iTunes Match is still around and if the songs are recognized (about 2/3rds) adds the benefit of upgrading those old 128kbit MP3s to 256kbit AACs by erasing the original copy and then downloading the "matched" copy.
iTunes exists on all major platforms but iTunes is far from the best music player...
"Apple has determined that a very small number of iPhone 6s devices may unexpectedly shut down. This is not a safety issue and only affects devices within a limited serial number range that were manufactured between September and October 2015."
Apples's patch was for the 6, the 6+ and the SE and they have since added the 7 & 7+ because they are getting old enough to potentially have the problem.
As for you refusing to acknowledge that non iPhone 6 and in fact all phones spontaneously shutdown when using washed out batteries, that's because you prefer remaining ignorant and refuse to look at all the other reports of it happening.
Oh but you'll play semantic games and redefine systemic yet again...
NOT the same problem hater, that was a bad batch of batteries. Besides which, Apple has already stated that they have since added the fix to the 7 and will be adding it to further models as they attain an age in which it is useful to have it.
Here's the URL that you didn't read the last time I gave it. You won't read/understand it any more than the last time I gave it.
Simple means have been shown to be useful for simple biometrics. Simple means are of much less use when some thought is put into the sensors and how to use them.
The claim that FaceID is easily/cheaply bypassed can be laid to rest after a month where no-one other than the people from Bkav were able to duplicate it without resorting to using the passcode to train FaceID to recognize the 3D model.
As for being fingerprints, I've talked with some police forces lab techs who look for and scan crime scene fingerprints. The vast majority of liftable prints are from the balls of your fingers so don't use them for TouchID.
As anyone who has had their fingerprints taken for whatever reason knows, they only ask for the balls of your fingers though they often roll your fingers to get the sides too. What they rarely take is the ends of your fingers -- because with the exception of your dominant hand index, it is much less common that people leave them as usable prints.
By using just the tip of a a non-index finger for TouchID one it makes it much harder to gain that liftable print but still works fine with TouchID.
Even with people generally using the balls of their fingers with TouchID there have been zero reports of a lifted and duplicated print being used to bypass device security. If it were such a danger, one would expect there to have been at least a one story, but no.
You know more than Apple's engineers do? Specifically the behavior of LI-ION batteries because you work in the field?
You think that your unsupported opinion suffices to explain why it _isn't_ a battery problem when older batteries produce spontaneous shutdowns on all makes and models of phones yet no longer do so when the battery is replaced with a now one?.
You think that your unsupported opinion suffices to explain away why independent tests have shown that spontaneous reboots on 6 6S & SE iphones on iOS 10 stop occurring when updated to iOS 11 that throttles the CPU instead of shutting down?
You think that your _vast_ knowledge of batteries and clear bias suffice to make you a better reference than independent testing and information from Apple itself?
Quite clearly, you think the answer is yes to all.
So then you have no expertise or knowledge, just a claim to having owned an iPhone as if such a claim belies your posting history.
You have no explanation of why other phones display the exact same problem and are too dim to realize that Apple only published the fix in iOS 11 -- which leaves out all older phones.
In sum all you have is a clear anti-apple bias. Bye hater.
I never saw the point to being on twitter. I'm only somewhat reluctantly on FB because it is the best way to keep in contact with distant family/friends.
However, if twitter is becoming the most efficient means to reach good customer service as TFA indicates, I at last see a good reason for configuring a twitter account.
Yeah, because Samsung has done __SO__ much better than Apple with their batteries. Remind me who it was that claimed to have fixed a major problem twice before recalling all of their most recent high-end phones because they were spontaneously combusting?
Given that _ALL_ phones with LI-ION batteries have the same issues with ageing, oh ignorant one, why are you attempting to only blame Apple?
I must have missed where it was that you posted what you think makes you know better than Apple how aging in Lithium-Ion batteries affects platform stability. Do you think being an Android fanboy suffices?
