Here's an idea which actually helps customers: Offer a battery replacement at approved locations with the customer only paying for the price of a new battery. I would take my phone there, have the battery replaced, pay for the new battery and off I go. Customers are happy.
Note: I don't own anything Apple-related and I probably never will.
Apple already offered a bunch of 6 and 6s owners FREE battery replacements, so there.
And even regularly, Apple only charges $79 to replace an iPhone battery out-of-warranty, INCLUDING the battery ($99 for an iPad, other product-lines vary) !!!
The consumer friendly option would have been a statement: We shipped a few batteries that are shorting voltage under high load and have issued a patch. If your battery is effected, please come in for a free replacement to restore performance.
But it isn't what is happening. So why "admit" to a problem they don't have?
And FYI, when a LiOn battery SHORTS, you KNOW it! Just ask all those unfortunate GN7 owners...
I expect it is. However I don't expect the Class action to win. This seems that Apple was doing its best to extend the life of older devices vs trying to shorten it. Could they have done better? Yes. They could have given an option to turn such a feature on or off, Set a notification that the battery is no longer optimal... Have a little more press in getting a battery fix for older phones, as it is possible....
There already is a notification in iOS (and macOS) about degraded battery life. They just maybe need to change the thresholds on when that is displayed a bit...
And, considering Apple only charges $79 to replace a battery, there really isn't any excuse to not do it.
Afterall, this kerfluffle was actually started because someone had their battery replaced, and noticed their phone seemed to be running faster...
But at least Apple is TRYING to do something about it. I wonder if Samsung and the other "Droid" phones even give a shit about extending the consumer's battery-life?
I also have to wonder if this was partly in response to the battery issues they had with the 6-series (or 6s, i forget) where they'd get unexpected shutdowns and battery capacity under ~40% was a complete crapshoot. I had one and regularly saw the phone power off at 20% battery...or go from 30 to 5 and then power off and back to 40% when powered back on.
My guess is iffy battery performance messed up their capacity algorithms when it couldn't handle minor spikes in power due to CPU...so they basically just cut out the spikes in CPU to avoid further need of replacing batteries. And from there...it becomes a logical step to apply this to any device which might have anything similar happen. A slower phone is easier to accept than one which powers off somewhat randomly after all.
I'd put my money on them being linked. It was a business decision to help limit battery replacement...and a "good idea" spread it to all devices.
If anyone would bother to read, they would already KNOW that Apple has already explained that this is in response to the 6/6s "premature shutdown" issue.
Apple explained that, as LiOn batteries age, and as the charge level depletes, they become less capable of being able to deliver energy SURGES when processing/graphics demands them. This is a fact of physics, and nothing Apple (or anyone) can really control. So, in iPhones, this was causing the power-management hardware/software to essentially "panic" and shut down the phone before the gross-charge-level was showing a low-batt. situation.
So, Apple decided to, under those circumstances, "spread-out" the current-spikes, by temporarily rearranging some low-level timing in the OS. The actual goal of this software update was to EXTEND the useful life of the phone's batteries, NOT to "make an old device slower to boost sales of a replacement".
Apple contends (and probably rightly), that you would most likely NOT see these brief slowdowns under normal use; but that benchmark testing reveals them, due to the exceptionally-high-and long-term-demands those types of tests place on the system.
You do realize I wasn't very seriously and mostly just joking about mac people? Especially since they may feel they are more professional because they bought a more expensive mac. As for the 18 cores you can easily get it in a Windows PC too so.. whatever.
So, did you actually HAVE a point, or were you just wasting everyone's time and bandwidth?
LOL... Apple fans are so touchy! But hey, I understand - you never reached 10% market share in the desktop/server world, and even iOS is sliding down towards the single digit realm. Now with the iOSification of OSX, and the new Apple ad of What's a Computer? well - the writing is on the wall. It's tablets and phones for the future! Computers - Macs - are just going to fall by the wayside and exist just as support dongles for people to use to build apps for their dwindling market share in the mobile world...
Got it.
