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Originally posted by tildearrow View Postalso you should remove "Privacy" from the title because Google is anything but privacy. True privacy means only you, and nobody else. But to Google it means "you, and Google (technically everyone)".
Fixed it for you. Google is good at one thing - turning private, personal information into the largest advertising fortune in world history.
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Originally posted by andyprough View Post
"you, and Google (technically everyone that Google can charge a buck for exposing your private information)"
Fixed it for you. Google is good at one thing - turning private, personal information into the largest advertising fortune in world history.
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I'm pretty excited for Vulkan 1.1 being a requirement as a developer, but realistically speaking that's going to leave a lot of current low-to-mid-range hardware without support. Qualcomm's Adreno series is a good example. All of the 5xx series advertises Vulkan 1.0 / OpenGL ES 3.2. The 6xx series advertises Vulkan 1.1, but most of the other standards have stayed the same. 6xx series GPUs started being released around the end of 2016.
I *think* there's a good chance that the 5xx hardware could support Vulkan 1.1, but who knows if Qualcomm will bother to update the drivers. Which is a shame, as there's hardware still being sold now with those GPUs.
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Life moves on!
Seriously Vulkan had to happen sometime and frankly 1.1 is a good point to focus on. Beside that old hardware you are talking about will come up short in other ways. By the time phones using this release are shipping and in volume (2020?) there will be plenty of support.
Originally posted by Terrablit View PostI'm pretty excited for Vulkan 1.1 being a requirement as a developer, but realistically speaking that's going to leave a lot of current low-to-mid-range hardware without support. Qualcomm's Adreno series is a good example. All of the 5xx series advertises Vulkan 1.0 / OpenGL ES 3.2. The 6xx series advertises Vulkan 1.1, but most of the other standards have stayed the same. 6xx series GPUs started being released around the end of 2016.
I *think* there's a good chance that the 5xx hardware could support Vulkan 1.1, but who knows if Qualcomm will bother to update the drivers. Which is a shame, as there's hardware still being sold now with those GPUs.
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Originally posted by duby229 View Post
The way I understand it, not even AOSP is private, which I think is just terrible. I think it's worthy of a supreme court ruling to order google to let some other organization manage AOSP that Google would then have to use as upstream by court order. They could modify it as they see fit as they do anyway, but at least upstream would be sane.
You might be able to tackle aspects of Google's empire as a monopoly case, but that's entirely different, and not something that the supreme court would be interested in hearing, unless they needed to redefine what a monopoly is.
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Originally posted by wizard69 View Post
Scores “well” doesn’t mean a lot. One would have to ask about the power draw and frame rate.
In practice, even if phones could software decode AV1 now it would be a horrible user experience because it would burn through your battery too fast.
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Originally posted by wizard69 View PostLife moves on!
Seriously Vulkan had to happen sometime and frankly 1.1 is a good point to focus on. Beside that old hardware you are talking about will come up short in other ways. By the time phones using this release are shipping and in volume (2020?) there will be plenty of support.
I think Vulkan 1.1 and the new Android release have great features, for sure. I just hope the GPU vendors can do the extra work to shim in the Vulkan 1.1 features. Most of them don't appear to need anything new as far as hardware goes to bump up to 1.1. I just don't think the vendors will care enough to do the work.
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