If Apple handed Qualcomm's Trade Secrets over to Intel, don't you think that Intel would have delivered a better-performing MODEM than what is evidently in the iPhone Xs and Xs Max?
Intel's not THAT stupid. If someone handed them those secrets, they have enough smart people to implement them. So, I submit that Qualcomm's allegations are as trumped-up as most of their Patents.
Qualcomm is just a damned cry-baby. And an evil greedy one at that!
Next iPhone will have an APPLE-Designed MODEM. Apple doesn't put up with vendors that try to strong-arm (no Pun) it. I sincerely believe that Apple's goal is to take every critical component "in-house".
So it does overheat then. In development or not, if you own the can-t-connect iPhone then you obviously need the overheating charger to go with it. To complete the set, you see.
It's beyond belief that Apple can't even design a charger that works.
So why don't you call 'em up and show Apple how it's done?
They are! They maybe used to be an engineering company but not any more.
Right.
Because it really doesn't take any ENGINEERING to design and create things like the Apple Watch 4. Those are just Reference Designs by the people who Developed the SoC, right?
I respect any company that can take a step and have a major code iteration be a refactor. I don't mind having a release just be bug fixes and security improvements. That to me, is more important than new features.
Who cares how happy you are with an incremental update you obsequious toady? You're a store-bought bitch Ken Doll lol, but why would you think anyone is interested in your vanilla-after-vanilla reviews?
None of what you say matters even a little bit, and this is just another one of those times. Get a life, get a job. Walmart needs boring greeters like you.
Whoa their partner. I am well beyond forty and as soon as I got a smart phone, I took off my watch and never put it back on again and I only got a smart phone when it could do a whole lot more than make calls (I tend to use my phone to make calls rather than receive them, I tend to put it another room, when I am not using it and ignore the messages, unless I am waiting for something specific. I prefer a land line and answering machine, kind of liberating to not answer a mobile phone when out and about, when ever you choose to be disconnected).
I have a smart phone to use it when ever I want to use it and not to be used or controlled by it, make a call when ever I want and only receive calls specifically when I am in the mood to receive a specific call, I own myself my device does not own me.
What a useless, off topic, and uninformed rant.
I am "well past 40" myself, and can personally see the utility for a wide-range of people in our age group who would benefit from an always-watching (no pun) heart rate monitor and always-available ECG/EKG. Add to that the fall-detection and always-available panic-button, both of which could potentially save significant numbers of people every year, and you should frankly be ashamed of being so shortsighted and self-centered to even POST your irrelevant diatribe.
Think about it; then think of your friends and relatives that might well be saved by having these capabilities available to them wherever and whenever, they go.
Sure, but will it call the cops if you decide to lay down and take a nap? Betcha not.
No, because it gives you a minute after it detects a fall to cancel a visual/haptic/audible alert before it automatically dials 911/999 (or whatever you have set). And then, it acts like a speakerphone, giving you the ability to tell the 911 Operator to Disregard the call.
Plus, I would bet that the software will look at acceleration (and deceleration) to determine the difference between laying-down and falling-down.
Exactly. This is just apple poorly copying another companies tech ( in this case https://www.lifeline.ca/en/phi... and now of course apple worshipping nutjobs will praise apple for its "innovation" and how the iwatch saves lives. If the iwatch had not failed as a fashion toy it would never have become and medical toy.
Except that Lifeline (which Philips didn't invent either) relies on a SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. Apple's proposed system relies on the 911 network that is included with everyone's taxes.
There's a ton of more open smart watches out there - I don't need to be locked in to any 'walled garden'
Oh, get over yourself!
No watch has enough horsepower to run a wide range of Apps; nor is there a robust community of "Watch Hackers" to develop and distribute Jailbreaks or "Alternate ROMs" for Smartwatches; therefore, the concept of a "Walled Garden" is almost entirely moot.
Give it a rest. Sane people don't look for hackability when it comes to Microwave Ovens; the same is true when it comes to a basically single-purpose device like a SmartWatch.
