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LMGTFY. Install a "social app", approve it one time, and it can easily continue to record/film/report whilst open - and not as you expect.

And like all smart watches, the fitness tracking is bunk. The heart rate sensors are all wildly inaccurate

The Apple Watch heart rate monitor is essentially as accurate as a dedicated monitor, so it's as good as a chest strap device.

Why do Apple Haters insist on posting ideas that already are known to be false by everyone?

About the only useful function is GPS tracking your run, but a watch is a poor way to do that.

So I'll bite, why on earth do you ALSO think the watch is a poor way to do GPS tracking? It's actually pretty good. Anything that can get within a hundredth of a second of a proper split time is doing really well.

Apple is looking at mitigation techniques as well: https://9to5mac.com/2017/09/11...

Still the top selling tablet brand.

Google is your friend. https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/18...

Only that Google is never actually your friend.

Hold Power+Home or Power+VolumeDown for 10 seconds, depending on model. Forces a reboot. Google is your friend. https://9to5mac.com/2016/09/18...

Why does my phone need to identify objects and people on the photographs that I've stored on it? The fact that it's 'invisible' and causes people to be confused about battery drain means people don't even know their phone is doing it.

Yeah, I expect there's a real good reason why the phone needs to run face recognition on every photograph I have stored on my phone. Righto.

It's only "invisible" to paranoid idiots line you.

The rest of us watch Apple Keynote addresses and read OS "Feature" Pages, tutorials, TV commercials and other media reports, websites, reviews, etc, where these features are (gasp!) revealed, demonstrated, and openly discussed.

And BTW, you sick fuck, because Apple DOES respect your privacy, ALL of the face categorization process and data is done ON DEVICE (that's why it slows down your phone, you moron!).

https://goo.gl/images/ccjsMV

https://goo.gl/images/8osDNj

https://www.apple.com/ios/phot...

https://support.apple.com/en-u...

https://www.iphonetricks.org/1...

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/i...

https://www.cultofmac.com/4920...

https://9to5mac.com/2017/06/20...

Oh, and I found these links in about 5 minutes, using that secret, Dark-Web search tool, you probably haven't heard of it. It's called "Google".

No one asked for this feature, but Apple wants to give it to us anyway. They have really lost touch with their user base, IMHO, and stray further and further afield. I think it may be time for another visionary but I doubt that Apple's culture will promote one as the old guard holds on for dear life.

It's not the 1st time they've had facial unlock... It goes back years..

https://9to5mac.com/2011/05/18...

This is just a newer type of face recog.

You do realize Apple doesn't actually make any of this stuff, right? They buy them from the same suppliers who make it for Android phones. They get their flash memory from Toshiba and Samsung (the Samsung memory is slightly faster). RAM is from SK Hynix. They get their LED screens from LG, and will get their OLED screens from Samsung. Their camera is sourced from Sony. The cellular and wireless chipsets are from Qualcomm. The much-hyped headphone jack-less audio is by Cirrus Logic. Same with virtually every component that goes into the iPhone.

The only things which are Apple's are the CPU (which they designed, although they use third party fabs to manufacture it - Samsung and TSMC), the fingerprint scanner (they bought the company which makes them back around 2012), and the software.

So the Apple fans who tell themselves that "Apple makes it best" are deluding themselves as a way to rationalize paying an exorbitant price for the same components which go into Android phones.

The estimated cost to build an iPhone 7 was broken out when it was still new and a bleeding edge phone cost Apple about $225 to build including parts and labor.

FTFY. We don't know a lot about what it costs a company to manufacture a smartphone especially for a company like Apple that has components that no one else has.

Being based out of China makes it even cheaper. If you think all these manufacturers aren't making a profit, you're crazy.

That isn't the claim. The claim is that only Samsung and Apple has figured a way to makes lots of profit while selling lots of phones. That claim isn't new or original to the OP.

Phones are only loss-leaders for the carriers.

