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  • 2020 5G iPhone coming in 5.4- and 6.7-inch sizes, LTE 6.1-inch iPhone [u]

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    uktechie said:
    2020? That’s more than a year behind their competitors. 

    If I’m paying Apple’s premium prices I expect the best so the 2019 4G model is going to be a difficult sell for Apple.

    I look forward to getting a 5G iPhone but I expect 2019 sales to be poor, at least in areas where 5G is available amor about to launch soon (we’ve had it for a few weeks in major curries in the UK). 
    No really. When 3G & 4G came out they were a year behind and that was a good thing. The tech was not there yet and the modems were unrefined making them very power hungry especially as they searched constantly for towers that did not have exist yet and we’re not presenting the advertised speed. Of course there were no real complaints because the buyers of those other models tend mostly to be either non techs or complicit with Android so they pretend nothing happened. Apple prefers to release products when they are ready which for the customers Apple is targeting makes it well worth a premium. Our phones also have a much longer life. When was the last time you heard that an android phone was passed down twice in a family and is still on the latest software?
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  • Apple's iOS soft keyboard target of new patent lawsuit

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    neutrino23 said:
    rob53 said:
    Typical keyboard used on a variety of computer systems fir the last 40 years. How did he get a patent on this widely used input device?
    Exactly. We've had a bazillion different function key and on screen keyboard configurations since at least the 1960s. How did he get a patent for function keys? The only possibility I can imagine is that this patent is very narrowly defined. 

    We got attacked once like this. The guys was claiming a patent for something about using colors on a computer. At the time we'd had colors used in this particular way for decades. I ignored him. He kept sending nasty, threatening letters which the lawyer told us to ignore. Eventually he gave up. 

    I came up through engineering and science. I've come to find in the business world that there is a lot of bluster and BS flung about. If someone gives in and pays you then you win. You don't have to be right.

    By the way, wasn't Apple's first on-screen keyboard on the Newton? I didn't have one and couldn't confirm this by searching. Certainly the original Mac had an onscreen keyboard somewhere along the line for seeing which key combinations produce which character.
    There was an onscreen keyboard available at least since the first version of OS X. And definitely on Newton 
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  • ARM severs ties with Huawei, creating crisis for future phone designs

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    Well based on potential back doors, our technology is a threat to other countries as well as our business are subject to court orders in the name of national security. We are on a path to isolation. It is not in our best interest to go there and once we remove ourselves from the world economy our place will be quickly filed. Interestingly the primary winners in this  scenario are China and Russia. 
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  • The Samsung Galaxy Fold doesn't look like it's coming back any time soon

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    jeffythequick said:
    I hope they do well.  Nothing sparks innovation like competition and someone looking to take your lunch.
    But innovation is not skimming the US patent office to figure out what the customer you are supplying screens to might be planning to do with them, then rushing to market to be first. It was revealed in 2016 that Apple received at patent for a folding phone. It was filed in 2014. It looks a lot like what Samsung tried to release. 
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  • Editorial: How AirPods and Shortcuts shifted Apple's Siri story and blunted Amazon's Alexa...

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    smaffei said:
    Are you kidding me?!?

    Siri is dead last when it comes to usefulness (and accuracy) in voice assistants.

    Thanks for a FUD piece of journalism.
    Most who actually use Siri daily find it far more effective. I rarely need it at home, but it prompt and reminds me of common tasks like when to leave for a meeting, an update on traffic if I need to leave early, or how long it will take me to get to my favorite coffee shop. Alexa is useless to me. It seems to have mastered the very parlor tricks that Apple haters skewered Apple for when Siri was announced. I personally find it more useful to be able to ask Siri to remind me to call Thomas when I leave St Johns School tomorrow, and have a reminder with a one click link to call Thomas pop up as I cross the 328 foot geofence Siri placed around the Address of my son’ school. And that’s without needing to have the school stored in my phone. To me that is real usefulness. 
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