Cook has finally fried the Apple. They are essentially selling downgraded versions of a discontinued new product in slightly different bodies. They have pulled a "Chinese knockoff" on themselves. ALL THE LOLS. Keep buying those logos boys...
Dude, they fucking do. 2 years after we bought iPads for the brats, they stopped getting updates because we hadn't paid or annual Apple tax. Oh, I know, that's my fault because i didn't buy the newest one, I bought a slightly older one. Funny how this crappy e lite can get new apps even thigh its much older and crappier and not Apple ish
Quit lying.
Unless it was a certain model of iPad, that did have an extremely-short (by Apple Standards; long for Android) Support window, Apple supports devices for at least as long as is technologically practical.
I honestly thought you were smart-enough to not fall for the "It doesn't matter to me; so it shouldn't matter to anyone." argument. But apparently not. Case in point: When the AppleWatch 4 came out a few days ago, even the generally Apple-Hating Slashdot crowd was complimenting Apple for the INNOVATION.
Same thing with FaceID: You like TouchID better; so everyone else should, too...
You'll note that I acknowledged that both of those are innovative.
Barely! Some would even dare to call it "Damning with Faint Praise..."
That doesn't change the fact that they aren't particularly interesting. In the case of Face ID, they had something that worked well, and replaced it with something that doesn't work nearly as well for a significant percentage of users, just so that they could eliminate that pesky physical button that messed with their notion of form over function. Forbes panned the iPhone X, using words like "suck" precisely because Face ID is so much worse than what we had previously. I can guarantee that if you took a hundred random people who had never used either one and asked them to try both approaches, the overwhelming majority would prefer Touch ID, because you can unlock the device before you have to look at it.
In your NOT So Humble Opinion...
With Face ID, you have to actively pay attention to the device for several seconds *before* it is usable, which makes it an exceptionally bad user experience by comparison.
It may be SLIGHTLY slower (a few tenths of a second); but it is NO way "Several Seconds".
So although the technology might be innovative, it should have been as a way to augment Touch ID (e.g. for added security during payments), not replace it entirely.
But Everyone was wanting a "no chin" design, and Apple (WISELY!) nixed that terrible idea of putting the Finger sensor on the BACK. And at the time, no one had "Read through the screen" working yet (and still don't, really). So, what's a mother to do ?!?
As implemented, it was a mistake, and pretty much the only people who can't see that are Apple engineers and fanbois.
And the millions upon millions of users that seem to like it better... (But I'm SURE you would simply dismiss all of them as "fanbois").
And the watch ECG is neat from a technical perspective; it just isn't enough to make me spend a few hundred bucks on a watch that really won't do much for me.
There you go again, using only YOURSELF as the self-appointed arbiter of Usefulness and Innovation...
I have an iPhone 6, and although I haven't installed iOS 12 yet, I can tell you that the speed-improvements in iOS 11.4.1 are quite real, and quite noticeable. Call that "incremental improvements" all you want; it no doubt took some innovate re-design of the OS to accomplish those speedups.
I guarantee that Apple did not redesign their OS in iOS 12, much less a minor patch release of iOS 11. iOS 11.4 was actually a significant performance *regression* for many folks, and iOS 11.4.1 did not fix those problems.
Actually, it did. Apple often "tries out" upcoming improvements slated to go into the next major release by putting them into the last minor rev. of the current release. They have done that for DECADES.
iOS 12 mostly improved the algorithm they use for deciding when to run the CPU at faster speeds, resulting in some nice performance wins./p>
How do YOU know? Are you on the iOS Dev. Team? If so, you just violated an NDA!
Besides, what you are suggesting would have a very noticeable impact on battery life; and I haven't heard reports to that effect.
But a re-design? Hardly.
I didn't say or even imply that they re-wrote iOS from the Ground-Up. But they CERTA
And you did nothing to refute it, dumberass. You can go around questioning everything in the world, but when people get annoyed at you because you have no evidence that doesn't make you right.
That was over 2 years ago, affected pretty much only people who didn't want to bother downloading the FREE XCode from the App Store (for WHATEVER inexplicable reason!), and was actually never PROVEN to contain Malware, IIRC).
