FoodLover

I had previously mentioned it with regard to Samsung and now I have to do the same with regard to Xiaomi, just because this site does not do its homework before publishing articles.

And off course all Apple fans automatically cry copycat and alike!

This is the full statement from Xiaomi:

“As for the in-box charger removal, the announcement is for Mainland China market. Xiaomi will be offering two versions, one with smartphone only, and the other with the smartphone and a separate 55W GaN charger as a bundle, both at the same price.”

It is not about shipping chargers at extra cost and ripping customers as Apple does.

No, Xiaomi is not doing it like Apple. It is following Samsung who did it first by omitting headphones in the packages (Apple copied actually Samsung and went one step further) and offering everyone who wanted it the headphones at no extra cost.

Here is the link:

https://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-mi-11-charger-1188270/

Sorry Apple fans: Apple has not set a trend, it just followed (in your language copied) Samsung but in a negative way. Good that Xiaomi is following Samsung in a positive way.

Thumbs up Xiaomi and Samsung, thumbs down Apple!

rob53 said:

Why? Why all of a sudden is Google portrayed as a good guy? Does Google own rights to all photos stored on Google servers? Thought I read that some place. I believe Facebook does. Is Apple being pressured to do this?

Apple slowly seems to feel the heat from users and start to understand that the strategy of making users’ live hard to switch to other platforms or even to use other platforms in parallel would be ended by a judge/by lawmakers rather sooner than later.

Do you really think Apple is dumb enough to just copy a copy of their own project?

This may not even be a iPhone but a new project. You have this weird idea that Apple is like knockoff Apple manufacturers. THEY ARE NOT.

By claiming that the Fold would be a copy of an Apple's project, you proved that discussions with you do not manke really sense. I've seen a lot Apple fans which is ok. But being fanatic and hateful is not healthy!

ppietra said:

Did anyone notice how they deceitfully play with words?
First they say they are tracking some Data - avoiding saying they are tracking people!
Then they try to seed confusion by saying "how we limit the use of this information if you don't turn on this setting", like if people choose the negative option ("not to track") Facebook will get information.

Well, I have a Galaxy Phone and no Facebook. So FB cannot track where I am. It can just collect data on the owner.

But when I am with iPhone users within the same network, all iPhone users are constantly sharing my location with Apple. Apple knows exactly who is in the same location with whom, independent of whether the others have an iPhone or not.

 https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/new-study-raises-fresh-privacy-concerns-about-apple-and-google-mobile-phones/

 Apple not only collects data about handset activity, but also about handsets nearby. When you use WiFi, the WiFi MAC addresses of other devices on the network are sent to Apple.  When the location toggle is enabled on the handset then the precise GPS location is also included. The WiFi MAC address identifies a device on a WiFi network and so, for example, uniquely identifies your home router, cafe hotspot or office network.  That means Apple can potentially track which people you are near to, as well as when and where. That’s very concerning.

Even Google doesn’t do this. This is scaring. But Apple fans always believe Apple is the good guy. Read the complete study. Apple and Google collect both data, but what Apple does, does nobody else.

flydog said:

mobird said:

I think 9to5mac said it best-
"Opensignal report claims iPhone 12 is slower than almost every Android phone in 5G/4G speed tests"

This is a little disheartening if you bought the iPhone 12 in any configuration. I wonder how far along in the iPhone 12 development cycle that Apple's and Qualcomm's engineers knew they weren't going to achieve anything close to the potential of the modem from Qualcomm? Can some of this be resolved with firmware or software updates or is this all hardware design (RF) shortcomings? Apple's engineers are some of the best and brightest and RF is nothing new to them. Are the modems themselves that are sourced from Qualcomm basically the same (5G) in iPhone 12 models as those in other phone manufacturers who had better results?

Assuming the data in this "report" is accurate (it's not), no human can tell the difference between 44 and 57 Mbps.  It's literally miliseconds of page loading time for a website, and zero difference when streaming video once the video starts.

The problem with this bullshit report is that it is based on tests done by users on their free app. There was no standardized testing conducted (for example, by using all the devices cited in the same area at the same time).  The sample data is made up only of people who selected themselves and performed the tests at different times on different days and at different locations.

I would not question the reports, but I agree that the outcome is simply irrelevant in day-to-day usage for us end users, in particular when considering that these are only average numbers: as Fastasleep mentioned you could also have almost 250 Mb/s on iPhones.

randominternetperson said:

FoodLover said:

This is pretty obvious given the fact that millions of Galaxy s7/8/9 and Note 8/9 with activated SpO2 measurement sensors were already sold in US in the past without an FDA certification.

It's "pretty obvious" how FDA regulations apply to medical and health claims?  Huh.  I guess you have a different sense of intuition than us normal humans.

aderutter said:

I now think it would be good for Apple to get ahead of this and state explicitly and loudly that developers are free to create web-apps and put them in their own web-app store - that these apps do not need to use Apple payment methods, have no Apple commission or require review by Apple or even an Apple developer account to create them. Apple is not preventing anyone creating web-app software to run on an iOS device - as this would be impossible.  

Apple has been hindering web apps for years. The support for PWAs has been just added, most probably because of all anti-competitive law suits around the world.

But Apple is still playing wrong, very wrong. The following is happening under iOS and it has been always this way:

• Our company has been offering a web app with offline functionality (no PWA as it new to iOS, just offline functionality)
• We had been wondering about the unexplainable bad performance when running the offline part of our web app under iOS while under any other platform it was performing good. Important to know: the offline part is heavily using JavaScript
• 2 years ago, because a customer asked for it, we have implemented a wrapper app around our web app
• All of sudden, the offline part was running faster: extremely easy to observe, maybe by 90% faster, just as expected and observed under Windows and Android
• I just checked it again under iOS 14.2.2 and the same:
• The web app running in Safari noticeably slower than the same app running in the wrapper app
• Just to be clear: Safari is slowing down offlineable web apps intentionally

I have simply no resources and time for suing Apple, but this is simply another prove for the anti-competitive behaviour of Apple.

If anyone from Epic or Spotify or any other company is reading this: just try that out yourself and you’ll get new proof for Apple’s anti-competitive behaviour. It is all about forcing everyone into AppStore.

dewme said:

Samsung has a long history of “Mock and Copy” related to Apple so we can expect they will follow Apple’s lead.