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Mike Wuerthele said:

ivanh said:

Not only updates, but also equal level and priority of services.  No planned obsolescence. No discrimination of older devices to access of services. Other nations in the world should follow Germany.

There are features in hardware in newer chips than the A9 that Apple uses, and aren't available in the iPhone 6. So you're suggesting that these features not happen, because they can't be implemented in the iPhone 6?

JFC_PA hit the nail on the head.

What you want with feature parity is never going to happen. You're confusing the march of technology with "planned obsolescence" which you apply thickly whenever something happens that you don't like.

Access to dotMac nee moblieMe nee iCloud wasn’t a matter of hardware functionality, but of iOS versions, where access to new cloud services wasn’t back-ported to old versions of iOS, nor were new versions of the OS brought to older hardware.

Similar issues are regularly introduced, like the tagging functionality in Notes in the latest iOS version, which will break compatibility with any device that can’t be upgraded. So you either have to hold back all your devices, or toss some old ones which otherwise would be working just fine.

Illusive said:

So they want us to buy untested rubbish so then can alter it as they see fit with every update? No, thanks. Long live sandboxing!

Sandboxing is OK for random office software, but it’s useless for almost all utilities.

For the same reasons an iPad Pro is a joke in name, because anything that carries the restrictions of iPadOS is never “pro”; a iPad that could switch paravirtualizing VM between macOS (with iPad UI in a separate space or running as catalyst apps) when docked with the Magic Keyboard, and iOS-only when undocked, THAT could call itself “pro”.

But tools for development, data recovery, AV capture/redirection, file management, backup, network management, penetration testing, etc. etc. can’t run properly in a sandbox, and these are the things Pros need and use.

Wouldn’t Sony (as buyer of Konica-Minolta’s Camera assets) also hold a few patents?

https://m.dpreview.com/reviews/minoltadimagex

I understand why there’s just a single fingerprint, but who says it’s actually the correct one?
One can do face identification, and yet use someone else’s finger…

Also, the main purpose of having stored more than one finger isn’t to let others use the device, but to make sure one can continue using the device after e.g. cutting a finger while cooking and wearing a band-aid, or to be able to use thumb or index finger, depending on how one holds the device.

So I used to store left and right thumbs and index fingers, but certainly NEVER someone else’s paw prints.

The point of using a Mac over say an iPad Pro is that you’re not within a jailed environment. But Mac AppStore have similar restrictions als iOS apps, so obviously the most interesting Mac apps cannot possibly sold on the AppStore, as they provide functionality not allowed for AppStore apps.

Also, it’s a mature market: relevant and interesting niches are long covered by established players. It’s not like on iOS where most apps a silly wrappers around corporate web sites or trivial mobile games.

In short: the publishing of these numbers are meaningless clickbait or the attempt by competition to tarnish Apple’s image, it’s well known enough that the entire PC industry is shitting their collective pants due to Apple’s own silicon advantage.