In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there arne't 3rd party USB-C to Lightning adapters available for $10 now. And Amazon Basics probably has a 4-pack of USB-C to USB-A female adapters for $10, too.
Actually, you might want a USB-C to Lightning cable (not adapter) or a USB-C to USB adapter. That adapter is actually available for about $10.
On the other hand, Anker used to sell a 5x USB charger, they now also offer a 4x USB + 1x USB-C charger. Someone also offers a port with 4x USB 3.1, 4K HDMI, plus power supply to your Mac, which should completely meetmost people's needs. (Both items about £29 in the UK).
people are STILL fucking stupid enough to rely on fingerprint auth to unlock phones?!!?! fucking. stupid. millenial. sheep.
Well, it is unlikely that I would be in a situation where it would make a difference. Not impossible, as we have seen, but unlikely. And you gain security elsewhere. An 8 digit passcode is not too inconvenient anymore when supported by fingerprints, so overall it still makes you more secure.
Maybe if Apple didn't sell their cables for such obscene prices, there would be less market demand for Chinese knockoffs.
First, there were people who didn't have any intention to buy Chinese knockoffs. They went to Amazon, and looked at what was on offer, and decided to buy _genuine Apple_ products.
Second, you are saying yourself that you have the choice between expensive, quality products and cheap, rubbish products. If you are Ok with cheap, rubbish products that is fine with me. (Just don't buy cheap, rubbish chargers because they can kill you. And don't buy cheap, rubbish USB-C cables, because they can kill your laptop. ). But you should consider that making a safe product may cost a bit more.
I've not had problems. I'm not going to freak out over a clone product. That would be silly since I am a PC user.
A genuine Apple iPhone charger will charge a Samsung phone just fine (if you take the cable that Samsung gave you). A fake "genuine" Apple iPhone charger can easily destroy your Samsung phone or set your home on fire if you try to charge a Samsung phone with it.
Is there any proof the counterfeits are prone to catching fire or anything like that? They didn't go through consumer testing, but that doesn't by itself mean it's unsafe. Granted I wouldn't trust it with a ten foot fireproof pole and they should be taken off the market.
Well, from Apple's point of view, they quite rightfully don't want anyone to sell products calling themselves "genuine Apple" products when they are not.
If it's a fake, the manufacturer has already demonstrated that they are quite willing to break the law by violating Apple's trademarks and misleading their customers. I think this is different from fake Gucci handbags where the customer _knows_ they are buying a fake, and they just want something with Gucci printed on it - I don't want a charger that has "Apple" printed on it, I want one that is safe and works. I bet Samsung (ignoring their recent debacle) could make chargers that are 100% compatible with Apple devices and 100% safe, and if they were cheaper than Apple products they could sell a lot. If they did, they would probably be copied as well:-(
So when this manufacturer is breaking the laws anywhere, why would they care if their charger is safe?
The actual problem is that making a charger that is small and safe is slightly difficult and slightly expensive. If I was in China, I'd build a charger that is big, safe, and works, and try to sell it for half the price of an Apple charger. And advertise it that way.
Shhh but there is a scam buried in all fast chargers.
Not at all.
USB officially supplies 2.5 Watt (might be slightly more nowadays). Apple devices with large batteries can use more than 2.5 Watt. Like an iPhone 6+ or 7, or an iPad. With a standard USB charger they take ages to charge. So an Apple charger for an iPad can supply more charge. It will detect an iPad, or an iPhone with high capacity, and will supply the right charge, and anythinge else it will supply 2.5 Watt. I'm quite sure Samsung does the same thing; unfortunately the detection is slightly different, so charging a Samsung table with an Apple iPad charger or an iPad with a Samsung tablet charger will take ages.
None of these chargers will charge any battery faster than they should.
Apple makes more money servicing its products than from selling Macs.
That's only because you are a dolt who can't read.
"Apple Services", which makes a lot of money, isn't "servicing" as in "repairing" its products. "Apple Services" is iTunes, App Store, everything that Apple sells that isn't hardware.
My credit card already indemnifies me against fraud, so the risk is already negligible.
Your credit card company may indemnify you, but it doesn't prevent credit card fraud. Someone is going to pay for it. With Apple Pay, the merchant (or it's thieving store employee) never gets your credit card number, so they can't use it for fraud. If the merchant's hardware is hacked, they still can't get your credit card number or your money. Hackers who manage to somehow decode the communication between iPhone and card terminal can't get your money.
How many reports were there? Showing me that 26 are likely false doesn't mean much if there were over 100 to begin with whereas if there are 30 then it's likely that there's no problem with the phone. Numbers are only useful when taken in context.
