Well that goes back to 90% of youtubers are morons and have nfi what their talking about most of the time. I watched a few videos a while back and the guy was trying to explain ohms law. I'm an electrician by trade for 16 years.. I had to turn it off it was so misinforming
LOL! I feel ya!
I am an electrical engineer by trade (or I was before I pissed-off my boss for outing him as a poser...). One of the warning signs I have always used to determine when someone is just b.s.-ing is when they start sticking-together terms-of-art that don't go together. I am SURE that laughable YT video had a metric buttload of that "fun-ness"...
I've had a quad core (i7) Mini since 2012. It's never had a problem cooling even with eight threads rendering in Modo. Fan ramps way the hell up, but it doesn't overheat. I think Apple crippled the mini to push people who need more cores to buy a Mac Pro instead. Apple's all about the upsell.
Yeah, that's logical. Someone who buys a $700 mini is absolutely an "upgrade candidate" for a $4000 Mac Pro.
FFS, I could do that years ago with a Droid 4, using micro-HDMI for display and any random Bluetooth or USB OTG accessories that I felt like.
For the Droid Bionic, they even made a lapdock, with a built-in keyboard, monitor, and pointer.
Fast forward, and I can do it with an S5 using wired MHL for video display and Bluetooth peripherals.
Or just about anything else Android using Chromecast and whatever peripherals.
It's a shitty idea in that it is clever, efficient and seems useful, but really isn't useful at all.
My point exactly.
Just like that Moto phone that advertised being a "dockable" "transfoming" device. Went exactly NO WHERE.
And as I point out, just like the Droid 4, you have been able to do that with an iPhone for years, too. Don't know ANYONE who actually would do that by CHOICE, other than in an "emergency" situation.
It was only partially directed at you. Mostly it's directed at people who dismiss everything.
The why not just use a laptop, is the most classic example. Not all of us want a dedicated device for a dedicated workload and then the management hassle of working between them.
I put it to you, if all you do is type documents (there are perfectly find office tools available on android, your lack of quality applications if you define quality by doing what it needs to and not bolting on every tiny little piece of crap ala MS Office 20##) and browse web, why OWN a laptop? Then when you look at the devices you have you'll answer the question of why not use a laptop.
I believe your example comes under the definition in my original post about "...for anything but the most limited of use-cases.", now, doesn't it?
It's rare for people to "carry around" an external DAC, just like you don't carry around a good pair of headphones - you have them where you listen to music.
This seems unlikely, considering that the iPhone 7 only has a small 1960mAh battery. Apple don't have any magic super efficient radios or a way to drive headphones that uses less energy than everyone else. Their off-the-shelf flash memory and RAM isn't lower power than the competition.
In fact, we can make some educated guesses here. The last iPod Touch (6th gen) had a 1000mAh battery and Apple claimed up to 40 hours of playback. Let's take their word for it, they are saying 25mAh/h in the best case (screen off, everything in minimum power). So around 200mAh for an 8 hour work day, or 10% of the iPhone 7's battery. But of course the iPhone 7 has other stuff to keep alive, like the cellular/wifi radios (so it can accept incoming calls and notifications/messages), it has the Bluetooth radio to keep on for the headphones. Let's say the rest of the hardware comes out even (e.g. more RAM, but it's lower power), it's still impossible for it to play all work day on your claimed 10-12% battery.
Plus the earpods only get 5 hours battery life anyway so you need two pairs of them, or some other type which you must remember to charge up or keep plugged in.
So, you are calling Apple a liar?
Remember, the A11x SoC has FOUR cores (a first for Apple SoCs), and two of them are special "low power" cores. I would imagine that if you are simply listening to music, that is a prime example to something that can be handled entirely by the low-power cores.
Add to that that Apple is VERY good at power-management, and I would bet that listening to music on the iPhone 7 series is an EXTREMELY power-parsimonious activity.
Anecdotes are not data, of course; but with my iPhone 6 Plus (which does NOT have low-power cores), I can stream Apple Music over WiFi all during the work day, and only eat about 10% or so of my battery. According to Apple, the iPhone 6 Plus will achieve 50 hours of music playback (which I believe Apple defines as "wireless" (streamed) music), with its 2915 mAh battery. So, assuming an 8 hour workday, and extrapolating from a single workday of my experience, this comes out to 1.25% per hour (which seems about right), or, IOW, 66 hours.
Now of course, all things are not exactly equal, although Li-ion batteries have an extraordinarily flat discharge curve; but as you say, every time you wake up the display, etc. you screw with that discharge rate a bit, but considering the fact that the iPhone doesn't charge the battery to much more than 80%, nor allow it to discharge much below 10% of actual total capacity, and we have a good guesstimate that 50 hours is likely a "real" number.
