But apple is not the kind of cancer in the tech industry i feel like rewarding with my money. So cry all the tears you want about anti-apple and go to one of your safe places.
Why not have both. Anyone paying attention knows that iOS is much more secure than android. Also anyone paying attention knows that Apples mobile CPU's have been 6-12 months ahead for many years now.
Slashdot is supposed to be a geek forum but man the anti-Apple thing is out of control in here.
And now watch the parade of Apple-Hating ANONYMOUS COWARDS, "refuting" your claim, LOL!
Back then, phones were severly limited by their CPU. This isn't the case anymore, so nobody cares.
When the power is there uses will be found. Like good AR, and like 4K HDR video at 60 fps. That's something that until now was found only in high end professional gear, and certainly not in a phone.
Saying phones are "fast enough" is like sticking your head in the sand.
I wholeheartedly agree!
And anyone who watched the Keynote the other day, and saw what Apple is capable of doing with ARKit and the facial-mapping (Amimoji Poop notwithstanding!), has just GOT to stop and think, as I did, "In REAL-TIME? On a PHONE?!?"
Even the stupid Animoji stuff is pretty cool, though, from a technical standpoint.
Watch the Cat Animoji accurately track and display Craig's "Angry Face", squinching up it's cheeks and eyes just like he was doing, and, the Unicorn Animoji, accurately tracking and displaying the "lip-flapping" thing that horses do, again in real-time.
Yes, as Craig rhetorically asked when showing-off the Animojies and the "Face Mask" stuff, "So, whaddya do with the world's most sophisticated face-tracking system?", these are admittedly silly applications of some pretty cool technology; but the point is, they also clearly show just how good that technology is.
They're made in the same fabs, but they're not the same cores. Apple designs their own cores (they're an ARM architecture licensee, which means that they're allowed to build chips however they want as long as they pass ARM's architecture conformance tests). Their CPU design team was originally bought from PA-Semi, who designed low-power, high-performance PowerPC chips, and has been growing steadily for the last decade. Apple doesn't license these cores to anyone else.
Not to mention that Apple has more ARM experience than pretty much anyone else, and in fact, was instrumental in bringing the ARM to the world.
If it's some highly parallel benchmark then obviously more cores will look better.
Will it equate to more performance in real life? I doubt it. Not many phones are used for raytracing or compressing video.
Since iOS has GCD (Grand Central Dispatch), it does not depend as much on Apps being designed for heavy parallelism to reap at least some of the potential rewards of multicore CPUs.
It's a geek bench result. That means it's crap. They're closed source and completely unverified and always give insanely high scores to iOS, even compared to maxed out server cpus.
Bullshit. Claim it is the users fault and charge $149 to fix a problem that was a manufactures defect. Maybe that was the point but with your head so far up apples ass you could not get it.
$149 was a reasonable compromise, considering that the frequency of the problem did not strongly suggest an issue with Apple's CM's manufacturing process (except that it had to be RoHS, and thus REAL solder could not be used!), and it SURE wasn't a "Design Defect".
And other OEMs have had similar issues; but they don't generally make the news unless fires and explosions are involved, and because they aren't given a catchy, easily-searchable name like "Touch Disease", and so are almost impossible to search-for...
But, if you're squeamish about messing around inside of a device like a smartphone
Less squeamish, more that I lack the appropriate equipment and any device I dismantle tends not to go back together properly afterwards, and certainly doesn't look as nice even if it does.
I like my phone, I like it having smooth edges, I like it being water resistant and I like it working. All these things and more are at risk if I do something stupid like try and change a battery.
But, as you say:
Apple and several third-party vendors will be happy to do that battery replacement for you
Hey, no apologies necessary!
I'm a perfectly-adequate electronic service tech. Even have been employed as such in a couple of past-lives. However, I'd really rather leave that somewhat exacting-procedure of disassembly/reassembly of something like an iPhone to those who have done it a hundred times, rather than, er, zero. To me, it's WELL worth the $100-ish bucks to me to not have to suffer even the possibility of an "Oh, shit!" moment...
