Apple shows off new chips in old laptop
Entry level hardware for the price of an expensive computer
Fruity cargo cult Apple’s "Scary Fast" event turned out to be pushing an over-priced “entry-level” laptop with one of its over-hyped M3 in-house chips on board.
Apple will dig up M3 series MacBook Pro models on the day before Halloween
Trick or Treat
Apple has announced a Mac event for 30 October with the caption "Scary Fast" in which it is expected to exhume its M3 series MacBook Pro models to the illiterate cawing of the Tame Apple Press ravens.
Qualcomm Oryon CPU beats Apple M2 Max in a single thread
Matches i9-13980Hx in multi-thread
Qualcomm's CEO Christiano Amon just announced the Qualcomm Oryon CPU, a part of the Snapdragon X PC platform. This twelve-core 4nm CPU is based on Nuvia architecture and should be a very efficient design.
Apple delays new Air Tags
Sex pests will have to use old technology for now
Apple has decided to delay the release of a new version of its tool of choice for sex pests, the Air Tag.
Apple tells people if they are holding their iPhones wrong
Preventing short-sightedness
Fruity cargo cult Apple has installed a tool on its iPhone which tells users if they are holding the screen too close to their face.
Apple sued for assisting stalkers
Explosion in the numbers
Fruity cargo-cult Apple has been sued for creating a crime wave of stalkers with its Apple tag product.
Qualcomm modems will power Apple phones until 2026
Modems are hard
Even though Apple acquired Intel's modem business unit, the company failed to materialize its in-house 5G modem that works in the worldwide market. Shortly before the iPhone's announcement, it was announced that Apple still sticks with the Qualcomm modems.
TSMC N3 wafer cost $20K+
Too expensive to use A17 Pro for vanilla iPhone 15
Apple is the first of many who started using the TSMC N3 3nm process for its latest SoC, and even for Apple, it is not easy to eat the manufacturing cost.
iPhone 15 has an overheating problem
Tame Apple Press claims ALL phones do that
Early adopters of Apple's iPhone 15 have taken to social media to complain that the expensive new phone is overheating.
Apple undermines the right to repair
Doctorow dubs Apple scum
While the Tame Apple Press bangs on about how Apple is saving the world with its right-to-repair policy, the company is fighting it at every turn according to science fiction author/blogger/technology activist Cory Doctorow.