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Apple With Specific Plans for P.A. Semi
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I totally agree with the iphone but does anyone think they could screw the mini with this, they have been FORCED to update their processor a lot lately because of their lax additude
no, you misread what I said. I was responding to another guy about when Nehalen was going to be available. I was not refering to PA chips.
The good news: Someone decided that you and your 149 colleagues are worth $260,000,000. Which means they value _you_ at about $1.7 million. How many Apple share options does it take to keep you at least for the next five years?
Wordmunger, as tempting as it seems to put the worst possible spin on this acquisition, this is not a buyout to get rid of a competitor, this is not a buyout to gain "synergy", this is a strategical purchase with the goal of getting and keeping these developers.
And Steve Jobs is light years away from being the pickiest, crankiest boss on the planet. You are confusing absolute devotion to quality with begin "picky" and "cranky". People who are picky and cranky don't turn $10bn companies into $100bn companies.
Has anyone thought Apple might have something fun planned in the other direction?
XServe Xtrem sure they haven't made much ground in server space but small academic clusters has been good to them.
What better to fight of competition in this space than a superlow power chipset to back up a low power CPU/GPU then stacked to together on mass.
Make a nice render farm for the graphic apps.
or a bladeMac for corporate work.
XServe Xtrem sure they haven't made much ground in server space but small academic clusters has been good to them.
What better to fight of competition in this space than a superlow power chipset to back up a low power CPU/GPU then stacked to together on mass.
Make a nice render farm for the graphic apps.
or a bladeMac for corporate work.
Ah, there is inkswamp again. Now tell us please, what essential features have been left out of Apple products for these reasons? I'd suggest that you look at products that don't sell well, like... Can't think of any right now. It seems that Apple's customers don't agree with you.
Really, we have no idea what the driving force behind the acquisition was. Here is an article from the wall street journal blog that may help shed some light (note: reference to iPod and iPhone...)
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/04/24/jobs-still-hearts-intel/?mod=WSJBlog
http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/04/24/jobs-still-hearts-intel/?mod=WSJBlog
Though I have to agree it leaves one question wide open:
Why does Safari 3 work rather solid on my PB (though eating up the memory quite fast) while it generally crashes my iMac.
Just a simple test (I have four Imac Core Duo first iteration with differing Apple RAM): Leave Safari open for more than 24 hours. I can repeatedly generate a totally hung system with that. And with totally hung I mean that I even can't Force Quit, I have to use the Power Button.
My current PB uptime (with Safari open 24/7) is 25 days!
I do OK with Safari on my PowerMac G5 unless I open a PDF in the window. Safari will crash almost every time.
My take on the PA Semi Acquisition
My current project, a security system sold to the military, is made of a multitude of small processors. It has PSoC (Cypress) chips, Microchip PICs, Altera CPLDs (a clock-based FPGA), audio transformers, radio controllers (FSK audio), and finally all the application brains on a 80C320 (Dallas 8-Bit Micro) with 512K FLASH and 512K RAM. Maxed out, my project, through its descending levels to the actual actuated sensors, is 264 PICs, 2 Alteras, 1 PSoC, 1 80C320.
When the load is spread across a multitude of processors, it's easy to make the little guys who're but low-level circuit managers that can do many neat things. Each part accentuating the whole, each nuance carefully balanced in the order of things.
Apple knows this. It's almost as it was when Cortez's (Actually Balboa, Chapman screwed up) men first saw the Pacific at the Isthmus, Apple's pioneers are "with wild surmise" but only beginning to explore the realms of where no man has gone before.
I can hardly wait ...
My current project, a security system sold to the military, is made of a multitude of small processors. It has PSoC (Cypress) chips, Microchip PICs, Altera CPLDs (a clock-based FPGA), audio transformers, radio controllers (FSK audio), and finally all the application brains on a 80C320 (Dallas 8-Bit Micro) with 512K FLASH and 512K RAM. Maxed out, my project, through its descending levels to the actual actuated sensors, is 264 PICs, 2 Alteras, 1 PSoC, 1 80C320.
When the load is spread across a multitude of processors, it's easy to make the little guys who're but low-level circuit managers that can do many neat things. Each part accentuating the whole, each nuance carefully balanced in the order of things.
Apple knows this. It's almost as it was when Cortez's (Actually Balboa, Chapman screwed up) men first saw the Pacific at the Isthmus, Apple's pioneers are "with wild surmise" but only beginning to explore the realms of where no man has gone before.
I can hardly wait ...
Maybe it's for a new type of mini?
Maybe it is true about a newly redesigned Mac Mini. Who knows, maybe P.A has a way to shrink the motherboard or something or someway to include High Definition playback on the little thing.