Add to your credentials why you think that non-iPhones that display _the_exact_same_bug_ (spontaneous shutdowns that are cured with a new battery or avoided by intelligent platform management as in iOS) have _not_ been reported, when a trivial google search shows that _they_have_. Is being an android fanboy what makes you so obtuse?
Apple stated that they added the code for their oldest supported iPhone models (6, 6s & SE) last year, certainly after having taken years to add the means within the iOS platforms to study & confirm the issue and develop a methodology for avoiding it. An android fanboy sees only nefarious possible reasons for doing it last year. The less biased judge that they had bigger fish to fry in other higher priority iOS upgrades, not a clear enough picture and had yet to code and validate the workaround.
Why, pray tell mr fanboy, have android phones yet to add in equivalent battery supervision and throttling to avoid spontaneous shutdowns? We _know_ that Android phones suffer from the _same_ problem. What are they waiting for? For Apple to identify the problem so they could copy the solution?
Aaaand ___AGAIN___, it's NOT a design flaw or QC issues or limited to iPhone 6 phones, _every_ phone that lasts long enough exhibits the same "design flaw".
Apple's statement included: Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current demands when in cold conditions, have a low battery charge or as they age over time, which can result in the device unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components. Last year we released a feature for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down during these conditions. We’ve now extended that feature to iPhone 7 with iOS 11.2, and plan to add support for other products in the future.
As the stories of non-iPhones that display _the_exact_same_bug_ (spontaneous shutdowns that are cured with a new battery or avoided by intelligent platform management as in iOS) are legion, you're being willfully obtuse.
If you think you have some claim to knowing better than Apple how aging in Lithium-Ion batteries affects platform stability, post it.
You claim, contrary to the experience of all those that have noted spontaneous shutdowns on old batteries that "there is no systemic issue with aging batteries" -- no modifier so your claim is that this issue cannot exist in your opinion on _any_ aging batteries.
That people _do_ see the issue, that the problem is solved by replacing the battery and that Apple has released an update that has the effect of avoiding the shutdowns cannot be denied -- but you do anyway. Why? Because you refuse to believe in them.
Were the google search to be unsupported by other means, you might have had a point.
Yeah, just call those older batteries "faulty", that makes you think you have an out to dismiss everyone on multiple platforms that noted that spontaneous shutdowns phones with aging batteries go away when the battery is replaced. Because you think that blaming "faulty batteries", allows you to call the code Apple has added that has been shown by third party testing to avoid spontaneous shutdowns on aging batteries "a bug" instead of a feature allowing further (but slower) use of ageing batteries without issues.
Because you (think) you know more about the batteries Apple uses than Apple does.
You're mistaken as even a trivial search on "phone shutdown old battery" would have shown.
It's not just an iPhone issue, this has been tested and spontaneous shutdowns on older batteries when not throttling has been confirmed on different phone makes & models.
You keep baselessly opining that that "Nobody cares how much thinner the new iphone X is" when thicker phones keep tanking in the marketplace. Again mr belly button gazer, what you want != what the market has been shown to want.
Inch thick was an exaggeration (I had meant to write half-inch) but even the original iPhone's half inch which you glorified further upthread would tank in today's market. Feel free to furnish sales figures of any half-inch thick phones that sold well in the last 3 years.
When your cultural reference is pickup trucks, you clearly need reminding that/. is not U.S. only.
Even Apples's less successful releases would be successes for anyone else and every "failure" has been deemed the beginning of the end by critics of your kind. An objective observer, which you are not, would note that Apple has gone on to greater success every time. What are _your_ successes, eh mr belly button gazer? Lint?
Yeah you'd choose a phone with something you rarely if ever needed over having a security model that isn't swiss cheese and needs twice the RAM/Flash to function adequately.
Nobody cares about thinner phones? Funny how the best sellers are NOT an inch thick. Yeah, twits keep repeating that they want thicker phones but every time someone comes out with a thicker model phone it's sales tank. You chubby lovers just don't care enough to actually _buy_ them in significant numbers, you just whine about it.
