We don't currently know where this woman got the phone. If it was a refurbished phone off Apple's own store, for instance, that would not be a valid argument.
There's really too much unknown here, at this point in time, for any of us to form intelligent opinions on; but that doesn't seem to be stopping most posters.
The lawsuit specifically states "Neither Thao nor anyone else ever changed the battery in the iPhone", which is interestingly certain given the vintage and purchase date.
Also, the fire happened in April 2016, and the suit was filed last Thursday. The wheels of justice turn slowly... but I'll be curious to see what additional information comes out. Does the phone still exist in a form Apple can even examine?
Be fair - we were all over Samsung long before it was clear what the problem was.
That's not to argue most of your points, though. We're talking about a model which was in millions of people's pockets for several years - whatever happened, it's obvious this is a rare occurrence and not something endemic.
I also tend to be biased against anything State Farm is involved with, based on personal experience with the company. But let's see how the story develops, then decide.
I don't believe you can actually do that. I mean - you can certainly write your name on the paper, and you can voluntarily choose to act as if you're required to follow that agreement... but, before a judge, even if you said "yup I willingly signed away my constitutional rights" - that judge would at best laugh, and at worst hit you with his gavel for wasting his time with something which is not legal.
I know a few EE faculty who have moved from using Matlab to using Python. Some of the grad students think the department should take a more active role in encouraging students to do the same - or to eliminate Matlab from courses entirely.
Like the submitter, I got into gmail pretty early - and while it's not my main address anymore, I still have it forwarding. My gmail address is my first initial plus my somewhat uncommon last name (which - and I hate to break it to you - is not "Wagon").
Anyway, there seems to be two different people who think it's their address... both of whom share my first initial and last name. One is a kid who kept signing up for Facebook with it, which was annoying (since Facebook actually lets you operate an account even if you don't answer the verification email) but eventually got solved after four or five iterations. The other seems to be an older guy from West Virginia or thereabouts. I've gotten house renovation quotes, emails from his lawyers regarding significant purchases, and all sorts of other minutiae which would likely make it easy for me to steal his identity, if I so chose. I ignored it for a while; but eventually I started sending emails back saying variations of "this guy apparently does not know how to use email, but in any case this is not his address". It actually stopped for a while after I replied all to an email his lawyer sent to both him and his wife... but the apparently senile old codger has forgotten again.
Admittedly it's been over a decade since I used a desktop version of Linux, but - is the ability to run VBScript part of the default Gnome installation nowadays? And, if so... what idiot (or group of idiots) decided that was a good idea?
So the watching experience could be better in the theater...
The thing is - for me, anyway - convenience is king. While the theater (sans the drawbacks you spelled out) might indeed be better than watching at home, it doesn't matter because - my experience at home is good enough. Plus:
- I have a wider choice of snacks and drinks available - I have more flexibility regarding start time - I can have friends over to watch, without increasing the cost - I have a pause button
If iOS is SO good at managing memory & other resources such that an app in this 'frozen state' uses 0 resources why not just 'auto launch' ALL apps when the device is rebooted to put them in this state?
It's the difference between RAM and "disk" (SSD) storage... you almost certainly don't have enough RAM to have all your apps loaded into it at once.
This is the number one reason I force quite an apps. A bunch of location-using apps I use must be force-quit in order for them to stop using my location.
Go to Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh and disallow any applications which you don't want to let run in the background... which is probably most of them.
It's a bit irritating that, for most apps, running in the background is enabled by default. There are very few which really need to do that.
Oh, and you may need to occasionally do that again. I've seen all those toggles get re-enabled after certain updates.
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It's "interesting" given she purchased the phone well after Apple stopped making them - so how can they confidently state that as a fact?
... objects that they can't see but trust are there
Like their toes?
We don't currently know where this woman got the phone. If it was a refurbished phone off Apple's own store, for instance, that would not be a valid argument.
There's really too much unknown here, at this point in time, for any of us to form intelligent opinions on; but that doesn't seem to be stopping most posters.
The lawsuit specifically states "Neither Thao nor anyone else ever changed the battery in the iPhone", which is interestingly certain given the vintage and purchase date.
Also, the fire happened in April 2016, and the suit was filed last Thursday. The wheels of justice turn slowly... but I'll be curious to see what additional information comes out. Does the phone still exist in a form Apple can even examine?
Be fair - we were all over Samsung long before it was clear what the problem was.
