MJG33

About

Username
MJG33
Joined
Visits
11
Last Active
Roles
member
Points
50
Badges
0
Posts
11

Reactions

21Like1Dislike6Informative

  • iPhone 14 Pro has the best speed in more than just processing

    MJG33MJG33
    lkrupp said:
    Wait. What? Could one of resident trolls please explain this? Doesn’t the iPhone use the same Qualcomm 5G modems as Samsung and Pixel. Are the Apple Silicon SOCs that much better? Does Android suck? What’s goin on here?
    Likely a combination of antenna design, noise control in the board and amplifier designs, software, etc.
    muthuk_vanalingamappleinsideruserFileMakerFellerjimdreamworxwatto_cobrajony0

  • Apple forced to include charger with iPhone in Sao Paulo

    MJG33MJG33
    I think another aspect of this that is being missed in the article and comments is this could be partly playing to the EU as well. This year, the EU voted to force phone manufacturers to have a common charger standard to avoid the increasing e-waste of chargers. Apple fought it along with other tech companies and wanted the Lightning port to be included as one of the “standard” charger ports allowed instead of having to move to USB-C (or aging micro USB). 

    By simply avoiding including a charger and then throwing a USB-C to Lightning cable, they could be seen as appeasing the EU to some extent — at the same time as yes, saving a ton of money themselves in manufacturing, shipping, packaging, etc. and getting the PR bonus of environmental responsibility. 

    Regardless of their motivations, the fact that the EU was focusing on charger standardization and a reduction of chargers ending up as e-waste shows this wasn’t all Apple’s thinking out of nowhere. 
    forgot usernamelkruppwatto_cobraviclauyyc

  • Apple forced to include charger with iPhone in Sao Paulo

    MJG33MJG33
    Alternative viewpoint; Brazil's government has a very poor standing as far as protecting the environment and reducing emissions or waste.  Excerpt from an article on the subject: 

    • Between March and May 2020, the government of Jair Bolsonaro published 195 infralegal acts — ordinances, normative instructions, decrees and other measures — which critics say are an indirect means of dismantling Brazil’s environmental laws and bypassing Congress. During the same period in 2019, just 16 such acts were published.
    • In April, 2020 Environment Minister Ricardo Salles suggested that the administration “run the cattle” which experts say, within the context Salles used the phrase, is a euphemism for utilizing the COVID-19 crisis as a means of distracting Brazilians from the administration’s active undermining of the environmental rule of law.
    • A partial study of the 195 acts has found that they, among other things, allow rural landowners who illegally deforested and occupied conserved areas in the Atlantic Forest up to July 2008 to receive full amnesty for their crimes. Another change pays indemnities to those who expropriated properties within federal conservation units.
    • Shifts in administration management responsibilities have also resulted in what experts say is a weakening of regulations granting and managing national forests, and the relaxation of supervision over fisheries that could allow increased illegal trafficking in tropical fish. A study of the repercussions of all 195 acts is continuing.
    Dogpersonforgot usernamedewmewatto_cobra