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  • Apple Watch 'Series 6' could use smaller batteries than Series 5

    Joer293Joer293
    I am called an Apple fanboy by my friends and family, but if I had one gripe it’s the unethical misleading “industry leading battery life” marketing claims.  

    I would pay more for greater energy density in the battery. We should not have to, but I would. Why does Apple set the target so low?  Why do all the customers set their expectations so low?  Everyone with smart watches today may have grown accustomed to “all day battery life”,  because it’s their first smart watch experience. Considering Apples investment in battery R&D, and efficient custom silicon and efficient software, vs all those no name brands that came years before apple makes me really confused. My $50 2008 gsm smart watch with j2me apps, lasted 4 days. That was considered terrible in 2008. Everyone laughed, after being slightly amazed I could make a phone call from my wrist.   The no name Chinese brand spent nothing on efficiency, generic batteries, bloated inefficient j2me software.  Today that battery life would be considered impossible engineering by Apple.  It just doesn’t make sense why Apple with all their resources aims so low and convinced  everyone that they can’t expect any better.  

    I suppose I have the same complaint with my AirPods “amazing” battery life claim. AirPods battery life during a phone call is significantly shorter than all the Bluetooth earpieces I’ve ever owned. The batteries in the AirPods are just not efficient. My jawbone era with a “dead” battery still lasts over 5 hours, (7 hours when new). Apple also touts their industry leading phone battery life, which until about the iPhone 6s, could not beat the talk time of my 2006 Sanyo, which had a smaller battery. 

    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple starts selling HomePod in India for less than US pricing

    Joer293Joer293
    I would have thought Apple would learn from the mistake of locking down the Apple TV 2 & 3 to just a select few apps. Hopefully with WWDC the HomePod gains a full marketplace like the AppleTV4 did.
    cornchip

  • Apple Watch Series 6 may add anxiety monitoring and sleep tracking

    Joer293Joer293
    I've been using my Apple Watch's for sleep tracking every since version 0 (2 and 4). I charge during the shower and have no loss of battery life with sleep tracking on vs off.   

    Sleep tracking apps use the built in always on motion feature of the watch, so they add negligible battery use to calculate sleep awake patterns of movement.
    svanstromStrangeDaysRayz2016watto_cobra

  • Huawei caught using DSLR photos to promote its photography contest

    Joer293Joer293
    It may be interesting to note that Patents / copyrights for store design and layout do exist in the USA. Expensive lawyers know exactly how much difference is needed to keep them out of hot water.  For example changing the RGB values of the logo, or different wood grain, etc. Even though those lawyers and marketing know full well what they are doing, and customers confuse it all the time. You have no idea how many people buy chrome books, wondering why it doesn't run windows software.
    watto_cobra

  • HomeTags make it even easier to control your HomeKit devices via NFC

    Joer293Joer293
    "Cool but why?"

    I can only think of security restricted use cases. Where a janitor in a school or prison, carries a huge keyring, that includes physical security light switch keys. Physical keys for thermostat covers. 


    watto_cobra