The one you get as a replacement is NOT new, it's a refurb.
They don't ship them individually, they just fill a couple shipping containers and send them to some shithole 3rd world factory where the workers get paid a nickle a day. In the end, they make a huge profit.
And that distinguishes them from EVERY tech OEM, how, exactly?
why there is a fixed price to the repair. Surely the cost of repair depends on what is wrong, so I can only suppose that the charge for repair has a lot of profit baked in.Yes: I understand that repair will include a charge for labour, but it was put together in the first place. All the more reason for 'right to repair' legislation that forces a vendor to provide spare parts.
Because obviously, Apple isn't really equipped to handle repairs on this type of device; so they worked out a deal with a vendor, possibly the manufacturer, to do flat-rate repairs. They tack on 10% and call it a day...
Bullshit. They fix it at a cost of $30-$50 and send you a bill for $279. This is the business plan that has made them the richest company on planet Earth.
Unless there is something magic about the Qualcomm parts (or Qualcomm holds patents that are required to build an SoC suitable for an Android wear device) why couldn't someone else who makes SoCs of this sort get into the market?
Does Samsung sell its Exynos SoCs to other vendors? Does Mediatek make a SoC suitable for a smartwatch?
Because Apple doesn't want to make Android Wear...
For one the phone battery is always pushed to 100% charge and it is kept there for extended periods of time.
Maybe in a crappy Android phone.
But in iPhones (and other Apple battery-operated equipment), Apple only charges the battery up to the industry-recommended limit of around 90% (IIRC), to avoid overcharge issues. So, when your iPhone/iPad/MacBook shows 100% battery charge, it is actually at or around that "industry maximum" charge for LiOn batteries.
Here's some non-Apple-biased information supporting what I am saying (and curiously enough, what Apple themselves recommend and say:
My iPhone 6 Plus, which is over 3 years old, is at 93% Battery health (measured by current battery charge capacity / "ideal" battery charge capacity). My 5 year old iPad 2 is at 88% battery charge capacity, both measured using the "Battery Life" App, that several people have mentioned agrees with the Apple "Genius Bar" battery Diagnostics.
According to Google's Platform Versions page, Android 8.0 Oreo mobile operating system finally has 1.1 percent adoption. Like Android Nougat before it, Android Oreo took five months to pass the 1 percent adoption mark.
Linked as it appears in TFS.
As opposed to iOS, where iOS 11 adoption is ALREADY at 65 percent:
I forgot using it with our work VPN and a VNC/RDC App like "Jump" to check on/do light admin on our Servers at work. That's another thing I do fairly often with my iPad, and another reason I want a 12.9" iPad Pro. Plus, with the "Duet" App, the iPad becomes an actually USEFUL additional Display for Macs and PCs, that even supports the Apple Pencil on the Pro, and which can emulate the TouchBar on Macs other than the new MacBook Pros.
The demographic that uses tablets are the ones that have small children or pets and are tired of cables being chewed up by pets, or children needing attention so you need to take the tablet with you to every room your kids are in instead of sitting in an office somewhere and your kids wreck the house.
Tablets are most useful for that market.
Most people who have time to use a desktop, will simply not use a tablet until they are away from that desktop (eg travelling for christmas)
You're ridiculous.
I have pets (but they don't chew cables, thank Diety!); but I have no kids.
I use my iPad 2 for probably 8 hours a day, pretty much every single day, while my perfectly good MacBook Pro sits just to the right of me, in quiet repose for WEEKS on end.
Oh, and despite deep-discharging the battery nearly every day since I got it in late 2012, I just checked, and the battery "wear level" is only 11%.
For email, browsing, viewing the occasional YouTube video. I also use as a Remote for my AppleTV (it even allows using Voice Search in that App, even though this iPad model was LONG before Siri was supported!), viewing my security cameras, the occasional music/synth app and oh, BTW, there is NOTHING better than AirPlay when it comes to viewing Porn...
ALL of those things work better on the iPad. The browser is getting kind of cantankerous, but that's the ONLY thing that is at ALL "slow" on the thing.
