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rogifan_new said:

nolamacguy said:

Kuo is "noted" by whom, exactly? AI and MR keep saying that, but you never explain where this adoration supposedly comes from -- other than from yourselves, of course. 

he claims iPhone needs better specs to keep selling? what a load of nonsense. I can't believe even AI doesn't understand why that notion is so wrong-headed. 

even if iphone does experience decline in sales, that insanely high number will still blow away all others, and suck up all industry profit. as usual.

This research note is so laughable. Outside of camera improvements what are others doing that are so mind blowing? 'Wireless' charging? I'm sorry but I don't think someone is not going to buy an iPhone because it doesn't have wireless charging.doesn't really provide any examples but all the rumor sites take his notes as gospel. No doubt the stock will open down tomorrow because of this. 

Let's see... what's left to improve?
- Screen? Larger? No. OLED? Yuck. Maybe at some future point they can squeeze a 4K/8K screen into it for no real improvement.
- Speakers? When was the last time the sound out of a small device sounded good? 1980's are calling.
- Charging? There is room to improve the speed of charging. I think anyone would want their device to charge in less than 60 seconds, wireless charging is a step backwards.
- Removal of headphone jack? Step backwards. Apple would be better off putting two lightning jacks on the iPhone/iPod/iPad
- Wireless headset/earbuds? Don't make me laugh. The batterylife and charging of all bluetooth devices are already rubbish
- Camera, short of Apple making a DSLR body for an iPhone/iPod, Apple could stuff a 1Gpixel camera in the phone and the pictures will be no better than an 8Mpixel camera owing to the sensor noise and compression wasting that extra resolution. What would be cool is Apple coming out with a lightfield camera body for the iPhone so that you could take infinitely refocusable photo or video (even 3D), but this isn't a direction I see Apple innovating in as they don't make their own camera CMOS/CCD sensors.
- Battery life, not likely unless weight/thickness is brought back. Even a "wireless charging" option would add weight because of the induction charger would have to be built into the battery. The only room for improvement here is for the battery to become removable so that it can be hot-swapped.
- Storage Memory life/capacity: NAND memory only lasts 3 years under heavy use. Some future storage material will allow for higher durability and larger capacity, but we've actually hit the ceiling since die-shrinks of NAND reduces durability, and TLC over MLC/SLC has reduced durability that degrades faster at smaller die sizes. A new technology might also use less power
- Memory - LPDDR4 sometime soon
- CPU/GPU - There's still at least one die-shrink left before no additional improvement can be made through shrinks, and as seen with Intel moving away from tick-tock cycles, this means we will soon hit a plateau where all software will be forced to take advantage of multi-cores to get further improvements. So past 2018 you might see a quad-core CPU in the iPhone, but only after some "killer app" actually demonstrates how to properly use it. Nearly all software written since 1983, and is still written today still has no idea how to use multiple cores, and often use wasteful frameworks and libraries because they can, all in the main thread. 

matrix077 said:

rob53 said:

I don't understand why so many people hate and don't trust China. The vast majority of people have no idea how China operates, they only are given news from a ton of unreliable sources and believe it. We continue to buy products manufactured in China while bashing them. The worst part is the US government hasn't been any better than the Chinese government for a long time. I'm not complaining about Obama, I'm complaining about the DHS, FBI, CIA, NSA and all the other three-letter agencies we don't know about. In other words, the US (and almost every country in the world) is no better than China. China could be changing. They might not fear anything going on from inside the country so they're concentrating their spying efforts on other countries, which is what we do in return. The USA is not an angel, it's far from it. China has become a capitalistic country, just like the US. We need to honor them as a country and quit complaining about them when we don't know what's really going on. I can complain about the US because I'm seeing firsthand how corrupt the entire government is all the way down to local police departments. I live in the Pacific Northwest and Seattle's police department is as bad as Los Angeles' was (and continues to be). 

China will never bar Apple from its country because they're not stupid, like certain politicians running for office this year, and they need Apple's money. As for IP theft, that happens all over the world and our own judicial system can't protect Apple's IP from theft. Don't blame the Chinese on this one.

Just because USA is bad doesn't mean China can only be, at worst, as bad. It can be, and is worse than USA. It's a totalitarian state after all.

China is more corrupt and more deadly (regardless if you are talking air, food or just violence) than the USA, but there are other countries that have just as much political corruption but do perfectly fine in other aspects of the corruption index. 

http://www.transparency.org/cpi2015#map-container

#1 Denmark and #2 Finland are the least corrupt.
#9. Canada
#16. USA
#18. Japan
#37. South Korea
#83. China
#119. Russia
Somalia and North Korea tie for 167th out of 168th place.

