Still supports Right-Click "Run Anyway"; so quitchetbitchin'. This is actually MUCH safer for ALL Users, while still allowing Power Users to do what they need to.
I know my Mac Pro won't stop working....but I paid a premium for the machine and in a couple of years time, some of the Mac only software I use may not even run on El Capitan, despite the machine itself having higher specs than a lot of the "newer" machines that can run latest software.
Although I do agree that it sucks when a still-functioning Mac (or iOS device) falls off the end of the list (I finally just "lost" support for my iPhone 4s and iPad2), and in this particular case it SEEMS unwarranted, I also believe that the Hackintosh community will come out in short order with a Bootloader and whatever KEXTs are necessary to get your baby rockin' Sierra. After all, the same things that make this model SEEM like it ought to run Sierra will make it all the easier for someone to actually make that happen.
Samsung has their own apps, which receive updates separately from the OS, one of which does interact with the power management of the device. I get at least one Samsung app update per week on my S7 Edge, but I've only seen 2 (or has it been 3 now?) OS updates since the phone came out.
Updates were a bit more frequent on my Nexus 6 only because I downloaded them directly from Google and applied them manually.
Ok, well I guess that does make sense; since they were contemplating changing an OS UI Widget, rather than just running an App that pushed a Notification or something (like they shoulda done). But I guess Google already gave them a "pass" on this, anyway.
What is likely happening is that a DC-DC converter is getting yanked into >50% duty cycle and causing subharmonic oscillation. It's piss poor design on Apple's part, as usual.
Or just an unfortunate resonance in an inductor, more likely.
I expect the engineers decided that transient loads of 100% were acceptable because it takes time to saturate the ground, and most things a user will do won't saturate the CPU like that.
You're an idiot. Most things that "saturate" a ground (causing "ground bounce") in a digital system are caused by instantaneous current draw from di/dt from rapidly-switching signals, not some sort of hypothetical "buildup" of anything over time.
That's actually an explanation for their use of the word courage. It takes courage to release a product full of design flaws, masked by removing features you can't get working.
I would guess they chose an inductor too small and it is vibrating.
It's definitely a resonance in the flyback of the internal SMPS. They had this same issue in some G5 towers back in the day, and they had power supplies you could weld a car bumper with!
They just have a supplier problem with those inductors. Maybe too small; but hopefully just an unfortunate mechanical resonance.
Having said that, if there is design issue that Apple has been guilty of in the past, it is underrating power supplies. Time will tell.
Wait, who is asking for thinner? The thing is already so thin that I could snap it in half with my bare hands. How about going thicker and doubling the batter life?
The iPhone 7 is NOT thinner than the previous model. But they found a way.(low power cores, a slightly higher-capacity battery and wicked-good power management) to increase battery life by two hours without making the phone fatter, too.
That's great if they can somehow guarantee that every Note 7 gets the update. Talk to the carriers about that one.
But Samsung has already proven that Android Software Update "difficulty" to be the lie I always suspected it was, by announcing last week that they were going to PUSH an update DIRECTLY to the GN7s in the field to restrict the battery charging to 60%.
But then how do you know if the battery checker app is working correctly? Really, Samsung should have a firmware update that shows the battery RED if there is a problem, plus a separate app that just tells you if the battery is defective model (or not). That separate app only needs to run once.
Why doesn't the damn App just raise an Alert or Notification or whatever Android calls a pop-up message; or even just a stupid page with a big green Checkmark or Big Red "X"?
WTF is all the damn drama about? Just NOTIFY the Luser, FFS! If Google says it is a violation of its OEM agreement to dick with the Battery Indicator color, then just pick one of the other dozen or so methods to impart information.
And my counter example is that the entire point of this article is that they're not doing any of that for this problem.
If you bring in a phone that looks like a boomerang from you sitting on it for two years, then perhaps you shouldn't expect warranty service.
BTW, my 2 year old iPhone 6 Plus is absolutely fine, touch-wise, even though I dropped it face down about 1 1/2 years ago onto a hard floor from about 2 meters up and completely shattered the glass front. Looks absolutely hideous and scary; but I'm too cheap to have a new "digitizer" put on it when it is still working fine.
Only an Apple shill would use a term such as "logic board" when normal humans use "motherboard".
Generally, in a laptop or other embedded device (like a phone), it is more properly referred-to as a "logic board"; because a "motherboard" is a part in a conventional desktop computer configuration that peripheral-cards plug into. Since the vast majority of laptops and other embedded devices really don't have peripheral slots, the term "motherboard" is less-correct than "logic board" (which is a more generic term).