Many manufacturers would probably disagree with you on that point. Like all manufacturers, they have to build certain number of product on the premise that they are sold later (months, years later). If a model (or models) don't sell well, who do you think eats the loss? The phone carrier? Sometimes but many of them have contracts where they don't eat the loss but return the phones back to the manufacturer.

I was about to write exactly what you did, but then I decided to type it into google instead:
iPhone 8 creating worldwide shortage of DRAM & NAND chips, says report

I thought most of Europe was operating from a VAT tax, and yet several EU countries are complaining that several tech companies are avoiding taxes?

Examples:
https://9to5mac.com/2017/07/04...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...

It seems to me that even if you introduce a VAT tax, that the government can't resist other forms of taxation as well. A VAT tax just becomes a second tax, and the complaints continue. I would personally like to see a switch to a consumption-based VAT tax if all other forms of taxation could be eliminated, however, the that sort of thing probably will never happen.

people constantly try to bait Woz to say something bad about Apple. Hello, he is always gonna love Apple that's his baby.

Not necessarily.

Most of the world is hardly impressed with Apple. Pretty much just the 5 eyes (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States).

0. 57% Japan

Five Eyes:
1. 48% G.Britain
2. 46% Australia
3. 43% USA
4. 39% Canada
5. 31% New Zealand

Rest of the World:
5. 24% France
6. 24% EU5
7. 20% China
8. 20% Germany
9. 16% Italy
10. 13% Spain
...

Sources:

Apple regains top spot in New Zealand smartphone shipments
Apple tops Samsung in Canadian smartphone market share: comScore
iPhone market share grows 6.4% in USA, takes share from Android in most markets
iPhone market share by country

Apple TV has 5%. Fire TV has 12%, Roku has 18%. https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/03...

He's dead, the reality distortion field has collapsed, get on with it.

Is that true? I've never used iStuff, but at least it used to be the case that you needed to register as a developer in order to install programs that you have compiled on your own iPhone.

Yup, it's true. You're correct that it used to require a paid account, but we haven't needed paid accounts to compile and sideload apps since Xcode 7 launched in mid-2015.

One point of clarification: you do need a developer account, just not a paid one. Getting a free developer is as simple as visiting Apple's developer site, logging in with your Apple ID, and agreeing to their developer terms. That's it. Once you do, it'll unlock access to the developer tools for your Apple ID, including the ability to sideload.

it would then be possible to distribute free software to iPhone users without jailbreaking.

Indeed, which is why you can find plenty of emulators and other apps that aren't allowed in the App Store being distributed via other channels.

HEVC is out now

VP9 is out now and has broader use than HEVC.

as well as software players like Microsoft and Apple

Microsoft supports VP9 in Edge.

VP9 has virtually zero mindshare outside the Googleplex

Netflix uses VP9. Wikipedia uses VP9. And, of course, even though it's inside the Googleplex it's difficult to ignore that YouTube uses VP9. YouTube no longer offers 4K video to Safari by default due to Safari's lack of VP9 support.

set top boxes, etc. that support VP9

Roku has VP9 support, Chromecast Ultra has VP9 support, Android phones have VP9 support, etc, etc.

AV1, on the other hand, looks very compelling... it actually has broad industry support, from big players like Microsoft, Cisco, Netflix, Google, all the way down to silicon makers like Broadcom, Xilinx, RealTek, ARM, AMD, and NVIDIA.

Right. Just like VP9. When will Apple add VP9 support?

It's disingenuous to complain that Apple isn't going to include AV1 when it isn't - and won't be - ready before High Sierra.

Show me where I complained that AV1 won't be in High Sierra. Quote me. Maybe re-read what I wrote.

In the meantime, let's acknowledge that Apple hasn't joined the Alliance for Open Media. When will Apple join?

Surface's revenue is around $1 billion per quarter, not per year. Anyone who brushes this off is delusional.

Hahahahaha!

And THIS is the worst of the two 2017 Quarters so far:

https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/02...

What are they trying to say, that selling a million Pixel phones is somehow a failure?

