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Doofus, Apple went from 61% share of the smarwatch market to 17% today.

From a majority of a "smartwatch" market incluing Apple and Samsung -- but not Fitbit and others who made "basic wearables" -- to 17% today where there is almost no such thing such thing as "basic wearables" because the survivors have all moved into "smartwatches." Odd how you insist upon starting in 2015, versus 2016 (10.8%) or 2014 (0% - no Apple watch). Perhaps because in 2015 Apple and Samsung were the only game in town, and Samsung was a distant also-ran.

I would not be surprised if Apple hits single digits by this time last year.

Can't hit single digits by this time last year because, like, that already happened, and Apple's market share increased from 10.8% in 2016. Do try to keep up.

This butt ugly power hungry product update practically guarantees it.

Apple will be shipping its updated product back in time? Wow! Triple digit sales growth here we come! /s

Netflix <-> Cogent <-> Comcast <-> Subscriber

Let's say Netflix is paying for transit from Cogent. Subscriber requests content from Netflix, it traverses Comcast, then Cogent, then to Netflix, and the data is sent back to the subscriber.

Now, holy shit, Comcast sees the utilization on their Cogent link is at 100% all day, because that's the carrier that Netflix uses to get to their subscribers. Comcast has to go spend a few hundred thousand adding 100Gb ports to increase capacity between the networks.

Now, Comcast says, naah, we decided we're not going to add additional capacity there. This puts the squeeze on Netflix, subscribers start complaining. Eventually Netflix says, ok look, how much to just peer directly? We will bring fiber directly to you, bypassing Cogent. How much do you want?

And now you see how Comcast found a whole new business model. They want to be able to charge all of these guys DIRECTLY for peering instead of passing it along their existing peering links. You see, peering is done "settlement free" (assuming an equal exchange of traffic). So now instead of carrying that Netflix traffic over a settlement free peering arrangement they get PAID to deliver it!

People will still buy them at the same rate they do now.

Imagine the horror if they did not, upgrading their iPhone every three years instead of two.

But Apple already expects first users to keep their iPhones for 3 years. https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-expects-people-to-use-their-iphones-for-3-years-on-average/

London Stock Exchange outage blamed on Microsoft

At 3840x2160, the jagged edges of fonts are almost gone. I can still see them but at such a low level that it is almost subconscious. A doubling of resolution should make that all go away PERMANENTLY.

Jagged font edges can be "fixed" by anti-aliasing. Your brain is incredibly good at making up details that aren't there if it helps it make better sense of what it's seeing. So if it sees what looks like the smooth curve of the letter O, then it will see a smooth curve even if it's actually made up of different-brightness dots. The illusion is only broken when other info (non-aliased pixels) makes it obvious that the curve isn't smooth.

If you don't believe anti-aliasing fixes it, then prepare to have your mind blown. Every TV image you've seen has been displayed at non-native resolution. When you watch a 1920x1080 TV, you're actually only seeing about 1890x1060 pixels. For obscure historical reasons, TVs overscan the video image. So if a show is recorded at 1920x1080, the image that's displayed on your 19201080 TV is actually a crop of the center portion of the original image, enlarged to fit the 1920x1080 pixels of your TV screen. That breaks the 1:1 correspondence between image pixels and display pixels. But it's fixed by anti-aliasing. Usually bicubic interpolation, although lately Lanczos has been becoming more popular (it's more processor intensive, but processing power is cheap nowadays). So every TV image you've seen since we moved to digital TVs has had jaggies, they're just hidden from view by good anti-aliasing.

The real problem with modern displays is that the pixels are square. Pixels aren't supposed to be square. They're supposed to represent an infinitesimally small point, so the most accurate representation is a round blob called a point spread function. Brightest (greatest representation of the pixel's color) in the center, with the edges fading out (color info mixing with that of adjacent pixels). This is actually how the old CRT monitors and TVs displayed pixels, which is why you could use them to display any screen resolution.

But modern displays typically use a LCD grid with fixed-sized square pixels. Those squares add nonexistent information to each pixel (the sharp edges and the corners). This extraneous information makes the display appear sharper when displaying perfectly vertical or horizontal lines. But that sharpness is an illusion, and you pay the price in jaggies whenever displaying anything that's not perfectly vertical or horizontal. It also doesn't work when the underlying pixel grid of the image doesn't fall exactly on the physical pixel grid of the monitor. Which is why LCD monitors look fuzzy when displaying a non-native resolution which isn't divided by an integer multiple (which are the only resolutions which maintain the correspondence between image pixel edges and display pixel edges).

