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  • Apple's 'iPhone 8' rumored to top out at 7.5W for wireless charging

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    There is probably an engineering reason like say size of space in the smaller phone than competition and also capacity to dissipate heat. Cause any wave not converted into power becomes heat.
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  • 'iBoot' leak may stem from low-level Apple engineer with ties to jailbreaking community

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    maestro64 said:
    lkrupp said:
    Well, my first question would be how could a “low-level” employee have clearance to access source code, the keys to the kingdom?

    Yeah that is the Billion $ questions, usually source code access is control to what subsystems you work on, only upper level people would have full access to all the code and code branches. There is more to this store which is not being told.
    Low level here obviously means kernel, drivers, firmware , whatever... Has nothing to do with clearance.
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  • Redesigned Apple Watch with larger screen, enhanced battery life and health features due i...

    foggyhillfoggyhill
    Your calculations are way way off. This is a surface yet you increased the dimensions 15% of each sides, and they could change the bezel.

    You can get a bigger screen with just less bezels, so not sure why you get 44 and 48mm, that makes no sense.
    In fact, it's much more probable it will stay the same size with almost no bezel.

    say current size is 1.25 x 1   , if you increase size 5% on each axis, you'd get 1.3175 x 1.05 , thus 10% more surface

    So, even with the same bezel as now, 15% would only be 41mm, 45mm.

    They only need to reduce the bezel 1.5mm to fit that screen in the current 38mm and 42mm format.

    They may get as bigger watch out, but its not probable they'll get rid of the 38mm
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  • Qualcomm asks ITC to block import and sale of Apple iPhone, iPad

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    They lost every single court case everywhere and have quite a shoddy legal leg to stand on.

    I see a stock and sales collapse soon and this is a Gambit before it all comes crashing.

    By the time this is all finished, Apple will bury Qualcom; they're just lucky Jobs wasn't there or it would be very very ugly.
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  • Intel chip kernel flaw requires OS-level fix that could impact macOS performance, report s...

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    In a just world this truly horrendous issue should crash Intel's stock, but probably won't, only Apple seemingly gets any scrutiny for anything even when it is trivial.
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  • Surprise! Spotify now says its Weeknd debut beat out Apple Music

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    That they even have to say that when beating Apple Music should be easy with 4 times more "users" is just a joke.

    When you are explaining, you are losing.

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  • Apple introduces watchOS 5 with enhanced fitness, Siri capabilities [u]

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    techrider said:
    It appears a line has been drawn on the life cycle of an Apple Watch - roughly 3.5 years (assuming you're a 'day one' adopter), regardless of how little or much you spent on the body and strap options (imagine the $10K+ some spent on the first generation gold Edition watch!).  Perhaps a Series 1/2/3 will have longer life cycles. I love my gen 1, and will have to decide if the new features in watchOS 5 are worth parting with $ to abandon an otherwise perfectly functioning device and band.  I'd like to see an Apple Watch in a category of devices Apple supports for at least 5 years.
    The only line drawn is between first gen kind of slow hw and the later one.
    First gen Apple often has shorter support, mostly I guess because it has been in development longer and has less developed manufacturing capacity behind it (they don't know how much they need) and thus often has older CPUs to reduce risks.

    The first Iphone (IOS 1-3 (3 versions)) and Ipad (IOS 3-5 (3 versions)) had a very short support too compared to say the 3GS (IOS 3-6 (4 versions)) and 5s (IOS 7-12 (6 versions)

    The Ipad 2 was shipped with 4.3 incredibly supported until 9.3.5 (6 versions). I expect the Ipad Air 2 shipped with IOS 8 to be supported until IOS 14 at least (7 versions and nearly 8 years).
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  • Apple disputes claims of iOS 'vulnerability' to brute force passcode hack

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    addison said:
    The Israelis have a device that they sell to governments that can access all iPhones including the X at will. In the Uk the police will just snoop your phoes if they wish to and no search warrent is required.
    it's not "at will", they have to fracking decap the god damn chip. Man, I'm tired of such crap.
    And even there, if you have a wacky long passcode, how the hell would they get in that way.

    All ways of getting in depend on bypassing the brute force restriction. The originality of the israeli method that used to work in older phones is that it also allows mirroring the device memory to allow cracking on another device. That can't happen in later phones. 

    Put a god damn string of 3-4 imojis in your passcode and your set for a quasi eternal crack time for whoever gets your device.
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  • Samsung to more than halve OLED production due to slow iPhone X demand, Nikkei says

    foggyhillfoggyhill
    So, same shit as usual, halve from what exactly, Q3 numbers are already half Q1 normally.

    Like I said before, analysts should be prosecuted and jailed for stock manipulations.

    Notice how they didn't get traction on the 16th and now their shoveling it back out again for another go at shorting.

    Considering the S9 will likely tank hard and with overall smart phone sales going down from all other android oem, it's much more that Samsung is going to be in deep doo doo. If Apple decides to go with LG for the next X, it will be even worse.

    Basically, they shove Apples name in there cause saying Samsung will take a hit is not clickbait worthy, lets pull crap outta our ass and make a buck too they say.


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  • Sketchy rumor claims 2018 iPhones will sport both embedded Apple SIMs and standard SIM tra...

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    nunzy said:
     Why doesn't Apple just eliminate the SIM card all together? Apple's skates to where the puck is going to be, not where it used to be.  if Apple eliminated of a SIM card, all the Android phones would do exactly the same thing because all that Android does is copy Apple every time.
    Some of the telco are not playing ball on the sim virtualisation on phones, though I think they're ok with it on some other devices like tablets.
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