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  • Italian consumer group sues Apple for alleged planned obsolescence

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    tundraboy said:
    Claiming planned obsolescence in an era of breakneck technological growth is a very hard story to sell.  It is so easy to demonstrate how keeping up with the rate of improvement in hardware unavoidably impacts the performance of older devices because they cannot handle the requirements of new or updated apps that have been optimized for the newer phones.  Apple can also argue that phone throttling was actually an effort (that yes, turned out in the end to be misguided) to slow down obsolescence in older iPhone models.

    We can also say they do not plan long support. Even it can be true that certain HW can be required there is one main reason to obsolesce. And it is lack of RAM. I experienced it with my 5S. At certain moment when my data grown in one app over certain size, it just kept crashing. Like in every few minutes. Purging caches helped just for short time. So it pushed me to original SE that has double memory. Problem solved. But not to my willing. 5S is still serving my mom. I can not complain at the end. SE cost me half what 5S few years back. Gained Apple pay.

    I thing situation would be different if Apple would do broader SW updates to older iOS versions with some functions from newer iOS like they do security updates and they did with covid tracking. Do not know if it was my initiative but even Apple told me they do not plat to bring covid tracking framework to iOS 12 they did. Maybe because my and other response was it is absolute unacceptable as there is huge number of devices that can not be updated to iOS 13 and they are often handed to older family members that needs it the most. And hell frozen, Apple have updated iOS 12.
    Some privacy features or other that would kept full compatibility with for example older iPad one use or privacy features would be very welcomed on older devices as well.

    But mainly benefit for All users would be designing devices with longer support in mind by adding more RAM in advance and therefore a bit bigger battery to keep same battery life. It may lower sales but increase satisfaction and there fore can attract more switches from Android so more income from services. And now even more potential switchers to M1.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple TV+ ranks low in streaming industry surveys despite market boom

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    chasm said:
    frantisek said:
    I would give it a try but won't be buying new Apple TV to be able to airplay it on TV and not gonna watch it on 13" either. If they do not want support their old HW then no business. If it works with anything else why not Apple TV app.
    To the best of my knowledge TV+ works fine on a third-gen Apple TV box -- I was at a friend's house today and set it up for her. The latest version of the Apple TV app now has a dedicated tab for TV+, which is a HUGE help.


    Everything works fine on second generation as well. Except Apple TV+. Mean Airplaying everything. 
    tenthousandthings

  • iOS 15 will cut support for iPhone 6s and original iPhone SE, report claims

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    scatz said:
    We have an original iphone se which runs exceptionally well with ios 14. I think because it needs less cpu to power the smaller screen it is more efficient than a 6 or 6s. So, crossing fingers it will get the ios 15 update when it comes. Lovely small phone ....
    It runs fine. I put a lot on ti so sometimes it loose its breath. Mostly in one demanding app. It was reason I upgraded from 5S as app started crashing because lack of memory.

    But main point I wanted to say is what interesting features and changes as supported phones will have more power and 3 GB RAM minimum.
    It may also push iPhone 12/13 mini sales as those who wanna have recent os may upgrade their original SE. If apple will keep 12 mini for 599 USD it may become more appealing to upgrade.
    watto_cobra

  • Kuo: Redesigned MacBook Pro models with MagSafe, no Touch Bar, more ports coming in Q3

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    And what about more powerful Mac mini. There is no single rumor about it.
    watto_cobraAniMill

  • Samsung inadvertently uses iPhone to tweet Galaxy Unpacked promo

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    It is kind of folklore for Samsung :D
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