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anome said:

blastdoor said:

sog35 said:

Soli said:

sog35 said:

This is yet ANOTHER REASON why Apple should GTFO of China

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FUC THEM. No way. GTFO of China.

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Till them, go to hell China.
I'm not racist. My grandmother was 100% Chinese (RIP) and I loved here dearly. 

Is this going to be your new OCD focus? Come into every thread and say Apple should stop selling HW in China? 

This story is about China spying isn't it?

And now China wants access to iOS source code and a back door on China iPhones.
Plus access to China's iCloud.

This china thing is a big problem.

What happens if the Trump administration wants to access iOS source code and put a back door on US iPhones. Should Apple leave the US too? Just focus on Canada maybe? 

Didn't he claim he was boycotting Apple after the San Bernadino case? Does he have a stated policy about encryption and backdoors?

It doesn't really matter what his stated position is - it will change soon. That's what is so scarey - we don'5 really know what the policy direction will actually be

sog35 said:

slurpy said:

sog35 said:

So this is where all the money for innovation is going.

Tim Cook's swan song. I hope.

Couple more disapponting quarters of the iPhone 6ss, and I hope Cook resigns. Stock will instantly go up just like when Balmer left.

Apple needs a new face at CEO.

You're pathetic. I mean, deeply pathetic. Delays for the completion of project of this immense scale and ambition are normal and expected. Do you frantically refresh this site every second to get the 1st troll post to every article? Beyond sad.

I don't care that the project is delayed.

I care that instead of spending money and release new innovative products they waste it on a UFO.

Right now, Apple staff are spread over probably  50 or 60 buildings in the valley. That stifles innovation, and building a consolidated campus helps address it.

anantksundaram said:

Why is Watson not 'consumerized' yet? One would think that there are tremendous opportunities to make a smarter, more informed version of Siri, if all the ads and publicity around Watson are to be believed. Why is it still in the b-to-b realm?

Probably because of a couple of reasons  
 
1. It doesn't work well in a general sense - just in narrow problem domains.

If Watson was as good in a general purpose sense, as IBM's marketing claims it is, why didn't they use Watson to fix IBM's own (tanking) business ? They've had Watson for years, and IBM still keeps going downhill - modulo a little financial engineering here and there.

2. It might not be architected to have any privacy at a consumer level - IBM has basically zero consumer exposure these days having sold everything consumer off to Lenovo, - they would be trying to spool up consumer outcomes from scratch, and it doesn't make business sense to them (as they don't have a consumer business)

Samsung will probably end up being a management case study in business schools around the world.

The recurring theme is that in order to create a sense of urgency, senior management has caused the company to repeatedly rush with haste, cutting corners to get a product out the door so it reviews well and is crafted to influence the buying decision, not the actual use of the product.

- worker safety violations
- deliberate IP theft & copying
- paid reviews and paid trolls
- government bribery
- rushed & incomplete features to grab headlines
- exploding washing machines & phone batteries
- apparently botched battery recall

it bears similarities to KALs safety woes a number of years ago, which were rooted in South Korean cultural power structures.

KAL eventually addressed this effectively, in part by requiring aircrew to converse in English , which defused some of the indirect cultural deference, and led to more fact based , rational discourse between superiors and subordinates.

They became a much safer & much better airline for it.

I'm not sure Samsung is capable of making such a change.

Cornholieo said:

Uhh no. There are more OLEDs on phones in circulation than iPhones. Apple makes their money using old technology which can be purchased for cheap, then optimizing their software to run on these cheap machines that sell at a premium. HTC and Apple signed an agreement, which allows for the companies to copy each other, which is why so may iPhones have been adopting HTCs look. I just hope the new phone comes with HTCs DAC, which offers the best sound quality of any phone on the market. While iOS is more efficient on cheaper machines, I still gravitate to Android for its Customizability, versatility, and flexibility. I also don't like the idea of being trapped in an ecosystem, people should be allowed to chose default apps, and not have them chosen for them. I do hope that Apple learns that people are different, think different, and not just a bunch of lemmings.

So there's a pretty standard collection of meme's in that, but what the heck, I'll feed the troll:

1. Apple's IPS displays are't cheap & old tech. They routinely out-perform OLED in terms of colour range and correctness. That is kind of handy if you are shooting and editing photos on the camera. Third party supply chain analysis and third party screen analysis confirms this. 

2. Yes they are lower resolution than some Android phones. Problem is, they are already higher resolution than what most of the population can see at normal phone viewing distances. So going to a 4K screen mostly makes no difference except slower graphics (as the GPU is overloaded) , and the need for a bigger battery (due to the power drain). The one area where having a 4K screen does help is VR, , which right now is a very niche use-case (but it is important for a small fraction of users).

3. The chase screen size spec -> bigger battery -> bigger phone is a massive driver in many Android designs. Even high end Android phones might not be able to drive their screen at more than 15-20 FPS, whereas iPhones are in 60+. Because the Android vendors cheaped out on GPU.

4. Despite throwing 8 core CPU at the problem, Android phones still lag iPhone in CPU performance - even though A series CPU are usually 2 or 4 core. And that doesn't factor in that Apple ships GPU that crush virtually everything else on the market, AND makes it easy for the developer to use the GPU for general purpose computation  in conjunction with the CPU.

5. Apple believes that vertically integrated is a necessity, not a choice, so it's always going to be a walled garden of some sort.

6. The great thing about Android is choice. Or more correctly, the appearance of choice. Android is so diverse, anything you want to say about it it, is both true and false at the same time. 

7. There is one thing you can't choose with mainstream Android, and that's the product. Why ? Because the product is you. There are Android forks that don't treat the user as the product but they are without Google, and eitherr very expensive e.g. Boeing Blackphone, or borderline going out of business eg Silent Circle.

8. In most cases, the real customization & versatility comes from the Apps you run, not tweaking the user interface. There are't really equivalents to things like HealthKit, ResearchKit and CareKit on Android for example. Very frequently , if an App exists on both iOS, and Android, it has greater functionality on iOS. The value in being able to tinker, where Android is usually easier, applies to a much narrower slice of the population. 

9. Apple's Accessibility features are market leading, and vastly ahead of a Android.

if you can park the malware & privacy issues , and it works for you, then that's great. But the popularity of Android isn't driven by what it can do for the user. It's driven by what it can do for carriers, advertising companies , and handset vendors, at the expense of the user.

I'll stop channeling DED now.