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Had Intel not dropped the ball on 5G as was reported two weeks ago I think Apple would have taken this the whole way.
Huawei was mentioned (on /.) as a possible chip supplier but given the US stance on Huawei 5G tech the preferred outcome had to be Intel or Qualcomm.
The really interesting detail is "The companies also have reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019" because it suggests that Apple's own silicon workshop isn't anywhere near ready to deliver their own mobile radio silicon.
I doubt much money will go from Apple to Qualcomm as Apple says the settlement includes a payment from Apple to Qualcomm will need to be offset by the $1 Billion payout recently award in court to Apple.
What hasn't come out in any detail yet is if Qualcomm will change the business model that Apple claimed to be unfair.
Will Apple continue to pay a percentage of the device value which they got upset about or will they pay a fixed licensing fee for themselves and their suppliers?
That's the bit that will tell who really won here.
Also don't forget the FTC antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm was actually the catalyst for Apple's own lawsuit against the company just a few weeks later.
How does today's new affect that? I suspect both companies were in a pickle and needed each other in the end.

The iMac pro got new RAM and video options for those who can't get enough. You can get 256GB ECC RAM for $5,2000. Woo-hoo!

also imac pro not updated.

Actually, it was. Ars just doesn't seem to have reported on it (yet).

Yeah what's missing from the discussion is that this statistic is sales by revenue. So sure streaming is >75% of revenue (wtf is that 3% synch amount I saw? https://www.macrumors.com/2019...) and digital sales are 11%.

Vinyl and CDs is 12% (ok mainly just vinyl) because a record costs $20. A CD costs $10. iTunes store is $9.99. My favourite band launched preorders of their newest album coming at the end of this month and they had 500 limited edition coloured vinyl for $22 which easily sold out within a day. So something that costs more makes more revenue. Hmmm.... (now doing the math that chart is 101% as it's rounded to the nearest percent so the difference is literally a rounding error)

They did, well not exactly, but they did. Marketing terms are SuperSpeed USB, SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps and SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps. It is even in the summary.

You could also click the link and find this table

Is it too much to ask for Slashdot to not plagiarize the exact headline from the MacRumors article they linked to? It's one thing if it's a concise, objective headline and two people may have independently arrived at similar wording, but the original headline is highly editorialized and Slashdot's plagiarism is glaringly obvious.

The strings you see for the network are delivered by the carrier, not Apple. That's why it's also been showing up on some Android phones too.

(Thanks to AC for the link).

According to an Update to this article in MacRumors.com, AT&T has "clarified" that the 5GE showing up on the Status Bar of iPhones running iOS 12.2 beta 2, simply means that the customer is in an area where 5G MIGHT be available...

Still kinda smarmy, IMHO.

https://www.macrumors.com/2019...

Apple already has many, many people working closely with China as far as suppliers of everything goes. They already have a shipping pipeline so I seriously doubt for Apple it's going to take 6-14 weeks to get parts... I'm sure they would of course have some buffer of supplies, but Apple can more than afford to build up a base of supply on hand.

The real surprise to me is that Apple ever ran into this problem to begin with, as one thing they know how to deal with really well is supply chain issues. That's why I don't think it will be much of an issue going forward because the problem they had in the past was an aberration compared to Apple's usually very apt handling of supply chain management.

It's not like everything has to come from China - Apple spend $60 billion last year American suppliers... No reason that cannot grow, as long as Apple is willing to let some component costs raise - which I'm sure they are for a Mac Pro.

I could keep going. If it were economically practical to assemble electronics in the US (even ignoring the labor price disparity), companies would be doing it.

Apple does exactly that with the old Mac Pro, and presumably the new one.

The weakened demand came primarily from China, although Cook notes that "in some developed markets, iPhone upgrades also were not as strong as we thought they would be."

The writing was on the wall when, for the 1st time, Apple increased iPhone trade-in credit in late November by up to $100 to get lure people in to buy the iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max, and then extending the offer to other countries like China, Japan, and Australia, and throughout Europe a month later.

Indeed. Phones are already too thin, so thin and fragile you have to put them in a case to stop them from breaking (or even just bending in your pocket or bag). Guess what, that makes them thicker...so what's the point again? Oh, marketing, so we can wow people with how thin our phone is compared to the competition. The fact that 90% of the phone's users will admire the thinness only while looking at the store display and for the first few hours/days they take their phone out of the box (before they permanently stick it in a case) seems lost on most people.