FWIW, the number announced in the recent earnings call was 2.6M devices. I don't know what the download count of the Pixel Launcher on the Play Store means, but it clearly doesn't correlate with devices sold, because Pixel devices don't need to download the Pixel Launcher; it's pre-installed. Upgrades, maybe? But I don't think upgrades count as downloads. Even if they did, if the launcher is very infrequently updated and devices typically leave the factory with the latest version, only the earliest-sold devices would need to have upgraded.

I'm not sure what that number actually means, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean what Ars thinks it means.

Woo! 2.6 Million Pixel phones. That's incredible!

Now compare that to 78.3 Million iPhones in ONE QUARTER (Q1-2017) :

https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/31...

and "only" 50.7 Million iPhones in Q2-2017 (with rumors of the iPhone 8 coming soon ramping up considerably) :

https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/02...

So, Apple's got that 2.6 Million Pixel phones "right here"...

What are they trying to say, that selling a million Pixel phones is somehow a failure?

FWIW, the number announced in the recent earnings call was 2.6M devices. I don't know what the download count of the Pixel Launcher on the Play Store means, but it clearly doesn't correlate with devices sold, because Pixel devices don't need to download the Pixel Launcher; it's pre-installed. Upgrades, maybe? But I don't think upgrades count as downloads. Even if they did, if the launcher is very infrequently updated and devices typically leave the factory with the latest version, only the earliest-sold devices would need to have upgraded.

I'm not sure what that number actually means, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean what Ars thinks it means.

Woo! 2.6 Million Pixel phones. That's incredible!

Now compare that to 78.3 Million iPhones in ONE QUARTER (Q1-2017) :

https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/31...

and "only" 50.7 Million iPhones in Q2-2017 (with rumors of the iPhone 8 coming soon ramping up considerably) :

https://9to5mac.com/2017/05/02...

So, Apple's got that 2.6 Million Pixel phones "right here"...

Sorry, volume shipments means more, especially when the sell-through rate is very close to the shipments. Just shipping a shit ton of product to a reseller where it sits and rots doesn't count (Apple doesn't do this, but it's a trick used in the past to elevate reported sales numbers - Windows RT surface tablets come to mind here).

My point is that there are several metrics you could use for distinguishing "largest" - market cap is one, but it's not a very good one. Market cap is a multiple of stock price, and stock price is volatile and vulnerable to hype bubbles. It also takes into account the total assets of the corporation, and all business - does the mountain of cash that Apple is sitting on overseas really add anything to how many units they ship? How about real estate? Does that matter? Because it's certainly factored into market cap.

Unit shipments, market penetration, and market share are probably better metrics to use; and as I said before, unless you count phones in with everything else, Apple doesn't come up on top - not even second.

Include iPad all you want - iPad + Mac still doesn't beat Lenovo or HP. In Q2, Apple sold 8.92 million iPads, and 4.11 million Macs. Total of 13.03 million "computers". Note that my cited sources are hardly press that are unfriendly to Apple.

Lenovo sold 12.3 million PCs in around the same time period (and that's with HP taking the #1 spot), plus another 2.1 million tablets - hey, if you include iPad in Apple's numbers, you should also include Lenovo's tablets. That's a total of 14.4 million "computers".

13.03 million < 14.4 million. And Lenovo isn't even #1 in traditional PC sales - HP is with 13.1 million PCs sold - still more than Apple's combined Macs + tablets.

Yeah, I know - Apple makes more money than the other guys. You don't think some of that comes from the iPhone, do you? Or maybe the online services - I hear that iTunes is fairly popular. Or maybe software sales?

When you compare like numbers, Apple just doesn't hold the crown. And you know what? That's perfectly fine - they aren't looking to be #1 in market share, just the same as BMW and Mercedes aren't - selling a high quality product with a healthy margin on it has been Apple's business since the late 90s, and there's nothing wrong with that.

But let's not inflate them to be what they aren't.

