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Apple's first million HomePods now shipping from Inventec - report
Watches are not in decline Apple's predicted shipment will be much higher this year.andy-uk said:
I agree there's little risk of Apple going bust any time soon but they've got no movie streaming business and they're playing catch-up in music streaming - Spotify have 70 million subscribers vs. Apple's 30 million and the gap widens every month. The smart watch market, which Apple dominates, is in decline while the smart speaker market, in which Apple has nothing at the moment, trebled in the US last year, so they've got some work to do.Apple Watch is already bringing in more than any other watch brand. AirPods and Beats are bringing in more than any other brand. Iphone, ipad, macs, etc. All killing it and generating serious dough.
As for “missing” streaming music, they’ve go 10 million more subscribers than they did a few years ago. That’s new revenue.
Apple has 15% of the worldwide phone sales but 90% of profits.
Apple has 40% of Tablet sales and 95% of profits.
Apple has 10% of laptop sales and 80% of profits.
Apple has 20% of smart watch sales and 90% of profits,
Apple has a 40% of wireless headphone sales, nearly all profits..
See a pattern here. Apple doesn't give a shit if Amazon controls the low end, they don't care.
They'll get 10% of the market and 80% of the profits and that's it. Business as usual and they'll be fine with this.
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Samsung will debut 'Galaxy S9' at Mobile World Congress next month
The phone would be at least 30% bigger than an equivalent Apple phone (possibly more when you take into account shaped batteries in the Iphone X) and offer huge amount of constraints in placement of components (since the battery would need to be squarish and accessible and the door cannot have components on it). if Apple keeps the battery swap at $30 (or even $50), there is little advantage to that.airnerd said:
I know it will never happen, but if Samsung were to make their flagship phone with a removable battery, game over. If you could have a legit top end smart phone and swap the batteries they would gather users from all of their product lines under that one phone. That's the only way they can differentiate from Apple at this time, and it would be a huge differentiation. You could still maintain water resistance, even.BubbaTwo said:The Galaxy S8 is a GREAT flagship for the money -- especially when one can pick one up on sale which is often. If the S9 moves the fingerprint reader and includes a bigger battery, then that's even better. I especially appreciate that Samsung still includes a headphone jack on their flagship phones.
The only knock on the S8 is Bixby, however, I'm not a big user of voice assistants so I can overlook that....
There is a reason Samsung switched to sealed, it is not just on a whim.
Apple will probably get the Iphone to be as water proof as the Apple Watch (50 meter) very soon (including speakers expelling water) and you'll not get that if you can open the battery compartment.
With wireless charging, Apple could just offer a battery sleeve (for women to put in their purse) and the battery would essentially always be charged to 100%. For everyone else, the presence everywhere of wireless mats now that the standard is now universal means people don't have to carry a useless big battery everywhere. Their phones could be charged essentially all day long at near 100% without having to carry a cable or break your insertion point by constantly plugging and unplugging.
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Watch: Why Apple slows down older iPhones and what you can do about it
The problem with your logic is that late versions of IOS seem to clear up the issue and some on the 5s are now fine. an Iphone 6 or 5s with low number of charging cycles, or with replaced batteries are faster than a 7 with 700 charging cycles (which can happen in a year if you charge your phone twice a day). It also seem to forget that usage has a big impact on how your phone reacts; someone who mainly uses their phone for calling / texting with no background apps at all maybe don't feel any slowdown at all ever even with slow X.0 versions.rogifan_new said:John Gruber did a recent podcast with Jason Snell on this subject. Definitely did not let Apple off the hook. Snell wondered just how much Apple thinks about an iPhone in year 3,4 of its lifespan. He also thinks top execs at Apple should have to use the latest software in development on a 3 year old device as their daily driver to determine if the experience is good enough to ship. It sounded like he has family members with older phones running the latest software and the experience isn’t great. Something else they brought up is users shouldn’t have to wipe their devices and reload from backup to improve the experience or get it back to what it was before the software update.
I am curious about Apple’s product development process. When they were first desigining the 6 did they take in to account that it would get 3 years worth of software updates? Who decided the 6 should get iOS 11? How does Apple decide how big the battery is going to be in a device? Do they start out with a certain battery life they want to hit and then put in whatever battery size will meet that target? And what is the target based on? Or is the battery size determined by a specific device weight/thickness target? With iPad the battery life has consistently been about 9 hours or so. Does Apple ever think about trying to get more or have they decided 9 hours is good enough?
Another problem Apple has is new versions of iOS for iPhone are tied new hardware releases so people on older devices are updating at the same time new devices are going on sale. That can easily leave the perception that Apple slowing down older phones to get people to upgrade. I know Apple wants as many users as possible to be on the latest software but maybe they need to re-think how long older devices keep getting software updates. Maybe iPhone 6 should have stopped at iOS 10 and only receive updates if there’s some critical security bug or something broke that needs to be fixed (like some iOS 6 only devices getting an update to fix an issue with FaceTime). And on the hardware side perhaps devices need to be futue proofed more. Maybe iPhone 6’s 1GB RAM was sufficient with iOS 8 but would that still be the case a year or two later after several software updates? The first iPad Air I had Safari was nearly unusable because the browser tabs were constantly reloading (how anyone at Apple found this acceptable is beyond me). With my iPad Pro and 4GB RAM I never run into this issue. One reason why I would never go back to an iPad that has less than 4GB RAM. Phil Schiller gave an interview before Christmas when he said (in reference to software bugs) that Apple had some soul searching to do. Good. Hopefully we really see that they’ve done that in 2018, especially on the software side.