So DOUBLING the warranty is a huge burden, but AppleCare+ is low cost and an incredible value? Which of those is true?
You added the adjective "Huge", Mr. Trump.
But it IS an ADDITIONAL Burden.
And considering that you could be "out" several hundred dollars if your $1k iPhone X gets run over by a car, limiting that potential "out-of-pocket" to $129 (for the warranty itself) + $99 (customer-damage flat-fee repair), seems like a decent tradeoff to me. And of course, that same $129 also gets you broken glass replacement for $29, and any "defects in materials and workmanship" for free.
BTW, If you DON'T have AppleCare+, I don't think the "flat fee" repairs for customer-damage/glass-replacement apply, even in the initial warranty period of 1 year. So AppleCare+ really is only $60-ish "per year" to protect a $1k mobile device that generally lives a somewhat "dangerous" life.
Why would you need to invest in a time machine drive?
If you value your data, then you already have one. If you don't, then it wouldn't particularly matter of the upgrade destroyed your data.
However you are no more likely to lose your data during the upgrade than at any other time. This has already been done once, on iPhones. And there was no issue with people losing data.
I've got two separate Time Machines: a frequent stream to a local NAS that gets backed up to the Internets, and an external USB drive I update a couple of times a month.
But for real, High Sierra beta feels more solid than Sierra.whatever. I'm not a fanboy, but this is a good one.
Glad to hear that!
I'm still rockin' Mavericks on my 2012 nrMBP, and would like to join in the fun before my laptop becomes un-upgrade-able...
Only thing is, I will lose my Logic Pro 9, which is the last version that can easily run 32-bit plugins; most notably, the most-excellent VB3, which the developer refuses to re-compile for 64 bit...
THE reason they're more expensive is EU VAT which applies to all goods manufactured outside of the EU and which don't fall under any of the free trade agreements.
I will agree that is definitely another factor; but don't for one minute think that Apple is just absorbing that extra year of Warranty Burden for zero price difference to the consumer.
Apple could market an iRock, and the lemmings would stand in line for it.
That argument worked back in the day, when Apple's marketshare was around 2%, and there was no iPhone.
Now? Not so much.
ronically enough, when sales start to drop, often one of the first things a manufacturer does is extend the standard warranty as a sales tactic. This tends to define exactly how minimal a financial impact that action is, and how easily Apple could afford to offer it.
And how does that apply to Apple? Their standard warranty has been 1 year in the US, different terms in different Nation/States, such as the EU, as dictated by local law, for DECADES. They have also offered an Extended Warranty for DECADES. So, did you have a point?
As far as everyone else out there, a lot of the market follows Apple's arrogance; if Apple charges the customer for durability and gets away with it due to little impact on demand, then others follow suit. We've seen it time and time again. Doesn't make it right by any means.
Hello, Mr. Strawman. So nice to see you... AGAIN!
You really need to brush-up on your debate-skills. Your "thesis" sucks balls.
There was also a version of Visual Basic for MS-DOS, scary as that seems now. It lets you form-draw and create code behind the forms on plain vanilla MS-DOS. The graphical elements (buttons, boxes, etc.) are rendered in the 'graphical box' characters in the plain vanilla (non-graphical) charcacter set on an IBM MDA card. I have the full Professional version in my collection.
There are apocryphal stories from back in the time that Microsoft was selling applications for both the Mac and the IBM-PC about the application developers needing to hide the Macs when the guys from IBM showed up and hide the PCs when the guys from Apple showed up. It's mentioned in 'The Making of Microsoft' by Daniel Ichbiah published in 1993. It's quite an interesting read, copies for under $5 including shipping can be bought here. (not an affiliate link, I get NOTHING if you buy from one of these booksellers.)
Fascinating! I new nothing about the "VisualBASIC for MS-DOS"!!!
