For the translation services, you have to use the Google BT headphones, there are no other compatible options. The reasons they give for making it specific to their headset are all specific to BT headphones. If they had support for a 3.5mm TRRS plug then they would have compatibility with a huge range of other options.
I would think that the real reason is that those earbuds have an App that receives a dedicated command from the earbuds, initiating the translation and text to speech process.
Typical at Apple, where shit like "GotoFail" is a regular occurrence.
Shitty developers with nonreviewed code in important security places, no QA and test procedures... bugs can show up in corner cases, but not in THE FUCKING USE CASE.
Who the fuck is running things over there?
A REGULAR occurence?!? You mean ONCE, right?
Just like the bug in BASH that went for 25 YEARS with NONE of the "Many Eyes" spotting it???
The reason why Apple (and Beats, and some other Mfgs) BT earbuds/headphones are superior is not dependent on Bluetooth 5.0; it is because they support a far-superior CODEC, namely AAC, than typical shitbox BT 'phones/'buds.
Mind you, stuff like Apple's W1/W2 chips helps; but the main improvement is due to AAC.
And no, the proprietary aptX is NOT an equivalent. And did I mention "proprietary" (owned by Qualcomm)?
All good reasons on that link... until you remember that none of those reasons would apply if they had kept a 3.5mm headphone socket for wired headphones.
WTF does a 3.5 mm headphone jack have to do with BT earbuds?
If anything, that makes this product MORE compatible across devices and platforms.
You see it is common for people to switch the data between two fields when they enter it. Obviously the developer switched the fields and is showing hint for password, and password for hint.
I once switched the username and password fields while creating the account in Slashdot and I am still living with it;-)
But my friend, who runs a small company, got the shock of his life when the bank clerk switched the amount and data while entering some transaction. (It was in Chennai, India, not fully automated banking). The bank debited 12102015 rupees from his account or something.
That was exactly my thought; that this was a Developer brain-fart, not a design-flaw.
It's sure beginning to look like Apple WAS being Courageous by being the first major Smartphone OEM that decided that the 3.5 mm headphone jack was an impediment to forward-progress in the smartphone design universe...
You are correct. I stand corrected. Although the cutaway graphics show what appear to be standard RAM sockets Inside; so maybe just not "easily upgradeable" RAM...
We won't really know until iFixit gets out their heat-gun...;-)
Even at $10.5 billion, Apple is still at the bottom of the top 20 when it comes to R&D spending as a percent of revenue (basically normalizing for the size of the company), and around half the top 20's average.
35.7% - Bristol-Myers Squibb - $5.9b
24.3% - AstroZeneca - $6.0
21.9% - Intel - $12.1b
19.9% - Roche Holding - $10.0b
17.0% - Merk - $6.7b
19.2% - Novartis - $9.5b
15.7% - Pfizer - $7.7b
15.6% - Oracle - $5.8b
14.4% - Alphabet - $12.3b
12.9% - Microsoft - $12.0b
12.9% - Johnson & Johnson - $9.0b
12.6% - Cisco - $6.2b
11.7% - Amazon - $12.5b
7.2% - Samsung - $12.7b
5.6% - Volkswagen - $13.2b
4.9% - General Motors - $7.5b
4.5% - Ford - $6.7b
4.5% - Apple, revised - $10.5b
4.0% - Daimler - $6.6b
3.7% - Toyota - $8.8b
3.5% - Apple - $8.1b
8.7% - Total - $179.4b
To match the top 20's average, Apple would need to spend $20.1 billion on R&D. To match the top tech company (Intel) they'd have to spend $50.7 billion.
Sounds to me like Apple is spending smarter, then.
I run a 2005 G5 Tower at home as a Surveillance, FTP, and iTunes Server, FFS!!!
A 2010 mini used to do that for me, at a fraction of your power draw. It used to serve as my HTPC as well. Now it's a 2012 quad i7 to handle all that and more.
I would have loved to do that with a mini, and in fact, I spec'ed a 2010 mini to do just that for a friend of mine. Still working quite nicely, too. But The G5 Tower was just languishing, having been replaced by my 2012 nrMBP as my "daily driver", and I didn't want to spend the coin on a mini for a non-essential function.
Considering that they're generally last to market with every single feature, only after every low end android phone already has it... Apparently the 10 Billion is either not enough, or being spent in the wrong places.
Wrong.
Android may be first-to-market with some things (not every single thing); but that's only because they rush -to-market with half-baked shit (e.g. Samsung's laughable Face Recognition AND equally-laughable Iris Recognition). This allows them to put a feature on the spec sheet; but doesn't benefit the customer, or even worse, is a trap for the unwary (see abovementioned "security" features), that makes them DEPEND on something that is actually WORSE for them than nothing!
No, what Apple spends money on, in the case of a feature that appears first on Android, is to FINISH the R&D, so when they have a fucking feature, it is MUCH more likely to work, and work well.