I will be replacing it later this year with a 12.9" iPad Pro, because I want more screen real-estate for music and DAW apps. And speaking of which, as a Remote for Logic Pro X, it's pretty nice, too!
A 10" tablet is actually too damn small for what I want one for.
Why don't they make one (for a reasonable price) that can show a 8.5x11 sheet of paper full size since most of the forms and stuff that you deal with physically is, guess what, 8.5x11.
I've tried using a tablet for my sheet music and the concept is cool (especially with a bluetooth page turning pedal) but the screen is too small so I either have to show part of the page at a time and scroll constantly, or it's too small to read and particularly too small to read quickly.
The actual screen is not EXACTLY 11 X 8.5 inches; but at 10.35 X 7.76 it is very close, especially considering that sheet music printed on 11 X 8.5 ALWAYS has at least a 1 inch margin all around.
Along these lines is the change from HASL PC board coatings to immersion silver.
Put these PC boards in a bad environment like China or India where they use high sulfur fuels and it gets in to the air.
Use that air to cool the PC boards (by blowing it with cooling fans) and you get corrosion of the silver plated PC board traces. Over time, the traces short with the corrosion byproduct and viola! Failed PC assembly.
This is particularly a problem with (but not limited to) hard drives.
I've seen hundreds of the fail due to this mechanism in my life as a failure analysis engineer.
One bank in China had over 100 HDDs in their array fail in a month.
Incubation period for the failure is temperature and humidity dependent. Typically, it takes 1-2 years to fail.
We performed EDS analysis to confirm the situation.
VERY interesting!
I wonder if that's why BackBlaze (or was it Google?) found that HIGH HUMIDITY was MUCH more likely to cause HDD failure than was High Temperature alone?
Lead in solder is a very small aspect of lead that was previously found in landfills (it's recycled now). The primary culprit was lead/acid storage batteries.
Europe first drove RoHS and the U.S. had to follow up.
Agreed that the Pb-free solder is terrible to work with and prone to mechanical fatigue.
Awful stuff to try and solder with.
I know.
As an embedded developer, I lived through the debacle that was the EU Idiots dragging the US along by the nose with their perhaps well-meaning, but technically-bereft policy, that in one fell swoop, absolutely RUINED consumer and industrial electronics reliability over the ENTIRE PLANET.
Yes, RoHS solder-proof solder is a cruel joke.
Hey EU!! There's a fucking REASON that LEAD has been used to eutectically join a wide variety of metals together for MILLENIA!!! It just fucking WORKS!!!
the relentless use of horrible RoHS solder has greatly exacerbated the problem, because ALL lead-free solder is less "malleable" (more brittle) than solder containing Lead; so add a few dozen thermal cycles, and... it ends up affecting nearly EVERY OEM that uses the now ubiquitous BGA packages, which a lot of high-pin-count ICs are ONLY offered in.
I'd hazard a guess that this shortsighted RoHS regulation has actually increased the quantity of hazardous materials from entering the waste stream since it's increased the number of devices being binned by users. If we can find an alternative to leaded solder then great but in the meantime this is madness and benefits no one... I'm carrying on using leaded solder with my own creations because I want them to last.
I couldn't agree more!
RoHS solder has absolutely NO PLACE on my home workbench, and it is quite telling that where high-reliability is paramount, (e.g., Aerospace applications), and where lead is an essential part of an essential component (e.g. Automotive batteries), that RoHS was "exempted".
And other posters, please spare me the bullshit that car batteries can be switched to LiPo. They can, but not cost, or size, competitively.
I think the issue was more with simply not telling anybody about the change, leading to frustration by a genuinely invisible foe.
No, it wasn't.
For most people (and lawsuits), the issue was the tinfoil-hat-powered belief that Apple was throttling iPhones in in a darkly-motivated, conspiratorial attempt to TRICK people into buying new iPhones, rather than just replacing their battery (which was only $79 even BEFORE Apple reduced the price).
The fact that Apple didn't, IN THEIR (and pretty much every other OEM's)TYPICAL FASHION, explain IN DETAIL what that particular "improvement" did, was just used as an EXCUSE to bolster the tinfoil-hat-pseudo-logic.
