It does not happen. I track that setting all the time and it never happened to me. I do not know if google collects any data that it does not show to me in My Account but when settings are turned off, it does not show any data collected. When I had iPhone I also did not know if any data was collected by Apple and Apple did not show me what they did or did not collect.
It is explained in detail by following the links on this page:
I'm sure they would kill for it but that's part of the rampant must have iphoneism that you claim to deny exists. They are made in the same chinese factories by the same chinese workers with the same mass produced parts, they cost about the same to make as any similar featured phones but they put a massive mark up because they can and that the power the apple logo commands these days which has basically nothing to do with the actual quality of their goods. Fair enough from a business perspective but it doesnt mean they are any better. 20 years ago you might have had a point but apple are a shadow of their former selves hiding in bling. Nonexpandable, nonfixable, nonupgradable mass produced crap just like the rest but it pretends to be better.
Excuse me.
IPhones have the Ax SoCs. No one else does. Their performance is head and shoulders above everyone else. Makes a difference. They also have the most well-integrated software-hardware "ecosystem" (yes I hate that term). And while iOS is is some ways not as sophisticated as Android (in ways that matter to about.0001% of the general public), overall, it still provides a better experience to most users. And again, they may not know why; but they intuitively "feel" that. Android, OTOH, still feels a little janky by comparison.
So it DOES mean they are "any better". That's what you "claim to deny exists".
And the rest of Apple gear is STILL Best In Class.
There will always be stuff that has one metric or another that "beats Apple" (temporarily), but all in all, and again, factoring in the fact that, for example, macOS is the best desktop OS, and an OS that dovetails seamlessly into iOS, WatchOS, and TVOS, and you have a series of products that deliver a more desirable experience, and one that only gets more and more better-er the more of those products you own.
No one else has that, either. And guess what? People notice. They may not understand the tech behind it all (why do they need to?), but they certainly recognize and appreciate the quiet synergy that Apple brings to their product family.
Yeah. I think it is actually quite rude of car chargers to blast over current your device like that. I'd be ok with a quick-boost mode that would allow that unbridled overcharging for, say, 15-20 mins (enough to get you through the workday), but then would drop down to a reasonable current output.
My Lightning Car charger cost me $30 at the AT&T store when I ordered it with my iPhone; so, IMHO, for that much money, they could afford to put in a simple charge-controller IC. I know that the iPhone also has charge-controlling hardware/software; but it really doesn't have a way to throttle an external power source. AFAIK, No cellphone can really do that.x
But you're right: The cooler you can keep a LiPo battery during charging, the better.
Now it really sucks that I cannot use my iDevice to play game ROMs emulate PC's or have my own programming language so I can use my phone as a personal computer with a tiny screen. However the apps for the device, I download for the most part usually work well, and are not malware.
I'm not sure how much fun you would have getting an iPhone or iPad (or Android equivalent) to emulate a PC (or play game ROMs without a decent control-set); but as far as developing your own language, you are absolutely free to fire up XCode and start writing that language. You just can't publish it in the iOS App Store.
A limitation I will gladly trade for NOT having to worry about articles like this one two or three times per week, most every week...
He kept the phone in its original sealed box and placed it on a alter. It was prayed to every night. I kid; he is just lying about it. He is the iconic "it did not happen to me so it did not happen to anyone else" apple cultist.
Sorry, COWARD; my real "battery habits" are listed above, in this Post:
What did you do to keep the iPhone 6+ battery healthy?
Most of the time, I don't do a recharge until I was into single-digits of charge left. Apple actually says that isn't optimal for Lithium batteries; but old habits die hard;-). At least once per month, I let the charge run all the way to the shutdown point (at 1%), and then fully charge overnight if possible. AppkeApple DOES recommend that.
I also avoid using my car charger, which seems to charge too fast (about a hour for a FULL charge from a couple percent up to 100%). The outside of the phone during that car charge cycle gets almost hot, which is a SUREFIRE battery-life killer!
If you think Apple hardware and software is better overall, then you just aren't paying attention.
Apple isn't perfect; they make stuff just as cheaply and cut all the same corners but they spend lots of time and effort on making it pretty so people think it's better and they ramp the price up.
And younger fandroids have the EXACT same "problem" with "gotta have the new shiny". It is just highlighted and taken to extremes with apple. You don't see midnight release events, days long queues at samsung or lg etc shops even when they try for it. It's just the rampant consumerism that is the hallmark of this vacuous "Me First" generation intersects nicely with the apple fanboy market.
