maestro64

The question I have, if you update your iOS devices to 11 and Mac to High Sierra does that mean they are only Airplay 2 compatible. They do will no longer support Airplay 1 devices. If does, this means I not updating since I am not going to replace everything I currently have which only support Airplay and I know the manufacturers are not going to updated their firmware.

I know Apple has no problem leaving old tech in the past, but they usually provide a bridge solution for a period of time. I do not see a reason why they can not support Airplay 1 and 2 devices at the same time and not support new Airplay 2 features on the older devices.

I would like to believe Apple will get lots of flack about this, but I think people will either not upgrade and if they do and find out their old stuff no longer works they will just get new stuff. Since Apple has condition people to do this. You might want to begin selling your old Airplay stuff now before everyone figures out it is worthless going forward.

Soli said:

foggyhill said:

Soli said:

volcan said:

usersinceos1 said:

Maybe Apple is willing (it's certainly able) to pay a slightly higher price to get priority access to the supply.

Apple probably pays less than other manufacturers because of the size of the order. If you were a manufacturer, you'd probably prefer to make one huge sale than to negotiate dozens of smaller ones. 

That's how its been reported in the past, but not just huge sales, but huge sales long in advance at a time with prices are lowest. This is where Tim Cook is said to shine. I have to wonder where Apple would've gotten during the Steve Jobs era if not for Tim Cook.

Of course, this has an impact in shutting out everyone that's not Apple.

It does, and we cold debate the merits of when (or if) this can become anticompetitive.

For instance, remember when the floods hit Thailand where most HDDs are manufactured thereby severely reducing supply for the entire world? I think Apple got lucky because they had been moving heavily toward NAND, but budget PC makers were hit hard with constrained volume and at a higher price, where they already make little to no profit. If Apple was still relying on HDD and they needed all (or nearly all) the HDDs that could be produced, would it be fair for every other if Macs were the only PCs that could still be produced for a year because of contracts that included a certain volume of units for a given timeframe?

• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/oct/25/thailand-floods-hard-drive-shortage

Actually I personally dealt with this situation, and customer who have long term strategic relationship with the suppliers did okay. 60% of the world supply of HDD's were offline, most it was WD, and a number of tier 2 suppliers who affected Seagate, Hitachi, and Toshiba. The HDD suppliers screwed distribution channels they did not get supply and anyone buying from distribution had issues, the Tier 1 OEM like Apple and such were all on allocations. The company I (not PCs) worked for we got supply, but none of our competitors since they either were not strategic with the HDD companies or they were buying form distribution. During this 6 month period we shipped more products with HDD then we even had in the past, we actually picked up business during this time since we have supply and our competitors did not did not. Pricing did go up, to the OEMs bit no where near what if did for distribution customers and non-strategic customers. I heard HP and Apple were okay, but Dell, Acer and such did hurt since they always buy on price and move business around solely on price.

volcan said:

They have halon fire extinguishers on flight decks. I can't see a mobile device starting a fire so quickly that trained aviation professionals couldn't extinguish it before it ruined the navigation controls.

I'm not sure they use halon, because it is deadly to anything that breath air. Halon works by staving a fire from oxygen. It is also heavier than air and if you get it in your lungs it will suffocate you.

gmgravytrain said:

 I'd also like to see sustained benchmarks instead of just peak benchmarks.  I'll bet the A10 can run a longer time without thermal throttling to hold those benchmarks.  The smartphone industry doesn't give Apple's iPhone very much credit of being an excellent device.

Besides thermal throttling, do these test once the phone is 6 months old, then a year and so. I had to use Android phones for work, and I can tell you everyone I used and I used lots of them, would begin dragging as they aged. It would take longer and longer for the phone to do things. The only way to clear it was to do a factory reset and set up your phone from scratch. The android OS would get so fragmented over time with all the cache files and such would just slow the phone down. The processors ran so hot because of this, the heat would deteriorate the battery and it would begin losing life, an 18 month old android phone could barely run two or three hour before needing charged again. But this created the external battery pack market.

Android phones maybe fast out of the box, but they can not sustain that kind of performance. Android has such poor memory and file management that is why the hardware suppliers need more memory and battery life. Google keeps claiming they fix the memory management issue, but their hardware partners keep adding more and more memory to address the slowness issues.

plovell said:

Kbauerlv1 said:

Very informative however still doesn't help what most of us have been wanting to do for years. The point some of us used an old email address many years ago to sign up for iTunes. And now even after all these years you cannot assign a new email to the iTunes account without losing all the music or anything else. How about a work around for just that 

If I understand the process correctly , changing the email address does NOT change your AppleID. Yes - this is very confusing. You have an AppleID "[email protected]" with an email "[email protected]".

Much better is to create your AppleID and also the free iCloud email that matches exactly. On the new ID, enable Family Sharing and link your old ID.

You asked for a work around - this is exactly what you asked for.

Actually there is an easier way, call Apple and tell them you need to change it but first set up all the two step authentication so Apple can verify who you are and they will change it. I had this done since I had different emails for iTunes and iCloud and Apple online community and I wanted them the same when they combine all this stuff. Apple took care of it and now I have one of with one email account.