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  • iPhone owners will be able to disable CPU throttling in future iOS version, Cook says

    tmay said:
    jony0 said:
    A great move by Apple to assuage all the crybabies. My 6S was crashing at least once a week before the fix and hasn't done it once since the fix. I was very happy and will certainly not touch that switch. Well, I might want to prove a point and try it out one day taking videos at home and having a charger nearby.

    All the whining idiots that will flip the switch and turn back their phones to 'sudden crashing mode' might finally understand that Apple was right all along. But of course there will also be the usual unavoidable complainers that will bitch that their phone now crashes unexpectedly while failing to feel any speed increase. Why, I even suspect we might have some here shortly well before the actual update.
    Curious if you have or would consider a battery upgrade.
    I have indeed. I verified if my phone was eligible for replacement and it was :
    iPhone 6s Program for Unexpected Shutdown Issues - Apple Support

    So I called the nearest Apple Store which is over an hour away and at the time they couldn't / wouldn't confirm if they had any batteries in stock ?!? Which was very odd.
    But then soon afterwards the update came along and fixed the issue so I didn't follow up to see if they were managing the procedure a bit better or more Apple-like, figuring that I would revisit this later on before the program ended to maximise the life of the replacement of course. And here we are, the program is almost irrelevant save perhaps the 29$ fee which I might still be eligible to forego.
    muthuk_vanalingam
  • How to delete the apps left over after an iTunes 12.7 install to regain storage on macOS o...

    Soli said:
    2) A bit of a segue from the article, but my issue with this change to iTunes is that Apple hasn't updated their webpages for iOS apps to support this change. Every time I find an iOS app that I want in Safari on my Mac—which my preferred way to search for apps—it was launching iTunes can't load the iOS App Store which would then launch the website again which at first did this repeatedly. Now they seem to have fixed this but their website still has "View in iTunes" links, which will cause this attention to detail(?) error.
    It's all very inconvenient for me since I now have to send myself the link on iMessage, save in Reader, or keep Safari open so I can open Safari on my iPhone to pull it up via iCloud's Handoff feature. I don't install many new apps these days but this change will likely make me buy even fewer apps.
    You might want to have a look at :
    NoMoreiTunes Safari Extension

    I've been using it for years to prevent iTunes Preview and App Store pages in Safari from launching iTunes. Works as 
    advertised.
    Soli
  • Video: Stop force closing all apps on your iPhone, it's a waste of time

    Marvin said:
    Location apps drain the battery more quickly in the background. Having a map open in the background with the GPS active drains more quickly than with GPS deselected. The following site lists a few social media apps that drain battery in the background:

    http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/03/22/top-five-iphone-battery-hogs/
    Thanks for the list.

    I would add 3 apps to that list, Camera, Tile and SAQ (a local liquor board app with a fidelity card barcode scanning feature).

    I've had the hot phone symptom a few times where it was still hot after many minutes asleep. It was after using Camera, particularly panoramas or videos. I assumed it was uploading to iCloud but it seemed to take longer than expected, yet it also did it with cellular or roaming turned off. Closing the camera app did work but not always. Only a shutdown and restart cooled things off … and stopped the visible power drain as well. I first noticed this about 4 years ago on my 4S and still more recently with my 6S.

    I use 24/7 to monitor my sleep, which uses less than 10% battery life. One morning I had very little battery left and when I checked battery usage, much to my surprise, it registered Tile at 46% in the last 24 hours and around 30% for the last 7 days. I had only opened it for a day or less  … a few days before, while travelling to check if the aging Tiles in my luggage were still responding. I promptly turned its Background Refresh off, yet Tile is still 13% for the last 24 hours and still there in the last week for 23% a few days later, so it is still a huge hog. I’ve now went to Tile’s settings and turn Location to ‘While Using’. If there is still some activity I may just shut its Location off, I don't really need it unless something's gone missing.

    Finally, using the SAQ fidelity card scan at the cash could leave the phone hot a while after since it will understandably crank the brightness up for the scan but won’t always turn the brightness down afterwards, even when going in other apps. Still, I’ve been back from the store 4 hours now and it’s used 15% of my last 24 hours for less than a minute’s worth of actual usage. I don’t remember noticing this bar code scan behaviour with Wallet or even Passbook before it but I’ve only used it a few times. So I can’t say if it’s the API or SAQ’s implementation that went rogue.

    All this to say that there are definitely real use cases of misbehaving apps that need to be shut down every now and then, and some immediately after use. And this is a very small sample size … which includes a ’Stock’ app BTW.

    Soli
  • Apple's Tim Cook says increasing pace of 'iPhone 8' leaks hurting sales

    lkrupp said:
    I remember Microsoft’s tactic. After a startup announced or released a new product Microsoft would immediately announce that they were working on the same thing and that it would be better. Consumers then often waited for the Microsoft product instead of buying the startup’s product. Microsoft would then buy out the now failing startup and release the original product as its own. Evil personified but it worked for a long time, along with the equally evil “embrace and extend” policy that suffocated innovative software.
    Yep. And that was another old technique that Microsoft stole from IBM.
    Back in the 60s during the CDC 6600’s Five Year Reign :

    When [Seymour] Cray’s CDC 6600 streaked ahead in 1964, IBM chief Tom Watson, Jr. was furious. IBM quickly pre-announced faster models of its System/360 computers, drying up CDC’s sales.
    But IBM never actually shipped its “6600 killer,” and CDC president William Norris responded with an antitrust suit.
    loquiturwatto_cobra
  • Rare photos of 'Apple II Forever' media event surface, reveal Apple keynote progenitor

    williamh said:
    I watched the video. Some things are just timeless.      But not that.

    :p LOL … literally … and I'm still laughing, very well put, even the extra spaces gave it comedic timing.

    Yeah the farce is strong in that one. That was the height of cheesy, and I say that affectionately while still giggling. I'm not just talking about the video quality, the oh so 80s Flashdance-ish soundtrack whereby I highly doubt that was Pat Benatar, she has a much more powerful voice. The fashion in hairstyle as well as in clothing is so time bound, and that I would even notice let alone comment about the fashion is a statement in itself. The annoyingly repetitive fast paced flashes were harbingers to the ADHD generation style of music videos. It was all so deliciously awful.

    Even the 1983 Apple Event Dating Game presented a year earlier holds up better in spite of some seriously cringeworthy moments (yeah I’m looking at you ‘Bachelor’ #3). Who knows how the latest keynotes will stand up in 30 years yet I feel their more polished and classical style should fair much better. But then again who’s gonna care anyway. This was fun.

    williamhspheric