And as I said, my phone doesn't have the advantage of the special low-power cores to help stuff alone a bit. So, I actually believe that 80 hours on an iPhone 7 Plus is a reasonably accurate number.
Remember, it's an embedded SYSTEM, and ALL the pieces-parts, both hardware AND software, can work together to give you an overall power consumption over time that simply looking at datasheets won't reveal.
I'm sorry that Qualcomm's SoC's are such power-hogs (the GN7 had a battery capacity nearly TWICE that of the iPhone 7 Plus, but actually achieved a slightly LESS run-time); but them's the facts.
Thanks for the remark, the tidbit about 2016 escaped me.
And it seems like there are few enough reports overall that it is unlikely an engineering or manufacturing defect.
I know that I'd be ready to submit to a polygraph if I had a MBP (or any computer) that just spontaneously developed a cracked display. Since it is impossible to prove a negative, I'm really not sure what you would do under those conditions. But I can tell you with a virtual certainty that NO manufacturer, unless there was a KNOWN defect, would cover such a thing under warranty.
Youre probably very correct, seeing as the ingredients in vape jizz is all oil bases. I figured after a month it wasnt worth it having to "build" coils and shit was a waste of time. plus it was making me feel like crap, so i just stopped it. I highly recommend not trying any of the vape "mods" or anything thats for "blowin' clouds" i figure it will eventually be outlawed.
I would imagine that the vapes that are designed around Tobacco might be targeted at temps different for those that are designed for vaping Marijuana. At least that would be what I would hope.
But once you start listening to the modders and coil-winders, all bets are off. Most of those people don't even know the difference between vaping and combusting. They just want a big "cloud", as you said.
"Nah it still isn't practical for reasons I won't share"
I am not sure if your comment was directed at me; but I'll bite...
Reason #1: Lack of Desktop-Quality Applications (not "APPS").
Reason #2: See Reason #1.
Reason #3: If you HAVE to hook up a dock, external display, and keyboard/mouse in order to PRACTICALLY use your Phone as a PC in other than an "emergency" situation, then WHY NOT JUST USE A LAPTOP???
Hardly "all the people", just the hardcore audiophiles. The majority of people screwed by losing the headphone jack are the ones who listen all day at work and can't charge at the same time without an adapter chain.
And in any case, audiophiles prefer Android because USB gives you a much wider choice of DAC than Lightning.
Even if you "listen all day" at work with an iPhone 7, you would have had to leave home with around 10-12% charge to get into a situation where simply listening to music would run you out of battery. I simply can't believe that that is anything like a common occurrence, especially with people who "live in their phone".
I can see why there would be more DACs available for USB than Lightning. Hopefully, the move to USB-C in the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros is the harbinger of change for Apple's mobile devices, and the next generation or two will see them drop Lightning (which was created mostly because Apple hated the microUSB connector) in favor of USB-C across the board.
I tried vaping, it filled my lungs with clear goop and was hard to breathe when I woke up. That shit is very bad for you. I feel it's almost worse than cigarettes. I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to fill your lungs with liquid vapors. At least not that much at a time.
Well, considering that one of the standard treatments for those with COPD involves using a Nebulizer (generally with something like Albuterol infused in the vapor), I would suggest that it is WHAT is being vaporized (the "flavor" chemicals and perhaps the frickin' GLYCOL) that is the issue, rather than "wet lungs" from the vapor itself.
I just want you to look at yourself and what you just said - you could have tried to quit, and put your daughter at risk... only a severe addict could ever rationalize a statement like that. Keep trying...
News flash: Nicotine is physically addictive, and the act of smoking is psychologically addictive.
Check the Serial Number to see if yours a faulty model. There are models with a know fault that causes problems in the iMac line, something about a faulty support, cannot remember the specific details.
While there are alleged reports of MacBook Pro screens spontaneously cracking, the most recent ones appear to be from around 2007-2008, with one report from 2013. Nothing about the 2016 MBP; although I admit it is pretty early-on to have that sort of thing show up.
Actually a lot of audiophiles do use phones these days. Some phones have really good headphone amplifiers (Samsung especially) and most Android phones support USB DACs. There are a huge number of portable USB DACs available.
So, all the people that have been screaming about Apple removing the analog jack, and here are people willing to carry around an external DAC.
not in the same universe as what can be achieved with an external DAC
Having a phono jack does not prevent you from using an external DAC. I do it with my Android phone all the time: USB-OTG adapter + USB DAC. It switches over automatically and works great... But when I don't have a DAC and I just want to connect to a car's line-in, the 3.5mm jack is still there for me.
And so is the supplied adapter cable. Your point being?
