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wood1208 said:

iPhone 9/SE2 64GB at $399 price point is acceptable to upgrade to for those budget conscious and still on iPhone 6/6s/7.

where the operating systems prematurely killed background processes, making users lose work.

There is still number of places or user cases where you can easily loose data you entered what I find unacceptable.There is big improved compare to several years ago but should simply not happen.

lkrupp said:

tht said:

Sounds like Apple could wait until 2021 for a 5G phone. Sheesh. It is a lose-lose-lose. More power consumption, means more heat, means bigger battery, means bigger devices, leading to a more expensive phone, for a cellular functionality that I won’t really experience unless I’m packed in a room with 50,000 of my closest friends. 

Is 5 nm going be enough to make 5G functionality worthwhile?

And remember that other 5G phone makers are experiencing the exact same issues. This is not an Apple exclusive. 5G is apparently a battery hog right now and it looks like Apple’s penchant for thinness has bumped up against engineering reality when it comes to 5G. We’ll see how this pans out but Apple has pulled a rabbit out of its hat a number of times in the past. It also points out that the Achilles Heel of all these great inventions is battery technology itself which doesn’t seem to be making as much progress as is needed. Pushing electrons around in a circuit is an almost 200 year old endeavor with Volta inventing the first true battery in 1800 . The chemistry involved is difficult and sometimes dangerous as smartphone and laptop owners have found out the hard way. Watch one of those videos where e-cig vapers have their pants blow up.

Fatman said:

Imagine in the not too distant future ... Apple exclusive microLED displays, Apple’s own 5G chips, and Apple memory chips combined with TSMC 5nm fabrication starting with the A14 - now that would demolish the competition. No more costly reliance on Samsung and Qualcomm.