Apple is pretty transparent when they release a model that has been "cost reduced", like the iPhone XR vs. the X's. And you will note that, in that case, they reduced the cost NOT by reducing the QUALITY of the components used; but rather by reducing the FEATURE-SET supported. That's how they can retain PERFORMANCE metrics such as overall camera-quality, even without the extra cost of an additional rear camera, rather than just putting in a shitty camera, or last-year's SoC, etc.
In fact, Apple has never done the hideous "who's hard drives or memory are cheapest THIS week" crap that OEMs like Dell have been (in)famous for for DECADES. They just don't. If you open a MacBook Pro that was produced in June, 2018, it will al last certainly have the same exact components as one opened in February, 2019 (unless there is some unusual supplier problem, of course). That is NOT the case with the vast majority of other OEMs, especially when it comes to "commodity" components.
Apple hasn't done a midnight launch event since the first days of the iPhone (I don't think they even did one for the first iPad); so, to even bring that up at this point is disingenuous, at best.
And as for long lines (queues) for (usually iPhone) launches: Those are NOT "orchestrated" by Apple; but rather are a measure of (amazingly continued) excitement over their product-lines by the general public. And don't tell me that Samsung, Google, LG, Huwaei(sp?) and all the rest wouldn't KILL for the same enthusiasm, year after year, by MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of people, young and old, rich and poor.
Talk to any real marketing expert and ask them if they wouldn't like to bottle that particular brand of lightning.
So people lose their shit and queue up overnight every year for 5/6 year old devices? Right. You may be typical of the older apple user but not of the current generation and like it or not you are associated with them. Deal with it. Apple is overpriced, its not better, it's just more expensive.
If you don't think Apple hardware and software is better overall, then you just aren't paying attention.
Apple isn't perfect; just almost always much better than everyone else making this shit.
And younger fandroids have the EXACT same "problem" with "gotta have the new shiny". It has NOTHING to do SPECIFICALLY with Apple. It's just the rampant consumerism that is the hallmark of this vacuous "Me First" generation.
She carelessly changed her password, got locked permanently out of her phone, never bothered backing up, didn't know most of her other passwords, and was not in a fit state for human company.
The Apple staff smiled, jollied her along, and she left only moderately unhappy about loosing everything. They had the patience of a saint.
Any grumpy Slash Dot reader would have taken a different line, and not been successful selling to the mass public.
(Daughters need iPhones because all their friends use iMessage groups. No choice.)
The Apple-Hate around here is getting to be absolutely ridiculous; and I blame it ALL on Slashdot's RIDICULOUS "Anonymous Coward" "feature". It allows the most puerile, anti-social bullshit sniping, completely without fear of retribution. In short, it allows the worst of the internet to have free-reign.
Glad to hear your daughter's experience at the Apple Store was only as painful as it had to be. Yeah, I'd LOVE to see a similar situation handled by the (now sadly typical) Slashdot reader in the role of the Apple Genius...
Im not quite sure why you expect to be rewarded for your lies.
What lies, COWARD?!?
I am not sure how I can PROVE it; but my iPhone 6 Plus "Battery Health" really DOES show 93% "Maximum Capacity" on its original Battery, and that it is still capable of handling high-demand loads "Your battery is currently supporting normal peak performance.".
People are full of it, and anti-Apple comments get modded up here.
My 6s+ is still running strong. IOS12 seems to have sped it up too.
Might consider the battery swap while it's still cheap... 90% and I have an anecdote from a coworker that her phone nosedived fast when she got hers swapped.
No need nor desire to swap my phone. It's still great and has a headphone jack.
What's worse is that I now have legions of Slashtards following me around on here, and SYSTEMATICALLY down-modding EVERY single Post I make, no MATTER how even-tempered or even Informative, it will get modded "Troll", "Flamebait" "Redundant" or "Off-Topic". Which is particularly galling; since when I have mod-points, I NEVER use them punitively.
IOW, the armies of down-modders are ACTUALLY in direct violation of Slashdot's guidelines regarding how mode -points are SUPPOSED to be used.
Yet nothing is EVER done.
I have thought about taking advantage of the $30 battery thing; but frankly, I have never looked into whether I get MY phone back; or whether I just get one off the refurb-pile. Do you have any insight into that?
