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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Why A7? Seriously if Apple wants to continue these long upgrade cycles they should put a 14 nm processor in there to keep the Touch relevant for a couple of years. If it wasn't for Apple ignoring the platform…
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BFD. When will the Note 5 actually come out? Last year, Samsung announced the Note 4 before the iPhone 6/6 Plus. Yet, the Samsung arrived more than a month after the new Apple models did. Even if Samsung announces in August, will the Note 5 actual…
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Home Sharing was nicer on a feature checklist than in actual usage. Could never get it to work reliably on all of our iOS devices. It would take about 10 minutes for the library and playlists to load up, and even after doing all of that, the playbac…
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Yep, I started noticing the issue this morning as well. It seems to primarily affect compilations in which I designated an "Album Artist" such as DJ mixes. But, the glitch shows up in all sorts of random places. It's irritating, because with those a…
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On T-Mobile as well, and I have not seen any BSOD or random restart issues. In fact, since updating my 5s to iOS 8 last September, I've had only one respring occurrence. The carrier update will always ask if you want to install the update. The cur…
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If we follow the autonomous car rumors, Carnegie Mellon University has one of the leading robotics research teams in the world. They had recently teamed with Uber to develop self-driving cars. But, now the rumors are flying fast that Uber backstabbe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan It will be kind of weird if Apple's streaming music service has a smaller selection of music than iTunes store does. Think about how Netflix has a larger selection of titles available through their disc ma…
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Wonder how iTunes Match fits in with this picture. Will that end up as another abandoned Apple service, or will Apple continue to offer a music locker option alongside the streaming service? About one-third of my music on iTunes Match is not avail…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 The ipod touch display alone cost almost $45 The iphone5 cost about $200 to make not counting R&D amortization. I dont think the cost parts went down more than 30% since then so it would cost about $13…
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I seriously doubt Apple would use the 32-bit A6 processor on a refreshed iPod touch! They would likely go with the A7 at a minimum because the rest of the iOS product line will complete the transition to 64-bit this year. Quote: Originally Post…
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Apple acquired HopStop in summer 2013. HopStop was a decent app for transit directions that was available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. No surprise that after the acquisition, Apple pulled the Android and Windows versions. With the acquisit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iaeen Launching the phone app vs launching the contacts app isn't an extra step. It's a different step that takes an identical amount of effort to achieve the same result. Launch Phone app, tap "Contacts" tab to vi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by noivad When I see this, I think of the fact that Apple is also guilty of this (as mentioned), and at least 1/4 of the 16GB model’s storage is dedicated to iOS and its non-essential apps. I counted 26 apps I could do w…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iaeen What extra step? The contacts app is literally exactly the same as the phone app except it has the keypad, favorites, recents, and voicemail tabs removed. It adds zero extra functionality; it only duplicates …
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Quote: Originally Posted by iaeen Actually, I never understood why they added a contacts app to the iPhone. On the original iPhone you just go to the contacts section of the phone app. That's still what I do today. Not everyone uses the phone …
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For all of Samsung's propaganda about paring down the useless features, they give it all back by inviting third-parties to stuff the GS6 with adware. If Whatsapp indeed requires access to your contacts just to delete the app, that says all that nee…
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High price does not equal high end. B&O is a textbook example of this. They pack a lot of gimmickry into their product lines. Some of it sounds decent. But, you're paying more for the brand and the styling than the actual sound quality. Or…
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Surprised that nobody's drawing more from the Firefox example. Changing the default browser on Firefox instantly decreased Google's search share among Firefox users from over 80% to around 60%. Firefox's browser share is about 14%, yet switching the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rigorkrad apple has had enryotion since iOS 4.0 and the iPhone 3gs. android delays encryption. and they want you to use their phones for payments go figure. all you android people might as well go back to unenc…
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The encryption is a definite performance hit on Lollipop. That's why the OEMs resisted making full encryption mandatory. The charts below from Anandtech illustrate just how much full encryption slows down the NAND read/write performance. This will r…