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xbit said:

JeanPierreDeElle said:

You say "the UK lost the protection of EU agreements when it left the Union".  it's however more like that since BREXIT the UK is now protected FROM that bunch of un-elected bureaucratic buffoons !

The UK has an unelected second house and an unelected head of state.

And this USB-C regulation is the perfect example of the short-sightedness of leaving the EU. Devices sold in the UK will be affected by this legistlation whether the UK is in or out of the EU. All that's changed is that the UK has lost its seat at the table deciding on the regulations.

And now, tortes are talking about going back to Imperial. Talk about stupid.

JeanPierreDeElle said:

You say "the UK lost the protection of EU agreements when it left the Union".  it's however more like that since BREXIT the UK is now protected FROM that bunch of un-elected bureaucratic buffoons !

Brexit was the stupidest thing they’ve done in a long time. The country is hurting tremulously because of it. You really need to get off your political high horse and look at what happening in the uk niw. It’s not good. A lot of people are regretting it. There’s far more paperwork, tariffs, delays. So much so that tens of thousands of tons of food has been rotting  in trucks while they’re waiting for customs forms to be reviewed. It’s stupid. Fishing rights te being disputed. Because if, we’ll, all the lies the Brexiteers told. pretty much nothing g they promised came true, but nay problem have occurred instead. The country is no w poorer than before. It nay break up because of it. 

It doesn’t matter if the UK doesn’t follow the rule. Can anyone imagine Apple using two different ports? One on phones going to some nations, and a different one going elsewhere? Not going to happen. Apple has almost definitely been studying going to USB C for years. This won’t be something out of the blue for them. There are advantages in transfer speeds. They could implement 20Gb/s. If they had the power budget they could even have Thunderbolt. Lightning is a better physical connector, and slimmer. But with Apple going to slightly thicker phones the past few years, that slight difference isn’t important anymore. It’s also been better sealed against water intrusion, but new USB C connectors are much improved.

so the case for staying with Lightning only in the phone, basically, is becoming less supportable. And this would give Apple the excuse to tell people with lots of Lightning cables and accessories that they were forced to do it, so don’t get ticked off at them, blame the EU instead. That would be a win for Apple.

This seems nice. I don’t know how long it will hold up, being from a new manufacturer. the spec for apple's HDR is state3d wrongly though., the 600 rating is the TV industries HDR. its not really HDR, but as TV OLED screens can't get much above that, for marketing purposes it was decided to call it HDR. that's why apple upped the max brightness from the iMac's 500 nits. so both monitors are the same in that spec.

I did get mine in, after the saga, ahead of time, or at least, ahead of the second delay. I'm pretty happy with it. the camera isn't nearly as "bad" as claimed, about average. the speakers are very good though. the screen quality is excellent, as would be expected. the build quality is what should be expected in a professional class monitor. well actually, its better.

First, everybody pays patent fees to everyone else. It could even end up that Huawei and Qualcomm pay some to Apple. We really don’t know. Intel had a bunch of their own patents, Apple has some on its own, and had bought a slew of them previously. So we should get that out of the way, as these are all FRAND patents anyway.

but, making a modern modem is very difficult. It’s not “just” a radio. It’s a very complex transmitter in both directions. And yes, it does have to meet numerous compliance standards around the world. There are also numerous frequencies it has to operate over. Then there are the antennas, complicated by the new hi bands. Power draw is a problem. A modern modem can draw as much as a high end SoC.

Apple never integrated the modems into their SoC as many Android manufacturers did, because Qualcomm never allowed it. Only Qualcomm;s SoC and modem could be mated together that way. Now, possibly Apple might be interested in doing that, though the major advantage of less power draw has never been a problem for Apple before.

but one thing is true. The very first modem Apple comes out with had better be about as good as the Qualcomm model it will replace, or Apple will never hear the end of it, even if in the real world, the performance is about the same. If there are just a couple of edge cases where it falls slightly behind, it will get ripped.