For Arms and their shareholders it's about margins.It's not about margins, it's about keeping it neutral for implementers, which can't be guaranteed when one implementer competing with the rest owns and develops it.
For Arms and their shareholders it's about margins.It's not about margins, it's about keeping it neutral for implementers, which can't be guaranteed when one implementer competing with the rest owns and develops it.
They own the IP. Same reason why anyone can't just make an x86 CPU without Intel's permission.So one thing I don't get about how ARM works, is why can't people make ARM clones that run the ISA the same way companies made IBM clones that ran x86 back in the day? I thought this was something that was kind of fought and won. Why can't a company just make a processor that runs the arm isa without paying them?
They own the IP. Same reason why anyone can't just make an x86 CPU without Intel's permission.
Nvidia becoming the Intel of embedded, mobile, and moving upward computing, without even an AMD to keep them borderline honest or share monopoly spoils is a horrible proposition.
Apple becoming the Intel and the Microsoft and have a monopoly on online payments etc etc is far worse.
Online payments require authentication, keeping everything Apple is convenient.
I didn't even mention offline payments, but even there European banks seem to think Apple have a very good lock on their customers there too ... they pay huge fees to Apple for every NFC Apple pay transaction (not as huge as in the US, but still huge by European standards). Things are snowballing, Apple's market power is incomparable to Google's ... Google just can't keep up offering equal services in many areas, or when they can they make less money on it.
OT: that's a horrible user experience score for an application someone would trust for his transactions.
It is a national digital ID...used by everyone.OT: that's a horrible user experience score for an application someone would trust for his transactions.
You mean, "another middleman", as in a second middleman, right? Because, cash. But generally, I agree. I also try to keep my transactions to as few parties involved as possible.Why would I inject a "middle-man" in those transactions?
And, as it seems from a quick glance, people who complain about a national danish system not being very useful if you don't even live in Denmark. *doh*It is a national digital ID...used by everyone.
It is used by everyone, meaning you also get the muppets that could not hit water if they fell out a boat./shrugs
- NemID
And, as it seems from a quick glance, people who complain about a national danish system not being very useful if you don't even live in Denmark. *doh*
Oh, I was confusing it with the IBM compatible, where companies made their own version of BIOS.
The bullshit they are pulling with Arm China is bad enough ...
What bullshit?
There's a simple overview of the situation in this news article:
https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/lawsuits-around-arm-china-put-nvidia-deal-doubt