High performance ICs and minimal cooling result in high rates of change in temperature. This will put significant strain on the solder contacts. It is safer when parts heat up slowly so better cooling could prevent the damage from occurring.
Alternatively, Intel could modify their turbo mode so that it not only limits maximum temperature but also maximum rate of change in temperature. But before I place all the blame on Intel, do these things not contain NVidea GPUs? If so, that is the likely point of failure.
Oh, you mean you want Intel to intentionall THROTTLE their CPUs to extend the life of the products they are installed in?
Isn't that EXACTLY what many Slashdotters are wanting Apple's head for right now?
Sounds like cold solder joints. Thermal contraction causes them to start touching again. This is what happens when you remove lead from your solder. Even a decade later, no one can get it right.
--The Moon Man
Yeah, there is an industry-wide issue with BGA packages, IR reflow soldering, and coplanarity of PCBs vs. the BGAs.
It causes things like recalls of laptops, so-called "Touch Disease" in phones, and other general annoyances and recalls.
And unfortunately, the relentless use of horrible RoHS solder has greatly exacerbated the problem, because ALL lead-free solder is less "malleable" (more brittle) than solder containing Lead; so add a few dozen thermal cycles, and...
Whil I am CERTAINLY no MS fan, I must come to their defense on this issue; because it ends up affecting nearly EVERY OEM that uses the now ubiquitous BGA packages, which a lot of high-pin-count ICs are ONLY offered in.
Measuring the current delivery capability is easy, and in fact exactly what Apple does to detect when throttling is required. Since V=IR it's a simple matter of loading up the CPU to draw some fairly consistent current and measuring how much the battery voltage collapses.
It should be possible to do in an app if apps can measure battery voltage.
I understand V = IR, but there is no way to accurately determine "I".
You say "just keep loading up the CPU and watch battery Voltage." The problem is, it really isn't that simple. Even asuming that Apps can read battery voltage directly, There are still too many variables to ACCURATELY predict current draw from just Instantaneous CPU load.
Sorry, the ONLY way to measure DC current flow accurately is with a current shunt. But I VERY much doubt that something as power sensitive as a smartphone would want to waste even a little power with a resistive shunt. So, there is just no practical possibility that an App could directly measure current, and even a rough guesstimate using your suggested method (even assuming V can be measured) would be so wildly inaccurate as to be virtually useless.
No disagreement there, but I literally cannot use my phone at work now because of said idiots. I also cannot choose to not receive this type of update/change, which was to the earlier point. You go all or nothing with Apple. Don't want the forced reset of your entire icloud master key via your pin pad that came with iOS 10.3 or whatever? Well, too bad you don't get your security updates for Spectre/Meltdown. It's hard to separate security updates and user-content, for sure, but there should be an advanced mode or something -- like, you have to manually restart the phone by holding power and home, restart, hold home while it boots and select 'advanced'. Something mildly technically challenging to get away from the anti-security-but-more-user-friendly-mode they seem to default to now. Also, forced integration of Facebook/Twitter et al needs to die.
So tell me: Exactly WHICH Mobile OS allows you to do "granular updates"? In any practical sense, be it iOS or Android, unless you go to extreme measures, you take the good with the bad when you install an OS upgrade on a mobile device.
I'll wait...
You can do a fair bit of post-update tweaking of iOS if you want to spend some time in the Settings App.
And just like the utterly untrue "Forced Upgrades" meme, there is ABSOLUTELY NO "Forced Integration" of Facebook/Twitter, or really ANYTHING. I don't even HAVE a FaceBook nor a Twitter account, and I have NEVER been pestered, cajoled, or tricked in ANY way into "integrating" with those "services" by iOS, period!
So, you are either an utter idiot, or a liar. Or possibly both.
Right, so it's only showing capacity, not current delivery capability. This it is worthless for diagnosing this issue.
not unrelated, generally; so definitely NOT "worthless". And the current delivery capacity involves measuring the battery's effective series resistance, which is kind of hard for a simple App to do.