Just an FYI: Apple says iMac Pro RAM won’t be user replaceable, Space Gray accessories not sold separately

Or maybe Opera couldn't switch their tool chain over to exclusively 64-bit iOS apps? Apple is planning to drop 32-bit apps from the app store. A friend who tests iOS apps told me that this is a big problem for some 32-bit app developers.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/04/09/32-bit-apps-ios/

The real story, here, is that the iPhone could have faster connectivity. That it doesn't isn't even a financial decision, as Apple has opted to use the better part in some production runs and the inferior part in others, and hinder the performance of the superior part to negate any possible advantage it may bring. If it were a financial decision, they'd have used only the cheaper Intel chips.

All of which is an assertion that may not have evidence. Are all parts equal from all vendors? No. But that does not automatically equate to Apple knowing about the difference in performance and making a conscious choice to screw over the customer or that Apple hindered the performance of one part.

If you remember chipgate, A9 chips made by TSMC ran cooler and laster longer than A9s made by Samsung. Apple said that both versions still met performance standards but one version just ran better than the other. Now bear in mind that these were exactly the same design by Apple but were made in two different fabs and that the main difference was TSMC used a 16nm line while Samsung used a 14nm line.

1. Fastest SSD on market - not even close. I've got PCI-E SSDs a year old that are faster than anything in any Apple hardware, period.

2. The most I/O bandwidth on market - not in their gimped as fuck GPUs

3. Thermal design - yea, doesn't go anywhere. I've got a stress-test program that ignores all the safety stuff and does a real stress test, no matter the machine. Every Apple product burns up.

4. Uhh, my Sager notebook has dual GPUs. I can drive EIGHT 4K displays without issue, at the same cost as your shitty craptop.

Mediocre, beyond belief.

1. Fastest SSD. Not my benchmark; but, BTW, where's yours?

2. Most I/O b/w. Four TB 3 ports say 80 Gbps of raw I/O. Sorry.. Dem's da facts.

3. Sorry, the new MBP DOESN'T even GET to the thermal limits. According to multiple reviews, Both the CPU and GPU run flat-out 100% duty cycle 24/7. They really did fix it. Try again, Slashtard.

4. Dual GPUs. And at nearly THIRTEEN POUNDS, (nevermind the power bricks you have to lug around!) that Sager is more properly classified as a "luggable", than a laptop. You can't rest that thing on your lap for more than five minutes without your legs going numb! But that's ok, since you won't be venturing far from an AC outlet for long...

Please see the table of recent sales at ...

https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/11...

While there certainly is variability, the iOS market share nowhere is "immense," as the summary suggests. Only in Japan is it even a majority.

Does Apple make immense amounts of money? Yes, certainly. Are its sales immense? Quite so. Is its market share immense? On a percentage basis, no.

+1 Factually Untrue since iOS 7.

By default, it won't auto-update unless you are plugged in and on WiFi, which seems like a good time to be doing maintenance like this. You can opt-in to automatic downloads over cellular, if you prefer.

You really think that the headphone jack is the culprit in Apple's market loss?

Sole culprit... No, but it does need to shoulder a large amount of the blame. Apple has been steadily losing ground in it's established markets for years, they've offset this by entering new markets.

Or not. But maybe you have a different definition for "established markets". Or of "losing ground". Or "reality".

Missing Link

Spin? Name a single untrue thing I said. Do it.

I'm not sure that replying to some AC is the best way to spend my time but, for the sake of the discussion, I'll oblige anyway.

You state that "more and more people are born each year", which is clearly a fact, but then you follow up with "if the market share for mac users stayed exactly the same or even decreased, you're still getting more mac users every year" which makes no sense whatsoever: if there are more people (fact) but less macs are sold (another fact) how can there be more Mac users?

In other words:

P(opulation) : 100 = U(sers) : M(arket share)

Let's be generous and say that M is 10%. Please explain how could you keep M constant when P increases without also increasing U (by selling more Macs) because if you can't it means that "more and more consumers buy Mac computers" is just a blatant lie.

RT.

This is based on other people's conclusion, but it could be due to the factor of faster charging.