Anti-aliasing can help, but it's just a band-aid rather than a real fix. Moving to higher resolutions makes the band-aid less noticeable, and from a technical standpoint may be easier than a true fix (which I'm not sure can even be done with LCDs or even OLEDs). I use a 1080p projector to display a 150" image. And the reason I'm anxious to move up to a 4k projector is that I can actually see the pixel grid. It's easy to zone out and ignore it when watching a movie, but every now and then I notice it and it becomes annoying.

This is assuming a trustworthy poll and participants not just clicking at random or intentionally skewing results.

https://www.cnet.com/news/flat...

From a different article regarding the poll:

Could it be that at least some of these young people are tempted by these inducements and don't actually take the surveys seriously?

Also, only 84% of all Americans have "always believed" it was round. We're not much better than the millennials.

Because when the space force starts destroying other stuff in space, it's going to be kinda difficult to get through. Some pretty simple BDR's with some pretty simple shrapnel boomers - think space grenades - sent up near geosynchronous orbits will make GPS a thing of the past, and lower orbit space shrapnel is the gift that keeps on giving. Every orbiting device destroyed makes a positive feedback loop to knock off more devices. Imagine a space shuttle sized orbiter turned into debris. Not a good neighborhood to try to get through. A fleck of pain nearly broke a window on a space shuttle. https://www.cnet.com/pictures/...

Imagine what a bolt would do. Now imagine the entire LEO with tons of debris

It's been many long days since NASA's Mars Opportunity rover last phoned home. The rover has been quiet since June 10, when a massive planet-covering dust storm cut off its access to solar power. The storm is subsiding and now NASA is playing a tense waiting game to see if the vehicle will come out alive and rolling.

Opportunity is nearly 15 years old and has long outlived its initial three-month mission plan while continuing to deliver science observations back to Earth.

While the extended silence is worrisome, NASA says "there's reason to be optimistic." Studies of the rover's batteries before the storm show they were in good health and likely won't suffer much degradation during its time in the dust storm shadows. The temperatures in its location also mean the rover should have stayed warm enough to make it through the stretch of darkness.

NASA is reaching out to the rover in hopes of hearing back if and when it awakens. The Opportunity team pings the machine several times each week and listens for a response. NASA is also listening for radio signals from Mars that could be coming from the rover.

NASA warns there could be a long lag between the first signs of the rover's awakening and any further signals. "It's like a patient coming out of a coma," NASA says. "It takes time to fully recover."

There's a plan of action in place should the rover get back in touch. Opportunity's team will strive to learn more about the state of the rover, its batteries, solar cells and temperature. The rover's clock may need to be reset, and mission control will ask it to image itself to look for dust contamination.

Now here's the potentially scarier part. "Even if engineers hear back from Opportunity, there's a real possibility the rover won't be the same," NASA says. The dust storm could have a negative impact on the rover's batteries, which could put a crimp in its ability to heat itself during the frigid Mars winter.

Opportunity's science team is keeping the world informed through a series of mission status updates. Here's the latest: "The science team does not expect to hear anything from Opportunity until the atmospheric opacity over the rover site clears further." And so we wait.

https://www.cnet.com/news/nasa...

Average download speed in the US is 75.94Mbps as of the latter half of last year. The Verizon service has a theoretical limit north of 3Gbps.

Sure, that Verizon speed is bursty (and congestion constrained) and heavily dependent on conditions and distance. The problem isn't that speed will exceed wired. The problem is that it will end last-mile fiber deployment for the foreseeable future because it's cheaper for Verizon.

you're at 1.5 MJ per 42-cent-part, less than half of my lowest number

You can calculate what the average about of energy per product is from the US energy intensity. Starting with $7 / kgoe (US energy intensity) you get 6 MJ / $ or 2.6 MJ for your $0.42 part.

For instance, if we take an average cell phone ... 175 MJ ball park

We have the numbers for the iPhone. That's 80 kg of CO2 or 27 kgoe or 1000 MJ, not 175 MJ, so you're way off.

I need to know when a phone gets a notch, or moves the clock to the left side of the status bar.

wow / so innovate / much phone
[insert picture of shiba inu]

No.

You can't use your glasses (prescription lenses sold separately)

If you need glasses, like I do, know that the Magic Leap One won't fit over glasses at all, while most VR headsets and Microsoft HoloLens do. Magic Leap will sell prescription pop-in lenses at an additional cost. But if your prescription is really bad, you might just have to get contact lenses instead.

