Sensitive subjects.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/6745228

TLDR: Apple wants to keep china happy, Stewart was going after china in some way, Apple said don’t, Stewart walked, the show is dead.

Not surprising at all, but sad and shitty and definitely reduces my loyalty to the platform. Hosting Stewart seemed like a real power play from Apple, where conflict like this was inevitable, but they were basically saying, yes we know, but we believe in things and, as a big company with deep pockets that can therefore take risks, to prove it we’re hosting this show.

Changing their minds like this is worse than ever hosting the show in the first place as it shows they probably don’t know what they’re doing or believe in at all, like any big company, and just going for what seems cool, and undermining the very idea of a company like Apple running a streaming platform. I wonder if the Morning Show/Wars people are paying close attention.

  • fosforus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    69·
    1 year ago

    Performance per watt, my dude. But sure, x86s can still heat your house better than Apple silicon.

    • WldFyre@lemm.eeEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      Performance per watt is a CPU metric I’ve never seen anyone use before lol

      It’s wild what Apple marketing comes up with

      • MrSpArkle@lemmy.caEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        Yes, measuring the consumption of electricity for a given performance benchmark is totally irrelevant to datacenter providers, who get their electricity for free from the electricity fairy, and thus can harvest pure profit without operational costs.

        It is also totally irrelevant for portable devices, because batteries last forever, and every smart phone has a huge fan inside to dump all the heat waste via dual XTREME exhausts.

      • fosforus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        It’s wild what Apple marketing comes up with

        Performance per watt has always been a major concern of chip manufacturers. Sure, they have increased the amount of watts you can throw at a chip without melting it (8086 used 1-2W) , but the most significant improvements have been towards making less watts give more power.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Performance_per_watt&action=history&offset=&limit=500

        I can appreciate not liking Apple, there are plenty of valid reasons. This is not one of them. Their CPUs are state of the art and took both Intel and AMD with their pants down.