Yes.. and I actually pointed that out in my post -- that you can actually get more time on one or two of the three android phones (but not by much according to ars' numbers)
The whole reason I brought up the normalization was the point out that given their battery *capacity* the Android devices actually have relatively terrible battery *life*. They've had to cram a 1.5 times larger battery in order to get 1.07 times better battery life.
They should be performing better.. but they aren't. I found that curious which is was the point of my post.
Even then, the 7 was 2nd of the 4, and in the WebGL it ranked 3 of of the 4
But when you normalize for battery size it comes out on top...
The other 3 phones should be *far* ahead of the iPhone 7, given that they have around 1.5 times the battery capacity.. but the most they got as far as actual battery life was 1.28 times in Which's test and around 1.07 times in Ars' tests.
The 3G calling time seems to be the anomaly.
So while you can use one of the other 3 phones for somewhere between 7% and 28% more time on everything but 3G calling, they're actually underperforming given their specs. Dunno if that's OS or hardware optimization going on.. but there you have it.
I suspect that actual phone calling is a small fraction of the usage of modern smart phones.
Personally I make phone calls on mine for maybe 10s of minutes a week, on average. The rest of the time is spent with web browsing, emailing and other data-consuming tasks.
They found that the iPhone 7 lasted much longer in both of their web browsing tests than the HTC 10 and lasted only a bit less than the S7 and G5.
Even on Which's 3G (why only 3G ?) web browsing testing, phones with 1.5 times the battery don't get anywhere near that much extra life.
It's pretty hard to judge without more samples and more info on the testing methods but, taking these tests at face value:
a) iOS 10 seems *horribly* optimized for 3G phone calling b) Android (along with whatever extra stuff is on the three Android phones) seems terribly optimized at the other stuff. They have *much* larger batteries but don't manage anywhere near commensurate battery life with Wifi or 3G web browsing tests.
They don't particularly care for the latest thing. They've got, say a 4 or 5 year old phone and just want a newer phone without having to deal with updating their plan. When you buy on a new contract you have to deal with whatever they have on offer as opposed to the plan they've already got.
It's just simpler. Also I have family in both the states and canada so I buy phones unlocked directly from Apple and things can be passed around across borders easily (the person I gave a phone to will in turn give their phone to someone who needs one).
Why would I want my relatives to have to spend money when I can gift them something at no cost to them?
Why would I want them to have something used about which they know nothing in terms of its quality when I can give them something used that I know has been taken care of?
As I said to someone earlier.. there's nothing dangling from anywhere. It's just sitting in my pocket charging until I need it. And since I don't have to wait for the battery to run flat in order to charge it (like you do with swapping batteries) I can just unplug the charger if I need to use it and then plug it back in when it goes back in my pocket.
Why in god's name would an engineer think that the best way to use an external battery pack is to have it dangling off the end of the cable like a plumb bob?
As I said before.. there is absolutely nothing better about opening up your phone in order to get more juice. Everything about a spare, external battery pack is just plain old superior.
So with all of the options (external charger, battery case) that are *far* superior to replacing the battery.. what's the point of having the replaceable battery? It's just extra complication for no purpose.
A wind up crank on the side of the phone isn't much worse a solution that opening it up and swapping batteries.
As for dead batteries.. in 20 years of owning a variety of cellphones (from old chocolate bar style, to flip phones to sliders, to blackberries to iPhones) I have never once needed to replace a battery that was no longer carrying a charge. Sure it happens.. But I'd rather have something that's better for every day use than planning for the once in a blue moon case of my battery going flat.
In what universe is looking good and working mutually exclusive? What's more.. elegant in this case isn't about how it looks.. it's about having the simplest solution that is, in fact, better than the options. You do know that there are multiple definitions of elegant.. right?
I replace my phones probably every 2 to 2.5 years. Usually I'm not ready to give up my phone but I have a relative who has a very old phone that needs something better than what they've got.
Every phone I've replaced in the last 8 years I would have kept for another couple years but has gone to someone else who just wanted something a bit better.
As for utility.. I use my phone every day for work. I get a huge amount of utility out of it. Very weird for you to assume I don't.