You'll need to put your Snapchat Spectacles on your RealDoll and let her film while you unbox.

Showing up in a conference room with a firebreathing 15" display and running 3D apps means that you plan to ignore the presenter. Why stop there? Just walk in with a minitower under your arm.

Anyway, display efficiency keeps improving. OLED with 100 lumens per watt. That's a lot, ever pointed a 100 lumen flashlight in your face? The real issue is just as I said, your laptop is a dinosaur.

The USB-Micro standard is ... uni-directional ...

Oh, there are reversible Micro B connectors out there. They work with existing sockets. It was introduced in 2015 but there are multiple options now and cables are widely available.
(If that is not what you meant, there is the On-The-Go (OTG) standard, so Micro-USB could be used as a host port as well.)

Other than power delivery I find the problem with USB Micro B be that it is not compulsory for sockets to have through-hole mounts, and therefore those that don't are more fragile.
USB Type C rectified that.
On the other hand, USB C has many teeny tiny connectors inside the plug and socket, and I wonder if not those would break first and what then would happen.

You missed the opportunity......obviously we need to give them treadmill desks. Computer based learning with full activity!

They tried banning crypto and lost back in the 90's. They'll lose again here, too.

They also offer metal 3D printing as well as plastic. Maybe you could even print a reliable multi-use gun.

Uhm, if they do metal printing then yes, you can make a multi-use gun.
Printed guns are weak because they are made from plastic. If you print metal you can expect the same performance as a regular gun.

There is a long backstory, with a timeline detailed at https://www.cnet.com/news/inte...

* in the early 1980s, when IBM brought out the PC, they threw in their standard demand for a "second source". Back then, IBM was YUUUUGE, and if you wanted their business, you complied with their demands.

* as per IBM's demand, Intel licenced 8086/8088 and 80286 tech to AMD

* later, Intel claimed that the licence did not cover 80386 and further cpus. AMD claimed that the licence did cover future X86 cpus. Court battles ensued.

> 1991--AMD files an antitrust complaint in Northern
> California claiming that Intel engaged in unlawful
> acts designed to secure and maintain a monopoly.

> 1992--A court rules against Intel and awards AMD $10
> million plus a royalty-free license to any Intel patents
> used in AMD's own 386-style processor.

> 1995--AMD settles all outstanding legal disputes with
> Intel in a deal that gives AMD a shared interest in the
> x86 chip design, which remains to this day the basic
> architecture of chips used to make personal computers.

One reason Intel developed the 64-bit Itanium (aka "Itanic" giggle) was to come out with a cpu so radically different that it wasn't covered by the original licence.

This all goes back to Intel agreeing to allow second-sourcing and licencing X86 to AMD, as per IBM's demands when developing the PC. Ironically, the cross-licencing agreement of 1995 is what allowed Intel to use AMD's "AMD64" tech in Intel cpus. That's why IBM and AMD cpus remain mostly compatible to this day.

Please don't forget that the Tempe Police Dept. immediately placed all blame on the pedestrian. We now know that the Uber car know of the obstruction and had enough braking time to have reduced it to a non-fatal accident.

Please remember the faked darkened videos, when the street was well lit.

I have no idea what is happening in this accident in Tempe... Any locals have a clue?

Not necessarily:
https://lifehacker.com/5763452...
https://www.techwalla.com/arti...
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ho...

https://panopticlick.eff.org/r...

Lol, sit down sonny. Time for a history lesson.

Skype was a good, solid, encrypted, peer-to-peer application. Then Microsoft bought them. Then this happened: https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-...

I stopped using Skype after MS totally fucked it up.

How many /.ers still using Skype?

Google and Apple and others lost a lawsuit over mutual non-solicitation pacts.

Customer service. I've rarely had an issue with Sprint, but whenever I've sent in some feedback, they've given me a month of free service. When there has been an issue, they've found a solution AND checked up with the results. Example: I moved to a new area last year. Plenty of AT&T and Verizon coverage but very lacking in Sprint coverage in my home. I asked if they have plans to expand. They said they didn't, but were looking for people to test out a new program. This is the program: https://www.cnet.com/news/spri...

Totally free microcell (and travel battery to keep). Perfect reception for 30,000 sq ft.

The tech industry works in waves. I lost a lot of money in 1999 when VA Linux went public at $324 a share. I'm older now (obviously) and am more conservative in my investments. I should have invested in the online Porn industry, I'd own an island by now. https://www.cnet.com/news/10-y... Waves. Everything comes and goes.