These are independent things. There are phones that start burning. And there are phone owners who are lying (or not even phone owners, you don't need to own a phone to make a false claim). I think the statement isn't "there are much less burning phones then you'd think", but "there is a huge number of liars". Which surely doesn't come as a surprise to anyone.
Ok, so explain to me. Heat takes money to produce. How can serving a beverage at a hotter temperature be cheaper?
I'll explain it to you. As slowly as required.
At the time, McDonald's offered free coffee refills in the USA. So if you sit in the restaurant and drink your coffee, and finish it, you go to the counter and get another one for free. Which costs about twice as much as one coffee.
To avoid this, McDonald's served the coffee so that it was undrinkable hot. So now you eat your food waiting for your coffee to cool down, wait a bit because it is still too hot, then you drink it and now you have spend so much time in a "fast food" restaurant that you don't have time to get another coffee and repeat the waiting game. No free second coffee = money saved for McDonalds.
About the temperature: A woman suffered instant third degree burns by pouring coffee on her trousers. If you drank that coffee, you would suffer instant third degree burns in your mouth. If I walked through the restaurant with a coffee and by accident stumbled over my own feet and dropped the coffee on a child, the child would suffer third degree burns. McDonald's was aware of this because they had settled over 700 cases out of court. But they told their staff to make the coffee so hot, so they could claim to offer free refills without anyone taking them up on that offer.
My Brother laserjet (HL-L2360D) has a "setting" which will override the "cartridge is empty" message. That is to say, it will warn that the cartridge is empty, but it will keep printing forever.
Got a Brother laserprinter and figured that out when I bought a new cartridge. Apparently they have a counter and stop after X pages. Putting in a new cartridge doesn't change that. Found some free advice on the internet to reset the counter:-) Also bought a replacement pack with two black and one of each colour cartridge because you use more of the black, so I had a full black and quarter filled color cartridges, and needed to reset all the counters.
Sounds like HP owes them a fix or a new printer anyway. EU warranty is s mandatory two years. Can't be broken by third party cartridges unless those carts actually damage the printer. If firmware bricked it, the shop that sold it must either prove it was the customer's fault, fix it, replace it or refund it.
Not quite. HP doesn't owe anything, the seller does. For six month, the seller has to fix the problem unless they can show it's the customer's fault, after that the customr has to show the defect was present when the printer was sold. Which shouldn't be a problem if thousands of printers start failing on the same day. And importantly, this is _consumer law_. It applies to printers bought by consumers, not printers bought by companies. (And I'm sure that there are contracts between HP and dealers where HP promises to refund that cost).
Does all this waterproofing mean warranty will now cover water damage as well?
No. That was a mistake that Samsung made, covering water damage under warranty, and obviously they had a large number of idiots who needed to figure out where the limits are and then went to the store and demanded a new phone.
Warrany does _not_ cover water damage. The changes are there to make sure that fewer people will come to the store with water damage and get disappointed.
I've worked with barometers in embedded devices in the past. They're shitty at measuring all but the largest elevation changes. There are many environmental factors that could trick the device into thinking the elevation has changed. Ever go into a building and hear air rushing past the doors? That's because there is a pressure differential between the inside and outside of the building. Just walking inside could make the phone think it has changed altitude by several hundred feet.
But if the software isn't written by a total moron, it won't make the phone think that you just run several hundred feet up the stairs in 2.0 seconds.
Using a barometer to measure altitude is retarded to the point of it being a cliche physics exam question (measuring the height of a building with a barometer). Are you rapidly climbing stairs or is there a storm a comin'?
Imagine you get a phone call from Tim Cook: "Hi, we have this great barometer chip in the iPhone that measures atmospheric pressure with high precision, but now we need some software that uses this information to figure out whether the user is climbing up or down the stairs. BTW. We also have an acceleration sensor. Can you write that software for us? "
Is your answer (a) "Cook, you're stupid, every child knows that can't be done", (b) "Sorry, Cook, you need to find someone more clever than me to do that", or (c) "Cook, that's great, when can I start?".
Isn't the GPS receiver already doing a better job of that?
You may not realise that, but GPS was invented to find out the locations of boats on the sea, where the elevation level is zero. GPS isn't very good at vertical precision. If a typical phone GPS has horizontal precision of 5 meters, vertical precision is more like 10 meters.
That barometer has a much better precision to measure change in elevation (not for absolute elevation, because the weather has a much bigger long term effect). And importantly, it works indoors. The applications are for people walking on foot. You don't care much about the elevation when you're in your car. And when you are walking on foot, you're quite likely in a building where GPS doesn't work at all.
