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  • Undercharged: iPhone 14 owners complain about lower battery endurance

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    14 Pro Max received on launch day currently at 98%.
    Not on social media or using Carplay, a few games several days a week, mostly reading email, news and AI along with many more texts than phonecalls.

    Have experienced the rare “geez, why is this getting so hot” instances that disappear after an update.

    Rarely use Magsafe, usually use my Satechi to charge to 85% and have hit 100% occasionally but try to catch it before that, trying to maximize battery life by staying between 40-85% charge. Just want to keep it viable until I replace it with a 16 or 17 whichever presents a nice upgrade from this very capable 14 Pro Max.

    I’ve been here on AI since the days of my 4S, then a 6, but I’ve only started posting over the last couple of years when I felt I had something to contribute, not concerned about having a multi thousand # of posts.

    And, as always YMMV.
    Alex1Nmuthuk_vanalingamappleinsideruser

  • Apple Board of Directors shuffle sees Al Gore & James Bell retire

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    sconosciuto said:
    entropys said:
    Moving away from political appointments to sector knowledge is an improvement.  And yes, CEO salaries are obscene.  Does anyone seriously believe Tim Apple wouldn’t do the CEO job if it was one fifth as much (or one tenth)? Their salaries are well past the point the actual amount matters. It is which CEO position it is that matters,  and if it doesn’t, they shouldn’t have the job.
    That’s President Al Gore you’re speaking of and he deserved to be on the BoD.
    Please enlighten us as to his contribution?
    williamlondongrandact73

  • Alleged M4 benchmarks verify Apple's iPad Pro performance claims

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    Just remember when you spec your order that you MUST choose either 1tb or the 2tb option if you expect to realize these nice improvements. The only way you get 16gb of RAM, 256 or 512 only get 8gb.
    williamlondon

  • Apple's Crash Detection saves another life: mine

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    I’m also very thankful for fall detection in my watch. Oh, it works very well! 
    While attending a volleyball tournament that was very entertaining my exuberant  applauding set off the countdown that I felt and cancelled just in time. 
    After that experience, about a year later, I had just left an appointment and was walking to the stairwell to leave the building. While negotiating a perfectly flat linoleum covered concrete floor I failed to lift my foot high enough causing the rubber sole of my right shoe to leave a 9” rubber smear as I plummeted face first onto the floor. I was able to just barely get my “murse” in front of my chest to break my fall as my nose just ever-so-lightly grazed the surface. My watch started counting down as I’m laying there thinking how stupid this must have looked to anyone watching, but the next thought I had was that I needed to respond to the watch and cancel the call to the emergency responder's. Once again with just about 2 seconds to spare I was lucky to cancel the call.
    So, YES, I count myself as someone that has benefited from this APPLE technology, it’s a comfort knowing I have it.
    Bart Ywatto_cobraronnradarthekat

  • M4 24-inch iMac vs M1 24-inch iMac compared -- A muted upgrade for first-adopters

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    I don’t care, 27”, 32”, aww hell 35” iMac would suit me fine. My long-in-the-tooth Intel powered 27” iMac is ready to be passed to its next home. If the new, larger iMac is announced this week, fine, if not then it’s going to be the M4 equipped Mac Studio along with a Studio display next week. I’ll be good for at least the next 5 years with that, probably longer. See how simple that is.
    williamlondonwatto_cobramacike

  • Merry Christmas, from the entire AppleInsider team

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    AI continues to be my daily go-to same as mentioned by others above. 
    Thanks for the work you are doing, I appreciate the effort that the whole crew puts in.
    Best wishes for Happy Holidays and a safe 2025.
    lotonesCurtisHight

  • New iPad Pro rumored to debut with M4 chip

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    A bit of roundabout way to say that the hardware is already here and Apple doesn't need to wait to ship SoCs with more NPUs. Furthermore, they made this decision about 3 years ago, at least. Who knows if these iPP models will come with the M4 SoC though. Kind of a big thing to keep secret. We should expect it to be M3 SoCs.

    +1^^^^
    danox

  • watchOS 11.4 was briefly available, and was pulled by Apple [u]

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    No update for my watch either.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • LG UltraFine 6K Monitor first to connect with Thunderbolt 5

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    Yep, not going to be inexpensive.
    williamlondon