A) personal vehicles are generally very far away from where you're working. And crew transport vehicles drop you off and leave you there. They're not always close by either.
B) I don't have to do anything of the sort. I reach into my pocket... pull out the plug and take out my phone. Then when I'm done I put the phone back in my pocket, grab the plug and plug it in -- an advantage of the lightning plug in my phone.. I don't have to look at it to figure out how to plug it in.
It's far more elegant and useful to have an external battery pack to keep your phone battery topped up than it is to wait for your battery to drain completely, turn it off, open it up and swap batteries
An internal battery is only good for one charge before it needs to be recharged. My battery pack can charge my phone (and/or others' phones) multiple times before I need to charge it.
And every time you get a different phone you need to buy extra batteries.. I've had the same external charger for 5 years. You also need to have a charging base to charge both your phone and the external battery at the same time. I just need another cable.
There's nothing elegant or better about swapping a battery just to get more battery life.
A) come to a film set some time.. you don't have many options and can't just walk away whenever you feel like it. I've been standing out in the desert for 4 or 5 hours at a time and then it starts raining and "clean and dry" is a leaking popup tent. Even the porta potty is a 10 minute ride away.
B) nothing's dangling from anywhere. It's just sitting in my pocket charging. Since it's not major surgery to charge up my phone I don't let it get so low that I can't unplug it when I need to use it for a few minutes.
The idea of opening your phone to the elements just to get more battery power seems insane to me.
I work on messy, dusty, wet, and generally gross film sets. I watched a guy try to open his phone and replace his battery in the middle of december in well below freezing temperatures on a hectic set. He dropped the battery cover in the slush at his feet and generally made a hash of it.
But even if he hadn't been an infomercial-level klutz.. it would be crazy to me to need to turn off and open my phone in order to get more juice.
Me? I just plugged in my external battery pack (which at the time could charge my phone 4 times from empty) and popped my phone back in my pocket.
There are definitely far more elegant solutions out there than replaceable batteries.
1) can't do that without disabling SIP 2) can't do that without disabling SIP (or at least the software that comes pre-installed with the OS) 3) probably can't do that without disabling SIP 4) can't do that without booting from an external disk or in recovery mode 5) wear eye protection 7) don't burn your house down
But anyway... how are any of these things equivalent to or easier than requiring a couple extra steps when launching an unsigned app the first time?
Myself, I think assuming that power users are incapable of right clicking on an icon, clicking a button and then moving on with their day is treating them like imbeciles.
The setting was removed so as not to allow people to mindlessly set their computer into a much less secure state.
The idea that right clicking on each new app *ONCE* and clicking on a button *ONCE* to whitelist that app is somehow an infringement on ones rights (as the original post I replied to opined) or some great conspiracy to lull us into a false sense of security at which point apple will magically make it so that only App store apps can be run on our computers as you seem to be opining is just... well.. absurd.
You're free to get your knickers in a wad over whatever you like.. but this is the very definition of making a mountain out of a mole hill.
When you double click on an unsigned app you get a dialog telling you that you are trying to open an app from an unidentified developer. Can't miss it.
Then there is a little help button at the bottom of the dialog. Can't miss it.
Click on the help button (as you do when you want help with something) and it tells you *precisely* what to do to whitelist that app in 3 simple steps (basically the same three steps I outlined way up there).
Can't miss it.
How much more discoverable do you want it than that? Do you want a genie to magically pop up next to you and tell you what to do instead of the pop up dialog?
Not sure about virtual box but it definitely works in Parallels.
Personally my preferred method for testing mac OS updates and betas is to install it on an external drive (USB 3.0 if you want somewhat decent performance) and boot from that drive for my testing.
I agree that there aren't many... I have very few that I use regularly.. three I think.
Ever since gatekeeper became a thing I've had it on "App Store and Identified developers". Works really well.
In general for the average user? god only knows. Hopefully even fewer but you never know what garbage people will download. Which is why it's great that Apple has done things the way it has in Sierra.
The difference being in the previous versions you could turn off gatekeeper entirely from the System Preferences.
In sierra you can't do that. You have to either disable it on the command line (a bad idea IMHO) or just whitelist each unsigned app the first time you use it by using the process I outlined above.