And even if it WAS infected, that's STILL 699,999 : 1
Thanks. I'll try to remember to mention the Zerkar splitter for when haters ask the same question. Now if only there were the same thing for Game Boy Advance SP...
Sorry, can't help you there.
I did notice that some people reported getting the dreaded "Unsupported Device" Error; but since that didn't happen to EVERYONE... ?
Or, if you want really nice support, this one has a 3.5mm jack (with I think microphone support) AND a Lightning Headset Jack (although only one of the audio-interfaces can be used at a time), AND a Lightning Charging Port: Yes, it has a little "enclosure"; but I assume that you won't be charging while walking around with your phone; so it hardly fucking matters:
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If Apple handed Qualcomm's Trade Secrets over to Intel, don't you think that Intel would have delivered a better-performing MODEM than what is evidently in the iPhone Xs and Xs Max?
Intel's not THAT stupid. If someone handed them those secrets, they have enough smart people to implement them. So, I submit that Qualcomm's allegations are as trumped-up as most of their Patents.
Qualcomm is just a damned cry-baby. And an evil greedy one at that!
Next iPhone will have an APPLE-Designed MODEM. Apple doesn't put up with vendors that try to strong-arm (no Pun) it. I sincerely believe that Apple's goal is to take every critical component "in-house".
So it does overheat then. In development or not, if you own the can-t-connect iPhone then you obviously need the overheating charger to go with it. To complete the set, you see.
It's beyond belief that Apple can't even design a charger that works.
So why don't you call 'em up and show Apple how it's done?
Thought so.
They are! They maybe used to be an engineering company but not any more.
Right.
Because it really doesn't take any ENGINEERING to design and create things like the Apple Watch 4. Those are just Reference Designs by the people who Developed the SoC, right?
Oh, but wait...
So, no interest in fixing your product then. Typical Apple.
You must have me confused with the REAL Tim Cook.
Where in your Syphilitic, Addled, excuse-for-a-brain do you think that "I" have any more power than YOU to fix this.
Oh, and BTW: I agree it is likely caused by Intel's MODEM chip. I have ALSO said that Qualcomm's core-competency lies in their RF engineering.
Unfortunately, the parents (Apple and Qualcomm) are fighting, and "we children" are having to put up with living with the relatives for right now...
This is due to the superior antenna in the new models. The users are holding it wrong and this causes the antenna to work sub-optimally.
- SuperKendall
Amazing how the usual Apple astroturfers are completely AWOL from this Apple thread. But the Apple astromods are on the job.
Fix your product Apple. Trolling Slashdot does not fix your product.
Neither does Trolling ABOUT Apple.
Now, to complete the set, you just need the overheating wireless charging accessory.
Hey dumbass: That was a product STILL IN DEVELOPMENT.
Sorry if the importance of that fact eludes you.
apple gives away the OS because YOU are the product!
PROVE it, or GTFO!!!
Apple OS 9.xx was perfectly adequate. I was happy with it. Installing OS X broke my mac. I had to reinstall os 9.
All this fancy OS X is nothing but bloat. The kind of bloat some busy body brown noser thinks is a good idea at a mon day morning office meeting. Bloat to create useless programmer jobs equivalent to " téléphone desanatiser " or "management consultant" of Hitchhikers Guide.
Bloat designed to support bloated websites full of memory/CPU cl9gging advertisement.
This is too much. I'm finished. Apple boycott for life
You're an illiterate, COWARDLY idiot.
GTFO.
I respect any company that can take a step and have a major code iteration be a refactor. I don't mind having a release just be bug fixes and security improvements. That to me, is more important than new features.
At this point in the game, it is.
Who cares how happy you are with an incremental update you obsequious toady? You're a store-bought bitch Ken Doll lol, but why would you think anyone is interested in your vanilla-after-vanilla reviews?
None of what you say matters even a little bit, and this is just another one of those times. Get a life, get a job. Walmart needs boring greeters like you.
So sez the COWARD...
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Garmin Forerunner. Free apps by the dozen and an SDK if you like making your own.
