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suddenly newton said:

Tech tear-down porn. How many new iPhones are lost to people who profit from destroying them to promote their websites, YouTube channels (amateur "drop tests") and the like?

I love the iFixIt tear downs not because I want to fix them but because Apple doesn’t show their construction. These tear downs are a public service really.

It’s so fascinating to see how much Apple can cram into a small case. They’ve taken what they’ve done with the MacBooks and found a way to do that to an iPhone which makes sense.

I love Apple because after having spent 18 years working in IT as a Systems Engineer and having to repair many desktops and laptops no one else comes close to Apple’s designs even with these tear downs coming out.

Compare a MacBook Pro to a high end HP or Lenovo or Dell or even Alienware and you’ll see the pathetic designs of those machines in comparison.

To fit so much tech in such a tiny space is a phenominal achievement.

AppleInsider said:

Retailers and consumers in the region are inured to another contactless solution in eftpos, a card-based system that does not charge usage fees. Credit card payment processors, on the other hand, charge fees for each transaction, which in New Zealand runs at an average 1.7 percent for credit cards and 1 percent for debit cards, the report said. 

Actually incorrect.

Most EFTPOS cards here in New Zealand are Debit Cards and it is only debit or credit cards that are accepted by contactless payment systems. These debit cards are either MasterCard or Visa.

EFTPOS is a different system altogether and predates debit cards but all debit cards can be used as EFTPOS cards. However, there is a new initiative on the part of EFTPOS to support EFTPOS over the internet which acts in the same way as a debit card but does not need the backing of Visa and MasterCard.

Damn, I missed the part that says AR apps won’t work on iPhone 6/6 Plus.

That PLNR app is just what I’ve been looking for for a while

blurpbleepbloop said:

harrykatsaros said:

Things not mentioned:

- should have emphasised the 2436x1125 resolution -  the best resolution in the business. I know Samsung claims the Note has a resolution of 2960x1440 but that's not exactly the case. Samsung by default turns down the resolution to 2220x1080 (which means the iPhone has a better resolution in real life use).

You mention several good points - but regarding the screen - I'll suspend judgement until I can try a unit in person BUT I do have to think back a few years ago when Phil Schiller (correctly, IMO) derided Samsung for putting out a very high resolution/dpi display saying that the higher resolution was marketed as a positive for the user but in going well beyond 300 ppi they provided the user with indistinguishable "improved" images yet put a real extra burden on the graphics subsystem.  I have to wonder why this evidently will be different for the iPhone X.  Our defacto answer would be, because Apple does stuff the right way - but in this case I'd like a bit more detail and explaination.

I suspect it's because back then Metal2 didn't exist. Also Samsung (nor Apple for that matter) didn't have custom designed GPUs that could handle the needed power to display the graphics properly. Nor did they have a 64bit super computer processor. Technology has moved very quickly from when Phil made that quote and so his comments don't stack up now. :-)

ireland said:

I really want a dedicated Apple Podcasts app on macOS. De-bloat her.

Love how they begin to remove bloat and the first two comments are complaints. Ha.

Why a separate app for podcasts? Seems like adding more apps to macOS which kind of has the opposite effect to debloating everything. You're just moving the problem from one place to another.

on that line of thinking though I'd rather see Preview disappear and rolled into iBooks so that PDFs are read directly in iBooks but add Previews annotation functionality.