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/30/the-talk-show-210
Why deprive people like that from new versions?
1G is well big enough to run an OS no matter the version. Actual usage and efficiency of the code itself counts for a lot more. As single bad critical path can slow down everything to a standstill no matter how much memory and power your phone has. Galaxy phones has been jerky with 3-4G of memory and with 8 cores on brand new Android versions.
That's why, most slowdown clear up in later versions. Those phones in deed could support these OS after all. Apple has had many X.0 versions which have been not good at all in the speed department on older phones. That's almost a given, the main difference in this case is that there was a dependency that did not in fact depend exactly on the age of the phone, but on its usage (usage and age is correlated, but not 1:1).
There are also dependencies of power on usage, how you set your screen up, use of GPS, bluetooth, constant background apps... If you got none of those, your phone likely will not only reach the end of the day with more power, but it will have a lot less charging cycles and it will have more reserve (because it runs less stuff) for peak usage. Those people will minimally feel any slowdown related to batteries, and likely not many slowdown even from peak usage (since their phone always more reserve power than people who use their phones more intensely).
One thing that does use loads of memory is web browsing, and that's one thing were having a low amount of memory has progressively more impact with time as web sites become more and more ripe with javascript; but that doesn't have anything to do with the OS itself and could be an area were Apple can be faulted (though considering they sold 145M Iphones in 2 quarters in 2014-2015, not sure they could actually have put 2G of very fast memory in all those phones at that time).
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$29 battery exchanges for iPhone 6 and newer now available at most Apple retail locations
There are different types of "heavy" users, if you use your phone mostly as a communication device, you'll likely finish the day near 30-40%. on a new phone.matrix077 said:
Yes, it has.christopher126 said:
Sorry to read that, Matrix. Does her phone have this message from Apple?matrix077 said:
My girlfriend iPhone 6 is bad (33%).christopher126 said:HI guys, I downloaded the App, 'Battery Life' (Free-No affiliation)....My SE is fine (Green) but my GF's iPhone 6 is average (Orange).
Also, my GF's had a message from Apple, Settings>Battery "Your iPhone battery may need to be serviced."
Best.
Go to: Settings>Battery "Your iPhone battery may need to be serviced."
Best.
it’s normal though. She’s always a heavy user (use her phone all day long). I’m just surprised st how well yours holding up.
Doing full cycles (near 0 to 100%) is the worst for batteries. If the battery almost always remains in the 20-80% range, it will last way way way longer. That's why Ipad batteries tend to never need changing, we often don't let them go to 100% (at least I do) and I often put it back on chargin way before it falls bellow 30%. Of course, Ipads often get less heated (not used as often outside, they're bigger, not used in cramped space like back pockets).
Got an Ipad 2 from early 2011 still chugging around (yeah, it's pretty slow browsing the web, but it does work well to read books, listen to music and watch video and connect to other members of the ecosystem).
If you charge your phone every time you can (not using intensely while it charges) and don't use to do heavy things (like gaming) while plugged in or running near zero (reducing exposure to high temps and high load on the battery while the battery is at 100% or near 0) or use it in warm or very cold conditions especially near 0 and 100% (to again reduce stress on battery ).
It may last quite a long time. Had a 3GS battery that lasted 5 years with though it had a lot of shutdowns in the last 6 months before the battery got changed).
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Apple 2017 year in review: iPad gets cheaper than ever, more expensive than ever with new ...
Dynamic range of OLED screens are not better really than top notch LED which also have a big gamut, just the lower end is lower (black level).matrix077 said:
That’s one thing for concern, (another will be the cost & supply of that screen) but it’s just so good for watching movies it will sell itself. Easily. Just showing it off & people who see will drool about it.foggyhill said:
Not sure I want something that can be on all day long with and OLED screen on it.matrix077 said:I wonder will we have 4K HDR OLED iPad? I don’t care about bezel or FaceID or anything. Just the best iPad to watch 4K movies on bed & anywhere. The good thing about it is it will no doubt be much cheaper than buying great OLED TV so you actually can save some money too.
Looks at how great HDR movies look on iPhoneX & it will drool everyone.
As a cinephile, I hope Apple surprise me. Maybe not next year but 2019 or 2020.
If a LED screen can go to 2000 nits (for example) and has a nearly non reflective screen, the actual advantage of an OLED screen will be zero (or even negative in a brighter viewing environment).
The main advantage of OLED was that it takes less power in dark conditions (which happen more often on a phone than an Ipad were people look at big ass white screens all day long) and it also takes less internal space than LED screens do, which is less of concern in the bigger Ipad format.
Have you tried watching a HDR movie on an Ipad pro.