So, of you're so smart, why don't you show us all how it's done, and release an iOS App that can accurately measure "current delivery capacity" with any reasonable accuracy and repeatability whatsoever.
Almost solved. Any app that supports independent touches on particular parts of the screen still won't be fully usable (e.g. on-screen pianos). Unless, of course, this means Apple is finally building a laptop with a touchscreen.
I believe that Apple trackpads have supported at least 5 independent touches (maybe more) for quite some time now.
That's why I said "multitouch" in my original post.
Apps I can"t ever roll back, have zero control over and where any update may break/change the app fundamentally and there is nothing you can do about it? Yea, no thanks. I don't care if it is the future I like my MacBook as is.
This is great but Apple should be offering legacy software support everywhere so that all iOS apps run on both iOS devices and Macs and all Mac applications run on both iOS devices and Macs. This is a fairly trivial task that would open up a huge amount of software that they have caused to be abandoned. There is a tremendous amount of excellent kids educational software that doesn't run on modern MacOSs (and iOS) that would then be available. There is also a lot of business applications and just fun other stuff. They can sandbox it all to make it safe. Apple has the resources.
It is a lot easier to emulate a system with less speed and resources on a system with greater speed and resources than vice-versa.
That's why we won't be having macOS on iOS for a while yet...
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The one you get as a replacement is NOT new, it's a refurb.
They don't ship them individually, they just fill a couple shipping containers and send them to some shithole 3rd world factory where the workers get paid a nickle a day.
In the end, they make a huge profit.
And that distinguishes them from EVERY tech OEM, how, exactly?
why there is a fixed price to the repair. Surely the cost of repair depends on what is wrong, so I can only suppose that the charge for repair has a lot of profit baked in.Yes: I understand that repair will include a charge for labour, but it was put together in the first place. All the more reason for 'right to repair' legislation that forces a vendor to provide spare parts.
Because obviously, Apple isn't really equipped to handle repairs on this type of device; so they worked out a deal with a vendor, possibly the manufacturer, to do flat-rate repairs. They tack on 10% and call it a day...
Bullshit. They fix it at a cost of $30-$50 and send you a bill for $279. This is the business plan that has made them the richest company on planet Earth.
Prove it, or STFU, hater.
It's as eco-friendly as their laptops with non-upgradable RAM.
They certainly aren't the only OEM that has made that design decision. Why not bitch about all the others, too?
Yes, the entire point of a sandbox is it can't get data from other apps.
Or at least without specific warnings that it's doing something outside of just being a self contained app.
I wonder if any other security-conscious OSes have this security-hole? Looks like a pretty easy one to miss.
Unless there is something magic about the Qualcomm parts (or Qualcomm holds patents that are required to build an SoC suitable for an Android wear device) why couldn't someone else who makes SoCs of this sort get into the market?
Does Samsung sell its Exynos SoCs to other vendors?
Does Mediatek make a SoC suitable for a smartwatch?
Because Apple doesn't want to make Android Wear...
Indeed, so many people didnâ(TM)t care about smart watches last year that the Apple Watch outsold the entire Swiss watch market combined last year.
Exactly.
For one the phone battery is always pushed to 100% charge and it is kept there for extended periods of time.
Maybe in a crappy Android phone.
But in iPhones (and other Apple battery-operated equipment), Apple only charges the battery up to the industry-recommended limit of around 90% (IIRC), to avoid overcharge issues. So, when your iPhone/iPad/MacBook shows 100% battery charge, it is actually at or around that "industry maximum" charge for LiOn batteries.
Here's some non-Apple-biased information supporting what I am saying (and curiously enough, what Apple themselves recommend and say:
https://www.notebookcheck.net/...
Now compare that to what Apple says:
https://www.apple.com/batterie...
https://www.apple.com/batterie...
And some good discussions about this topic:
https://discussions.apple.com/...
https://discussions.apple.com/...
uh... 20% loss after two years is not bad!
That is EXTREMELY pessimistic.