I wish this would stop being reported as an "Engineering Flaw". It is a MANUFACTURING Flaw. Period.
Just like multiple laptops and other devices have had issues with coplanarity between the PCB and various BGA chips, causing these same intermittent issues, it looks like Apple is not immune.
But the blame lies on the Contract Manufacturer, who is either not rejecting PCBs that are warped, and/or is not CLEANING them properly, and/or has problems with their solder paste or reflow soldering processes.
As I said, "Manufacturing", not "Engineering", is at fault here.
I sure hope that all the Governments that are raking through Apple's books trying to find a hidden payday, take some time out to look at all the other multinational corporations that have been doing exactly the same thing for as long, and often longer, than Apple.
General internet use will use less battery than streaming music, which is a constant transfer, so now we're down to 10 hours a day. You're going to use your phone for other things as well, so let's be conservative.. 8 hours a day. Now if you listen to music for an 8 hour work day you're going home with a sliver of battery at the end of the day. And this is when the phone is new, two years down the road you're only going to have 70-80% capacity left.
Nice try. On my 2 year old iPhone 6 Plus, I can stream music from Apple Music literally all day at work using WiFi, and it only eats about 10-12% of my battery. I was mightily impressed myself, actually, because I expected at least twice that. But that's the truth. And the iPhone 7 (and 7 Plus) are supposed to have about 2 extra hours of battery life over the iPhone 6s (and 6s Plus), which I think had about the same battery life as the 6 and 6 Plus, IIRC.
And keep in mind that Apple now has four cores, two of which are special "low power" cores, in the 7 series' SoC; so I wouldn't be surprised to get fairly phenomenal battery-life for just streaming music. Yes, I know the RF parts use the same power regardless; but the overall power drain will still be much lower when the phone decides to use the low-power cores; which it certainly could do while simply streaming.
The FAA had previously said they can't ban it till the CPS recalls it. That made little sense to me but I could see why that might be the case. The FAA can't just pass judgement on things they are qualified to pass judgement on. And when does it graduate from anecdotal?
But as you point out, e-bay Replacement Batteries are notorious for not meeting their own specs and deteriorating rapidly. It does make you wonder.
But in this case we had 43 reported fires in a relatively small market in a very short time. The do seem to be bombs.
What I wonder about is why half charing them makes any difference. Half a bomb? they said the mechanism was terminals pressed too close together. SO what difference does the charge level make
Does anyone in the government understand statistics rather that just protect their paycheck?
It's like please take out an insurance claim prior to boarding the plane just in case your spontaneously combust.
You do realize all the Chinese replacement batteries that have been replaced of people that have been boarding planes for the past 10 years is like 10,000 times the number of GN7's that have trickled onto the market?
Although I tend the same way about (usually bootleg) "genuine" batteries that really aren't (see, also, "capacitor-gate" of early 2000's), I must point out the empirical evidence against your position, or else there would be a constant drumbeat of news stories about those knockoff batteries catching fire/exploding, to the point where the GN7's battery issue would have just been lost in the noise of competing similar stories.
But no. What we have instead is a bad combination of battery and charging profile, or perhaps an especially piss-poor battery design, that has created a firestorm (pun intended) of clustered news stories.
Hey dumb-ass, your Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Apple iPhone, Apple Mac etc. can do exactly the same, and it does, as part of transparent "security" updates. This does not make Xiamoi devices less secure, nor other devices more secure.
I agree that they COULD do stuff like that in league with nefarious forces (and in the case of Windows 10, it seems all but a known fact); but at least in the case of Apple, they have such an intense, longstanding, core, distaste for such activities, that I must insist on credible proof of same.
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I see in System Preferences, Security & Privacy, General, that Apple no longer thinks you have the right to run downloaded programs.
The "( ) Anywhere" option has been completely hidden.
WTF !
Thankfully there is a way to disable this crap.
Reference: http://apple.stackexchange.com...
Still supports Right-Click "Run Anyway"; so quitchetbitchin'. This is actually MUCH safer for ALL Users, while still allowing Power Users to do what they need to.
I know my Mac Pro won't stop working....but I paid a premium for the machine and in a couple of years time, some of the Mac only software I use may not even run on El Capitan, despite the machine itself having higher specs than a lot of the "newer" machines that can run latest software.