When did you buy your iPhone? My king ant's early 2015 6+'s battery went to crapper when the world found out and had to get the $29 battery replacement many months ago.
I purchased my iPhone 6 Plus in late September, 2014 (when it first came out), to replace my still-working 4S. I received the 6 Plus in November 2014.
I guess some people just know how to not abuse rechargeable batteries. YMMV.
Just like the poster the other day saying he had never had an App,e-branded cable last longer than 30 days. I have never suffered a failure of an Apple-branded cable or adapter, and, in fact, still use the original 30 pin iPHONE/iPad cable that came with the iPad 2 I am typing this on.
Some people just can't have nice things, I guess...
I don't own an Apple computer but if I did and I needed tech support (which I wouldn't), I would make it my mission to use all the forbidden language and act confused when they didn't respond using the same language. When they finally quit the linguistic acrobatics I'd start yelling, "HERETIC! HE SPOKE THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE SPOKEN!", pointing and maybe jump on on a table to maximize store-wide attention.
And that's how I plan to get banned from every Apple "town square".;)
And I assume also your plan to get Baker-Acted by the local gendarmes.
Apple pays notably more than minimum wage at every Apple store I've visited, because they've been _good_ at their jobs, either as sales people or as people excited to learn about technologies and paying for their tuition. Yes, many have been fashion conscious and far, far younger than me, but they've been quite helpful. And when I have a problem beyond the tools in house, they've replaced it, once with an upgrade, _immediately_. I've found the service and general quality of their devices to justify the extra cost, when I can afford it. And I've in turn pointed their staff to local developer or technology groups in software or hardware they're interested in, and tried to inform them of the workarounds for problems I encounter so that they can use those solutions in their suite of "issue" handling tools.
Totally believable, and pretty much my experience with our local Apple Store, too.
I used to hate Android with all my guts,however it really improved in the last few years. On the other end, the iPhone user experience/Mac ecosystem did not improve/aged well either.
I am using an Android One, Xiamoi A1, Google updates instead of Xiaomi and very pleased with the experience. So pleased that I gave another to my wife, and chose to buy a Samsung Smartwatch instead of an iWatch too. And a Chromecast Ultra capable of doing 4K.
Putting things in perspective, if you shop around well, at least in my location:
- you can buy twelve 64GB/3-4 GB Xiaomi A1 phones with the price of an iPhone,
- three Samsung Galaxy smartwatches with the price of an iWatch;
- three Chromecast Ultra for the price of a 4K Apple TV.
PS. I used to be part of iOS/MACOS developer program and still have my Apple developer id.
When I bought an iphone 6, I though I was investing on a couple years phone, and bought a 128MB model. It was my 2nd iPhone after all.
Big mistake. Apple turned it slow with the infamous updates "to keep old batteries happy".
I just switched to Android, a 200 Euro/USD phone is more than enough to use and drop every couple of years.
On the bright side, I am not also giving my business to a company that only cares about fake political correctness and about using their foothold on business to promote whatever Tim Cook things about political or sexual issues instead of caring into improving technology.
That's funny; my iPhone 6 Plus still shows 93% battery capacity, and has NEVER suffered a slowdown.
I've owned a whole lot of Macs, and the quality has dropped. The 2001 iBook was very tough and well-built, but the first-generation MacBooks were terrible. Top case broke, optical drive got misaligned with the slot on the case, GMA950 graphics would cause regular kernel panics. The unibody MacBook Pros bend far too easily, and because they're made of aluminium, they stay bent. The older designs were a lot more resilient. I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, and the interrupt controller now only works intermittently, so it will kernel panic or lock up regularly. Funny thing is, I have a "Snakebite" dual G4 that still works fine, and even a couple of working 68k Macs. Apple quality isn't what it used to be.
This is not unique to Apple, and it is caused almost exclusively by two factors; both of which are largely out of Apple's (and other OEMs') control, to wit:
1. Those old Macs had ZERO Ball Grid Array (BGA)- packaged ICs. The problem with BGAs is that they are hyper-sensitive to "coplanarity" (warping of chip and/or PCB) problems. EVERYONE now has this problem on and off. Your 2010 "intermittent" interrupt controller is likely victim to one or both of the above issues (neither of which your 2001 iBook, your b4 tower, or 68k Macs had to deal with). A competent repair facility should be able to reflow that chip's connections, and you'd be good to go.