The Apple Watch has all that and more; but they are still a drop in the bucket compared with phone and tablet Apps.
So, What's your point?
Whoa their partner. I am well beyond forty and as soon as I got a smart phone, I took off my watch and never put it back on again and I only got a smart phone when it could do a whole lot more than make calls (I tend to use my phone to make calls rather than receive them, I tend to put it another room, when I am not using it and ignore the messages, unless I am waiting for something specific. I prefer a land line and answering machine, kind of liberating to not answer a mobile phone when out and about, when ever you choose to be disconnected).
I have a smart phone to use it when ever I want to use it and not to be used or controlled by it, make a call when ever I want and only receive calls specifically when I am in the mood to receive a specific call, I own myself my device does not own me.
What a useless, off topic, and uninformed rant.
I am "well past 40" myself, and can personally see the utility for a wide-range of people in our age group who would benefit from an always-watching (no pun) heart rate monitor and always-available ECG/EKG. Add to that the fall-detection and always-available panic-button, both of which could potentially save significant numbers of people every year, and you should frankly be ashamed of being so shortsighted and self-centered to even POST your irrelevant diatribe.
Think about it; then think of your friends and relatives that might well be saved by having these capabilities available to them wherever and whenever, they go.
Sure, but will it call the cops if you decide to lay down and take a nap? Betcha not.
No, because it gives you a minute after it detects a fall to cancel a visual/haptic/audible alert before it automatically dials 911/999 (or whatever you have set). And then, it acts like a speakerphone, giving you the ability to tell the 911 Operator to Disregard the call.
Plus, I would bet that the software will look at acceleration (and deceleration) to determine the difference between laying-down and falling-down.
Exactly. This is just apple poorly copying another companies tech ( in this case https://www.lifeline.ca/en/phi... and now of course apple worshipping nutjobs will praise apple for its "innovation" and how the iwatch saves lives.
If the iwatch had not failed as a fashion toy it would never have become and medical toy.
Except that Lifeline (which Philips didn't invent either) relies on a SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. Apple's proposed system relies on the 911 network that is included with everyone's taxes.
There's a ton of more open smart watches out there - I don't need to be locked in to any 'walled garden'
Oh, get over yourself!
No watch has enough horsepower to run a wide range of Apps; nor is there a robust community of "Watch Hackers" to develop and distribute Jailbreaks or "Alternate ROMs" for Smartwatches; therefore, the concept of a "Walled Garden" is almost entirely moot.
Give it a rest. Sane people don't look for hackability when it comes to Microwave Ovens; the same is true when it comes to a basically single-purpose device like a SmartWatch.
Cook has finally fried the Apple. They are essentially selling downgraded versions of a discontinued new product in slightly different bodies. They have pulled a "Chinese knockoff" on themselves. ALL THE LOLS. Keep buying those logos boys...
Prove it, Hater.
Dude, they fucking do. 2 years after we bought iPads for the brats, they stopped getting updates because we hadn't paid or annual Apple tax. Oh, I know, that's my fault because i didn't buy the newest one, I bought a slightly older one. Funny how this crappy e lite can get new apps even thigh its much older and crappier and not Apple ish
Quit lying.
Unless it was a certain model of iPad, that did have an extremely-short (by Apple Standards; long for Android) Support window, Apple supports devices for at least as long as is technologically practical.
100% market penetration
I see what you did there...
I honestly thought you were smart-enough to not fall for the "It doesn't matter to me; so it shouldn't matter to anyone." argument. But apparently not. Case in point: When the AppleWatch 4 came out a few days ago, even the generally Apple-Hating Slashdot crowd was complimenting Apple for the INNOVATION.
Same thing with FaceID: You like TouchID better; so everyone else should, too...
You'll note that I acknowledged that both of those are innovative.
Barely! Some would even dare to call it "Damning with Faint Praise..."
