Matisyahu's Blog

I had an early start today in the office starting at 9:30am (I had to get up at 7:30am to get ready to catch the train into Wellington), it was a long day but there were lost of tasty treats for lunch so I was a happy lad all day. For lunch I had a chicken burger from Burger Fuel – the one thing I love about Burger Fuel is that they use real chicken in their burgers with real flavour rather than the over-processed patties that many fast food chains used to reduce cost at the expense of product quality.

The rumour mill is starting up again regarding Apple having their own cellular modem along with wifi and bluetooth chips as well. Over at Macrumors they’re speculating that the iPhone SE 4 may get to see that but personally for me I think Apple will eventually move to a completely in-house bluetooth, wifi and cellular chipset but when they will do it is anyones guess. Personally, I don’t see Apple being in a great hurry because ultimately the move to an in-house solution isn’t born out of reducing costs (if there is any cost savings we’re talking about minuscule amount per unit) but more about having control over the whole SoC then being able optimise for power/performance rather than relying on a third party where you don’t have access to the modem firmware or being able to make modifications to the modem chip itself.

I’m following the elections while also trying to keep my sanity at the same time – I’m not going to make prediction primarily because I don’t trust polling. Sure, polling, surveys etc can give you a bit of insight into what makes a person tick but I wouldn’t take it as the definitive “this is going to happen” not to mention the fact that some pretty dodgy stuff happens. For example, a recent real clear poliitics average had Trump ahead but the polls were: 33 Republican, 26 non-partisan and 1 Democratic then when you look into the Republican polls you find that their reliability are pretty shonky given how they over exaggerate the support Trump has when compared to the actual results on election night. We all know what happens when you try to create an average and there are outliers that distort the average in much the same way that the average wage is meaningless because it is dragged up by those at the top or GDP per capita assumes a fair distribution of income where as the better metric is the median wage which is the middle if one were to line up every wage from the top income earner to the bottom income earner.