Nothing in this update stops you from running unsigned apps if you so choose. You just can't (easily) set it to the default.. which is a good thing.
If you want to run an unsigned app you you can just right click on the icon, select "open", respond to the dialog presented saying that you want to open this unsigned app.. and then every other time you open that app you can just double click on the icon.
I'd be very happy with that. I know *many* people that would be very happy with the single port in the regular macbook too.
I would definitely miss the magsafe connector though.. that thing has saved my laptop a number of times. Though I think someone is selling magsafe USB C cables so maybe it's not a huge deal.
Personally I'd like my macbook pro laptop (that I use for daily software development and high-end animation and rendering software) to get as thin and light as possible. Every pound saved is a pound I don't have to lug through airports multiple times a year.
Of course I still want all the connectivity and power that I currently have.. but barring changes there I have no issue with making things as thin as physically possible.
I'd be happy to see 4 or 5 USB C ports and nothing else on this thing. Carrying around a couple of adapters is hardly the burden everyone seems to make it sound like.
Saying that an extreme cold temperature is evidence that there's no climate change going on is like saying "how can there be a tsunami coming? there's no water at all on the beach!!"
With extreme highs can come extreme lows.. the whole system is going out of whack. But the overall trend is steadily upwards.
And that's a fair opinion. I don't pretend to speak for all people -- especially in the realm of ergonomics. I just don't like it when people feel the need to speak for *me*.
Currenly, the machines Apple currently make work really well for me and my team. Could they be better? god yes. They've made some bone-headed decisions over the years.
For example.. why aren't the Mac Pro graphics cards the same? They're actually mirror images of each other which is dumb. Or why isn't there a machine with the form factor somewhere between the Mini and the Pro but the performance of the iMac (ie. a headless machine in the middle)?
But, for all their faults, their hardware and software best fit most of my needs across the board. And when my needs don't align with their offerings I either compromise or I buy something else.
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Yes.. and I actually pointed that out in my post -- that you can actually get more time on one or two of the three android phones (but not by much according to ars' numbers)
The whole reason I brought up the normalization was the point out that given their battery *capacity* the Android devices actually have relatively terrible battery *life*. They've had to cram a 1.5 times larger battery in order to get 1.07 times better battery life.
They should be performing better.. but they aren't. I found that curious which is was the point of my post.
But when you normalize for battery size it comes out on top...
The other 3 phones should be *far* ahead of the iPhone 7, given that they have around 1.5 times the battery capacity.. but the most they got as far as actual battery life was 1.28 times in Which's test and around 1.07 times in Ars' tests.
The 3G calling time seems to be the anomaly.
So while you can use one of the other 3 phones for somewhere between 7% and 28% more time on everything but 3G calling, they're actually underperforming given their specs. Dunno if that's OS or hardware optimization going on.. but there you have it.
I suspect that actual phone calling is a small fraction of the usage of modern smart phones.
Personally I make phone calls on mine for maybe 10s of minutes a week, on average. The rest of the time is spent with web browsing, emailing and other data-consuming tasks.
This is a *huge* variance from Ars Technica's wifi battery testing:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...
They found that the iPhone 7 lasted much longer in both of their web browsing tests than the HTC 10 and lasted only a bit less than the S7 and G5.
Even on Which's 3G (why only 3G ?) web browsing testing, phones with 1.5 times the battery don't get anywhere near that much extra life.
It's pretty hard to judge without more samples and more info on the testing methods but, taking these tests at face value:
a) iOS 10 seems *horribly* optimized for 3G phone calling
b) Android (along with whatever extra stuff is on the three Android phones) seems terribly optimized at the other stuff. They have *much* larger batteries but don't manage anywhere near commensurate battery life with Wifi or 3G web browsing tests.
They don't particularly care for the latest thing. They've got, say a 4 or 5 year old phone and just want a newer phone without having to deal with updating their plan. When you buy on a new contract you have to deal with whatever they have on offer as opposed to the plan they've already got.
It's just simpler. Also I have family in both the states and canada so I buy phones unlocked directly from Apple and things can be passed around across borders easily (the person I gave a phone to will in turn give their phone to someone who needs one).
