Faiblesse Des Sens Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 This is going to do as well as the Surface 1 and 2. No, I'm not missing the word "Pro" in that sentence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2016 https://www.engadget.com/2016/11/15/designed-by-apple-in-california-photo-book/ If the latest Macbooks were a bit richly priced for you then there's a more affordable Apple Book coming out for $300. Features realistic page turning, innovative iPaper design, and apart from a foreword seemingly no words which err...yeah it's a picture book. A $300 coffee table book, rather than an actual design book for students as Ive seems to want it to be. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 7, 2017 Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 tl;dw: The Madman did it. It's actually an interesting and very involved process to get to the point that he has a headphone jack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 not watch the video (am at work), but iirc from a teardown it was found it has all the function there for a headphone port...they just didn't put one in. The cynic in me would suggest it was just so they could sell folks their wireless headphones or their lightning adapters. And that cynic in me is probably correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 7, 2017 Report Share Posted September 7, 2017 I would say there is no doubt the cynic in you is correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 13, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 Apple: "Hey we've a phone that's all screen, though it means no physical buttons or fingerprint reader" Andy Rubin of Android/Essential: "Oh, I didn't know that was a limitation we were supposed to have" Apple: "But you can use your face as your password!" Samsung: "And?" Apple: "And you can wirelessly charge it! It's like magic" Everyone else: "No it's Qi and it's been a charging standard for years" Apple: It'll be the first consumer phone to cost $999 Samsung: Huh, you actually have us beat there. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 The facial recognition login thing really gets me. My Galaxy S4, a phone that's coming up on 5 years old, could do facial recognition to login. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 What's wrong with the fingerprint sensor? I don't want to have to hold the phone in front of my face every time I want to unlock it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 14, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 Apple only have the finger print sensor on the home button (where at this point I think most other manufacturers have put it on the back, where our fingers tend to be), but because they got rid of the home button they had to come up with some other biometric unlock method (and "put finger scanner on the back like other guys" didn't cross their mind). So yeah now you have the face unlock stuff which early previews all seem to imply is quite a bit slower. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 Yeah, no fingerprint sensor anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 The iPhone X looks amazing. I kind of feel bad for Samsung, the Note 8 got destroyed three days before it came to market. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted September 14, 2017 Report Share Posted September 14, 2017 Well this sucks. I downloaded Pocket Mortys on my ipod and the battery gets drained from fully charged to <20% in a grand total of eight minutes. I've had it for a while so I figure okay, the battery probably needs to be replaced after 3+ years. Nobody around here does battery replacements! Nobody! And Apple charges 80 bucks for a battery replacement! I thought "okay, I'll buy a battery and do the fix myself. How hard could it be?" I watched a video on it and replacing a battery on these fuckers is like doing brain surgery. The chances of me screwing it up and permanently bricking the thing are just too high for me to be comfortable with doing it myself. It pisses me off just how brazen Apple is about intentionally designing their products to make repairs as obtuse as possible so you have almost no choice but to go to them directly. I don't feel inclined to pay 80 dollars, so I'll just download Pocket Mortys on my tablet instead and use the ipod strictly for music. I can still get a few hours of listening time out of it per charge so whatever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 15, 2017 Report Share Posted September 15, 2017 Yep, Apple is terrible and you should never buy their products. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 15, 2017 Report Share Posted September 15, 2017 Apple bilks it's customers. There are plenty of cheaper (than an iphone) android phones that allow you to use sd cards for more memory and let you replace the battery without too much hassle. IPhones blow and Apple consumer products are for suckers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 15, 2017 Report Share Posted September 15, 2017 Yeah let me just drop $500 on this Samsung product with a vastly inferior OS which has a possibility of literally BLOWING UP. 9 times out of 10 those who hate Apple are just people who can't afford Apple products. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 It's true; the flexibility of Android means that there is a wide variety of phones and tablets to choose from, including shitty ones. When my phone bricked, I got a new one free and a loaner phone for free. When my wife's iPhone bricked, she had to pay $100 on top of Apple Care to get a replacement. My phone's memory is expandable. My phone's OS is customizable. My phone's battery is user replaceable. 10 times out of 10, people who prefer Apple products are ignorant or obtuse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 A customizable OS is good when the standard OS is trash. It's weird that people who claim not to like Apple products can't stop talking about them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielpholt Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 It's 2017 and we're still doing the Apple fan vs Non Apple fan thing. Come on guys. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 Now they all suck when it comes with Aux port, replaceable battery and SD card. They all get at least one of them wrong. Remember the days when you can safely and pretty thoughtlessly upgrade? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted September 21, 2017 Report Share Posted September 21, 2017 On 16/09/2017 at 8:54 AM, danielpholt said: It's 2017 and we're still doing the Apple fan vs Non Apple fan thing. Come on guys. I thought Cowboy was just trolling... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 29, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42161823 Bug in the latest version of Mac OS let's you gain root access with a blank password and hitting "enter" a couple of times. Now I'm currently having deja vu and I'm not sure if it's just the feeling and it's nothing or if something similar happened a couple years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 (edited) https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-iphone-6-6s-7-ios-slow-downs-older-iphones-lithium-ion-batteries/#ftag=CAD-09-10aai5b Slowing down the phone to preserve the battery make sense. You know what makes more sense? Making is easy to replace the battery, avoiding the slowdown altogether! Oh my god, such a brave idea! And I guess I should say I am against irreplaceable batteries from any manufacture. Which kind of limits any future phones I get... Edited December 21, 2017 by Mal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 User replaceable batteries leads to exploding phones, which leads to bad press. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted December 21, 2017 Report Share Posted December 21, 2017 If you buy an Apple product you knowingly cede all decision making powers over it to Apple because daddy Apple knows what's best for you feckless children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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