I had a similar experience. Actually I had the touch screen problem a few days after they exhanged the battery, which was an unlikely coincidence. I brought it back and they also gave me a brand new 6Plus (not refurbished, though limited to 90 days of warranty).
Meanwhile I restored it from icloud, all works well. I must say that I thought about reselling it, funding part of a new iPhone X, but I prefer to wait until there is a bigger size future XsPlus or some such.
I do think it is not a bad idea to manage the old batteries the way they did it. My worn out iPhone 6 Plus (could keep 1/3 of the original charge) didn t suddenly shut down but yes it slowed down, and after battery replacement 2 weeks ago it works well again. Replacement took 2 hours, a reasonable small inconvenience after 4 years, really I prefer a slim phone with better water resistance over a battery lid.
The one thing where they messed up was communications, they should have been transparent about it from the beginning and most people would turn have found it reasonable.
âoeIt's not immediately clear exactly why Google is building a new operating system...â
Unix is more than 40 years old. Granted, it works well on computers of different size levels and below the hood on both android and iOS devices.
But still, it is conceptually old, certainly by IT evolution standards.
I can imagine that a company with the funds and intellectual workforce like Google would be capable of innovating operating system principles taking into account the advances in academic research.
It wouldnâ(TM)t surprise me if a team of Apple engineers were also, and obviously more secretively, working on a next generation operating system as well.
Rolex doesn't publish production but usefully, they get their movements COSC certified, and in 2011 there were 751,285 COSC movements. Currently it is expected that they sell between 800k and 1M.
Considering the price of even an "entry level" Oyster Perpetual, I find it amazing that they can sell so many. But then they enjoy a very strong brand perception. Buying a Rolex is for many still a sign of "I made it".
“The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World” by haruki murakami
“War and Peace” in the modern Peavar translation
“Lolita” and “Pnin” by Nabokov
“The Death of Ivan ilyich” by Tolstoi
“Maus” by Art Spiegelman
“My Dog Stupid” by John Fante
“LA confidential” by James Elroy
“Blindsight” by Peter Watts for cutting edge SF
Etc. So much good stuff, so little time
I agree that health monitoring will be the “killer app” for smartwatches. It is well known that
Apple hired people with phds on non-invasive sensors. That could be big, and not only for people with diabetes.
So I am quite interested in mainly mechanical watches. As an engineer, isn’t it wonderful how a watch without electronics can be accurate to a few seconds per day? I still find it marvelous. I have a small collection with both vintage ones and modern ones - a recent arrival is the Hemel HFT20 with a mechanical chrono, a kind of homage to the pilot chronos of the 1970s and 70s. Regarding quartz, I also occasionally enjoy a GShock Mudmaster because it is such a beast.
Anyway, the above as a preamble. Two years ago my wife gave me the Apple Watch series 0 and it surprises me how much I like it. It is the stainless one, looks better on a suit.
First impression from a watch nerd pov, the straps are excellent, the simple mechanism tonchange them and the general feel of them is superb. If someone can point me to a traditional nato strap of the same material as the Apple nylon straps, please say so.
Second, it is simply a very accurate watch to start with, even if it doesn t connect to your phone it will actually stay more accurate than a standard quartz watch thanks to a thermocompensated module. Have a look in a shop window, in the afternoon you will see 2 seconds difference between the slowest and quickest g shock with radio syncing (this happena at night normally) while a table with apple watches runs perfectly in sync. That is cool engineering.
Now the apps. The device is good for drawing your attention, not for interacting deeply. I like: general discreet notifications with a tap signal, set up for my close friends and family only. The calendar, the weather, the activity monitor, the iphone camera remote. I don’t use many 3rd party apps though the ebay reminder can be useful.
Has it displaced my beloved mechanicals? No, but I enjoy it and wear statistically most often (the first world problem of any watch nerd is to decide which watch to wear that day), in fact some weeks I only wear it.
You can just doubleclick the button below the crown on the apple watch to trigger Apple Pay. Authentication happened earlier when you put it on and is canceled when you take it off. I use it quite often.
Actually, Rolex sells 800.000 to 1.000.000 watches per year. Not very very low volumes, in fact one of the biggest selling brands despite the price.