I consider longer warranties on electronics more of a statement that they're not using shoddy components or workmanship. There's lots of ways to cut corners on electronics that will still (fairly) reliably last 90 days, but have a decent chance of failing within a year.
There's also the fact that there's an awful lot of mechanical elements in a phone - buttons, jacks, case, and structural components, all of which have a very different failure profile than solid-state electronics.
Basically - yeah, 90 days will "shake out" the majority of "duds" in any well-made electronics - and so a longer warranty that excludes abuse costs the manufacturer very little, *assuming* their products are as well-made as they claim. A short warranty thus looks an awful lot like an admission that they're selling junk.
I agree with you about the mechanical parts. That's why Apple's warranty of 1 year is a reasonable compromise, IMHO.
Anybody else notice that TheFakeTimCook's responses lately have a distinct lack of their formerly ubiquitous caps lock and 'HATERS' mania?
It's almost as if his manager told him to tone it down a bit. Or perhaps put a different set of hands on the keyboard.
Sorry. Same hands. I just go in and out of phases with caps for emphasis. Just like with calling-out the Haters (which is mostly reserved for ACs, anyway).
And if Slashdot would get with the damned program and install a rich-text-editor, I would probably stop using caps for emphasis completely.
Sorry to dissapoint. I really DO wish Apple would pay me for all this, honestly! But so far, nada...
The solutions offered are not accepted by the people in the lawsuit. The touch disease and bend disease are almost certainly part and parcel.
If you want me to lay my point out again, people are suing because apple is liable for defective products and their redress was found non-existent or wanting. There is a class action suit in Canada too. Then you get the anonymous genius bar people saying apple was selling refurbished units with the same propensity to fail.
Of course this is all explicitly mentioned and would easily be extrapolated or inferred by someone with a human-sized brain and the ability to breathe through the nose instead of the mouth
Just because something is written in a Complaint doesn't automatically make it true. Complaints are ALLEGATIONS, not always based on FACTS. And when lawyers with Class-Action payoffs dancing in their heads, Complaints are FAR more often than not, exceedingly overblown.
And besides, just because Apple's remedy is "rejected" by the Complainants, doesn't mean it will be "rejected" by the Court. And since this is simply an "Amended Complaint" and not a JUDGMENT, then I would imagine that simply hasn't happened one way or the other, yet.
That's what TRIALS are for. If you can look up a lawsuit, you should already know that. But apparently, you don't.
"Guaranteed to last only" =/= "Only guaranteed to last"
"the highest quality and most durable devices" =/= "Reality"
Bullshit semantics are bullshit when their claims of durability cannot stand up to a longer warranty, which is more than justified when most people are forced into a 2-year cellular contract.
And, no replacing a phone every year isn't the fucking answer either.
Since a "warranty" is essentially another BOM component with an associated "cost", do you really think that Apple should withstand the burden of DOUBLE the potential cost of warranty work for no additional increase in the product's MSRP?
If they actually make a durable product, then there should be a minimal concern from Apple from a burden standpoint.
If the product is actually so bad that they can't even offer a reasonable warranty included with that obscene price tag, then I don't have any reason whatsoever to believe their claims of making a durable product. And regardless of standard business practice, demand should not be a justified reason to fuck over the consumer any chance you can.
That's a ridiculous argument.
Do you really think that Apple would have the satisfaction ratings they get, year after year, if their hardware was shit?
The point is, they have calculated their average warranty-burden over time into the purchase price. And at this point, they have a pretty good idea what that number is.
They offer an Extended Warranty that, for a reasonable price, even covers customer-induced damage at a reduced/flat-fee cost.
If you don't like those terms, you are free to purchase any one of a number of other phones. No one forces anyone to purchase an iPhone, FFS!
My chief complaint about Safari has been the lack to specify domains that are allowed to display popups. While I get that popups are bad, some sites still persist in their usage and some of those sites I'd like to allow without having to resort to scripts and JSON. Until then I'll continue to happily use Firefox.
