StrangeDays said:

danox said:

chasm said:

danox said:

[...]every part in any personal electronic device used by the public is going to have to be accounted for with a serial number and those electronic parts will be designed not to work if they have been tampered with. 

Putting aside the hysterical paranoia for a moment ... Apple is moving to make repairs **much easier** for both pro and amateur repairers, and that's a good thing. An earlier AppleInsider article featured interview with Apple execs talking about the balance between durability and repairability, and it would seem that around the time this issue became a cause celebre in the tech press, Apple execs tasked the engineering teams with rebalancing the ratio a bit. This is the result.

Repairs done poorly are still a risk. Ever been inside an AASP repair facility? There's a bucket of sand and a fireproof safe next to every technician, and there's a reason for that. People have died from explosions involving smartphones (or more often, their cheap replacement chargers). No terrorist organisation required.

Making the battery safer and yet more replaceable is another example of superior Apple engineering and evidence that it does listen to customer issues/complaints. Every change made to an iPhone involves a complicated rebalancing of everything else. It's a miracle that smart changes like this can happen on a fairly regular basis.

Nothing hysterical because of recent events going on in the Ukraine and Russia

Note: Ukraine is a country and not a region, the phrase “the Ukraine” is Russia’s label as they falsely claim it’s a region as cover to justify their illegal invasion. It’s simply Ukraine. Just like Ireland is not “the Ireland”.

StrangeDays said:

danox said:

chasm said:

danox said:

[...]every part in any personal electronic device used by the public is going to have to be accounted for with a serial number and those electronic parts will be designed not to work if they have been tampered with. 

Putting aside the hysterical paranoia for a moment ... Apple is moving to make repairs **much easier** for both pro and amateur repairers, and that's a good thing. An earlier AppleInsider article featured interview with Apple execs talking about the balance between durability and repairability, and it would seem that around the time this issue became a cause celebre in the tech press, Apple execs tasked the engineering teams with rebalancing the ratio a bit. This is the result.

Repairs done poorly are still a risk. Ever been inside an AASP repair facility? There's a bucket of sand and a fireproof safe next to every technician, and there's a reason for that. People have died from explosions involving smartphones (or more often, their cheap replacement chargers). No terrorist organisation required.

Making the battery safer and yet more replaceable is another example of superior Apple engineering and evidence that it does listen to customer issues/complaints. Every change made to an iPhone involves a complicated rebalancing of everything else. It's a miracle that smart changes like this can happen on a fairly regular basis.

Nothing hysterical because of recent events going on in the Ukraine and Russia

Note: Ukraine is a country and not a region, the phrase “the Ukraine” is Russia’s label as they falsely claim it’s a region as cover to justify their illegal invasion. It’s simply Ukraine. Just like Ireland is not “the Ireland”.

https://www.nytimes.com/article/ukraine-russia-putin.html  

The Ukraine Crisis: What to Know About Why Russia Attacked

I’m surprised Appleinsider didn’t pick this up. A US government official recently suggested that Apple have Intel make chips for them, this is what you get when the government becomes involved in things that it knows nothing about.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-govt-pushes-nvidia-and-apple-to-use-intels-foundries-department-of-commerce-secretary-raimondo-makes-appeal-for-us-based-chip-production  Ridiculous….. didn’t Intel already screw up? The word no and a fork in the road is coming for Apple particularly the fork in the road.

if you read the comment section a quarter of the people think it’s a good idea despite Intel’s track record over the last 15 years.  

foregoneconclusion said:

Apple appears to have already anticipated this with the fast pairing API that is included in iOS 18.

https://www.techradar.com/phones/apple-is-making-it-much-easier-to-pair-devices-with-your-iphone-in-ios-18

Spotify for example, can use all of the new API’s that Apple has created and so can any other company (developer) if you choose to. They choose not to they want to use old API’s In short, they don’t want to upgrade, but I’m sure many other smaller European companies will.

https://www.algoriddim.com/  Algoriddim’s a German company headquartered in the EU has its act together why can’t Spotify? Competing on multiple platforms and not crying like a baby, and they don’t have four thousand people working for them yeah their programming department is miles ahead of Spotify. another company Reason Studios headquartered in Sweden is also miles ahead.

By the way, Walmart (a US company) does not do business in the EU and they seem to survive very well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart Page down to operating divisions, worldwide, interesting map.

Go to Apple‘s website the 16 Pro and the 16 Pro max are backordered until October 8 and the 15th 4-5 weeks from now. meanwhile you can get the cheaper iPhone 16 and 16+ by the end of the week September 20, irregardless of configuration, if the lower phone is selling out then there should be plenty of 16 Pro’s iPhones sitting on the shelf waiting for buyers, but that’s not true. Can both conditions be true? I don’t think so.

” Kuo further notes that Apple has produced 6 million units of iPhone 16 Pro Max before the launch. That is 106% higher than the iPhone 15 Pro Max last year. The analyst speculates that the higher yield of the tetraprism camera is the reason behind this increased production.” ???

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Analyst-highlights-significantly-lower-demand-for-Apple-iPhone-16-Pro-than-iPhone-16-Plus.889590.0.html

Follow the link a quote from the article, why can’t I get the 16 Pro this week September 20? If no one’s buying it this year according to him Apple produced more 16 Pro Max this year than 15 Pro Max last year at this time?