Well, iPhones have actually been getting THICKER since the iPhone 6; so now what?

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

And ANOTHER Slashtard Apple-meme bites the dust through FACTS...

with most of the "improvements" being colossal mistakes like the touch bar

Which makes it very interesting that that's the only one in your "colossal mistakes" list.

The TouchBar isn't a colossal mistake. It is actually pretty damned useful, given the right Application. But I think I would have rather seen the TouchPad turned into a mini-Digitizer (with Pencil Support!), too.

I think that it would be silly to say that Apple didn't run to the mobile device market pretty quickly, and pretty whole-hog; but I think that with the move to the new HQ, they have reapportioned their talent so that they can start to chew gum and walk at the same time again. The new Mac mini was pretty close to perfect (assuming you are ok with adding an eGPU for graphic-intensive stuff), and that you can effortlessly put together a little (literally!) rendering/build-cluster of them for CHEEEEP, and, IMHO, shows real promise for new Mac hardware to come in this coming year.

As you have noted, they have (a) stupendous OS(es), and I think that there is about to be a real renaissance in the Mac hardware department, too. I have followed Apple since 1976, and I'm here to tell you that I "feel" it.

One of the breezes that are blowing comes not from Apple, directly, but rather a series of high-performance SAN products from :"LumaForge" that Apple is now selling through their Enterprise site.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

This is DEFINITELY not an "iGadget" fashion accessory; and may even signal Apple's return to the Enterprise/Server market. Or at least a clear signal that they understand the REAL "Pro" A/V/CGI market (not just the home-studio buffs that THINK they are "Pros", just because they have a Focusrite Audio Interface and a few good microphones).

I, for one, would love to see a Apple-branded QUAD server-cluster, "Ax" ARM-based, in a 1U enclosure, with the four servers internally linked with an internal 10Gig switch, for $1500. Yes, macOS Server would have to be restored to its former glory (and beyond) to make it not a joke; but who knows? I can dream, can't I???

What's missing from the summary is the fact that, in addition to not covering this year's models, this injunction doesn't bar sales of any iPhone running iOS 12, which is the latest version of iOS. Given that every model Apple currently sells can be updated to iOS 12 (and were likely being sold with iOS 12 installed, straight out of the box, even prior to this ruling), Apple has issued a statement making it clear that all iPhones remain available for purchase in China. I.e. This injunction did absolutely nothing at all.

As for what Qualcomm's patents are/were covering, MacRumors' article indicates they were used to "adjust and reformat the size and appearance of photos", for "managing applications using a touch screen when viewing and navigating apps", and a third patent of which has apparently already been invalidated in court.

You are writing apps that people like me would approve of (not sending data back to a server), whereby you're not mining people's data - thank you. Hearing your argument of this situation actually gives me hope.

But that's not the case for every developer, and certainly not the case for most corporate entities:
iPhone
Android
Huawei

If our privacy laws here in the US were comparable to those of the EU, I'd be more relaxed about AI everywhere. In the meantime, we'll have to depend on developers and corporate entities to have the same morals as you appear to have. It's just that they don't have a good track record of having any morals whatsoever.

apples reliability???.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/09/iphone-x-display-replacement-program/
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/09/apple-macbook-pro-ssd-service-program/

Keep chugging and regurgitating that Koolaid

apples reliability???.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/09/iphone-x-display-replacement-program/
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/09/apple-macbook-pro-ssd-service-program/

Keep chugging and regurgitating that Koolaid

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/09/apple-amazon-new-product-deal/

Sound like a typical scum deal by apple.
apple proudly being a cancer in the tech industry

"A slide during the keynote showed several notch designs that are almost certainly coming to Samsung-branded devices in 2019 and beyond," reports The Verge.

I guess someone at The Verge was also waiting for a worthwhile update to the Mac mini, a thread started on 2013-12-07 that is 590 pages long, 14736 posts as I'm writing this.

Tim Cook is the new Ballmer he hasnâ(TM)t brought anything to the table just a long list of underwhelming products

Underwhelming Products?

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Be honest Apple is using smoke and mirrors to keep investors these days. All of their products have either reached peak growth or have long since lost any real growth. Their recent products prove they have nothing left to inspire and in fact why did the new Macbook Air or Mac Mini take so long to do? There is nothing about them that is a engineering marvel. They are refreshes that should have been done years ago. This is not the revolutionary company of Steve Jobs.

You call THIS "Smoke and Mirrors"?