Anyone that has done R&D, as I have for decades, knows that the first "draft" of an idea takes a day or two; but the rest of getting something that is actually robust enough to be SALEABLE often takes months or sometimes even YEARS.
Really depends on what they consider R&D - choosing the 'correct' rounding for the horns on the X?
OH blow me!
You Haters are really sick.
Obviously, something like that is the purview of the Graphic Design Dept, with input from Marketing. R&D means hardware and software; which you would know if you had ever been in on the creation of a single solitary PRODUCT.
Apple should stick to their tradition of using technology in meaningful ways when it is ready.
What Apple should do is spend some of their gigantic pile of cash on R&D into anything and everything they've ever considered spending money on. Call it Apple Labs or something, to differentiate it from a polished Apple product. Maybe they'll find the Next Big Thing. At minimum they'll do some good by hiring some people, and maybe find some great employees in the process who they can bring back into the mothership with the various development ventures inevitably fold.
So, 10 BEELION annually isn't a big enough R&D Budget???
I don't think this is impossible, but I am pretty suspicious that both failed devices are from Asia - how to we know these are not some really good look alike clones? You'd think if this was really an issue there'd be at least one report from Europe or the U.S.
Parent is totally correct. The batteries swell because they were overcharged. The charging circuitry is *INSIDE* the phone, not the charger. Even if a third party charger was used, it's still the phone's job to keep track of how charged the battery is. It's not like third-party 5 Volts is any different from Genuine Apple 5 Volts. Either way, it's still 5 volts.
Actually, LiOn/LiPo battery charge circuitry monitors battery temperature to determine when to start throttling-back in the initial phase of the charging profile. It does not monitor current or, for example, Samsung's exploding batteries (which were caused by internal short-circuits in the layers of the batteries, which would have naturally shown up as increased charging current) would likely have stopped at the "bulging" stage.
So, either this was a bad battery, or the battery temp sensing in this particular phone was defective.
Having said that, if it truly started bulging after only 3 minutes, that pretty much HAS at one the fault of the battery, IMHO.
For what it's worth, I'm happily working away on a 2011 iMac, which in the past 6 years has only had one problem, a failed hard drive. This was a recent, and certainly not unexpected failure. Anecdotal for sure, but this is the case for most people I know who own a Mac as well. It's also the reason they (and I) will purchase a new one when the time is right. I know it's trendy to blindly bash on Apple though.
I second this!
My newest Apple Computer is a 2012 nrMacBook Pro with a spinning-rust HD (that hasn't failed yet). It looks and works exactly the same as when I bought it in May, 2013.
Out of all of my Apple-owning friends, I don't know any that are on the "Upgrade Treadmill" that Slashtards like to constantly allude to. One did just buy a 2017 MBP, but her previous MBP was a 2009 model, and the other recent Upgrader bought himself a 2016 MBP as a retirement gift. That replaced his 2007 MBP.
I even have a friend that still rocks a frickin' PPC G4 TiBook, and I run a 2005 G5 Tower at home as a Surveillance, FTP, and iTunes Server, FFS!!!
You didn't explain WHY it is doing it. Why do images on my phone need to be tagged and categorized? If there's metadata in the images, it was put there when the pictures were taken. So. What The Fuck. Why?
Also, not all of us drool over keynotes and spend our days poring over the marketing shit that Apple spews out.
And: You use Google? I thought you Apple fetishists were still hating Google.
Does Apple have a different hardware model for the Indian market? Because FM radio in your phone is a pretty important over there. Don't have one and you won't be selling any phones in India.
Strawman.
TFA was about the FCC, which means it only pertains to iPhones for the US market.
Can't speak to the Indian model; for some reason, there doesn't seem to be an iFixit teardowns of that one...
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For the translation services, you have to use the Google BT headphones, there are no other compatible options. The reasons they give for making it specific to their headset are all specific to BT headphones. If they had support for a 3.5mm TRRS plug then they would have compatibility with a huge range of other options.
I would think that the real reason is that those earbuds have an App that receives a dedicated command from the earbuds, initiating the translation and text to speech process.
Just guessing, though.
Of course it wasn't a design flaw, it's a fucking process fail on the developer, the senior developer in charge, the lead QA manager, etc.
How you can't comprehend the numerous fuckups is true Apple Kool-aid shit.
Just stop commenting on Apple stories.
So, you never make a mistake, right?
It's not like people click on that Password Hint button very often. And Apple fixed it, PRONTO!
Jeebus! I hope YOUR work could stand up to such scrutiny...
Typical at Apple, where shit like "GotoFail" is a regular occurrence.
Shitty developers with nonreviewed code in important security places, no QA and test procedures... bugs can show up in corner cases, but not in THE FUCKING USE CASE.
Who the fuck is running things over there?
