Haha. Nice headline. If I hadn't read the article, I would have thought this was a satirical article explaining how it takes 200 Samsung employees to copy Apple's products.
Same first impression of the head line myself. lol
Haha. Nice headline. If I hadn't read the article, I would have thought this was a satirical article explaining how it takes 200 Samsung employees to copy Apple's products.
There is no "Samsung". There is Samsung mobile division which loves to copy Apple products instead of creating their own. And there is Samsung semiconductor division which loves to create parts for anyone in the world with the money to buy them, including Apple. Especially Apple, since they buy _lots_ of parts.
No, its about registering a protest against the many here that think samsung are the devil.
Haha. Nice headline. If I hadn't read the article, I would have thought this was a satirical article explaining how it takes 200 Samsung employees to copy Apple's products.
No, it doesn't work like that, now they love Samsung, when someone eats at the same table as Apple, they also become idolised.
Samsung CEO found guilty of tax evasion(hundreds of millions of dollars) and somehow got the president of Korea to pardon him(if anyone thinks money didn't get exchanged, you're an idiot).
Samsung paid students to bash competitors online(they even admitted it).
Samsung tried to squash media(korea) that tried to report the truth about their factory that killed their employees.
etc....
I'm not even talking about how they copy Apple(lots of companies do that).
Samsung has long been a component supplier for apple.
You know what my dream is? All the same displays, for all Apple products. The thinnest, greatest quality, Retina (I'd hope 4x) displays with anty glare and no air gap. The same display on every product, with no differences except for the screen size.
Well that's 197 more people than Apple has working on iOS software.
You do know that Samsung was going to use a fingerprint sensor from AuthenTec before Apple bought them out? We would still have mobile payments with fingerprint scanner even if Apple hadn't stolen Samsung's idea.
"Or the new tiered battery in the MacBook" - Doing wonders for its battery life, eh?
"Or Force Touch. Or Digital Crown." - Both gimmicks, and definitely won't catch on like the S6 Edge.
"Or motion co-processors" - And? Co-processors have been used frequently in the past to aid in specific types of processing like the PS4's ARM co-processor which aids in UI/OS functions. It's nothing new.
"Or security so strong that even the NSA can't read our iMessages and complains about it." - Considering a bunch of basement dwellers from 4chan hacked Apple, I'm more than sure the NSA can hack Apple and read what they want. Security and Apple are strange bed-fellows.
The rest, I won't even bother as you're just spouting useless gimmicks.
It's scheduled for 2020. You can also drive it.
Could have, would have, should have, but didn't? I thought they were this amazing bleeding edge mobile hardware company that could poof any magic they wanted out of thin air? Instead they put a vastly inferior fingerprint scanner into their phones which was widely panned for having abysmal performance. But they put it on their phone knowing full well it was garbage. What a great company!
Samsung had been on pace to use AuthenTec's chips for fingerprint sensor. Apple however bought the company outright and then blocked all sales to competitors, leaving samsung and other manufacturers to invent on short order their own technologies without the years of research AuthenTec already had. This gave Apple a tremendous lead.
This is more a statement about Apple's business practices than anything else. You can sugar coat it all you want, But Apple really was playing uncompetitive in this regard. But using their own Technology, samsung has apparently caught up. (haven't tested the new one on S6 yet)
Show me any other laptop that thin which can run for 9-10 hours. You can't. The Air started out with lower battery and today rules the roost. But for now who honeslyt needs more than that in a laptop during most days? They made a battery that nobody else has done. Another show of their engineering genius: the asymmetrical fan in my rMBP which is much quieter. They're always coming up with stuff like that. They think different.
Actually, they haven't. What they did was take a different battery tech, a slightly less efficient one, but one that is more 'maleable' and put it in a new shape. Don't believe the marketting hype, and unfortunately, Battery results from reviewers aren't hitting the mystical 9-10 hours. most are topping out around 8.
They did a great job making a really sleek and sexy looking laptop. But they didn't re-invent anything with this thing. Especially once you see the internals and you realize most of the work was actually intel's
If it's nothing new but incredibly useful then why didn't Samsung do it first? After all they are the gods of mobile right?
i'm not sure you know what a co-processor is.
it is essentially using a 2nd processor to do activities to assist, or offload from the first processor.
This technology has been in use since the days of X86's (I had a math coprocessor on my 386, OWOHOOO THAT FLIED!)
Also, Samsung was using co-processors in mobile. bigLITTLE is essentially a co-processor technology where there were two processors (4 core each) that are available to the OS. a high end CPU coupled with a lower powered one. ARM consortium, also used by samsung announced the technology in 2011 and first available in 2013.
Samsung's Exynos chips in 2013 featured this setup.
Sounds like you just don't have an answer to the incredible amount of brilliant technology Apple has developed over the years. Talk about useless gimmicksthat "edge" screen ranks pretty high.
everyone needs to stop using the term gimmick. if it's a feature and anybody uses it for some sort of usefull functionality, it's a function. just because something is a gimmick to you, or to him, or to me, doesn't mean it's a gimmick to everyone. if you can't find a use for it in your workflow, fine, but to judge someone else cause of such is pathetic on both of your parts.