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cropr said:

tmay said:

I believed the aggressive charging was probably the cause, but since Samsung has stated that it is the battery, I'll have to take their word for it. 

If this is in fact limited to a few lots of product that will be replaced, then Samsung should consider themselves lucky. If, on the other hand, the problem persists at all, then Samsung will be in a deeper hole due to trust. 

According to Samsung, the problem only happens with 1 of their 2 battery suppliers.  This does not make the problem less severe. it gives Samsung an easy way to solve the issue

Not so easy after all: On Monday Korean press published a story that most of the batteries in the Galaxy 7 Note recall mess are made by...Samsung's own battery division. They are going to be using more of the Chinese ATL batteries going forward, assuming volume needs can be met.

Their own batteries...the unkindest cut of all.

teejay2012 said:

Arrrrrgh! Good grief. It is laughable that a judge dismisses common sense as an argument for anything related to patents.

These are courts of law, not boards of arbitration. Common sense isn't at all common and isn't at all universal. That's why they use legal precedent. Further, Appeals courts don't rehear the whole trial, they rule on matters of law appealed from the lower courts.

mobius said:

wozwoz said:

Coca Cola tastes better from a glass bottle. Period. Don't know why people drink it from a can. Or a soda fountain. 

I don't know why people drink it period.

Pretty funny, but also pretty much hyperbolic "truthiness" rather than truth. Ranges from outright incorrect to wildly exaggerated. "Physically the same way heroin works, by the way"--yeah sure, if massively different dose and concentration do not matter in the organic chemistry of your world. Also, a Ford Pinto works the same way as a Ford GT (not including the exploding gas tanks, of course). And other such issues.

Dear Apple,

You never call anymore, and you don't write. The Mansfield move is a positive one, no doubt. And while I don't doubt that Apple has a roster full of qualified people (still not sure about Angela Burberry Lady--trees in the store, really?), I haven't seen any evidence of superstars in the making, or even sufficient staffing. Instead, I see teams moving off of one project onto another to make up time, projects wither and die, rolling along without substantial improvement, or lying there, ill-conceived and fruitless. It's not like you can't afford to go all in. What are you saving it for?

I love cars, and I want an Apple Car to wow me, and I don't even care about the MSRP. But this project is rudderless and listing badly, based on hirings for positions that should have been filled in the first year of development so that the focus was sharper. Maybe Mansfield can figure this out, but right now it's 50-50 that this project fails in two years. It's doable, but not the way it's being done now.

Is there any reason Siri is as limited as she is, after all these years, time wasted while others caught up and went ahead. Why can't she do more? Why doesn't she talk more normally at this point? Who was in charge of that and why are they still employed at Apple?

Who was in charge of the Mac Pro (PRO: Pile of Related Objects), a very innovative, cool-looking cylinder and an absolute mess of cables and components everyone needs to be "Pro" hanging out the back. By the way, Apple, did you not even consider making a separate enclosure / rack (optional at extra cost to be sure) that might be a companion to that cylinder design? You didn't understand your market. I won't even mention the professional software you just drop without adequate notice--the economics or lack thereof are understandable, but at least treat your customers like you value them.

Apple had the patents and ideas for combination tablet/laptops with keyboard covers several years ago. And they did what with that? Surface is crap, as I have personally seen on numerous occasions over the last three years, but you owned the concept and you let morons steal your lunch money. Maybe it's a nothing market that Microsoft has realized to its detriment, or maybe it's the next big thing. 

You brought out Apple Watch before it ripened, because you had nothing else ready to go apparently and hedge funds and corporate investors were getting antsy. I like the idea, but it's only now getting a well-thought out OS that should have been there on Day One. 

Macbooks...well, they're a mess, and overdue, again. I wouldn't go after the $500 market either, but at least bring some upmarket capability to go with the prices. Sometimes, and this is just a thought, you can even go overboard and give your customers more than they expect (retina screens all the way around maybe, or more GBs or RAM). Toss 'em a bone once in a while, you can afford it.

One more thing: could you, for the love of whatever god/s you pray to, give us a "select all, delete" option in iOS Mail. Cripes

maestro64 said:

You know one of the 20,000 new regulations the Obama administration put in place in the last 8 yrs includes ones about electric cars which will require them to make ICE motor noise while they are on the roads driving. Why they are afraid stupid pedestrians might get hit without having some sort of audio cues, as well as people losing a sense of how fast they are going without having the motor noise. Your dream of silence is a pipe drive our government made sure of that.

6,113 regulations under Obama in first six years (not eight unless you have a flux capacitor in your BMW), compared to 6,536 under GW Bush for his first six years (per GAO, reported in Politifact). Just so we're not letting Fox hyperbole go unchecked. Bummer, I know (or should I say Bimmer).

Also, the Pedestrian Safety Act of 2010 was a bipartisan bill, passed unanimously in the senate, and 379-30 in the house. NHTSA estimates that there would be 2800 fewer pedestrian and cyclist injuries over the life of each model year of hybrid/electric vehicles if equipped with the sound-generating recommendations, and the EU (admittedly a nanny state) is on a similar track. How valid the injury projections are I don't know, and the slow pace of introduction indicates some uncertainty by the regulators and resistance by the car manufacturers.