Why would I want my relatives to have to spend money when I can gift them something at no cost to them?
Why would I want them to have something used about which they know nothing in terms of its quality when I can give them something used that I know has been taken care of?
As I said to someone earlier.. there's nothing dangling from anywhere. It's just sitting in my pocket charging until I need it. And since I don't have to wait for the battery to run flat in order to charge it (like you do with swapping batteries) I can just unplug the charger if I need to use it and then plug it back in when it goes back in my pocket.
Why in god's name would an engineer think that the best way to use an external battery pack is to have it dangling off the end of the cable like a plumb bob?
As I said before.. there is absolutely nothing better about opening up your phone in order to get more juice. Everything about a spare, external battery pack is just plain old superior.
So with all of the options (external charger, battery case) that are *far* superior to replacing the battery.. what's the point of having the replaceable battery? It's just extra complication for no purpose.
A wind up crank on the side of the phone isn't much worse a solution that opening it up and swapping batteries.
As for dead batteries.. in 20 years of owning a variety of cellphones (from old chocolate bar style, to flip phones to sliders, to blackberries to iPhones) I have never once needed to replace a battery that was no longer carrying a charge. Sure it happens.. But I'd rather have something that's better for every day use than planning for the once in a blue moon case of my battery going flat.
In what universe is looking good and working mutually exclusive? What's more.. elegant in this case isn't about how it looks.. it's about having the simplest solution that is, in fact, better than the options. You do know that there are multiple definitions of elegant.. right?
I replace my phones probably every 2 to 2.5 years. Usually I'm not ready to give up my phone but I have a relative who has a very old phone that needs something better than what they've got.
Every phone I've replaced in the last 8 years I would have kept for another couple years but has gone to someone else who just wanted something a bit better.
As for utility.. I use my phone every day for work. I get a huge amount of utility out of it. Very weird for you to assume I don't.
A) personal vehicles are generally very far away from where you're working. And crew transport vehicles drop you off and leave you there. They're not always close by either.
B) I don't have to do anything of the sort. I reach into my pocket... pull out the plug and take out my phone. Then when I'm done I put the phone back in my pocket, grab the plug and plug it in -- an advantage of the lightning plug in my phone.. I don't have to look at it to figure out how to plug it in.
It's far more elegant and useful to have an external battery pack to keep your phone battery topped up than it is to wait for your battery to drain completely, turn it off, open it up and swap batteries
An internal battery is only good for one charge before it needs to be recharged. My battery pack can charge my phone (and/or others' phones) multiple times before I need to charge it.
And every time you get a different phone you need to buy extra batteries.. I've had the same external charger for 5 years. You also need to have a charging base to charge both your phone and the external battery at the same time. I just need another cable.
There's nothing elegant or better about swapping a battery just to get more battery life.
A) come to a film set some time.. you don't have many options and can't just walk away whenever you feel like it. I've been standing out in the desert for 4 or 5 hours at a time and then it starts raining and "clean and dry" is a leaking popup tent. Even the porta potty is a 10 minute ride away.
B) nothing's dangling from anywhere. It's just sitting in my pocket charging. Since it's not major surgery to charge up my phone I don't let it get so low that I can't unplug it when I need to use it for a few minutes.
The idea of opening your phone to the elements just to get more battery power seems insane to me.
I work on messy, dusty, wet, and generally gross film sets. I watched a guy try to open his phone and replace his battery in the middle of december in well below freezing temperatures on a hectic set. He dropped the battery cover in the slush at his feet and generally made a hash of it.
But even if he hadn't been an infomercial-level klutz.. it would be crazy to me to need to turn off and open my phone in order to get more juice.
Me? I just plugged in my external battery pack (which at the time could charge my phone 4 times from empty) and popped my phone back in my pocket.
There are definitely far more elegant solutions out there than replaceable batteries.
I'm not sure what your point here is but...
1) can't do that without disabling SIP
2) can't do that without disabling SIP (or at least the software that comes pre-installed with the OS)
3) probably can't do that without disabling SIP
4) can't do that without booting from an external disk or in recovery mode
5) wear eye protection
7) don't burn your house down
But anyway... how are any of these things equivalent to or easier than requiring a couple extra steps when launching an unsigned app the first time?