So China is dead center of the corruption index. 

The problem with the political system, in any country is that there is too much money influencing everything from regulations to asinine behavior laws. China gets a lot of flack because of it's Human Rights record, specificly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_offences_in_China look at how many things result in the death penalty, and yet China still runs around producing deadly-everything... for export. That is the the essence of the problem. Foreign companies want the cheap labor, but not the cost of protecting that cheap labor. If Chinese employees had the same benefits that American workers had, they would cost the same as American workers. Want to see that change? Tell the American politicians to make it illegal to outsource anything to a company that doesn't treat their employees as good as in-house workers. Sure most of the cheap currently china-produced consumer products will become 10 times as expensive, but hey we stop treating employees like garbage.

retrogusto said:

Makes sense. It soes seem odd how long it's been stuck in version ten, presumably because the last letter of "UNIX" resembles the Roman numeral for ten. It's been an endless source of confusion for people who think it's "oh ess ex."

It's not "version 10" in which you'd expect a version 11. It's "X" with a build number eg 10.10, 10.11, and so forth. 

Just like Linux isn't at version 4.4 and Windows isn't at version 10. 

Both Windows 95 and Windows NT 4 were "version 4" but Windows NT5 (2000) was "version 5" and XP, Vista and 7 were all 6.x series.

There is no correlation between a product name and a version number. OS X was the "Windows NT" of the Apple world. New kernel, new drivers, new API's. Software for the old OS still works to a point. 

Firefox and Chrome are at version 40-somethings, doesn't mean that their version numbers are meaningful. Apple's version numbers correlate with hardware product releases which introduce new API's and depreciate some less popular ones. Microsoft's correlate with major API changes (mainly DirectX), and tend to maintain a lot of backwards compatibility in the process.

Linux does neither, and software based on Linux tends to have no correlation to the kernel version. Redhat is still shipping 2.6.x kernel's and current products based on it (eg CentOS 6) are based on that kernel.

Like if it's one thing that's truely annoying in the software world, it's that version numbers are often meaningless except as a compatibility cudgel. "Chrome doesn't support Windows XP anymore"... yeah but that choice is being made by the Chrome developers, there is nothing actually stopping Chrome from supporting Windows XP except the developers unwillingness to maintain the build target. Look at ScummVM, there are literately builds for 68K Atari's, Amiga (OS4) 's and Dreamcast's, While I don't really care that Chrome and Firefox are't supplying builds to obsolete OS versions, I do care that the OS developers feel the need to increment the version numbers for no reason at all, and as a result "version number inflation" happens to "license" products. Like does anyone really need to use the current version of MS Office, doesn't Office 95 have everything you'd ever need? No, probably not, but the average person is being told they need "to upgrade" when they do not.

And that is the entire problem. I consider OS X, any version to be "one version" for the sake of compatibility as I haven't run into anything that doesn't work on 10.11 that used to work on 10.4 except for some Java or Xwindows Unix ports of software. Windows compatibility reaches back into Windows 3.0/3.1 if you have the 32-bit OS, but if you have the 64-bit OS, forget running all 16-bit software and some Win95-era 32-bit software that has 16-bit installers.

Pfft. I'd put money on AMOLED's not going into iPhones. iPod's maybe.

Mainly there are two concerns: Battery life, and Screen life/quality. Currently AMOLED's wear out extremely quickly, if they're don't maintain 80% of the quality in 7 years, then they're not worth switching to. If the battery life isn't improved by at least 20% in the switch, then it also isn't worth it.

proline said:

spice-boy said:

I know I'll get a lot of heat for this but Apple is still a huge corporation (and I believe thankfully a progressive one) which like all corporate giants will use it's muscle to get the most favorable deal for itself, period. Europe unlike the USA is not completely run by business interests and cases like this can still happen. Those of you that thing governments have too much power think again it's international corporations you have most to fear.

Dude, this lawsuit is supporting corporate power- they are saying the poor old phone carriers need more power so the government will use its power to help them. Orange and O2 are just as big an bad as Apple is.

Gee, where did Apple pull out the gun and threaten the carriers? No? 

The carriers did not have to sign, or even renew these contracts. Hell wireless service providers in the US and Canada tended to hide the iPhone in the back, and show you nothing but the highly-profitable Android phones, you know the ones with all the security problems and are obsolete in 8 months so the customer will be back for another. 

If anything Apple saved these very jackass wireless carriers from being overtaken by a competing WiFi technology, and that may still yet happen in major cities.