Every time someone says we've reached the end of evolution, be it organic or digital, I fall off my chair laughing. You have absolutely NO IDEA what's going to happen, nor do I, nor does anyone else. So unless you're 90 or older, stay tuned, it won't be long. We are not the crown of creation, and Gordon Moore was just pulling numbers out his keister when he posited it, IN 1965!
So much this. 100%. But don’t forget Cook has his own RDF with shareholders. He should have been kicked to the curb long ago
We hit the end of Moore's Law a fair few years ago, the same with the clock speed of processors, one of the reasons we have now got multicore processors. But you are right, we don't know what is around the corner technology wise. IUt was not that many years ago really that I was using a computer with 1K of ram, expandable to 16k, black and white display, not even able to display lower case letters and a flat paper keyboard. My first computer. Now my phone have more power than the very first PC I owned, a Cyrix based 166.
If it does what you need then yes, I know somone who was until he passed away a couple of years ago was using a P4 machine for producing music.
Your phone has more power than the ones NASA used to put men on the moon in 1969. Ponder that! And that's why I laugh at anyone who tells me there's nothing new, and we're going to have only incremental improvements from now on. The myth of the "new paradigm" is just that, a myth. BTW, my first computer was a Pickett N4 that my parents bought me for my first semester at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Almost everyone on campus had one. It could solve any math calculation you can on your iPhone or Mac. It was portable, too; you could hang it from your belt, and it was the ultimate nerd status symbol (I still have it, and the case, too.)
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing", Edmund Burke
“stands to reason that you and I can obtain the same data on our own”…
A nice sentiment. Unfortunately, I’ve lost most of my confidence in the strength of argumentation, owing to the complexity of all the issues we face these days.
With absolutely no hyperbole, almost every product under Tim today is significantly cheaper than it was 15 years ago under Jobs. even not taking inflation into count, apple is selling the MacBook Air today through Walmart for $650. That’s literally cheaper than the original iPad when adjusted for inflation.
It is not necessary that you win. It is that you state your position along with others stating their position that makes the idiots get tired and lonely. I really see it as no difference than voting.
But could it do addition & subtraction?
Not supporting PowerPC with Snow Leopard was almost criminal. Of course those of us who bought the late 2019 Intel Macs still feel kind of bamboozled despite the fact our Macs are still being supported…Luke Miani had an excellent video on the topic.
I never thought of it that way. That’s an amazingly useful analogy. Thank you.
Yeah, the truth is that NO one will be the romanticized version of Steve Jobs people hold in their heads. If Steve Jobs was alive today, they’d be talking about how he’s not like the way he was before.
Riiight, there was NOTHING that was cannibalized by the iPhone.
