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Stefan Constantine

@whatthebit
104 posts
2024-10-18
After Intel came out with Lunar Lake and AMD came out with Strix Point, Qualcomm's key selling point of battery life stopped being special.
2024-10-18 View on X
XDA Developers

Qualcomm cancels the Snapdragon Dev Kit, which was supposed to ship in June, and will offer refunds, as the product failed to meet its “standards of excellence”

refunds customers for mini PC, ends sales and support for the device immediately Bluesky: Scary Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk.bsky.social : ouch - but you can already get a laptop w...

2024-08-02
Intel got rid of their ARM unit one year before the iPhone launched. Just imagine if they hadn't. https://www.theregister.com/ ...
2024-08-02 View on X
VentureBeat

Intel plans to cut 15%+ of its workforce, the majority by the end of 2024, as part of a $10B cost reduction plan and to suspend its dividend starting in Q4 2024

Intel announced that it will lay off 15% of its workforce as part of a broad cost-reduction program.

2024-04-05
Never thought I'd see “Apple” and “layoffs” in the same sentence. $AAPL
2024-04-05 View on X
Bloomberg

Filings: Apple laid off 600+ employees in California; some layoffs correspond to addresses where Apple's next-gen display and car teams were reportedly based

The Cupertino, California-based company filed eight separate reports to the state to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN program.

2024-04-04
Any apps that use your Apple ID to authenticate are broken too.
2024-04-04 View on X
The Verge

Apple resolves an outage impacting some of its online services, including the App Store, Apple TV, Podcasts, and Music, that lasted for over an hour on April 3

Apple server faces outage as users get message that platform 'can't connect' Mastodon: Matt Birchler / @matt@isfeeling.social : You know, if you could let users download your app f...

2023-02-03
Design by committee is always a wonderful idea. ::starts fucking crying:: https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Apple decided not to replace departing VP of Industrial Design Evans Hankey; its group of ~20 industrial designers will report to COO Jeff Williams

2022-03-02
Interesting pricing model. $AMZN is bundling games into packages that you can pay monthly to play. source: https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-02 View on X
The Verge

Amazon expands its Luna game streaming service across the US and adds free games for Prime members, one-click Twitch broadcasting, three new channels, and more

2021-11-16
now fix the iOS app from the same shit https://twitter.com/...
2021-11-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web with new tweets, after users complained about disappearing tweets

Twitter is updating its web platform to change the way users see new tweets.  The social media giant will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web … Source: @twittersup...

2021-09-16
I feel like the internet would've been a lot kinder to these phones if they were called the 12S and not the 13. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-16 View on X
The Verge

While critics liken iPhone 13 to an iterative “12S” update, the branding shows Apple has adjusted to the current smartphone market, where big overhauls are rare

Smartphones have been so successful that it's possible … Casey Newton / Platformer : Apple's uncanny iPhone event Sami Fathi / MacRumors : iPhone 13 Still Doesn't Display Battery P...

I feel like the internet would've been a lot kinder to these phones if they were called the 12S and not the 13. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-16 View on X
MacRumors

Initial benchmarks show iPhone 13's A15 chip offers a roughly 15% improvement for GPU performance and 10%-18% improvement for CPU performance over A14

Earlier today, we reported on a Geekbench Metal result for the iPhone 13 Pro showing an approximately 55% graphics performance improvement compared to the iPhone 12 Pro.

2021-09-07
so the chip shortage is actually a substrate shortage (?) and it looks like ultimately the only thing that's going to save us is more factories, but the factories won't be operational until 2023 https://www.wsj.com/...
2021-09-07 View on X
Wall Street Journal

A look at the substrates that connect chips to circuit boards, and how years of underinvestment in substrate manufacturing has worsened the global chip shortage

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @whatthebit , @wsj , and @hassankhan Tweets: Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : so the chip shortage is actually a substrate shortage (?)...

2021-07-21
the whole point of TweetDeck is to live in The Matrix and have multiple columns scrolling past you in real time. making columns *wider* is the literal antithesis of this idea. https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-21 View on X
9to5Mac

Twitter begins rolling out a preview of a revamped TweetDeck in the US, Canada, and Australia, featuring an option for wider columns, an Explore column, more

Twitter is beginning to test a completely redesigned version of TweetDeck, the company announced today.

2021-04-28
literally the only reason i don't have a Galaxy S21 Ultra right now https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-28 View on X
The Verge

In 2013 emails, Eddy Cue pitched iMessage for Android, but Craig Federighi said it would simply “remove an obstacle to iPhone families” buying Android phones

‘Do we want to lose one of the most important apps in a mobile environment to Google?’

2021-04-24
everyone knows, whether they want to admit it or not, computers became “good enough” in the mid-00s https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-24 View on X
ExtremeTech

Apple's M1 chip, used in computers ranging from $699 to $1699, and tablets, upends decades of x86 OEM marketing and segmentation centered around CPU performance

On Tuesday, Apple updated the iMac with new SKUs, display panels, and various color options.

everyone knows, whether they want to admit it or not, computers became “good enough” in the mid-00s https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-24 View on X
The Independent

Interview with Apple's marketing head Greg Joswiak and hardware chief John Ternus on why the company has no plans to merge iPad and Mac product lines

Andrew Griffin / The Independent :

2021-04-18
when is a a major browser maker (@brave doesn't count) just going to bake in uBlock Origin https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-18 View on X
The Verge

Firefox and major Chromium browsers like Edge, Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi are not joining FLoC, Google's proposed ad technology to replace third-party cookies

2021-04-17
when is a a major browser maker (@brave doesn't count) just going to bake in uBlock Origin https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-17 View on X
The Verge

Firefox and major Chromium browsers like Edge, Opera, Brave, and Vivaldi are not joining FLoC, Google's proposed ad technology to replace third-party cookies

Dieter Bohn / The Verge :

2021-04-03
Wait until the judge hears about the keyboards. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-03 View on X
The Verge

A federal judge has ruled that a class action lawsuit against Apple for selling MacBooks with defective display cables can proceed

Sean Hollister / The Verge :

2021-04-02
Wait until the judge hears about the keyboards. https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-02 View on X
The Verge

A federal judge has ruled that a class action lawsuit against Apple for selling MacBooks with defective display cables can proceed

A potential class-action lawsuit will go forward  —  When Apple introduced its controversial MacBook Pro redesign in 2016, the company probably …

2021-03-24
Why is Intel talking about building a 7 nm fab when Apple is shipping 5 nm iPhones and MacBooks and TSMC is already talking about 3 nm chips?
2021-03-24 View on X
AnandTech

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says it will spend $20B on two fabs in Chandler, Arizona and will reconfigure its external Foundry Services to serve new chip customers

The new CEO of Intel, Pat Gelsinger, has today outlined his vision for Intel over the coming years.

2021-03-18
@ianfogg42 @Qualcomm yeah the A72 makes no sense considering how cheap the base S21 has gotten, plus there's the S20 FE. rumors say they'll be an S21 FE too. samsung's midrange portfolio is heavily crowded. not sure how much consumers care about 5G in Europe tho.
2021-03-18 View on X
The Verge

Samsung updates its mid-range Galaxy lineup: 6.5" A52 and A52 5G, from ~$415, and 6.7" A72, from ~$535, with 90Hz or 120Hz displays, better cameras, and more