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  • Apple confirmed limiting iPhone 7 Qualcomm modem to keep performance on par with Intel chip

    I noticed that when I upgraded my Verizon iPhone 7 (which I'm using on AT&T) from 10.0.3 to 10.1, my download speed dropped by almost 50%. I tested my iPhone 7 download speed on ATT right next to my wife's iPhone 6s. I definitely witnessed a dramatic worsening of the download speed after upgrading my iPhone 7 to iOS 10.1, whereas my wife's iPhone 6s, which stayed on iOS 10.0.2, maintained the same download speed. So, I know the issue was not with the cell tower. 

    I was fortunate to have beeen able to downgrade to 10.0.3 the following day, and after the downgrade, the download speed returned to where it was before I upgraded, which is about 120 Mbps on the iPhone 7. 

    I wonder if Apple started throttling Qualcom modems in iOS 10.1.  
    brian greencpsroduervo
  • Apple ships first LG UltraFine 4K Display orders ahead of MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar

    flaneur said:
    sirozha said:
    flaneur said:
    @sirozha ;;;;  Irrational rant. "Years of neglect" — How is it that you people cannot
    How can you have the arrogance to assume that they have the staff to work on both the old and new platforms at once? Does Intel come up with new processors so often that Apple should create a separate engineering department just to maintain constant re-engineering on the fading platform, selling their customers half-new $3000 machines up to the point where they pull the rug out from under you and then offer you the new platform that obsolesces the updated model thst you just bought? I can't believe the kind of unsympathetic, non-technical illogic that goes behind a statement like "they neglected the MacBook Pros for three years" when they have just released a revamped, reconceived, ground-up revision that clearly would take three years of full-on engineering to accomplish. 

    "There is no vision at Apple" — you know what? Stuff your worthless rant. 
    You misquoted me and then ridiculed your own statement that was not what I said. 

    Apple neglected Mac Pro (not MacBook Pro) before 2013, when they completely reingineered the platform and released an amazing Mac Pro. However, since then they haven't refreshed it for over 3 years, which is exactly what I called it - neglect. One doesn't need much reingineering to put an updated CPU and graphics card in the same desktop platform. Apple simply became so arrogant that they think they can continue charging many thousands of dollars for three-year-old CPUs and graphics cards. 
    Yeah, you're right your "years of neglect" referred to the Mac Pro, but your "lack of vision" nonsense still applies, and my same criticism of your attitude still applies. "One doesn't need much engineering" to slap in new CPU and graphics cards? Who says? An engineer familiar with Apple's personnel distribution, with the detailed parameters of the Pro design, with Intel's or whoever's graphics card upgrades, with Apple's cost/benefit profile of the platform, with their long-term plans for it, with their plans for releasing their own displays to go with it?

    It's just that you guys don't know shit about any of these details, yet you're arrogant enough to condemn Tim Cook or Ive or whoever at Apple you hate today for selling out Steve Jobs's vision. Engineers of the caliber working at Apple don't grow on trees, and you have no idea if the team that works on the Pro is also the one that just finished killing themselves working overtime on the new MBPs. Imagine how they'd feel reading the kind of ignorant crap you guys have been throwing around for the last two weeks. Shame.
    I have a right to criticize Tim Cook. I'm a shareholder with more AAPL stock than I should have, and I don't like where Apple is going and what they are doing. 
    tallest skil
  • Apple ships first LG UltraFine 4K Display orders ahead of MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar

    flaneur said:
    @sirozha ;;  Irrational rant. "Years of neglect" — How is it that you people cannot
    How can you have the arrogance to assume that they have the staff to work on both the old and new platforms at once? Does Intel come up with new processors so often that Apple should create a separate engineering department just to maintain constant re-engineering on the fading platform, selling their customers half-new $3000 machines up to the point where they pull the rug out from under you and then offer you the new platform that obsolesces the updated model thst you just bought? I can't believe the kind of unsympathetic, non-technical illogic that goes behind a statement like "they neglected the MacBook Pros for three years" when they have just released a revamped, reconceived, ground-up revision that clearly would take three years of full-on engineering to accomplish. 

    "There is no vision at Apple" — you know what? Stuff your worthless rant. 
    You misquoted me and then ridiculed your own statement that was not what I said. 

    Apple neglected Mac Pro (not MacBook Pro) before 2013, when they completely reingineered the platform and released an amazing Mac Pro. However, since then they haven't refreshed it for over 3 years, which is exactly what I called it - neglect. One doesn't need much reingineering to put an updated CPU and graphics card in the same desktop platform. Apple simply became so arrogant that they think they can continue charging many thousands of dollars for three-year-old CPUs and graphics cards. 
    LeBart1968
  • Apple ships first LG UltraFine 4K Display orders ahead of MacBook Pro w/ Touch Bar