The lighting cable provided higher charging compare to the microUSB or USB-type B, so it makes sense that Apple would want a newer and better design, the lighting cable. However with USB-type C, Apple has to consider the more powerful charging that other smartphone will now have compare to the iPhone. Apple has only a few choices, 1) to build a new lighting cable which will probably be bigger, 2) use the existing design to save manufacture and design cost, 3) pick alternative (there are other ways to increase battery charging speed in exchange for lower battery life), or 4) not doing anything. It seems like they've picked the second choice.

source:
http://www.pocketables.com/201...
https://9to5mac.com/2015/03/10...

> Apple took over the whole market.
> Now you dont see anyone with a phone that isnt made by Apple anymore.

You lost me right there. Alternate facts?

With trivial Googling, I came up with this. Now that is data from 2nd quarter 2016. But it was the first quick thing I found.

Market share for 2nd Q 2015: Android 82.2 %, iOS 14.6 %, Windows 2.5 %, Blackberry 0.3 %, others 0.4 %.
Market share for 2nd Q 2016: Android 86.2 %, iOS 12.9 %, Windows 0.6 %, Blackberry 0.1 %, others 0.2 %.

What that says is that from 2015 to 2016 only Android had any growth and everything else lost market share. I doubt that in the last year that trend has reversed. Less than a year ago, Android was a stone's throw from having 90 % of the market.

As for "now you don't see anyone with a phone that isn't made by Apple anymore", I would argue that you don't see a anyone with a phone that isn't Android anymore. Made by all non-Apple manufacturers. In every size, shape, color, style, feature set and price range that you can imagine. Not the extremely limited product line made by Apple. When I see someone get out a smart phone, it is inevitably Android, seldom Apple. And this is in the real world. On vacation. Traveling for work. In every day life. Dr's office. Library. Grocery store. Etc. I don't think I live in an "Android bubble". So if you really see such a large number of iPhone users, I wonder if you are in some kind of "Apple bubble" or if it is a genuine phenomena in some region where you live, or what?

As for companies engaging in litigation when they start to circle the drain, I agree completely.

In other news Apple will fight "right to repair" laws. This makes me like Apple even less. Not only would I not ever buy their overpriced products, but they are going to try to prevent me from being able to repair my non-Apple products.

so either pay 99 a year to be able to sideload software onto your device or redeploy it every 7 days. Not what i would call "perfectly legit"

WRONG, HATER!

XCode is FREE (assuming you have a Mac). Download it at will.

You can even get a Developer ID for FREE (useful in EXACTLY the "Sideload" Case above!).

The ONLY time you need to pay that $99/yr fee is if you SUBMIT APPS TO THE APP STORE.

Motherfucking Hater Dumbass.

Higher salaries for some subset of people can be beneficial. For example, increasing the minimum wage can boost consumption and stimulate the economy. In many ways it's just a transfer of wealth from the richer to the poorer. Fortunately, the poorer are better consumers and they stimulate the economy creating need for more stuff and maybe more jobs.

This is actually not true.

Give some research that backs up your claims. https://www.bloomberg.com/news... http://www.epi.org/publication... https://www.washingtonpost.com...

You're right that minimum wage raises are a transfer of money (and, in fact, buying power) from the richer to the poorer; the problem is the "richer" here make $12/hr, and the "poorer" just got bumped from $7.25/hr to $8.25/hr. Minimum wage isn't incorrect; but it doesn't magically create jobs. It concentrates income into fewer hands.

I never said how much I would increase the minimum wage. At a minimum, one needs to increase it to a living wage, so tax payers stop subsidizing the companies that exploit these workers. Since Bernie's done the research, let's start with $15/hr and set increases based on inflation.

Shorter version shot from the hip [slashdot.org].

https://9to5mac.com/2016/06/13...

In the short term, the problem's actually the same: it's cheaper to get humans to do a lot of things, and humans employ technical means to reduce their labor. For the foreseeable future, elimination of human labor is an amusing fantasy taken too seriously by delusional people.

So it will happen, but we just shouldn't worry about it. There should be a term for that, maybe AI denier.

Well it's been fun, but I probably will not read another response. Even if I don't accept your novelty or follow your logic, I do admire your spunk. Keep at it.

