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  • iPhone 13 Pro Max supports faster 27W charging, but only temporarily

    nadrielnadriel
    So, it works pretty much as intended? Doesn't all fast charging gizmos start to limit the wattage after 50% or so? Due to how li-ion batteries reach peak voltage around that point and after that there's diminishing returns, also batteries heat up etc. I'm not an expert, but I think this is just the nature of battery chemistry and not just a Apple thing. Other than they seem to be more aggressive in saving battery lifetime with smart software limitations.
    thtCloudTalkinwatto_cobra

  • Apple rejecting apps is unfair competition, declare rejected app developers

    nadrielnadriel
    lkrupp said:
    elijahg said:
    pwrmac said:
    But an Android! You are not forced by Apple to buy their services or devices.
    Well, you don't have much choice once you've bought far enough into the ecosystem. If I was to switch to Android I'd need to re-buy all my apps, bin the HomePods, bin the Airpods, accessories etc in addition to buying the phone itself.
    So instead you’ll just stay and continue to bitch, whine, complain, rage, and express your desire for the government to take Apple down so you can do what you want to on a platform that you despise. Yeah, right, that’s logical.
    Well you went on a tangent attacking him... I don't think he wants to bring Apple down, when Apple does something he doesn't like he has the right to bitch, whine, complain and rage as much as he likes. Apple has changed a lot over the years and will change, and people who've been in the ecosystem for a long time might get stuck on some decision by Apple that makes their life hard (or something like it).

    Loud and widespread complaining is pretty effective way to attract Apple's attention and to bring out change, same with other big companies really. I'd really like them allowing side loading apps, because it's a pain in the butt to renew the certificate every so often for Apps that I'm never putting on AppStore. Please leave Android out of this, I'm really not interested in it. I'd rather have something I want on hardware I already own and like.

    Back to the topic, with everything going to the shitty subscription models I'm really on with Apple on this. Exhausting business milking people, more power to users and developers, but really against greedy practices skimming on pennies on a platform they're indebted to for their success.
    elijahgwilliamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • 2022 'iPhone 14' revealed by leakers days before 'iPhone 13' announcement

    nadrielnadriel
    I like the design, if this is coming. But this is just one of those things, the 2023 iPhones will be even better. And the year after that even better.

    I think I’ll buy either 12 used or at discount or the 13 to replace my 7 as a Christmas present for myself. Or just wait one more year, due to COVID I don’t really need a new phone, even if the cameras are really tempting…
    watto_cobra

  • Apple investigating RISC-V instruction set architecture, job listing shows

    nadrielnadriel
    RISC-V processors are already used in multitude of specialised cases: Seagate is testing them for creating "enable massive parallel computational" storage solutions; Nvidia uses RISC-Vs in their GPUs, likely handling some IO, ("and beyond"); Western Digital is going for RISC-V controllers to their hard drives.

    Don't take my words as gospel, but one of the advantages of RISC-V (as an ISA) over ARM (and x86) is that it doesn't carry baggage from ages ago. Not that information theory and computation theory has really advanced so far that they're from a different universe, but some things can be done more efficiently with modern approaches. Benchmarks made by RISC-V developers highlight some specifics where their platform has an advantage over the others, but in general the difference is really really small or goes to something like +/- 5% difference in a specific compilation on a specific compiler (like GCC). Note the minus.

    The other advantage is that it's really "modular (core is really small) and easy to customise" and create custom instructions for ASIC purposes (for example for handling high amount of IO in a GPU). Even if it's free and open source, the same problem comes around as with other ISAs, if you want something done, you need to hire people or buy the service if you can't do it yourself.

    I'd see the RISC-V becoming a huge thing in accelerators and in some specific controllers (Power, USB, Modem etc.) within the next 5 years. Even if there are already some machines running Linux on RISC-V, they are low performance and have a really long uphill way to become even remotely mainstream. 
    hcrefugeeviclauyyckillroyrundhvidpatchythepiratewatto_cobrajony0

  • 'iPhone 13' to launch in September with A15, bigger batteries, researchers say

    nadrielnadriel
    frayapple said:
    Sorry. If they launch without Touch ID Apple can kiss post-pandemic sales bye-bye. Calls to warrant masks again make it important as ever. I’ll jump to an Android. 
    I can sell you my iPhone 7, it has only touchID  and no pesky FaceID!
    patchythepiratewatto_cobra