My iPhone 6 Plus, which is over 3 years old, is at 93% Battery health (measured by current battery charge capacity / "ideal" battery charge capacity). My 5 year old iPad 2 is at 88% battery charge capacity, both measured using the "Battery Life" App, that several people have mentioned agrees with the Apple "Genius Bar" battery Diagnostics.
According to Google's Platform Versions page, Android 8.0 Oreo mobile operating system finally has 1.1 percent adoption. Like Android Nougat before it, Android Oreo took five months to pass the 1 percent adoption mark.
Linked as it appears in TFS.
As opposed to iOS, where iOS 11 adoption is ALREADY at 65 percent:
https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/19...
And no, Apple does NOT FORCE UPGRADES. My iPhone 6 Plus is still running 10.3.3. Apple doesn't even nag me anymore about it.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but...
I forgot using it with our work VPN and a VNC/RDC App like "Jump" to check on/do light admin on our Servers at work. That's another thing I do fairly often with my iPad, and another reason I want a 12.9" iPad Pro. Plus, with the "Duet" App, the iPad becomes an actually USEFUL additional Display for Macs and PCs, that even supports the Apple Pencil on the Pro, and which can emulate the TouchBar on Macs other than the new MacBook Pros.
The demographic that uses tablets are the ones that have small children or pets and are tired of cables being chewed up by pets, or children needing attention so you need to take the tablet with you to every room your kids are in instead of sitting in an office somewhere and your kids wreck the house.
Tablets are most useful for that market.
Most people who have time to use a desktop, will simply not use a tablet until they are away from that desktop (eg travelling for christmas)
You're ridiculous.
I have pets (but they don't chew cables, thank Diety!); but I have no kids.
I use my iPad 2 for probably 8 hours a day, pretty much every single day, while my perfectly good MacBook Pro sits just to the right of me, in quiet repose for WEEKS on end.
Oh, and despite deep-discharging the battery nearly every day since I got it in late 2012, I just checked, and the battery "wear level" is only 11%.
For email, browsing, viewing the occasional YouTube video. I also use as a Remote for my AppleTV (it even allows using Voice Search in that App, even though this iPad model was LONG before Siri was supported!), viewing my security cameras, the occasional music/synth app and oh, BTW, there is NOTHING better than AirPlay when it comes to viewing Porn...
ALL of those things work better on the iPad. The browser is getting kind of cantankerous, but that's the ONLY thing that is at ALL "slow" on the thing.
I will be replacing it later this year with a 12.9" iPad Pro, because I want more screen real-estate for music and DAW apps. And speaking of which, as a Remote for Logic Pro X, it's pretty nice, too!
a 10" tablet is quite silly.
A 10" tablet is actually too damn small for what I want one for.
Why don't they make one (for a reasonable price) that can show a 8.5x11 sheet of paper full size since most of the forms and stuff that you deal with physically is, guess what, 8.5x11.
I've tried using a tablet for my sheet music and the concept is cool (especially with a bluetooth page turning pedal) but the screen is too small so I either have to show part of the page at a time and scroll constantly, or it's too small to read and particularly too small to read quickly.
You mean like THIS?
https://www.apple.com/shop/buy...
The actual screen is not EXACTLY 11 X 8.5 inches; but at 10.35 X 7.76 it is very close, especially considering that sheet music printed on 11 X 8.5 ALWAYS has at least a 1 inch margin all around.
https://malcontentcomics.com/s...
Here's an EXHAUSTIVE review of using the 12.9" iPad Pro (and the Apple Pencil) for Sheet music applications:
https://elisakoehler.com/2017/...
Along these lines is the change from HASL PC board coatings to immersion silver.
Put these PC boards in a bad environment like China or India where they use high sulfur fuels and it gets in to the air.
Use that air to cool the PC boards (by blowing it with cooling fans) and you get corrosion of the silver plated PC board traces. Over time, the traces short with the corrosion byproduct and viola! Failed PC assembly.
This is particularly a problem with (but not limited to) hard drives.
I've seen hundreds of the fail due to this mechanism in my life as a failure analysis engineer.
