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.

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    182·
    1 year ago

    Apple is a hardware company that also makes media.

    Apple is a lifestyle company. The hardware is just the base layer.

      • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
        106·
        1 year ago

        no they don’t. almost everything intel and amd smacks the fuck out of the m-chips. It’s just that they can also pull 20 hours of battery while still being performant but they are far far far from best in class or being put into a server farm anytime soon.

        • MrSpArkle@lemmy.caEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          Meanwhile every major cloud provider is investing in designing and deploying their own ARM silicon. I’ve benchmarked graviton and T2A, the cost per performance is great and only going to get better.

          • WldFyre@lemm.eeEnglish
            22·
            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
              31·
              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.