Although I do agree that it sucks when a still-functioning Mac (or iOS device) falls off the end of the list (I finally just "lost" support for my iPhone 4s and iPad2), and in this particular case it SEEMS unwarranted, I also believe that the Hackintosh community will come out in short order with a Bootloader and whatever KEXTs are necessary to get your baby rockin' Sierra. After all, the same things that make this model SEEM like it ought to run Sierra will make it all the easier for someone to actually make that happen.
North Korea will save us. They've been testing their missiles for a while now. I'm sure they'd be happy to nuke it into oblivion.
With their non-luck at rocketry, I'd rather take my chances with the Chinese uncontrolled re-entry hitting my house...
Wow you spend enough time with a whiny iphone and you start to sound that way yourself.
I detected no "whining" in my post. Rather, I was simply calling an idiot an idiot, idiot.
Samsung has their own apps, which receive updates separately from the OS, one of which does interact with the power management of the device. I get at least one Samsung app update per week on my S7 Edge, but I've only seen 2 (or has it been 3 now?) OS updates since the phone came out.
Updates were a bit more frequent on my Nexus 6 only because I downloaded them directly from Google and applied them manually.
Ok, well I guess that does make sense; since they were contemplating changing an OS UI Widget, rather than just running an App that pushed a Notification or something (like they shoulda done). But I guess Google already gave them a "pass" on this, anyway.
What is likely happening is that a DC-DC converter is getting yanked into >50% duty cycle and causing subharmonic oscillation. It's piss poor design on Apple's part, as usual.
Or just an unfortunate resonance in an inductor, more likely.
I expect the engineers decided that transient loads of 100% were acceptable because it takes time to saturate the ground, and most things a user will do won't saturate the CPU like that.
You're an idiot. Most things that "saturate" a ground (causing "ground bounce") in a digital system are caused by instantaneous current draw from di/dt from rapidly-switching signals, not some sort of hypothetical "buildup" of anything over time.
That's actually an explanation for their use of the word courage. It takes courage to release a product full of design flaws, masked by removing features you can't get working.
What a laugh!
Maybe they wanted to save a few cents and didn't get the inductors dipped in qdope/lacquer/glue/whatevertheyusetostopthewiremoving
Or maybe the supplier cut corners and didn't pot the coils enough.
I would guess they chose an inductor too small and it is vibrating.
It's definitely a resonance in the flyback of the internal SMPS. They had this same issue in some G5 towers back in the day, and they had power supplies you could weld a car bumper with!
They just have a supplier problem with those inductors. Maybe too small; but hopefully just an unfortunate mechanical resonance.
Having said that, if there is design issue that Apple has been guilty of in the past, it is underrating power supplies. Time will tell.
Wait, who is asking for thinner? The thing is already so thin that I could snap it in half with my bare hands. How about going thicker and doubling the batter life?
The iPhone 7 is NOT thinner than the previous model. But they found a way .(low power cores, a slightly higher-capacity battery and wicked-good power management) to increase battery life by two hours without making the phone fatter, too.
That's great if they can somehow guarantee that every Note 7 gets the update. Talk to the carriers about that one.
But Samsung has already proven that Android Software Update "difficulty" to be the lie I always suspected it was, by announcing last week that they were going to PUSH an update DIRECTLY to the GN7s in the field to restrict the battery charging to 60%.
But then how do you know if the battery checker app is working correctly? Really, Samsung should have a firmware update that shows the battery RED if there is a problem, plus a separate app that just tells you if the battery is defective model (or not). That separate app only needs to run once.
Why doesn't the damn App just raise an Alert or Notification or whatever Android calls a pop-up message; or even just a stupid page with a big green Checkmark or Big Red "X"?
WTF is all the damn drama about? Just NOTIFY the Luser, FFS! If Google says it is a violation of its OEM agreement to dick with the Battery Indicator color, then just pick one of the other dozen or so methods to impart information.
you're left with hundreds of background threads keeping your CPU wake and making your battery life shit
Wait! Wasn't that what the Fandroids all kept calling "True Multitasking", and made fun of iOS because it suspended most "backgrounded" Apps?
Let me rephrase that. We'll never know whether it would have had an impact on their sales.
Maybe not. God forks the Universe every time a butterfly flaps its wings.
But as I said earlier, if history in this Multiverse is any judge, it won't have a negative impact...
Broken phones means angry customers means going to the competitor's product.
And then getting burned!
(See what I did there?)
And my counter example is that the entire point of this article is that they're not doing any of that for this problem.
If you bring in a phone that looks like a boomerang from you sitting on it for two years, then perhaps you shouldn't expect warranty service.
