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Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock… Can you hear the bomb going off in Apple’s shiny new headquarters in Cupertino? Two consecutive iPhone generations are going to flop: the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X. The Christmas quarter is going to be a disaster. Ouch!
Here is what you need to know.
Intel’s former CEO, Paul Otellini, saw the magic of the iPhone unfold in its early days. He wanted Apple’s line-up of mobile devices to run on Intel chips, tried to convince Apple’s legendary co-founder and then-CEO, Steve Jobs and failed. According to Otellini’s own admission, this was his biggest regret. Now this is about to change.
Imagine that.
One way of speeding up a website is to minimize the number of http requests by combining several small files of the same type. You can do this with scripts, stylesheets, and–by combining images into sprites–with icons and other pictures. So far so good. But using sprites and @media queries gets tricky when addressing devices with a high density display (such as Retina in iOS).
Important update as of 2016-01: HTTP/2 makes sprites obsolete. You should no longer be using this technique! (This article is only of historical value.) [Read more…]