Hint: Not everyone that frequents/. lives in your neighborhood or even the U.S.
Choosing pickups instead of other vehicles is an entirely subjective and not a functional choice from what > I If Apple's iphone X had been 2mm thicker and lasted an extra day do you really think it would have sold worse? Yes. Once again, your circle of friends is not the world and Apple knows far, far more about what people will buy than you do.
> Did removing the headphone jack just so it could be thinner really do anything the consumers wanted? Really? Apple didn't give consumers a choice. The 6, 6+ & SE are all choice. I have needed to charge and wanted to listen music over earphones at the same time _twice_ in the 2 years I've had my 7+. OOOHHH THE HORROR!!! I suppose you also choose your 911/pickup by choosing the model that has the most convenient ashtrays? Because THAT's what 's _important_ to you so it _must_ be the same for everyone...
There's an expression in French for people like you: Nombriliste. The direct translation is belly-button gazer but the full definition is even more apt.
I doubted that you actually believed that there was enough of a market because it is a common refrain from the Apple critics. They claim that there is a HUGE unfulfilled market of bigger/replaceable battery/jack phones and yet when pricked with "well then go do something about it", their balloon always withers away pretexting "I'm too busy". You're far from the first to opine and then run away, I just like making that retreat explicit.
My first iphone was a 4, then a 6+ purchased when my daughter wanted my 4, replaced after water damage with a 7+ that I'll probably be using for another 2-3 years. iPhones in this family last (except for damage) much longer than yours do.
It is _so_ amusing when people choose arguments through ignorance of a subject that actually weakens their case and that that when one knows something about it, strengthens mine.
Try putting sub-standard fuel (like something that has been stored in a tank for the past 3 years to parallel battery degradation) into your TDI and see how it reacts, hmm? As multiple ACs correctly noted, it WILL degrade the performance drastically until you can get it into the shop so that they can reset it. Oh and that little reset is going to cost you, often $100-$250.
That has nothing to do with anti-pollution norms being evaded with defeat devices, but then you'd have to know more about the subject to understand that.
So you want a bigger battery phone instead of a functionally equivalent phone+battery case because it isn't fetching. OK, message received.
I look around the roads around me and very rarely see any pickup trucks, yet somehow there is no lack in vehicles performing the tasks you attribute to them as uniquely pickup based. Nor do people say that they actually want/need a pickup.
Ahh, but what you're really trying to say is that pick-ups are the _in_ thing among the people around you which is why you desire _that_ and only _that_. Isn't that also what some people say about Apple products?
Three phones (that certainly all cost more than 1/3 of an iPhone if they weren't budget phones) versus what would probably be a single iPhone. Yeah, the TCO must be on your side, snort.
You go ahead and build your business in your perceived wonderful marketplace. Give it a real good shot & invest everything you have into it.
Do come back in a few years to let us know how you did...
That samsung phone sold so poorly and exhibited such poor water resistance that Samsung quickly abandoned it.
It took me 10 minutes to change the battery on my wife's iPhone 6 that came out around the same time as the note4. I suppose that 10 minutes after three years of use is far far to long and the procedure much too complex for you to feel comfortable performing.
My memory of phones with changeable batteries is dimmed by all the times a small drop caused the battery connection to reseat and the phone rebooted, losing calls because I was switching batteries, not being sure if the backup battery was charged or not and not being able to help a friend with a low battery because we didn't have the exact same phone/battery.
Having an external battery pack that I can charge/check/loan easily and that I just leave connected for 15 minutes changed all that.
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iTunes Match is still around and if the songs are recognized (about 2/3rds) adds the benefit of upgrading those old 128kbit MP3s to 256kbit AACs by erasing the original copy and then downloading the "matched" copy.
iTunes exists on all major platforms but iTunes is far from the best music player...