Actually, exactly twice the distance of one meter. Damned near a rod and almost 1/11th of a chain!

It's also more than three times the distance of two feet, which is the distance LG says is the threshold for the problem.

Wasn't web apps a thing that apple tried to push before with first iphone? https://9to5mac.com/2011/10/21... Yea Steve Jobs said it.

do you see businesses switching all their workstations to OSX or Linux? Nope.

Um, that's not entirely correct.

Remember that little corporation, IBM, you were talking about? They are busily deploying Macs (running MacOS, in case you wondered) at the rate of 1,300 new installs per week (now actually 1,900), and to the tune of 90,000 as of October, 2016, and projected to be 100,000 units by the end of last year (now actually 130,000).

And if you read the second linked-to article, you will note that it is the employees that decide whether they want a Mac, and if so, they receive a new, shrink-wrapped Mac and a URL, and with that, and only that, are able to do 100% of the setup entirely without involving IBM's IT department. This is one of the many reasons that IBM has stated that every Mac they deploy, regardless of the higher price of the Mac hardware, actually saves IBM money .

There are dozens of similar articles regarding IBM's highly successful Mac program. Just Google "IBM deploying macs" and you'll soon see what the corporate desktop is soon going to look like, at least for forward-thinking companies like IBM.

Redmond, Start Your Copiers!!! Again...

True then, true now.

LG has demonstrated this already at CES, and they are partnering with Apple to bring foldable OLED displays to the iPhone.

Wow, what a troll!

Perhaps you don't realise that upon the launch of the new MBP, the 2 biggest complaints were the older gen Intel processor and the abysmal amount of RAM (the same as the previous gen, and in fact, not much greater than 2012)! And worse, the RAM is soldered onto the damn board, so can't be upgraded, and the top MBP only offers 16gb!
And the third (sometimes the first) biggest complaint was about battery life, and thus the debacle surrounding Consumer Reports not recommending the MBP laptops.

All three (primary) complaints are issues due to Intel and their offering, and not being ready with Kaby Lake or LPDDR4!

Sure, no one disagrees that the emoji-bar is a joke, and the lack of ports, especially their own Thunderbolt 3, but those aren't the biggest complaints.
So the post above by TheRaven64 is spot on.

They were routinely deleting songs legally bought from competitors for two years and now they should be forgiven? Lets reward the abusers because in this topic they appear to have changed.
But reports of itunes deleting personal music files are not a thing from the far (6 year) past. Last year and this year they deleted people's songs too. There was some famous musician that complained about it but I can't remember his name (they changed his personal edition to something they had in their store)

By the time you are ready to replace that SE, there won't be a single decent smartphone, iOS or Android, that will have a 3.5 mm Jack. Not a single one. Sorry.

I would tend to bet almost the opposite—that not a single cell phone manufacturer except Samsung will follow Apple's lead by the time you're ready to replace that SE. Here's why:

• Sales of iPhone 7 have lagged behind the iPhone 6s according to multiple reports.
• Apple didn't even manage to pick up very many sales after the Note 7 train wreck. Those sales mostly went to other Android devices.
• iOS continues to lose market share to Android at an alarming rate, because their sales are shrinking while the market grows.
• Other manufacturers are continuing to release new product lines with headphone jacks.

In other words, all evidence strongly suggests that Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack was a mistake, and slumping customer sales are a reaction to what consumers perceive as the long, slow decline of a once-beloved product line. IMO, the only question that remains is whether Apple will double down on stupid or recognize and correct their error in their next design.

According to the analyst quoted in this Slashdot article, as much as 50% of GN7 Owners have, or planned to, switch to an iPhone 7. Considering that means completely changing platforms for the user involved, that's a very high number. Even the "more solid" number of just under 30% is pretty high, considering it's a platform-change.

