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  • What the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max are really doing to your selfies

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    panicman123 said:
    Would be nice to see a camera review where the reviewer took photos with similar subjects to what normal/consumers shoot - like group shots in really bad lighting, blowing out candles in bad lighting, children that won’t stop moving etc. 
    There is nothing to be done with children that can't stop moving in bad lighting, except a flash. It's going to be blurry.
    How do you think the camera can expose the scene correctly and also expose something that would need a much longer exposure.
    Short exposure that will stop noise will give a mess of noise to the subject, though I guess HDR could blend it with a longer exposure of the whole scene so it comes out all right and the subject would become real soft (if they stack both exposures and smooth the subject so it is not a pixelated mess).
    tmay

  • Apple's push for bigger iPhone screens expected to drive services profits

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    nunzy said:
    lorin schultz said:
    nunzy said:
    Apple did extensive testing and determined that the 3.5 inch screen was the optimal size. Samsung made screens the size of dinner plates that made Android fanboys look ridiculous. Apple knew better and kept the optimal screen size that they knew was the best.

    What happened?
    Things changed over the ten years since then. Component costs, usage patterns, and user preferences.

    I'll bet part of the "optimal" equation was the cost of larger screens making them less attractive to buyers not yet familiar with the concept of a touchscreen pocket computer that makes phone calls.

    What buyers would most readily accept would also form part of the "optimal" assessment. In a world full of flip phones, consumers would have freaked out at the notion of something the size of an iPhone Plus because at that point they had no idea how they would benefit from the extra size. And there wasn't as much benefit then as there is now, as applications for the category hadn't yet evolved to exploit it. They have now, which further alters the "optimum" equation.

    I'm sure it's frustrating for those who prefer a smaller device, but the fact that 3.5 inches was optimal back then does not mean it still is.
    Have thumbs gotten longer?
    Many people use their phone sideways these days, and they use it for a lot more things than dialing, which was the main thing done in 2007.
    Even texting is either done sideways or on the bottom of the screen in portrait; typing works just as well on big screens and small screens.

    Phone interfaces have adapted by putting more things on the bottom, or enabling a richer interface when the phone is sideways.

    The type of things done phones these days are so different these days that where the fingers need to hit has likely changed a lot.
    nunzy

  • Chinese carriers claim dual-SIM iPhones are a sure thing

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    nunzy said:
    Since when did Apple base design decisions on what foreigners want?
    Multinational companies base their products on regional differences in important market ALL THE TIME.
    So, Frack off buddy.
    nunzyronnwatto_cobra

  • Turkey's president calls for boycott of Apple products

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    JoeBee said:
    Economic boom, lol. Imaginary numbers while wages are down, jobs are vanishing, our schools are war zones and real people are suffering on the street. If Turkey is a disaster waiting to happen, it's only because they are a few steps further down the same road we are on.
    Wages are down? Really? Everywhere I go it says they are hiring. The economy grew quite a bit better for the last two years. UNemployment is really low. 
    The fact that schools are war zones is a responsibility of those who vote for local politicians and determine, what is done in those schools. In any free country there will be people on streets that suffer, if that was their choice. You CANT do anything about it for precicely that reason alone.
    Wages are down buddy when inflation adjusted and not including the top 10%; you're feels has nothing to do with it. As for the rest, blah blah blah blah blah blah.
    If you are an engineer, lawyer or doctor, yeah they're doing great and so fracking what.
    tmayStrangeDaysbaconstangberndogwilliamlondon

  • Sketchy rumor claims 2018 iPhones will sport both embedded Apple SIMs and standard SIM tra...

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    nunzy said:
     Why doesn't Apple just eliminate the SIM card all together? Apple's skates to where the puck is going to be, not where it used to be.  if Apple eliminated of a SIM card, all the Android phones would do exactly the same thing because all that Android does is copy Apple every time.
    Some of the telco are not playing ball on the sim virtualisation on phones, though I think they're ok with it on some other devices like tablets.
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