linkman

The term crappy for these cable boxes is 100% spot-on. My previous box, some pretty small Cisco thing, existed only to convert a coax scrambled connection to HDMI, change the channel, mute, and burn a lot of electricity. The entire top was a vented grill and used as much electricity when off as when it was on. I think turning it off using the remote only muted the video/audio output and turned the LED from green to red.

My neighbor went through the nightmare of the CableCard with his DVR. He literally had a tech from the cable company at his house every 2-3 weeks for several hours each time it stopped working. He gave up on it after more than a year of fighting it.

Big difference between iOS and Android here -- the last 3 major versions of Android have a whopping 55.6% install base combined.

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

uktechie said:

linkman said:

uktechie said:

Surely a better option would be to show a dialogue box warning that, “the battery can no longer deliver peak current and the performance may be impacted until a new battery is fitted”. This should also be reflected in the battery health information - I understand there is currently no indication of this problem at all. 

RTM

If RTM means Read The Manual there is nothing in the iOS 11 manual nor in the iOS 11 settings to indicate that an iPhone is running slow due to a battery issue.

Yes it does. Once you get throttled it will show a notification pointing to Settings > Battery. In there it will show “Your iPhone battery may need to be serviced.” Click on the "learn more" and the nicely written informational page shows "In the meantime, you might notice longer app launch times, lower frame rates while scrolling, and other reductions in performance."

I don't know how Apple can make this any clearer. But I imagine they could make it more obvious with dancing hamsters that require user interaction. For those that ignore the circled red numbers on their home screen icons and never go to settings -- they will not see it.

AppleInsider said:

In Austin, Texas for instance, drivers along Interstate 35 have occasionally been pelted by rocks dropped from bridges.

Correction to this. That rock thrower was caught. It was initially thought that rocks were being thrown from bridges or an access road that ran parallel to a low-lying section of I-35, but it turned out it was the work of one man that would throw rocks from his vehicle to the other side running in the opposite direction. He is serving a 40 year sentence.

wood1208 said:

Which screen tech is better against much colder and much warmer temperature/weather ? LCD or OLED ? That is the Question !!

I would suspect that OLEDs are better in the cold. Most spec sheets on them that I have seen advertise a wider operating temperature range than LCDs, and that's without resorting to extended temperature range models that usually have significant compromises. LCDs have been around a lot longer and have a more thorough testing history so we know that they stop working once they get frozen. After all, the L in LCD stands for liquid. Liquids tend to become solids at their freezing points. It is possible to extend the freezing point of LCDs to much lower than 0C without using a battery-killing heater but that probably has a significant effect on other characteristics such as color accuracy -- and the iPhone has extremely good color accuracy. And let's not get into the misnomer of LED panel displays -- those are LCDs using LEDs as backlights.

I suspect that people will find that the color accuracy of the iPhone X will degrade more quickly than a comparable one that uses an LCD. Such is the nature of the OLED panel. After 10000 hours of usage people are going to notice a degradation. But that is a lot of hours on a cell phone.