brianjo

mknelson said:

Blizzard said:

Here is what I think, I think Apple is making it that expensive to change the calculas between keeping the phone and buying a new iPhone.

That's not expensive. A better reason - a battery replacement takes about an hour*, and service techs are expensive.  Prices need to go up to cover labour, particularly for Apple Authorized Service Providers.

*devices must be signed in, inspected, entry diagnostics run (MRI), repair, exit diagnostics (another MRI), device signed out.

Apple authorized service providers can't make a profit replacing batteries unless they have minimum wage techs.  You're correct that there's about an hour of labor involved in a proper battery replacement if you follow Apple's guidelines and paperwork procedures.  The cost Apple charges for the battery leaves very little for the provider to make any money at all.

Afarstar said:

M68000 said:

Other than battery capacity, it is a bit of a travesty that ALL features are only available on the oversized two handed jumbo phone for a given model year.

i am pretty sure that Steve Jobs thought or said  phones should be able to be used with one hand.  I happen to agree with Steve on that.

In case you hadn’t realised, Steve Jobs died many years ago. What he said then is of no relevance whatsoever in current markets. 

Steve's vision was to make great products.  Tim's vision is to make great profits.

The problem is that consumers gravitate towards features that seem cool in the beginning, but end up regretting their decision shortly thereafter.  A lot of people I know that bought the huge phones HATE them because they are so huge to carry around.  Only a few people I know searched out the smaller phones, but everyone that has the smaller phones loves them.  Weird, huh?

BeDifferent said:

They only need to slap the Matter version number under the Matter logo.

Basically every other spec has multiple versions, like Thunderbolt. USB, WiFi, Bluetooth, HDMI, etc.

For example, Apple doesn't yet support Matter version 1.2 which was announced in October of 2023. This update brought many new device types, including robotic vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, fans, and air purifiers.

This fall with iOS 18, Apple will be adding support for robotic vacuums but not the rest of the spec. That makes it very confusing because there are existing Matter air purifiers on the market.

So, no, just using the version number supported isn't enough.  You'd think that it should be, and if you're going to support part of the spec, you support ALL of that spec.  There lies the problem.

PLEASE! No external power supply required.  It suck on the iMac, and would suck way more on the mini.  The old mini had a stupid external brick, and they made it awesome with the current design.  The size is great because you can put a pair of them in a single rack space easily.  Make it smaller so you can put 3 might be interesting, but too small and you can't have enough ports to be useful.  A smaller computer that needs dongles and adaptors is NOT an improvement!

avon b7 said:

Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 

The EU made Microsoft allow others to have access to the software. The only way to restrict this to EU customers would have been to create separate versions of the software specific to the EU.