By: Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org), May 3, 2019 2:45 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us) on May 3, 2019 1:32 pm wrote:
> Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on May 3, 2019 9:32 am wrote:
> > Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us) on May 3, 2019 1:35 am wrote:
> > > anonymou5 (no.delete@this.spam.com) on May 2, 2019 5:37 pm wrote:
> > > > > So what can we conclude?
> > > > > First Apple seems to get a lot more out their hardware engineers (let's say CPU and GPU) than Intel.
> > > >
> > > > Apple eng vs Intel total
> > > >
> > > > try harder
> > >
> > > Yeah that also raised my eyebrows given the breath of stuff Intel does. Or Microsoft
> > > (equating MS software "platform" and Apple software stuff, lol really?)
> >
> > Really? Did it raise your eyebrows so much that you were
> > incapable of reading the NEXT sentence, which discussed
> > how Apple has a more focused job in those other areas, and that the same may be true of their modem job?
>
> I wasn't really interested in those arguments/conclusions (since that "but it will be more focused"
> idea is just a speculation), as opposed in those quoted premises about better use of engineers which
> seem flawed. After all, bad premises would mak any conclusions irrelevant automatically.
In a capitalist society, creating more dollars with the same number of employees is pretty much the DEFINITION of “better use”.
Apple ( with 20% more employees than Intel) generates about 3.5x the annual revenue.
> Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on May 3, 2019 9:32 am wrote:
> > Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us) on May 3, 2019 1:35 am wrote:
> > > anonymou5 (no.delete@this.spam.com) on May 2, 2019 5:37 pm wrote:
> > > > > So what can we conclude?
> > > > > First Apple seems to get a lot more out their hardware engineers (let's say CPU and GPU) than Intel.
> > > >
> > > > Apple eng vs Intel total
> > > >
> > > > try harder
> > >
> > > Yeah that also raised my eyebrows given the breath of stuff Intel does. Or Microsoft
> > > (equating MS software "platform" and Apple software stuff, lol really?)
> >
> > Really? Did it raise your eyebrows so much that you were
> > incapable of reading the NEXT sentence, which discussed
> > how Apple has a more focused job in those other areas, and that the same may be true of their modem job?
>
> I wasn't really interested in those arguments/conclusions (since that "but it will be more focused"
> idea is just a speculation), as opposed in those quoted premises about better use of engineers which
> seem flawed. After all, bad premises would mak any conclusions irrelevant automatically.
In a capitalist society, creating more dollars with the same number of employees is pretty much the DEFINITION of “better use”.
Apple ( with 20% more employees than Intel) generates about 3.5x the annual revenue.