Also... Taking cover for admitting to being a Firefox user. Really Slashdot, I can understand some of the hate.
Microsoft has been one of the major developers on Mac since 1984 when the Mac came out. Excel was originally a Mac only spreadsheet that was then ported over to Windows. Word was a gui based program on Mac years before the first version of Word for Windows came out. If anybody knows how to be a third party developer on Mac it is Microsoft. Latecomers like Adobe are more worrisome.
Exactly! And anyone who knows that also knows that MS Office for Mac is a COMPLETELY separate codebase from the Windows version, and when they tried to just do a "Mac Port" (Word 6) of the Windows version, they ended up with a COMPLETELY unusable Application that left MS scrapping that idea IMMEDIATELY!
In fact, VisualBASIC started as "Microsoft BASIC for Macintosh", and it was pretty damned sweet; until MS decided to simply DROP it. Then, about a year later, it was "magically reborn" as VisualBASIC; but for Windows-Only...
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But apple is not the kind of cancer in the tech industry i feel like rewarding with my money. So cry all the tears you want about anti-apple and go to one of your safe places.
Google is a Cancer. Apple is the cure...
Why not have both. Anyone paying attention knows that iOS is much more secure than android. Also anyone paying attention knows that Apples mobile CPU's have been 6-12 months ahead for many years now.
Slashdot is supposed to be a geek forum but man the anti-Apple thing is out of control in here.
And now watch the parade of Apple-Hating ANONYMOUS COWARDS, "refuting" your claim, LOL!
When the power is there uses will be found. Like good AR, and like 4K HDR video at 60 fps. That's something that until now was found only in high end professional gear, and certainly not in a phone.
Saying phones are "fast enough" is like sticking your head in the sand.
I wholeheartedly agree!
And anyone who watched the Keynote the other day, and saw what Apple is capable of doing with ARKit and the facial-mapping (Amimoji Poop notwithstanding!), has just GOT to stop and think, as I did, "In REAL-TIME? On a PHONE?!?"
Start watching at time-index 1:32:00
https://www.apple.com/apple-ev...
Even the stupid Animoji stuff is pretty cool, though, from a technical standpoint.
Watch the Cat Animoji accurately track and display Craig's "Angry Face", squinching up it's cheeks and eyes just like he was doing, and, the Unicorn Animoji, accurately tracking and displaying the "lip-flapping" thing that horses do, again in real-time.
Yes, as Craig rhetorically asked when showing-off the Animojies and the "Face Mask" stuff, "So, whaddya do with the world's most sophisticated face-tracking system?", these are admittedly silly applications of some pretty cool technology; but the point is, they also clearly show just how good that technology is.
And. On a PHONE... It's just plain amazing.
Oh how that worm has turned. 5 years ago, fandroids couldn't shut up about core count and speed.
Well, of course. Back then, phones were severly limited by their CPU. This isn't the case anymore, so nobody cares.
And now, they claim that benchmarks don't matter.
And they say Apple fans are delusional...
They're made in the same fabs, but they're not the same cores. Apple designs their own cores (they're an ARM architecture licensee, which means that they're allowed to build chips however they want as long as they pass ARM's architecture conformance tests). Their CPU design team was originally bought from PA-Semi, who designed low-power, high-performance PowerPC chips, and has been growing steadily for the last decade. Apple doesn't license these cores to anyone else.
Not to mention that Apple has more ARM experience than pretty much anyone else, and in fact, was instrumental in bringing the ARM to the world.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fin...
Apple's mobile CPUs are ARM CPUs and they are made by the same fabs with decades of experience as the CPUs in non-hipster phones.
I'd suggest you stop calling iPhones "hipster phones" since they clean the "geeky phones" clocks every-single-year, year-after-year.
And the performance-gap is widening, not narrowing...
So?
If it's some highly parallel benchmark then obviously more cores will look better.
Will it equate to more performance in real life? I doubt it. Not many phones are used for raytracing or compressing video.
