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  • Undercharged: iPhone 14 owners complain about lower battery endurance

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    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

  • 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

  • Apple Watch infringes Masimo pulse oximetry patent, rules judge

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    Ok, so Apple cuts a check for how much?
    grandact73lolliverwatto_cobra

  • Apple begins Oscars push for 'Causeway'

    ApplejacsApplejacs
    I wouldn’t count The Greatest Beer Run Ever out just yet.
    entropyswatto_cobra

  • How to make the most of the iOS Calculator

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    lowededwookie said:
    What I love about the Calculator app is that it always gives the correct answer... assuming you haven't "Garbage in Garbage out" it.

    You'd be surprised at how many cheap and nasty calculators give the wrong answer to this simple equation:

    1 + 2 * 3

    Most calculators will give the answer as 9 because they do this:

    1 = + 2 = * 3 =

    So instead of doing the equation as

    2 * 3 = 6 + 1 = 7

    It does

    1 + 2 = 3 * 3 = 9

    I understand why they do this. Cheap calculators don't have memory and thus they have to equals everything out at each point. It's then up to you to get the input correct.

    Which brings me to Calculator in Windows.

    Why is it that when in Basic mode Windows Calculator operates like a calculator that has no memory despite having large amounts of memory available to it? It then works correctly when you turn it into Scientific mode. This means Microsoft purposefully wrote two lots of calculation code for no good reason. That's why Windows is a bloated piece of junk.
    ^^^+1
    watto_cobra