Ah, of course I meant Xiaomi. However, since you are a rude, obnoxious Apple partisan, like most Apple employees, you will do your best to make an issue of that. Bottom line: Apple rapidly losing ground in the smartwatch segment because of designing an inferior product with unacceptable battery life, that is just plain ugly. In short, something only an Apple diehard could love. Carry on.
BTW, Apple should be concerned about Huawei's share too. Both are likely to eclipse out-of-ideas Apple.
Ah, I see what you're saying. Let me correct a misunderstanding: management engine configuration is designed to be impossible by anyone downstream of the OEM, which can be enforced by a variety of means including burning out fusible links. Whether Intel does actually manage to enforce that perfectly is a question for security researchers.
So, according to you, suggesting that Apple made a mistake is hating on Apple? Maybe you also think that convicting a criminal is hating on the criminal?
Are you claiming that Intel didn't provide Apple with documentation on how to configure the ME? But this researcher somehow knew about that configuration option? Pretty hard to exonerate Apple on this one, but I fully expect the usual social media astroturfers to try.
From the article "it's an Intel ME option that desktop, server, laptop, or mobile OEMs can enable for Intel chips and use it for testing." Apple is the OEM, so it was Apple that wrongly configured these chips.
Not defending Intel's notorious management engine by any means, but let's point the finger at the guilty party in this case.
I'm impressed how even you missed OP's "A confused iOS user", clearly intended as a sarcasm tag. I suppose it just shows that nobody hears you being sarcastic on the internet. But thanks for the explanation anyway.
I remember the days when rooting Apple products was a thing, but by today Apple has trained all their diehard loyalists not to want that, and even think it's better without. Basically, "I'm so glad I'm an Apple".
Huawei's Watch 2 claims two days of battery life under normal use. That's 2.5 times better than Apple. And the Huawei looks good with its round body, unlike Apple's clunky/ugly phone-on-a-wrist. No wonder Huawei got such a big chunk of the market already. And they are said to be bring out a product with a full week of battery life. There you go, Huawei concentrates on what's important for a watch. Apple brags about more bits.
And huff and puff and pretend that 64 bit is not more power hungry than 32 bit. Apple cultists somehow overlooking that, once again, this watch only has 18 hours endurance unless you basically turn it off. Some watch.
To Apple employees with mod points: modding down a Slashdot post does not fix the pathetic Apple watch battery life.
You know, I really detest Apple. Every time an Apple astroturfer heads out to social media to mod down posts, I detest Apple more. Rightly so. Fix your exploding phones, overheating chargers and battery challenged watch instead of just acting like Scientogistis.
Apple: the Scientology church of tech companies. You know what a Scientologist would do? Mod this down. Scientology Church of Apple.
There, see? Apple: exactly the Scientology cult everybody thinks it is.
Not sure what the most popular video format is for the game industry now, a few years back it was Bink. Maybe it still is. For audio, the standard has been Ogg for a long time. Looks like the Dav1d codec could do for game video what ogg did for audio.
Taking over the web is more of a challenge. Given the roster of backers, it's a cinch that all the main browsers will support it. Basically, if browsers and Youtube supports it, it wins.
Huawei's Watch 2 claims two days of battery life under normal use. That's 2.5 times better than Apple. And the Huawei looks good with its round body, unlike Apple's clunky/ugly phone-on-a-wrist. No wonder Huawei got such a big chunk of the market already. And they are said to be bring out a product with a full week of battery life. There you go, Huawei concentrates on what's important for a watch. Apple brags about more bits.
And huff and puff and pretend that 64 bit is not more power hungry than 32 bit. Apple cultists somehow overlooking that, once again, this watch only has 18 hours endurance unless you basically turn it off. Some watch.
To Apple employees with mod points: modding down a Slashdot post does not fix the pathetic Apple watch battery life.
You know, I really detest Apple. Every time an Apple astroturfer heads out to social media to mod down posts, I detest Apple more. Rightly so. Fix your exploding phones, overheating chargers and battery challenged watch instead of just acting like Scientogistis.
Apple: the Scientology church of tech companies. You know what a Scientologist would do? Mod this down. Scientology Church of Apple.
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Ah, of course I meant Xiaomi. However, since you are a rude, obnoxious Apple partisan, like most Apple employees, you will do your best to make an issue of that. Bottom line: Apple rapidly losing ground in the smartwatch segment because of designing an inferior product with unacceptable battery life, that is just plain ugly. In short, something only an Apple diehard could love. Carry on.
BTW, Apple should be concerned about Huawei's share too. Both are likely to eclipse out-of-ideas Apple.
17.01% Apple, 15.1% Huawei, from your own link. You need to get glasses.
Next year, this time, Apple will be 5% behind Huawei. Mark it down.
Your numbers are out of date. Huawei smartwatch market share is only 2 points behind apple.
Apple won't be happy when it finds out you're planning to buy used and will be looking at ways to punish you for that.