Since iOS has GCD (Grand Central Dispatch), it does not depend as much on Apps being designed for heavy parallelism to reap at least some of the potential rewards of multicore CPUs.
It's a geek bench result.
That means it's crap. They're closed source and completely unverified and always give insanely high scores to iOS, even compared to maxed out server cpus.
Non news.
How do those sour grapes taste?
bold and italics work fine. Use HTML.
I do.
But life's too short to be assed with typing in HTML markup incantations, when it should be just a simple click to change "styles".
Bullshit. Claim it is the users fault and charge $149 to fix a problem that was a manufactures defect. Maybe that was the point but with your head so far up apples ass you could not get it.
$149 was a reasonable compromise, considering that the frequency of the problem did not strongly suggest an issue with Apple's CM's manufacturing process (except that it had to be RoHS, and thus REAL solder could not be used!), and it SURE wasn't a "Design Defect".
And other OEMs have had similar issues; but they don't generally make the news unless fires and explosions are involved, and because they aren't given a catchy, easily-searchable name like "Touch Disease", and so are almost impossible to search-for...
But here's one:
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers... ...and another...
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers... ...and another...
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers... ...and still more...
https://thedroidguy.com/2015/0... ...and even more...
https://us.community.samsung.c...
And now, on to the Digitizer:
https://www.fonepaw.com/androi...
http://www.droidforums.net/thr...
https://www.ifixit.com/Answers...
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/...
et cetera.
But as I said, without a catchy name and lots of press-coverage to draw attention of the masses, no one gives a shit.
But, if you're squeamish about messing around inside of a device like a smartphone
Less squeamish, more that I lack the appropriate equipment and any device I dismantle tends not to go back together properly afterwards, and certainly doesn't look as nice even if it does.
I like my phone, I like it having smooth edges, I like it being water resistant and I like it working. All these things and more are at risk if I do something stupid like try and change a battery.
But, as you say:
Apple and several third-party vendors will be happy to do that battery replacement for you
Hey, no apologies necessary!
I'm a perfectly-adequate electronic service tech. Even have been employed as such in a couple of past-lives. However, I'd really rather leave that somewhat exacting-procedure of disassembly/reassembly of something like an iPhone to those who have done it a hundred times, rather than, er, zero. To me, it's WELL worth the $100-ish bucks to me to not have to suffer even the possibility of an "Oh, shit!" moment...
So DOUBLING the warranty is a huge burden, but AppleCare+ is low cost and an incredible value? Which of those is true?
You added the adjective "Huge", Mr. Trump.
But it IS an ADDITIONAL Burden.
And considering that you could be "out" several hundred dollars if your $1k iPhone X gets run over by a car, limiting that potential "out-of-pocket" to $129 (for the warranty itself) + $99 (customer-damage flat-fee repair), seems like a decent tradeoff to me. And of course, that same $129 also gets you broken glass replacement for $29, and any "defects in materials and workmanship" for free.
BTW, If you DON'T have AppleCare+, I don't think the "flat fee" repairs for customer-damage/glass-replacement apply, even in the initial warranty period of 1 year. So AppleCare+ really is only $60-ish "per year" to protect a $1k mobile device that generally lives a somewhat "dangerous" life.
Why would you need to invest in a time machine drive?
If you value your data, then you already have one. If you don't, then it wouldn't particularly matter of the upgrade destroyed your data.
However you are no more likely to lose your data during the upgrade than at any other time. This has already been done once, on iPhones. And there was no issue with people losing data.
I agree with all of your points.
I've got two separate Time Machines: a frequent stream to a local NAS that gets backed up to the Internets, and an external USB drive I update a couple of times a month.
But for real, High Sierra beta feels more solid than Sierra.whatever. I'm not a fanboy, but this is a good one.
Glad to hear that!
I'm still rockin' Mavericks on my 2012 nrMBP, and would like to join in the fun before my laptop becomes un-upgrade-able...