Yeah, yeah, hater, you keep ignoring everything that doesn't fit your diatribe like these and these, and these, and these, and these, etc.
_Their_ problems are all imaginary. _Yours_ are the only ones that matter.
Try _reading_ the link you gave, hater:
"Apple has determined that a very small number of iPhone 6s devices may unexpectedly shut down. This is not a safety issue and only affects devices within a limited serial number range that were manufactured between September and October 2015."
Apples's patch was for the 6, the 6+ and the SE and they have since added the 7 & 7+ because they are getting old enough to potentially have the problem.
As for you refusing to acknowledge that non iPhone 6 and in fact all phones spontaneously shutdown when using washed out batteries, that's because you prefer remaining ignorant and refuse to look at all the other reports of it happening.
Oh but you'll play semantic games and redefine systemic yet again...
NOT the same problem hater, that was a bad batch of batteries. Besides which, Apple has already stated that they have since added the fix to the 7 and will be adding it to further models as they attain an age in which it is useful to have it.
Here's the URL that you didn't read the last time I gave it. You won't read/understand it any more than the last time I gave it.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12...
And again you cannot explain why every other phones with aging batteries display the same problem.
Simple means have been shown to be useful for simple biometrics. Simple means are of much less use when some thought is put into the sensors and how to use them.
The claim that FaceID is easily/cheaply bypassed can be laid to rest after a month where no-one other than the people from Bkav were able to duplicate it without resorting to using the passcode to train FaceID to recognize the 3D model.
As for being fingerprints, I've talked with some police forces lab techs who look for and scan crime scene fingerprints. The vast majority of liftable prints are from the balls of your fingers so don't use them for TouchID.
As anyone who has had their fingerprints taken for whatever reason knows, they only ask for the balls of your fingers though they often roll your fingers to get the sides too. What they rarely take is the ends of your fingers -- because with the exception of your dominant hand index, it is much less common that people leave them as usable prints.
By using just the tip of a a non-index finger for TouchID one it makes it much harder to gain that liftable print but still works fine with TouchID.
Even with people generally using the balls of their fingers with TouchID there have been zero reports of a lifted and duplicated print being used to bypass device security. If it were such a danger, one would expect there to have been at least a one story, but no.
You know more than Apple's engineers do? Specifically the behavior of LI-ION batteries because you work in the field?
You think that your unsupported opinion suffices to explain why it _isn't_ a battery problem when older batteries produce spontaneous shutdowns on all makes and models of phones yet no longer do so when the battery is replaced with a now one?.
You think that your unsupported opinion suffices to explain away why independent tests have shown that spontaneous reboots on 6 6S & SE iphones on iOS 10 stop occurring when updated to iOS 11 that throttles the CPU instead of shutting down?
You think that your _vast_ knowledge of batteries and clear bias suffice to make you a better reference than independent testing and information from Apple itself?
Quite clearly, you think the answer is yes to all.
So then you have no expertise or knowledge, just a claim to having owned an iPhone as if such a claim belies your posting history.
You have no explanation of why other phones display the exact same problem and are too dim to realize that Apple only published the fix in iOS 11 -- which leaves out all older phones.
In sum all you have is a clear anti-apple bias. Bye hater.
I never saw the point to being on twitter. I'm only somewhat reluctantly on FB because it is the best way to keep in contact with distant family/friends.
However, if twitter is becoming the most efficient means to reach good customer service as TFA indicates, I at last see a good reason for configuring a twitter account.
Yeah, because Samsung has done __SO__ much better than Apple with their batteries. Remind me who it was that claimed to have fixed a major problem twice before recalling all of their most recent high-end phones because they were spontaneously combusting?
Given that _ALL_ phones with LI-ION batteries have the same issues with ageing, oh ignorant one, why are you attempting to only blame Apple?
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12...
I must have missed where it was that you posted what you think makes you know better than Apple how aging in Lithium-Ion batteries affects platform stability. Do you think being an Android fanboy suffices?
