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Thu Jul 12 2018 11:20:13 EDT from wizard of aahz @ Uncensored

Ragnar - I'm wondering about those statistics.. It lists Samsung as under 1% while other articles..


https://www.vertoanalytics.com/chart-week-samsung-vs-apple-owns-smartphone-market/

say otherwise..


Are you certain about those statistics? 

Keeping in mind that those graphs are OS marketshare. If Samsung has its own OS on some devices, rather than Android, then yes, it's most likely less than one percent.

But apparently anyone who wants a high end Mac is buying one anyway, so where's the downside for Apple.

Perhaps they should introduce a "peripheral expansion box" like the one available for the TI-99/4A.

That really was an attractive design.  I'd like to have one for my laptop.

Kanye West has proposed replacing Air Force One with an "iPlane" based on Shabtai Hirshberg's design:

This of course leads to the obvious question: what would an Apple-designed airplane look like?  The one in the photo above looks like a gumdrop iMac, so it's probably kind of dated.

A modern iPlane would probably have end-to-end glass with no visible seems between the window and the fuselage.  It would also have no way to fuel it, because Apple removed the filler pipe.  They expect you to fuel the plane using a very expensive and proprietary fuel truck that teleports the fuel into the tanks.

And of course, there is a bank of sensors in the cockpit that can be used to recognize other objects in the sky ... unfortunately, the pilots can no longer see out the front of the cockpit because the sensor bank created a big opaque notch in the window.

Both Apple and the government like over priced products so it would work.

Rumors are now circulating that Apple is getting ready for its third CPU change on the Macintosh platform, this time to ARM.  This has been expected for some time now, but insiders are now speculating that the change may be announced as early as next year.

There is also some speculation that Apple is going to try what Microsoft failed at, which is to offer developers the ability to build applications that run on both tablets and desktop computers.  Microsoft failed at this because no one wanted their phones.  Apple already has second place in both markets, so they've got the opportunity to penetrate both markets.  But I can't help but think the result will still be "write once, and it sucks everywhere".

They managed the last two CPU transitions without collapsing their software ecosystem.  Some of that was due to a reasonable strategy but some of it was also due to their infamous customer loyalty.  The funny thing is that they've always done it without intermediate p-code, like Microsoft and Google did.  Pretty impressive, actually.  I wonder if they can make it work one more time.