Founder & CEO of Plivo - https://www.plivo.com/ here. At Plivo we offer similar API services to Twilio for voice calls and SMS. While API offerings have made it easier for developers and tech team to integrate communications into their applications, one of the challenges here is the scale at which spammers and folks using stolen credit cards are always attempting to abuse all of our platforms.
Most of us companies, work quite hard to deter these spammers at sign up and later using automated systems to analyze usage patterns including content filtering, but its quite a cat and mouse game.
Something that has worked for us has been to restrict signups to only work emails. It does have it's disadvantages but we have been able to limit the random gmail id signups at scale by bot/spammers that abuse the system for use cases like robocalling and more.
Plivo's API above is updated on a daily basis for portability information.
Caller ID as you mention for voice calls is quite easy to spoof, however with the STIR SHAKEN rollout, the intention is to make carriers accountable. SMS however with 10DLC is almost impossible to spoof the number.
This discussion and the parent comment isn’t about whether they allow porting numbers. It’s about whether a number information API (CNAM) - where you’re querying for information about a number you don’t own - includes the carrier that a number has been ported to.
OK, color me impressed. I knew a few years back that this was going to be possible and easy a few years down the road, but didn't realize we were there yet. Amazing
Ryzen is consuming 45W, M1 is said to consume 13.
Ryzen is on TSMC 7nm, M1 on 5nm. It's said that TSMCs 5nm is 1.8x more dense than 7nm, 30% more efficient and 15% faster.
So if both were on 5nm, one could extrapolate that the single threaded performance would be similar, but ryzen would still lose on battery life. But it's a speculation.
As to whether it's fair, Apple can pay premium for 5nm exclusive access, and then charge the users hundreds of dollars per 8GB of RAM or storage upgrades.
AMD is selling the chips to the OEMs which have to make money themselves, which means that using cutting edge nodes might not make sense economically.
But that doesn't matter, both are businesses, it's AMDs fault that they didn't rush to 5nm and are comfortable at staying behind.
The ones to lose will be the premium laptop manufactures, that sell laptops at 1000+ usd. As the agressive Apple marketing will most likely cut into their sales.
It would be interesting to see if the rumors, about Intel using TSMC 5nm this year, are true. Intel had the single threaded perf lead, even on their less dense 14nm node, vs AMD on TSMCs 7nm. Could be that on TSMCs nodes they would be faster than both Apple and AMD, but still probably at a higher TDP than Apple chips.
Most of us companies, work quite hard to deter these spammers at sign up and later using automated systems to analyze usage patterns including content filtering, but its quite a cat and mouse game.
Something that has worked for us has been to restrict signups to only work emails. It does have it's disadvantages but we have been able to limit the random gmail id signups at scale by bot/spammers that abuse the system for use cases like robocalling and more.