2. RoHS edicts that FORBADE the use of Lead-Tin SOLDER alloys. This is pretty well settled now (bit lead-free solder STILL sucks co pared with the stuff we HAD been using for CENTURIES. And when the EU basically Ruined the entire electronics industry worldwide, starting in about 2005, pretty much ALL electronics took a steep nosedive in overall reliability.
As for Uninody bending, I see no reason why you couldn't (carefully!) un-bend the case. In fact, have you ever tried to Google for a technique? Bet not!
The Mac at launch was a disaster. Several feeble applets where all there was. Microsoft rescued the Mac from oblivion, and made a ton of money in the process.
When Excel launched, nobody really cared, Lotus 123 was the ruling application in business. It took time for that to change.
Bullshit.
The Mac at launch CAME WITH MacWord and MacPaint, hardly "feeble Applets". And guess what? NO completely new computer platform has much in the way of software at launch. So, nice try.
And similarly, no new program, like Excel, starts out with much of a following, How could it? But it quickly dethroned Lotus 123. Buf even then, it was a few YEARS before Excel appeared for Windows.
Mac products are made in Foxconn factories using cheap foreign labor.
Environmental friendly? LOLOLOL citation needed.
Of course, the Apple shill will chime in and say "well said" because you praised Apple. All the while providing no citations. Stay classy Apple fanboys.
They are hard to look up (one of the big "awards" is called the "Green Apple" award, so it pollutes the search results) But, here's just a few Environmental Awards I can find that Apple has recently received:
Slashdot Mirror
It does not happen. I track that setting all the time and it never happened to me. I do not know if google collects any data that it does not show to me in My Account but when settings are turned off, it does not show any data collected. When I had iPhone I also did not know if any data was collected by Apple and Apple did not show me what they did or did not collect.
It is explained in detail by following the links on this page:
https://www.apple.com/privacy/
They might not care, but the CEO saying "users have a good understanding of the volume of data Google collects on them" is wrong and misleading.
Exactly.
I'm sure they would kill for it but that's part of the rampant must have iphoneism that you claim to deny exists. They are made in the same chinese factories by the same chinese workers with the same mass produced parts, they cost about the same to make as any similar featured phones but they put a massive mark up because they can and that the power the apple logo commands these days which has basically nothing to do with the actual quality of their goods. Fair enough from a business perspective but it doesnt mean they are any better. 20 years ago you might have had a point but apple are a shadow of their former selves hiding in bling. Nonexpandable, nonfixable, nonupgradable mass produced crap just like the rest but it pretends to be better.
Excuse me.
IPhones have the Ax SoCs. No one else does. Their performance is head and shoulders above everyone else. Makes a difference. They also have the most well-integrated software-hardware "ecosystem" (yes I hate that term). And while iOS is is some ways not as sophisticated as Android (in ways that matter to about .0001% of the general public), overall, it still provides a better experience to most users. And again, they may not know why; but they intuitively "feel" that. Android, OTOH, still feels a little janky by comparison.
So it DOES mean they are "any better". That's what you "claim to deny exists".
And the rest of Apple gear is STILL Best In Class.
There will always be stuff that has one metric or another that "beats Apple" (temporarily), but all in all, and again, factoring in the fact that, for example, macOS is the best desktop OS, and an OS that dovetails seamlessly into iOS, WatchOS, and TVOS, and you have a series of products that deliver a more desirable experience, and one that only gets more and more better-er the more of those products you own.
No one else has that, either. And guess what? People notice. They may not understand the tech behind it all (why do they need to?), but they certainly recognize and appreciate the quiet synergy that Apple brings to their product family.
Ah. That's why especially car chargers.
Yeah. I think it is actually quite rude of car chargers to blast over current your device like that. I'd be ok with a quick-boost mode that would allow that unbridled overcharging for, say, 15-20 mins (enough to get you through the workday), but then would drop down to a reasonable current output.
My Lightning Car charger cost me $30 at the AT&T store when I ordered it with my iPhone; so, IMHO, for that much money, they could afford to put in a simple charge-controller IC. I know that the iPhone also has charge-controlling hardware/software; but it really doesn't have a way to throttle an external power source. AFAIK, No cellphone can really do that.x
But you're right: The cooler you can keep a LiPo battery during charging, the better.
Still better than iPhone which steals all your money at purchase
Fuck off, COWARD!
Now it really sucks that I cannot use my iDevice to play game ROMs emulate PC's or have my own programming language so I can use my phone as a personal computer with a tiny screen.