I have seen complaints that the battery life is unsatisfactory, and there's a good chance a lot of those people are listening to them loud. Mind you this is not unique to AirPods. Even the headset I had, had an underwhelming battery life when cranked up full throttle. However, batteries have improved in the six years since I had those. At the same time, expectations have gone up. It's one thing to sell something that only lasts three hours at full throttle with a "three to six hours" claim, and another to say "up to N", N being whatever number Marketing wants it to be.
At the same time, adding more surface area in the form of a connection between the two will solve the "losing one AirPod" problem, the synchronization problem (which they have dealt with but it still expends power on the phone side), possibly the reception problem, and allow for a battery that should outlast the charge in the phone. It would also solve, or at least greatly reduce, any distortion problems that might be caused by the power rail to the amplifier being unable to match the input curve of the signal.
Happy now?
Apple claims 5 hours on the AirPods. Pretty good considering the size of the unit. They are earbuds, Afterall. Then you can stick them in the case/charger (which holds enough charge itself to provide 24 hours of earbud charges) for a few minutes and get another few hours of run time. Most people have been happy with that arrangement, rather than some hinky MicroUSB charging abomination. And Apple has a reputation for not exaggerating battery life ratings. But of course someone will always be wanting more.
You won't be outlasting the charge on an iPhone 7, which can play music for 40 hours, or the 7 Plus, which can play for 60.
And you STILL advance the strawman argument regarding power-starvation, which exactly NOBODY gas complained about with the AirPods. Why? I am sorry that you have had bad experiences with shitbox BT headsets. These are not them.
It would be one thing if Apple hadn't completely mollified the naysayers and those with beloved analog headsets by both including a Lightning-based headset AND a simple Lightning to 3.5 mm adapter cable; but they did.
First, fanboi, when you 'mollify' your customers, you're being patronizing and insulting - much like your post. Second, Apple's workaround requires an adapter, which adds a bit of clunkiness and can easily get lost. Third, the headphones then connect to the bottom of the phone - not the most convenient thing. Fourth, you can't externally power the phone while having a headset connected - and that's a big downside for a lot of people.
One of the biggest advantages of using a digital output that an alleged "audiophile" like you has completely overlooked Is the fact that, by using an external DAC, you completely free yourself from the constraints of the analog output circuitry in the iPhone.
True, but beside the point. Users COULD have both the 3.5mm jack AND the digital audio output, if it wasn't for Apple's laughable definition of 'courage'.
Didn't think of THOSE ones, didja?
I knew I was using "mollify" incorrectly, but was too lazy to think of the word I really wanted.
You can either use the adapter or the supplied Lightning headset, or even a BT headset. Why would the adapter just jump off the end of your headphone cable? They do sort of "click" at both ends, you know...
Considering the iPhone 7 is rated at 40 hours of music playback, and the 7 Plus at 60 hours, this "not being able to charge" meme is kinda stupid. Plus, I can get 60% charge on my iPhone 6 Plus in around 20 minutes; so if you can't stand to be without your tunez for that much time, I suggest you look into one of the under $10 "Y" cables on Amazon, or better yet, get yourself some counseling for that OCD.
Oh, and the headphone jack has been on the bottom of iPhones for several versions now. And speaking as a person who almost took out my iPhone 4s with a single, well-aimed raindrop that just happened to fall directly into my topside headphone jack, I for one welcome the bottom-placement.
It's a fucking PHONE. I'm not expecting it to sound like my home DAC + tube amp and high end cans.
The inconvenience of needing an external solution, and the SEVERE inconvenience of not being able to charge the fucking thing while using a lightning headset or whatever, is enough to dissuade me from EVER considering an iPhone again.
If your friend is an "audiophile" why is he even using a phone for his music?
OH, so NOW the audioPILE is arguing AGAINST The Absolute Sound?!?
And, my schizoid friend, my audiophile friend doesn't "use his phone for his music"; nor do I. But occasionally, we all find ourselves out of reach of our "good" systems, don't we?
Not at all. For audiophiles such as myself a headphone jack is a requirement for purchasing any device. Until bluetooth headphones/headsets can provide the same quality as my corded headphones this will not change.
Funny, my audiophile friend (and me, who is also quite audio-savvy) both cheered the removal of the ridiculous, intermittent, 3.5 mm phone jack. 'Bout Fucking Time!
It would be one thing if Apple hadn't completely mollified the naysayers and those with beloved analog headsets by both including a Lightning-based headset AND a simple Lightning to 3.5 mm adapter cable; but they did. And then, they even did the completely non-Apple thing of making additional adapter cables CHEAP enough (USD $9) that you can throw a spare in your book bag; or simply keep one snapped onto each of your beloved analog headsets/headphones/earbuds.