You call THIS "Not an Engineering Marvel"?

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Ohhh Kayyyyyy

Keep deluding yourself, Slashtard Hater.

Feb 2017
https://appleinsider.com/artic...
https://www.macrumors.com/2017...
https://arstechnica.com/civis/...

Their claims that they knew nothing of this security issue from Supermicro has all the appererances of a PR cover up

I don't care about the rest of their stuff, but I want to see their Foundation TV show.

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

The Mac mini haven't been updated in four years. Where's the love, Apple?

If TFS wasn't so lame, you'd already know that the Event will ALSO focus on new Macs (likely a reimagined "Pro" Mac mini, and probably at least a Preview of the upcoming redesigned Mac Pro).

See:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

The Mac mini haven't been updated in four years. Where's the love, Apple?

If TFS wasn't so lame, you'd already know that the Event will ALSO focus on new Macs (likely a reimagined "Pro" Mac mini, and probably at least a Preview of the upcoming redesigned Mac Pro).

See:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

The Mac mini haven't been updated in four years. Where's the love, Apple?

Exactly. Why people fawn over people just because they died is mystifying. There are plenty of heros in the computing industry, but he wasn't one of them.

What is amazing is the stupidity and bullshit attitudes that are rampant on this site.

Meanwhile, over at Macrumors.com (which arguably shouldn't even give a care about Allen's life or death), the comments are universally those of heartfelt condolences.

https://forums.macrumors.com/t...

You small-minded, entitled Slashtards all should be fucking ashamed of yourselves.

No, but there is prior evidence of tampering of Supermicro property: https://www.macrumors.com/2017...

Everyone else is having charging issues, signal strength issues, antenna issues, front facing camera issues.
What a piece of shit apple produced

First off, "signal strength issues" and "antenna issues" are inextricably linked; so thanks for trying to get two bites at the same apple (see what I did there?).

If by "Front-Facing Camera Issues" you are talking about the difference in the smoothing algorithms in the iPhone Xs, that is simply a misunderstanding of how it works:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

As for the Charging Issues, the Jury is still "out" on that one...

Have you not read the paper? Apple has like a paltry 1% share. They are barely hanging on.

Apple has a 43% market share in the USA and if you only talk about "high end" phones or "contract phones" then it's likely
considerably higher. Android has a larger market share only because it also sells a bunch of low end devices and between
the two of them (google and apple), they control virtually 100% of the smartphone market.

https://www.macrumors.com/2017...
https://www.pcmag.com/news/358...

Total iPhone units sold between 2007 and 2017 worldwide is 216.76 million. So not literally a billion; in fact, the article is specifically about iOS, so we can leave out macs. An iPhone will stay in use for about 5 years so let's assume that half of those 216 million devices is still using Safari and will get the search provider pushed. That's 9 billion for 100 million users, or USD 90 per IOS user. Assume I made a mistake and it would only amount to a third of that per user. I would still be worried if Google would pay my phone manufacturer that for providing me ads.

Total iPhones sold in fiscal year 2017 were 217 million. In February 2017, Apple had 1.3 billion active devices, so 7 USD/user.

Intel's not THAT stupid. If someone handed them those secrets, they have enough smart people to implement them. So, I submit that Qualcomm's allegations are as trumped-up as most of their Patents.

No Intel is not that stupid. If Apple delivered proprietary information to it - it would simply hand it over to Qualcomm with a pointer to where it came from. That way they are perfectly innocent. If they took and used proprietary information that they didn't have rights to, Qualcomm would simply sue the pants off of Intel as well.

Well, curiously enough, Qualcomm was stupid enough to NOT name Intel as a Co-Defendant!

I am pretty sure that they are not one of the "Does 1-25" listed in the caption of the case, as seen on MacRumors:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Personally, I would consider that a SERIOUS mistake on the part of Qualcomm. Generally, you sue everyone and their dog, and let THEM argue to be Discharged as a Party.

This tells me that Qualcomm is just trying to stir up bad press on Apple, and that they KNOW they don't have a leg to stand on, legally...

Qualcomm is one smarmy company. Glad to see they are too cheap to rent REAL attorneys!

The U.S. still does a lot of chip design and fabrication. It's just that the chips get shipped overseas for packaging and final product assembly.

Also, U.S. manufacturing output has been increasing year over year even though we were moving large chunks of it overseas. I think now would be a good time to start reinvesting in local manufacturing, but that would be done with machines. A lot of the jobs aren't coming back, but that's okay because it means that labor is free to do something that's more productive instead.