And the iMac Pro (and upcoming Modular Mac Pro), plus the recent updates of Logic and Final Cut Pro X are just another example of Apple's lack of commitment to the Mac, and Pro users...
Ahh, so your response is that one of the 8 or so different Macs that are offered has been update nearly every year, never mind the others are on a 2+ year cycle... Got it!
For one thing, Intel CPUs have stagnated to the point where yearly upgrades are nonsensical, and you postulated that the Mac LINE was only "refreshed" every 3-4 years, and when I neatly disproved that statement, you start whittling-away at your own premise.
what about the Macbook Pro? They've thinned that out to where its just a shell of what it once was. I still have my 17" that had a headphone jack, SD card slot, a great GPU(for its time) , 4 USB slots , etc etc.
When did macbook pro users ever say anything about losing function or useless form?
The current MacBook Pro (2016/2017 versions) :
1. Still has a Headphone Jack. Please try to keep up.
2. Has a GPU that provides for the most External Display capability in a "mobile" GPU. Which is why Apple chose it.
3. Doesn't need no steenking USB-A or SD Slots; it has (in the 15" version) 4 USB-C/TB 3 Ports that can easily and inexpensively be broken-out into an almost endless variety of up to FIFTY-SIX Legacy Ports, DEPENDING ON YOUR APPLICATION. That easily trumps ANY other Laptop's I/O capabilities, then, or now.
That only shows that one Mac model (the iMac Pro) is not a toy. I get the impression that apart from the iMac Pro, every other model uses underpowered hardware whose most significant advantage over a PC running Windows is that Apple's own music production and iOS app development tools are exclusive to it.
Whatever. Nothing I could say would convince you otherwise; so intelligent discourse is not possible with you.
Too bad they use Creo and Solidworks... As I've consistently pointed out to YOU... Face it, Apple is now just a mobile platform company, and the Mac line exists solely as a way to suppose those mobile devices. It's why they get a refresh maybe every 3-4 years, compared to annually for the mobile devices.
WRONG!
Other than the Mac mini and the Mac Pro, which HAVE taken FOREVER to Update (but maybe soon, at least for the Pro!), the Mac line has generally been Upgraded/Updated about every year, or just a little longer (like 15 months). I think the MacBook Air might be at two years or so; but the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and iMac have been regularly upgraded. Hell, the MacBook Pro was Upgraded in March and May 2015, October and November 2016, and then AGAIN in, June 2017, FFS!!!
[old man rant] I'm sure that whatever they end up doing will bump up the share price, and for that I am grateful.
However, I got into this Mac thing because I had work to do. I have things I need to get done — things that people pay me to do. 20+ years later, I am concerned by the lack of user-upgradeable pro-quality machines. $5k for an iMac seriously??? And don't get me started on the iPhone with its non-replaceable battery and lack of expandable storage.
I want a computer and phone that just work. I want to be able to add RAM or a new SSD when I want. I might even like a monitor larger than 27" and an upgradeable GPU. But who am I kidding? I'm just one guy with a collection of old Macs and a few shares of stock that I'm holding onto until I can retire.
Bah, humbug! [/old man rant]
If you think that $5k for an iMac Pro is a ripoff, then you haven't been paying attention, and you SURE haven't been pricing equivalent hardware from other vendors.
As for upgrade-able, the RAM in the iMac Pro is Upgrade-able; just not USER-upgrade-able. And for the Pro users that the iMac Pro is targeting, they almost NEVER "upgrade" a computer, anyway. They just max it out at the beginning, and commence to makin' money with it. When they want to "upgrade", they buy a whole new system. THAT's how REAL "Pro" users work!
But, it seems like Apple is going to have at least a "reconfigurable" and "upgrade-able" Mac, with even more power than the iMac Pro, when the "Modular Mac Pro" is released. My guesstimate is that it will be unveiled at WWDC 2018, and either immediately available, or available toward the end of that year, just like with the iMac Pro.
Apple also killed the Mac by not updating their computers FOR YEARS while their competitors update every year.
Why would I pay the same price for a 2014 Mac mini in 2017? For a computer with a CPU that is four generations behind, a slow 5400 RPM laptop drive and RAM that cannot be upgraded later on?