However the apps for the device, I download for the most part usually work well, and are not malware.
I'm not sure how much fun you would have getting an iPhone or iPad (or Android equivalent) to emulate a PC (or play game ROMs without a decent control-set); but as far as developing your own language, you are absolutely free to fire up XCode and start writing that language. You just can't publish it in the iOS App Store.
A limitation I will gladly trade for NOT having to worry about articles like this one two or three times per week, most every week...
Which is kinda what you ended up saying, right?
He kept the phone in its original sealed box and placed it on a alter.
It was prayed to every night.
I kid; he is just lying about it. He is the iconic "it did not happen to me so it did not happen to anyone else" apple cultist.
Sorry, COWARD; my real "battery habits" are listed above, in this Post:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
So, FOAD, Hater COWARD.
What did you do to keep the iPhone 6+ battery healthy?
Most of the time, I don't do a recharge until I was into single-digits of charge left. Apple actually says that isn't optimal for Lithium batteries; but old habits die hard ;-). At least once per month, I let the charge run all the way to the shutdown point (at 1%), and then fully charge overnight if possible. AppkeApple DOES recommend that.
I also avoid using my car charger, which seems to charge too fast (about a hour for a FULL charge from a couple percent up to 100%). The outside of the phone during that car charge cycle gets almost hot, which is a SUREFIRE battery-life killer!
If you think Apple hardware and software is better overall, then you just aren't paying attention.
Apple isn't perfect; they make stuff just as cheaply and cut all the same corners but they spend lots of time and effort on making it pretty so people think it's better and they ramp the price up.
And younger fandroids have the EXACT same "problem" with "gotta have the new shiny". It is just highlighted and taken to extremes with apple. You don't see midnight release events, days long queues at samsung or lg etc shops even when they try for it. It's just the rampant consumerism that is the hallmark of this vacuous "Me First" generation intersects nicely with the apple fanboy market.
Apple is pretty transparent when they release a model that has been "cost reduced", like the iPhone XR vs. the X's. And you will note that, in that case, they reduced the cost NOT by reducing the QUALITY of the components used; but rather by reducing the FEATURE-SET supported. That's how they can retain PERFORMANCE metrics such as overall camera-quality, even without the extra cost of an additional rear camera, rather than just putting in a shitty camera, or last-year's SoC, etc.
In fact, Apple has never done the hideous "who's hard drives or memory are cheapest THIS week" crap that OEMs like Dell have been (in)famous for for DECADES. They just don't. If you open a MacBook Pro that was produced in June, 2018, it will al last certainly have the same exact components as one opened in February, 2019 (unless there is some unusual supplier problem, of course). That is NOT the case with the vast majority of other OEMs, especially when it comes to "commodity" components.
Apple hasn't done a midnight launch event since the first days of the iPhone (I don't think they even did one for the first iPad); so, to even bring that up at this point is disingenuous, at best.
And as for long lines (queues) for (usually iPhone) launches: Those are NOT "orchestrated" by Apple; but rather are a measure of (amazingly continued) excitement over their product-lines by the general public. And don't tell me that Samsung, Google, LG, Huwaei(sp?) and all the rest wouldn't KILL for the same enthusiasm, year after year, by MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of people, young and old, rich and poor.
Talk to any real marketing expert and ask them if they wouldn't like to bottle that particular brand of lightning.
So people lose their shit and queue up overnight every year for 5/6 year old devices? Right. You may be typical of the older apple user but not of the current generation and like it or not you are associated with them. Deal with it. Apple is overpriced, its not better, it's just more expensive.
If you don't think Apple hardware and software is better overall, then you just aren't paying attention.
Apple isn't perfect; just almost always much better than everyone else making this shit.
And younger fandroids have the EXACT same "problem" with "gotta have the new shiny". It has NOTHING to do SPECIFICALLY with Apple. It's just the rampant consumerism that is the hallmark of this vacuous "Me First" generation.
She carelessly changed her password, got locked permanently out of her phone, never bothered backing up, didn't know most of her other passwords, and was not in a fit state for human company.
The Apple staff smiled, jollied her along, and she left only moderately unhappy about loosing everything. They had the patience of a saint.
Any grumpy Slash Dot reader would have taken a different line, and not been successful selling to the mass public.
(Daughters need iPhones because all their friends use iMessage groups. No choice.)