One of the biggest advantages of using a digital output that an alleged "audiophile" like you has completely overlooked Is the fact that, by using an external DAC, you completely free yourself from the constraints of the analog output circuitry in the iPhone, which, although it is pretty good, is not in the same universe as what can be achieved with an external DAC and power amp, and with a decent power supply and an environment that is outside the bombardment of RF and ground-plane noise (ground bounce) from the rest of the phone's digital and radio circuitry.
Ok, so you can put a USB-C connector on your phone, throw a few generic drivers into the OS, offer one of the many USB-C port replacer docks that people use with their laptops, and call your phone a "desktop". Yeah, ok...
Doesn't make it actually practical in the real world.
You can do that right now (actually, for the past few years) with an iPhone using AirPlay (or the HDMI adapter), a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse (yes, iOS can use them just fine), and an AirPrint-compatible printer. Again, doesn't make it actually practical for anything but the most limited of use-cases.
Apple has lost their way in desktops far far more than they have lost their way in laptops, where they have only moderately lost their way. They cannot even take a standard USB flash stick!
Friend of mines 2016 MBP has filled it's screen. Crack developed right across it over a few days of sitting on a desk. Obvious manufacturing flaw.
So you think Apple will cover it under warrantee? Not a chance. Apparently it managed to drop itself then put itself back on the desk.. Without anyone knowing. Quite impressive really (and with no external sign of damage even!)
Ifixit gives them a 1 for repairability.. I can only assume it's not a zero because you could replace the... Oh wait... Nothing at all.
Give the damn Port thing a rest, will ya? If you can't be bothered to buy a $2.50 adapter to use that USB stick, or buy one of the USB sticks with USB-C on one end, and USB-A on the other, you don't need to have a computer. Change requires Change. Get over it. Two years from now, you'll understand, as NO laptops will have USB-A connectors. Apple just got there first.
And sorry, your friend is a liar, or you are a liar, or someone who knocked the laptop off the table is a liar. Or your friend or someone else doesn't want to admit they slammed the lid closed or jammed the laptop in a computer bag with a pen sitting on the keyboard area. That would have nicely cracked the display with no outward signs of impact damage. I almost did it once with my MacBook Pro, just a week or so ago. Had a pen sitting in the area above the keyboard. Closed the lid. Fortunately, I never let the lid "snap shut", or I can well imagine that that would have been that for my display.
Glass doesn't "just crack". Never. Apple glues their displays together. There are no fasteners to torque-down too hard. If there were stresses that intense, it would have simply pushed the lid apart as the glue hardened.
Apple is historically quite lenient with their warranty claims. But if I had been the Apple employee receiving that unit, I would have denied warranty repair, too. And I say that as someone who has spent some time working as a repair tech for electronic gear.
I've seen all of this at Intel. Other people make the hardware, Apple's just a packager. LG has a five-in-one that can do all of that and then some. The Apple 5k display is actually an LG product to begin with.
Duh! You truly are an idiot.
Apple doesn't claim that LG display; just that they worked with LG on it. It is LG-Branded, and looks NOTHING like an Apple product.
Apple, however, is MUCH more than a "packager".
Where did they buy that Touch Bar display and custom SoC from? Whose parts catalog can you point to?
Where did they buy that TouchID and custom SoC in the new MBPs from? Whose parts catalog can you point to?
Where did they buy the custom SSD controller in the new MBPs from? Whose parts catalog can you point to?
Where did they buy the A11x (and all other Axx) SoCs in the iOS devices from? Whose parts catalog can you point to?
Where did they buy the W1 chip from (yes, I know they bought a company...)? Whose parts catalog can you point to?
And that's just a few recent examples off the top of my head.
And don't EVEN try to hide behind the fact that Apple has people like Samsung, Sharp and TSMC FABRICATE some of these parts. That makes those other companies "Foundries", not "Designers". BIG, BIG difference!
EVERYONE buys CPUs, GPUs, RAM and SSDs from the same few sources. So what? Does that make EVERYONE a "Packager"? I guess by your definition, it does.
This is common sense. If the page is not visible, then it should NOT do anything. If it's still hogging the cpu when I can't see it then that is lazy ass programming by a wannabe coder. The timer solution idea has been used in many applications and systems in the past, though not exactly the same way. It's hardly a new groundbreaking concept, it's quite like dynamic priorities in unix systems. Better to use have the headline read "Chrome throttles cpu usage of background tabs, but still is unable to completely stop them for fear of angering the advertising overlords."
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Well that goes back to 90% of youtubers are morons and have nfi what their talking about most of the time. I watched a few videos a while back and the guy was trying to explain ohms law. I'm an electrician by trade for 16 years.. I had to turn it off it was so misinforming
LOL! I feel ya!