Apple doesn't want to make Macs anymore, the "great things in the pipeline" is the most bullshit line I've ever heard from them.
Really? Then explain the introduction LAST WEEK of the iMac Pro, and their reinforcement of committment to an upgraded Mac Pro.
Apple's best, least offensive product, and they've decided to go to a lot of trouble to make it suck. Brilliant. I think this is Apple's way of saying "it's time for everyone to move on from Mac OS. There's Windows, Linux, and maybe whatever Google's pushing this year if you're dumb enough to fall for that. Good luck, former users!"
And why is this happening? Because of all you self-loathing fuckwits who bought iOS devices. You voted with your wallets that shitty, uncontrollable, anti-user operating systems are ok. So now you don't get Mac OS anymore, because some bean counter is looking at how many of each, they're selling.
Who killed Apple? Its customers! No, you didn't kill them financially, but you did remove them from relevance in the tech world, essentially. All by lowering your standards to such an extreme degree. You didn't have to do that. Apple could have remained a symbol of quality (which at times it really has been), but now they're considered lower than the cheapest malware-infested Chinese imports. They were capable of keeping up and even occasionally leapfrogging into leadership, but you told them to give up and suck. That's what happens when you throw money at shitty products. Your vote matters and this story is a great example of the consequences.
Sorry, former Mac fans. If you're one of the people who had average (or higher) expectations and therefore couldn't tolerate the thought of downgrading to an iPhone, maybe it's not directly your fault, but I bet you know someone who gave no fucks and you didn't say anything. So here we are. It's like this: you may have voted against Trump but he's still your president. Maybe you should have said something.
The introduction of the iMac Pro, and the reinforcement of commitment to an updated Mac Pro would belie this logic.
Apple has always copied. Apple's strategy has never been of the innovator. The strategy has always been the fast follower strategy. They let other be on the bleeding edge and learn from their mistakes and come in with a much more polished, dumbed down and well integrated version. What this does is by the time Apple brings a product to market the market is ready for it but also frustrated with the incumbents and ready to accept fewer functionality for greater reliability and ease of use. The Mac was a copy of Xerox PARC Mac OS is a copy of Unix The iPod was a copy of various cheap mp3 players The iPhone is a copy of the Motorola Rokr - the first phone to play iTunes as well of various Windows Phone 6 Touchphones from HP The iPad is a well put together version of countless Samsung tablets The Watch is a copy of various Android gear smartwatches Apple Pay is a copy of countless systems which have been there in Japan for almost 25 years now The Homepod is a copy of Alexa, Google Home etc
Almost nothing Apple does is original . It just does it better and takes over a market.
You DO realize (of course you don't) that you defeat your own arguments.
There is a vast difference between a "Copy", which is a direct knock-off, usually inferior version of an original product, and an improved version of an original product. Dozens of companies do the former. It takes almost no expertise, and does nothing but cheapen the entire field. Apple does the latter, which is why, as you yourself have admitted, they do it better, and more often than not, end up taking over the field, at least until they themselves are copied by those whose only business-model is a race-to-the-bottom.
1. Apple didn't copy the Xerox Alto. It licensed some of the GUI concepts, then improved upon them.
2. MacOS is not a copy of Unix, it is a Certified Version of Unix. By contrast, every single Linux is a copy of Unix.
3. The iPod was not a copy of several MP3 Players (each of which was a copy of ??? The Sony Walkman???), it was an improvement upon the concept of an Portable Music Player, which is why is immediately trounced the others.
4. The iPhone copied nothing. It created an industry-wide paradigm-shift in the design of both smartphones and their UI designs.
5. Same with the iPad. Many others had tried and failed to create a usable tablet computing device. Apple showed everyone else the way it's done...
6. The Apple Watch is an improvement over others' failed-attempts to bring all the necessary pieces-parts together for a usable smartwatch. Everything before it is simply a bad joke, or a very limited-use toy.
7. Apple Pay is not original. But it is the first, or one of the first, that did not insinuate itself into the middle of the transaction-process, protecting the user's privacy.
