I really can’t get my head around the fact that manufacturers are copying the notch. It’s an ugly workaround, and as someone who develops apps every once in a while, it’s a really annoying exception to have to take into account.
If you have to have a bezel-less phone, do what one Chinese did in their flagship phone: make the front facing camera pop up out of the top of the screen. This has the added benefit that you know when the thing is watching you. Of course that means no Face ID but they could have added a fingerprint scanner on the back or whatever.
And just how long do you think that "popup" mechanism will last in a cheapshit Chinese phone? Not to mention the HUGE water-intrusion hole that creates, no matter how much you try to seal it up...
Did you finally stop complaining about how the iMac didn't have a floppy disk?
The floppy disk was replaced by something better, faster, cheaper, more reliable and with more storage. Computers stopped having floppy disk drives several years after people stopped using them. Same with CD drives. People started rarely using the CD drives so companies started dropping them. Bluetooth has been around for years but hasn't had a significant effect on the use of the 3.5 jack. A large percentage of people still prefer the 3.5 jack. You drop a technology AFTER people stop wanting it not to force people to stop using it.
We'd still be setting 9600,N,8,1 for our Printers and using Parallel Ports for our Scanners if we lived in YOUR world.
Remember that Henry Ford quote about "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'A faster horse' "? Same thing applies.
The floppy disk was obsolete. Headphones are not obsolete, nor will they be.
If you are old enough to remember when the original iMac came out in 1998, you should also remember that the technorati bitched loud and hard about the absence of a floppy.
Headphones are not obsolete; just the wire between your head and the music.
The P30 is actually much more advanced and was a much bigger challenge than the iPhone X - because it actually included the technological innovation called a 3.5mm TRRS jack for your wired headphones!
You are a lame piece of shit, and nothing more than a POSER.
then the iPhone X was not so technically challenging.
1. It takes a LOT less effort to copy something than to create it in the first place.
2. Copying the look of something is not the same thing as copying the ABILITIES of something, as anyone who buys this disingenuous POS will soon find out when they start comparing it with the real thing...
Just pick one you can root and strip out all the crap it preinstalls. Much like a Windows PC.:) At least with an Android you can still install software outside the Play Store walled garden.
You shouldn't HAVE to "strip out" ANYTHING.
And you can install iOS Apps outside of the App Store ever since iOS 8.
Apple has a long history of trying to prevent choice and innovation. They forced DR to lobotomize GEM, threatened Microsoft for the best part of a decade to prevent them from producing a decent UI for Windows (you really don't want to know what Windows was like pre-95), and until the late nineties was notorious for avoiding open technologies, even when there was no serious advantage to its own. While things warmed again under Jobs, the latter went ballistic over Google's Android despite the iPhone itself being a blatant copy of an LG design.
They're not the good guys, they're just a company that very often comes up with some good ideas.
Every single bit of that is a lie.
Sorry, every bit of that is bang on, I saw it all with my own eyes. And that's just the tip of it. Being charitable to Apple if anything, maybe that is a mistake.
You do realize, of course, that your "citations" add up to a big "Because I said so.", right?
Apple has a long history of trying to prevent choice and innovation. They forced DR to lobotomize GEM, threatened Microsoft for the best part of a decade to prevent them from producing a decent UI for Windows (you really don't want to know what Windows was like pre-95), and until the late nineties was notorious for avoiding open technologies, even when there was no serious advantage to its own. While things warmed again under Jobs, the latter went ballistic over Google's Android despite the iPhone itself being a blatant copy of an LG design.
They're not the good guys, they're just a company that very often comes up with some good ideas.
Every single bit of that is a lie.
Sorry, every bit of that is bang on, I saw it all with my own eyes. And that's just the tip of it. Being charitable to Apple if anything, maybe that is a mistake.
You do realize, of course, that your "citations" add up to a big "Because I said so.", right?
all users' iCloud data just sits there unencrypted, ready to be filtered by personal details. Calling it secure is hilarious, and if you ever thought your stuff was secure and private with Apple, you were equally hilariously wrong.
That is there Business Model! If they can not Dictate What you get to use! But also Collect $$ And a healthy sum from every App that you buy.
It would not Surprise Me at all that they Pressured anyone that even tries to bypass the Apple Store. They will say something about Security but that is Bogus it is all about the Money.
âoeDevelopers essentially have no good alternative to the App Store on iOS. â What about the poor developers who have no alternative to Nintendoâ(TM)s eShop? Whereâ(TM)s their alternative?
Since iOS 8, which, IIRC, is about five years ago now, Developers have been able to Publish OSS iOS Apps, and MANY have:
That, and thanks to Cydia Impactor (which does NOT require a Mac), Devs. have also been able to Publish Precompiled.ipa App Files. There are several Aggregator sites, plus you can Publish those on your own Website.
