[culturestate]

> it certainly seems as if Apple is actually organized to simply refine the innovations of its past

This takes innovation, too. Just because a product isn't a wholly new, virgin thing doesn't mean it isn't innovative.

The A-series chips aren't products themselves, for example, but they're certainly innovations. Apple is now the best mobile processor house in the world, and it isn't particularly close - who saw that coming?

[threeseed]

> Apple is now the best mobile processor house in the world

Will likely be the best laptop processor in the world as well.

[sudosysgen]

Very much doubtful. AMD is seriously on fire, and unless they can pull some magic I don't see that happening.

[cromka]

You’re using an example of an underdog suddenly topping a hegemon in the field to make a point that no other company can do that again?

[sudosysgen]

AMD was able to topple Intel because Intel was stagnant. Apple is coming from a design that is worse in every single way to AMD, which has been working on this for over a decade, and is attempting to topple them while they're killing it every year. Simply not comparable.

Indeed, if you look at AMD's laptop chips, their performance per watt is quite superior to Apple's chips. And since then AMD has only improved.

[threeseed]

Amazon's ARM processors outperform AMD at similar price-points.

And I would expect Apple to be significantly better at Amazon.

[sudosysgen]

Source? From what I've seen they are around half the speed.