The Server CPU space is going to become so interesting. These Qualcomm DragonFly CPU cores are based on Oryon, which is the 2nd fastest CPU core per watt only lose out to Apple M5. And the M5 CPU isn't available outside Apple ecosystem. And you have 250+ Core of these in a single socket inside a server.

It would be interesting to see throughput comparison between Dragonfly with AMD Zen 6c 256 Core and 512 vCPU.

There is also the Nvidia Server CPU.

The best path and most likely path will be Apple stop the 256GB price point.

Customers will be forced to buy the higher capacity iPhone. So iPhone 17 512GB start at $999.

Effectively Apple hasn't really up the price, customer just don't have the lower storage option.

And the money we are paying for it as consumer is ridiculously low. And yet all we have ever heard was they are being ripped off.

Generally speaking both HN and the internet rarely appreciate hardware advancement.

>widely-accepted hard science, e.g. “2 + 2 = 4”.

Except we live in a world where people do argue 2+2 could also be 22 ( Because they use Javascript /s ) Which is basically people believe what they want to believe in. Rationale rarely works.

Are there legitimate reasons why an App should know I have installed?

Interoperability mainly - if you want to deep link into a specific app or show a list of apps to open.

These days we have more modern and privacy protecting APIs for making content available to the system or other apps… but that doesn’t stop the profilers.

Back before Apple allowed users to set the default browser I had a feature in my app that presented a list of installed browsers when a user opens an external link, giving them the option to choose where it opened.

Android gives me that option at the OS level.

E.g if gmail knows that you have maps or chrome it can deep link you into a particular view instead of opening safari.

At the OS level, Android gives me the option to open links in the corresponding app.

So does iOS, but this is a different feature than what we’re discussing here.

Since Android 11, Google copied the iOS model except Android is a bit more permissive and so you get a bit less privacy out of the box.

Surely there should be a way to enable deep links with a fallback to Safari without needing Gmail to know what apps I’ve got installed

What? Why is this Chinese market only? This is exactly what I wanted. There are Apps I simply don't want them to touch internet.

Its Chinese market only because of regulation. China mandates it. Don't implement it = you don't get to sell in China.

If Apple wanted to provide this willingly they would. That its only available in China due to government regulation tells you all you need to know.

i got an old EU market redmi (yes im broke) and you can turn off either wifi or cellular or both for any non system app. remember apple had to put in work to actively block the feature outside of china.

My bet is that all iPhone across the range will increase the price by $100.

iPhone Ultra $1699

iPhone Pro Max $1199 iPhone Pro $1099

iPhone Air 2 $999

iPhone 18 (2027) $899

iPhone 17 $799 ( Same Price )

iPhone 17e $599 ( Same Price )

And there won't be an 18e. Or May be an 18e at $699.

Ugh. CRI doesn't include R9, so CRI 100 doesn't mean 100% replicating sun light / Incandescent Light bulb? Are there any LED that actually does a decent job in colour representation?