The Apple-Hate around here is getting to be absolutely ridiculous; and I blame it ALL on Slashdot's RIDICULOUS "Anonymous Coward" "feature". It allows the most puerile, anti-social bullshit sniping, completely without fear of retribution. In short, it allows the worst of the internet to have free-reign.
Glad to hear your daughter's experience at the Apple Store was only as painful as it had to be. Yeah, I'd LOVE to see a similar situation handled by the (now sadly typical) Slashdot reader in the role of the Apple Genius...
Im not quite sure why you expect to be rewarded for your lies.
What lies, COWARD?!?
I am not sure how I can PROVE it; but my iPhone 6 Plus "Battery Health" really DOES show 93% "Maximum Capacity" on its original Battery, and that it is still capable of handling high-demand loads "Your battery is currently supporting normal peak performance.".
Sorry if you think that's a lie; but it isn't.
People are full of it, and anti-Apple comments get modded up here.
My 6s+ is still running strong. IOS12 seems to have sped it up too.
Might consider the battery swap while it's still cheap... 90% and I have an anecdote from a coworker that her phone nosedived fast when she got hers swapped.
No need nor desire to swap my phone. It's still great and has a headphone jack.
What's worse is that I now have legions of Slashtards following me around on here, and SYSTEMATICALLY down-modding EVERY single Post I make, no MATTER how even-tempered or even Informative, it will get modded "Troll", "Flamebait" "Redundant" or "Off-Topic". Which is particularly galling; since when I have mod-points, I NEVER use them punitively.
IOW, the armies of down-modders are ACTUALLY in direct violation of Slashdot's guidelines regarding how mode
-points are SUPPOSED to be used.
Yet nothing is EVER done.
I have thought about taking advantage of the $30 battery thing; but frankly, I have never looked into whether I get MY phone back; or whether I just get one off the refurb-pile. Do you have any insight into that?
You used to at least try a rebuttal. Now you just cast non-cult members away from your presence. When did you become such a fucking priest?
That was all the rebuttal that lying asshole deserved.
When did you buy your iPhone? My king ant's early 2015 6+'s battery went to crapper when the world found out and had to get the $29 battery replacement many months ago.
I purchased my iPhone 6 Plus in late September, 2014 (when it first came out), to replace my still-working 4S. I received the 6 Plus in November 2014.
I guess some people just know how to not abuse rechargeable batteries. YMMV.
Just like the poster the other day saying he had never had an App,e-branded cable last longer than 30 days. I have never suffered a failure of an Apple-branded cable or adapter, and, in fact, still use the original 30 pin iPHONE/iPad cable that came with the iPad 2 I am typing this on.
Some people just can't have nice things, I guess...
Well, Jobs had is Reality distortion field....
I am not like you Sir Tim Cook, there is no gay distortion field at my home.
Seriously, Mods? I report a simple FACT, and get Punish-modded. The parent makes the above comment, and is modded INSIGHTFUL?!?
Please tell me: Just what is "Insightful" in his comment?
I don't own an Apple computer but if I did and I needed tech support (which I wouldn't), I would make it my mission to use all the forbidden language and act confused when they didn't respond using the same language. When they finally quit the linguistic acrobatics I'd start yelling, "HERETIC! HE SPOKE THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE SPOKEN!", pointing and maybe jump on on a table to maximize store-wide attention.
And that's how I plan to get banned from every Apple "town square". ;)
And I assume also your plan to get Baker-Acted by the local gendarmes.
Apple pays notably more than minimum wage at every Apple store I've visited, because they've been _good_ at their jobs, either as sales people or as people excited to learn about technologies and paying for their tuition. Yes, many have been fashion conscious and far, far younger than me, but they've been quite helpful. And when I have a problem beyond the tools in house, they've replaced it, once with an upgrade, _immediately_. I've found the service and general quality of their devices to justify the extra cost, when I can afford it. And I've in turn pointed their staff to local developer or technology groups in software or hardware they're interested in, and tried to inform them of the workarounds for problems I encounter so that they can use those solutions in their suite of "issue" handling tools.
Totally believable, and pretty much my experience with our local Apple Store, too.
I used to hate Android with all my guts,however it really improved in the last few years. On the other end, the iPhone user experience/Mac ecosystem did not improve/aged well either.
I am using an Android One, Xiamoi A1, Google updates instead of Xiaomi and very pleased with the experience. So pleased that I gave another to my wife, and chose to buy a Samsung Smartwatch instead of an iWatch too. And a Chromecast Ultra capable of doing 4K.