A REGULAR occurence?!? You mean ONCE, right?
Just like the bug in BASH that went for 25 YEARS with NONE of the "Many Eyes" spotting it???
FOAD, tool!
The reason why Apple (and Beats, and some other Mfgs) BT earbuds/headphones are superior is not dependent on Bluetooth 5.0; it is because they support a far-superior CODEC, namely AAC, than typical shitbox BT 'phones/'buds.
Mind you, stuff like Apple's W1/W2 chips helps; but the main improvement is due to AAC.
And no, the proprietary aptX is NOT an equivalent. And did I mention "proprietary" (owned by Qualcomm)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
By contrast, AAC is an industry-standard (not Apple-proprietary, as many believe).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Look into it.
All good reasons on that link... until you remember that none of those reasons would apply if they had kept a 3.5mm headphone socket for wired headphones.
WTF does a 3.5 mm headphone jack have to do with BT earbuds?
If anything, that makes this product MORE compatible across devices and platforms.
You see it is common for people to switch the data between two fields when they enter it. Obviously the developer switched the fields and is showing hint for password, and password for hint.
I once switched the username and password fields while creating the account in Slashdot and I am still living with it ;-)
But my friend, who runs a small company, got the shock of his life when the bank clerk switched the amount and data while entering some transaction. (It was in Chennai, India, not fully automated banking). The bank debited 12102015 rupees from his account or something.
That was exactly my thought; that this was a Developer brain-fart, not a design-flaw.
So it seems that Apple fixed the issue faster than slashdot was able to publish its report?
Pretty much, yeah.
Right, the system shouldn't know, that's why this is a bug.
When creating a new volume, [the Disk Utility GUI] apparently puts the password into the password hints field.
A hint needs to be plaintext to read it later, the error was the utility saving the *password*, not the *hint*, in the hint field.
This sounds to me like some "Development" code that got left in the GM by mistake, rather than a fundamental design flaw.
Happens.
Any idea how long it has been that way?
Well, considering that High Sierra has only been out for a couple of weeks, I'd say about that long.
When creating a new volume, it apparently puts the password into the password hints field.
If you create a new volume using command-line tools, things are fine.
The encryption is still OK; this bug just leaves the key to the front door under the mat.
Which is still appalling.
But it is also fixed.
It's sure beginning to look like Apple WAS being Courageous by being the first major Smartphone OEM that decided that the 3.5 mm headphone jack was an impediment to forward-progress in the smartphone design universe...
Cue the Haters and Fandroids.
imac pro will not have that.
You are correct. I stand corrected. Although the cutaway graphics show what appear to be standard RAM sockets Inside; so maybe just not "easily upgradeable" RAM...
We won't really know until iFixit gets out their heat-gun... ;-)
but no ram door and how knows how the cooling is setup and how easy it will be to get to the ram / ssd (cards??)
The iMac RAM door is on the back, now.
Even at $10.5 billion, Apple is still at the bottom of the top 20 when it comes to R&D spending as a percent of revenue (basically normalizing for the size of the company), and around half the top 20's average.
35.7% - Bristol-Myers Squibb - $5.9b
24.3% - AstroZeneca - $6.0
21.9% - Intel - $12.1b
19.9% - Roche Holding - $10.0b
17.0% - Merk - $6.7b
19.2% - Novartis - $9.5b
15.7% - Pfizer - $7.7b
15.6% - Oracle - $5.8b
14.4% - Alphabet - $12.3b
12.9% - Microsoft - $12.0b
12.9% - Johnson & Johnson - $9.0b
12.6% - Cisco - $6.2b
11.7% - Amazon - $12.5b
7.2% - Samsung - $12.7b
5.6% - Volkswagen - $13.2b
4.9% - General Motors - $7.5b
4.5% - Ford - $6.7b
4.5% - Apple, revised - $10.5b
4.0% - Daimler - $6.6b
3.7% - Toyota - $8.8b
3.5% - Apple - $8.1b
8.7% - Total - $179.4b
To match the top 20's average, Apple would need to spend $20.1 billion on R&D. To match the top tech company (Intel) they'd have to spend $50.7 billion.
Sounds to me like Apple is spending smarter, then.
I run a 2005 G5 Tower at home as a Surveillance, FTP, and iTunes Server, FFS!!!
A 2010 mini used to do that for me, at a fraction of your power draw. It used to serve as my HTPC as well. Now it's a 2012 quad i7 to handle all that and more.
I would have loved to do that with a mini, and in fact, I spec'ed a 2010 mini to do just that for a friend of mine. Still working quite nicely, too. But The G5 Tower was just languishing, having been replaced by my 2012 nrMBP as my "daily driver", and I didn't want to spend the coin on a mini for a non-essential function.
Considering that they're generally last to market with every single feature, only after every low end android phone already has it... Apparently the 10 Billion is either not enough, or being spent in the wrong places.