Not sure how much the average price of the Rolexes in the market is. 7000 usd perhaps, because I expect that the less expensive ones sell more. And the average apple watch price - perhaps 400 usd because I mainly see the sport models. Since Apple Watch has surpassed rolex in value, that would mean that they sell more than around 18 million pieces per year. Not bad at all.
Open source projects are cool, buy how many people you know, outside open source zealots, are on diaspora or mastodon? Difficult to displace facebook and twitter if you like them - the community is the main part of the attraction.
Also a phone without a popular messenging service would have limited appeal. I now live in Asia and almost everyone I meet is on Whatsapp.
I currently live in Hong Kong and see quite a few Apple watches in the metro.
It is I admit not a typical country, you also see many more luxury watches like rolex, panerai and iwc than anywhere in Europe or usa.
Unfortunately there is no video in the article, yet it sounds like a high-end, glasses-based upgrade to Apple’s ARKit. The latter is actually already pretty cool (you can find cool youtube videos of someone finding a portal door to a parallel world), and while I see it mainly great for gaming, Ikea actually makes some of its furniture visible in AR, that is useful.
Actually, I have an appointment with the local Apple store to replace the weak old battery of my 6Plus. I will be without a phone for 2-3 hours, and then I am good again for a few years or until I succumb to tge temptation of say, a future XsPlus.
This is convenient and easy enough for me. I don’t really crave a user replaceable battery, phones can be made slimmer and with a more tightly optimised battery form factor without that feature. I prefer that approach and can live with a few hours downtime after 4 years.
When the news about the object broke, I immediately thought about Rendezvous with Rama. Probably many others here as well. Pity that it is impossible to do an intercept mission for closer study.
There is still no Spotify app on Apple TV - some indications that they are working on it, but nothing materialised. In principle I can use my iphone and ipad and stream the music through the apple tv to my hifi, but it would be elegant to have a dedicated app. Hope we'll see it one day.
We have twins who are almost 1 year old. Already now, we limit the number of different toys on the playmat. You can see them indeed focusing better.
I recently bought 2 bags of Megablocks by Fisher Price, kinda a Lego Duplo clone. So far we only gave them 1 set, and they are interested, not yet really building things, but examining the separate blocks, and interested when we put them together. I do hope that they soon start experimenting with building, it is good for creativity, spatial thinking and handiness. They can graduate to lego in a few more years
Happy that they are also interested in toddler books, they pay attention when we read them aloud. Some toddler books are amazingly well done (usually the ones which are not terribly educational but more empathic, like This is a Cat). A fantastic book I recommend for other parents is Press Here. Our kids are a little too young, but I had great success with 1.5 year olds with it. It is truly a book they will want to explore with you multiple times.
If you remember, Touchid was similarly soon broken, and it also required quite some commitment from the hacker.
Still, for most people the security of TouchId was good enough and practical in use.
I expect the same with FaceID. For the utmost in security, users can always opt for a passcode.
Dude, I quoted a business insider article from memory, including the jeans example why they expect other retailers to suffer.
I can most definitely afford the X, but my 6Plus is still good enough.
The issue with ground loops is not stopped in the digital domain.
Because usually it is the same ground in your dac in the digital and in the analog domaiN. This is why you can still have hum if you connect electrically via a coax to your dac. A problem that an optical cable perfectly sidesteps by cutting the ground.
I read an interesting comment on a business site: the success of the iPhoneX will be felt by other retailers this Q4 and upcoming Q1, more so than previous iPhones. Expectation is that many will say: “I just bought a $1000 phone, I will delay buying a new jeans trousers.”
I found it pleasant to use optical in a stereo setting to solve ground loop issues (hum!), since there is no electrical connection
Specifically to use optical audio out instead of analog out from my tv to my hifi.
I later found it was the antenna connection that caused the ground loop.
Nowadays I use hdmi for everything which is balanced (if I remember well), hence no hum issues either
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I had a similar experience. Actually I had the touch screen problem a few days after they exhanged the battery, which was an unlikely coincidence. I brought it back and they also gave me a brand new 6Plus (not refurbished, though limited to 90 days of warranty).