Why in simple hell is a question modded down?

I don't have an agenda. I just want to know why iPhones are the story and no other phones are, apparently, a concern.

And I ended it politely.

Because many, many Android phones have unpatched vulnerabilities.

https://www.cnet.com/news/repo...
https://techtoday.io/71-of-and...

There are lots of articles. The number varies between 50% and 90% of phones. Even if the manufacturer by some miracle decides to update the phone, the carrier probably won't. Only a few phones (mostly Google devices) get updates direct from Google, and carriers don't generally push those because they get incentives from HTC, Samsung etc to sell the other phones instead.

I'm sure it's only a coincidence that Google is adopting the notch from Apple.

that phones nearing that $1k price tag don't seem to sell so well.

Really? It's been Apple's best selling device every single week last quarter. To be clear they sold 52.2 MILLION phones and the iPhone X was the best seller among those.

If that's your idea of "not selling well" give me some of that kind of "failure"...

However, is it just me or does no one really give a damn about the " new " iPhones / Androids that come out every year with not a whole lot of anything to get excited about ?

It's just you. Apple literally sells tens of millions of them and Android devices collectively sell even more units so obviously people give a damn. If it's not your particular brand of vodka I don't have any quarrel with you on that but don't pretend no one cares about the smartphone upgrades.

Not sure if anyone actually wants to follow the cnet link in TFA, but it's broken. Here's a working one: https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/u...

Don't fret over privacy (hey, our whole business model is based on fucking over your personal data, after all!).

Guess you get what you pay for.

My take? Avoid Google. Avoid Facebook. And Amazon, Microsoft, Apple. And a bunch of others.

Looks like it might be over

https://www.cnet.com/news/comcast-confirms-nationwide-outage/

Any nation can block its internet in creative ways.
eg China and its control over VPN, Tor, the EU and dreams of Article 13 and Article 11.
The US can do that too with "but it also puts a lot of power in the government's hands." (July 10, 2012)
https://www.cnet.com/news/obam...

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Not even "comparing the technology", it still had tons more CGI etc. in it than anything else for years afterwards

The only CGI in the first film was the graphics in the Death Star briefing before the rebels' attack.

What is it today that people refer to any old visual special effects as 'CGI'?

He wrote that he wasn't around when the first movie came out. Probably not aware that the spaceships were physical models shot with (computer-controlled) physical cameras.

I just don't get why this hasn't been out and on the market for over a year already. This is such a simple product. You can run an emulator on a Raspberry Pi or equivalent.

That product already exists:

https://www.cnet.com/au/products/atari-flashback-8-gold/preview/

Created by "AtGames" licenced from "Atari":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Flashback#Atari_Flashback_8

That's not what the "VCS" is suppose to be.

thought an internet shut down would only be for natural disasters and security emergencies.
Recall the "Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions" and the way the US internet would be "regulated".
https://www.cnet.com/news/obam... (July 10, 2012) (not an EU link)

But why does it seem like the apple morons are worse?

https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-users-more-dishonest-says-study/

Oh ya; thats why.

Just a reminder that Republicans are fighting every initiative to require paper ballots in the US. Even in the rare red state where a paper ballot initiative has been put forth by a Republican lawmaker, the state party has fought it and they only passed with the full support of Democrats.

http://humphreyonthehill.tnjou...

https://www.cnet.com/news/repu...

http://www.governing.com/topic...

So we have this special "game mode" in TVs to reduce processing delay to a minimum, but at the same time we expect to stream the game video from the cloud, at 10's to 100's ms RTT plus additional video encoding and decoding delay?

Makes perfect sense to me...

PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
DROPOUT JEEP https://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-...
BULLRUN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Lots of ways to get around junk big brand encryption and collect it all.

Intel: https://newsroom.intel.com/edi...
"the first Intel processor with a 5.0 GHz turbo frequency"

Intel actually qualifies their statement and all the reporters parroted it without the qualification. So basically, just another news day.

Venturebeat: https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
"the first-ever CPU with a 5.0GHz turbo frequency, said Intel’s Gregory Bryant"

CNET: https://www.cnet.com/news/inte...
"the first-ever CPU with a 5.0GHz turbo frequency." ...

