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You're not addressing the poster's point. Does makes sense for Apple to pay a % of total price of phone for one decreasingly relevant part?

Apple A series tech is destroying the Qualcomm's snapdragons just fine without any need for legalities.

Are you suggesting that Qualcomm is using its licensing fees to support an unprofitable Snapdragons? Overall a confusing argument.


>You're not addressing the poster's point.

I already addressed it. The poster is repeating the point. That doesn't make it more valid.

>Apple A series tech is destroying the Qualcomm's snapdragons just fine without any need for legalities.

You might want to review world wide market share numbers before you try to defend that statement.

>Are you suggesting that Qualcomm is using its licensing fees to support an unprofitable Snapdragons?

I'm suggesting Apple is using litigation expense as an avenue to destroy the business of their competitor, again. Apple has much deeper pockets than Qualcomm. It's very simple math.


I agree, there are always more way to make mistakes, 2nd law and all, but the process of assessing good study design, good protocol, good statistical methods, etc. are all the same as for manuscripts with non-null results. Many of these issues will, in theory, have been sorted at the funding level.

What holds us back, it seems to me, isn't process, it's culture and inertia.


"Digital Color Meter" in my version of macOS.


- More secure (Face ID uses more data points)

- Less user-interaction to authenticate (though as you point out this is also a negative)

- Allows for other UX improvements, e.g., maintaining screen lighting while phone is being observed but not manipulated

- My speculation: capacity to add additional faces will be added with SW (or next HW) update

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I don't understand your point #3. How do you think someone would unlock your phone with Face ID?


For their Point #3 I'm guessing they are saying if they are sleeping or a mugger points their phone at their face. Fortunately, Face ID has focus detection, so if you aren't looking at it then it won't unlock. Which makes point #3 moot as well.


Apple has mitigated this, your eyes need to be open and looking at the screen to be unlocked.

It requires your face + your attention.


Strange so much arguing with no data presented or sourced.

IMF US 18.6 EU 16.4 China 11.2

World Bank US 18.6 EU 16.4 China 11.2

UN US 18.0 EU 16.8 China 11.2

All figures nominal GDP, US$, trillions, 2016, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

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Things are a bit different when switching to PPP though.

IMF (2017) China 23.2 EU 20.9 US 19.4

World Bank (2016) China 21.4 EU 19.7 US 18.6

CIA (2016) China 21.1 EU 20.0 US 18.6

All figures nominal GDP, US$, trillions, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)


Might want to include the population base for fair comparison:

China: 1.4 billion

EU: 743 million

US: 323 million


You're the customer, not their product.


But the data is still not in your control. Right?


464 for Safari Tech Preview R39.

That said this is the weakest score of the top 4 browsers:

519 Chrome 57

518 Opera 45

474 Firefox 53

473 Edge 15

https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html


Per Apple Face ID doesn't work with photos; TBD in real world.


If they created photorealistic masks to defeat the 3D mapping and those didn't work, I feel pretty confident in saying that photos won't work.


I think it would be really cool if it turned out that it could tell the difference between some pairs of identical twins due to seemingly imperceptible differences.


I'm sure it's not 100%, but I'd bet it's close. Certainly by young adulthood the identical twins I've been around have been relatively easy to distinguish.


That's sort of my theory. But I wonder how much of people's ability to distinguish identical twins is based on physical differences vs more subtle things like how they carry themselves/interact with the world.


Some twins I've known deliberately create physical differences like different hairstyle so other people can recognize them easily without interactions.


This is a strange (repeated) response. Google set up a web detour without users' consent, and has a flagger waving upset people back to canonical links.

Apple _is_ routing people back to the main road, not because of Google's suggesting it, but because it's the only reasonable thing to do.

The implication of your comment is that if Google has asked Apple to pass on the AMP links that they would do so, which I highly doubt.

A far more appropriate summary is: Apple is acting to correct Google's interference with web links; irrespective of Google's desires.


Apple's forte, above anyone's, is merging software and hardware. Level 5 autonomous cars align perfectly with their core competency.


No, Apple's strength is refining, polishing, blending, and packaging existing electronic and software technologies.

Cars are more about mechanical engineering than electronics or software. Learning automotive design from scratch when you have no experience and barely any trained staff is not a trivial task.

Worse, a Level 5 autonomous car is not an existing consumer technology. At this point there's nothing to refine, and barely anything that could be bought in to start the refinement process.

Apple might as well go into house building, farming, or food products.


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