Maybe it is true about a newly redesigned Mac Mini. Who knows, maybe P.A has a way to shrink the motherboard or something or someway to include High Definition playback on the little thing.
Well, with Macs & iPhones around 8 digit levels & going up, and iPods in high 8 digit levels, one can imagine the savings if you get 2-4 separate chips integrated into one and then have the power level dropped, too.
Apple is committed to offering smaller better, easier to use consumer products, and I firmly believe they do not intend to be anything less than #1. Vertical Integration Innovation at its finest.
The PA Semi low-power PPC everybody is talking about has 10-Gig ethernet with the IP stack in hardware.
Agrred. PDF interaction in Safari plainly sucks.
Ah. Gnasher found a way to use MMS on the iPhone.
I've been sending and receiving MMS on the iPhone for awhile now.
For example, when my I send my girlfriend a picture, I email it to her phone number @vzwpix.com for Verizon wireless. When she sends me one I get a text with a code and have to go to viewmymessage.com. This is the only part that sucks, as the code is usually complicated so I have to switch between the Text and Safari screens a few times to get it right. Copy and paste would be helpful here.
I've been thinking about writing an MMS program for the iPhone. Does the SDK have any hooks for the Text screen? Basically it could auto detect when a MMS text message code was sent, log into the website with the codes and download the image into the program. To send a MMS, you could access your contacts list, and the coding would put the appropriate email address at the end to make it send correctly. It would, of course, have hooks to access the Camera Roll. Voila! SDK MMS. Probably not that easy at all, but if someone who is a better coder then I am could figure it out, then hurry up and finish it! And hopefully give me some credit and some of the money you make, lol.
Totally off topic, but you would be many people's hero. In Germany we have a different situation. T-mobile doesn't offer any way to send an MMS from the iPhone.
And receiving is even worse. They have a dedicated internet page for MMS, but alas, the iPhone doesn't correctly render the Play button. Lord knows why. Therefore you only can view it with your computer, though havint "The internet on your phone"
Propose a user interface. Command-C and Command-V are not available. If it takes you more than ten seconds to come up with a user interface that doesn't cause any problems, then you failed (remember: you said "for no good reason")
Is MMS an "essential feature"? Considering that Apple has sold a few million iPhones, it seems not.
I failed because I don't have an implementation for copy-and-paste on the iPhone? Since when does Apple rely on my ideas?
You're changing the topic anyway. I commented that features viewed as essential to many users are left out because Steve Jobs deems them inelegant or unnecessary. You challenged me to name one such feature. I named copy-and-paste missing from the iPhone. And you try to muddy the subject by coming back with this nonsense about me coming up with an implementation. (And if that's the issue, then go do a Google search. Many implementations have been proposed out there. It was left out for no good reason.)
So anyway, you're wrong. Deal with it.
Nope, same applies to WebApps or Safari, you know. The only essential App is making a phone call. This point is taken.
But there is no obvious reason despite of ignorance and stupidity to bash MMS. It's an obviously often used protocol. Every other phone on the market supports it, doesn't it?
From a business point of view it's even worse to leave out MMS, as it generates a billable service. Normal price range in Europe is between 20 and 40 cents. Why leave that profit out, especially when you have a revenue sharing agreement?
Third it is a major disappointment. Believe me or not, it is. The lack of MMS makes us Europeans ridicule the iPhone. My wife loves her iPhone (proud user for 3 days), but imagine the frustration:
You get a nice new mobile as a birthday present and you can't, in any way, open those birthday MMSes, your friends and family send you.
Your argument about Copy and Paste is valid. But there is no obvious argument, that can give leaving out MMS a positive spin.
But I'm thinking positive. Either Apple will get their act together with Software 2.0, or some developer will get very, very rich, when a MMS-app hits the App store. Imagine selling this app for 0.99 on the store. You'll be a millionaire afterwards, I'll promise!
<edit> Considering your argument: Maybe Airbags are not essential features in cars. I mean, millions of cars without Airbags sell every day, don't they?
The amount of sold iPhones doesn't give your argument any justification, as I could hypothetically say, the number would be double if it had MMS.</edit>
That's a good point and not unlike the same point I've tried to make about the iMac. Sure, it has sold well enough, but imagine what how it might have sold if it weren't burdened with a lousy display.
Likewise, Gnasher is equivocating the term "essential." When I used it originally, I meant it in the sense that it's a feature that most other similar products come with thus it being perceived as an essential feature by customers. He's trying to whittle it down to mean "essential" in the sense of the product being useless without which is obviously not how I meant it.
2 options
a) get your girlfriend to add your email address to her address book and send MMS there not your phone number.
b) get service provider to forward all MMS to your email address.
Not a technical issue, more a willingness issue.
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