• @glimse
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    710 months ago

    I still don’t get your comment about it being embarrassing to be an android fanboy

    • @PeachMan
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      -610 months ago

      Cuz iPhone processors are objectively better? That wasn’t the case a decade ago.

      • @glimse
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        810 months ago

        Why would that be an embarrassing thing though? Android users like the OS, not the chips they run on lol

        • @PeachMan
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          10 months ago

          Yes, and my argument is that the lack of chipset diversity is holding the platform back. More recently, Google’s doing interesting stuff with Tensor and Mediatek apparently made some decent SoC’s. But Qualcomm still has way too much of the (US) market.

          • @[email protected]
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            910 months ago

            MediaTek, Samsung, Nvidia and now Google make ARM chips. Android has tried x86. And has recently added support for RISC-V.

            Diversity is not the problem. Honestly there is no problem. Apple just makes damn good chips. 🤷

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        That’s patently false. Ever since Apple introduced their own silicon (A4 released in 2010), they’ve generally had the best performance of any ARM chip. It’s not that the competition is bad, it’s just Apple has historically been excellent at recruiting top engineers and executing their products. For example, in the Intel-era, there were multiple years publications said the best Windows laptop was a Mac.

        • @PeachMan
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          010 months ago

          Patiently false? LMAO. I said a decade offhand but to be more exact it’s thirteen years. Thank you, Captain Pedant. 🙄