Meanwhile I restored it from icloud, all works well. I must say that I thought about reselling it, funding part of a new iPhone X, but I prefer to wait until there is a bigger size future XsPlus or some such.
I do think it is not a bad idea to manage the old batteries the way they did it. My worn out iPhone 6 Plus (could keep 1/3 of the original charge) didn t suddenly shut down but yes it slowed down, and after battery replacement 2 weeks ago it works well again. Replacement took 2 hours, a reasonable small inconvenience after 4 years, really I prefer a slim phone with better water resistance over a battery lid.
The one thing where they messed up was communications, they should have been transparent about it from the beginning and most people would turn have found it reasonable.
âoeIt's not immediately clear exactly why Google is building a new operating system...â
Unix is more than 40 years old. Granted, it works well on computers of different size levels and below the hood on both android and iOS devices.
But still, it is conceptually old, certainly by IT evolution standards.
I can imagine that a company with the funds and intellectual workforce like Google would be capable of innovating operating system principles taking into account the advances in academic research.
It wouldnâ(TM)t surprise me if a team of Apple engineers were also, and obviously more secretively, working on a next generation operating system as well.
Rolex doesn't publish production but usefully, they get their movements COSC certified, and in 2011 there were 751,285 COSC movements. Currently it is expected that they sell between 800k and 1M.
Considering the price of even an "entry level" Oyster Perpetual, I find it amazing that they can sell so many. But then they enjoy a very strong brand perception. Buying a Rolex is for many still a sign of "I made it".
“The Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World” by haruki murakami
“War and Peace” in the modern Peavar translation
“Lolita” and “Pnin” by Nabokov
“The Death of Ivan ilyich” by Tolstoi
“Maus” by Art Spiegelman
“My Dog Stupid” by John Fante
“LA confidential” by James Elroy
“Blindsight” by Peter Watts for cutting edge SF
Etc. So much good stuff, so little time
I agree that health monitoring will be the “killer app” for smartwatches. It is well known that Apple hired people with phds on non-invasive sensors. That could be big, and not only for people with diabetes.
So I am quite interested in mainly mechanical watches. As an engineer, isn’t it wonderful how a watch without electronics can be accurate to a few seconds per day? I still find it marvelous. I have a small collection with both vintage ones and modern ones - a recent arrival is the Hemel HFT20 with a mechanical chrono, a kind of homage to the pilot chronos of the 1970s and 70s.
Regarding quartz, I also occasionally enjoy a GShock Mudmaster because it is such a beast.
Anyway, the above as a preamble. Two years ago my wife gave me the Apple Watch series 0 and it surprises me how much I like it. It is the stainless one, looks better on a suit.
First impression from a watch nerd pov, the straps are excellent, the simple mechanism tonchange them and the general feel of them is superb. If someone can point me to a traditional nato strap of the same material as the Apple nylon straps, please say so.
Second, it is simply a very accurate watch to start with, even if it doesn t connect to your phone it will actually stay more accurate than a standard quartz watch thanks to a thermocompensated module. Have a look in a shop window, in the afternoon you will see 2 seconds difference between the slowest and quickest g shock with radio syncing (this happena at night normally) while a table with apple watches runs perfectly in sync. That is cool engineering.
Now the apps. The device is good for drawing your attention, not for interacting deeply. I like: general discreet notifications with a tap signal, set up for my close friends and family only. The calendar, the weather, the activity monitor, the iphone camera remote. I don’t use many 3rd party apps though the ebay reminder can be useful.
Has it displaced my beloved mechanicals? No, but I enjoy it and wear statistically most often (the first world problem of any watch nerd is to decide which watch to wear that day), in fact some weeks I only wear it.
You can just doubleclick the button below the crown on the apple watch to trigger Apple Pay. Authentication happened earlier when you put it on and is canceled when you take it off. I use it quite often.
Actually, Rolex sells 800.000 to 1.000.000 watches per year. Not very very low volumes, in fact one of the biggest selling brands despite the price. Not sure how much the average price of the Rolexes in the market is. 7000 usd perhaps, because I expect that the less expensive ones sell more. And the average apple watch price - perhaps 400 usd because I mainly see the sport models. Since Apple Watch has surpassed rolex in value, that would mean that they sell more than around 18 million pieces per year. Not bad at all.
