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comment 549400 RE: Reponse by bassbeast on Sat 19th Jan 2013
06:19 UTC in reply to "Reponse" Member since:   You have the
chip used in all these systems (ARM) hitting a thermal wall and
going from MHz wars to core wars, with Nvidia up to 5 and
Samsung up to 6, and just like with X86 we are seeing that when
they can no longer compete on speed (because the average user
won't "feel" the difference between a dual and a quad because
writing programs that scale with cores is VERY difficult) so
they are competing the only way they can...on price.  This
severely hurts Apple as while there will always be Apple fans
that will pay any cost for the Apple logo most folks? Just want
a device that works. Apple has already basically admitted this
by keeping their older models being built as well as introducing
the iPad Mini but even that isn't gonna help when you have
offerings like Kindle Fire for $200 and from the looks of it
we'll have dual core tablets running t