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What I don’t get is all the launch shows are pretty much finishing up now with their first seasons. See already finished as it had less episodes. Almost nothing else started in between so it seems unless Apple has some surprise launches, they won’t have hardly any new content going up weekly soon.

I mean I’ve got it free with a new iPhone so it’s not costing me anything. It’s not expensive really once you have to pay but they really will need to get more content fast for it to be worth even the price they want at the moment.

I’ve used Life360 in the past so my wife and I could track my younger kids, making sure they get to school and home OK on their own.

They had Android phones because of price point mostly. We couldn’t trust them not to lose the device, drop it too often and break it or have it stolen at school or something else.

Obviously if everyone in the family had an iPhone we could have used Find My Friends with a Geofence but Life360 gave us the ability to track Android phones from our iPhones. I doubt Apple will give that capability.

I love Apple’s approach to privacy and we all know companies that would abuse this to track you. However there are some legitimate use cases as well, as long as the person is fully aware an app is tracking them in the background then I’ve no issues with it. It’s more the shady companies like Google / Facebook and so on that grab this data for marketing purposes that need to be stopped.

seanismorris said:

3,969mAh is a huge battery for Apple...

Source:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/9705387/samsung-iphone-battery-size-new-phone/
Here's how popular phones stack up in terms of battery capacity...

• iPhone 8 – 1,821mAh
• Google Pixel 2 – 2,700mAh
• iPhone X – 2,716mAh
• Samsung Galaxy S9 – 3,000mAh
• LG G7 ThinQ – 3,000mAh
• HTC U11 – 3,000mAh
• Motorola Moto G6 – 3,000mAh
• Sony Xperia XZ2 – 3,180mAh
• OnePlus 6 – 3,300mAh
• Samsung Galaxy Note 8 – 3,300mAh
• Asus ZenFone 5 – 3,300mAh
• Google Pixel 2 XL – 3,520mAh
• iPhone XS – 2,658mAhb

Samsung is rumored to put a 6000mAh in the future Galaxy/Note.
FYI: MacBook Air 11 (2013) was 5100mAh

Looks like Apple is trying to play catch-up with battery phone sizes.  I’ve heard some criticism that Apple’s batteries aren’t lasting as long as Apple claims.  Historically Apple’s batteries have been undersized vs the competition, but they made up for it with OS optimization. 

I agree that’s a massive battery and quite unlike Apple but I hope it’s true. I get the OS is more efficient but I think that difference is slipping a bit. Apple has slowly been opening up their OS to more multitasking, etc while in reverse Android is being pulled back from the anything goes land it used to be.

No doubt it’s still more efficient but with a battery matching or maybe exceeding top of the line Androids they could well and truly beat them. When they don’t have 5G this year or any major selling points, knock it out the park battery life might be the way to shift a good amount of phones.

Clearly they are going to save some space from removing 3D Touch but find it hard to believe that alone gives them room to go up that high on the battery. It sounds like otherwise the internals are pretty much the same so you’d have to think a wee extra bit of thickness as well?

I don’t believe this size battery of course but here’s to hoping.

entropys said:

That sounds like a problem with your particular infotainment system, Ayoo.
Carplay is the same regardless of the head unit brand, which all work in different ways.

No I don’t think that’s it. I’ve got a BMW M760Li and I’m in two minds around car play. In theory I generally like it and for most cars it’s likely great but only BMW’s navigation will project onto my HUD. Also in fairness I think their navigation is generally very good so I’ve no issues using that.

Then if you take music. With just normal Bluetooth and no CarPlay my iPhone pushes my playlist to the car. I can then scroll through my playlist on the HUD to pick what songs I want. With CarPlay all I get is back and forwards a track.

With Bluetooth connectivity again I can pick contacts to call on my HUD, navigate to addresses from the Address Book, etc with the native nav. With CarPlay I lose that as well.

Those are the main items that are annoying. I’ve got it switched on still but I do sometimes consider switching off CarPlay to go back to Bluetooth. I think if you’ve got a car without a HUD then you’ll simply not have hit any of these issues. However more cars are going to get HUD’s, not less. So I think I’m a way they’ll need an API or way to extend CarPlay into a HUD, otherwise as more cars get HUD’s it’ll make less sense.