8. The Homepod isn't out yet; so we really don't know what its capabilities will be; but it does seem like it is the coming-to-fruition of an idea that has been kicking-around the Apple Product Development labs for about a decade; so, who's copying whom?
By your logic, every single car is nothing more than a copy of the Benz Patent Motor Car. But would you really dare to call a Tesla or Ferrari a copy of this? :
This would NEVER happen on iOS. Apps MUST ask (and get) Permission to access data outside of the App's directory....And NOT just at Installation-Time; but when they actually want to DO it!
The fact that the battery bulged is not the fault of the hideous, shitty cryptomining software; but rather the fault of the shitty CHARGING CIRCUIT (and/or shitty Battery) in the crappy (no doubt Android) PHONE that Kaspersky used in their testing.
Software not actually used in the CHARGING process CANNOT cause a battery to bulge.
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Here's an idea which actually helps customers:
Offer a battery replacement at approved locations with the customer only paying for the price of a new battery. I would take my phone there, have the battery replaced, pay for the new battery and off I go.
Customers are happy.
Note: I don't own anything Apple-related and I probably never will.
Apple already offered a bunch of 6 and 6s owners FREE battery replacements, so there.
And even regularly, Apple only charges $79 to replace an iPhone battery out-of-warranty, INCLUDING the battery ($99 for an iPad, other product-lines vary) !!!
https://www.apple.com/batterie...
The consumer friendly option would have been a statement: We shipped a few batteries that are shorting voltage under high load and have issued a patch. If your battery is effected, please come in for a free replacement to restore performance.
But it isn't what is happening. So why "admit" to a problem they don't have?
And FYI, when a LiOn battery SHORTS, you KNOW it! Just ask all those unfortunate GN7 owners...
I expect it is. However I don't expect the Class action to win. This seems that Apple was doing its best to extend the life of older devices vs trying to shorten it. Could they have done better? Yes. They could have given an option to turn such a feature on or off, Set a notification that the battery is no longer optimal... Have a little more press in getting a battery fix for older phones, as it is possible....
There already is a notification in iOS (and macOS) about degraded battery life. They just maybe need to change the thresholds on when that is displayed a bit...
And, considering Apple only charges $79 to replace a battery, there really isn't any excuse to not do it.
Afterall, this kerfluffle was actually started because someone had their battery replaced, and noticed their phone seemed to be running faster...
But at least Apple is TRYING to do something about it. I wonder if Samsung and the other "Droid" phones even give a shit about extending the consumer's battery-life?
I also have to wonder if this was partly in response to the battery issues they had with the 6-series (or 6s, i forget) where they'd get unexpected shutdowns and battery capacity under ~40% was a complete crapshoot. I had one and regularly saw the phone power off at 20% battery...or go from 30 to 5 and then power off and back to 40% when powered back on.
My guess is iffy battery performance messed up their capacity algorithms when it couldn't handle minor spikes in power due to CPU...so they basically just cut out the spikes in CPU to avoid further need of replacing batteries. And from there...it becomes a logical step to apply this to any device which might have anything similar happen. A slower phone is easier to accept than one which powers off somewhat randomly after all.
I'd put my money on them being linked. It was a business decision to help limit battery replacement...and a "good idea" spread it to all devices.
If anyone would bother to read, they would already KNOW that Apple has already explained that this is in response to the 6/6s "premature shutdown" issue.
Apple explained that, as LiOn batteries age, and as the charge level depletes, they become less capable of being able to deliver energy SURGES when processing/graphics demands them. This is a fact of physics, and nothing Apple (or anyone) can really control. So, in iPhones, this was causing the power-management hardware/software to essentially "panic" and shut down the phone before the gross-charge-level was showing a low-batt. situation.
So, Apple decided to, under those circumstances, "spread-out" the current-spikes, by temporarily rearranging some low-level timing in the OS. The actual goal of this software update was to EXTEND the useful life of the phone's batteries, NOT to "make an old device slower to boost sales of a replacement".