If you can't read the Wiki link (high-fidelity equipment has inaudible noise and distortion, and a flat (neutral, uncolored) frequency response within the human hearing range) then there is no hope for you. But then, we know you're an Apple fanatic, so there was no hope to begin with, so... Perhaps you should check reviews other than Apple Fanboi sites. Seriously, anyone who thinks a HomePod sounds better than a SONOS Play:1 is either deaf or a dyed-in-the-wool Apple Cultist.

I can read fine.

It's STILL SUBJECTIVE.

"Inaudible noise and distortion". Inaudible to WHO? And what KIND of Noise and Distortion, since IM distortion is MUCH more audible, depending on the frequencies involved, than THD is (haven't we had this discussion already?)

"Flat frequency response". Again, since NOTHING has a PERFECTLY-FLAT frequency response, that is an utterly impossible-to-achieve spec, sorry!

Oh, and do you really think that pitting ONE HomePod against TWO SonosOnes is a fair comparison?

In fact, the C/Net Review flatly states that:

"As we found in our review, the $349 (£319, AU$499) Apple HomePod is an accomplished speaker. By itself it outperforms the $199 (£199, AU$299) Sonos One, winner of our Editors' Choice award as the all-around best smart speaker."

[Emphasis mine]

So, Let's try TWO SonosOnes against TWO HomePods. Howabout THAT?

I NEVER said that the HomePod was the CHEAPER speaker, now did I? And THAT is the ONLY criteria where your C/Net review makes it's comparison.

So now, you have switched the argument from "Is the HomePod 'High Fidelity' " (whatever THAT means!) to "Is the HomePod more COST-EFFECTIVE than the SonosOne?"

BZZZT! Nice try, fucktard.

If you can't read the Wiki link (high-fidelity equipment has inaudible noise and distortion, and a flat (neutral, uncolored) frequency response within the human hearing range) then there is no hope for you. But then, we know you're an Apple fanatic, so there was no hope to begin with, so... Perhaps you should check reviews other than Apple Fanboi sites. Seriously, anyone who thinks a HomePod sounds better than a SONOS Play:1 is either deaf or a dyed-in-the-wool Apple Cultist.

If Waymo's developers go on strike, do the self driving cars stop? I'm not so sure. New development stops sure, but that doesn't have nearly the same business impact. They just need a few non-union members to keep a skeleton crew running and the employers could keep it up much longer than the strikers.

That's true, but at the same time, they have an even worse threat than striking: heading over to the competition. If you remember, the head of Waymo went over to Uber, and they tried to stop him by suing. If the they were unionized and the entire team all went at once, Waymo would be dead.

A better example might be Zynga. In 2011, they had money-making products already and was ready to IPO. They thought that the devs were no longer needed now that the system was running on its own. So the owners demandedemployees give back not-yet-vested stock or face termination.

A whole bunch of people left as a result, and those who didn't leave right away started looking around. After the initial IPO hype that boosted the stock price to $12, it fell all the way down to $3, and pretty much stayed the same ever since. Now that doesn't necessarily prove Zynga would've done well if those employees stayed on, but I haven't heard of any other startups trying this since then.

the information flowing through these “free” access points isn’t going to be collected and monetized

Trust your VPN, not your ISP.

Uh-huh.. because VPN ISP's would never "monetize" your information or your bandwidth, right?

Of course wikipedia isn't immutable fact but neither is something written in a book. Wikipedia has plenty of editors and has been shown to be about as accurate as conventional encyclopedias ( https://www.cnet.com/news/stud... ). There's no reason why it can't be used as a source in a casual internet discussion to a high degree of confidence. Plus, it's certainly better than just saying "cause I say so" or citing completely anecdotal information. Particularly when the wikipedia article does not deal in any kind of controversial material.

"Relax a little..."
If you find something unpleasant with how I'm addressing you maybe you shouldnt end your posts with snippy comments

Also, thanks for correcting me on the typo I made. Everyone likes to have small and completely inconsequential mistakes they made pointed out. What a truely great service you provided for me.

Apple iPhone sales are not slowing down but competitors are...

Which if you bother to think of what that means Apple's overall market share of smart phones is increasing, globally.

Apple is doing these other things, to also grow other areas of the company, not to offset anything. Why wouldn't you try to grow every area of the company you could. especially if you have as much cash as Apple?

Everyone doing speculative execution is vulnerable to Spectre. That includes ARM.

Papermaster said AMD believes the threat from Spectre Variant 1 "can be contained with an operating system (OS) patch and we have been working with OS providers to address this issue." The company additionally expects to offer "a combination of processor microcode updates and OS patches" to address Spectre Variant 2, he said.

