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Hopefully they can avoid the burn in problems of OLED.

slurpy said:

rain22 said:

racerhomie3 said:

Fools do not understand how batteries work.
I hope the judges understand.

Fools who believe in ‘secretive features’ that Apple denied until they were exposed...
Pretty sure the judge will understand.

Horse-shit. Fools have been claiming that Apple intentionally slowed down their devices maliciously so that people would buy new ones much, much before these throttling features were ever implemented in software. They were full of shit then, and they still are now. Their narrative is still utterly baseless. The throttling has nothing to do with Apple crippling their own products so you run out and buy new ones, its for a very specific technical reason caused by the realities of battery limitations, in order to give users a better experience (compared to the battery shutting down). The people now claiming "I KNEW IT" after they've been claiming since the 1st iPhone (as well as products without batteries like iMacs, etc) that Apple "slows down" products through software are still fools and morons. 

I for one want to see Apple eat this one. They shouldn't be limiting the components of the phone without notifying the user first. It should be clear (as well as your staff understand) what the product is doing. I used a jetski one time, I was aware it had a limp home mode, I never had to use it but you can be damn sure that computer was going to tell me it was in that mode (beyond it obviously operating at a low RPM). Surely a 2015 iPhone can make it clear if a 2002 jetski could. Everyone understands batteries decay but that doesnt change anything.

DanielEran said:

The solution, of course, is clear plastic backpacks for all adults. 

Because this statement is not political. 

spice-boy said:

I wonder if mobile phones have plateaued the way most consumer products do eventually. Case design is dictated by the internal technology and technology dictates function of the device. I have an iPhone 6s and I'm content with it. None of the iPhone created since have nudged me to even think about replacing it, not saying these are not excellent phones but unless my 6s is destroyed, lost or stolen I can keep it until it fails. I believe more people will come to this realization going forward. 

I think the push to AI (Siri on an iOS) is an attempt to get your old pet to perform some new tricks when your friends come to visit. The money spent of turning the iPhone into a toy bothers me (augmented reality). We don't need to give young people more excuses to never put their phones down when they should be more interested in the world around them. 

There is no doubt that smartphones are approaching maturity, plus many of the developed countries are near saturation. I have bought an iPhone every 2 years since the 3G. This year I plan to replace the battery ($29) in both my wife’s phone and mine (both iPhone 7+s) and go probably another 1.5 to 2 years before replacement. Like cars, phones lose the majority of their value in the first 2 years, so it’s just cheaper to upgrade less often. Plus the features showing up now are more gimmick. AR just doesn’t seem to have a use (yet) beyond showing it to your friends for 15 minutes and forgetting about it. Face ID looks nice but Touch ID is plenty good. Wireless charging looks nice but I can easily live without it. OLEDs are nice but I have seen significant burn-in from the screens at the stores while LCD products don’t show the same issue. 

The features just aren’t compelling to spend that kind of money on every 2 years. Better off buying Apple stock with it. 

racerhomie3 said:

dtoub said:

thrang said:

Truth or click-bait, none of this matters, as the need/desire to speak commands to your electronics is so miniscule compared to the totality of all other methods of inputs and interactions. Saying Amazon is winning is like saying a team than went on a 6 game winning streak in May is destined to win the World Series. It's soooo early in the "season" - and I suspect voice recognition, while increasing in importance over time, will remain niche compared type, touch, and perhaps much more advanced forms of AI interpretation (location, proximity, body, facial, eye analysis, sensors, habit analysis..) Part of the limitation for wider home adoption currently is feedback is very limited (assuming one does not want to keep picking up their iPhone or iPad). But an Apple TV, which can become the visual side of an enriched Siri response, is very intriguing.

Oh, this does indeed matter. Very much. And to deny it is to have one’s head in the sand and just be a cheerleader for Apple. Sorry but I like to think for myself. I rarely use Siri these days except to set an alarm or reminder. Too many times Siri is either “not available” or gets something totally wrong. I have a contact entry for a sushi restaurant and it’s even in my phone favorites. Yet all Siri does if I ask “Call Vic Sushi” is to pull up a web search that shows the restaurant’s web site. I don’t even bother to use Siri on my MacBook Pro since it seems even less capable than on my iPhone and iPad. At this point it’s a bad joke. I don’t have an Alexa or Google device but I am not hearing anything much that Siri does better and in some cases Siri falls far short. Maybe if Cupertino cared more about user experience than OS updates to add more emoji symbols things might be different. 

Nope , it works fine for me.
But I still do not use it for anything except timers & convertions.

Siri sucks. I stopped using it completely because generally I would get annoyed after trying to make it work a second time, utlimately just doing it myself. 
I had a much better experience with google now on an android which I used for a couple months. The voice recognition was pretty good.