Apple contends (and probably rightly), that you would most likely NOT see these brief slowdowns under normal use; but that benchmark testing reveals them, due to the exceptionally-high-and long-term-demands those types of tests place on the system.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/12...
tl;dr
Nothing to see here, take off your tinfoil hat and move along.
A substantial refresh to the Mac mini or MacBook would convince me.
I think the Mac Product Dev. Team is consumed right now with the iMac Pro (just finished) and the upcoming Mac Pro; but the other two will follow.
You do realize I wasn't very seriously and mostly just joking about mac people? Especially since they may feel they are more professional because they bought a more expensive mac.
As for the 18 cores you can easily get it in a Windows PC too so.. whatever.
So, did you actually HAVE a point, or were you just wasting everyone's time and bandwidth?
Toys for the rich and the hollywood industry, not the common users.
No.
TOOLS for the Pros, not the common users.
They already HAVE the MacBook Air, Mac mini, MacBook and iMac (not to mention the iPads) for that market segment.
Please try to keep up.
LOL... Apple fans are so touchy! But hey, I understand - you never reached 10% market share in the desktop/server world, and even iOS is sliding down towards the single digit realm. Now with the iOSification of OSX, and the new Apple ad of What's a Computer? well - the writing is on the wall. It's tablets and phones for the future! Computers - Macs - are just going to fall by the wayside and exist just as support dongles for people to use to build apps for their dwindling market share in the mobile world...
Got it.
And the iMac Pro (and upcoming Modular Mac Pro), plus the recent updates of Logic and Final Cut Pro X are just another example of Apple's lack of commitment to the Mac, and Pro users...
Riiiiight.
Ahh, so your response is that one of the 8 or so different Macs that are offered has been update nearly every year, never mind the others are on a 2+ year cycle... Got it!
For one thing, Intel CPUs have stagnated to the point where yearly upgrades are nonsensical, and you postulated that the Mac LINE was only "refreshed" every 3-4 years, and when I neatly disproved that statement, you start whittling-away at your own premise.
what about the Macbook Pro? They've thinned that out to where its just a shell of what it once was. I still have my 17" that had a headphone jack, SD card slot, a great GPU(for its time) , 4 USB slots , etc etc.
When did macbook pro users ever say anything about losing function or useless form?
The current MacBook Pro (2016/2017 versions) :
1. Still has a Headphone Jack. Please try to keep up.
2. Has a GPU that provides for the most External Display capability in a "mobile" GPU. Which is why Apple chose it.
3. Doesn't need no steenking USB-A or SD Slots; it has (in the 15" version) 4 USB-C/TB 3 Ports that can easily and inexpensively be broken-out into an almost endless variety of up to FIFTY-SIX Legacy Ports, DEPENDING ON YOUR APPLICATION. That easily trumps ANY other Laptop's I/O capabilities, then, or now.
Macs are toys after all.
Yeah, an 18-core, Xeon-based "toy".
That only shows that one Mac model (the iMac Pro) is not a toy. I get the impression that apart from the iMac Pro, every other model uses underpowered hardware whose most significant advantage over a PC running Windows is that Apple's own music production and iOS app development tools are exclusive to it.
Whatever. Nothing I could say would convince you otherwise; so intelligent discourse is not possible with you.
Are you talking about that $7400 iMac Pro you just pointed to in another post? That "not a ripoff" offering?
No, it isn't.
Go price similar hardware from Dell or HP. You'll see...
Make sure to include that 5K Display!
Too bad they use Creo and Solidworks... As I've consistently pointed out to YOU... Face it, Apple is now just a mobile platform company, and the Mac line exists solely as a way to suppose those mobile devices. It's why they get a refresh maybe every 3-4 years, compared to annually for the mobile devices.
WRONG!
Other than the Mac mini and the Mac Pro, which HAVE taken FOREVER to Update (but maybe soon, at least for the Pro!), the Mac line has generally been Upgraded/Updated about every year, or just a little longer (like 15 months). I think the MacBook Air might be at two years or so; but the MacBook, MacBook Pro, and iMac have been regularly upgraded. Hell, the MacBook Pro was Upgraded in March and May 2015, October and November 2016, and then AGAIN in, June 2017, FFS!!!