"While we believe that AMD's processor architectures make it difficult to exploit Variant 2, we continue to work closely with the industry on this threat," AMD's CTO said.

However, the issue here wasn't if it can be patched -- it pretty much can -- but what the performance penalty will be. Buying more CPU grunt to compensate is cheaper on the AMD side, up to the point where it's no longer possible. (There are chips in the Intel stable for which AMD has no match, but they are far from the bulk of the market.)

Most carmakers are switching to EV and Hybrid options,

Literally every volume automaker, in fact, and many of the smaller ones.

while Toyota still thinks hydrogen is going to be the next big thing, for some reason.

Toyota, Honda, and GM are all banking on the USA MIC's adoption of hydrogen (for "clean" war machines, which are also quiet and which produce clean drinking water which is of immense value in desert warfare, hint hint) to make hydrogen viable for passenger vehicles — at least in certain specific markets which include the United States and Japan. However, as you probably know, it remains barely viable even in the primary test market, and I don't actually accept the premise (but it's what I took away from some web show, probably Autoline, where they spoke with someone from GM about the Colorado ZH2.)

Why not believe that military use of H2 will leak down (up?) to the consumer, so to speak? Because it will be made on-demand. It's not like gasoline and diesel fuel, which require massive refineries to do efficiently and relatively safely — and there are refinery failures of varying severity on a frequent basis. It can be done on basically any scale, but what it can't be is efficient when done by electrolysis. Many have claimed to have discovered ways to get water to separate more cheaply, and none of those ways have panned out. The military doesn't tend to care how much of our money they spend, and they also feel free to use nuclear reactors, so they can produce basically as much H2 as they want. The rest of us are not so lucky.

https://www.cnet.com/news/nint...

Article says posted yesterday

2. Apple's notch is not "Ridiculous"; because it is there for a purpose. what is TRULY "Ridiculous", however, is all the Android phones that slavishly COPIED Apple (yet again!) and their "Ridiculous" Notch, even though they don't actually NEED it!

It may not be ridiculous, but I was watching that keynote in a room full of Apple fans, and the number of "what the f**k" reactions was telling. The word that kept coming up over and over was "ugly".

What was ridiculous was not the notch so much as the fact that the product seemed to have clearly been rushed to market to hit a deadline. They shipped with that ugly notch because they couldn't get the fingerprint-through-the-screen tech in quantities soon enough, and if they had waited just a few months, they could have shipped the product they really wanted to ship, rather than watching as the rest of the industry made it happen a few months later.

And I say that as somebody who has used Apple hardware almost exclusively since the mid-1980s. If S.J. (requiescat in pace) were still alive and running things, I'm absolutely certain that he would have thrown it across the room and said, "This is the ugliest f**king piece of s**t I've ever seen. We're not shipping it until you find a way to get rid of that f**king notch," except that he probably would have used a greater number and variety of swear words.

Just saying.

I agree that Fixed "Release Schedules" are the antithesis of good products. Everyone does it to some extent; but when it becomes the MAIN driving-force in determining when a product is "done", that is almost never a good thing.

Having said that, Apple really had no idea how quickly the "Fingerprint through Display" would get working reliably (wasn't the issue a matter of "yield"?); so at some point (and that "point" is WAY far back in time, when you are talking to a Contract Manufacturer with their own Logistics Chain), you just have to "fish or cut bait".

So, you MIGHT want to think about the position that Apple was in. The "optics" of SIGNIFICANTLY delaying a product with as much attention paid to it as the iPhone has, makes that less and less desirable, and at some point, no amount of swearing, "throwing things against the wall, firing and other counter-productive histrionics (S.J. RIP!) can help to change the course of things.

I note, BTW, that NO ONE but "Vivo" has YET to display a (supposedly) PRODUCTION-READY Fingerprint-through-Display solution (and the announcement of Production is just NOW, at the time of this Posting, only 6 hours old). So how long should Apple have waited? Can you IMAGINE the hand-wringing and unmitigated Apple Hate that would have been spewed-out on the intarwebs since last SEPTEMBER if Apple had delayed the iPhone X until MAY?!?

BTW, notice that the through-display Fingerprint Sensing Vivo X21 ACTUALLY HAS APPLE'S "RIDICULOUS" NOTCH?!?

https://www.cnet.com/news/vivo...

WTF is THAT for?!?

I rest my case.

Many phones have the hardware included to receive FM broadcast radio. Here's a list of phones that are compatible with the nextradio app.