Ah, I see what you're saying. Let me correct a misunderstanding: management engine configuration is designed to be impossible by anyone downstream of the OEM, which can be enforced by a variety of means including burning out fusible links. Whether Intel does actually manage to enforce that perfectly is a question for security researchers.
You sure are fast to hating on Apple.
So, according to you, suggesting that Apple made a mistake is hating on Apple? Maybe you also think that convicting a criminal is hating on the criminal?
Are you claiming that Intel didn't provide Apple with documentation on how to configure the ME?
No, I am claiming that Apple probably knows how to disable it . . . but won't.
Looks more like an oversight to me, or lack of quality control.
Are you claiming that Intel didn't provide Apple with documentation on how to configure the ME? But this researcher somehow knew about that configuration option? Pretty hard to exonerate Apple on this one, but I fully expect the usual social media astroturfers to try.
From the article "it's an Intel ME option that desktop, server, laptop, or mobile OEMs can enable for Intel chips and use it for testing." Apple is the OEM, so it was Apple that wrongly configured these chips.
Not defending Intel's notorious management engine by any means, but let's point the finger at the guilty party in this case.
You seem obsessed.
I'm impressed how even you missed OP's "A confused iOS user", clearly intended as a sarcasm tag. I suppose it just shows that nobody hears you being sarcastic on the internet. But thanks for the explanation anyway.
I remember the days when rooting Apple products was a thing, but by today Apple has trained all their diehard loyalists not to want that, and even think it's better without. Basically, "I'm so glad I'm an Apple".
Every noticed how this kind of talk, including the drivel you posted, tends to center around Scientology House Apple?
Yours is not a simplified development toolchain, it is an amplified bullshit chain.
FYI as of this evening my iPhone 6S+ is having the same problem with charging, ie it wonâ(TM)t charge unless I unlock it.
Does that make you more or less likely to spend $1000+ on an Apple phone in the future?
At least get the new Apple Watch
Don't get just one, get two! Love that blocky look.
I know this article mentions Apple and that brings in the clicks (from trolls and fanboys mostly, but clicks are clicks I guess)
It brought you.
64-bit ARM processors have more than double the number of general purpose registers than 32 bit ARM processors have.
More transistors, more power suck. On a device that doesn't need the extra performance, it would benefit much more from extra battery life.
Spin, spin, spin. Admit it, the only useful purpose of 64 bits CPU on a watch is a bigger number.
As the 32 bit line dies out, devs responsible for it can be moved to maintaining the 64 bit branch. The user seems well served.
Huh? Apple is well served, not the user.
Huawei's Watch 2 claims two days of battery life under normal use. That's 2.5 times better than Apple. And the Huawei looks good with its round body, unlike Apple's clunky/ugly phone-on-a-wrist. No wonder Huawei got such a big chunk of the market already. And they are said to be bring out a product with a full week of battery life. There you go, Huawei concentrates on what's important for a watch. Apple brags about more bits.
What is offtopic about that?
And huff and puff and pretend that 64 bit is not more power hungry than 32 bit. Apple cultists somehow overlooking that, once again, this watch only has 18 hours endurance unless you basically turn it off. Some watch.
To Apple employees with mod points: modding down a Slashdot post does not fix the pathetic Apple watch battery life.
You know, I really detest Apple. Every time an Apple astroturfer heads out to social media to mod down posts, I detest Apple more. Rightly so. Fix your exploding phones, overheating chargers and battery challenged watch instead of just acting like Scientogistis.
Apple: the Scientology church of tech companies. You know what a Scientologist would do? Mod this down. Scientology Church of Apple.
There, see? Apple: exactly the Scientology cult everybody thinks it is.
Not sure what the most popular video format is for the game industry now, a few years back it was Bink. Maybe it still is. For audio, the standard has been Ogg for a long time. Looks like the Dav1d codec could do for game video what ogg did for audio.
Taking over the web is more of a challenge. Given the roster of backers, it's a cinch that all the main browsers will support it. Basically, if browsers and Youtube supports it, it wins.
Huawei's Watch 2 claims two days of battery life under normal use. That's 2.5 times better than Apple. And the Huawei looks good with its round body, unlike Apple's clunky/ugly phone-on-a-wrist. No wonder Huawei got such a big chunk of the market already. And they are said to be bring out a product with a full week of battery life. There you go, Huawei concentrates on what's important for a watch. Apple brags about more bits.
And huff and puff and pretend that 64 bit is not more power hungry than 32 bit. Apple cultists somehow overlooking that, once again, this watch only has 18 hours endurance unless you basically turn it off. Some watch.
To Apple employees with mod points: modding down a Slashdot post does not fix the pathetic Apple watch battery life.
You know, I really detest Apple. Every time an Apple astroturfer heads out to social media to mod down posts, I detest Apple more. Rightly so. Fix your exploding phones, overheating chargers and battery challenged watch instead of just acting like Scientogistis.
Apple: the Scientology church of tech companies. You know what a Scientologist would do? Mod this down. Scientology Church of Apple.
Good thing this is a real open source project so you can check.
Got some skin in the game, hmm?