That's not to argue most of your points, though. We're talking about a model which was in millions of people's pockets for several years - whatever happened, it's obvious this is a rare occurrence and not something endemic.
I also tend to be biased against anything State Farm is involved with, based on personal experience with the company. But let's see how the story develops, then decide.
I don't believe you can actually do that. I mean - you can certainly write your name on the paper, and you can voluntarily choose to act as if you're required to follow that agreement... but, before a judge, even if you said "yup I willingly signed away my constitutional rights" - that judge would at best laugh, and at worst hit you with his gavel for wasting his time with something which is not legal.
I know a few EE faculty who have moved from using Matlab to using Python. Some of the grad students think the department should take a more active role in encouraging students to do the same - or to eliminate Matlab from courses entirely.
Never ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Like the submitter, I got into gmail pretty early - and while it's not my main address anymore, I still have it forwarding. My gmail address is my first initial plus my somewhat uncommon last name (which - and I hate to break it to you - is not "Wagon").
Anyway, there seems to be two different people who think it's their address... both of whom share my first initial and last name. One is a kid who kept signing up for Facebook with it, which was annoying (since Facebook actually lets you operate an account even if you don't answer the verification email) but eventually got solved after four or five iterations. The other seems to be an older guy from West Virginia or thereabouts. I've gotten house renovation quotes, emails from his lawyers regarding significant purchases, and all sorts of other minutiae which would likely make it easy for me to steal his identity, if I so chose. I ignored it for a while; but eventually I started sending emails back saying variations of "this guy apparently does not know how to use email, but in any case this is not his address". It actually stopped for a while after I replied all to an email his lawyer sent to both him and his wife... but the apparently senile old codger has forgotten again.
* Pause the movie
* Go to the bathroom
As I get older, the importance of these two items becomes more apparent to me. And, when my daughter was younger, I would've added
* Be able to rewind the movie
* Don't have to listen to any idiots beside me constantly talking / snoring throughout the entire movie.
You've obviously never watched a movie with my wife...
Admittedly it's been over a decade since I used a desktop version of Linux, but - is the ability to run VBScript part of the default Gnome installation nowadays? And, if so... what idiot (or group of idiots) decided that was a good idea?
So the watching experience could be better in the theater...
The thing is - for me, anyway - convenience is king. While the theater (sans the drawbacks you spelled out) might indeed be better than watching at home, it doesn't matter because - my experience at home is good enough. Plus:
- I have a wider choice of snacks and drinks available
- I have more flexibility regarding start time
- I can have friends over to watch, without increasing the cost
- I have a pause button
(not necessarily in that order)
It's similar to the old "Direct to DVD" model, except Netflix pays some theaters to show their movies.
I give him two months.
So, Blipverts are the future?
I gotta remember to throw some plastic sheets over the couch...
I was always amazed at those people whose desktops were completely filled with shortcuts. I guess they're all using Firefox now.
I wonder if their houses are stacked floor to ceiling, wall to wall, with old newspapers.
It's nice to see a story submission which isn't trying to drive a slanted narrative for once!
All right, what were you trying to write and why are you too stupid to use the Preview button?
Turn in your geek card now, please.
The Constanza Doctrine: It's not a lie if you believe it to be true.
Come to think of it - George Costanza would be a perfect press secretary for this administration.
I'm with you - I wish there was a "leave it on all the time" switch.
Why do you love the terrorists so much?
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The Australian Government
Co-signed,
The governments of the US, Great Britain, most EU countries, Russia, China, and pretty much everywhere else
I think I've got a grand total of two apps which are enabled for background app refresh.
I was going to press control-alt-delete to bring it up, ...
It's an Apple product, so that should be command-alt-delete. :-P
If iOS is SO good at managing memory & other resources such that an app in this 'frozen state' uses 0 resources why not just 'auto launch' ALL apps when the device is rebooted to put them in this state?
It's the difference between RAM and "disk" (SSD) storage... you almost certainly don't have enough RAM to have all your apps loaded into it at once.
This is the number one reason I force quite an apps. A bunch of location-using apps I use must be force-quit in order for them to stop using my location.
Go to Settings -> General -> Background App Refresh and disallow any applications which you don't want to let run in the background... which is probably most of them.
It's a bit irritating that, for most apps, running in the background is enabled by default. There are very few which really need to do that.
Oh, and you may need to occasionally do that again. I've seen all those toggles get re-enabled after certain updates.