A few weeks ago, when all the Apple Haters were excoriating Apple for removing the 3.5 mm Jack in the iPhone 7, I predicted right here that this would happen within a year after the iPhone 7 came out.
Guess Samsung is still all about copying Apple ( yet again) after all...
Now watch as all the Fandroids rush to post that the iPhone wasn't first to eliminate the 3.5 mm Jack, which I also pointed out while those same people tripped over each other to say that the iPhone was completely ignoring their users, engaging in vendor lock-in and money grabbing (when Apple supplied a free adapter with the phone!) etc...
What, the Ars Technica test where the Samsung S7 trumps the iPhone 7, just like we see here? That test?
What "Trumping"? First off, the iPhone 7 vs. the S7 isn't a fair fight. The S7 is larger in all dimensions, and has almost twice as much battery capacity. It SHOULD be getting like TWICE the battery-life; but instead, it ekes out a measly 44 extra minutes, or about 6%. Wow. That means NOTHING in real-world use; likely more like around 15-20 mins., depending on what you are doing. Talk about a battery-hog! Meanwhile, as Apple starts fine-tuning the OS (GCD?) to push more and more threads to the low-power cores, and does its usual re-nice-ing and other optimizations to balance the CPU load better, mark my words, we'll see that "Trumping" start going the other way, BIG time.
And just imagine what the battery life of the iPhone 7 would be if it had that much battery (and how much longer it would take to charge!).
By the way, the iPhone 7 Plus is already "Trumping" EVERY other phone that Ars tested, and that's BEFORE iOS starts being optimized for lower power consumption...
Come back around iOS 10.3 or so, and we'll talk. Meanwhile, those S7s will still be on the same ol' nasty, insecure Marshmallow, for better or worse. At least Marshmallow FINALLY has a better Permissions model though; so I guess there is that...
Lol ok slugger. appleinsider I'm sure is a reliable and non biased source of tech info. I'm sure you won't find any articles there about how Android soon far surpassed ios and then apple started borrowing features from Android. Keep those apple binders on.
Oh, I never said there wasn't back-and-forth between the two platforms AFTER they were both established; but that simply sidesteps the fact that Android as you know it wouldn't exist without first copying iOS.
I can tell you why, apple sucks at writing software. Plain and simple.
Based on what, exactly? The fact that they like to get some real-world data before they spend time on optimization of parts of the OS that really don't matter?
Or (more likely) simply because you are an Apple-Hater?
You've never put up actual rest results showing what you claim. And you're the guy who saw the video PROOF that iOS versions got slower and slower (2-3 times slower) on an older phone - and said "I don't see a difference". You're a dyed-in-the-wool apologist for the Cult of Apple.
No, I said that, other than the boot-up and the one iTunes "test", there was NOTHING ELSE that was 2-3 times slower.
Bigger battery for the Samsung phones. Nearly 4 times the pixels. More efficient OS and graphics subsystem. Add it all up - you get more battery life with the Samsung units, but it's not scaled 1:1 for the size of the batteries.
Bottom line: The iPhone 7 came up short. Woefully so. Live with it.
But what about Ars Technica's test, that came to a different conclusion. Are they "dyed-in-the-wool apologist(s) for the Cult of Apple", too?
"Handy" is pseudo-English originating in Germany. I'm guessing Anonymous Coward comes from a German speaking country.
It's quite an interesting linguistic phenomenon, happens in a number of countries- an almost-English sounding word will appear in a foreign language "Anglicising" that language somewhat, even though the word doesn't exist in native English. Handy is far from the only example.
Well, since English is SUCH an etymological soup, which is both its strength and its weakness, it doesn't surprise me.
Perhaps you missed last week's reports of exploding washing machines. Entirely unrelated to the phone-battery problem, of course, but the last thing a large consumer-goods manufacturer needs is another reason for people to post dumb jokes about them on social media...
Considering that Samsung's advice to their washing-machine customers is to either wash everything on Delicate, or shut the machine OFF, I'd say the jokes aren't so dumb...
BTW, this is exactly what happens when cost-reduction becomes THE major engineering criteria. They undersize the motors, undersize the brushless motor drives, undersize the power supplies, undersize the wiring harnesses, and BOOM!!!
Not a bad idea to see how the imminent introduction of Sony shakes up the market and all the other players... and if the vive concept of the VR space you can walk in beats out Chair VR, or even if something like the Hololens comes along with a true consumer version... or even maybe some dark horse comes out of no-where.
Well... Apple has been snapping-up VR/AR engineering talent for over a year, now...
I think most assumed that rather than being backdoored, voting machines were simply half-assed. Hanlon's Razor and all that.
