Mike Wuerthele

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  • Apple FineWoven case review: Not the leather replacement we were hoping for

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    OctoMonkey said:
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    Hreb said:
    Sorry Andrew -- I'm very interested in whether my next Apple watch band should be leather or FineWoven and unfortunately this review strains credibility.  You report snags, lint, stains, scratches, and other durability issues.  But every photo in the review shows a brand-new, nice looking FineWoven case.  It's a physical product, show the photos!  TTIUWP.
    If you want something more real-time, feel free to head into an Apple Store. They change them daily, and they still look terrible after a few hours.
    They change them daily?!?!

    Well, that certainly sounds like an ecological approach!
    I didn't believe it either, so I asked other folks that we have inside Apple stores. Turns out yep, daily swap-outs, or "as needed."
    williamlondon

  • Apple FineWoven case review: Not the leather replacement we were hoping for

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    Hreb said:
    Sorry Andrew -- I'm very interested in whether my next Apple watch band should be leather or FineWoven and unfortunately this review strains credibility.  You report snags, lint, stains, scratches, and other durability issues.  But every photo in the review shows a brand-new, nice looking FineWoven case.  It's a physical product, show the photos!  TTIUWP.
    If you want something more real-time, feel free to head into an Apple Store. They change them daily, and they still look terrible after a few hours.
    muthuk_vanalingamnubusbeowulfschmidtgatorguywilliamlondon

  • Apple FineWoven case review: Not the leather replacement we were hoping for

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    jordon schultz said:
    A very substantial assumption of durability, or lack there of, in the review and a whole lot of whining sense of entitlement in the comments. Cases are an incredibly subjective matter but calling this new one cheap and questioning Apple’s development of it is laughable. You also don’t have to buy it, and quite a short memory we have- the leather case has been plagued with durability questions for a while. 
    Given how banged up these cases were at Apple Tyson's yesterday after being on display for three days, I'm comfortable with Andrew's assessment.
    muthuk_vanalingamnubusITGUYINSDomasouwilliamlondonneoncatgrandact73caladanianOctoMonkeyFileMakerFeller

  • iPhone 15 review: A bigger step up than the iPhone 14 was

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    M68000 said:
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    sdw2001 said:
    It certainly sounds like it’s a bigger step up… from an iPhone 14. But I found the headline a little bit misleading. The pro models are really not as big a step from last year’s models. The standard models are a bigger step.  When I saw “iPhone 15“ I assumed the article was about the entire lineup. Obviously, it’s not.  
    I've been thinking about how to respond to this comment for a bit, and I'm still puzzled how you came to this conclusion. We have never combined non-Pro iPhone reviews with the Pro ones, and the first three words are literally describing the content of the article.

    Regardless, the Pro models will be reviewed in the next six days.
    Thanks for all the work you and the rest of the team do.   There seems to be some info on the net about possible thermal issues with the new pro models,  wondering if there is any truth to it. If it means there needs to be a speed cap now for future phones
    Yeah, we're looking into it. The Pro models do get hot when getting hammered with a big job, and when the battery is getting charged. It's hard to tell right now if that's intentional behavior. 

    I'm more concerned today about the heat generated when getting charged at 27W than I am the "big job" hammering, although the latter contradicts Apple's "the best console is the one in your hand" message. We'll see.
    killroy

  • iPhone 15 review: A bigger step up than the iPhone 14 was

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    mlondoneu said:
    It's not correct to say "Two years ago, the EU law that mandates USB-C on newly-available devices wasn't even really in consideration" - The European Commission published the draft legislation on 17th September 2021. This then had to be democratically discussed and amended by the European Parliament and EU Member States, but almost every draft law is passed - so it was very definitely in consideration!. Here's the timeline (with linked documents), as described on the European Parliament's web site: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/popups/ficheprocedure.do?reference=2021/0291(COD)&l=en
    FTA: "There's a misconception that Apple was forced to do this in the iPhone 15, and that's not entirely true. It takes between 20 months and 30 months from iPhone inception to delivery, and given the architectural differences with USB-C, this kind of introduction would be pretty early in the design process."

    24 months ago, the draft legislation didn't have a timeline for required implementation. 30 months ago, when design work is conservatively estimated to have started on this phone, it certainly wasn't in the register.
    tmaykillroy