Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m... by KptMarchewa on Thursday November 25, 2021 @11:42AM (#29342745)

Development of that amortized years ago and maintenance + new features cost small fractions of that 30%.

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Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m... by 988747 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @12:07PM (#29342990)

So what if it amortized? That's why Apple made that investment in the first place, so that they can make profit out of it. If any app developer tried to re-create it now it would cost them much more than 30% of their revenue.

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Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m... by kuschku on Thursday November 25, 2021 @12:52PM (#29343369)

As someone also hosting my own fdroid repo for my own apps, no, it wouldn't.

You don't need most of that, and what you do need can be had extremely cheaply at 10-50€/mo + 0.2%

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Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m... by zepto on Thursday November 25, 2021 @02:02PM (#29343976)

No it can’t. Almost nobody uses fdroid for good reason. It’s also simply not comparable from a business standpoint, dealing with the taxation and regulation in a hundred countries seamlessly.

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Re:TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm m... by kuschku on Saturday November 27, 2021 @11:19AM (#29361233)

But what if I don’t care about that? Why should I pay extra for something I don’t care about? I don’t need the marketing, I don’t need to be featured in the front page of the store, I don’t need taxation and regulation for 100+ countries.

Why should I pay for these things I don’t care about? Why can’t these be separate costs, which I could opt-in? Why can’t they be unbundled?

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