Yep, that's a $7400 dollar machine from Apple! I guess that's a hint at what it will take to run that iOS-ified version of Macs in the future...
You're so full of shit, it's running out of your ears.
After all, if memory serves, it worked so well for Microsoft.
Microsoft tried Tablet computers for years, too.
Then Apple came along...
Macs are toys after all.
Yeah, an 18-core, Xeon-based "toy".
Yeahrightsure.
[old man rant]
I'm sure that whatever they end up doing will bump up the share price, and for that I am grateful.
However, I got into this Mac thing because I had work to do. I have things I need to get done — things that people pay me to do. 20+ years later, I am concerned by the lack of user-upgradeable pro-quality machines. $5k for an iMac seriously??? And don't get me started on the iPhone with its non-replaceable battery and lack of expandable storage.
I want a computer and phone that just work. I want to be able to add RAM or a new SSD when I want. I might even like a monitor larger than 27" and an upgradeable GPU. But who am I kidding? I'm just one guy with a collection of old Macs and a few shares of stock that I'm holding onto until I can retire.
Bah, humbug!
[/old man rant]
If you think that $5k for an iMac Pro is a ripoff, then you haven't been paying attention, and you SURE haven't been pricing equivalent hardware from other vendors.
As for upgrade-able, the RAM in the iMac Pro is Upgrade-able; just not USER-upgrade-able. And for the Pro users that the iMac Pro is targeting, they almost NEVER "upgrade" a computer, anyway. They just max it out at the beginning, and commence to makin' money with it. When they want to "upgrade", they buy a whole new system. THAT's how REAL "Pro" users work!
But, it seems like Apple is going to have at least a "reconfigurable" and "upgrade-able" Mac, with even more power than the iMac Pro, when the "Modular Mac Pro" is released. My guesstimate is that it will be unveiled at WWDC 2018, and either immediately available, or available toward the end of that year, just like with the iMac Pro.
Just develop your iOS app like you would design an iOS device's hardware - on Windows (Creo/NX and Altium).
Altium is Windows-only; but, as I have repeatedly pointed-out to YOU, Siemens NX has been available for macOS since at least 2009.
Apple confirms it's a mobile device company, and is going to finally rid itself of the antiquated albatross that is the Mac line.
Yeah, that's why they JUST released an 18-Core, Xeon-based, Vega 64-using iMac Pro.
Idiot.
Apple also killed the Mac by not updating their computers FOR YEARS while their competitors update every year.
Why would I pay the same price for a 2014 Mac mini in 2017? For a computer with a CPU that is four generations behind, a slow 5400 RPM laptop drive and RAM that cannot be upgraded later on?
Apple doesn't want to make Macs anymore, the "great things in the pipeline" is the most bullshit line I've ever heard from them.
Really? Then explain the introduction LAST WEEK of the iMac Pro, and their reinforcement of committment to an upgraded Mac Pro.
Apple's best, least offensive product, and they've decided to go to a lot of trouble to make it suck. Brilliant. I think this is Apple's way of saying "it's time for everyone to move on from Mac OS. There's Windows, Linux, and maybe whatever Google's pushing this year if you're dumb enough to fall for that. Good luck, former users!"
And why is this happening? Because of all you self-loathing fuckwits who bought iOS devices. You voted with your wallets that shitty, uncontrollable, anti-user operating systems are ok. So now you don't get Mac OS anymore, because some bean counter is looking at how many of each, they're selling.
Who killed Apple? Its customers! No, you didn't kill them financially, but you did remove them from relevance in the tech world, essentially. All by lowering your standards to such an extreme degree. You didn't have to do that. Apple could have remained a symbol of quality (which at times it really has been), but now they're considered lower than the cheapest malware-infested Chinese imports. They were capable of keeping up and even occasionally leapfrogging into leadership, but you told them to give up and suck. That's what happens when you throw money at shitty products. Your vote matters and this story is a great example of the consequences.
