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Reducing the battery replacement by $50 is a great move. While I think this is a completely manufactured scandal, this will definitely take away the last argument people have against them. I'm sure some people will still hate them for something, though.
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At least it's very easy to run 7.1.2 and soon 8.1 even on S3 (I do), while with iPhone you're completely at Apple's mercy.
Unofficial software downloaded as a binary blob from dodgy websites? I don’t miss that at all, though it’d be nice to be able to hack at my iPhone more.
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> For years I knew that my iphones were becoming obsolete The clock down feature is new so your past experiences are very likely unrelated.
I don't think it is new. The article doesn't say it is new, which Apple would if it was.
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How would you remove Android from an Android phone?
Android =/= Google: you can easily have an android phone with zero Google services if you choose a phone supported by one of many AOSP-based OSes.
The crappy Chinese phone running android does not do this, Further more, its cheap to get parts for it. Twitter and facebook (or whatever app) still run perfectly well on this device.
So why am I suffering Low quality decisions from high price Apple?
I still think Apple should sue some publications for defamation for the manifestly bad reporting about this story [1]. Here's John Siracusa about it [2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15995018 [2] https://overcast.fm/+CdQP59ws/56:00
I had to turn off that episode after Casey opened the segment by condescendingly dismissing any concerns about the behaviour. Quite rude and annoying. Marco doesn't see the value in tracking podcast listeners, but I'd think he'd benefit to know what causes people to stop when listening to their show.
Android has this problem too. If you upgrade your 2 years old phone with the latest Android (if your phone manufacturer did happens to provide update), your phone is not responsive at all. I know, few years ago I updated my Note 1 to Lollipop and it was completely unusable. The good thing is the Note 1 has unlock bootloader and I was able to restore the older software.
Unfortunately, you cannot downgrade iOS. I wish I can as I am on 11.2 and the battery drain is crazy. 10% on idle. FU Apple.
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> available worldwide through December 2018 Which is quite frankly ridiculous. Nothing really justifies waiting a year for this. Apple already has everything it needs to replace batteries worldwide right now (either with third party official repair companies or their own), and the cost of doing so will not likely change from here to December 2018.
The offer is "starting in late January" and goes "through [to] December 2018" and it's "available worldwide."
D'oh.
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Yes, the "upgrade" to ios 11 slowed down app load/switch times on my ipad by several seconds, even after a full reset (made no difference). It's nonsense that I am now stuck with it.
Define "full reset". Did you wipe and re-install via iTunes? I seem to recall reading recently that can make a big difference.
[1]: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl...