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  • the funding likely was for plans they disclosed to the shareholders. its still simethinf they shouldnt pursue because its already on its own a very niche usecase.

    for example, they didnt outright produce the desktop case themselves, they handed off production of that essentially to coolermaster.

    the handheld gaming case is a niche (repairable laptop owners), in a niche (people who are on their second fw13 board), in a niche(is a gamer), in a niche (willing to trade off performance and size due to board size and slower ram speeds). there is very little momey in that and the project makes sense more for the community than the company itself (which some in the community has already started/finished)



  • i mean historically, this isnt new. CPUs and GPUs will always introduce some new compute unit thats highly specific workloads using up die space. take cpu examples like AVX2, AVX512 for example, or Aegia Physx hardware, or Nvidias Tensor units to allow for tech like raytracing/upscaling or all hardwares video decoder/encoders.

    Companies will push the changes on their hardware regardless, and they will only remove it if it interferes with a core design of a chip (e.g Intel P/E cores disable AVX512 because E cores do not have AVX512 units) or gets i a point that barely anyone uses it.

    if you never want to buy into thia kind of tech, then choose to never buy whoever is the most popular cpu/gpu in a market, because people at the top invent new things to further the gap between them and everyone else, as they are usually first and foremost, publically traded companies.


  • im not fully convinced its api, as there are several times a dev or themselves have proved connecting to the apple service was possible. with message, beeper proved it was possible to chat with imessage users. with icloud, backups could be accessed via an internet browser (therefore theres an already existing api that is platform agnostic as it runs in a browser.)

    apple could even just make a PWA and instantly have access to the same api that browsers use to access its cloud on its own, and supporting auto cloud sync wouldn’t even have to be at an OS level.