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Louis CK - everything is amazing... but no one is happy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ
Easily one of his best bits and he did it on a talk show.
It helped spawn an app too: https://theymadethat.com
iPhone X Teardown
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#122The 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?
But how does it work while travelling?
Yes you can buy roaming packs, but local SIM cards are as low as 5$ for unlimited LTE.
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#123The 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?
> don't need a piece of plastic that holds a numeric key
In addition, wouldn't having an apple designed electronic SIM reduce what 3rd party firmware (hardware SIM card) is running on their devices? Seems like a good deal to me.
ref#1: https://www.slideshare.net/c.enrique.ortiz/sim-card-overview
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#124iPhone X(Box) 2013: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Xbox+One+Kinect+Teardown/197... 2017: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPhone+X+Teardown/98975?revi...
FWIW this is v2 of the Kinect, the X teardown mentions Primesense was bought after v1 came out.
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#125The 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?
Its funny that in the old days the main selling point of GSM/SIM-Cards were that you could physically change from phone to phone and kept your line (and contacts), now we the recent race to get things as little as possible and that virtually no one is using by default any of the extra-GSM functionalities has (contact backup), coming back to a non-physical identity as the solution (like in the CDMA days) that will force you to go to carrier every time you need to change yout phone and depend on 3rd party online services for the extra functionalities.
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"Axiom in the tech world is that "Apple is a software company that builds hardware". " Is that really a common belief? I know many people who think the opposite - apple is a hardware company. In fact Tim Cook went out of his way several times to remind people that apple isn't a hardware company.
I see it as the reverse. Apple is definitely a hardware company that makes a solid OS and generally makes mediocre software outside of that
Yea, but that OS is everything. They barely make any software outside of it. And it's the best mobile OS by far.
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#127I'm still on the fence about whether this is a great phone or not because I use every one of my phones a significant amount when not directly looking at it. But this hardware is absolutely incredible. I wish there was a clear casing to the phone. Apple has always done a great job design the internals and clearly this is no exception.
IMO it’s even better suitable than previous iPhones for that situation. A tap on the display will wake it up and you can start looking at notifications, swipe to get the camera.. or if you refer to Siri, it’s still a button press.
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I don't think that L-shaped battery can be made. Imagine a list of paper which you need to fold into compact form. It would be really hard to fold it into "L". Batteries made of long sheets folded then into rectangle http://images.indianexpress.com/2017/01/galaxynote7_info_1.j...
The "jelly roll" is just one packing technique. You can pack flat sheets, so in theory can create an L shape. Another guess is with an L shaped battery, thermal expansion makes it tricky because the L shaped compartment has a sharp inner corner which runs this risk of stressing the battery when it expands. A square compartment does not have that issue. In any event, Apple knows how to produce weird shaped batteries.…
Which Macbook? The ones I've seen have a series of rectangular cells to fill an awkward space.
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#129Truly 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)
And despite all that engineering their reliability was terrible due to various plug design problems with the predecessor to MagSafe or the cords getting damaged from point stress. Meanwhile, Dell and HP make mediocre stuff that somehow hardly has such a problem by using much thicker gauge wiring and tougher rubber / plastics.
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#130Truly 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…
> "Apple is a software company that builds hardware". Above is ample evidence of Apple being a hardware-heavy innovation machine.
I disagree with both.
Apple is a design company that builds hardware and software together so the design works as intended.