I am an electrical engineer by trade (or I was before I pissed-off my boss for outing him as a poser...). One of the warning signs I have always used to determine when someone is just b.s.-ing is when they start sticking-together terms-of-art that don't go together. I am SURE that laughable YT video had a metric buttload of that "fun-ness"...
I've had a quad core (i7) Mini since 2012. It's never had a problem cooling even with eight threads rendering in Modo. Fan ramps way the hell up, but it doesn't overheat. I think Apple crippled the mini to push people who need more cores to buy a Mac Pro instead. Apple's all about the upsell.
Yeah, that's logical. Someone who buys a $700 mini is absolutely an "upgrade candidate" for a $4000 Mac Pro.
who read that as "Compostable Shell"?
Seems fitting for a shitty product...
FFS, I could do that years ago with a Droid 4, using micro-HDMI for display and any random Bluetooth or USB OTG accessories that I felt like.
For the Droid Bionic, they even made a lapdock, with a built-in keyboard, monitor, and pointer.
Fast forward, and I can do it with an S5 using wired MHL for video display and Bluetooth peripherals.
Or just about anything else Android using Chromecast and whatever peripherals.
It's a shitty idea in that it is clever, efficient and seems useful, but really isn't useful at all.
My point exactly.
Just like that Moto phone that advertised being a "dockable" "transfoming" device. Went exactly NO WHERE.
And as I point out, just like the Droid 4, you have been able to do that with an iPhone for years, too. Don't know ANYONE who actually would do that by CHOICE, other than in an "emergency" situation.
Maybe someday...
It was only partially directed at you. Mostly it's directed at people who dismiss everything.
The why not just use a laptop, is the most classic example. Not all of us want a dedicated device for a dedicated workload and then the management hassle of working between them.
I put it to you, if all you do is type documents (there are perfectly find office tools available on android, your lack of quality applications if you define quality by doing what it needs to and not bolting on every tiny little piece of crap ala MS Office 20##) and browse web, why OWN a laptop? Then when you look at the devices you have you'll answer the question of why not use a laptop.
I believe your example comes under the definition in my original post about "...for anything but the most limited of use-cases.", now, doesn't it?
It's rare for people to "carry around" an external DAC, just like you don't carry around a good pair of headphones - you have them where you listen to music.
WTF ever. This is way past pointless.
This seems unlikely, considering that the iPhone 7 only has a small 1960mAh battery. Apple don't have any magic super efficient radios or a way to drive headphones that uses less energy than everyone else. Their off-the-shelf flash memory and RAM isn't lower power than the competition.
In fact, we can make some educated guesses here. The last iPod Touch (6th gen) had a 1000mAh battery and Apple claimed up to 40 hours of playback. Let's take their word for it, they are saying 25mAh/h in the best case (screen off, everything in minimum power). So around 200mAh for an 8 hour work day, or 10% of the iPhone 7's battery. But of course the iPhone 7 has other stuff to keep alive, like the cellular/wifi radios (so it can accept incoming calls and notifications/messages), it has the Bluetooth radio to keep on for the headphones. Let's say the rest of the hardware comes out even (e.g. more RAM, but it's lower power), it's still impossible for it to play all work day on your claimed 10-12% battery.
Plus the earpods only get 5 hours battery life anyway so you need two pairs of them, or some other type which you must remember to charge up or keep plugged in.
So, you are calling Apple a liar?
Remember, the A11x SoC has FOUR cores (a first for Apple SoCs), and two of them are special "low power" cores. I would imagine that if you are simply listening to music, that is a prime example to something that can be handled entirely by the low-power cores.
Add to that that Apple is VERY good at power-management, and I would bet that listening to music on the iPhone 7 series is an EXTREMELY power-parsimonious activity.
Anecdotes are not data, of course; but with my iPhone 6 Plus (which does NOT have low-power cores), I can stream Apple Music over WiFi all during the work day, and only eat about 10% or so of my battery. According to Apple, the iPhone 6 Plus will achieve 50 hours of music playback (which I believe Apple defines as "wireless" (streamed) music), with its 2915 mAh battery. So, assuming an 8 hour workday, and extrapolating from a single workday of my experience, this comes out to 1.25% per hour (which seems about right), or, IOW, 66 hours.
Now of course, all things are not exactly equal, although Li-ion batteries have an extraordinarily flat discharge curve; but as you say, every time you wake up the display, etc. you screw with that discharge rate a bit, but considering the fact that the iPhone doesn't charge the battery to much more than 80%, nor allow it to discharge much below 10% of actual total capacity, and we have a good guesstimate that 50 hours is likely a "real" number.