And yet they are still better than their competition. Android is a mess, developers hate writing apps for it, and the phones are basically given away because they are crap. Google skims your data and allows other apps to do the same. Apple's biggest hardware competitor Samsung is also an industrial polluter and manufacturer of military weapons.
No wonder you are here bitching. You hate Android and you are projecting that anger onto Apple.
Apple has a long history of trying to prevent choice and innovation. They forced DR to lobotomize GEM, threatened Microsoft for the best part of a decade to prevent them from producing a decent UI for Windows (you really don't want to know what Windows was like pre-95), and until the late nineties was notorious for avoiding open technologies, even when there was no serious advantage to its own. While things warmed again under Jobs, the latter went ballistic over Google's Android despite the iPhone itself being a blatant copy of an LG design.
They're not the good guys, they're just a company that very often comes up with some good ideas.
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It usually easier to improve something based on an original idea (while not everybody does it)
While that is true; this is CERTAINLY not an "improvement" on ANYTHING.
I really can’t get my head around the fact that manufacturers are copying the notch. It’s an ugly workaround, and as someone who develops apps every once in a while, it’s a really annoying exception to have to take into account.
If you have to have a bezel-less phone, do what one Chinese did in their flagship phone: make the front facing camera pop up out of the top of the screen. This has the added benefit that you know when the thing is watching you. Of course that means no Face ID but they could have added a fingerprint scanner on the back or whatever.
And just how long do you think that "popup" mechanism will last in a cheapshit Chinese phone? Not to mention the HUGE water-intrusion hole that creates, no matter how much you try to seal it up...
But this latest model, is making Motorola seem like a cheap ripoff phone. Like the genuine peniphonics or Sorney.
But that just falls back into the trap that THIS "Motorola" has ANYTHING whatsoever to do with the venerable communications pioneer of yore.
Motorola was a big player in the phone market long before Apple's Marketing department convinced urban youths that the iPhone is a symbol of wealth.
But THAT "Motorola" has been dead and gone about FOUR owners-ago.
Now, it's nothing but a brand-name. Period.
Did you finally stop complaining about how the iMac didn't have a floppy disk?
The floppy disk was replaced by something better, faster, cheaper, more reliable and with more storage.
Computers stopped having floppy disk drives several years after people stopped using them.
Same with CD drives. People started rarely using the CD drives so companies started dropping them.
Bluetooth has been around for years but hasn't had a significant effect on the use of the 3.5 jack.
A large percentage of people still prefer the 3.5 jack. You drop a technology AFTER people stop
wanting it not to force people to stop using it.
We'd still be setting 9600,N,8,1 for our Printers and using Parallel Ports for our Scanners if we lived in YOUR world.
Remember that Henry Ford quote about "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said 'A faster horse' "? Same thing applies.
People want change ONLY if they feel no change.
The floppy disk was obsolete. Headphones are not obsolete, nor will they be.
If you are old enough to remember when the original iMac came out in 1998, you should also remember that the technorati bitched loud and hard about the absence of a floppy.
Headphones are not obsolete; just the wire between your head and the music.
Did you finally stop complaining about how the iMac didn't have a floppy disk?
No. No he didn't.
The P30 is actually much more advanced and was a much bigger challenge than the iPhone X - because it actually included the technological innovation called a 3.5mm TRRS jack for your wired headphones!
You are a lame piece of shit, and nothing more than a POSER.
then the iPhone X was not so technically challenging.
1. It takes a LOT less effort to copy something than to create it in the first place.
2. Copying the look of something is not the same thing as copying the ABILITIES of something, as anyone who buys this disingenuous POS will soon find out when they start comparing it with the real thing...
Just pick one you can root and strip out all the crap it preinstalls. Much like a Windows PC. :)
At least with an Android you can still install software outside the Play Store walled garden.
You shouldn't HAVE to "strip out" ANYTHING.
And you can install iOS Apps outside of the App Store ever since iOS 8.
Do try to keep up.
Enjoy your 'real' OS. I'll enjoy my mobile OS which isn't spying on me.
Welcome back!
Do you have any idea how bloated that Facebook App is?
Good thing that Apple got rid of the automatic Facebook sign-ins!
An iPhone for those who want a real OS!
You mean a real INSECURE OS, right?
and its still a insecure piece of shit.
Prove it.
"The Fappening" was not the result of bad security; just stupid Passwords.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/03...
But just keep on spreadin' the Hate...
Guessing you are not "TheFake" Tim Cook.
