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But, if you compare the growth into new spaces Apple did in the 2000s, then sure Apple of today hasn't done anything new in a while. Does it need to? Maybe from an investor point of view?
The hardware side is its own thing - some do not challenge their hardware because their goals are different like Facebook going cheap on VR rather than expensive). While nobody has as complete of a portfolio on what the M-chips have accomplished, the GB10 and Ryzen AI Max Pro seem to be similar in capability, yet late to the party and at this point just one-offs. But I don't think that really matters. Few people are buying based on deeply researched specs, so whatever is cheap and has battery life will do and there's happily plenty to choose from these days.
Devs aren't the only problem here. In the few large companies I've been in, the assigned doc writers haven't made a net positive. It always takes me so much effort to walk them through what to write about and how it should be written to match how the users actually read and understand content that I end up writing it myself during such meetings. It's a bit of a living rubber duck exercise at times. I've grown to be a high paid doc writer that writes code too.
Of all the strange things Apple decides to compete in, why would Apple be trying to compete with logitech at twice the price? Honestly don't know why Apple bothers with peripherals though, its not like their keyboards are worth writing home about either.
So when people say "all the COBOL programmers are retiring!", they're completely missing the problem. The language isn't the problem.
The problem is the design of the software written in COBOL, z/OS itself, and the operators that defend its design. The software has so much dark matter due to tech debt, partially due to age, partially due to vintage. z/OS has tech debt, due to designs for a different era being carried forward. Manual processes that should have safety guards and technical limitations abound.
But that's not to say DOGE should be trying to rewrite this stuff. Not on their schedule and not with their staff. Because it will create bugs. The same reason this software persists.
Android is unhealthy versus its former self in that it has been increasingly hostile to developers. Your examples of /e/os and lineage are representative of the "look-but-dont-touch" nature of Android.
Not to diminish the hard work of the developers of them, as they are useful, but they do not stray far from what Google provides them for better and worse. As you say, they're alternative builds, primarily to reduce the ties to Google, but they largely adhere to the same APIs, have the same menus, have the same quirks. Perhaps graphene goes above and beyond, I have not used it. I remember Cyanogenmod having more divergence in feature set and appearance from what Google provided versus what Lineage can do for you now. I miss when Android was good, but it's just become the platform I don't want to upgrade and see what I lose next.
You're example of Linux is a bad one. Its contributions are corporate, but they are collaborative. With Android, Google dictates and others follow. Linux is not this way.
Some countries have tied their banking to their phones, with apps that use SafetyNet to check how Googled you are.
Somehow corporations and nations have given sovereignty away for convenience and so you may need 2 phones: the google one and the good one, to properly be f-droid only.
Android was already a platform on life support. Google has wielded its authority to dictate how apps should behave such that even 3rd party stores do not stray far from Google's rules. Users of android phones have little hope to run a program from 5 years ago, or to roll back a bad update in an era full of bad updates.
You can have a win-win combination of high quality components, high performance components, and a low cost device by reuse and iterative upgrades.
- family members of such people
Since they may get the hand me down parts.
Also, it's nice not to have battery fatigue unnecessarily. I'm sure if I used a laptop as if it were a desktop I'd be replacing its battery at least once through its lifecycle.
In what space do they have this reputation? In drivers, I see they're supporting hardware that's 10 years old right now.
the AMD system is 96GB max for the GPU. The 128GB allocates a minimum of 32GB to the CPU.
the Nvidia system is designed to be connected to a second if so desired, making it the cheapest way to get 256GB.
If you're just going for something under 96GB, haven't seen something cheaper than the AMD system for anything that can't fit on a traditional GPU. And even then, GPUs are obscene ripoff prices lately. Here's hoping these won't be scalped too.
And best of luck to the Wiz folks! Whenever I see Google acquisitions I just wonder how long until they end up in the graveyard listing.
I'm glad that the developers of Palemoon are standing up for themselves here and decided to double my monthly donation to them in light of this. Even though I haven't used Palemoon in years I'm glad they continue to develop it and want to foster that.
But one category of things that's faster is any linux utility that needs to interact with files. NTFS stores metadata differently making things like "stat" much more expensive on windows than on linux. Naively ported programs used to doing I/O that is cheap on linux will be slower on Windows. git is an exception where they coded around this problem.
If you use nodejs for example, you'll find that the thousands of files and folders under node_modules results in way slower builds and searches on windows than linux. It's comical that a linux VM running within windows on a virtual disk on an NTFS partition will still be faster than windows itself at this because the I/O will be, from the windows perspective, one big file.
Same that's why I don't use Windows in a professional setting. Programming in it is slower and doing office work in it is 'fun' when things change for the sake of it.
I wish phoronix did more to evaluate Arrow lake in that context: Are the problems merely Windows problems? If comparing an old windows 11 copy to one with fixes, and both to Linux, then maybe something interesting happens.
I just get the feeling that Windows is a mess with regards to getting expected performance, lately. Because Zen 5 had surprises with Windows too.
And, in the end for Zen 5, the performance fixes for Windows 11 got it to about the level of performance that Zen 5 had on Windows 10 all along.
Intel's fixes have been for Windows 11, so I don't know if Arrow Lake is good on Windows 10 or not, and what to make of them vs Linux for this CPU.
Because when you say "still", then put it into the perspective of:
On statcounter, it was 3% mid-last year.
On steam, it's currently over 2% and was 1% in 2021.
So you can stay it's still 4%, or you can say it's grown 50%+ in recent years.
* Consumer/Partner Inertia?
* Ability to produce to meet demand?
* Support?
* Compatibility?
Once had an IT person tell me they couldn't move to ryzen laptops because the way the system presented its network interfaces was incompatible with their management software. My charitable interpretation is that there's enough programs like this that prevent AMD adoption, while simultaneously AMD never seems to be in a rush to fix firmware or software problems.
Also, still waiting for bun to work on freebsd. Patiently! But it's on my xmas wishlist :)