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Re: iPhone X Teardown

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Post by damnyou »

Bud wrote: post #222
damnyou wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iOS is a toy OS. The notifications alone make it useless for office productivity. The limitations on background processing break, say, Plex or Netflix sync. You can't watch a YouTube video while doing something else. Apps like FB Messenger can't display useful overlays on the screen. You can't even do basic things like set a system-wide default browser. Android O is light years ahead of iOS.

The notifications you are complaining about can be easily, and completely, disabled. In a few seconds. I don't think you've used iOS 11 on a recent iPad, either.

Surely properly done, prioritized, aggregated notifications like on Android are better than no notifications?

I'm talking about an iPhone obviously.

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Post by damnyou »

austenallred wrote: post #226
damnyou wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iOS is a toy OS. The notifications alone make it useless for office productivity. The limitations on background processing break, say, Plex or Netflix sync. You can't watch a YouTube video while doing something else. Apps like FB Messenger can't display useful overlays on the screen. You can't even do basic things like set a system-wide default browser. Android O is light years ahead of iOS.

What “office productivity” are you unable to do using iOS? Pretty sure millions of people use it just fine.

What happens when you receive 100+ new email notifications on iOS? I ended up ignoring all of them, missing out on important notifications.

Notification aggregation and priority is table stakes for serious office work.

Re: iPhone X Teardown

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Post by damnyou »

xxpor wrote: post #195
damnyou wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iOS is a toy OS. The notifications alone make it useless for office productivity. The limitations on background processing break, say, Plex or Netflix sync. You can't watch a YouTube video while doing something else. Apps like FB Messenger can't display useful overlays on the screen. You can't even do basic things like set a system-wide default browser. Android O is light years ahead of iOS.

>Apps like FB Messenger can't display useful overlays on the screen. This is a feature, not a bug.

Chat heads are a great feature, and of course you can turn them off if you like. iOS doesn't even give you the option to do that.

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Post by mijowi »

mankash666 wrote: post #2

Truly 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 hardware company that also makes software, and its software shows.

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Post by acdha »

damnyou wrote: post #232
austenallred wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What “office productivity” are you unable to do using iOS? Pretty sure millions of people use it just fine.

What happens when you receive 100+ new email notifications on iOS? I ended up ignoring all of them, missing out on important notifications. Notification aggregation and priority is table stakes for serious office work.

If you’re regularly getting 100+ notifications you need to setup filters, change your notification settings, or find a new job.

Re: iPhone X Teardown

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Post by damnyou »

acdha wrote: post #235
damnyou wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happens when you receive 100+ new email notifications on iOS? I ended up ignoring all of them, missing out on important notifications. Notification aggregation and priority is table stakes for serious office work.

If you’re regularly getting 100+ notifications you need to setup filters, change your notification settings, or find a new job.

Or you know, just use an Android phone.

Apple zealots are the fucking worst. Your phone makers are too incompetent to implement notifications properly, so your solution is to find a new job.

Re: iPhone X Teardown

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Post by josu »

foolfoolz wrote: post #152
fermienrico wrote: post #90

The 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?

the sim is no piece of plastic. SIM cards are computers! they have a CPU. they have memory, a file system. they run applets, yes Java applets. sims are one of the most secure pieces of technology out there, part of the Secure Element standard. the sim is responsible for a lot of your phones security. lots of encryption keys live on the sim and nothing can access them at all. I am much much happier to trust the hardwa…

>I am much much happier to trust the hardware than software for some of this

Most SIMs I know are black boxes, with 0 public documentation. Taking into account that they are issued by telecom companies I don't trust them at all.

Re: iPhone X Teardown

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Post by unityByFreedom »

karpodiem wrote: post #197

I've owned various iPhones (starting with the 4 in 2010) and I'm going to take a serious look at the Pixel 3 in 2018. Performance is a feature, and I don't see a compelling reason why I should upgrade my 6S. I have a suspicion that Apple will keep the '6' chassis they've stuck with since the release of the 6 (6/6S/7/8) at 2GB of memory, and will continue to do so with the 9 next year. Pixel 2 performance with 4GB of…

> I'm not asking Google to focus on ease of use for the OS, just get QA/service/hardware correct

Apple does the QA/service well because of their focus on usability. Usability has been a focus since their founding.

They spend more money on design, which is why their hardware can cost more than the PC/Android equivalent.

Re: iPhone X Teardown

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Post by kalleboo »

Zee2 wrote: post #12
phinnaeus wrote: post #11

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> Same full panel display What?

I mean, relative to the competition, the original iPhone was certainly rather "full panel"! http://www.techpavan.com/wp-content/uploads/mobile-phone-mar... Devoting the majority of the vertical dimension of the profile of the phone to display was definitely not a priority of the market at the time.

Looking at only candybar phones is pretty disingenuous. Plenty of smartphones before the iPhone were almost all screen, e.g. the Sony Ericsson P800 that Steve Jobs was said to have used https://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/sonyericsson/snp800_00.jpg

The problem was they all used a stylus

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