And as I said, my phone doesn't have the advantage of the special low-power cores to help stuff alone a bit. So, I actually believe that 80 hours on an iPhone 7 Plus is a reasonably accurate number.
Remember, it's an embedded SYSTEM, and ALL the pieces-parts, both hardware AND software, can work together to give you an overall power consumption over time that simply looking at datasheets won't reveal.
I'm sorry that Qualcomm's SoC's are such power-hogs (the GN7 had a battery capacity nearly TWICE that of the iPhone 7 Plus, but actually achieved a slightly LESS run-time); but them's the facts.
Thanks for the remark, the tidbit about 2016 escaped me.
And it seems like there are few enough reports overall that it is unlikely an engineering or manufacturing defect.
I know that I'd be ready to submit to a polygraph if I had a MBP (or any computer) that just spontaneously developed a cracked display. Since it is impossible to prove a negative, I'm really not sure what you would do under those conditions. But I can tell you with a virtual certainty that NO manufacturer, unless there was a KNOWN defect, would cover such a thing under warranty.
Would you?
So it simply isn't "an Apple thing".
Youre probably very correct, seeing as the ingredients in vape jizz is all oil bases. I figured after a month it wasnt worth it having to "build" coils and shit was a waste of time. plus it was making me feel like crap, so i just stopped it. I highly recommend not trying any of the vape "mods" or anything thats for "blowin' clouds" i figure it will eventually be outlawed.
I would imagine that the vapes that are designed around Tobacco might be targeted at temps different for those that are designed for vaping Marijuana. At least that would be what I would hope.
But once you start listening to the modders and coil-winders, all bets are off. Most of those people don't even know the difference between vaping and combusting. They just want a big "cloud", as you said.
"Nah it still isn't practical for reasons I won't share"
I am not sure if your comment was directed at me; but I'll bite...
Reason #1: Lack of Desktop-Quality Applications (not "APPS").
Reason #2: See Reason #1.
Reason #3: If you HAVE to hook up a dock, external display, and keyboard/mouse in order to PRACTICALLY use your Phone as a PC in other than an "emergency" situation, then WHY NOT JUST USE A LAPTOP???
Reason #4: See Reason #1.
Hardly "all the people", just the hardcore audiophiles. The majority of people screwed by losing the headphone jack are the ones who listen all day at work and can't charge at the same time without an adapter chain.
And in any case, audiophiles prefer Android because USB gives you a much wider choice of DAC than Lightning.
Even if you "listen all day" at work with an iPhone 7, you would have had to leave home with around 10-12% charge to get into a situation where simply listening to music would run you out of battery. I simply can't believe that that is anything like a common occurrence, especially with people who "live in their phone".
I can see why there would be more DACs available for USB than Lightning. Hopefully, the move to USB-C in the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros is the harbinger of change for Apple's mobile devices, and the next generation or two will see them drop Lightning (which was created mostly because Apple hated the microUSB connector) in favor of USB-C across the board.
I tried vaping, it filled my lungs with clear goop and was hard to breathe when I woke up. That shit is very bad for you. I feel it's almost worse than cigarettes. I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to fill your lungs with liquid vapors. At least not that much at a time.
Well, considering that one of the standard treatments for those with COPD involves using a Nebulizer (generally with something like Albuterol infused in the vapor), I would suggest that it is WHAT is being vaporized (the "flavor" chemicals and perhaps the frickin' GLYCOL) that is the issue, rather than "wet lungs" from the vapor itself.
I just want you to look at yourself and what you just said - you could have tried to quit, and put your daughter at risk... only a severe addict could ever rationalize a statement like that. Keep trying...
News flash: Nicotine is physically addictive, and the act of smoking is psychologically addictive.
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Check the Serial Number to see if yours a faulty model. There are models with a know fault that causes problems in the iMac line, something about a faulty support, cannot remember the specific details.
While there are alleged reports of MacBook Pro screens spontaneously cracking, the most recent ones appear to be from around 2007-2008, with one report from 2013. Nothing about the 2016 MBP; although I admit it is pretty early-on to have that sort of thing show up.
Actually a lot of audiophiles do use phones these days. Some phones have really good headphone amplifiers (Samsung especially) and most Android phones support USB DACs. There are a huge number of portable USB DACs available.
So, all the people that have been screaming about Apple removing the analog jack, and here are people willing to carry around an external DAC.
Sigh.
not in the same universe as what can be achieved with an external DAC
Having a phono jack does not prevent you from using an external DAC. I do it with my Android phone all the time: USB-OTG adapter + USB DAC. It switches over automatically and works great... But when I don't have a DAC and I just want to connect to a car's line-in, the 3.5mm jack is still there for me.
And so is the supplied adapter cable. Your point being?
