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The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the cold-never-bothered-me-anyway dept.

sqorbit writes: Apple is working on a fix for the newly release iPhone X. It appears that the touch screen can become unresponsive when the iPhone is subjected to cold weather. Users are reporting that locking and unlocking the phone resolves the issue. Apple stated that it is aware of the issue and it will be addressed in a future update.

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  1. So much for Apple's [incredible] design... by bogaboga · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let the war of words begin. I guess those in the Great White North (Canada) are out of luck!

    And BTW, is this the same company so many praise for its unparalleled attention to detail?

    1. Re:So much for Apple's [incredible] design... by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The guy who had unparalleled attention to detail quit the company a few years ago, because he died. The new guy in charge seems afraid to tell people that their ideas suck.

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    2. Re: So much for Apple's [incredible] design... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      iJunk X has being "designed" for shitty smelly chimps in shitty jungles of stupid hindustan. Libturds favorite kind.

    3. Re:So much for Apple's [incredible] design... by Q-Hack! · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Expectations a bit high maybe? Most rugged laptops fail to boot at about that same temp.

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    4. Re:So much for Apple's [incredible] design... by adolf · · Score: 3, Insightful

      As much as I think I might like to own a Woz phone, I do not think that it would be a very practical device.

      Awesome, but not practical.

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  2. Early adopters by zifn4b · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple is working on a fix for the newly release iPhone X. It appears that the touch screen can become unresponsive when the iPhone is subjected to cold weather.

    Thank you to everyone who paid $1,000 to get the new iPhone X. What you don't know is you joined an exclusive club. You joined Apple's Early Adopter Quality Assurance Team. Thank you for helping discover all the problems their QA couldn't so that if the rest of us ever decide to upgrade we will get a better product.

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  3. Re:Should Apple find another CEO? by TimHunter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    AAPL closed at $54.04 on Oct 5, 2011, the day Steve Jobs died. On June 9, 2014 it closed at $645.57, up 1095%. That day it split 7 for 1. This past Friday AAPL closed at $174.67. If the stock had not split the share price today would be $1222.69. So, if you had bought a share of stock in Apple on 10/5/2011 then you would've made 2162% on your investment.

    Apple sold 78.29 million iPhones in 1Q17.

    It seems to me that this is evidence that Tim Cook is able to lead Apple.

  4. More about recent management of Apple by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Good point. This is an example of a common problem of understanding management. Who is responsible for Apple's success? What part of Apple's success is due to Tim Cook being CEO?

    An extremely important contribution of Steve Jobs was making sure nothing flawed was released. The iPhone 4 was released with antenna problems on June 24, 2010. It was a mistake someone with experience with radio frequency transmission would easily have understood. Steve Jobs died on October 5, 2011, and was not managing long before that. Tim Cook officially became CEO of Apple on August 24, 2011.

    Since then, management of Apple has apparently become far more sloppy, For example: iPhone X Is Everything Wrong With Tim Cook's Apple

    Here are problems mentioned in that article:

    1) Announced before being ready.

    2) "Stop and ask what real world problems the iPhone X answers. There are a lot of cute answers but on a practical sense the iPhone X offers very little on top of the iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus, which in turn are only incremental bumps over last year's models."

    3) Product confusion: "Now it takes a ridiculous amount of research and comparison to find the iPhone that may suit your needs, and there is not a single device that offers all of features in a single package - every iPhone has some form of limitation and restriction designed into it."

    To me, that looks like poor overall management. There is sloppiness that didn't exist when Steve Jobs was in control. Steve Jobs was far from perfect; he had wacky ideas about health care, for example: Steve Jobs 'regretted trying to beat cancer with alternative medicine for so long'.

    Jobs was known for delivering an excellent customer experience. That's what made Apple different from competitors.