Putting things in perspective, if you shop around well, at least in my location:
- you can buy twelve 64GB/3-4 GB Xiaomi A1 phones with the price of an iPhone,
- three Samsung Galaxy smartwatches with the price of an iWatch;
- three Chromecast Ultra for the price of a 4K Apple TV.
PS. I used to be part of iOS/MACOS developer program and still have my Apple developer id.
Like that story is believable.
Nice try, troll.
When I bought an iphone 6, I though I was investing on a couple years phone, and bought a 128MB model. It was my 2nd iPhone after all.
Big mistake. Apple turned it slow with the infamous updates "to keep old batteries happy".
I just switched to Android, a 200 Euro/USD phone is more than enough to use and drop every couple of years.
On the bright side, I am not also giving my business to a company that only cares about fake political correctness and about using their foothold on business to promote whatever Tim Cook things about political or sexual issues instead of caring into improving technology.
That's funny; my iPhone 6 Plus still shows 93% battery capacity, and has NEVER suffered a slowdown.
Why is Apple so incompetent that they choose crappy processors and then charge through the nose for them?
Because Intel only MAKES crappy Processors.
Just wait a couple of years until Apple is in charge of its own "CPU roadmap".
I've owned a whole lot of Macs, and the quality has dropped. The 2001 iBook was very tough and well-built, but the first-generation MacBooks were terrible. Top case broke, optical drive got misaligned with the slot on the case, GMA950 graphics would cause regular kernel panics. The unibody MacBook Pros bend far too easily, and because they're made of aluminium, they stay bent. The older designs were a lot more resilient. I have a 2010 MacBook Pro, and the interrupt controller now only works intermittently, so it will kernel panic or lock up regularly. Funny thing is, I have a "Snakebite" dual G4 that still works fine, and even a couple of working 68k Macs. Apple quality isn't what it used to be.
This is not unique to Apple, and it is caused almost exclusively by two factors; both of which are largely out of Apple's (and other OEMs') control, to wit:
1. Those old Macs had ZERO Ball Grid Array (BGA)- packaged ICs. The problem with BGAs is that they are hyper-sensitive to "coplanarity" (warping of chip and/or PCB) problems. EVERYONE now has this problem on and off. Your 2010 "intermittent" interrupt controller is likely victim to one or both of the above issues (neither of which your 2001 iBook, your b4 tower, or 68k Macs had to deal with). A competent repair facility should be able to reflow that chip's connections, and you'd be good to go.
2. RoHS edicts that FORBADE the use of Lead-Tin SOLDER alloys. This is pretty well settled now (bit lead-free solder STILL sucks co pared with the stuff we HAD been using for CENTURIES. And when the EU basically Ruined the entire electronics industry worldwide, starting in about 2005, pretty much ALL electronics took a steep nosedive in overall reliability.
As for Uninody bending, I see no reason why you couldn't (carefully!) un-bend the case. In fact, have you ever tried to Google for a technique? Bet not!
The Mac at launch was a disaster. Several feeble applets where all there was. Microsoft rescued the Mac from oblivion, and made a ton of money in the process.
When Excel launched, nobody really cared, Lotus 123 was the ruling application in business. It took time for that to change.
Bullshit.
The Mac at launch CAME WITH MacWord and MacPaint, hardly "feeble Applets". And guess what? NO completely new computer platform has much in the way of software at launch. So, nice try.
And similarly, no new program, like Excel, starts out with much of a following, How could it? But it quickly dethroned Lotus 123. Buf even then, it was a few YEARS before Excel appeared for Windows.
LOL. Somebody drank the coolaid.
Mac products are made in Foxconn factories using cheap foreign labor.
Environmental friendly? LOLOLOL citation needed.
Of course, the Apple shill will chime in and say "well said" because you praised Apple. All the while providing no citations. Stay classy Apple fanboys.
Here's Apple's Environmental Report for 2018:
https://www.apple.com/environm...
They are hard to look up (one of the big "awards" is called the "Green Apple" award, so it pollutes the search results) But, here's just a few Environmental Awards I can find that Apple has recently received:
https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/14...
https://9to5mac.com/2017/01/10...
Modded down for lying. You keep intentionally lying to prove a point. Not cool man.
- smidge(AC because mods)
As I said, People POST SHADE under the cover of AC; then turn around and MOD under their Username.
Not cool man.