Now, if we could only convince everyone that the voting machines were really slot machines or ATMs, we might not only get more people to vote, but the software would be more secure, too.
Well, I don't really know how it could be LESS secure...
Er what? Apple doesn't want to be the one that law enforcement has to go to every time they need another phone to be cracked. How many times in how many jurisdictions a day would that be? Also that would apply to any country not just the US. I wouldn't want to be that custodian.
That's certainly a factor; but I know from being an Apple aficionado since 1976 that they just don't like the gummint much. Perhaps it comes from having their R&D labs raided by the FBI way back when, when it was rumored that Woz and John Draper (a/k/a Captain Crunch) were working on a digital "Blue Box" peripheral for the Apple 1...
Rumor has it that some stuff was confiscated. But I've never gotten Woz to confirm (or deny) the story. But after a few minutes of Google-fu, it looks like this may actually be the real story after all....
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A few weeks ago, when all the Apple Haters were excoriating Apple for removing the 3.5 mm Jack in the iPhone 7, I predicted right here that this would happen within a year after the iPhone 7 came out.
Guess Samsung is still all about copying Apple ( yet again) after all...
Now watch as all the Fandroids rush to post that the iPhone wasn't first to eliminate the 3.5 mm Jack, which I also pointed out while those same people tripped over each other to say that the iPhone was completely ignoring their users, engaging in vendor lock-in and money grabbing (when Apple supplied a free adapter with the phone!) etc...
Samsung was just more efficient in packing it all in
No, Apple just "wasted" a LOT of space on that haptic feedback thing.
Oh, and that's while pushing nearly 4 times the pixels
For what users? Eagles??? Just because you can do a thing...
Face it, the iPhone 7 came up short in battery life.
Not so much, according to the second chart on the Ars test. IIRC, it was neck and neck with the S7. So, meh...
Yeah, the S8 will be out by then
Don't doubt it; since Samsung seems to push out anything that sits for more than 30 seconds on the lab-bench. (53 models in ONE year, FFS!)
What, the Ars Technica test where the Samsung S7 trumps the iPhone 7, just like we see here? That test?
What "Trumping"? First off, the iPhone 7 vs. the S7 isn't a fair fight. The S7 is larger in all dimensions, and has almost twice as much battery capacity. It SHOULD be getting like TWICE the battery-life; but instead, it ekes out a measly 44 extra minutes, or about 6%. Wow. That means NOTHING in real-world use; likely more like around 15-20 mins., depending on what you are doing. Talk about a battery-hog! Meanwhile, as Apple starts fine-tuning the OS (GCD?) to push more and more threads to the low-power cores, and does its usual re-nice-ing and other optimizations to balance the CPU load better, mark my words, we'll see that "Trumping" start going the other way, BIG time.
And just imagine what the battery life of the iPhone 7 would be if it had that much battery (and how much longer it would take to charge!).
By the way, the iPhone 7 Plus is already "Trumping" EVERY other phone that Ars tested, and that's BEFORE iOS starts being optimized for lower power consumption...
Come back around iOS 10.3 or so, and we'll talk. Meanwhile, those S7s will still be on the same ol' nasty, insecure Marshmallow, for better or worse. At least Marshmallow FINALLY has a better Permissions model though; so I guess there is that...
Lol ok slugger. appleinsider I'm sure is a reliable and non biased source of tech info. I'm sure you won't find any articles there about how Android soon far surpassed ios and then apple started borrowing features from Android. Keep those apple binders on.
Oh, I never said there wasn't back-and-forth between the two platforms AFTER they were both established; but that simply sidesteps the fact that Android as you know it wouldn't exist without first copying iOS.
what a simple world you live in.
Things are often simple when you reduce them in the crucible of logic.
Also true when you lack intellectual capacity or motivation.
So sez the big, bad Anonymous COWARD.
I can tell you why, apple sucks at writing software. Plain and simple.
Based on what, exactly? The fact that they like to get some real-world data before they spend time on optimization of parts of the OS that really don't matter?
Or (more likely) simply because you are an Apple-Hater?
what a simple world you live in.
Things are often simple when you reduce them in the crucible of logic.
Then explain why Apple all but waited for a certain incident until they'd embrace encryption. An incident involving rich people.
WTF are you blathering on about?
In addition, explain why Apple refused to help in an incident that would have given benefit to tons of ordinary people. That one.
Excuse me? Are you talking about the San Bernadino bullshit the FBI was selling? Yeahrightsure.
You've never put up actual rest results showing what you claim. And you're the guy who saw the video PROOF that iOS versions got slower and slower (2-3 times slower) on an older phone - and said "I don't see a difference". You're a dyed-in-the-wool apologist for the Cult of Apple.
