jonyo

Ok, but nowhere to you note what the heck "fan-out" packaging technology actually is?

adamc said:

Has the word 'finger' becomes offensive?

Still trying to figure out.

The current headline "Apple's Find my iPhone fingers a phone finagler" is not the original headline, AI changed it already. The original headline the previous posts were complaining about was different, a Jesus reference (the thief's name) and some other nonsense.

To be fair, they left all the prices the same as the previous otherwise-identical lightning devices, as they did with the AirPods Max when they switched it to USB-C, so... what's the problem? It's just a tiiiiiiny update as far as consumer interest and relevance, not really worth having an actual "review" about. Apple didn't put out any marketing material that exaggerates any changes here, so while maybe some were disappointed with the lack of other changes, you can't say Apple promised something and then didn't deliver. No one who already has the lightning version of any of these is going to upgrade specifically get USB-C (if they have any sense), and lightning cables are going to be around from Apple or third party vendors until the end of the time itself, so nobody's getting screwed here.

I hope they can sort it out. Putting the on the back of the phone would be a non-starter for me. The way I use my phone, how I mount it in my car while driving and using it as my music source, the type of case protection I prefer, etc, mean putting the sensor on the back is just not going to work for me. Id that's what they decide to do, I'll just be keeping my iPhone 7 for the time being.

QR codes? I don't even need to know any more technical details, this is already a fail.

wiggin said:

AppleInsider said:

While the exact purpose of the IC remains unknown, iFixit surmises that it's likely a digital-to-analog converter accompanied by an an amplifier and an analog-to-digital converter. Those are necessary to convert digital audio from the Lightning jack to analog sound that can be heard by human ears --?and also to convert input sources, such as sound through the EarPods microphone, into digital audio that the iPhone can use.

Interestingly regarding an analog-to-digital converter, per this article Apple's adapter does not support the mic and controls on 3rd party headsets, rending them useless for phone calls, volume adjustments, etc. I think a lot of people are going to get their new iPhone 7s and be surprised their existing headsets don't work even with the adapter as this limitation is not spelled out in Apple's description of the adapter. Is the method 3rd party headsets use so different from what Apple's own headsets use that it couldn't have support both?

http://www.macworld.com/article/3127211/iphone-ipad/7-solutions-for-the-iphone-7s-lack-of-headphone-jack.html

If this is true, bad form on Apple's part to not be more clear about the limitation.

I've used the Apple supplied lightning-3.5mm adapter with my Bose QC15 headphones and iPhone 7, and everything works fine with the Bose inline controls and mic, buttons for track back/forward, play/pause, calling up Siri, volume up/down, etc, it all works for me.

I'm not expert on what relies on CPU vs GPU, but my creative work is all about (as far as computing power) simultaneous real-time audio DSP and mannnny simultaneous audio streams running at once (basically recording studio in a box type stuff) over thunderbolt, which as far as I can tell comparing some audio-specific benchmarks, don't really use the GPU at all since the scores look exactly the same for the same # of CPU cores and varying #s of GPU cores.

I wanted to get a separate audio-work-only desktop computer to keep stripped down for only the audio work which I currently do with my all-purpose M2 Max MBP (which works great) and I was considering the new M4 Pro Mac Mini since it appears to benchmark higher than my M2 Max on non-graphic stuff, and is way cheaper than the M2 Mac Studio in various flavors, but I think I'm going to wait and see if they come out with a M4 Max (or Ultra) Mac Studio next year sometime, since I'm not in a hurry and want to mega-future-proof the purchase by going big. An M4 Max or M4 Ultra Mac Studio with 64 or 96 GB of RAM is just about where I want to be I think.

Seems like it'll be "cool", but entirely unnecessary. Are the non-Apple foldable phones taking the market by storm? Doesn't seem like it. If Apple comes out with this foldable phone "late to the game", it certainly won't be a mid level offering, it'll be only at the top end, with the price making some sense, at least in Apple's pricing world.

I think it's pretty short-sighted to say things like "oh they get what they deserve if they're illegally downloading torrents" or "I used reputable software, I don't have to worry about this". This could have easily happened with some other piece of mainstream software. Pretty much any software where someone could recompile it with the added malware and also somehow get upload access to the primarily used download server for the software could be compromised like this.

All it took was 3 things:
1. Access to the source code to be altered and recompiled
2. Access to the distribution server to upload the infected version
3. A valid dev cert to use in the recompile, whether the actual dev's cert, or some other one

Beyond that, I'm not knowledgeable enough about this stuff to say how Apple can change things in the future to avoid this sort of thing from happening.