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Huh. So "we'll fix it in software" is the consumer device equivalent of the entertainment industry's, "we'll fix it in post"?
You have no idea. Faulty hardware? We'll fix it in the drivers.
or in the compiler :)
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really a secret unfortunately: New iPhone 7 Data Suggests Sales Slower Than iPhone 6S - http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2016/10/03/iphone-7-s... [edit] You have actually more data here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho... If you compare 2016 Q4 to 2015 Q4, iPhone sales are retracting. Same for 2016 Q3 against 2015 Q3. I don't get what the debate is. It's public data.
That is a very different situation than "New iPhone has been the worst selling one in relative numbers since the iPhone."
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#103I think I am starting to get worried about the future of Apple. 2016 was a bad year. New iPhone has been the worst selling one in relative numbers since the iPhone. New MacBooks has several issues and controversial choices, while not bringing anything substantial to the table. New Watch changes are so small, nobody noticed an update.
It's not like they had to drop an entire product line because they kept exploding.
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Isn't WhatsApp widespread enough in your circles, as a IM replacement? I thought it was quite universal. Or is it a particular feature of iMessage that WhatsApp is missing?
Or is it a particular feature of iMessage that WhatsApp is missing? The feature called "Built into the ROM of every iPhone".
It's not built into the ROM. iMessage got a huge update with iOS 10. If it was built into the ROM, that wouldn't be possible, because the old version would be, well, read-only.
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#105I remember Dell laptops also had speakers permanently damaged, they blamed VLC software for that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7205759
Interestingly I have a Dell Chromebook 13 running full blown Linux and I am observing speaker distortion. It doesn't matter to me that much, but a bad driver could definitely cause damages to hardware.
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#106The actual content of those comments hasn't really been addressed by these quick fixes though. Does this fix the other numerous and varied complaints about the Macbook Pro? Does it change the fact that they're not doing anything that's noteworthy in a positive way? Does it fix slumping iPhone sales? Does it change the fact that more and more pro users are getting sick of the tyranny of Apple and moving away from them…
>Does it change the fact that more and more pro users are getting sick of the tyranny of Apple and moving away from them?
I don't know where you're getting this from. Between me and my family, I know of at least 6 tech companies that use tens of thousands of MBPs and most of the users there are professionals. The complaints we are seeing on reddit is not indicative of the number of laptops Apple is selling.
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Or is it a particular feature of iMessage that WhatsApp is missing? The feature called "Built into the ROM of every iPhone".
It's not built into the ROM. iMessage got a huge update with iOS 10. If it was built into the ROM, that wouldn't be possible, because the old version would be, well, read-only.
Either way, iMessage comes by default, and every iPhone is guaranteed to have it. Using iMessage instead of say, Whatsapp means I don't have to download yet another app and sign up for yet another service and search for yet another user(not to mention possibly giving away personal information to Facebook) when I can already use what's already on my phone.
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>> "New iPhone has been the worst selling one in relative numbers since the iPhone. 1. What do you mean relative numbers? 2. Any stats to back this up, as I've seen conflicting data? Regardless, of course it's not going to be a big seller. It's the 10th(?) generation of a device everybody already owns. It's also the third year running the design hasn't changed at all (presumably as they want to make a big splash on n…
While I think that its Gen-1 form is too expensive to do much to the market, the Surface Studio is as mind blowing as I can remember any PC or Mac being since maybe the first iMac.
Right, so if only it ran macOS the world would be a happy place, and I wouldn't be panicking over what I am going to replace my MBP with. I am not mentally prepared for usb-c yet Apple. I need more time to gird my loins.
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See, I'm the opposite. I always wanted the headphone jack on the bottom because that's where it needs to be for the phone to go properly in my pocket.
If screen rotation were free, surely you could both have what you want?
It's not just the screen. The actual physical phone has to come out of my pocket upside down if the headphone jack is on the top. The volume keys are on the wrong side; if you have a home button or fingerprint reader, it's flipped upside down.
I wasn't trying to make a massive deal about it, for what it's worth. Every phone I've had for probably 8 years has had the jack on the top instead of the bottom where I'd want it. It's fine. I was just chiming in to say there are legitimate reasons why it's not necessarily obvious that there's a correct answer.
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Isn't WhatsApp widespread enough in your circles, as a IM replacement? I thought it was quite universal. Or is it a particular feature of iMessage that WhatsApp is missing?
In the US, I know 0 users of WhatsApp (excluding work friends from other countries). It doesn't have nearly the market penetration of even something like GroupMe as far as I can tell.
I know lots of people here in the US who use WhatsApp, but yeah, many of them are from other countries. Even people born in the US, with families/friends outside the US, use it heavily.