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"Nobody has the high ground. Nobody is the Devil," Comey said, repeating a previous statement. "In this conversation, we all share the same values." No, we don't.

DesignNev said:

Basically they put this inside the iPhone over a 3.5mm Jack. Not the compromise I think most consumers would like to make.

False dichotomy is unsurprisingly false, the iPhone 7 has OiS, a larger battery, a non-moving home button (decreasing a point of failure) and if I recall a larger earpiece speaker (no claims this is an exhaustive list), all which require more space. Everything is a series of trade offs, not merely "a Taptic Engine for a headphone jack."

The horse is dead, and it's not coming back. 

"They want to have their cake and eat everyone else's too."

Says the people who haven't ever had cake. If you can't make money off of 10 million users paying $10 a month, maybe, just maybe the problem isn't the stores, it's that nobody without a piece in hardware makes anything streaming music, even with the meager artist royalties. Wonder why that is.

repressthis said:

Problematic Example
Criminal picks up an unattended iPhone and prompts Siri to send X amount of money from Square Cash to X account.

I imagine authentication is required but, as of now, I have no confirmation of the matter.

It says there's a Touch ID prompt right in the article. 

rogifan_new said:

People still listen to Britney Spears?

Snark aside, a quick search reveals she was the highest paid woman in music as recently as 2012,and ranked 6th in 2015. 

So (as someone who doesn't have the faintest idea what is considered good or popular music now) I'd guess somebody is, so it looks like a good get. 

entropys said:

How often will it pop up though? Only once, at install or in the settings if you ask, other wise it would get old.
if my iPhone is near new I would want to spend the money in Apple parts, but once they are older, I will seek repair as cheaply as possible. I would not want that message popping up everyday.

According to the MacRumors article "A notification will be displayed on the Lock screen for the first four days a device is used following the repair, and in the Settings app for 15 days after that before being limited to General > About." So not too bad.

DesignNev said:

If we have to remove this "old port" @nolamacguy doen't need, can I have 10% larger battery which by my rough calculations you would get by removing these 2 bits of tech?

While in a vacuum more better life always equals better, in reality for most people 10% more battery life on current phones would mean nothing. If you're the type of person who gets through the day on a single charge, you still get through the day. If you're the type who is a heavier user and has to charge their phone by 2pm, you make it all the way to 2:30 and have to charge it anyway (and if you're the type that needs to charge by 10am, good luck ). The choice isn't just features vs battery life, it's features vs. battery life that would primarily impact the people who don't quite make it through the day on a charge. 

On a personal level I'd rather have 3D touch and the improved Taptic Engine and just buy a battery case if I was in that edge case.

hentaiboy said:

iPhones sometimes catch fire as well you know.

http://bgr.com/2016/10/10/iphone-6-plus-explosions/

Sure, and my refurb JBL Bluetooth headphones that came today presumably can too, judging by the copious amounts of earning stickers on the outside of the shipping box.  It's the nature of the technology to occasionally fail in a dramatic fashion (particularly with physical damage). 

The Note 7 goes far beyond occasional. 

Every time I see one of these I have PowerBook duo w/duo dock flashbacks. 

bluefire1 said:

I so prefer charging my iPhone the old fashioned way: wired.

For me I wore out my iPhone 7 Plus enough (admittedly I did not use best practices for having it plugged in/not using it) that the lighting port was starting to get fairly loose. I'm happy to have my newer iPhone sit on a 5W charger overnight to have 365 less port insertions a year (particularly with phones lasting longer than ever).