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anton zuykov said:

"All the necessary information, including your passwords and credit cards had been successfully collected, thank you very much. Support for the app has been pulled, as we see no further interest in supporting this app. Thank you for your cooperation. We are going to focus out attention (cough) elsewhere". -Nuance

And THAT is why, ladies and gentlemen, you should NOT be using third-party keyboards.

Hate to tell you Apple does not allow 3rd party apps to enter that kind of information. It forces you to use their keyboard. Now I wonder if that is true on other platforms.

rob53 said:

ihatescreennames said:

I don’t know much about how cellular connectivity works, but on it’s face 2 gigabits seems like huge overkill.  In the US I normally get around 50 megabits per second download times on AT&T.  Occasionally I’ll see higher speeds than that but nowhere near even 500 megabits per second.

Is there something non-obvious about a 2 gigabits per second modem that would show immediate benefit when that chip becomes available?

wood1208 said:

Modem speed is as good as connected to Cellular network bandwidth. Living in suburban area, many time I even don't get LTE signal so having LTE 2GB speed is worthless. First make LTE network bandwidth consistent and signal available before keep increasing modem speed. And 5G is on it's way.

2Gbps cellular, whether it's LTE or 5G, means nothing if the cellular network isn't designed to handle it. This is like a car being able to go 200 mph. The only legal places to go this fast are on a few race tracks so why design a car that can go that fast? On Verizon, with anything above an iPhone 6, I've seen speeds above 100Mbps but the conditions have to be perfect. From what I've read in order to get 5G speeds, you have to be very close to the cellular tower. For the vast majority of us, that means we'll never see speeds anywhere near the advertised threshold. Unless cellular providers are willing to provide some kind of mesh network with more antennas, I doubt we'll see these speeds any time soon.

BTW: @wood1208 it's 2Gbps as in bits not bytes, a big difference in the amount of data being moved.

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Just used Speedtest over Verizon LTE on my iPhone 8 Plus, 4 bars, not in a large city. Surprised I got 59.6 down and 47.2 up. We might have one tower in the area and it's actually as fast as the Comcast connection currently running in this house. When I had 250Mbps Blast Pro! I would easily get the 250 down but only about 13 up. Of course it's early in the morning so the cellular network isn't being hammered. 

To your point, I am not aware of any cellular networks able to support this at this time and I have not seen a roll out plan for this kind of speed. 

People need to stop saying its GB when it is in fact Gb there is 8X difference in B and b, 2Gbits is actually 250Mbytes, this is also peek not sustained. 

This is nothing new for Apple why put in an expensive chip when mass majority of consumers can never put it to use and it just drives up the cost to the phone or lowers Apples margin for something with no value.

Isn't it google's job to add this kind of feature, Android is such a bastardize piece of software. All Google partners are forking the code so they can somehow say they are better than the next guy.

zoetmb said:

CR does two types of reviews:  one uses objective measurements and another uses a consumer panel.   I don't know what they did in this case because I no longer read it, but consumer panels are absolutely worthless for evaluation of audio and video because most consumers have absolutely no idea what constitutes good audio (or picture) - they just know what they think they like.   Consumers will choose a speaker that appears to have more bass and high end over one that doesn't, even if that sound is inaccurate.  They'll also choose whichever system is louder, even if it's as little as 1db difference.   And they'll choose an over-saturated high contrast picture over a properly calibrated one.   That's why retailers set their TV displays to "store blast" mode.  

Back in the 1970's, CR rated the AMC Gremlin as the best subcompact made.   As a result, I bought one.   Everything that could possibly go wrong in a car (valves, rings, wheel bearings, oil leaks, electrical shorts, etc.) went wrong in that car.   The only thing that always worked fine was the air conditioner and the radiator - the car never overheated even in the desert.   Even the metal that held the seatbacks up wore away and I had to stick a rod in the seat to keep the back from falling down.   CR later apologized, but the damage was done.   I've never trusted them since.  

The one thing CR is good for is after a product has been out for some years is looking at the repair reports.   Other than that, I find their ratings usually useless - either because their testing isn't valid in the real world, because they only test a limited number of models or because their consumer panel testing is too subjective.   And really - you don't need CR to evaluate audio quality:  just go into a store and listen.  

Okay I find this totally funny, My family also have a Gremlin and my sister and I beat the hell out of that car, patch it together with bondo due to all the rust and had a front end accident and just pulled the bumper out and that things never died, it just kept running. 

I personally stop using CR a long time ago, I found as you did their recommendation has no real baring on real world experience. Their testers I conclude had no idea what they were doing. I have an engineering background and spent a fair amount of time in testing labs and one thing I learned from all that testing. You and devise a test that every product passes or one that every product fails, the issue was what did it tell you, absolutely nothing. The hardest thing in the world to do is devise a real world test that replicated failure in the real world. 

I would not trust their reliability reports either. Here is why, it not base on actually repair data or failure data. It is base on consumers surveys. The issue with the surveys, CR mostly gets back ones which people had an issue or an ax to grind. I did their survey and found only did them when I had an issue with a product, when I told to our CR reader they were doing the same thing. As the old saying goes, if you have good experience you tell 3 people, if you have bad you tell 7, CR is getting the 7 not the 3. I have seen them give good rating on crappy products and bad review to good products and that is simple because people never reported the all the issue on their survey and definitely do not tell me about all the good experiences. Their surveys are skewed towards the complainers and squeaky wheel.

You point about TV i all call the shopping experience at big box store wall of TVs the bug to the bug light experience. People gravitate to the brightest screen because they can not help themselves. I personally go in late and have the turn off all the TVs i am not interested in looking at, I also have them turn off demo mode, and play a nature scene verse a computer generated video image with fake colors that no one could tell if they were true life colors.

I think i figured why siri is so limited on the homepod, i seems like the question processing is mostly done on the homepod itself verses sending it out to a server first. Just a thought and Apple just needs to crack up its capabilities.