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  • A12Z chip in 2020 iPad Pro confirmed to be recycled A12X

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    StrangeDays said:

    roake said:
    iadlib said:
    Can they be sued for that? Selling a product that you later find out was intentionally hobbled?
    While I suppose people can sue for anything, I think the spirit of the answer is no.  The original device met the specifications it was advertised with.  The fact that it had an underlying inactivated graphics core should be legally irrelevant.  Perhaps the had cooling or other issues with the overall design when that core was active.
    It’s not that it was “inactivated” previously. Making chips is hard, many chips fail to achieve 100% of the desired features. The failure/success rate is the yield. Over time you get better at making them and your yield improves. Doing it at scale is a massive undertaking. Now making the A12 series is hitting better numbers, resulting in chips with the full number of cores.
    This.  All semiconductor companies do this to some extent as a new chip design will have significant yield losses at launch.  In order to salvage the breakthrough design process, it's common practice to allow for some acceptable level of manufacturing flaw and lower the threshold of perfection so that things remain cost effective and less wasteful for the manufacturer and for the consumer.

    Two years later, the A12X is now refined to the point where the defect rate is reduced and a higher standard is cost effective and can be provided to the consumer at equal or lesser price than originally.
    StrangeDaysstompywatto_cobra

  • Netflix cuts video bitrates in Europe due to social distancing demand

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    zroger73 said:
    I still can't tell the difference between 720p, 1080p, and 4K content from a distance of 10 feet on a 65" TV and I have 20/20 vision. I can tell the difference from a few feet away, but that's too close to be watching a 65" screen.
    I can definitely tell between 1080p and 4k, even at a significant distance.  On the flipside, 720p and 1080p have never seemed like a significant difference for movies or television (a different story for gaming or laptop usage).  Your mileage will vary.

    watto_cobraCarnage

  • French fine Apple $27 million for battery patch that could slow down old iPhones

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    atomic101 said:
    larrya said:
    You guys are pathetic.  Apple cut performance by more than 50% and didn't bother telling anyone, and yet in Apple stores customers were told their batteries were fine, even refusing to provide paid replacements, and were encouraged to purchase new phones.  This is fraud, and the prosecutor's conclusion is uncontested by Apple.  You can love their products, as I do, without wearing blinders.
    Actually you're pathetic: Apple didn't cut performance by 50% and CPU throttling has always been a device management strategy in the iPhone.

    1. iPhones already throttled peak performance prior to these patches. E.g. For temperature extremes and preserving battery life.
    2. The changes in iOS 10.2 and 11.2 extended the CPU throttling features to untenable battery scenarios - i.e. situations which would normally turn off the device. Apple acknowledged that unexpected shutdowns were being addressed at the time.
    3. The most common worst case scenario resulted in a geek bench score of 2,500 being reduced to 1,500 during a peak load. The device operated at "normal" speeds during other times when the battery was able to supply sufficient power, or not under a stressful load.

    Apple cut performance by more than 50%
    Not only was peak load not reduced by 50%, but normal device usage was unaffected. Your comment lends to the idea that the phone was suddenly half as fast as before the update - there is no foundation for that.

    ...and didn't bother telling anyone
    It was literally in Apple's statements about the update: "With iOS 10.2.1, Apple made improvements to reduce occurrences of unexpected shutdowns that a small number of users were experiencing with their iPhone."

    Of all the devices tested in Geek bench 4 under iOS 10.2.1, the overwhelming majority had no change in performance and the average decrease in peak performance due to the new changes was ~10 - 15% 

    So yeah your post is total sensationalist crap, and I think that's pathetic.


    "3. The most common worst case scenario resulted in a geek bench score of 2,500 being reduced to 1,500 during a peak load. The device operated at "normal" speeds during other times when the battery was able to supply sufficient power, or not under a stressful load."


    I can attest to this being wrong.  My device (iPhone SE) would function at 50% CPU speed and STAY that way.  No matter if the device was fully charged or plugged in.  This from a battery that still tested "ok" by Apple techs.  The situation only resolved itself after Apple admitted to their shennanigans and I was "allowed" to replace my battery.   I posted before and after screenshots two years ago indicating this.  THIS is where my bitterness still stems from...

    People here are so defensive about the company.  Sometimes even fans need to take their blinders off every now and then.





    Exactly how long do you expect a phone or battery to last?
    How does this question relate?

    For the record, my phone was a little over a year old at the time of battery replacement.  But my criticism has little to do with the fact that the battery was going bad.  I have no problem replacing batteries when they wear out.  The trick is whether the option (through OFFICIAL channels) is available.  As I explained multiple times in my previous posts, that option was denied to me until Apple revised its policy shortly after.

    Also, for reference, my iPhone SE is still going strong today.  The replaced battery, after two years of usage, is starting to wear (82% and the percentage indicator fluctuates a bit), but there has been no throttling as of yet.  I will likely be getting the battery replaced soon, and I am fine with that. :-)
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • French fine Apple $27 million for battery patch that could slow down old iPhones

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    Before anyone calls me out on the proof.... the link to my post two years ago with screenshots.

    https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/203785/ios-11-3-coming-this-spring-with-battery-and-performance-settings-arkit-1-5-new-animoji/p3


    To reiterate.  I wasn't upset that the battery degraded, or that Apple implemented a throttling feature to preserve phone operation.  I WAS upset that it was done without any clear indication to the user AND that the Apple techs didn't see a problem with it when I wanted to PAY to replace the battery.  When I clearly knew there was a problem and the techs  told me (before Apple admitted to the practice), "sorry, your battery checks out fine - we can't replace it at this point".... well, that just sucked.  Believe me, I was not a happy camper that cold day in January 2018...
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • French fine Apple $27 million for battery patch that could slow down old iPhones

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    Metriacanthosaurus said:
    larrya said:
    You guys are pathetic.  Apple cut performance by more than 50% and didn't bother telling anyone, and yet in Apple stores customers were told their batteries were fine, even refusing to provide paid replacements, and were encouraged to purchase new phones.  This is fraud, and the prosecutor's conclusion is uncontested by Apple.  You can love their products, as I do, without wearing blinders.
    You're completely clueless, and wrong.

    And even if they had, that is the engineers prerogative, not yours, and you're not entitled to any specific performance at any time.

    The only thing Apple did wrong was letting idiot Tim Cook acknowledge it, and apologize for it, and attempt appeasement.

    The only thing??  Seriously???
    avon b7muthuk_vanalingam