DaleCannon

While it doesn't seem like this would be impacted by this legislation, I'm wondering how  Apple makes money when an App is free. Say for example I have the ad-supported version of The WeatherChannel App. I didn't pay anything to download it, and there's no monthly subscription fee to use it. Does Apple determine the advertising that appears or does the App maker do that? And how is the ad revenue split?  

Why so many 11 ProMax? Why wouldn't they just do a 12 Pro Max?

9secondkox2 said:

But no one has had their iPhones shutting down at 15 percent capacity while also running extremely slowly until Apple did this. 

Everything worked fine UNTIL Apple started “protecting” owners of older iPhones by slowing them down to frustrating performance levels. 

That's incorrect. The internet is filled with complaints about iPhone 6 and 6S shutting down before reaching low battery levels.  Some of these devices were less than a year old.

This thread was from April 2016. 

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7538123 

10.2.1 included Apple's solution to this issue, and was released on January 23rd, 2017. However, the release notes failed to disclose the slowdown, which is what the lawsuit addresses. 

I'm not defending Apple here - I was affected by this as well - but I do not believe that Apple purposely created voltage spikes in these models;  that was just poor engineering. And I don't believe that they were hoping that that 10.2.1 fix was going to sway large numbers of people to buy new devices. I think they were legitimately trying to solve the voltage spike problem, a hardware problem, with software. 

However, any time you decrease the performance of a device through software without telling the consumer, you will find yourself on the losing end of a lawsuit like this.

iPhone 6S - up to $80. In the meantime, there's a column ad for Gazelle right next to this article - iPhone 6S $280 for the 128GB. Or, curiously, $300 if you happen to have a 16GB....

dysamoria said:

Looking at it now... The UI needs more details about what it actually does and when/how.

If you don’t list an emergency contact, does it still call emergency services?

Do you need to enable the Auto Call feature for it to work at all, or is that a variation on some default behavior?

Emergency SOS is always on, and it's programmed to dial 911 in the US.  And you can't change either of those settings.

On newer devices, you activate it by pressing the right button and one of the volume buttons. Hold them and a slider will appear, and then slide to call. 

If you have the Call with Side Button enabled, you can get to the slider screen by only pressing the right side button 5 times quickly. 

If you have  Auto Call enabled, then continuing to hold the right button/volume button will initiate the call without needing to use the slider. Instead you'll get a countdown with a tone. You can cancel if need be.

I believe it's best to have both features enabled which would allow you to activate with one hand, and not need to see the screen to use the slider.

Additionally, you can add an emergency contact who will get a text message after 911 has been called, and they'll get your location and updates if your location changes.