Only thing is, I will lose my Logic Pro 9, which is the last version that can easily run 32-bit plugins; most notably, the most-excellent VB3, which the developer refuses to re-compile for 64 bit...
THE reason they're more expensive is EU VAT which applies to all goods manufactured outside of the EU and which don't fall under any of the free trade agreements.
I will agree that is definitely another factor; but don't for one minute think that Apple is just absorbing that extra year of Warranty Burden for zero price difference to the consumer.
Apple could market an iRock, and the lemmings would stand in line for it.
That argument worked back in the day, when Apple's marketshare was around 2%, and there was no iPhone.
Now? Not so much.
ronically enough, when sales start to drop, often one of the first things a manufacturer does is extend the standard warranty as a sales tactic. This tends to define exactly how minimal a financial impact that action is, and how easily Apple could afford to offer it.
And how does that apply to Apple? Their standard warranty has been 1 year in the US, different terms in different Nation/States, such as the EU, as dictated by local law, for DECADES. They have also offered an Extended Warranty for DECADES. So, did you have a point?
As far as everyone else out there, a lot of the market follows Apple's arrogance; if Apple charges the customer for durability and gets away with it due to little impact on demand, then others follow suit. We've seen it time and time again. Doesn't make it right by any means.
Hello, Mr. Strawman. So nice to see you... AGAIN!
You really need to brush-up on your debate-skills. Your "thesis" sucks balls.
There was also a version of Visual Basic for MS-DOS, scary as that seems now. It lets you form-draw and create code behind the forms on plain vanilla MS-DOS. The graphical elements (buttons, boxes, etc.) are rendered in the 'graphical box' characters in the plain vanilla (non-graphical) charcacter set on an IBM MDA card. I have the full Professional version in my collection.
There are apocryphal stories from back in the time that Microsoft was selling applications for both the Mac and the IBM-PC about the application developers needing to hide the Macs when the guys from IBM showed up and hide the PCs when the guys from Apple showed up. It's mentioned in 'The Making of Microsoft' by Daniel Ichbiah published in 1993. It's quite an interesting read, copies for under $5 including shipping can be bought here. (not an affiliate link, I get NOTHING if you buy from one of these booksellers.)
Fascinating! I new nothing about the "VisualBASIC for MS-DOS"!!!
Thanks for the history lesson!
I consider longer warranties on electronics more of a statement that they're not using shoddy components or workmanship. There's lots of ways to cut corners on electronics that will still (fairly) reliably last 90 days, but have a decent chance of failing within a year.
There's also the fact that there's an awful lot of mechanical elements in a phone - buttons, jacks, case, and structural components, all of which have a very different failure profile than solid-state electronics.
Basically - yeah, 90 days will "shake out" the majority of "duds" in any well-made electronics - and so a longer warranty that excludes abuse costs the manufacturer very little, *assuming* their products are as well-made as they claim. A short warranty thus looks an awful lot like an admission that they're selling junk.
I agree with you about the mechanical parts. That's why Apple's warranty of 1 year is a reasonable compromise, IMHO.
Anybody else notice that TheFakeTimCook's responses lately have a distinct lack of their formerly ubiquitous caps lock and 'HATERS' mania?
It's almost as if his manager told him to tone it down a bit. Or perhaps put a different set of hands on the keyboard.
Sorry. Same hands. I just go in and out of phases with caps for emphasis. Just like with calling-out the Haters (which is mostly reserved for ACs, anyway).
And if Slashdot would get with the damned program and install a rich-text-editor, I would probably stop using caps for emphasis completely.
Sorry to dissapoint. I really DO wish Apple would pay me for all this, honestly! But so far, nada...
The solutions offered are not accepted by the people in the lawsuit. The touch disease and bend disease are almost certainly part and parcel.
If you want me to lay my point out again, people are suing because apple is liable for defective products and their redress was found non-existent or wanting. There is a class action suit in Canada too. Then you get the anonymous genius bar people saying apple was selling refurbished units with the same propensity to fail.
