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Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by plorg »

swiley wrote: post #358
tdkl wrote: post #325

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With sync I mean full oneway sync with playlists created in the music player. I create a playlist which I'll then listen too in iTunes and with 2 clicks it's fully existing on the phone, with the .m3u playlist file, recognized by the media player. If I add/remove songs, change sorting in that playlist, the result is completely synced on the phone. I didn't find anything simple as this without extra fuckery and prayin…

Rsync can do two way sync, the only two exceptions are: 1) deletions don't sync 2) colisons are resolved by overwriting the side that is synced last

    --delete
is your friend

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by PunchTornado »

krrrh wrote: post #177
PunchTornado wrote: post #148

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Isn't Apple just as bad as google with user data? I feel that all of them, apple, google, facebook, amazon, they all disregard our privacy.

They could hardly be more different. See: https://www.apple.com/privacy/

Pff. All bullshit.

  Finally, I want to be absolutely clear that we have never worked with any government agency from any country to create a backdoor in any of our products or services. We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will.
Did they forget that they participated in PRISM since 2012???

All empty words if you ask me.

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by 1123581321 »

bigtunacan wrote: post #391
raverbashing wrote: post #387

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Somehow I can't understand how a life saving medical device would require a smartphone of a certain brand, but even if this is the case you could have gotten the iPhone 6 for example

I'm a type 1 diabetic. There is a device by Dexcom known as a continuous glucose monitor that reads my blood sugar via interstitial fluids and then transmits the information via Bluetooth. When I get unexplained low blood sugars in my sleep, which is believed to be the cause of Dead in Bed Syndrome, it sounds an alarm on the iPhone to wake me up before it's too late. As for going with the iPhone 6 1) my money would s…

I have Dexcom CGM as well and I just use the hardware alarm that comes with it. The battery lasts days longer than a phone's and it is small enough to fit in my pocket with my phone. I'd argue you would have been safer buying Android and being forced to rely on Dexcom hardware instead of an app.

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by bigtunacan »

1123581321 wrote: post #403
bigtunacan wrote: post #391

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I'm a type 1 diabetic. There is a device by Dexcom known as a continuous glucose monitor that reads my blood sugar via interstitial fluids and then transmits the information via Bluetooth. When I get unexplained low blood sugars in my sleep, which is believed to be the cause of Dead in Bed Syndrome, it sounds an alarm on the iPhone to wake me up before it's too late. As for going with the iPhone 6 1) my money would s…

I have Dexcom CGM as well and I just use the hardware alarm that comes with it. The battery lasts days longer than a phone's and it is small enough to fit in my pocket with my phone. I'd argue you would have been safer buying Android and being forced to rely on Dexcom hardware instead of an app.

Yeah, that was what I tried at first. Unfortunately I'm an extremely heavy sleeper and the alarm on the Dexcom device doesn't wake me up. My wife was waking up to the alarm and then she would wake me. She travels frequently for work though so that wasn't ideal either.

Also though, which model do you have?

I have the G4 Platinum w/Share. The sensors for it now ship with a warning sheet stating that you may not receive audible alarms due to issues with the speakers.

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by 1123581321 »

bigtunacan wrote: post #404
1123581321 wrote: post #403

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I have Dexcom CGM as well and I just use the hardware alarm that comes with it. The battery lasts days longer than a phone's and it is small enough to fit in my pocket with my phone. I'd argue you would have been safer buying Android and being forced to rely on Dexcom hardware instead of an app.

Yeah, that was what I tried at first. Unfortunately I'm an extremely heavy sleeper and the alarm on the Dexcom device doesn't wake me up. My wife was waking up to the alarm and then she would wake me. She travels frequently for work though so that wasn't ideal either. Also though, which model do you have? I have the G4 Platinum w/Share. The sensors for it now ship with a warning sheet stating that you may not receive…

Ah, yes, I've had that heavy-head issue, but I wouldn't think your phone would be louder than that alarm. Is it?

I have G5 with Share (I think; I have a drawer full of old Dexcom stuff) and have gotten the same letter, but haven't had that issue. I definitely trust it more than Dexcom pairing with the phone. I'm glad your setup is working for you, though.

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Post by drusepth »

massysett wrote: post #340
drusepth wrote: post #72

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AFAIK all we have are anecdotes, but I know a half dozen friends that decided to "try Android" to keep their headphone jacks. It's very possible they'll go back for the next iPhone iteration, but they didn't buy the 7 because of it.

What Android did they buy?

Some Galaxies (not sure which ones), one Nexus 6P, but mostly Pixels.

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by sixothree »

austinsharp wrote: post #208
sixothree wrote: post #96

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I switched (back) from Android to iPhone because of security settings. I found Android to be a nightmare. Compared that to iOS's ability to set per-application permissions and Apple's stated commitment to privacy and I'm not going back to Android any time soon. Nor will I be upgrading my iPhone any time soon. I plug in the headphone jack in my car and have found no decent bluetooth receivers to replace that wired con…

Android has had per application permissions similar to iOS since 6.0. It took way too long but it's no longer a problem.

Can you restrict an application's permission at a granular level. For example can you deny an app your GPS location while allowing it to access your contacts?

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by bigtunacan »

1123581321 wrote: post #403
bigtunacan wrote: post #391

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I'm a type 1 diabetic. There is a device by Dexcom known as a continuous glucose monitor that reads my blood sugar via interstitial fluids and then transmits the information via Bluetooth. When I get unexplained low blood sugars in my sleep, which is believed to be the cause of Dead in Bed Syndrome, it sounds an alarm on the iPhone to wake me up before it's too late. As for going with the iPhone 6 1) my money would s…

I have Dexcom CGM as well and I just use the hardware alarm that comes with it. The battery lasts days longer than a phone's and it is small enough to fit in my pocket with my phone. I'd argue you would have been safer buying Android and being forced to rely on Dexcom hardware instead of an app.

Replying here to your other reply since you can't nest that deep.

I know there have been some changes on the G5 so I'm not clear how that works.

With the G4 the Dexcom CGM acts as a proxy to the phone. So when everything is working correctly I get two alarms. So this gives me a certain level of redundancy. Anyway it works for me well enough that I can get a full night's sleep. For years I had alarms set to wake me up several times during the night.

[EDIT]

Also, responding to your question about the phone being louder than the Dexcom. The phone is an order of magnitude louder than the G4.

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by smcl »

daigoba66 wrote: post #331
smcl wrote: post #253

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In your usability rants I have every one of those problems too (particularly autocorrect and swiping). I wonder how widespread this is? I'd like to add four more: 1. iTunes is slowly degrading into a usability nightmare - recommendations are often albums I own and bought from Apple! 2. the OS itself seemingly picks apps at random for the "play" button on the "swipe-up" menu. Like I might play a podcast on, say, Monda…

Thankfully you can turn off voice control in iOS 10. Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Home Button.

You just became my favourite person of 2017 so far - thanks heaps!

Re: Apple to slice iPhone production 10% due to sluggish sales

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Post by zouhair »

tdkl wrote: post #268
legodt wrote: post #258

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>iTunes is slowly degrading That is incredibly generous considering the past decade of itunes, especially for Windows users. So much bad code, legacy cruft, and inconsistent UI decisions

I'm a Windows user and love iTunes. There's just isn't any piece of software that lets me sync all my selected playlists with a single click via Wifi to Android (iSyncr app) reliably. I can also use a remote to navigate (Retune app) and access whole library. Too bad there's no other contenders on Linux as well, there's a million players, but no syncing because apparently it makes more sense in 2016 to sync a song wit…

Did you try MediaMonkey?
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