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Cost more than $1,000 due to greed, Schiller, Cook and Wall St. PLC-dynamics. Not advanced technology.

The two most important lessons Apple has taught me is how important design and restraint are and how I'll never take a company public, given the opportunity.

Throw in the towel and focus on software Nintendo. They should be the Candy Crush of our times. All their games should be on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS3 and Xbox.

ericthehalfbee said:

Soli said:

JinTech said:

Wonder if they are using Apple branded wall chargers or third party.

While it's entirely possible that out of over a billion products Apple has sold with a lithium-ion polymer battery that they caught on camera a defective unit, I'd guess the most likely culprit is from cheap and/or counterfeit PSUs. Maybe Apple should do more to keep their devices from accepting power from questionable chargers or maybe we need regulations that prevent poorly made PSUs and cables from being at every check out counter.

No. I already debunked this last time. The circuitry (usually a power management IC) to control battery charging is inside the iPhone. The charger is just a "dumb" power supply that sends voltage to the charging circuit.

These circuits are fairly robust and can handle overvoltages several times their normal operating voltage (5V for iPhones from USB). 

I don't know if it's as simple as that. I used (once) a non-Apple charger (fake one; one that looked like an Apple one which I bought while in another city in a Chinese shop for cheap; out of town one day) and during charging the phone display reacted bizarrely to scrolls and touches. I have never experience that with a genuine Apple charger in all the years I've been charging. I'd say the likelihood it was the dodgy charger and that it was feeding the phone the incorrect amount of voltage or similar is extremely high. You didn't debunk it for me. Whatever this charger was doing it was reaching as far as how the display functions—and the phone was getting warm. I immediately removed the charger.

SpamSandwich said:

Would be an unexpected surprise if Siri suddenly leapfrogged both Amazon and Google in terms of usability.

It wouldn't matter. The roadmap for vocal digital assistants and voice recognition engines has no end in sight. That's why I don't get excited when I see stories that Siri may get better in the future. What's the alternative?

For me what I'd like far, far more than more functionality is a more reliable voice recognition & dictation engine—especially for English (Ireland) accents. My accent isn't that strong and it has trouble with understanding me often. And since Ireland Siri option was released in October of last year I've noticed perceisly 0% improvement for me over me using British Siri. And my accent is most certainly not British. So that was a huge disappointment for me given that I awaited it since I first got wind of it from WWDC.

Obviously, greedily, the introduction of a 128 GB SE sees Schiller can (I'm dyslexic; 'can'?) the 64 GB model and the $449 price point. His nickname should not be mini-Steve, but rather Mr. upsell.