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The iPhone X Becomes Unresponsive When It Gets Cold (zdnet.com)
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.
Yeah, it especially sucks given this product that’s just getting into people’s hands in late autumn. And of course their in-house early adopters won’t catch this because they live in Cupertino and think 55F is “chilly”.
I learned the downside of being an early adopter of Apple kit back in 2003, when I bought the brand new FW 800 Aluminum G4 PowerBook. I loved that computer... but didn’t love the fact that Apple had to replace the display three different times due to the “white spot” issue. Apple has always been great for me with regards to service... but I don’t personally want a great warranty that I have to use repeatedly.
So thank you, beta testers for giving Apple your $1200 so the rest of us can have a better product in 2020!
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Well, a lot of what you're talking about is neither here nor there with respect to this situation. It's a truism by this point that customers don't really know what you want until you show it to them -- although this doesn't mean that you as a product developer know any better.
But one of the things that people forget that Jobs did when he came back is that he drastically simplified Apple's product line. Since a single product can't satisfy everyone, companies tend toward having many products through a kind of incrementalism, trying to capture as much of the market as possible. But there are downsides to having too many products and versions of products. Selling is harder, because you have to walk prospective customers through all the choices you offer, and they're often never quite satisfied that they made the right choice. Production, delivery and support become harder too; you can't hit one out of the park when you're trying to swing at as many balls as you physically can.
Jobs also made a virtue of the drawbacks of a more limited product offering by turning the new product offerings into an event -- something much harder to do when sexy new features are spread across a large number of products. Putting all your eggs in fewer baskets turns a complicated basket selection decision into a simple go/no go for consumers.
There are currently eight iPhone models in production, four introduced over an eighteen month period. I wonder whether this is a move back to the product-for-everyone incrementalism that Jobs product discipline replaced. Mobile phones are possibly the single most challenging consumer product to engineer and produce; it's quite possible we're looking at an Apple with too many balls in the air.
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Yes indeed, how does this fit into Apple's evil plan achieve world domination and enslave humanity?
You're kidding, right? They can't even do a full environmental evaluation on a major product launch. Take over the world? That's preposterous.
Environmental chambers are not a big expense, it's established testing protocol to do that sort of evaluation. What else have they skipped testing?
What kind of craptacular "rugged" laptops are you using? I've been using Thinkpads and Toughbooks in -18C conditions without issue. Well, my fingers not being able to type my password was an issue, but the keyboard was fine.
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The headline is completely fine. The phone does become unresponsive. That there is a workaround that keeps you fanbois from admitting there is a problem does not change the actual, you know, facts.
"I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?
Your argument includes no null hypothesis. What would the stock price have been of Jobs was still around?
While we're at it a CEO change takes real time to materialise. A good portion of that meteoric rise in stocks between 2011 and 2014 were due to both market forces and the recent legacy and momentum of what Jobs had built.
It's quite telling that pussy Jobs the stock price seems to either say "meh" or spike down every time Tim Cook gets on a stage. The only time that happened to Jobs in modern Apple was when he got on stage looking thin and frail.
Driving a great company into the ground take time. Let's see how Apple is doing in another 10 years.
By the way other stocks at record highs include MS and also Yahoo. Remember them?