One bank in China had over 100 HDDs in their array fail in a month.
Incubation period for the failure is temperature and humidity dependent. Typically, it takes 1-2 years to fail.
We performed EDS analysis to confirm the situation.
VERY interesting!
I wonder if that's why BackBlaze (or was it Google?) found that HIGH HUMIDITY was MUCH more likely to cause HDD failure than was High Temperature alone?
Lead in solder is a very small aspect of lead that was previously found in landfills (it's recycled now). The primary culprit was lead/acid storage batteries.
Europe first drove RoHS and the U.S. had to follow up.
Agreed that the Pb-free solder is terrible to work with and prone to mechanical fatigue.
Awful stuff to try and solder with.
I know.
As an embedded developer, I lived through the debacle that was the EU Idiots dragging the US along by the nose with their perhaps well-meaning, but technically-bereft policy, that in one fell swoop, absolutely RUINED consumer and industrial electronics reliability over the ENTIRE PLANET.
Yes, RoHS solder-proof solder is a cruel joke.
Hey EU!! There's a fucking REASON that LEAD has been used to eutectically join a wide variety of metals together for MILLENIA!!! It just fucking WORKS!!!
the relentless use of horrible RoHS solder has greatly exacerbated the problem, because ALL lead-free solder is less "malleable" (more brittle) than solder containing Lead; so add a few dozen thermal cycles, and... it ends up affecting nearly EVERY OEM that uses the now ubiquitous BGA packages, which a lot of high-pin-count ICs are ONLY offered in.
I'd hazard a guess that this shortsighted RoHS regulation has actually increased the quantity of hazardous materials from entering the waste stream since it's increased the number of devices being binned by users. If we can find an alternative to leaded solder then great but in the meantime this is madness and benefits no one... I'm carrying on using leaded solder with my own creations because I want them to last.
I couldn't agree more!
RoHS solder has absolutely NO PLACE on my home workbench, and it is quite telling that where high-reliability is paramount, (e.g., Aerospace applications), and where lead is an essential part of an essential component (e.g. Automotive batteries), that RoHS was "exempted".
And other posters, please spare me the bullshit that car batteries can be switched to LiPo. They can, but not cost, or size, competitively.
I think the issue was more with simply not telling anybody about the change, leading to frustration by a genuinely invisible foe.
No, it wasn't.
For most people (and lawsuits), the issue was the tinfoil-hat-powered belief that Apple was throttling iPhones in in a darkly-motivated, conspiratorial attempt to TRICK people into buying new iPhones, rather than just replacing their battery (which was only $79 even BEFORE Apple reduced the price).
The fact that Apple didn't, IN THEIR (and pretty much every other OEM's)TYPICAL FASHION, explain IN DETAIL what that particular "improvement" did, was just used as an EXCUSE to bolster the tinfoil-hat-pseudo-logic.
High performance ICs and minimal cooling result in high rates of change in temperature. This will put significant strain on the solder contacts. It is safer when parts heat up slowly so better cooling could prevent the damage from occurring.
Alternatively, Intel could modify their turbo mode so that it not only limits maximum temperature but also maximum rate of change in temperature. But before I place all the blame on Intel, do these things not contain NVidea GPUs? If so, that is the likely point of failure.
Oh, you mean you want Intel to intentionall THROTTLE their CPUs to extend the life of the products they are installed in?
Isn't that EXACTLY what many Slashdotters are wanting Apple's head for right now?
Sounds like cold solder joints. Thermal contraction causes them to start touching again. This is what happens when you remove lead from your solder. Even a decade later, no one can get it right.
--The Moon Man
Yeah, there is an industry-wide issue with BGA packages, IR reflow soldering, and coplanarity of PCBs vs. the BGAs.
It causes things like recalls of laptops, so-called "Touch Disease" in phones, and other general annoyances and recalls.
And unfortunately, the relentless use of horrible RoHS solder has greatly exacerbated the problem, because ALL lead-free solder is less "malleable" (more brittle) than solder containing Lead; so add a few dozen thermal cycles, and...