Add to your credentials why you think that non-iPhones that display _the_exact_same_bug_ (spontaneous shutdowns that are cured with a new battery or avoided by intelligent platform management as in iOS) have _not_ been reported, when a trivial google search shows that _they_have_. Is being an android fanboy what makes you so obtuse?
Apple stated that they added the code for their oldest supported iPhone models (6, 6s & SE) last year, certainly after having taken years to add the means within the iOS platforms to study & confirm the issue and develop a methodology for avoiding it. An android fanboy sees only nefarious possible reasons for doing it last year. The less biased judge that they had bigger fish to fry in other higher priority iOS upgrades, not a clear enough picture and had yet to code and validate the workaround.
Why, pray tell mr fanboy, have android phones yet to add in equivalent battery supervision and throttling to avoid spontaneous shutdowns? We _know_ that Android phones suffer from the _same_ problem. What are they waiting for? For Apple to identify the problem so they could copy the solution?
Aaaand ___AGAIN___, it's NOT a design flaw or QC issues or limited to iPhone 6 phones, _every_ phone that lasts long enough exhibits the same "design flaw".
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12...
Apple's statement included: Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current demands when in cold conditions, have a low battery charge or as they age over time, which can result in the device unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components. Last year we released a feature for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down during these conditions. We’ve now extended that feature to iPhone 7 with iOS 11.2, and plan to add support for other products in the future.
As the stories of non-iPhones that display _the_exact_same_bug_ (spontaneous shutdowns that are cured with a new battery or avoided by intelligent platform management as in iOS) are legion, you're being willfully obtuse.
If you think you have some claim to knowing better than Apple how aging in Lithium-Ion batteries affects platform stability, post it.
You claim, contrary to the experience of all those that have noted spontaneous shutdowns on old batteries that "there is no systemic issue with aging batteries" -- no modifier so your claim is that this issue cannot exist in your opinion on _any_ aging batteries.
That people _do_ see the issue, that the problem is solved by replacing the battery and that Apple has released an update that has the effect of avoiding the shutdowns cannot be denied -- but you do anyway. Why? Because you refuse to believe in them.
Were the google search to be unsupported by other means, you might have had a point.
Yeah, just call those older batteries "faulty", that makes you think you have an out to dismiss everyone on multiple platforms that noted that spontaneous shutdowns phones with aging batteries go away when the battery is replaced. Because you think that blaming "faulty batteries", allows you to call the code Apple has added that has been shown by third party testing to avoid spontaneous shutdowns on aging batteries "a bug" instead of a feature allowing further (but slower) use of ageing batteries without issues.
Because you (think) you know more about the batteries Apple uses than Apple does.
Riiiight. All those older batteries that cause shutdowns on older phones don't exist because you refuse to admit that they do.
None are so blind as those who refuse to see.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=phone+shu...
You're mistaken as even a trivial search on "phone shutdown old battery" would have shown.
It's not just an iPhone issue, this has been tested and spontaneous shutdowns on older batteries when not throttling has been confirmed on different phone makes & models.
> Who said they do?
You keep baselessly opining that that "Nobody cares how much thinner the new iphone X is" when thicker phones keep tanking in the marketplace. Again mr belly button gazer, what you want != what the market has been shown to want.
Inch thick was an exaggeration (I had meant to write half-inch) but even the original iPhone's half inch which you glorified further upthread would tank in today's market. Feel free to furnish sales figures of any half-inch thick phones that sold well in the last 3 years.
Hot Air Monsieur! HOT AIR!
Our politicians here in France have hot air in abundance!
When your cultural reference is pickup trucks, you clearly need reminding that /. is not U.S. only.
Even Apples's less successful releases would be successes for anyone else and every "failure" has been deemed the beginning of the end by critics of your kind. An objective observer, which you are not, would note that Apple has gone on to greater success every time. What are _your_ successes, eh mr belly button gazer? Lint?
