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danvm said:

nht said:

danvm said:

StrangeDays said:

k2kw said:

nethan9 said:

I don't buy this story. Apple is trying to force you to buy to a new iPhone, each time it releases new one. I's called planned obsolescence.

Maybe it was purposeful unplanned obsolescence.    Either Way looks real bad.   I expect there to be an FEATURE/EDITORIAL this weekend from DED saying what apple did was the absolute best thing and of course better than android especially Samsung.

Yes, what Apple did was reasonable - extend the lifespan of a device with an expired, used up battery. 

only haters have a problem with it. 

No, it wasn't reasonable.  People know that batteries degrade with time, and it's normal that a +2 year device won't last as long as before, and that even may shut down.  So they have to decide between replace the battery or get a new device. 
But Apple decided for the customer, throttle the CPU, and now customers had no idea that the phone slow down was caused by a "software update", and that replacing the battery fix the issue.  Even AI people felt for it, and published an article with "proof" that the slowness was caused by old apps, or because "psychological" reasons. 

http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/10/06/futuremark-analysis-debunks-rumor-that-apple-slows-older-iphones-down-on-purpose-with-ios-updates

No one knew about this, until Apple admission.  BTW, I don't think people who bring the lawsuit are haters  Remember, they are Apple customers too. 

No one knew this because the number of folks actually impacted seems to be quite small given the Futuremark dataset or evidence of throttling would have been apparent in their data.

If someone really cares they can go through the Geekbench dataset to see what percentage of iPhone 6 and 6S are being throttled among the population of geekbench statistics.

I’m going to guess it’s low or it would have jumped out at folks.  I have geekbench and my iPhone 6 with 20% wear is benching pretty close to average.

I'm think neither Futuremark or AI knew that Apple was throttling CPU's until they release the news.  But still, what the article tried to prove went down with Apple admission of that they are doing with CPU's. 

No.  If what you state is true then it would have been widespread and obvious in the performance data.  The fact that Futuremark and Geekbench statistics don’t show a slowdown in their datasets is an indicator that throttling impacted very few of the general population of iPhones.

The article and the data proves that Apple doesn’t throttle older iPhones deliberately.  Just older iPhones that are in poor battery condition which is a relatively small segment of phones or it would appear in the data.

danvm said:

I don't think that many pro's will build their own PC's, but they'll look closely at workstation from vendors like HP.  They have done an excellent in keep their systems up to date.  And many of their modelos are far more capable than Mac Pros and the iMac Pro.  Apple could learn a lot from HP, specially in the workstation market. 

TCO matters and the way your work environment feels matters too...whether it's a $1000 standing desk or a $700 chair or a sleek and quiet $5000 iMac vs a utilitarian $4000 tower and black slab monitor on drab cubicle desk and crappy office.chair.

Even the leanest startup seeks to have a certain geek aesthetic to attract talent because at the end of the day scoring a couple extra hours of work from an employee every day who's happy at his bamboo standing desk with iMac Pro is a positive ROI.  There's just something nice about working with well designed gear.  $2000 doesn't buy a lot of labor hours...

What asshats don’t get is that criticizing Chinese security policy results in missing people.  Not Tim but Apple employees (or subsidiaries and support companies like foxconn) who are Chinese citizens will be made examples of as well as the usual “investigations”, fines, plant closures and product blocks when you annoy the PRC.

As a Tawainese citizen Terry is vulnerable to such things at a level that Tim isn’t.  Ask Xiao Jian Hua and Wang Jian Lin. Two Chinese billionaires stopped for “questioning”.  If Tim crosses the line Terry and Foxconn has little choice but to run away from Apple as fast as possible.

Let the State Department go down that path. 

Apple and Tim are fighting the battles they can win like in worker benefits and safety.  They have moved the needle on those and given that increases stability for China it’s an area of improvement that isn’t likely to draw high level ire at the central committee level.

For this to really matter you need full MS Office compatibility including Excel macros or many businesses still couldn't switch to ARM.

rogifan_new said:

foregoneconclusion said:

rogifan_new said:

Who cares how good the hardware is when the device is being used as a streaming media player. I don’t think I need an A10X chip to stream Netflix. I’m highly skeptical many people are using TV to play games otherwise Apple would be promoting game play a lot more and probably would even have their own game controller by now.

4K TVs are used primarily for viewing content in 4K, right? So why are there so many different prices for 4K TVs? Different technology. Different capability. Different quality. As for Apple promoting gaming, it's pretty routine for them to have game companies do demos for iOS and ATV. Mario and Sky are two of the most recent "heavy hitter" types of presentations like that, and Apple is definitely paying to have those games be timed exclusives. 

I don’t see what capability TV has that other streaming boxes don’t have other than an App Store that Apple rarely every talks about. I dunno maybe you can name all the great apps available on TV that make it worth $100 more.

Apple are such dumbasses to create such a powerful streamer.  Those guys obviously have no strategy on how to use a A10X in a streamer and it's just a complete waste of time and effort not to mention raising the price for all us loyal Apple users for no good reason.

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