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  • iMac 24-inch M3 review: A clear sign that Intel Mac support is ending soon

    elijahgelijahg
    jonamac said:
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    jonamac said:
    Is there any logic to that headline whatsoever? What about this iMac is a clear sign of intel support going away???
    This is addressed in the text.
    Where?!
    I wondered the same, nothing really addresses that apart from saying some new features only work on Apple Silicon. The Apple Silicon only features are similar to features on newer versions of iOS only working on the latest generation iPhone, doesn't mean support for the previous generation(s) is going to be dropped imminently.
    mattinozAlex1Njonamac

  • Is the Apple One subscription bundle worth it in Fall 2023?

    elijahgelijahg
    I cancelled Apple One a while ago, and was very recently considering re-subscribing at £33/month - mainly because I sub to Music (£11), 2TB storage (£9) and News+ (£9) totalling £29. Now it's £37 there is no chance. It's absolutely not worth £444 per year - and I'll probably cancel News+ and trim my storage needs to <200GB. For some reason messages uses 60GB despite when synced locally only using 25GB, so something weird there.

    I wish you could choose what was in the bundle. I couldn't be less interested in AppleTV+, and Apple Arcade has gradually regressed to being 90% games aimed at 12 year olds or App Store games with the ads switched off. In the individual bundle I would swap AppleTV+ with News+ and arcade for 200GB of storage.  AppleTV+ is in all tiers undoubtedly to push subscriber numbers up.

    Also, why is Apple spamming News+ with ads when customers are paying? Cook really knows how to keep those customers satisfied.
    darkvader

  • iPhone 15 has new battery health controls to prevent charging past 80%

    elijahgelijahg
    Actually... Most wear to lithium batteries is in the topping charge (80%+). Preventing the battery exceeding 80% does genuinely increase battery lifetime quite significantly. If a user doesn't discharge their battery to <20% by the end of the day, there is no point in charging it to 100% and causing more wear. Better to use the lower 0-80% than the upper 20-100%. This is why Apple limits the charge to 80% as much as possible at night, which is a relatively small proportion of time, but the battery improvement is enough that they deem it worth it.

    I hope this comes to older iPhones too.
    Alex1NmaltzbyronlappleinsideruserFileMakerFellerjony0

  • UK tries to claim it hasn't backed down on encryption at all

    elijahgelijahg
    command_f said:
    Now being constructive, can someone please remind me why Apple's original proposal was so bad: Before encryption, and totally on-device, scan photos that are leaving the device to go to Apple's servers (iCloud) to ensure they are not CSAM. For me, opposing this because such a scheme could be extended to scan for other types of material is nonsense. Of course it could be extended but this is just extrapolation to the point of absurdity. Apple could do many things (let's start a rumour that they are injecting subliminal messages in photos shall we?) but that doesn't mean it would. Apple could even do it without telling us but their track-record says they wouldn't.
    The argument was it is easy for a government (think China) to force Apple to secretly add extra keys to the CSAM scanning database - such as photos of people a government didn't like - with very few people needing to be in-the-know for that to happen. It is a *lot* harder to secretly implement an entire scanning routine without anyone finding out.
    command_f

  • Undercharged: iPhone 14 owners complain about lower battery endurance

    elijahgelijahg
    appleinsideruser said:
    phytonix said:
    ramanpfaff said:
    14 Pro already down to 89%. Bought right at launch a year ago. Never saw this drastic decline with any of my previous phones (I get a new one every year). 

    I am also at 89%. I have to say Apple must have changed their battery supplier. My MBP 14 M1 is also 89% battery health with 261 cycles.
    I am very disappointed by obvious decline in battery quality for the last couple of years.
    Er, hang on. 89% for 261 of 500 cycles sounds spot on schedule. Just done the maths: 89.65% is on target to hit 80% after 500 cycles.
    It's supposed to be 1000 cycles for Macbooks.
    byronlAlex1Nappleinsideruser