They are. Apple now makes more money with Macs alone than they made all together 11 years ago. You know, back when many experts where claiming that since the iPod made them more money than the Mac, they'd stop making Macs in a few years and focus on iPods (even the ones that expected an Apple phone predicted that). Pretty much what the same experts say today.
They really don't give a damn about anything that runs OS X these days and it's a shame. You'd think with all the money they have they'd be willing to take some risks and innovate.
This will be another whole gotcha that most people haven't thought of yet. If something happens to the dot projector in an iPhone X and it gets replaced by a 3rd party, likely faceid will never work again because the pattern of dots cast by the projector will not match the reference calibration image.
Wait, are you telling me that the whole "Right to Repair" movement is mostly about selling you third party replacements that don't work? Shame - on Apple I guess.
Hint: The average African would be considered "very retarded" if they were to be moved to America. The average African IQ south of Egypt is around 62. That means 1/2 are even dumber (very retarded by American standards).
Fun fact: the study these numbers are from have based IQ stats for whole countries where they had no IQ test results available on the numbers from neighboring countries - where they had about a dozen results. IOW anyone quoting those numbers has a negative IQ.
I'm not saying there are no criminals in any group. Merkel ran on the platform that "criminal adults claiming to be minors" is not a thing, there is clear evidence that governments and media have been covering up these stories. Look up the Cologne new year attacks.
They must also have hidden the "fact" that "Merkel ran on the platform that "criminal adults claiming to be minors" is not a thing".
what it does say is in those cases where the Swedish authorities suspected the person’s age was not in fact under 18, it turns out their suspicions were correct.
The authorities were doing their job, in other words.
So the authorities were correct about the ones they investigated. Big round of applause for avoiding false positives.
Have they checked your age already? Looking at your reading comprehension, you can't be older than 13. Because > 13.7% false positives is certainly not avoiding them. And that's before going into that's before even looking at the numbers of people they suspected to be older than 18 because they claimed to be adults back when first applying for asylum but turned out to be younger than 18 (even years later).
Why the fuck do people not get this is the crux of the problem?
The crux of the problem is that people can't tell when their battery doesn't even remotely last as long as it used to? And that they need Apple to tell them?
And if Apple did tell them, they'd complain that Apple forced them to replace their batteries, even though they couldn't see that anything was wrong with those perfectly fine batteries and that this was some conspiracy by Apple to sell more batteries?
We're not talking about what apple 'will do'. Who cares what they do, now that they got their hand caught in the cookie jar. Anyway, if a user can't answer the simple question, they certainly won't be able to correctly interpret battery statistics.
So you are complaining that Apple doesn't give users information that they couldn't understand. Yeah, I see what you did there.
You don't have to be an expert to say 'Allow my phone to reduce speed to extend battery life' or 'Always run at full speed'. You could even add a car analogy.
"Slightly slow down top speed to prevent my engine (already in bad condition and in need of replacement) from stalling and have my car come to a screeching halt in the middle of the street when driving at full speed or allow it to run at full speed anyway"? Yeah, idiots like you want that choice. Doesn't make it a good idea though.
Something else they cant lay claim to being the 1st to do, but you bet your ass they'll find some way to spin it.
You mean they won't be the first to something slow and unreliable? And you can't think of the obvious way to "spin it" - by not fucking it up that way? Poor boy.
I'm not a parent, and when I was growing up things such as iphones didn't exist, so I have to ask..
Why seek a technical solution to the problem? Why not simply take the device away from the child after x time elapses?
Because that is the device you want them to contact you with if something is up? Or would you buy two phones, one to play with for 30 minutes a day, and one dumb phone without even Snake! on it?
Why is it that some people here on Slashdot are so averse to technology that they will do anything to find an "easy" but more expensive and/or complicated solution not to use it? Neo-Luddites, why don't you go to some nice C64 focused chat site, where you will never be forced to hear about technology too advanced for your liking?
So they've been doing what iOS started doing in September 2015 since at least sometime in 2014 and... it seems you're implying that Android is copying Apple when Android actually had the feature first. Yes, I know things.
Well you sure know how to put words in my mouth when you are losing an argument. Like losers do.
THIS.
Plus, all of my Android phones for the past few years have come with a battery extender mode that does what Apple is doing -- but at my option and at any time I choose.
Not THIS. They do what Apple has been doing since iOS 9 with Low Power Mode, not what Apple does now (or since one year ago) - don't you know anything?
In both cases you can't even find that information online from the companies themselves, you have to rely on what a customer says in some support forum.
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Has Apple released anything since Steve Jobs died that hasn't been a total flop?
Funny how you declared everything Apple released when Jobs was still alive a flop too.
Apple *did* innovate in the netbook space. With a touchscreen, pencil and detachable keyboard - the iPad Pro.
Something running OS X, you say? Dunno, ask Tim.
He'll probably tell you about the ModBook that has been available for 11 years now.
Macs should be a cash cow for Apple.
They are. Apple now makes more money with Macs alone than they made all together 11 years ago. You know, back when many experts where claiming that since the iPod made them more money than the Mac, they'd stop making Macs in a few years and focus on iPods (even the ones that expected an Apple phone predicted that). Pretty much what the same experts say today.
They really don't give a damn about anything that runs OS X these days and it's a shame. You'd think with all the money they have they'd be willing to take some risks and innovate.
You mean like they did with the current Mac Pro?
The only thing I usually need to carry is a USB to serial cable just in case I need to work on a router.
And of course you'd have to do that with just about every modern PC notebook too.
