The video of the infrared dots is quite interesting.
iPhone X Teardown
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#82Truly impressive. Smaller, yet faster than the competition. Surprising how many of the chips are now internal Apple components: 1. CPU/GPU 2. Auxiliary Machine Learning/AI chip 3. NAND controller 4. IR Deapth sensor & signal processing chip 5. Power management IC (surprising that Apple is doing Analog IC design too!) Axiom in the tech world is that "Apple is a software company that builds hardware". Above is ample ev…
> Power management IC (surprising that Apple is doing Analog IC design too!) Have you seen the tear down of the old MacBook power bricks? Check it out if you haven’t. There’s a lot of tech in there to improve efficiency (ie keep that tiny brick from melting)
They’re shit. The inrush current is so high it actually damages the plugs with arcing!
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
With how buggy iOS 11 is/was, it really does show where their focus has been.
Software bugs can be fixed with iterations but hardware....nope. Not without a recall
Clever software workarounds can save a board respin if you’re lucky. I’ve seen it done before.
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#85I don't understand, when they got rid of the audio jack and added wireless charging, why does the phone have ports at all? Couldn't they make a port-less phone?
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#86Does anyone have any more details/teardown on the new front sensor? Curious if there's a Xilinx chip/FPGA in there....
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
People used to bitch about why people thought the MacBook was so cool when it was “only” 5mm thinner than anything else on the market. The low end doesn’t understand why people pay so much more for fit and finish. Except automobiles. Everyone seems to accept and even approve of the high end for cars.
Fit and finish on many "high end" cars is actually pretty abysmal. Especially basically anything Italian.
My Fiat is awful! ;)
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#88The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture). Ten years ago, Apple totally nailed the design. Same buttons, same speaker design, same full panel display. Even design work by a company as talented as Apple, you might expect that a new model ten years into the future may look quite different, but it looks the same.
> The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture). And really, how similar every non-notebook/desktop Apple product has been to each other one. Design-wise, the iPhone was just an iPod with a bigger screen; iPod touch/nano/other variations are obviously just an iPhone in different sizes; the watch is just the iPod nano on a wristband; iP…
Why do you want them to design their products differently from previous models just for the sake of it? Apple iterates on their designs. Few/no changes mean Apple thinks their product is close to perfect (in the context of the available technology and intended usage).
I much prefer Apple’s iterative and proven designs than other manufacturers’ products that are seemingly designed without experience from previous generations.
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#89Truly impressive. Smaller, yet faster than the competition. Surprising how many of the chips are now internal Apple components: 1. CPU/GPU 2. Auxiliary Machine Learning/AI chip 3. NAND controller 4. IR Deapth sensor & signal processing chip 5. Power management IC (surprising that Apple is doing Analog IC design too!) Axiom in the tech world is that "Apple is a software company that builds hardware". Above is ample ev…
Who thinks Apple is a software company? Because they're wrong. Apple started off making hardware and they've always made hardware. They make software to compliment their hardware.
Even they claim it. It’s that old Alan Kay quote, you know.
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#90The SIM card holder's size shows its age. It is literally as big as the A11 package.
Such archaic things need to evolve or disappear. What's the status on electronic SIM? We don't need a piece of plastic that holds a numeric key and takes up EXPENSIVE real-estate in one of the most densely packed electronic devices in the world.
Apple doesn't have the leverage to sway the standards?