No, I said that, other than the boot-up and the one iTunes "test", there was NOTHING ELSE that was 2-3 times slower.
Bigger battery for the Samsung phones. Nearly 4 times the pixels. More efficient OS and graphics subsystem. Add it all up - you get more battery life with the Samsung units, but it's not scaled 1:1 for the size of the batteries.
Bottom line: The iPhone 7 came up short. Woefully so. Live with it.
But what about Ars Technica's test, that came to a different conclusion. Are they "dyed-in-the-wool apologist(s) for the Cult of Apple", too?
Don't worry. I haven't revealed anything :)
Thanks!
Nice strawman.
No. Nice observation.
It is your observation that someone who is critical of Apple can only be a "Fandroid"? And that is a "nice" observation?
No. I can count to two. And that's the number of viable Smartphone platforms.
So if you don't like Apple, it is a almost-sure foregone conclusion that you do like Android. That makes you a "Fandroid".
Reputation scarring? With today's attention span? Fucking please. A reputation destroyed today will be utterly forgotten about tomorrow.
Maybe; but I'll bet the iPhone 7 got a bit of an unexpected sales bump from the Samsung Explode-a-Phone...
Well, "the Street" seems to think so,
Came to say just this thing. We'll see if it's just as good as Swap Meet :)
SHHHH! Don't tell me! I have the most recent 4 episodes DVR'ed I need to watch!
"Handy" is pseudo-English originating in Germany. I'm guessing Anonymous Coward comes from a German speaking country.
It's quite an interesting linguistic phenomenon, happens in a number of countries- an almost-English sounding word will appear in a foreign language "Anglicising" that language somewhat, even though the word doesn't exist in native English. Handy is far from the only example.
Well, since English is SUCH an etymological soup, which is both its strength and its weakness, it doesn't surprise me.
Handy...noun....Craigslist <----- this was the key word that you overlooked.
Ah, NOW I get it!
They've been also quite favorable to the well-heeled, which is why they dragged their feet on encryption until relatively recent.
You're full of shit.
I really don't want to be friends with the people I do business with on Craigslist...
Getting a handy for a used toaster-over is not the foundation of a long term friendship.
Since when is "handy" a noun? Is that a British thing?
Nice strawman.
No. Nice observation.
Perhaps you missed last week's reports of exploding washing machines. Entirely unrelated to the phone-battery problem, of course, but the last thing a large consumer-goods manufacturer needs is another reason for people to post dumb jokes about them on social media...
Considering that Samsung's advice to their washing-machine customers is to either wash everything on Delicate, or shut the machine OFF, I'd say the jokes aren't so dumb...
BTW, this is exactly what happens when cost-reduction becomes THE major engineering criteria. They undersize the motors, undersize the brushless motor drives, undersize the power supplies, undersize the wiring harnesses, and BOOM!!!
Not a bad idea to see how the imminent introduction of Sony shakes up the market and all the other players... and if the vive concept of the VR space you can walk in beats out Chair VR, or even if something like the Hololens comes along with a true consumer version... or even maybe some dark horse comes out of no-where.
Well... Apple has been snapping-up VR/AR engineering talent for over a year, now...
...Straight out of this season's "Halt and Catch Fire"...
How innovative, those Facebook people!
I think most assumed that rather than being backdoored, voting machines were simply half-assed. Hanlon's Razor and all that.
Now, if we could only convince everyone that the voting machines were really slot machines or ATMs, we might not only get more people to vote, but the software would be more secure, too.
Well, I don't really know how it could be LESS secure...
However if the customer does not to use iCloud (which some do), they are not obligated to turn over data they don't have.
One of the reasons that, despite my implicit trust in Apple, I do not use any iCloud services, iTunes Match, etc. None of it.
Er what? Apple doesn't want to be the one that law enforcement has to go to every time they need another phone to be cracked. How many times in how many jurisdictions a day would that be? Also that would apply to any country not just the US. I wouldn't want to be that custodian.
That's certainly a factor; but I know from being an Apple aficionado since 1976 that they just don't like the gummint much. Perhaps it comes from having their R&D labs raided by the FBI way back when, when it was rumored that Woz and John Draper (a/k/a Captain Crunch) were working on a digital "Blue Box" peripheral for the Apple 1...
Rumor has it that some stuff was confiscated. But I've never gotten Woz to confirm (or deny) the story. But after a few minutes of Google-fu, it looks like this may actually be the real story after all....
That's what judges are for. If you don't trust your judges, then that's what needs the fixing.
Ooooo! That's a "Don't get me started" subject, for sure...