Ya know, for all the Apple-bashing around here, they have actually been doing manufacturing/final-assembly of at least one of their products here since 2013: The (often-maligned) Mac Pro.

Granted, it's not the highest-volume product Apple sells; but even if it represents just 1% of Apple's nearly 20 million Mac units sold in 2017, that still represents a quantity of nearly 2 million units of $2k-5k Mac Pros per year (for an average yearly income of $5 BEELION in gross sales), which is a production rate and income that many a company would die-for. Not so bad for a "failed" product!

And they are ALL at least Assembled in U.S.A

https://www.macrumors.com/2014... ...and Apple is at least TRYING to make even more products in the U.S.A.:

https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...

More recent reporting on the issue (e.g. MacRumors' reporting) suggests there wasn't a runaway thermal event of any kind involved, just leaking battery acid from a device that had been punctured and was in for repairs. Once the employees saw the leak, they treated it as the indicator for a runaway thermal event that it could have been and evacuated the store out of an abundance of caution. It turned out that nothing was wrong in the end, but the evacuation seems to have caused a panic among the customers, as well as a lot of breathless reporting in the initial news on what happened.

MacRumors' reporting on the issue directly contradicts the claim that there was an explosion at all. Apparently it was just a leaky battery. The employees in the back noticed that an iPad with a punctured battery that was in the queue for repairs was leaking, they evacuated the store (which apparently caused a panic among the customers) and called the fire crew in as a precautionary measure, the fire crew aired the place out just to be safe, and less than an hour later things were back to business as usual.

They're also refuting the claim that anyone received medical treatment. As best as I can figure, it sounds as if three employees had possible respiratory issues that the medical team was able to quickly rule out with a quick check, without ever having to provide any treatment.

...you should also remember they were sued, successfully, by the patent troll that claimed to own the protocol...

Which would make them not patent trolls. They defended their patents against the most well-funded legal team in existence, and showed that the protocol used their invention. They most certainly did not claim to own the protocol.

They were/are Patent Trolls. First it was FaceTime, then it was iMessage. I didn't call them Patent Trolls, the entire Tech-Press did:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

https://www.engadget.com/2017/...

https://gizmodo.com/apple-orde...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/02...

http://fortune.com/2016/02/03/...

https://www.cultofmac.com/4302...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Oh, and this Discussion Thread EXACTLY addresses the original question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple...

etc. etc...

VirnetX patented something fairly obvious that they had no intention of ever bringing to market, which, after all, is the entire reason behind the Patent system, and simply lay-in-wait for someone with deep pockets to accidentally trip-into their patent-trap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Significantly helped along by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I mean, the obvious corruption got so bad that the Supremes had to put a stop to it!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

So, don't paint Apple as the bad guy here.

Funny thing is in reality employees prefer Macs

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Sorry to ruin your joke.

Sweet, and Google better try to understand the message before it gets busted up for the same reason that Apple is getting busted

Spotted the Beats iHipster.

How is that 2014 Mac Mini or 2013 Mac Pro working out for you?

Spotted the Beats iHipster.

How is that 2014 Mac Mini or 2013 Mac Pro working out for you?

Searching for "imac pro repair" gives 14.1 million results and the first few have these titles:
Popular YouTuber Says Apple Won't Fix His iMac Pro Damaged While Disassembled (he's not saying they won't repair it for free, he's saying they won't repair it even if he's paying for the repair).
Is Apple's behavior ILLEGAL?? - iMac Pro Repair Pt. 2
Apple refuses to fix iMac Pro damaged in YouTube teardown
Canadian YouTuber Denied iMac Pro Repair By Apple Over ‘Policy’ Issues [VIDEO]
The Apple Store Genius Bar Broke My $5,000 iMac Pro

Aren't those all echoing the same blogger?

Searching for "imac pro repair" gives 14.1 million results and the first few have these titles:
Popular YouTuber Says Apple Won't Fix His iMac Pro Damaged While Disassembled (he's not saying they won't repair it for free, he's saying they won't repair it even if he's paying for the repair).
Is Apple's behavior ILLEGAL?? - iMac Pro Repair Pt. 2
Apple refuses to fix iMac Pro damaged in YouTube teardown
Canadian YouTuber Denied iMac Pro Repair By Apple Over ‘Policy’ Issues [VIDEO]
The Apple Store Genius Bar Broke My $5,000 iMac Pro

From the MacRumors article (emphasis mine):

Apple has officially become the world's only trillion dollar publicly traded company, in terms of market capitalization, which is simply the company's number of outstanding shares multiplied by its stock price. [...] As with most milestones of this nature, however, Apple reaching exactly a trillion dollar market cap doesn't have too much significance, beyond the vanity of it.