That doesn't change the fact that they aren't particularly interesting. In the case of Face ID, they had something that worked well, and replaced it with something that doesn't work nearly as well for a significant percentage of users, just so that they could eliminate that pesky physical button that messed with their notion of form over function. Forbes panned the iPhone X, using words like "suck" precisely because Face ID is so much worse than what we had previously. I can guarantee that if you took a hundred random people who had never used either one and asked them to try both approaches, the overwhelming majority would prefer Touch ID, because you can unlock the device before you have to look at it.
In your NOT So Humble Opinion...
With Face ID, you have to actively pay attention to the device for several seconds *before* it is usable, which makes it an exceptionally bad user experience by comparison.
It may be SLIGHTLY slower (a few tenths of a second); but it is NO way "Several Seconds".
So although the technology might be innovative, it should have been as a way to augment Touch ID (e.g. for added security during payments), not replace it entirely.
But Everyone was wanting a "no chin" design, and Apple (WISELY!) nixed that terrible idea of putting the Finger sensor on the BACK. And at the time, no one had "Read through the screen" working yet (and still don't, really). So, what's a mother to do ?!?
As implemented, it was a mistake, and pretty much the only people who can't see that are Apple engineers and fanbois.
And the millions upon millions of users that seem to like it better... (But I'm SURE you would simply dismiss all of them as "fanbois").
And the watch ECG is neat from a technical perspective; it just isn't enough to make me spend a few hundred bucks on a watch that really won't do much for me.
There you go again, using only YOURSELF as the self-appointed arbiter of Usefulness and Innovation...
I have an iPhone 6, and although I haven't installed iOS 12 yet, I can tell you that the speed-improvements in iOS 11.4.1 are quite real, and quite noticeable. Call that "incremental improvements" all you want; it no doubt took some innovate re-design of the OS to accomplish those speedups.
I guarantee that Apple did not redesign their OS in iOS 12, much less a minor patch release of iOS 11. iOS 11.4 was actually a significant performance *regression* for many folks, and iOS 11.4.1 did not fix those problems.
Actually, it did. Apple often "tries out" upcoming improvements slated to go into the next major release by putting them into the last minor rev. of the current release. They have done that for DECADES.
iOS 12 mostly improved the algorithm they use for deciding when to run the CPU at faster speeds, resulting in some nice performance wins./p>
How do YOU know? Are you on the iOS Dev. Team? If so, you just violated an NDA!
Besides, what you are suggesting would have a very noticeable impact on battery life; and I haven't heard reports to that effect.
But a re-design? Hardly.
I didn't say or even imply that they re-wrote iOS from the Ground-Up. But they CERTA
STFU, or disprove it
I didn't make the original "allegation", dumbass.
And you did nothing to refute it, dumberass. You can go around questioning everything in the world, but when people get annoyed at you because you have no evidence that doesn't make you right.
Sorry. It doesn't work that way.
Did you try googling it?
First result: https://us.norton.com/internet...
Try again.
That was over 2 years ago, affected pretty much only people who didn't want to bother downloading the FREE XCode from the App Store (for WHATEVER inexplicable reason!), and was actually never PROVEN to contain Malware, IIRC).
And even if it WAS infected, that's STILL 699,999 : 1
Hardly "Plenty" by ANY definition.
Or, if you want really nice support
Thanks. I'll try to remember to mention the Zerkar splitter for when haters ask the same question. Now if only there were the same thing for Game Boy Advance SP...
Sorry, can't help you there.
I did notice that some people reported getting the dreaded "Unsupported Device" Error; but since that didn't happen to EVERYONE... ?
Don't worry, there is plenty of malware in the Apple App Store as well.
Prove it. And define "Plenty".
STFU, or disprove it
I didn't make the original "allegation", dumbass.
The Lightning port is not removed but is currently in use for charging.
All the time?
And have you noticed they have THESE?
https://www.amazon.com/CaseyPo...
Or, if you want really nice support, this one has a 3.5mm jack (with I think microphone support) AND a Lightning Headset Jack (although only one of the audio-interfaces can be used at a time), AND a Lightning Charging Port: Yes, it has a little "enclosure"; but I assume that you won't be charging while walking around with your phone; so it hardly fucking matters:
https://www.amazon.com/Compati...