Myself, I think assuming that power users are incapable of right clicking on an icon, clicking a button and then moving on with their day is treating them like imbeciles.
But who am I to judge?
This is all just much ado about nothing.
The setting was removed so as not to allow people to mindlessly set their computer into a much less secure state.
The idea that right clicking on each new app *ONCE* and clicking on a button *ONCE* to whitelist that app is somehow an infringement on ones rights (as the original post I replied to opined) or some great conspiracy to lull us into a false sense of security at which point apple will magically make it so that only App store apps can be run on our computers as you seem to be opining is just... well.. absurd.
You're free to get your knickers in a wad over whatever you like.. but this is the very definition of making a mountain out of a mole hill.
When you double click on an unsigned app you get a dialog telling you that you are trying to open an app from an unidentified developer. Can't miss it.
Then there is a little help button at the bottom of the dialog. Can't miss it.
Click on the help button (as you do when you want help with something) and it tells you *precisely* what to do to whitelist that app in 3 simple steps (basically the same three steps I outlined way up there).
Can't miss it.
How much more discoverable do you want it than that? Do you want a genie to magically pop up next to you and tell you what to do instead of the pop up dialog?
Not sure about virtual box but it definitely works in Parallels.
Personally my preferred method for testing mac OS updates and betas is to install it on an external drive (USB 3.0 if you want somewhat decent performance) and boot from that drive for my testing.
I agree that there aren't many... I have very few that I use regularly.. three I think.
Ever since gatekeeper became a thing I've had it on "App Store and Identified developers". Works really well.
In general for the average user? god only knows. Hopefully even fewer but you never know what garbage people will download. Which is why it's great that Apple has done things the way it has in Sierra.
The difference being in the previous versions you could turn off gatekeeper entirely from the System Preferences.
In sierra you can't do that. You have to either disable it on the command line (a bad idea IMHO) or just whitelist each unsigned app the first time you use it by using the process I outlined above.
Nothing in this update stops you from running unsigned apps if you so choose. You just can't (easily) set it to the default.. which is a good thing.
If you want to run an unsigned app you you can just right click on the icon, select "open", respond to the dialog presented saying that you want to open this unsigned app.. and then every other time you open that app you can just double click on the icon.
Easy peasy.
1) nothing goes to the internet.
2) nothing will go to a machine/account that isn't signed in to the same icloud account.
3) Calm down.. just turn Handoff off and you're good.
I'd be very happy with that. I know *many* people that would be very happy with the single port in the regular macbook too.
I would definitely miss the magsafe connector though.. that thing has saved my laptop a number of times. Though I think someone is selling magsafe USB C cables so maybe it's not a huge deal.
Nobody? Hardly
Personally I'd like my macbook pro laptop (that I use for daily software development and high-end animation and rendering software) to get as thin and light as possible. Every pound saved is a pound I don't have to lug through airports multiple times a year.
Of course I still want all the connectivity and power that I currently have.. but barring changes there I have no issue with making things as thin as physically possible.
I'd be happy to see 4 or 5 USB C ports and nothing else on this thing. Carrying around a couple of adapters is hardly the burden everyone seems to make it sound like.
Saying that an extreme cold temperature is evidence that there's no climate change going on is like saying "how can there be a tsunami coming? there's no water at all on the beach!!"
With extreme highs can come extreme lows.. the whole system is going out of whack. But the overall trend is steadily upwards.
And that's a fair opinion. I don't pretend to speak for all people -- especially in the realm of ergonomics. I just don't like it when people feel the need to speak for *me*.
Currenly, the machines Apple currently make work really well for me and my team. Could they be better? god yes. They've made some bone-headed decisions over the years.
For example.. why aren't the Mac Pro graphics cards the same? They're actually mirror images of each other which is dumb. Or why isn't there a machine with the form factor somewhere between the Mini and the Pro but the performance of the iMac (ie. a headless machine in the middle)?
But, for all their faults, their hardware and software best fit most of my needs across the board. And when my needs don't align with their offerings I either compromise or I buy something else.