    paxman said:
    dreyfus2 said:
    Really do not care if it says Apple on the box, I might even get the 5k model due to lack of alternatives. But even if Apple gets out of the monitor business (and several other ones I assume, Airports and Time Machines seem to be equally forgotten and behind), can't they extend their collaboration with these third parties to give them some designs? Hooking a $4k+ laptop beauty up to something that ugly just hurts.
    It hurts. But beyond that I always thought high visibility items in the Apple ecosystem such as monitors would have more value in terms of marketing than direct margins. Even if all Apple did was design the casing it would signal the Apple brand loudly. Ditto Apple TV - I thought the value of a large Apple branded screen as the central focus in people's living rooms would be valuable in terms of brand awareness. Clearly I was wrong. Maybe Apple decided we have become much more sophisticated and see right through the large monitor on the wall or on the desk. 
    The reason this is happening is due to Apple having lost its visionary and its vision. Besides the fact that the iPhone 7, which came out just a month before the 2016 MacBook Pros, cannot be connected to the MacBook Pros without an additional cable (not included with either device), the earphones that come with the iPhone 7 cannot be connected directly to the 2016 MacBook Pros.

    Apple seems to have become confused between USB-C and Lightning connectors. The second generation of Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad were released with the Lightning connector in 2015. Why put the Lightning connector in the non-mobile gear? Oh, that is so that folks could use their existing USB-A to Lightning cables to charge these devices. Amazing! Great vision, Apple!  But then, why not follow this path and put a Lightning connector in the 2016 MacBook and MacBook Pros so that everything converges on Lightning within the Apple ecosystem and on USB-C between the Apple ecosystem and other vendors? So, some time around the end of 2015, the vision must have switched back away from Lightning and to USB-C. The early 2016 MacBook never saw the Lightning connector and neither did the late 2016 MacBook Pros. However, why was the iPhone 7 released with the Lightning connector instead of USB-C? So, is the vision now that Apple mobile devices will stick tobthe Lightning Connector, while USB-C is reserved exclusively for Apple laptops and future desktops? Perhaps, but we now have Apple Bluetooth keyboards, mice, and trackpads, which have built-in batteries and need to be charged by USB, that cannot be charged from the new MacBook and MacBook Pros without buying an extra USB-C to Lightning cable. 

    Apple is now telling us that the future is in USB-C, yet we are stuck with the Lightning connector on the Generation 2 Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and on the brand spanking new iPhone 7. 

    What about Mac Pro? Apple released a revolutionary Mac Pro in 2013 after years of neglect just to neglect this platform again by not refreshing it for over 3 years now. 

    What about Mac Mini? Apple only released one refresh to the 2012 Mac Mini in 2014, but they crippled the platform by not providing a quad-core option. Since 2014, the Mac Mini platform appears to be neglected again.

    There is no more vision in Apple, which is now wondering in the dark without any direction. The cash hoard that Apple has accumulated is doing nothing. Apple doesn't know where to go next. The Apple Car project was a waste of time and nothing came out of it. Apple can't even nail down a streaming TV service.

    Apple HomeKit is a mess, and Apple support for HomeKit is as good as non-existent. The folks who answer the HomeKit support calls have never even configured HomeKit themselves. The don't know how to fix any issues with HomeKit access sharing, devices disappearing from HomeKit, remote HomeKit access not working, etc. 

    The quality of the Apple customer service as a whole has gone downhill. It now takes at least 20 minutes on hold before Apple Support answers a support call. Then you get a Level 1 technician who knows very little about the product they are supposed to support. They can help old people with navigating their iPhones, but that's about the extent of their knowledge. You have to escalate to a more senior technician almost any non-trivial issue, and then you are again on hold forever. The Level 1 technicians bullshit their way out of the issues they don't know how to solve and then they drop the call and never call you back even though they have just taken your phone number. 

    In the corporate world, Apple is extremely arrogant and stubborn. I'm trying to lead an effort to offer MacBook Pros as a choice to senior engineers in a large multinational corporation by piloting MacBook Pros in my engineering group, and we realized that the 2015 MacBook Pros procured for this pilot were ordered with too little storage. We want to upgrade SSD from 256 GB to 512 GB or 1 TB, but the Apple enterprise group refuses to sell us this upgrade. Our upper management are shocked by this arrogance on the part of Apple, especially provided that we can potentially buy tens of millions of dollars worth of hardware from Apple if this pilot succeeds. It seems as though Apple doesn't care. 

    In short, it's so sad to see what's been happening to Apple since Steve passed away. 
    wozwozcommand_f
  • How Donald Trump's election as U.S. President could affect Apple

    smcarter said:
    I cancelled my $3.5K MacBook Pro order because of what happened last night. I don't think I can afford it right now, not knowing what the future holds. I hope that I'm wrong. I hope that a President Trump acts responsibly. I hope that a President Trump won't cause a trade war. However, at this point, I do not know.
    If you cancel your 3.5K MacBook Pro because of your perceived uncertainty about the future, this has little to do with Trump. You should never have spent 3.5K on a laptop, and you finally realized it. You should thank Trump for it. If you need a MacBook Pro, buy a 2015 model. It's a great laptop, and you will save at least 50%. At one pint, folks need to come to their senses and realize that using debt to finance one's lifestyle is a bad idea. It's bad for an individual, for a family, and for a country. Let the rich buy those $4K laptops and $10,000 gold watches. You will be just fine getting a MacBook Pro for under $2,000 and a watch for under $500. You will stil be the envy of 95% of the world population. 
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