RISC-V’s success won’t benefit the end user, only spare designers a licensing fee they can well afford. After recompiling everyone’s software and dividing a huge unified ecosystem the end result will be some political victory with no material value.
Hah good point! My wife will often watch on her phone or iPad while sitting in from of a large screen that is off. When I ask her why, she says it's just easier to use the device and then if she has to get up she can just take it with her without switching devices.
Me on an airplane! Spent maybe 12 hours on my phone last weekend flying across the country and back. Some planes still don’t have chargers so this will be awesome
My phone's OLED HDR screen (S21 Ultra) completely blows away my TV screen. Lying on the couch with the phone right up against my face is actually the closest thing to a cinematic experience I get.
Honestly it's almost better. The black levels in real cinemas are terrible.
When I would commute from Orange County so Santa Clara the flight was often ~40 minutes. Combine with takeoff and landing it didn't make a lot of sense to pull out an addition device but it was easy enough to watch a short TV show on my phone.
When I'm watching the kids or doing chores I am often watching some "background noise" TV at the same time. If I'm not at home, the phone is the obvious choice. If I am at home, I'm often moving from room to room and it's a lot easier to just take the phone with me than constantly switch devices. And when I'm laying in bed at night feeling lazy, I just watch on my phone instead of moving out to the couch in the living room (sometimes, and sometimes I say in the living room and enjoy my big TV).
Most people outside US use public transportation. It is good way to kill time on commute. This is why bigger screens became hugely popular over time. Even in US, the subways are full of people looking at their phones with earbuds
Netflix will download TV shows and movies but only onto your phone! You should check it out it's pretty awesome for going to the gym using wireless headphones and the treadmill... Android 1plus6t & Bose qc35.
Mobile is the main format for content consumption on YouTube, Instagram and YouTube, all platforms which are predominantly used by young(er) audiences.
I barely ever watch YouTube (for entertainment purposes) on my notebook or desktop, but primarily on my phone. Many of my friends don't even own a TV or a monitor setup.
I don’t think that’s the type of streaming video they optimized the IP on the SoC for. It’s clever, but not really useful. And who does it help exactly? Because the implication if you’re reduced to watching on a small screen is that you’re mobile, and on 5G. So the addicted user is now paying big $ for high speed data. Like giving a gambler a new line of credit.
The real question is, who interprets "You can stream 20 hours of video on one iPhone charge" as "you should watch 20 hours of video on one iPhone charge". The metric is clearly about battery life, not watching video.
I’m on the 12 Pro Max and I have the M1 iPad Pro. There’s -no perceivable difference- in scrolling effect. Seems to me just like the Pixel line real features couldn’t be added because of Covid this year. So just throw in a bigger battery and hype the marketing and hopefully they’ll keep buying. Whatever. And what happened to the sat phone feature? Are we going to make a hall of shame for those clickbait bullshitters? Because they wasted plenty of people’s time with nonsense rumors and made a fortune in ad revenue. Let’s call them on it already
120hz makes a huge difference for me. I really can't understand you don't see the difference. But maybe it's something that some people can see and other people can't
This product has a huge flaw. I’m not charging my watch every day. I just won’t. My $13 Casio has been running for 9 years without a charge and hasn’t lost 1 minute. No, Apple, you can’t have $400 for that.
Pointless? That’s what a watch is for. To tell the time. Or were you thinking of composing email on that tiny screen? What exactly else would you do with it?
And phones are for making calls with. So why do we need these fancy displays and fast processors?
A smart watch is a different category of device, even if it adopts the form factor, than a watch. Just as a smart phone is a different category of device than a rotary phone or old flip phone cellphone or feature phone. If you don't want or need the capabilities they offer, just don't get one. But it's rather inane to try and compare a smart watch and a watch and say, "Well, all I need is for it to tell time so this thing is worthless." For you, yes, for people who want the other features, no.
In principle I would agree. But even if we put aside the battery life issue, using those features on that tiny device is totally impractical. It reminds me of those Casio calculators with tiny buttons you needed to press with a pin. And no I won’t get one. I can go buy something useful instead.
That’s so sad. Trying to picture a grown man/woman dictate an email to a watch looking at that tiny screen with an iPhone in his/her pocket. The lengths of denial people go through to avoid the realization they’ve been had.
What iPhone in my pocket? Seriously, if you don't know how stuff works, just glance at your Casio and know you've made the superior choice. No need to make it obvious that you are unaware of the functionality of the things you're ranting against.
I use it to talk to my wife and kids, track my workouts, play music, send me notifications (everything from text messages to home automation alerts), set timers, record my EKG when my ectopic beats start getting noticeably frequent, etc. And also show the time, date, show me the current temperature, among other things.
And you know what? It does all this while I leave my iPhone at home. Because I don't always want to carry around a full size smartphone.
Must have! Nobody will ever use those features and besides you need to have a powered iPhone in your pocket for them to work, and the iPhone does all that and more. I’ll tell you what the Apple watch is; a status symbol. So the wealthy can display expendable income in order to attract a mate. Might as well be a gold chain. Sad. Very, very sad.
Ok here’s a list of the features;
“GPS, fitness tracking, music, calls, text if I'm out on a run (LTE required), 2-factor auth, Apple Pay.“
Now why would you need them running on an Apple watch when you have an iPhone in your pocket? Justify the $400+ expense and charging hassle to me. I’ll give you heart rate tracking although a good heart rate tracker is $80 w/bluetooth and an app. You don’t need the watch for any of it is the answer. You’ll get there. Think about it
None of these are needs. Phones aren't needs. You know what you need? Food, water, shelter, maybe clothing (environment dependent, though I'd recommend at least some footwear in most of the world). Those are literally your only needs. Everything else is a want.
The thing you seem to be willfully ignoring is that if you want those capabilities and have an Apple Watch (since that's the specific device we're talking about, others would also do) you do not need the iPhone in your pocket in order to have those desired capabilities. You can leave it at home or in the car, and go about your life with those capabilities on your wrist instead.
Mixed feelings about this. What a tragic, tragic day. I’ve only watched through that video one time and it’s awful.
Can you hold it against Stern for calling the terrorists towelheads and advocating for nuclear war and genocide? Considering the circumstances? I don’t know. But I had no interest in him as a person or an entertainer after listening to that clip. It’s also puzzling to see someone watching such a disaster unfold on their city, whilst merrily advocating for the same and then some for another city.
Many born after 9/11 don’t get it. There’s better versions of that clip with visuals which unfortunately add necessary shock context.
Get a large fabric Xilinx FPGA from ebay, reball it and make a simple PCB with Altium auto routing with JTAG, SPI flash, some memory. And find a license for Vivado.
That’s a Spartan 6 but you really want the larger fabric parts. If you go to Digikey they will quote starting at 20k, but on ebay a few hundred will do assuming you have a Vivado license capable of building a bitstream. It is possible to commandeer a board as in that post but often not worth the time vs just making your own. Rarely prototypes with only the power distribution and JTAG appear. Those are a bit easier. Like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/114784061306?hash=item1ab9a9c77a:g:...
It's a matter of taste, but x86 has a lot of historical cruft because it's been around long enough to see 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit industry transitions. Off the top of my head, x86 memory segmentation and fragmentation between BIOS vs. UEFI and ACPI vs. the absence of device trees (AFAIK).
But it is kinda cool to run software that originally was built for the 8088 on an AMD Threadripper. But yes, I do agree the x86 architecture is fast losing its lustre.
