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Graphene May Be Next Area of Innovation for Apple and Samsung
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Sadly true. Here's true innovation, Cupertino: keep the same chasis of the original iPhone but make the display 5.1 inches. Reduce bezels by changing the Home button from a circle to a pill shape. Samsung's Home button is perfect and its finger print scanner is just as good as the 5s, if not better.
Use the extra thickness to install a bigger battery. I need at least 48 hours of battery life for my mobile devices and the iPhone 5s's battery is virtually the same as the 2007 iPhone.
And while we're at it, bring back the optical drive! But Blu-ray this time. The Mac will continue to decline without Blu-ray. Oh, and no more Thunderbolt and Lightning. Those aren't innovations. USB is perfectly fine and better, in fact.
Both are the domain of unanswered questions.
So while you think this is a smart comment it just makes you look silly.
It is also silly to imply that the use of Graphene is just a manufacturing issue.
I've always said they never should have switched from PowerPC.
What the hell are you talking about though? Ten years ago? 2004? The only good thing I can think of from that point in time was.... hell, nothing. Tiger wasn't even out yet.
Every thing is toxic in one way or another. Drop some molten steel on your head and you are dead. Drink to much water and you end up dead. The focus on toxicity is nonsense and if taken to the extreme would turn us back to the dark ages.
What does transparency have to do with batteries? And why couldn't power cells be integrated into a flexible package..?
Agreed, now we just need to see some consumer stuff for it.. and not have to wait until 2017
I agree for the most part, but the ThunderBolt and Lightning - if still preposterously overpriced - are both more reliable than USB. Their smaller footprint is an advantage, too.
Um. Water isn't toxic. Just because it can kill in excess you doesn't make it a toxin. Molten steel isn't either. Please look up the definition of "toxic."
I shouldn't have to learn about it if I'm reading an article explaining the technology. After researching it for a few minutes, it looks like improved battery technology is a major benefit of graphene, so it would've been useful to include that in the article.
Title is misleading - samsung doesn't innovate, they copy.
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First time on the internet? Don't quote the whole article.
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First time on the internet? Don't quote the whole article.
Huh, I find them to be no more or less reliable than USB, just easier to plug in backwards.
Edit: At least for lightning, Thunderbolt isn't all that comparable to USB.
You are demonstrating a significant disconnect from reality here.
As to the Touch I and iPods in general, yeah Apple has been stupid with the product line. That is probably due to seeing it as declining technology.
This is complete garbage considering just about every consumer electronics company is now copying their lead.
You do realize that in a few shirt years Apple went from buying other people's ARM based systems to designing some of the highest performance ARM cores out there. Apple innovation has been fairly incredible over the last couple of years.
The Mac Book Air got all that Intel offered up. If you have any technology that could take the Air further please offer it up.
As to the Touch I and iPods in general, yeah Apple has been stupid with the product line. That is probably due to seeing it as declining technology.
Personally I think they are on the right track with Mac OS/X. For people that actually understand computer technology it is an excellent OS release.
You demonstrate significant ignorance with respect to the effort that goes into a CPU design and integration into a SoC.
We don't know that yet.
This is complete garbage considering just about every consumer electronics company is now copying their lead.
Either way you'd be screwed cause Samsung would copy their design and you'd still get cut.
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Check out that stock price. Haters gonna hate...
Dude, you're whining. This misperception has been covered in places too numerous to count. Short answer: average interval of life-altering innovative product releases for Apple is around 6 years. For the competition, the timescale approaches infinity.
Re-Release the DUO with the dock and make the G3 chips faster. Update the floppy drives and make thinner floppies, so they can be Blu-Ray floppies.
Apple, innovate and go to black and white screens, much better for the eyes.
Why not develop a type of a baby carrying belt for my 128K first Mac ?
We can then carry them in front and the 9 inch screen is like an iPad then.
What is interesting about Apples choice of materials for it's products. Especially it's mobile products, which don't live their live safe, sitting on a desk, but are by their nature items that will be moved around a lot, subject to much more wear and tear, it that Apple select materials totally unsuitable for such a task.
Materials are selected for looks and style more than practicalities and wear/damage resistance. Hence items have to be protected by more products as the materials used will damage too easily without them.
Nokia I think had it right many many years ago.
A totally replaceable, and therefore also customisable front and rear phone covers.
Made of plastic which could take knocks without damage, and can absorb impacts far better than aluminium and obviously glass, yet when even this plastic gets marked, simply unclipping both front and rear covers and replacing them with either official or 3rd party new case parts, make you phone effectively brand new again.
Monetary success now equates to how exciting they are? Interesting. I thought it had more to do with being a strong brand with loyal customers.
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That's the goal. An iDevice 1 atom thin or maybe 3 atoms thin: graphene layer, tech layer, graphene layer. So thin, we can't even hardly see it: the "thinnest i_______ ever!"
After that, they'll just ship empty boxes and claim they've made the next one even thinner: "so thin you can't even see it."
Ahhhhh, the future… where the race to thin ultimately delivers the invisible, and margins go from 40% to 100% when we're all buying empty boxes.