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togetherinparis said:

Apple is a dishonest company, stemming from Steve Jobs' categorization of employees as "pirates". Basically Apple steals intellectual property and most successfully from individuals like me. I wrote the "What will Your Verse Be?" Robin Williams Dead Poets speech that Apple stole to sell iPads with. I designed it to offer hope to suicidal teeagers, but Apple repurposed it without my permission via a Harvey Weinstein theft to make millions of dollars. I have given Apple ample proof of my authorship, they refuse even to contact me. Apple should pay the people it has cheated and pay its taxes without equivocation. It is the largest company in the world, society has tolerated their thieving for decades, and it is certainly time that Apple pulls its own weight.

Not to sound rude, but did you have your work copyrighted? Was it your work or was it work for hire?  If you wrote the speech that was given in the Dead Poets Society, were you paid by the movie studio and production for your contribution?  I guess my point is that you can claim someone stole your intellectual property all day, but if it was really yours, you should have protected it with the readily available and generally inexpensive IP protection tools this country offers.

anton_heuchert said:

I don't want to discuss the rest of the articel as I mostly disagree, but
LOL. I'm just as angry on google as on apple for removing the headphone jack. 
It's just a big f%!k you in the face of every audiophile.
That's why I will probably get the V30.

Android forever✌

Actually if you think that the removal of the headphone jack is a slap in the face to "audiophiles", you're not an audiophile.

The reason is that analog audio, especially coming out an 1/8" jack is of poor quality.  In our testing (I write a top-rated music app on the App Store), the audio channels bleed into each other.  For instance, if we pan the audio to the left, it still comes out the right.  This is problematic on any device we tested and is caused by poor shielding in the small headphone jack port.  In addition, you are limited to stereo sound and mono input.  You are also relying on a low quality DAC to translate the digital audio inside of the device into analog audio.

sog35 said:

magman1979 said:

sog35 said:

iOS 11 really sucks on my iPhone 6 Plus.

Battery life is shitty.  Real shitty.  Battery life is probably down 30-40%.

Apps take fucking forever to open.  So many bugs. What a mess. Rotation sucks.

Tim is really slipping. How do they even release such a half baked version of iOS?

You seriously exhibit all the symptoms of by-polar disorder with how you flip-flop on the drop of a hat when it comes to Apple, and especially Tim Cook... Please remember to take your meds...

My comments about Tim depends on his performance.

It would be more disturbing if I had the same opinion of Tim regardless of how well or how bad he was performing.

Just in the last couple weeks there have been some disturbing screw ups by Tim:

1. Apple Watch LTE problems

2. iOS11 bugs

3. iPhone X supply issues

4. Weak sales of iPhone 8

5. AppleTV 4k not working for Youtube, no Dolby Atmos

Its as if Timmy was so busy working on the new headquarters he forgot to work on the REAL products that pay his salary.

It's as if a CEO should be personally involved in the minutia of running the most profitable business on earth or something! How appalling!  Lemme respond since he probably won't:

1. Just got my Series 3 Apple Watch and then thing that bugs me the most is the red crown.  Actually, had problems getting it set up on launch day, but it seems the was caused by AT&T's systems taking a hit.  Got it up and running and making calls and GPS without my iPhone.
2. As a developer, I can say that this has been a great build.  I've reported a number of bugs, but most or cosmetic and can be worked around.  Apps developed on older SDKs work well running on iOS11.  Does it have bugs? Yep. So does EVERY NEW OS RELEASE.  The trick is, don't go and update immediately unless you want to be on that cutting edge.
3. All hearsay at this point. You're applying a rumor to reality.  I'm pretty sure supply will be constrained simply due to the laws of economics.  From the standpoint that Tim is judged on (profitability) he will be doing just fine with a six month back log of $1K+ devices.
4. Conjecture. I believe that Apple expected this when they released two phones. In the famous words of Steve Jobs, "we rather cannibalize our own sales" in regard to iPad.  Same goes for iPhone X vs iPhone 8.  You're complaining now that Apple is competing with itself?
5. No, AppleTV clearly supports H.264 and H.265 video standards.  They don't support VP9, a stolen bit of IP designed to get around paying a licensing fee.  It's up to Google to support H.265 and then devices that run it, not Apple.
5b. Dolby Atmos is coming in an update very soon so get over it.

So not to be Mr. Apple supporter here, but I feel this actually makes sense, especially if you’ve dealt with people before on these issues. Let me explain:

What they are doing is separating the desired action from the technical implementation. For instance, instead of toggling the WiFi antenna off, what you really want to do is disconnect from the WiFi network. However, WiFi is used for more than just network connectivity.  It’s now used for all those other things too like AirPlay, Continuity, AirDrop... these use point to point WiFi instead. Apple is using the control center to control the most common desired function and allow your to configure those other features elsewhere since not everyone realizes that they use WiFi.

the same goes with Bluetooth. Sure Apple Watch and Apple Pencil may use Bluetooth, but they use it in a way that’s transparent to the user. They probably receive a lot of support emails about why this or that’s not working. If there’s not a compelling reason to turn the Bluetooth off completely, just perform the action you desire.

The automatic switching is to prevent users from forgetting they had turned things off. Again, I can see people being frustrated that something’s not working because they forgot to turn it back on.

These settings are convenient and do what most people would expect. For techies that want to shut the radio completely down, they can do that to.

Challenge? I looked up the benchmarks on the Snapdragon 835 and it's pretty bad compared to the A11 Bionic

Snapdragon 835: 2059/6461
A10 Fusion: 3924/9371
A11 Bionic: 4274/10438

Good luck with that one, Google.