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  • Over $700 million in imports by Apple, Samsung & others held up by India e-waste authority...

    sreesree
    lkrupp said:
    They bathe in the filthy and toxic Ganges but are worried about electronic waste?
    Well indians did not create the great pacific garbage continent.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Over $700 million in imports by Apple, Samsung & others held up by India e-waste authority...

    sreesree
    maestro64 said:
    First we have no idea what Apple product are being held, ie refurbish products or true e-waste which everyone jumped to due to the picture in the article. 

    If it is e-waste, companies like Apple and others do not handle their own e-waste this is all handled by third-party recyclers. Most of them will try and separate plastics from metal and electronics, they usually try to incinerate the electronics to get to the gold, silver and copper use in electronics.

    India being one of the worst polluter in the world, you can understand why they do not want someone else's waste. But China for the last 20 yrs made lots of money recycling US recycled materials. China is at the point they no long want others people waste since they generate so much of their own. This is leaving the US with a big problem, we all recycle every day with single stream recycling and there are very few operations in the US which can separate the single stream material so it use to go to China. As of this year most of our recycling material goes to a land fill or is being incinerate to generate electricity it not being made into new product like it did when it went to China. Even glass these days is going to the land fill, because US consumer like their clear glass very clear they do no like it cloudy when recycle glass is mixed.
    Firstly, No country comes close to the US as far as solid waste generation is concerned. US tops the world and creates about 6-7times as much as India. (So, no india is not one of the worst polluters in the world. They are significantly better than US with three times the population and one-sixth the solid waste).

    Secondly, please read the article fully. The clauses have been in effect since December 2016, and the agency has been giving repeated 6month extensions to companies to comply. They finally put their foot down. And lastly, it is obvious the companies are not serious about e-waste disposal. If an authorized e-waste disposal center does not know that they are the authorized e-waste disposal center for a company, one can imagine the scale of neglect by the companies.


    pratikindiamuthuk_vanalingamiCave

  • Apple's apology for small amount of 2018 MacBook Pro keyboard failures still isn't enough

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    randominternetperson said:
    Wow, what a critical and hard-hitting piece of journalism.

    What I got from that is a small percentage of people who have recent MacBooks end up with keyboard problems, and those users should "go get it fixed."

    Oh, and also, the small percentage of users who had problems with keyboards before 2016 was (perhaps) half the size.

    And, for some reason Apple should "apologize" for not creating perfect, faultless devices.

    Shrug.  I have a 2016 MacBook Pro and I love it and am in the "large percentage" of users without a problem.
    Sorry dude, I am as much of an apple user as you can find, but the butterfly keyboard issue is just nonsense. Every person I know who bought a mac laptop in the last 2-3yrs had to get it replaced due to the keyboard. just last month, my friend got the new macbook air, and in one week the character 't' started misbehaving. Either he would get 'tt' or none at all about 30% of the time. Luckily it happened before the warranty ran out, so they replaced the laptop. He has his fingers crossed now.

    This is the third generation of the butterfly keyboard, and it is still failing in all the same ways. As engineers we usually call something like that a faulty architecture. Apple needs to change it, but are unable to do so I think due to the thickness with old keyboards.

    Infact I am holding out on upgrading my pre-butterfly keyboard macbook pro, until apple fixes this issue once and for all. 
    The best keyboards currently out there are on lenovo laptops, and that is not something I am happy about and neither should apple be.
    elijahgmuthuk_vanalingamanantksundaramchemenginCarnageboredumb

  • USB 3.0 & USB 3.1 merger into USB 3.2 branding by overseers further confusing USB-C

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    suddenly newton said:
    I think USB-IF should do what HDMI did: use dotted version notation (USB 3.1.3.6). Then you sow fine-grained version confusion without tacking on extra monikers.
    Excellent suggestion.

    Infact we can improve it further by combining both. So USB 3.1.3.6 Highspeed would be faster than USB 3.2.4.5 Superspeed but would be slower than USB3.2.9.1 Highspeed.
    watto_cobra

  • USB 3.0 & USB 3.1 merger into USB 3.2 branding by overseers further confusing USB-C

    sreesree
    The thing here is that as it stands USB-C port is costly since they need to support USB3.2 with it. How do you get USB-C ports on $300 laptops and $100 phones? You keep the USB-C port, but use the tech from USB3.0 to cut costs.

    Suddenly that $300 laptop can claim to have 6 USB-C ports instead of the 4 ports that macbook has, by just repackaging the existing USB3.0 chipset with a different looking outer slot. If they do that currently they would have to say 'USB-C with USB3.0 speeds', after this change they can just say USB3.2 SuperSpeed port and make themselves look like they are on the latest tech.
    watto_cobra