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  • Majority of iPhone users unimpressed with iPhone 13 lineup, study finds

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    It is entirly unrealistic to be impressed or excited with new devices every year. People complained about battery life and said they would rather have a thicker phone with more battery life. Apple delivered with the 13. People complained about the notch on the X, and yet every phone with notch on it has sold tons. The 13 will be no different.

    The 2nd gen SE is good enough for me and will be for many years to come, until it malfunctions. I wish it was bigger, but the selling point was the touchID and my old 6 wasn't cutting it anymore. 5G and USB-C are not selling points to me. My wife will probally get the 13 to replace her X. We like to get things paid off for a bit, before getting new devices.
    MplsP

  • Happy birthday to Siri, the first and most frustrating voice assistant

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    Thank you. I knew at least part of Siri processing is done on device, I just didn't remember that all of it was done on device.
    williamlondon

  • Happy birthday to Siri, the first and most frustrating voice assistant

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    Siri says more about the astonishing lack of vision in Apple's management than any other product. Siri could have been the answer to problem of how to access the vast number of options and features in the operating system and apps without wading through many levels of menus and screens. Siri could have been a way to easily converse with your devices to get your work done. It could have run from your home hub while you are at home to keep everything you say private. It could have been the solution Apple was looking for to make everything fully accessible to the deaf and anyone else who could not look at or touch a screen such as people who are driving. Siri could have been the center of your home control making it easy to adjust the thermostat, brew your morning coffee or turn off the lights.

    Siri is none of those things because of Apple management's total lack of imagination and need for absolute control over everything. This is why Siri's voice recognition has to phone back to Apple's own servers exposing everything you say potential security threats. This is why there is no open standard for home control that Apple's products can use. It is why you can't access vital hardware and software features of your iPhone with a simple voice command. The creative, surprising, amazing Apple vision died with Steve Jobs. What's left is a greedy husk of a company that is only interested in short term profit.


    With iOS 15, Apple does do some on device processing as it allows for better privacy, security, less bandwidth and less server usage/dependance. Voice processing is a very complex process, with all the languages and dialects out there. Tell me, what competitor, uses on device processing? Do you expect the $25 smart speaker to have on device processing? As has been discussed many times before, Siri isn't as advanced because Apple cared about privacy and didn't vacuum up all the voice sales they could, like their competitor. Then you have the people who don't learn how to use it, get frustrated and turn it off..... which leads to Siri not learning more. The open standard for home control, is Thread that Apple does want to use. Only interested in short term profit? Right because donating to causes, running classes, Apple Arcade, Apple News, Apple TV are all short term profits. 

    I have hey Siri turn off for most of my stuff. I hit a button, and most stuff is done correctly.
    fastasleep

  • Apple earns more from gaming than Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Activision combined

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    crowley said:
    auxio said:
    crowley said:
    Pretty sickening.  Apple's major impacts on games has been almost entirely negative in my view.  Free to play casual trash and the worst kind of monetisations.
    So Apple mandated that game developers use that business model?  They raced to the bottom themselves in a desperate attempt to be on every phone.  The hardcore gamer market (i.e. people who will pay a significant amount of money for games) is only so big, as is shown by the console industry.  Either you go after that market (and charge appropriately for well designed games) or you go for a bigger market via the free with monetization approach.  It's not Apple's fault so many choose the latter.
    They incentivised it, have taken sod all action against exploitation of addiction properties of pay-to-win models, and are major beneficiaries.

    Apple's store, Apple's rules, Apple's fault.
    Same model exists on Android devices. With all the hate Epic and other developers are pushing for Apple to allow other iOS app stores or to lighten the rules and stop rejecting so much…. I don’t think Apple has the room to crack down on this.

    In the meantime Apple does have their Apple Arcade, which I think has many good games, however the true gamers whine about it not having AAA games. Bundled with iCloud+, 2TB storage, exercises, Apple TV+, Apple News+ and Music. 
    StrangeDaysrezwitsBeatswilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • USB-C group hopes new logos will solve customer confusion

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    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    PSA: Apple's Lightning has 480 Mbps which is over 80 times SLOWER than USB-C at 40 Gbps! And Apple decided to use Lightning on their flagship $1100 iPhone 13 over the vastly faster better and more compatible USB C because innovation.
    Wrong — the first iPad Pros in 2015 had USB 3.0 (5Gbps) speeds on their Lightning ports, when used with compatible hardware. So, that's not a limitation of Lightning (which is a connector, not a data protocol). USB-C is also a connector, not a data protocol, and 40Gbps is a spec of Thunderbolt 3 which is a hardware interface that happens to use USB-C as a connector.. You'd think a "developer" who "turned down a job at Apple" would know these things.
    Nope: "The iPad Pro, released in 2015, features the first Lightning connector supporting USB 3.0 host.[8] The only accessory that supports USB 3.0 is the new camera adapter. Normal USB-A - Lightning cables are still USB 2.0."
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_(connector)

    Even if you could somehow get USB 3.0 speed over lightning, that's 5 Gbps vs 40 Gbps for USB C. That's 8 times slower than USB C. Not 8%. 8 TIMES SLOWER.
    There is no excuse that you or anyone else can cobble together for putting an obsolete Lightning port on an iPhone 13 Pro.

    Dust and water resistance is no problem for the millions of other smart phones that have USB C. It is not a problem for the iPads which have it either.
    Anyone needing to transfer quickly is using WiFi. The bottle neck in transferring is going to be the phone, not the connection. You’re not going to get 40Gbps out of the phone, even if you have USB-C. I’m not sure you going to get 5Gbps either. 
    fastasleepwatto_cobra