BTW, my 2 year old iPhone 6 Plus is absolutely fine, touch-wise, even though I dropped it face down about 1 1/2 years ago onto a hard floor from about 2 meters up and completely shattered the glass front. Looks absolutely hideous and scary; but I'm too cheap to have a new "digitizer" put on it when it is still working fine.
Only an Apple shill would use a term such as "logic board" when normal humans use "motherboard".
Generally, in a laptop or other embedded device (like a phone), it is more properly referred-to as a "logic board"; because a "motherboard" is a part in a conventional desktop computer configuration that peripheral-cards plug into. Since the vast majority of laptops and other embedded devices really don't have peripheral slots, the term "motherboard" is less-correct than "logic board" (which is a more generic term).
I wish this would stop being reported as an "Engineering Flaw". It is a MANUFACTURING Flaw. Period.
Just like multiple laptops and other devices have had issues with coplanarity between the PCB and various BGA chips, causing these same intermittent issues, it looks like Apple is not immune.
But the blame lies on the Contract Manufacturer, who is either not rejecting PCBs that are warped, and/or is not CLEANING them properly, and/or has problems with their solder paste or reflow soldering processes.
As I said, "Manufacturing", not "Engineering", is at fault here.
I sure hope that all the Governments that are raking through Apple's books trying to find a hidden payday, take some time out to look at all the other multinational corporations that have been doing exactly the same thing for as long, and often longer, than Apple.
General internet use will use less battery than streaming music, which is a constant transfer, so now we're down to 10 hours a day. You're going to use your phone for other things as well, so let's be conservative.. 8 hours a day. Now if you listen to music for an 8 hour work day you're going home with a sliver of battery at the end of the day. And this is when the phone is new, two years down the road you're only going to have 70-80% capacity left.
Nice try. On my 2 year old iPhone 6 Plus, I can stream music from Apple Music literally all day at work using WiFi, and it only eats about 10-12% of my battery. I was mightily impressed myself, actually, because I expected at least twice that. But that's the truth. And the iPhone 7 (and 7 Plus) are supposed to have about 2 extra hours of battery life over the iPhone 6s (and 6s Plus), which I think had about the same battery life as the 6 and 6 Plus, IIRC.
And keep in mind that Apple now has four cores, two of which are special "low power" cores, in the 7 series' SoC; so I wouldn't be surprised to get fairly phenomenal battery-life for just streaming music. Yes, I know the RF parts use the same power regardless; but the overall power drain will still be much lower when the phone decides to use the low-power cores; which it certainly could do while simply streaming.
Halt and Catch Fire Seven.
The FAA had previously said they can't ban it till the CPS recalls it. That made little sense to me but I could see why that might be the case. The FAA can't just pass judgement on things they are qualified to pass judgement on. And when does it graduate from anecdotal?
But as you point out, e-bay Replacement Batteries are notorious for not meeting their own specs and deteriorating rapidly. It does make you wonder.
But in this case we had 43 reported fires in a relatively small market in a very short time. The do seem to be bombs.
What I wonder about is why half charing them makes any difference. Half a bomb? they said the mechanism was terminals pressed too close together. SO what difference does the charge level make
I wondered the exact same thing.
Does anyone in the government understand statistics rather that just protect their paycheck?
It's like please take out an insurance claim prior to boarding the plane just in case your spontaneously combust.
You do realize all the Chinese replacement batteries that have been replaced of people that have been boarding planes for the past 10 years is like 10,000 times the number of GN7's that have trickled onto the market?
Although I tend the same way about (usually bootleg) "genuine" batteries that really aren't (see, also, "capacitor-gate" of early 2000's), I must point out the empirical evidence against your position, or else there would be a constant drumbeat of news stories about those knockoff batteries catching fire/exploding, to the point where the GN7's battery issue would have just been lost in the noise of competing similar stories.
But no. What we have instead is a bad combination of battery and charging profile, or perhaps an especially piss-poor battery design, that has created a firestorm (pun intended) of clustered news stories.
See what I mean?
Installed or downloaded? Android scans apps, even side loaded ones, during installation for malware. This app has been on the banned list for ages.
So 500k downloads could equal zero installs.
But you know it doesn't.
Hey dumb-ass, your Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Apple iPhone, Apple Mac etc. can do exactly the same, and it does, as part of transparent "security" updates. This does not make Xiamoi devices less secure, nor other devices more secure.
I agree that they COULD do stuff like that in league with nefarious forces (and in the case of Windows 10, it seems all but a known fact); but at least in the case of Apple, they have such an intense, longstanding, core, distaste for such activities, that I must insist on credible proof of same.