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  • Second class action suit surrounding Apple's throttling of iPhones with depleted batteries...

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    vonbrick said:
    Nothing is as mesmerizing as watching some die-hard Apple users attempt to prop up the company's lack of transparency knowing that if this had been Alphabet or Microsoft (or anyone else that ISN'T Apple), those same people would be verbally slicing and dicing their way to holiday bliss in this forum.

    Oh...and before you claim I'm a Windows plant or a Google apologist...I typed this while wearing an Apple Watch and posted it from a Mac mini sitting inches from an iPhone 7 Plus in a home with a 2015 MacBook Pro, three Apple TV's with a bunch of old, spent Apple boxes in the corner of the basement.  I love the company...but I HATE that a third party and customers ALWAYS have to drag out of them an admission of being too secretive, of producing a substandard product or of being just plain wrong.

    May you have a Merry Christmas and the happiest 2018 possible.
    As soon as some Apple users buy Apple stock, they turn into a$$holes who would support Apple doing anything, regardless of the resulting user experience. Hard to understand how people can get like that. I guess they also overreact to Android trolls. If they had their way, you'd reboot your iPhone daily, restore to factory settings each time an update comes out, and be grateful for the privilege, without as much as a complaint. It's a shameful display. Ironically, if it was for them, the company would devolve into another Microsoft Windows experience in the 90s. It's already starting to, anyway. Regardless of the reasons behind it, this whole thing with iOS updates slowing phones down and messing up the battery life of previous devices is getting old and tired, and unless we the users make noise about it, it won't get any better. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Second class action suit surrounding Apple's throttling of iPhones with depleted batteries...

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    Something doesn’t add up here. Surely these are not the first smartphones to use lithium batteries that degrade over time. What changed, causing these to unexpectedly shut down? Sounds like a defect covered up by slowing down the phone instead of a recall. Why issue a recall when you can get users to buy batteries, or, even better, new phones. 
    mike54muthuk_vanalingamblurpbleepblooplarrya

  • Apple responds to reports of worn batteries forcing iPhone CPU slowdowns

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    Apple was disingenuous here and deserves all the flak.

    It's important for me as an iPhone 6S Plus and iPhone 6 user to know whether IOS 11 is slowing down my phone, or an old battery, which then I can make a decision to replace and know my phone will be faster because of it. Apple stands to profit from confusion, as usually is the case with any company.

    So, while it might be a good solution, it was not done right. 

    Also, have the shutdowns affected the previous IOS version? If not, why not? I'm wondering whether more and more people will think twice before upgrading to the latest IOS going forward.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple's Phil Schiller talks HomePod delay, AirPods engineering, Face ID in iPhone X, iMac ...

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    welshdog said:
    “Schiller claims that Apple "learned over the last few years" the "depth and love" that the Mac platform has by pro users.”

    Why only recently have they come to understand this? This is surprising to me, having worked in video post at a time when Mac devotion was at it’s highest level. I thought for sure they understood how much we love and demand Macs. Better late than never I guess. 
    Translation: "we were going to abandon that market, but recently realized it was a mistake"
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  • As fans await update for 3-year-old Mac mini, Apple classifies mid-2011 models 'obsolete'

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    AI_lias said:
    If I was Apple, I'd take that Mac Pro trash can design and reuse it for the new Mac mini. 
    God no. The design was horrible. Just ask anyone who's worked on one. It looked cool, but functionally it was worse than the old Mac Pro. 
    Well, the design was bad for a Pro computer, but for a mini, maybe it will work better: not upgradeable, but maybe even smaller than the Mac Pro trash can, and people usually do not plug in as much stuff as in a pro machine, so you won't have the spagettifying of all the cords of everything that's plugged in. I guess it would be nice to make a small version of the trash can for the mini if any parts of that design were good at all. I was not a fan of that design, but I thought they would start reusing it for the mini, also, when it first came out. Maybe save in development cost.
    cgWerks