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  • Google Pixel 7 is having reliability issues with buttons & camera lenses

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    Sounds like they might be having some QC issues, either from a parts supplier or during assembly. The manufacturing traffic-jam post pandemic is probably not helping and seems to be causing all sorts of issues and supply problems. At least Apple seems to have weathered that storm reasonably well because of their supply chain mastery . Unlike say a company like Cisco who’ve been quoting ridiculous lead times on some of their network switches and Wi-Fi products.  Obviously buying power really does pay dividends in manufacturing!
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  • Will Apple's 9.7" iPad Pro take a chunk out of Microsoft Windows?

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    There are many ifs and buts with the line of reasoning, but part of the problem with this utopian vision is that parts of iCloud are problematic, unreliable or a bit clunky. It needs more work.

    Still Microsoft can't crow too much, OneDrive is poor and trying to download updates can be variable. The business side is much better but then it cost, a lot!

    The best example of a cloud service is Dropbox. It really is EXCELLENT. I had an inclusive OneDrive subscription with office 365 but chose to continue paying for Dropbox. Both Apple and MS should take a look a that service.

    The other issue with cloud services is that it relies on a great internet connection. It's okay if you have 50Mbit, 100Mbit or even gigabit connections. In the UK that's a big variable IF! Where I live I'm lucky to get 3Mbit down so setting up my wife's new iPad from an iCloud backup took hours upon hours. Send she didn't have that much stuff. And sets downloading music. My new 128gb iPad mini is still going now!

    Even if you have a good internet connection it may not help. At work I compared an FTTC and ADSL connection. Speed test shows that the FTTC is over two times faster than the ADSL connection (55Mbit Down, 7 Mbit up v 22Mbit down v 1Mbit up), with similar latency on both.

    Durng the day on the FTTC connection any access to Apples CDS is limited to 150Kbps - 300Kbps, whereas the ADSL is chugging along at an average 2.5Mbps! Joke! During the evening the FTTC is upto a nice 4-6Mbps.

    And it happens on three other FTTC connections I have tried. The ISP's even admit traffic shaping!

    So until the Internet is much much better in every country (not just Korea and Spain), and ISP's improve their core network, then forget it.

    Apple really need to include a local document file system in iOS 10, a bit like how Dropbox works on OS X etc



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