Yeah you'd choose a phone with something you rarely if ever needed over having a security model that isn't swiss cheese and needs twice the RAM/Flash to function adequately.
Nobody cares about thinner phones? Funny how the best sellers are NOT an inch thick. Yeah, twits keep repeating that they want thicker phones but every time someone comes out with a thicker model phone it's sales tank. You chubby lovers just don't care enough to actually _buy_ them in significant numbers, you just whine about it.
Hint: Not everyone that frequents /. lives in your neighborhood or even the U.S.
Choosing pickups instead of other vehicles is an entirely subjective and not a functional choice from what > I If Apple's iphone X had been 2mm thicker and lasted an extra day do you really think it would have sold worse?
Yes. Once again, your circle of friends is not the world and Apple knows far, far more about what people will buy than you do.
> Did removing the headphone jack just so it could be thinner really do anything the consumers wanted? Really? Apple didn't give consumers a choice.
The 6, 6+ & SE are all choice. I have needed to charge and wanted to listen music over earphones at the same time _twice_ in the 2 years I've had my 7+. OOOHHH THE HORROR!!! I suppose you also choose your 911/pickup by choosing the model that has the most convenient ashtrays? Because THAT's what 's _important_ to you so it _must_ be the same for everyone...
There's an expression in French for people like you: Nombriliste. The direct translation is belly-button gazer but the full definition is even more apt.
I doubted that you actually believed that there was enough of a market because it is a common refrain from the Apple critics. They claim that there is a HUGE unfulfilled market of bigger/replaceable battery/jack phones and yet when pricked with "well then go do something about it", their balloon always withers away pretexting "I'm too busy". You're far from the first to opine and then run away, I just like making that retreat explicit.
My first iphone was a 4, then a 6+ purchased when my daughter wanted my 4, replaced after water damage with a 7+ that I'll probably be using for another 2-3 years. iPhones in this family last (except for damage) much longer than yours do.
It is _so_ amusing when people choose arguments through ignorance of a subject that actually weakens their case and that that when one knows something about it, strengthens mine.
Try putting sub-standard fuel (like something that has been stored in a tank for the past 3 years to parallel battery degradation) into your TDI and see how it reacts, hmm? As multiple ACs correctly noted, it WILL degrade the performance drastically until you can get it into the shop so that they can reset it. Oh and that little reset is going to cost you, often $100-$250.
That has nothing to do with anti-pollution norms being evaded with defeat devices, but then you'd have to know more about the subject to understand that.
So you want a bigger battery phone instead of a functionally equivalent phone+battery case because it isn't fetching. OK, message received.
I look around the roads around me and very rarely see any pickup trucks, yet somehow there is no lack in vehicles performing the tasks you attribute to them as uniquely pickup based. Nor do people say that they actually want/need a pickup.
Ahh, but what you're really trying to say is that pick-ups are the _in_ thing among the people around you which is why you desire _that_ and only _that_. Isn't that also what some people say about Apple products?
Three phones (that certainly all cost more than 1/3 of an iPhone if they weren't budget phones) versus what would probably be a single iPhone. Yeah, the TCO must be on your side, snort.
You go ahead and build your business in your perceived wonderful marketplace. Give it a real good shot & invest everything you have into it.
Do come back in a few years to let us know how you did...
That samsung phone sold so poorly and exhibited such poor water resistance that Samsung quickly abandoned it.
It took me 10 minutes to change the battery on my wife's iPhone 6 that came out around the same time as the note4. I suppose that 10 minutes after three years of use is far far to long and the procedure much too complex for you to feel comfortable performing.
My memory of phones with changeable batteries is dimmed by all the times a small drop caused the battery connection to reseat and the phone rebooted, losing calls because I was switching batteries, not being sure if the backup battery was charged or not and not being able to help a friend with a low battery because we didn't have the exact same phone/battery.
Having an external battery pack that I can charge/check/loan easily and that I just leave connected for 15 minutes changed all that.