Let's sum up the answer to this post: "Your 5 year old iPhone is just as obsolete as most Android phones sold right now. Boooh Apple, hooray Android!"
This will be another whole gotcha that most people haven't thought of yet. If something happens to the dot projector in an iPhone X and it gets replaced by a 3rd party, likely faceid will never work again because the pattern of dots cast by the projector will not match the reference calibration image.
Wait, are you telling me that the whole "Right to Repair" movement is mostly about selling you third party replacements that don't work? Shame - on Apple I guess.
First you say this, trying to be clever:
Looking at your reading comprehension, you can't be older than 13.
But then you write this kind of nonsense:
And that's before going into that's before even looking at the numbers of people
Next time you want to be a cunt, read your own masterpieceofshit before posting.
So? I'm still older than you - not to mention smarter than you will ever be. Because you have terminal stupidity aka Naziism.
Hint: The average African would be considered "very retarded" if they were to be moved to America. The average African IQ south of Egypt is around 62. That means 1/2 are even dumber (very retarded by American standards).
Fun fact: the study these numbers are from have based IQ stats for whole countries where they had no IQ test results available on the numbers from neighboring countries - where they had about a dozen results. IOW anyone quoting those numbers has a negative IQ.
I'm not saying there are no criminals in any group. Merkel ran on the platform that "criminal adults claiming to be minors" is not a thing, there is clear evidence that governments and media have been covering up these stories. Look up the Cologne new year attacks.
They must also have hidden the "fact" that "Merkel ran on the platform that "criminal adults claiming to be minors" is not a thing".
what it does say is in those cases where the Swedish authorities suspected the person’s age was not in fact under 18, it turns out their suspicions were correct. The authorities were doing their job, in other words.
So the authorities were correct about the ones they investigated. Big round of applause for avoiding false positives.
Have they checked your age already? Looking at your reading comprehension, you can't be older than 13. Because > 13.7% false positives is certainly not avoiding them. And that's before going into that's before even looking at the numbers of people they suspected to be older than 18 because they claimed to be adults back when first applying for asylum but turned out to be younger than 18 (even years later).
Trump is your garden gnome.
FTFY
Why the fuck do people not get this is the crux of the problem?
The crux of the problem is that people can't tell when their battery doesn't even remotely last as long as it used to? And that they need Apple to tell them?
And if Apple did tell them, they'd complain that Apple forced them to replace their batteries, even though they couldn't see that anything was wrong with those perfectly fine batteries and that this was some conspiracy by Apple to sell more batteries?
We're not talking about what apple 'will do'. Who cares what they do, now that they got their hand caught in the cookie jar. Anyway, if a user can't answer the simple question, they certainly won't be able to correctly interpret battery statistics.
So you are complaining that Apple doesn't give users information that they couldn't understand. Yeah, I see what you did there.
You don't have to be an expert to say 'Allow my phone to reduce speed to extend battery life' or 'Always run at full speed'. You could even add a car analogy.
"Slightly slow down top speed to prevent my engine (already in bad condition and in need of replacement) from stalling and have my car come to a screeching halt in the middle of the street when driving at full speed or allow it to run at full speed anyway"? Yeah, idiots like you want that choice. Doesn't make it a good idea though.
Something else they cant lay claim to being the 1st to do, but you bet your ass they'll find some way to spin it.
You mean they won't be the first to something slow and unreliable? And you can't think of the obvious way to "spin it" - by not fucking it up that way? Poor boy.
They are afraid there parents turn on parental controls and lock them out.
Yeah, i know, "their". It's a fucking typo, you toddler.
They are afraid there parents turn on parental controls and lock them out.
It would be nice if, with the improved controls, they would allow to publish nude content instead of forcing US prudery on the rest of the world.
Are you actually claiming there's no nudity on Apple's version of Game of Thrones? Wanna bet?
I'm not a parent, and when I was growing up things such as iphones didn't exist, so I have to ask..
Why seek a technical solution to the problem? Why not simply take the device away from the child after x time elapses?
Because that is the device you want them to contact you with if something is up? Or would you buy two phones, one to play with for 30 minutes a day, and one dumb phone without even Snake! on it?
Why is it that some people here on Slashdot are so averse to technology that they will do anything to find an "easy" but more expensive and/or complicated solution not to use it? Neo-Luddites, why don't you go to some nice C64 focused chat site, where you will never be forced to hear about technology too advanced for your liking?
*Planned* obsolescence is a crime in France, not obsolescence per se. Thus, your comment is moot.
IOW Android isn't a crime in France, because nobody actually planned that you couldn't update it.
So they've been doing what iOS started doing in September 2015 since at least sometime in 2014 and... it seems you're implying that Android is copying Apple when Android actually had the feature first. Yes, I know things.
Well you sure know how to put words in my mouth when you are losing an argument. Like losers do.
Next claim by Trumpists will be that those hackers faked all the photos that made it look like there weren't 2 million people at the inauguration.
THIS. Plus, all of my Android phones for the past few years have come with a battery extender mode that does what Apple is doing -- but at my option and at any time I choose.
Not THIS. They do what Apple has been doing since iOS 9 with Low Power Mode, not what Apple does now (or since one year ago) - don't you know anything?
...and still end up charging some $15 more than in case of other brands.
Yeah. Right. What do other companies with built-in batteries charge for a replacement you don't have to yourself?
Authorised replacement for Google Pixel battery; only $79.99
Official statement from Samsung about replacing batteries for Samsung Galaxy S7 edge: "t's $73 according to Samsung customer service (12/14/16)."
In both cases you can't even find that information online from the companies themselves, you have to rely on what a customer says in some support forum.