Wrong.
Android may be first-to-market with some things (not every single thing); but that's only because they rush -to-market with half-baked shit (e.g. Samsung's laughable Face Recognition AND equally-laughable Iris Recognition). This allows them to put a feature on the spec sheet; but doesn't benefit the customer, or even worse, is a trap for the unwary (see abovementioned "security" features), that makes them DEPEND on something that is actually WORSE for them than nothing!
No, what Apple spends money on, in the case of a feature that appears first on Android, is to FINISH the R&D, so when they have a fucking feature, it is MUCH more likely to work, and work well.
Anyone that has done R&D, as I have for decades, knows that the first "draft" of an idea takes a day or two; but the rest of getting something that is actually robust enough to be SALEABLE often takes months or sometimes even YEARS.
Really depends on what they consider R&D - choosing the 'correct' rounding for the horns on the X?
OH blow me!
You Haters are really sick.
Obviously, something like that is the purview of the Graphic Design Dept, with input from Marketing. R&D means hardware and software; which you would know if you had ever been in on the creation of a single solitary PRODUCT.
Apple should stick to their tradition of using technology in meaningful ways when it is ready.
What Apple should do is spend some of their gigantic pile of cash on R&D into anything and everything they've ever considered spending money on. Call it Apple Labs or something, to differentiate it from a polished Apple product. Maybe they'll find the Next Big Thing. At minimum they'll do some good by hiring some people, and maybe find some great employees in the process who they can bring back into the mothership with the various development ventures inevitably fold.
So, 10 BEELION annually isn't a big enough R&D Budget???
http://www.businessinsider.com...
I don't think this is impossible, but I am pretty suspicious that both failed devices are from Asia - how to we know these are not some really good look alike clones? You'd think if this was really an issue there'd be at least one report from Europe or the U.S.
That is a VERY good point!
Parent is totally correct. The batteries swell because they were overcharged. The charging circuitry is *INSIDE* the phone, not the charger. Even if a third party charger was used, it's still the phone's job to keep track of how charged the battery is. It's not like third-party 5 Volts is any different from Genuine Apple 5 Volts. Either way, it's still 5 volts.
Actually, LiOn/LiPo battery charge circuitry monitors battery temperature to determine when to start throttling-back in the initial phase of the charging profile. It does not monitor current or, for example, Samsung's exploding batteries (which were caused by internal short-circuits in the layers of the batteries, which would have naturally shown up as increased charging current) would likely have stopped at the "bulging" stage.
So, either this was a bad battery, or the battery temp sensing in this particular phone was defective.
Having said that, if it truly started bulging after only 3 minutes, that pretty much HAS at one the fault of the battery, IMHO.
Yup: Apple would like to remind the FCC that it can't activate imaginary FM radios that iPhones don't have.
Watch the Haters say "Of COURSE they would say that."
Watch.
For what it's worth, I'm happily working away on a 2011 iMac, which in the past 6 years has only had one problem, a failed hard drive. This was a recent, and certainly not unexpected failure. Anecdotal for sure, but this is the case for most people I know who own a Mac as well. It's also the reason they (and I) will purchase a new one when the time is right. I know it's trendy to blindly bash on Apple though.
I second this!
My newest Apple Computer is a 2012 nrMacBook Pro with a spinning-rust HD (that hasn't failed yet). It looks and works exactly the same as when I bought it in May, 2013.
Out of all of my Apple-owning friends, I don't know any that are on the "Upgrade Treadmill" that Slashtards like to constantly allude to. One did just buy a 2017 MBP, but her previous MBP was a 2009 model, and the other recent Upgrader bought himself a 2016 MBP as a retirement gift. That replaced his 2007 MBP.
I even have a friend that still rocks a frickin' PPC G4 TiBook, and I run a 2005 G5 Tower at home as a Surveillance, FTP, and iTunes Server, FFS!!!
I'd love a 2017 mac min update... we can all hope.
Almost assuredly in 2018, along with the Modular Mac Pro.
You didn't explain WHY it is doing it. Why do images on my phone need to be tagged and categorized? If there's metadata in the images, it was put there when the pictures were taken. So. What The Fuck. Why?
Also, not all of us drool over keynotes and spend our days poring over the marketing shit that Apple spews out.
And: You use Google? I thought you Apple fetishists were still hating Google.
Fuck off, by the way, shill.
Fuck off yourself, mindless Hater.
REFUSED to "turn on" that which does not exist!
Maybe. Maybe not.
Does Apple have a different hardware model for the Indian market? Because FM radio in your phone is a pretty important over there. Don't have one and you won't be selling any phones in India.
Strawman.
TFA was about the FCC, which means it only pertains to iPhones for the US market.
Can't speak to the Indian model; for some reason, there doesn't seem to be an iFixit teardowns of that one...