Fucking idiot not getting that lots of people use their iPhone to keep track of how much exercise they have (anything from 5s upward does that out of the box), and while the iPhone 5s counts your steps, newer iPhones use that barometer to find when you are walking up and down steps.
To me, "exploding" and "going up in flames" is not the same thing. If I hold a phone in my hands and it goes up in flames, I drop it and might have some burns if I'm unlucky. If I hold a phone in my hands and it explodes, good bye hands.
Is there any reliable information what actually happens?
Don't want LEDs shining on you in the night? Turn the router so the LEDs aren't facing you.
LEDs too bright? Use white tape/masking tape over the LED to reduce and diffuse the light.
Don't want LEDs at all? Use duct tape.
You are clueless. Turning the router doesn't help because the light is so bright, the reflection of it lightens up the room. Masking tape? I don't have masking tape in my bedroom. I definitely wouldn't have masking tape in a hospital. And it lets the light true, and it goes through the smallest gap that isn't covered.
False positive? What is the rate of misidentifying two people who look alike as being the same? How do they plan to deal with this? It could be seriously problematic for the victims of such a mistake, worse than erroneously being on the no-fly list.
There was a report of twins applying for a learner's permit at the same time running into problems, so this can happen.
Applying for a second license under a false name seems to happen when the first license has lots of unpaid fines and/or the license is revoked. So if A has a perfectly fine license, and B applies for a license and happens to look exactly like A, this would look a lot less suspicious. Should be fine to give B his license and then investigate. On the other hand, if A's license is revoked, then this is more suspicious and more risky. The first idea would be to contact both A and B, and if they can both be contacted, it should be possibly to prove they are different. If A cannot be contacted, that makes it a bit tougher. You would ask B for evidence that he has existed for some time.
There's a difference to the no-fly list: That gets people into trouble at the airport, with very little time to sort out any problems.
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On a local station (I live in that city), they said that the police were well aware that they could be texting the murderer by doing this.
Well, obviously. Since the murderer was likely close to the scene of the crime. So what?
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if there arne't 3rd party USB-C to Lightning adapters available for $10 now. And Amazon Basics probably has a 4-pack of USB-C to USB-A female adapters for $10, too.
Actually, you might want a USB-C to Lightning cable (not adapter) or a USB-C to USB adapter. That adapter is actually available for about $10.
On the other hand, Anker used to sell a 5x USB charger, they now also offer a 4x USB + 1x USB-C charger. Someone also offers a port with 4x USB 3.1, 4K HDMI, plus power supply to your Mac, which should completely meetmost people's needs. (Both items about £29 in the UK).
people are STILL fucking stupid enough to rely on fingerprint auth to unlock phones?!!?! fucking. stupid. millenial. sheep.
Well, it is unlikely that I would be in a situation where it would make a difference. Not impossible, as we have seen, but unlikely. And you gain security elsewhere. An 8 digit passcode is not too inconvenient anymore when supported by fingerprints, so overall it still makes you more secure.
Maybe if Apple didn't sell their cables for such obscene prices, there would be less market demand for Chinese knockoffs.
First, there were people who didn't have any intention to buy Chinese knockoffs. They went to Amazon, and looked at what was on offer, and decided to buy _genuine Apple_ products.
Second, you are saying yourself that you have the choice between expensive, quality products and cheap, rubbish products. If you are Ok with cheap, rubbish products that is fine with me. (Just don't buy cheap, rubbish chargers because they can kill you. And don't buy cheap, rubbish USB-C cables, because they can kill your laptop. ). But you should consider that making a safe product may cost a bit more.
I've not had problems. I'm not going to freak out over a clone product. That would be silly since I am a PC user.
A genuine Apple iPhone charger will charge a Samsung phone just fine (if you take the cable that Samsung gave you). A fake "genuine" Apple iPhone charger can easily destroy your Samsung phone or set your home on fire if you try to charge a Samsung phone with it.
Is there any proof the counterfeits are prone to catching fire or anything like that? They didn't go through consumer testing, but that doesn't by itself mean it's unsafe. Granted I wouldn't trust it with a ten foot fireproof pole and they should be taken off the market.
Well, from Apple's point of view, they quite rightfully don't want anyone to sell products calling themselves "genuine Apple" products when they are not.
:-(
If it's a fake, the manufacturer has already demonstrated that they are quite willing to break the law by violating Apple's trademarks and misleading their customers. I think this is different from fake Gucci handbags where the customer _knows_ they are buying a fake, and they just want something with Gucci printed on it - I don't want a charger that has "Apple" printed on it, I want one that is safe and works. I bet Samsung (ignoring their recent debacle) could make chargers that are 100% compatible with Apple devices and 100% safe, and if they were cheaper than Apple products they could sell a lot. If they did, they would probably be copied as well
So when this manufacturer is breaking the laws anywhere, why would they care if their charger is safe?
