AI_lias

Much bigger, they last less, not as integrated with iPhones, and cost more. I think the AirPods will do just fine.

It's good to know that. I'm sure they're working on a system to dock your phone and use it as a PC, among other things. I hope they say "yes" to that, it's the natural progression of things. So, there is good and BS in what he's saying. Take time to get it right, even if you're not the first. Good. We're not using our customers are a laboratory: BS. Siri came out as beta, when it first came out. Something else: iPhone X, they made the decision to come out with it while it was still planned for 2018, not 2017, in their own admission. It does feel like almost a beta, or a "concept" phone, like they have "concept cars" at car shows. So, that being said, can't wait for all the pent up updates about to come out, especially for Mac (mini, Pro) and iPad.

muthuk_vanalingam said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

adm1 said:

still confused as to why the batteries in the 6 onward degrade so fast compared to older iPhones? I'm using a 4year old 5S just now and the battery is showing as 1400mAh which is 90% of it's original 1560mAh capacity, not bad for the daily use and abuse it has seen!

Capacity and peak voltage are two entirely different things.

Sure, capacity and peak voltage are two different things. When we talk about peak voltage, what has changed in iPhone 6 and above? I thought Apple takes care of these engineering decisions in the design phase extra-ordinarily well. But something seems to be not correct. Why are the batteries NOT able to provide the peak voltage for iPhone 6 and above, which they were able to provide earlier? What has changed?

It's bad engineering, covered up by throttling down of the CPU, under the guise of good intentions. Hopefully this is the kind of questions these governments will ask and we'll get a more honest answer than just "we tried to help our users by preventing these unexpected shutdowns."

metrix said:

I find it disconcerting that people are dying in car accidents from the faulty Japanese air bags that haven’t been replaced because they have a huge backlog and hang ups but yet DOJ is more concerned about this situation. 

They're not more concerned about this one, I'm sure. And they should not let it slide. But I don't think it (should) be as much about the notification Apple included with the update, as much as why those phones were shutting down suddenly, with battery life left. Sounds like grounds for a recall to me.

chia said:

AI_lias said:

The numbers would be different if Apple would still sign iOS 10.

Seeing that we’re dealing with numbers here, do you have any quantitative evidence to show it’ll be significantly different, or are you merely speaking from sentiment?

No, just qualitative evidence. I don't know whether they would be significantly different, but I wanted to go back to iOS 10 after upgrading to the first iOS 11 version, which slowed down my wife's iPhone 6 considerably, and also my iPhone 6s Plus (not as considerably). I suspect there were many others like me who would have gone back, until many minor versions later.