22july2013

I'm beginning to think that Apple's strategy is flawed. They could have simply tried to respond to Epic's lawsuit by saying "Apple has no legal obligation to accept any software from Epic. We don't like them and will no longer accept anything from them." But no, they are getting into the weeds. They should have just perma-banned Epic. Winning this issue would be the biggest win of all that Apple could obtain. I mean really, why would Apple be interested in accepting software from a company that takes you to court? Apple should even ban the companies that recently created the organization against Apple. You don't think that Google, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have companies that they won't allow on their stores? They don't need justification to choose business partners. But there is no better justification than "They are suing us in court." By choosing not to fight for their rights to select business partners, Apple is weakening its right to fight back against them.

rob53 said:

Only way this will work on iPhones is if all the states are required to use the Apple/Google api's and Apple is forced to turn Exposure Notification on and connect to the local system. Of course, it's too late to do this after 220K people have died. I don't blame Apple or Google on this, I blame the states, federal government and apathy of most Americans.

Even if all your conditions were met it still may not work because (a) some people will ignore the warnings that they may be infected or to take action; and (b) some people don't carry their smart phones with them all the time (at least 5% of the US population don't own a smart phone). We can also blame the smart phone iOS makers for not having an API for diseases until approximately May 1, 2020, long after the first wave of deaths.

Similarly, Apple and Google could install mandatory earthquake (or tsunami) message notifications, like they have in Japan now, but why aren't governments implementing it in the US? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42582113 I'm guessing that the Japanese system simply uses an SMS system for notifications from a central server, but I'm fairly sure that Apple and Google could find a way to update their OS's to make earthquake message notifications mandatory and effective using crowd sourcing. I infer they won't innovate anything until millions die first.

For those who don't know how earthquake notifications work, it's basically a warning that an earthquake (or tsunami) above a certain threshold has occurred nearby. If you are right on the epicenter, these warnings won't help you, since (ideally) it's users' own phones that collectively generate the warnings (via crowd sourcing), but earthquakes travel at roughly the speed of sound (in rock, which is much faster than the speed of sound in air) so most people would have a couple of minutes warning that they are about to be hit by one. There are actually two types of earthquake waves, P-waves and S-waves which travel at 60% different speeds. I believe the more harmful wave is the slower one, which is comforting. (So sometimes the P-wave itself is its own early warning message notification.)

Actually, now that I think of it, crowd sourcing of earthquake notifications isn't a panacea, since at least half of all earthquakes originate under the water, where nobody with cell phones resides, but those earthquakes are typically farther away and take longer to reach land, so they aren't as much of a threat as the ones that start on land.

The big one contains a battery maybe? The small one uses NFC instead? NFC's maximum distance is larger than most people think.

Apple_Bar said:

22july2013 said:

My iPhone 11 drains faster than it charges when I'm watching a camera or video on it while it's plugged in. Is the iPhone 12 better, or does it also drain faster than it charges? And the iPhone 11 is very hot when it's displaying video for an hour. How does the iPhone 12 compare in terms of its temperature?

Looks who’s here...

where are the iPhone 12M and iPhone12ML

LOL

I said I would buy you a steak if the phone was called the 12M, you must be very sad that I was wrong. Don't feel bad - you could be a nice person if you stopped attacking others.

My iPhone 11 drains faster than it charges when I'm watching a camera or video on it while it's plugged in. Is the iPhone 12 better, or does it also drain faster than it charges? And the iPhone 11 is very hot when it's displaying video for an hour. How does the iPhone 12 compare in terms of its temperature?