Sorry, former Mac fans. If you're one of the people who had average (or higher) expectations and therefore couldn't tolerate the thought of downgrading to an iPhone, maybe it's not directly your fault, but I bet you know someone who gave no fucks and you didn't say anything. So here we are. It's like this: you may have voted against Trump but he's still your president. Maybe you should have said something.
The introduction of the iMac Pro, and the reinforcement of commitment to an updated Mac Pro would belie this logic.
Apple has always copied. Apple's strategy has never been of the innovator. The strategy has always been the fast follower strategy. They let other be on the bleeding edge and learn from their mistakes and come in with a much more polished, dumbed down and well integrated version. What this does is by the time Apple brings a product to market the market is ready for it but also frustrated with the incumbents and ready to accept fewer functionality for greater reliability and ease of use.
The Mac was a copy of Xerox PARC
Mac OS is a copy of Unix
The iPod was a copy of various cheap mp3 players
The iPhone is a copy of the Motorola Rokr - the first phone to play iTunes as well of various Windows Phone 6 Touchphones from HP
The iPad is a well put together version of countless Samsung tablets
The Watch is a copy of various Android gear smartwatches
Apple Pay is a copy of countless systems which have been there in Japan for almost 25 years now
The Homepod is a copy of Alexa, Google Home etc
Almost nothing Apple does is original . It just does it better and takes over a market.
You DO realize (of course you don't) that you defeat your own arguments.
There is a vast difference between a "Copy", which is a direct knock-off, usually inferior version of an original product, and an improved version of an original product. Dozens of companies do the former. It takes almost no expertise, and does nothing but cheapen the entire field. Apple does the latter, which is why, as you yourself have admitted, they do it better, and more often than not, end up taking over the field, at least until they themselves are copied by those whose only business-model is a race-to-the-bottom.
1. Apple didn't copy the Xerox Alto. It licensed some of the GUI concepts, then improved upon them.
2. MacOS is not a copy of Unix, it is a Certified Version of Unix. By contrast, every single Linux is a copy of Unix.
3. The iPod was not a copy of several MP3 Players (each of which was a copy of ??? The Sony Walkman???), it was an improvement upon the concept of an Portable Music Player, which is why is immediately trounced the others.
4. The iPhone copied nothing. It created an industry-wide paradigm-shift in the design of both smartphones and their UI designs.
5. Same with the iPad. Many others had tried and failed to create a usable tablet computing device. Apple showed everyone else the way it's done...
6. The Apple Watch is an improvement over others' failed-attempts to bring all the necessary pieces-parts together for a usable smartwatch. Everything before it is simply a bad joke, or a very limited-use toy.
7. Apple Pay is not original. But it is the first, or one of the first, that did not insinuate itself into the middle of the transaction-process, protecting the user's privacy.
8. The Homepod isn't out yet; so we really don't know what its capabilities will be; but it does seem like it is the coming-to-fruition of an idea that has been kicking-around the Apple Product Development labs for about a decade; so, who's copying whom?
By your logic, every single car is nothing more than a copy of the Benz Patent Motor Car. But would you really dare to call a Tesla or Ferrari a copy of this? :
https://www.daimler.com/compan...
What you are saying is just as "logical".
It's up to the developer how many devices they make their app compatible with, same as on iphone.
But on iOS it is always based on just the version of iOS (which is reasonable), or whether the device is a phone or tablet (which is also reasonable).
I have also seen 64 bit iOS apps refuse to load on 32 bit devices. Again, also reasonable.
But NEVER have I seen something like "This App only works on the iPhone 7 and up".
This might be temporarily untrue with Apps that use the FaceID hardware, though. But it certainly isn't the norm.
This would NEVER happen on iOS. Apps MUST ask (and get) Permission to access data outside of the App's directory. ...And NOT just at Installation-Time; but when they actually want to DO it!
https://support.apple.com/en-u...
The fact that the battery bulged is not the fault of the hideous, shitty cryptomining software; but rather the fault of the shitty CHARGING CIRCUIT (and/or shitty Battery) in the crappy (no doubt Android) PHONE that Kaspersky used in their testing.
Software not actually used in the CHARGING process CANNOT cause a battery to bulge.
TERRIBLE story.