Open source projects are cool, buy how many people you know, outside open source zealots, are on diaspora or mastodon? Difficult to displace facebook and twitter if you like them - the community is the main part of the attraction. Also a phone without a popular messenging service would have limited appeal. I now live in Asia and almost everyone I meet is on Whatsapp.
THere will be some, but many, many professionals proudly wear a real luxury timepiece over here.
I currently live in Hong Kong and see quite a few Apple watches in the metro. It is I admit not a typical country, you also see many more luxury watches like rolex, panerai and iwc than anywhere in Europe or usa.
Unfortunately there is no video in the article, yet it sounds like a high-end, glasses-based upgrade to Apple’s ARKit. The latter is actually already pretty cool (you can find cool youtube videos of someone finding a portal door to a parallel world), and while I see it mainly great for gaming, Ikea actually makes some of its furniture visible in AR, that is useful.
Actually, I have an appointment with the local Apple store to replace the weak old battery of my 6Plus. I will be without a phone for 2-3 hours, and then I am good again for a few years or until I succumb to tge temptation of say, a future XsPlus.
This is convenient and easy enough for me. I don’t really crave a user replaceable battery, phones can be made slimmer and with a more tightly optimised battery form factor without that feature. I prefer that approach and can live with a few hours downtime after 4 years.
When the news about the object broke, I immediately thought about Rendezvous with Rama. Probably many others here as well. Pity that it is impossible to do an intercept mission for closer study.
There is still no Spotify app on Apple TV - some indications that they are working on it, but nothing materialised. In principle I can use my iphone and ipad and stream the music through the apple tv to my hifi, but it would be elegant to have a dedicated app. Hope we'll see it one day.
Of course we do that as well. It is AND, not OR.
We have twins who are almost 1 year old. Already now, we limit the number of different toys on the playmat. You can see them indeed focusing better.
I recently bought 2 bags of Megablocks by Fisher Price, kinda a Lego Duplo clone. So far we only gave them 1 set, and they are interested, not yet really building things, but examining the separate blocks, and interested when we put them together. I do hope that they soon start experimenting with building, it is good for creativity, spatial thinking and handiness. They can graduate to lego in a few more years
Happy that they are also interested in toddler books, they pay attention when we read them aloud. Some toddler books are amazingly well done (usually the ones which are not terribly educational but more empathic, like This is a Cat). A fantastic book I recommend for other parents is Press Here. Our kids are a little too young, but I had great success with 1.5 year olds with it. It is truly a book they will want to explore with you multiple times.
Google Bruges, or rent the In Bruges movie, and you'll want to g there on holiday.
I can’t be the only one thinking that the Tesla truck could be the basis for a very cool, very “James Bond bad guy” camper van?
If you remember, Touchid was similarly soon broken, and it also required quite some commitment from the hacker.
Still, for most people the security of TouchId was good enough and practical in use.
I expect the same with FaceID. For the utmost in security, users can always opt for a passcode.
Dude, I quoted a business insider article from memory, including the jeans example why they expect other retailers to suffer.
I can most definitely afford the X, but my 6Plus is still good enough.
The issue with ground loops is not stopped in the digital domain. Because usually it is the same ground in your dac in the digital and in the analog domaiN. This is why you can still have hum if you connect electrically via a coax to your dac. A problem that an optical cable perfectly sidesteps by cutting the ground.
I read an interesting comment on a business site: the success of the iPhoneX will be felt by other retailers this Q4 and upcoming Q1, more so than previous iPhones. Expectation is that many will say: “I just bought a $1000 phone, I will delay buying a new jeans trousers.”
I found it pleasant to use optical in a stereo setting to solve ground loop issues (hum!), since there is no electrical connection
Specifically to use optical audio out instead of analog out from my tv to my hifi.
I later found it was the antenna connection that caused the ground loop.
Nowadays I use hdmi for everything which is balanced (if I remember well), hence no hum issues either