Whil I am CERTAINLY no MS fan, I must come to their defense on this issue; because it ends up affecting nearly EVERY OEM that uses the now ubiquitous BGA packages, which a lot of high-pin-count ICs are ONLY offered in.
Measuring the current delivery capability is easy, and in fact exactly what Apple does to detect when throttling is required. Since V=IR it's a simple matter of loading up the CPU to draw some fairly consistent current and measuring how much the battery voltage collapses.
It should be possible to do in an app if apps can measure battery voltage.
I understand V = IR, but there is no way to accurately determine "I".
You say "just keep loading up the CPU and watch battery Voltage." The problem is, it really isn't that simple. Even asuming that Apps can read battery voltage directly, There are still too many variables to ACCURATELY predict current draw from just Instantaneous CPU load.
Sorry, the ONLY way to measure DC current flow accurately is with a current shunt. But I VERY much doubt that something as power sensitive as a smartphone would want to waste even a little power with a resistive shunt. So, there is just no practical possibility that an App could directly measure current, and even a rough guesstimate using your suggested method (even assuming V can be measured) would be so wildly inaccurate as to be virtually useless.
No disagreement there, but I literally cannot use my phone at work now because of said idiots. I also cannot choose to not receive this type of update/change, which was to the earlier point. You go all or nothing with Apple. Don't want the forced reset of your entire icloud master key via your pin pad that came with iOS 10.3 or whatever? Well, too bad you don't get your security updates for Spectre/Meltdown. It's hard to separate security updates and user-content, for sure, but there should be an advanced mode or something -- like, you have to manually restart the phone by holding power and home, restart, hold home while it boots and select 'advanced'. Something mildly technically challenging to get away from the anti-security-but-more-user-friendly-mode they seem to default to now. Also, forced integration of Facebook/Twitter et al needs to die.
So tell me: Exactly WHICH Mobile OS allows you to do "granular updates"? In any practical sense, be it iOS or Android, unless you go to extreme measures, you take the good with the bad when you install an OS upgrade on a mobile device.
I'll wait...
You can do a fair bit of post-update tweaking of iOS if you want to spend some time in the Settings App.
And just like the utterly untrue "Forced Upgrades" meme, there is ABSOLUTELY NO "Forced Integration" of Facebook/Twitter, or really ANYTHING. I don't even HAVE a FaceBook nor a Twitter account, and I have NEVER been pestered, cajoled, or tricked in ANY way into "integrating" with those "services" by iOS, period!
So, you are either an utter idiot, or a liar. Or possibly both.
Right, so it's only showing capacity, not current delivery capability. This it is worthless for diagnosing this issue.
not unrelated, generally; so definitely NOT "worthless". And the current delivery capacity involves measuring the battery's effective series resistance, which is kind of hard for a simple App to do.
So, of you're so smart, why don't you show us all how it's done, and release an iOS App that can accurately measure "current delivery capacity" with any reasonable accuracy and repeatability whatsoever.
Tool.
Almost solved. Any app that supports independent touches on particular parts of the screen still won't be fully usable (e.g. on-screen pianos). Unless, of course, this means Apple is finally building a laptop with a touchscreen.
I believe that Apple trackpads have supported at least 5 independent touches (maybe more) for quite some time now.
That's why I said "multitouch" in my original post.
Apps I can"t ever roll back, have zero control over and where any update may break/change the app fundamentally and there is nothing you can do about it? Yea, no thanks. I don't care if it is the future I like my MacBook as is.
WTF are you bleating about?
This is great but Apple should be offering legacy software support everywhere so that all iOS apps run on both iOS devices and Macs and all Mac applications run on both iOS devices and Macs. This is a fairly trivial task that would open up a huge amount of software that they have caused to be abandoned. There is a tremendous amount of excellent kids educational software that doesn't run on modern MacOSs (and iOS) that would then be available. There is also a lot of business applications and just fun other stuff. They can sandbox it all to make it safe. Apple has the resources.
It is a lot easier to emulate a system with less speed and resources on a system with greater speed and resources than vice-versa.
That's why we won't be having macOS on iOS for a while yet...