The iPhone 6s is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, due to the recently-decreased price and increased memory. So it is probably picking-up some budget-conscious iPhone users. But I think the iPhone 7 is still more popular than the 6s. And in fact, it is. So there's another lie of yours disproven by facts...

iOS Marketshare Plummeting: Not according to this article from just a week ago, which states that iPhone 7 Marketshare Growth is the strongest, and overall market share is the highest, in the U.S., and not so bad in other places (e.g. #2 in China, #1 in the U.K.)., than it has been in two years. That sounds like anything but dire sales figures to me...

Other OEMs are continuing to release new phones with headphone jacks: Considering the development and agency-approval timeframes for these products, I'm not surprised. But let's take a look at the next update-cycle, shall we?

So, try harder at your Hater bullshit next time, willya? It was hardly even challenging exposing your bullshit for exactly that.

...their customers this wouldn't be such a problem. I know, then they wouldn't be Apple. My cat chewed through my power cord one fine morning, I was able to fix it but forget about coiling it up and throwing it in my laptop bag anymore. A new one is $70. That's nuts. Are there any quality third-party vendors? I'm guessing patents on the mag-safe connector means NO.

  And it seems like the reaming is just getting worse.

Then don't buy Apple products. They aren't necessary anymore, and the products are obsolete when they are purchased.

...their customers this wouldn't be such a problem. I know, then they wouldn't be Apple. My cat chewed through my power cord one fine morning, I was able to fix it but forget about coiling it up and throwing it in my laptop bag anymore. A new one is $70. That's nuts. Are there any quality third-party vendors? I'm guessing patents on the mag-safe connector means NO.

And it seems like the reaming is just getting worse.

I'm surprised that Belkin or someone else hasn't made a C-to-MagSafe adapter for MacBook owners.

You mean like this one?

Don't take his word for it

http://gizmodo.com/an-iphone-i...
http://www.cultofmac.com/29186...
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/...
https://www.cnet.com/news/ipho...
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news...
https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/22...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/29/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/30/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...

And those are just the first two pages of Google links. It's not just Apple - all phones do this. All phones with lithium batteries have a chance of entering thermal runaway. It's inherent in the materials. That said, the Note 7 was close to two orders of magnitude above what a consumer device really should be in terms of spontaneous combustion. Still low probability, but too high for the disruptive nature of and heat generating device on an operating aircraft.

I mentioned in an opinion piece back in April that while Apple still sells a single non-Retina MacBook Pro model, it does its best to tuck it away out of sight – not mentioned at all on the main MacBook Pro page, and hidden at the bottom of the ‘buy‘ page. It now appears that the company is doing the same thing in its retail stores to the last remaining product of an optical drive bygone era.

We’ve been hearing reports of the model being withdrawn from display in Apple Stores for a week or so now, and checks by both AI and TNW appear to confirm that this is official

So yes, Apple still sells it, if you specifically ask for it, and tell them to look in the back of the storage room.

I beg to differ. I think its about 333 Million... Because: Apple has sold 1 billion iPhones. They have 1 Billion active devices.
Two out of three device sales apple HAS EVER SOLD is an iPhone.

Ergo: Two out of three active devices must be iPhones, the rest are in landfills. Maybe one could argue 350-400 million, because a lot of devices were scrapped / replaces without a sale. I'm making the mathematical assumption that iPhones last on average as long as other devices, which judging from the comments above, sounds right.

Not another hardware project led by someone with an MBA or something. Just how hands-on is this guy?

VERY.

Read the comments to this article.

He got a $10 mil. retirement bonus. He doesn't need the money. He's just that good.

Around here Apple is a monopoly with a miniscule market-share. Must be Time Lord technology.

Anti-trust is not just how much market share a company has, it is about market power. The fact that Apple controls the lions share of application sales on mobile platforms, their insistence that everybody is infringing their innovation, the fact that the iPhone is the single most popular smarphone on the market and their global share is hardly minimal.

In any case you know damn well that success in this market means getting on to Apple's platform, don't play the apologist and suddenly pretend that Apple's platform doesn't really matter in the smartphone space, it's obvious you're just acting stupid.

Stop being a fucking shill. http://appleinsider.com/articl... http://9to5mac.com/2015/02/19/...