(Conspiracy rumor)

[joeblow7777]

I wouldn't call it defensive, I'm just annoyed by people that think product engineering is simply a matter of picking parts from vendors and slapping them together.

No discussion about supply chain, manufacturing ramp up, stocking logistics. All I see on these boards is whining about stuff and posters from people who clearly don't know what they are talking about but are CERTAIN they can handle the iPad business better.

Yeah, that's the Internet. Everyone with a keyboard is an expert on everything.

 

[AttilaTheHun]

They left out 64GB, the perfect amount of storage for any iOS device, as if professionals would actually feel like they had a choice between 32GB (HA) and 128GB. I think enough can be extrapolated from that kind of price fixing or whatever you'd call it to answer your question.

and they didn't say a word on the USB 3.0 that can be used, that could save money to a lot of buyers,
start to think defiantly. Apple don't think about you but for there pocket, we can just buy or not.

 

[NT1440]

Yeah, that's the Internet. Everyone with a keyboard is an expert on everything.

I think I'm just a bit pissed off about the jingoistic backlash to Paris and projecting it into other threads. Sorry about that, I'm going golfing to cool off a bit.

Have a good one.

 

[whodatrr]

Price the market is willing to bear...

 

[Benjamin Frost]

Don't get freaked out or anything, but I've heard rumors that ALL companies do everything they can to inflate their revenue and profits! I can't even begin to grasp the scope of such a huge conspiracy!

The reason this happens is because companies need to make a profit.

It may seem mercenary to you, but if they don't, they will not be able to afford to develop any new products.

I guess in an ideal world we wouldn't need money for anything.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

Yeah, that's the Internet. Everyone with a keyboard is an expert on everything.

Nonsense. That would be a silly generalisation.

Only MacRumors members are experts on everything.

 

[mi7chy]

What exactly is outrageous here? Do any other tablets have custom silicon to account for, not only in the process but the new screen timer chip which allows for screen functionality never before seen? Where is the equivalent product to compare pricing to?

Custom silicon or not it's just licensing ARM CPU and PowerVR GPU cores but it's still a ~$20 chip. Much more profitable to push than equivalent ~$200 Intel Core M.

As for the panel self refresh technology LG did that years ago with their LG G2 to make battery life usable so nothing really special about it.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7208/understanding-panel-self-refresh

 

[NT1440]

Custom silicon or not it's just licensing ARM CPU and PowerVR GPU cores but it's still a ~$20 chip. Much more profitable to push than equivalent ~$200 Intel Core M.

As for the panel self refresh technology LG did that years ago with their LG G2 to make battery life usable so nothing really special about it.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7208/understanding-panel-self-refresh

I had no idea that LG had created a new timer chip to push that many pixels AND do the variable refresh. I'm glad that we're talking about the same exact thing here.

As someone who reads Anandtech, you should be ashamed at boiling down mobile SoC development to just licensing. If that were the case then Anandtech and Chipworks wouldn't have 12+ page dissections analyzing the engineering that goes into each round of the A series processors. It would be literally Apple chose this CPU and married it to this PowerVR chip. Done.