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#642Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am always surprised by these expansive US plans. In France for instance, you can have 50 GB LTE for 20 € per month (with Free). In Austria, 10 GB LTE for 15 € is not uncommon.
France and Austria, unlike Canada are very much dense so the infrastructure required to setup an LTE/UMTS/etc network is less costly. To travel from Vancouver to the next principal Canadian city (Calgary), it requires 900 KM of driving and there's only really one metropolitan area of sorts between the two, meaning that you're going to be setting up cell towers that handle only so much traffic in a day. As a result, t…
> France and Austria, unlike Canada are very much dense so the infrastructure required to setup an LTE/UMTS/etc network is less costly
You are wrong.
Both countries have parts of the country covered by the Alps, high mountains that make cell coverage expensive and several areas still have very spotty coverage with often very old GPRS/Edge-only cell towers.
Also there is a competition going on with more than four telecom companies competing that lowers consumers monthly costs (cell phone data plans).
Additionally the former state based telecom copper cables infastructure aged badly and hasn't been touched for 15 years and the fiber network infrastructure connects just big cities, bit not small towns in the Alps. In many areas cell connection is the only option to get 1+Mbit data connection, as the copper cable infrastructure hasn't been upgraded since the mid nineties.
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#643So much for tech specs page, it doesn't list the battery capacity. Does anyone know how many mAh it is?
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#644Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup! The technicians shown in the video said they usually have around 50 "upgrades" a day done in the shop and this techniques has been around since April 2015. Worst comes to be worst, Huaqiangbei has tons of vendors who sell iPhone scrape parts so an accidental damage can be easily "replaced" and fixed up. And I wouldn't be surprised if some of the technicians were Foxconn trained workers.
Are you in China? (This is not a criticism) your grammar sounds as though you may be Chinese. I wonder how many people in the China tech scene read HN?
Sounds like a native speaker to me.
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#646Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except when you're on the home screen; long press will let you wiggle icons and force touch will let you get app shortcuts.
Why couldn't long press do both? Make "wiggle icons" the top app shortcut or something. ("Move icon" would probably be a less silly name.) You don't see how what you just wrote is drastically more complicated to the average user? Tiny differences in time and pressure determines two different features when pressing an app icon.
Don't invoke "the average user" when you only have data on one user. We measure things these days.
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#647Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see it as a rather significant error on their part. And to be honest, I am not quite sure why there has not been a massive revolt by app developers, content creators, and companies in general. With the OS taking up a huge chunk of that 16GB and basic functionality like messaging taking up another 700MB-1.5GB, and not even counting photos and videos than can almost take up infinite amounts of storage; little is left…
> Tinder alone is basically a 1.5 GB app What? I don't see it even being close to it 290Mb storage used on an Android system (14.25 in internal storage)
On my 16GB iPhone 5 Tinder is showing as 22.9MB, including data. Maybe I should have more dates?
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#648No 3D touch is a very odd fragmentation. You'd think they'd want to shore up their devices to be completely compatible with this across the spectrum to motivate developers to use it as a key part of their UX. Now when only X So your apps have to optionally use 3D Touch, Pencil, adaptive layout, fingerprint, and several other interactions that only cover fractions of their hardware line.
You know, until you mentioned it just now, I’d forgotten my phone even has 3D Touch. It had been literally weeks since I last thought to use force-touch for anything, mostly because there is zero indication where it will work. And it is half-baked in the sense that when I do activate 3D Touch, it’s usually by accident. It is almost the same gesture as deleting apps on the home screen! I go to delete an app, press-and…
"there is zero indication where it will work."
This is the fundamental problem with Apple in general: the secret UI. Working with their products has become an Easter-egg hunt. Apple is hurtling backward to the days of non-GUI software, when you had to have a template of hotkeys printed out as a strip and placed on your keyboard. It's the very thing Apple used to make fun of IBM for.
The G in GUI stands for GRAPHICAL. The fact that Apple has forgotten that, and doesn't get roundly called out on it in every review, is pathetic.
Now they're pulling more idiotic crap like removing the headphone jack from media-centric mobile devices, and making a computer with no power jack or video output or proper external-storage I/O; just an outdated USB port.
Meanwhile they introduce junk like "3-D Touch." Meanwhile, there's no OS-level support for the vaunted Pencil! It can't be used for text entry!
Oh, and year after year, they don't fix this idiotic blunder: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/06/will-apple-ever-fix-i...
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#649I always liked the smaller size compared to the bigger ones. Kind of happy about it.
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#650A great play by Apple for growth in developing markets. Not so flash elsewhere, don't judge by your own standards.
Clearly only low on device capacity to keep a low price point (No 3D touch - same reason). Capacity on board device is not really necessary anyway - thats the reason that Apple have been developing the iCloud.