Pretty much sums it up.

It certainly has a relative significance in the stock market; considering they are the first company of ANY kind in HISTORY to achieve that milestone.

From the MacRumors article (emphasis mine):

Apple has officially become the world's only trillion dollar publicly traded company, in terms of market capitalization, which is simply the company's number of outstanding shares multiplied by its stock price. [...] As with most milestones of this nature, however, Apple reaching exactly a trillion dollar market cap doesn't have too much significance, beyond the vanity of it.

Pretty much sums it up.

While they have had new products that were huge successes since Jobs (AirPods, Apple Watch seems to be doing exceptionally well) the real growth of Apple's business will be in services. They sell a premium product and they have been increasing their average selling price. There are only so many people they can sell products too, there's a ceiling on that hardware growth. So now they focus on services, which is growing extremely well.

What specific indicators are you seeing that suggests Apple is only moving on inertia? Even when Jobs was alive they were not producing a completely new massively successful product every year. You had basically iPod, iPhone, iPad (which everyone on Slashdot called "a big iPhone). And that was from 2001 to 2010. Since his death in 2011 we've had: AirPods, iPad Pro, Apple Watch, Apple Music, Siri, TouchID/FaceID, etc etc. It seems to me that they are still moving forward pretty well without Jobs.

But Metal (not even considering Metal 2) is over twice as efficient as Vulkan; so why would Apple Devs. want to give up all that extra performance, just to use a VASTLY inferior API?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Andro...

I can't find any benchmarks to back up that claim at all, well not even any benchmarks, just any information at all that backs up that claim. Also in that post there seems to be a comparison of some broad term of "efficiency" to something with a more specific term "draw call" (draw calls being just one bit of what you do with a graphics API).

Whatever it is that those terms are actually referring to when you look at what it translates to in terms of performance in the real world it's not that much: Metal vs OpenGL.

Suggesting it's a vastly inferior API based on comparison of two different things with no numbers, evidence, benchmarks or justification at all is a bit of a stretch.

"Sure sounds like an engineering oversight on Intel's part to me."

You are still assuming that the part does not meet the TDP specified, rather than Apple failing to load the correct V-F curves for that SKU via firmware.

V-F curves?

Voltage/Frequency???

Well, whatever it was, the Patch seems to have pretty much fixed the issue:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

"It was actually Intel's fault. They didn't change the TDP for the 6-core CPUs."

The i9 SKU was intentionally designed to have the same TDP as the 4-core i7 SKU.

Not changing the TDP isn't a mistake, it's the entire point. None of the MacRumors articles you link to support your implication that not changing the TDP was a fault.

From the first MacRumors article:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

"These conditions may be presenting themselves due to the new six-core design of the i9 CPU featured here. While Intel increased the core count of the CPU, they did not increase the thermal design power (TDP), or the amount of dissipated power manufacturers should plan to have to cool for a proper CPU design. This is an issue because this number usually reflects normal usage, and does not account for turbo modes. It's also likely it can exceed the draw of previous four core CPUs given the similarity of clock speeds and process nodes they are featured on. "

Sure sounds like an engineering oversight on Intel's part to me.

It's amazing how remorseful companies are when they get caught doing something silly :|

Here's a thought:

Fix it before you release it to the public and you won't have to apologize and tarnish your reputation.

It was actually Intel's fault. They didn't change the TDP for the 6-core CPUs. MacRumors has a more complete (and less biased) Report, encompassing three Articles:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Fortunately, it didn't require a hardware rev. to fix...

Kudos to Apple for getting right on this issue, instead of issuing denials. No "You're holding it wrong" here!

It's amazing how remorseful companies are when they get caught doing something silly :|

Here's a thought:

Fix it before you release it to the public and you won't have to apologize and tarnish your reputation.

It was actually Intel's fault. They didn't change the TDP for the 6-core CPUs. MacRumors has a more complete (and less biased) Report, encompassing three Articles:

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Fortunately, it didn't require a hardware rev. to fix...

Kudos to Apple for getting right on this issue, instead of issuing denials. No "You're holding it wrong" here!