If you want to stop being a failed troll, you can even read the lawsuit: https://www.scribd.com/documen...
Of course this is all explicitly mentioned and would easily be extrapolated or inferred by someone with a human-sized brain and the ability to breathe through the nose instead of the mouth
Just because something is written in a Complaint doesn't automatically make it true. Complaints are ALLEGATIONS, not always based on FACTS. And when lawyers with Class-Action payoffs dancing in their heads, Complaints are FAR more often than not, exceedingly overblown.
And besides, just because Apple's remedy is "rejected" by the Complainants, doesn't mean it will be "rejected" by the Court. And since this is simply an "Amended Complaint" and not a JUDGMENT, then I would imagine that simply hasn't happened one way or the other, yet.
That's what TRIALS are for. If you can look up a lawsuit, you should already know that. But apparently, you don't.
NOW who's the Pinhead?
"Guaranteed to last only" =/= "Only guaranteed to last"
"the highest quality and most durable devices" =/= "Reality"
Bullshit semantics are bullshit when their claims of durability cannot stand up to a longer warranty, which is more than justified when most people are forced into a 2-year cellular contract.
And, no replacing a phone every year isn't the fucking answer either.
Since a "warranty" is essentially another BOM component with an associated "cost", do you really think that Apple should withstand the burden of DOUBLE the potential cost of warranty work for no additional increase in the product's MSRP?
If they actually make a durable product, then there should be a minimal concern from Apple from a burden standpoint.
If the product is actually so bad that they can't even offer a reasonable warranty included with that obscene price tag, then I don't have any reason whatsoever to believe their claims of making a durable product. And regardless of standard business practice, demand should not be a justified reason to fuck over the consumer any chance you can.
That's a ridiculous argument.
Do you really think that Apple would have the satisfaction ratings they get, year after year, if their hardware was shit?
The point is, they have calculated their average warranty-burden over time into the purchase price. And at this point, they have a pretty good idea what that number is.
They offer an Extended Warranty that, for a reasonable price, even covers customer-induced damage at a reduced/flat-fee cost.
If you don't like those terms, you are free to purchase any one of a number of other phones. No one forces anyone to purchase an iPhone, FFS!
GPGtools is great, but it was broken for four months when MacOS 10.12 (Sierra) Mail changed how it handled plugins.
But I thought that one of the advantages of F/OSS was that issues get addressed quickly, due to the "many eyes" (and "many hands") effect...
How about something useful like GPG/PGP in mail. Rather than have to wait for some third party to do it.
Your wait has been over for a few years now...
Here's a nice how-to on using GPG Tools with macOS Mail:
https://help.runbox.com/using-...
My chief complaint about Safari has been the lack to specify domains that are allowed to display popups. While I get that popups are bad, some sites still persist in their usage and some of those sites I'd like to allow without having to resort to scripts and JSON. Until then I'll continue to happily use Firefox.
Also... Taking cover for admitting to being a Firefox user. Really Slashdot, I can understand some of the hate.
Off-topic much?
Microsoft has been one of the major developers on Mac since 1984 when the Mac came out. Excel was originally a Mac only spreadsheet that was then ported over to Windows. Word was a gui based program on Mac years before the first version of Word for Windows came out. If anybody knows how to be a third party developer on Mac it is Microsoft. Latecomers like Adobe are more worrisome.
Exactly!
And anyone who knows that also knows that MS Office for Mac is a COMPLETELY separate codebase from the Windows version, and when they tried to just do a "Mac Port" (Word 6) of the Windows version, they ended up with a COMPLETELY unusable Application that left MS scrapping that idea IMMEDIATELY!
In fact, VisualBASIC started as "Microsoft BASIC for Macintosh", and it was pretty damned sweet; until MS decided to simply DROP it. Then, about a year later, it was "magically reborn" as VisualBASIC; but for Windows-Only...
Good times, good times.