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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Apple tacitly admits their CPUs and new Modem are merely a
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Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 19:05:59 -0800
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On 2025-02-23 19:03, badgolferman wrote:
> Marion wrote:
> 
>> Let's see, over time, what the tests show on this new Apple C1 modem.
> 
> This is the part that makes me hesitant to proclaim Apple's success.
> If they had put it in one of their flagship products that would show
> their confidence, but they have stuck it in a budget product and
> publicly lowered expectations by stating it won't achieve the greatest
> results.

They're hardly going to change an existing product in the middle of its 
run, doofus; not with a chip like that.

It would almost certainly require not just changing that one chip, but 
the board to which it is fixed.