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The iPhone is Dead

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Re: The iPhone is Dead

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Post by dankohn1 »

matt_wulfeck wrote: post #2

> iPhones don’t age well On my iPhone 6+, most apps crash on first open. Apps freeze for 5–10 seconds whenever launched or switched to. I lose 3–4%/min on my battery and Apple Support insists that my battery is perfectly healthy. I went through “apps using significant power” and uninstalled most of them. Not to be too critical of this author, but this whole post is full of personal anecdotes extrapolated onto the hal…

The battery draining fast seems to be a resolvable bug:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/12/22/glenn-iphone-sl...

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Post by oxide »

spicymaki wrote: post #5

There are a lot of useless personal anecdotes in this blog post, but one resonates with me strongly: Apple needs to better handle spam calls. In fact the entire mechanism dealing with how we make phone calls (authenticating callers) is ripe for disruption.

A big selling point of a phone to me is a built in blacklist feature. Problem is I only get that after the fact, or if I hunt for it while physically shopping. They don't usually bulletpoint it as a selling point, but it should be a standard feature.

I don't own an iPhone, but I assume you have the same trouble I do with spam texts/calls and no real decent blacklisting solution (most apps just don't work and I'm not going to throw money after money to find the one that does work in that pile of shovelware they call the play store.

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Post by please_choose »

matt_wulfeck wrote: post #2

> iPhones don’t age well On my iPhone 6+, most apps crash on first open. Apps freeze for 5–10 seconds whenever launched or switched to. I lose 3–4%/min on my battery and Apple Support insists that my battery is perfectly healthy. I went through “apps using significant power” and uninstalled most of them. Not to be too critical of this author, but this whole post is full of personal anecdotes extrapolated onto the hal…

I imagine that one factor into resale value aging well is that the price is already high and Apple has a strong brand, versus the actual quality of the device. But it's hard to tell.

RE: personal anecdotes. Fair feedback, but the post was meant to be based entirely on my own experiences. Agree that a more comprehensive post could be done that includes real world data. Although that data would be challenging to gather.

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Post by please_choose »

lokimedes wrote: post #8

The last company I’d have storing my personal data is Google. In fact, any of the arguments he presents are moot to me due to the alternative being an Ad agency’s product...

Does Google Drive+Photos monetize its data even though it's a subscription product?

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#16

Post by please_choose »

trungonnews wrote: post #6

Just pay for iCloud then half of your issues will be moot.

What issues in particular beyond device storage and background photo syncing? I don't think it cuts the issues in half. Using iCloud creates its own issues as well (like paying for yet another cloud storage)

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Post by please_choose »

spicymaki wrote: post #5

There are a lot of useless personal anecdotes in this blog post, but one resonates with me strongly: Apple needs to better handle spam calls. In fact the entire mechanism dealing with how we make phone calls (authenticating callers) is ripe for disruption.

Which anecdotes do you find useless?

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Post by paulgpetty »

spicymaki wrote: post #5

There are a lot of useless personal anecdotes in this blog post, but one resonates with me strongly: Apple needs to better handle spam calls. In fact the entire mechanism dealing with how we make phone calls (authenticating callers) is ripe for disruption.

iOS supports seamless call blocking via inexpensive 3rd party apps like Hiya. Hiya works great, calls that are suspect get labeled and calls that are verified fraud or marketing are never seen but available in call history. This been around since iOS 10 maybe longer.

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Post by paulgpetty »

I think anyone can write an article like this favoring their choice platform. Doing real complete comparison is hard. There are literally hundreds of features to compare. Include apps like this author and you’re writing forever. The hard part about choosing iPhone or Android is just the sheer magnitude of differences. Security, cost, aging, support, apps, os, hardware ... but maybe more than anything perspective matters.
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