I have seen complaints that the battery life is unsatisfactory, and there's a good chance a lot of those people are listening to them loud. Mind you this is not unique to AirPods. Even the headset I had, had an underwhelming battery life when cranked up full throttle. However, batteries have improved in the six years since I had those. At the same time, expectations have gone up. It's one thing to sell something that only lasts three hours at full throttle with a "three to six hours" claim, and another to say "up to N", N being whatever number Marketing wants it to be.
At the same time, adding more surface area in the form of a connection between the two will solve the "losing one AirPod" problem, the synchronization problem (which they have dealt with but it still expends power on the phone side), possibly the reception problem, and allow for a battery that should outlast the charge in the phone. It would also solve, or at least greatly reduce, any distortion problems that might be caused by the power rail to the amplifier being unable to match the input curve of the signal.
Happy now?
Apple claims 5 hours on the AirPods. Pretty good considering the size of the unit. They are earbuds, Afterall. Then you can stick them in the case/charger (which holds enough charge itself to provide 24 hours of earbud charges) for a few minutes and get another few hours of run time. Most people have been happy with that arrangement, rather than some hinky MicroUSB charging abomination. And Apple has a reputation for not exaggerating battery life ratings. But of course someone will always be wanting more.
You won't be outlasting the charge on an iPhone 7, which can play music for 40 hours, or the 7 Plus, which can play for 60.
And you STILL advance the strawman argument regarding power-starvation, which exactly NOBODY gas complained about with the AirPods. Why? I am sorry that you have had bad experiences with shitbox BT headsets. These are not them.
It's called a metaphor.
But when a metaphor contains over-the-top exaggeration, it's called " hyperbole". Or, more correctly, a hyperbolic metaphor.
It would be one thing if Apple hadn't completely mollified the naysayers and those with beloved analog headsets by both including a Lightning-based headset AND a simple Lightning to 3.5 mm adapter cable; but they did.
First, fanboi, when you 'mollify' your customers, you're being patronizing and insulting - much like your post. Second, Apple's workaround requires an adapter, which adds a bit of clunkiness and can easily get lost. Third, the headphones then connect to the bottom of the phone - not the most convenient thing. Fourth, you can't externally power the phone while having a headset connected - and that's a big downside for a lot of people.
One of the biggest advantages of using a digital output that an alleged "audiophile" like you has completely overlooked Is the fact that, by using an external DAC, you completely free yourself from the constraints of the analog output circuitry in the iPhone.
True, but beside the point. Users COULD have both the 3.5mm jack AND the digital audio output, if it wasn't for Apple's laughable definition of 'courage'.
Didn't think of THOSE ones, didja?
I knew I was using "mollify" incorrectly, but was too lazy to think of the word I really wanted.
You can either use the adapter or the supplied Lightning headset, or even a BT headset. Why would the adapter just jump off the end of your headphone cable? They do sort of "click" at both ends, you know...
Considering the iPhone 7 is rated at 40 hours of music playback, and the 7 Plus at 60 hours, this "not being able to charge" meme is kinda stupid. Plus, I can get 60% charge on my iPhone 6 Plus in around 20 minutes; so if you can't stand to be without your tunez for that much time, I suggest you look into one of the under $10 "Y" cables on Amazon, or better yet, get yourself some counseling for that OCD.
Oh, and the headphone jack has been on the bottom of iPhones for several versions now. And speaking as a person who almost took out my iPhone 4s with a single, well-aimed raindrop that just happened to fall directly into my topside headphone jack, I for one welcome the bottom-placement.
It's a fucking PHONE. I'm not expecting it to sound like my home DAC + tube amp and high end cans.
The inconvenience of needing an external solution, and the SEVERE inconvenience of not being able to charge the fucking thing while using a lightning headset or whatever, is enough to dissuade me from EVER considering an iPhone again.
If your friend is an "audiophile" why is he even using a phone for his music?
OH, so NOW the audioPILE is arguing AGAINST The Absolute Sound?!?
And, my schizoid friend, my audiophile friend doesn't "use his phone for his music"; nor do I. But occasionally, we all find ourselves out of reach of our "good" systems, don't we?
Not at all. For audiophiles such as myself a headphone jack is a requirement for purchasing any device. Until bluetooth headphones/headsets can provide the same quality as my corded headphones this will not change.
Funny, my audiophile friend (and me, who is also quite audio-savvy) both cheered the removal of the ridiculous, intermittent, 3.5 mm phone jack. 'Bout Fucking Time!
It would be one thing if Apple hadn't completely mollified the naysayers and those with beloved analog headsets by both including a Lightning-based headset AND a simple Lightning to 3.5 mm adapter cable; but they did. And then, they even did the completely non-Apple thing of making additional adapter cables CHEAP enough (USD $9) that you can throw a spare in your book bag; or simply keep one snapped onto each of your beloved analog headsets/headphones/earbuds.