The actual problem is that making a charger that is small and safe is slightly difficult and slightly expensive. If I was in China, I'd build a charger that is big, safe, and works, and try to sell it for half the price of an Apple charger. And advertise it that way.
Shhh but there is a scam buried in all fast chargers.
Not at all.
USB officially supplies 2.5 Watt (might be slightly more nowadays). Apple devices with large batteries can use more than 2.5 Watt. Like an iPhone 6+ or 7, or an iPad. With a standard USB charger they take ages to charge. So an Apple charger for an iPad can supply more charge. It will detect an iPad, or an iPhone with high capacity, and will supply the right charge, and anythinge else it will supply 2.5 Watt. I'm quite sure Samsung does the same thing; unfortunately the detection is slightly different, so charging a Samsung table with an Apple iPad charger or an iPad with a Samsung tablet charger will take ages.
None of these chargers will charge any battery faster than they should.
Apple makes more money servicing its products than from selling Macs.
That's only because you are a dolt who can't read.
"Apple Services", which makes a lot of money, isn't "servicing" as in "repairing" its products. "Apple Services" is iTunes, App Store, everything that Apple sells that isn't hardware.
Apple isn't letting the basis use the phones NFC, the banks aren't letting apple use the payment system NFC. Seems fair to me.
Unless you are the customer. The banks wouldn't know how to create a safe payment system. Apple does and has done it.
My credit card already indemnifies me against fraud, so the risk is already negligible.
Your credit card company may indemnify you, but it doesn't prevent credit card fraud. Someone is going to pay for it. With Apple Pay, the merchant (or it's thieving store employee) never gets your credit card number, so they can't use it for fraud. If the merchant's hardware is hacked, they still can't get your credit card number or your money. Hackers who manage to somehow decode the communication between iPhone and card terminal can't get your money.
How many reports were there? Showing me that 26 are likely false doesn't mean much if there were over 100 to begin with whereas if there are 30 then it's likely that there's no problem with the phone. Numbers are only useful when taken in context.
These are independent things. There are phones that start burning. And there are phone owners who are lying (or not even phone owners, you don't need to own a phone to make a false claim). I think the statement isn't "there are much less burning phones then you'd think", but "there is a huge number of liars". Which surely doesn't come as a surprise to anyone.
Ok, so explain to me. Heat takes money to produce. How can serving a beverage at a hotter temperature be cheaper?
I'll explain it to you. As slowly as required.
At the time, McDonald's offered free coffee refills in the USA. So if you sit in the restaurant and drink your coffee, and finish it, you go to the counter and get another one for free. Which costs about twice as much as one coffee.
To avoid this, McDonald's served the coffee so that it was undrinkable hot. So now you eat your food waiting for your coffee to cool down, wait a bit because it is still too hot, then you drink it and now you have spend so much time in a "fast food" restaurant that you don't have time to get another coffee and repeat the waiting game. No free second coffee = money saved for McDonalds.
About the temperature: A woman suffered instant third degree burns by pouring coffee on her trousers. If you drank that coffee, you would suffer instant third degree burns in your mouth. If I walked through the restaurant with a coffee and by accident stumbled over my own feet and dropped the coffee on a child, the child would suffer third degree burns. McDonald's was aware of this because they had settled over 700 cases out of court. But they told their staff to make the coffee so hot, so they could claim to offer free refills without anyone taking them up on that offer.
My Brother laserjet (HL-L2360D) has a "setting" which will override the "cartridge is empty" message. That is to say, it will warn that the cartridge is empty, but it will keep printing forever.
Got a Brother laserprinter and figured that out when I bought a new cartridge. Apparently they have a counter and stop after X pages. Putting in a new cartridge doesn't change that. Found some free advice on the internet to reset the counter :-) Also bought a replacement pack with two black and one of each colour cartridge because you use more of the black, so I had a full black and quarter filled color cartridges, and needed to reset all the counters.
Sounds like HP owes them a fix or a new printer anyway. EU warranty is s mandatory two years. Can't be broken by third party cartridges unless those carts actually damage the printer. If firmware bricked it, the shop that sold it must either prove it was the customer's fault, fix it, replace it or refund it.
Not quite. HP doesn't owe anything, the seller does. For six month, the seller has to fix the problem unless they can show it's the customer's fault, after that the customr has to show the defect was present when the printer was sold. Which shouldn't be a problem if thousands of printers start failing on the same day. And importantly, this is _consumer law_. It applies to printers bought by consumers, not printers bought by companies. (And I'm sure that there are contracts between HP and dealers where HP promises to refund that cost).