If i were the real Tim Cook, I wouldn't come anywhere NEAR Slashdot.
Apple has a long history of trying to prevent choice and innovation. They forced DR to lobotomize GEM, threatened Microsoft for the best part of a decade to prevent them from producing a decent UI for Windows (you really don't want to know what Windows was like pre-95), and until the late nineties was notorious for avoiding open technologies, even when there was no serious advantage to its own. While things warmed again under Jobs, the latter went ballistic over Google's Android despite the iPhone itself being a blatant copy of an LG design.
They're not the good guys, they're just a company that very often comes up with some good ideas.
Every single bit of that is a lie.
Sorry, every bit of that is bang on, I saw it all with my own eyes. And that's just the tip of it. Being charitable to Apple if anything, maybe that is a mistake.
You do realize, of course, that your "citations" add up to a big "Because I said so.", right?
Don't be disingenuous.
I'm not. Don't be deliberately obtuse.
Apple has a long history of trying to prevent choice and innovation. They forced DR to lobotomize GEM, threatened Microsoft for the best part of a decade to prevent them from producing a decent UI for Windows (you really don't want to know what Windows was like pre-95), and until the late nineties was notorious for avoiding open technologies, even when there was no serious advantage to its own. While things warmed again under Jobs, the latter went ballistic over Google's Android despite the iPhone itself being a blatant copy of an LG design.
They're not the good guys, they're just a company that very often comes up with some good ideas.
Every single bit of that is a lie.
Sorry, every bit of that is bang on, I saw it all with my own eyes. And that's just the tip of it. Being charitable to Apple if anything, maybe that is a mistake.
You do realize, of course, that your "citations" add up to a big "Because I said so.", right?
all users' iCloud data just sits there unencrypted, ready to be filtered by personal details. Calling it secure is hilarious, and if you ever thought your stuff was secure and private with Apple, you were equally hilariously wrong.
iCloud data is end-to-end encrypted.
Now fuck off.
Oh God. apple makes a few tech gadgets. Hardly anything very important. Lets see apple pave the streets and run the schools.
I'd bet they could do a better job of it than the Cupertino Town Council.
The Cupertino Town Council would likely do a better job if Apple paid its fucking taxes based on a realistic valuation of its properties
I think with 56 MEELION dollars coming from Apple ALREADY, the Cupertino Town Council is doing JUST fine...
That is there Business Model!
If they can not Dictate What you get to use!
But also Collect $$ And a healthy sum from every App that you buy.
It would not Surprise Me at all that they Pressured anyone that even tries to bypass the Apple Store.
They will say something about Security but that is Bogus it is all about the Money.
Bullshit:
https://apple.slashdot.org/com...
âoeDevelopers essentially have no good alternative to the App Store on iOS. â What about the poor developers who have no alternative to Nintendoâ(TM)s eShop? Whereâ(TM)s their alternative?
Since iOS 8, which, IIRC, is about five years ago now, Developers have been able to Publish OSS iOS Apps, and MANY have:
https://github.com/dkhamsing/o...
That, and thanks to Cydia Impactor (which does NOT require a Mac), Devs. have also been able to Publish Precompiled .ipa App Files. There are several Aggregator sites, plus you can Publish those on your own Website.
https://iosninja.io/ipa-librar...
https://www.unlockboot.com/bes...
https://icydiageeks.com/free-i...
So, you were saying?
And yet they are still better than their competition. Android is a mess, developers hate writing apps for it, and the phones are basically given away because they are crap. Google skims your data and allows other apps to do the same. Apple's biggest hardware competitor Samsung is also an industrial polluter and manufacturer of military weapons.
No wonder you are here bitching. You hate Android and you are projecting that anger onto Apple.
;-)
Exactly this.
apple is a cancer in the tech industry.
If Apple is a Cancer, then what is Samsung?
they are dishonest, greedy, litigeous, and they lie, cheat, copy and steal just as much as they accuse others in court of.
It's high time that countries affected by their shit start to ban their stupid products.
So we're going to start banning ALL Companies' Products? Because that is EXACTLY what you are proposing with your "Criteria".
Apple has a long history of trying to prevent choice and innovation. They forced DR to lobotomize GEM, threatened Microsoft for the best part of a decade to prevent them from producing a decent UI for Windows (you really don't want to know what Windows was like pre-95), and until the late nineties was notorious for avoiding open technologies, even when there was no serious advantage to its own. While things warmed again under Jobs, the latter went ballistic over Google's Android despite the iPhone itself being a blatant copy of an LG design.
They're not the good guys, they're just a company that very often comes up with some good ideas.
Every single bit of that is a lie.
CREDIBLE Citations on ALL of it, or STFU.