One of the biggest advantages of using a digital output that an alleged "audiophile" like you has completely overlooked Is the fact that, by using an external DAC, you completely free yourself from the constraints of the analog output circuitry in the iPhone, which, although it is pretty good, is not in the same universe as what can be achieved with an external DAC and power amp, and with a decent power supply and an environment that is outside the bombardment of RF and ground-plane noise (ground bounce) from the rest of the phone's digital and radio circuitry.
Didn't think of THAT one, didja?
Ok, so you can put a USB-C connector on your phone, throw a few generic drivers into the OS, offer one of the many USB-C port replacer docks that people use with their laptops, and call your phone a "desktop". Yeah, ok...
Doesn't make it actually practical in the real world.
You can do that right now (actually, for the past few years) with an iPhone using AirPlay (or the HDMI adapter), a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse (yes, iOS can use them just fine), and an AirPrint-compatible printer. Again, doesn't make it actually practical for anything but the most limited of use-cases.
Exactly! I agree with you.
Apple has lost their way in desktops far far more than they have lost their way in laptops, where they have only moderately lost their way. They cannot even take a standard USB flash stick!
Friend of mines 2016 MBP has filled it's screen. Crack developed right across it over a few days of sitting on a desk. Obvious manufacturing flaw. So you think Apple will cover it under warrantee? Not a chance. Apparently it managed to drop itself then put itself back on the desk.. Without anyone knowing. Quite impressive really (and with no external sign of damage even!) Ifixit gives them a 1 for repairability.. I can only assume it's not a zero because you could replace the... Oh wait... Nothing at all.
Give the damn Port thing a rest, will ya? If you can't be bothered to buy a $2.50 adapter to use that USB stick, or buy one of the USB sticks with USB-C on one end, and USB-A on the other, you don't need to have a computer. Change requires Change. Get over it. Two years from now, you'll understand, as NO laptops will have USB-A connectors. Apple just got there first.
And sorry, your friend is a liar, or you are a liar, or someone who knocked the laptop off the table is a liar. Or your friend or someone else doesn't want to admit they slammed the lid closed or jammed the laptop in a computer bag with a pen sitting on the keyboard area. That would have nicely cracked the display with no outward signs of impact damage. I almost did it once with my MacBook Pro, just a week or so ago. Had a pen sitting in the area above the keyboard. Closed the lid. Fortunately, I never let the lid "snap shut", or I can well imagine that that would have been that for my display.
Glass doesn't "just crack". Never. Apple glues their displays together. There are no fasteners to torque-down too hard. If there were stresses that intense, it would have simply pushed the lid apart as the glue hardened.
Apple is historically quite lenient with their warranty claims. But if I had been the Apple employee receiving that unit, I would have denied warranty repair, too. And I say that as someone who has spent some time working as a repair tech for electronic gear.
I've seen all of this at Intel. Other people make the hardware, Apple's just a packager. LG has a five-in-one that can do all of that and then some. The Apple 5k display is actually an LG product to begin with.
Duh! You truly are an idiot.
Apple doesn't claim that LG display; just that they worked with LG on it. It is LG-Branded, and looks NOTHING like an Apple product.
Apple, however, is MUCH more than a "packager".
Where did they buy that Touch Bar display and custom SoC from? Whose parts catalog can you point to?
Where did they buy that TouchID and custom SoC in the new MBPs from? Whose parts catalog can you point to?
Where did they buy the custom SSD controller in the new MBPs from? Whose parts catalog can you point to?
Where did they buy the A11x (and all other Axx) SoCs in the iOS devices from? Whose parts catalog can you point to?
Where did they buy the W1 chip from (yes, I know they bought a company...)? Whose parts catalog can you point to? And that's just a few recent examples off the top of my head.
And don't EVEN try to hide behind the fact that Apple has people like Samsung, Sharp and TSMC FABRICATE some of these parts. That makes those other companies "Foundries", not "Designers". BIG, BIG difference!
EVERYONE buys CPUs, GPUs, RAM and SSDs from the same few sources. So what? Does that make EVERYONE a "Packager"? I guess by your definition, it does.
This is common sense. If the page is not visible, then it should NOT do anything. If it's still hogging the cpu when I can't see it then that is lazy ass programming by a wannabe coder. The timer solution idea has been used in many applications and systems in the past, though not exactly the same way. It's hardly a new groundbreaking concept, it's quite like dynamic priorities in unix systems. Better to use have the headline read "Chrome throttles cpu usage of background tabs, but still is unable to completely stop them for fear of angering the advertising overlords."
LOL!