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  • How to get your old iPhone battery replaced by Apple

    robjnrobjn
    I just replaced a battery in an iPhone 5. It’s easy to do.

    A kit from iFixit cost $25 plus shipping. It included the battery and all the tools. It was a bit tricky to get the tiny screws back in but most I think most people should be able to do a DIY battery replacement on an older device that is out of warranty and has no waterproofing seals to worry about.
    shamino

  • Video: With Apple's HomePod delayed until 2018, will customers wait?

    robjnrobjn
    “the accessory is also Apple's answer to intelligent home speakers like Amazon's Echo and Google Home”

    Not exactly. Apple’s speaker is first and foremost a speaker. The media seem intent on spinning a ‘battle of the personal assistants’ narrative. But this is a false narrative with respect to HomePod. It is also a battle Apple is certain to lose since they refuse to play dirty with our privacy.

    HomePod introduces ambitious, groundbreaking computational audio that delivers outstanding audio performance. You could just control it from your phone and it’s built in touch controls and never use Siri and you will still have a great product with no equal.

    Just look at the market for great sounding AirPlay speakers and you have B&O and Devialet. Then consider that you can buy 4 HomePods for less than the price of 1 Devialet. - It’s a bargain!

    So let’s not reduce HomePod to ‘Apple’s answer to the Echo’ and judge it on the basis of what Siri on it can and can’t do, or as an independent platform for developpers to write apps - apps on a speaker are a bad idea!
    macpluspluscalihmurchison

  • Apple AR headset codenamed 'T288' said to run new 'rOS' operating system, launch as soon a...

    robjnrobjn
    Soli said:
    Soli said:

    2) You can't have AR without a camera, but as we saw with Google Glass a camera just makes it creepy. Can Apple overcome that stigma?
    Is this actually true?  Couldn’t many of the things that are shown using AR be done without a camera?  Granted, on an iPhone/iPad the camera is required to see put, say, my kitchen table, on the screen.  But if I was wearing glasses couldn’t the AR information just be projected onto the lens that I’m already looking through?

    How much of what we currently view as AR relies on the camera for reasons other than showing what we can already see with our own eyes?  It seems to me that the other sensors are doing most of the AR work.  The camera is just there to supply an image.  Right?  So, couldn’t the camera potentially be eliminated while the other sensors still do their jobs in the same fashion?
    I'd still call an IR camera a camera, but I like where you're going with this. It wouldn't be able to take video like your iPhone can but it could use GPS and accelerometer data (for orientation) along with IR data to project images properly.
    I’m sure it would need more than IR image data to understand the environment and project images usefully.  It surely needs a visible light spectrum camera, probably multiple cameras.

    Also it is worth noting that the technology in the front facing TrueDepth Camera only works over short distances. It cannot be used to scan a room without much more power - if something the size and weight of a phone does not have the battery power to do this - do you think you are likely to see a more powerful TrueDepth Camera on a pair of lightweight glasses?
    patchythepiratewatto_cobra

  • Low markups in Beijing's gray market suggest lower Chinese demand for Apple's iPhone X

    robjnrobjn
    I don’t know about China but here in the US Apple are not selling  the popular “no-sim” version.

    This was the preferred version for grey market re-sellers.

    This may have to some small degree helped mitigate the grey market.
    racerhomie

  • T-Mobile bundles Netflix subscription with unlimited One family plans

    robjnrobjn
    You write:
    Subscribers must have a One plan with at least two paid voice lines, which costs $120 per month

    Keep in mind the Kick Back, which saves you $10 per line that uses less than 5 Gigs data. It ends up costing me $110 because my wife has low data usage (she only uses her phone to stream music all day - which T-Mobile don't count as data usage).

    This saves me about $120 a year I pay for Netflix and I have great coverage and the fastest LTE.


    pujones1