Matisyahu's Blog

Just as I expected from the Apple announcement – a replacement for the SE but even with that bit of boring news what I did find interesting is the C1 Modem which turned out exactly as expected – no MMWave support which makes sense given the whole MMWave thing is overhyped and pretty much a US only facinination while the rest of the world is more focused on those lower frequencies that get better coverage and bandwidth. At this stage the universal frequency for 5G has pretty much settled on 3500MHz in much the same way that 1800MHz became the settled 4G frequency when it came to roaming. Personally I don’t see Apple wasting their time supporting MMWave and will instead probably release a C2 modem for their refresh in September which will improve throughput, upgrade the wifi 7 but at this stage there really isn’t a major hurry in getting wifi 7 support added given how new the standard is (I’m sure some of us remember the 802.11n draft routers and wifi chipsets that had problems because too many vendors jumped in too early).

The refrain I keep hearing that always makes me laugh is when people complain about politicians then turn around to yell into the wilderness for an ‘honest politician’ to emerge. The problem is with people who claim they want an honest politician is the fact that honest politicians don’t get elected because honesty tends not to be a winning formula. Why is that? because the harsh reality is something that voters would sooner ignore facts in favour of voting for someone who tells them what they want to hear – you can have cheap healthcare, better infrastructure etc. while paying lower taxes. As long as people vote for what they want rather than what is realistic they will keep being disappointed but alas as much as we’d like to convince ourselves society is more civilised the reality is that many do lack maturity when it comes to politics (see recent US election where people vote based on vibes and their lack of understanding basic economics).

There is the Google I/O in May where there will be much talk about Android 16 – from what I understand there will be the release of Android 16 then a few months later there will be a sizeable update but I guess we’ll see more details at I/O. The big question is what is going to happen with Fuchsia because it is already being used on one of their devices but are they going to expand beyond that, was it a backup plan if the Linux mainline project didn’t yield the sort of results they were expecting, are they still pushing it forward but it isn’t something that has any sort of time table. Reminds me of the experimental operating system Microsoft created Singularity – will be interesting to see whether lessons learned are merged back into Linux to make it more maintainable which should simplify the updating of Android in a timely manner.