Mobile is the new PC and AArch64 is the new x64

Patrick Schluter Patrick.Schluter at bbox.fr
Mon Sep 17 05:31:01 UTC 2018


On Saturday, 15 September 2018 at 15:25:55 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>
> You've probably heard of the possibly apocryphal story of how 
> Blackberry and Nokia engineers disassembled the first iPhone 
> and dismissed it because it only got a day of battery life, 
> while their devices lasted much longer. They thought the 
> mainstream market would care about such battery life as much as 
> their early adopters, but they were wrong.
>
It they'd ask me they would have known. I was a very late adopter 
of mobile phone and got my first phone in 2000. It was the used 
Siemens E10D of my brother. It had maximum 1 day of battery life. 
Then I got at work an Alcatel then a Nokia with ludicrously long 
battery life, nearly 2 weeks. Result -> my Siemens was always 
charged properly and I was always reachable. With the others, 
they were always crapping out on me at the most inapropriate 
times. With the short battery life, you would never forget to put 
it on charge. With the long battery life, you would always wait 
till it's too late.



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