Does all this waterproofing mean warranty will now cover water damage as well?
No. That was a mistake that Samsung made, covering water damage under warranty, and obviously they had a large number of idiots who needed to figure out where the limits are and then went to the store and demanded a new phone.
Warrany does _not_ cover water damage. The changes are there to make sure that fewer people will come to the store with water damage and get disappointed.
I've worked with barometers in embedded devices in the past. They're shitty at measuring all but the largest elevation changes. There are many environmental factors that could trick the device into thinking the elevation has changed. Ever go into a building and hear air rushing past the doors? That's because there is a pressure differential between the inside and outside of the building. Just walking inside could make the phone think it has changed altitude by several hundred feet.
But if the software isn't written by a total moron, it won't make the phone think that you just run several hundred feet up the stairs in 2.0 seconds.
Using a barometer to measure altitude is retarded to the point of it being a cliche physics exam question (measuring the height of a building with a barometer). Are you rapidly climbing stairs or is there a storm a comin'?
Imagine you get a phone call from Tim Cook: "Hi, we have this great barometer chip in the iPhone that measures atmospheric pressure with high precision, but now we need some software that uses this information to figure out whether the user is climbing up or down the stairs. BTW. We also have an acceleration sensor. Can you write that software for us? "
Is your answer (a) "Cook, you're stupid, every child knows that can't be done", (b) "Sorry, Cook, you need to find someone more clever than me to do that", or (c) "Cook, that's great, when can I start?".
Isn't the GPS receiver already doing a better job of that?
You may not realise that, but GPS was invented to find out the locations of boats on the sea, where the elevation level is zero. GPS isn't very good at vertical precision. If a typical phone GPS has horizontal precision of 5 meters, vertical precision is more like 10 meters.
That barometer has a much better precision to measure change in elevation (not for absolute elevation, because the weather has a much bigger long term effect). And importantly, it works indoors. The applications are for people walking on foot. You don't care much about the elevation when you're in your car. And when you are walking on foot, you're quite likely in a building where GPS doesn't work at all.
You absolutely need to know how high you are.
Fucking idiot not getting that lots of people use their iPhone to keep track of how much exercise they have (anything from 5s upward does that out of the box), and while the iPhone 5s counts your steps, newer iPhones use that barometer to find when you are walking up and down steps.
Don't worry, kid- for Christmas you're getting an iPhone 7 and an expensive set of wired headphones!
... which you then plug into the phone using the included Lightning to 3.5mm adapter. I suppose that's what you meant, right?
To me, "exploding" and "going up in flames" is not the same thing. If I hold a phone in my hands and it goes up in flames, I drop it and might have some burns if I'm unlucky. If I hold a phone in my hands and it explodes, good bye hands.
Is there any reliable information what actually happens?
Don't want LEDs shining on you in the night? Turn the router so the LEDs aren't facing you. LEDs too bright? Use white tape/masking tape over the LED to reduce and diffuse the light. Don't want LEDs at all? Use duct tape.
You are clueless. Turning the router doesn't help because the light is so bright, the reflection of it lightens up the room. Masking tape? I don't have masking tape in my bedroom. I definitely wouldn't have masking tape in a hospital. And it lets the light true, and it goes through the smallest gap that isn't covered.
I'd be curious about the performance of the second set of cores, that are supposed to use 1/5th of the power of the main two cores.
Might be very difficult to get benchmark results, because as soon as you start to run a benchmark, the phone would switch to the faster cores.
I am not compelled to listen to a man who picks stuff off his foot and eats it.
Sorry, but it's not funny. Not if you are in the same room. Or at lunch time.
False positive? What is the rate of misidentifying two people who look alike as being the same? How do they plan to deal with this? It could be seriously problematic for the victims of such a mistake, worse than erroneously being on the no-fly list.
There was a report of twins applying for a learner's permit at the same time running into problems, so this can happen.
Applying for a second license under a false name seems to happen when the first license has lots of unpaid fines and/or the license is revoked. So if A has a perfectly fine license, and B applies for a license and happens to look exactly like A, this would look a lot less suspicious. Should be fine to give B his license and then investigate. On the other hand, if A's license is revoked, then this is more suspicious and more risky. The first idea would be to contact both A and B, and if they can both be contacted, it should be possibly to prove they are different. If A cannot be contacted, that makes it a bit tougher. You would ask B for evidence that he has existed for some time.
There's a difference to the no-fly list: That gets people into trouble at the airport, with very little time to sort out any problems.