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  1. Re: Incorrect. on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The PAs of the radios draw the current.

  2. Re: Incorrect. on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Current spikes lowers voltage and trips a brown out detector. Don't make the product current spike. Duh. Current spikes are part of design engineering. Design for your load. Stop making excuses, engineers are taught better. These are intentional cut corners. They can and should do better. They will now.

  3. Re: Apple's problem on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    iPhones were rebooting with more than 40% battery life. Other phones are operational to single digit battery life before shutting down. Perhaps because battery saver functionality is doing the fuck it's supposed to do and informs the user. None of this is new to engineering, these are intentional design decisions for cutting corners.

  4. Re: So they let phone battery life suffer more? on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's called a design flaw.

  5. Re: So they let phone battery life suffer more? on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Slightly? What fucking definition are you using? Double digit percent decrease is not slightly.

  6. Re: So they let phone battery life suffer more? on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What? Most phones have 50% more battery capacity than an iPhone. Apple just doesn't want to pay patent royalties for Quick Charge.

  7. Re: So they let phone battery life suffer more? on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you defective? Portable Quick chargers are on Amazon for $15 range with 3 full charges for a good phone, or 6 charges on an iPhone. Were you thinking you were making a joke, or just really, really out of touch basic technology?

  8. Re: Anyone can replace an iPhone battery on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Bullshit. Apple has the smallest batteries, years after every one else moved to 3000+mAh batteries. Would the iApologists just stay the fuck out of these discussions? We all don't drink the Kool-aid. You're critical thinking logic is fucking broken. P.s. every one doesn't live within Apple store visiting distance, you insensitive clod!

  9. Re: Easy when there are no firmware updates on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My nephews get hand me down iPhones from their Doctor Aunt each year. They once showed me two phones of same model playing the same game, one on the previous iOS and one just upgraded. In the game, if you held a button the guy would run smoothly and continuously. In the updated phone, the guy's running was very staggered with noticeable pauses multiple times in 1-2 seconds. It was night and fucking day for something that performed equally the week before. Having intentionally slowed phones has been known for years, but now something is going to be fucking done about it. Especially since they don't let you stay on old iOS versions because they don't pay patent royalties and renew fucking certificates (Facetime fuckery), forcing upgrades.

  10. Re: They don't patch them either... on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What the fuck are you talking about? Specific case of text hacking in last year or two or you're full of shit. You can have nonexistent text hacks, or Facetime shit that regularly fails to just fucking work. My BlackBerry android gets monthly updates.

  11. Re: nothing to see here on HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They are going to hang themselves with that line after the class action discovery turns over internal communication where I'd bet dollars to doughnuts someone raises concerns, making it an option, and making the user believe the artificial slow down is reason to get a newer phone, etc.

  12. Re: yay path conversion on More Unix Tools Coming To Windows 10 (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    I believe there's additional difference in allowed path characters was the OP's point.

  13. Re: NAT (IPv4 Address sharing) is not security. on Some Telcos and ISPs are Frustrating IPv6 Adoption (guardian.ng) · · Score: 1

    If packets destined for a private IP arrives on the WAN and gets to your LAN PC, YOU FUCKED UP.

  14. Re: Mandatory car analogy... on Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit After Admitting To Slowing Down Old iPhones (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Wtf? No. It's like intentionally capping the top end acceleration from your car so you can't pass another car as well so that you can go longer between tune-ups instead of just throwing a dashboard light to say to get a tune-up. You go, "since there's nothing wrong with it, this car has no balls, time for a new car".

  15. They have conditions for replacing them for $79 and will refuse if they have unrelated cracks. It's like you ignore all the complaints made right here on /.

  16. Re: Apple = US company = corruption on Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit After Admitting To Slowing Down Old iPhones (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Lay off the Comrade Detective.

  17. Re: Future news - lawsuit settled on Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit After Admitting To Slowing Down Old iPhones (appleinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    What the fuck are you talking about? XP was a significant portion of the Internet 15 years later. There was $10-20 and free upgrades to Windows 8-10. Don't be trying to cover for Apple intentionally fucking you over with OS updates 5 years in between?

  18. Sweet. That's a feature.

  19. Atmel has known bugs in their brown-out circuitry. Apple may very well have bad brown out detection circuitry in their silicon as well. We've seen what kind of QA their engineering does.

  20. Re: The industry's desperately trying on Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Until you take the fucking iOS update, no fucking contractions for you.

  21. Re: Not all parents are lazy on Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not American and I even know there's states that have limited availability of birth control that people have to drive hours and hours, if not cross state lines to get. WTF are you talking about?

  22. Re: Brilliant strategy on Cable TV's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the point of this requiring reauthorization more frequently. So the original member enters the password instead of sharing it. If the device is in possession of the paying member, that's not the same as giving password to use as the non-payer.

  23. Re: So what the article says is on Cable TV's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What? No, calling them and cancelling is the easiest. Stop paying them takes some 2-3 months to "cancel" and increases your debt for something you didn't use. That's dumb advice.

  24. Re: So what the article says is on Cable TV's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you? If they control the login client (an app) and not just some public website login, that is the way to lock down to specific devices. That's how my VPN service works to 5 devices limit.

  25. Re: don't be silly the bible says on Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    How come no one else reads this as butthurt diva? Design a being with free will, with brains designed to operate a certain way, and then throw a hissy fit the first moment they don't fucking listen? Where's the common sense? It's like kicking out your 2 year old baby for not doing as told. Anyway, it's all stupid, retarded shit that I have no idea it conned so many gullible people into believing the dumbest shit written.