FDA approval to market the new Apple Watch as a medical device is a huge deal.
I wonder if I can use my flexible spending account to buy one now.
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Amazingly, they also offer official AOSP builds ( https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/latest-updat... ). LineageOS is also supported on the Xperia Z5 Compact. GApps optional for the privacy conscious.
> LineageOS is also supported on the Xperia Z5 Compact. There's also unofficial support for the more recent XZ1 Compact.
I was immediately put off by the generous bezels on top and bottom.
Sony had really improved on this aspect of late (actually kinda got rid of that questionable design and form factor that was ubiquitous in Sony phones). It seems they figured they need it back for some reason.
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#443Probably not the best place to ask this, but what did Phil Schiller mean by "one trillion operations per photo"?
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Yep. I bought iPhone 8 because I wanted to try force touch and faster CPU. Well, it's a feature I could skip (actually I don't even understand why is it there, long press would work just as well) and iPhone SE size would be more comfortable for me (I came from 4S). I'm using iPhone 8 for a few monthes and it's still very uncomfortable to use for me, it's too huge and I can't reach every screen point with my thumb. Ce…
Have you tried tabbing the home button lightly twice?
I know and it's terrible solution. It oftens gets reset when I'm tapping something (but sometimes it's not), so I have to double-tap again (especially when I want to edit URL in Safari). And anyway reaching any screen point with one hand is vastly superior experience than using workarounds. I've found myself using two hands more and more and that's a step backwards.
May be better UX design would solve that. Any controls should be at the bottom part of the screen. But iOS is not there anyway.
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There haven't really been many attempts at making small flagship-quality devices in years. Didn't the SE immediately sell out when it was released? I struggle to believe no similar market exists today, but Apple obviously has a easier and more profitable path maintaining the device collection they announced today. I just wish they didn't. I was thinking about replacing my SE with whatever was announced today, but ins…
Right, I get this feeling that there's a boardroom of execs out there saying "well, the Samsung Note sold a whole lot of devices, clearly the reason is because it's big!" Then the release a bunch of only-big iphones, which sell more than the previous generation of iphones, and they go "Aha! We're on to something here!" Like, there's a ton of reasons that sales of a new gen of iphone could be higher than previous, or…
You think that product demand is only conducted by putting a product on the market and seeing how well it sells? And you're posting on HN?
Sorry for the snark but damn this trope was stale 4 years ago. Apple has more than enough money to throw at researching whether or not it's worth it to make a particular size phone without first producing said phone.
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Right, I get this feeling that there's a boardroom of execs out there saying "well, the Samsung Note sold a whole lot of devices, clearly the reason is because it's big!" Then the release a bunch of only-big iphones, which sell more than the previous generation of iphones, and they go "Aha! We're on to something here!" Like, there's a ton of reasons that sales of a new gen of iphone could be higher than previous, or…
You think that product demand is only conducted by putting a product on the market and seeing how well it sells? And you're posting on HN? Sorry for the snark but damn this trope was stale 4 years ago. Apple has more than enough money to throw at researching whether or not it's worth it to make a particular size phone without first producing said phone.
If you knew the top part was snarky, and snarky enough to justify apologizing for, why didn't you just save you the time of writing it and me the time of reading it and thinking "gee thanks asshole"?
Nope, I don't work at Apple, I have no idea how they do market research. They sure do know how to make money, though.
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#447I can't believe they named a phone X[s]. How can they not see everyone calling it "iPhone excess?"
I registered xs.io years ago thinking it was a cool, super short domain, but soon realized that it was a true pain to communicate verbally. I sold it this past summer to someone who has yet to do anything with it. I'm honestly wondering now if it was Apple who bought it.
Whois shows GoDaddy. I doubt that Apple would be using GoDaddy. In fact, whois on apple.com shows that their registrar is www.cscprotectsbrands.com.
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#448I'm amazed by the sizing. The SE appears to be gone. This means the smallest device you can buy is the 7/8. Many still find this to be too large. Considering Apple's history of selling older iPhone models at a lower price, it seems like two years from now the bottom of the line will be the Xs and Xr announced today. The smallest lower-end iPhone available at that time would be the Xs which is larger than the 6/6s/7/8…
Apple's adoption of Face ID is a big deal from a design POV. Apple was famous for adopting superior technology early and with Face ID they're adopting inferior technology late.
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Flagship Androids are also getting more and more expensive.
Both Apple and Samsung are going to get their lunch eaten by Xiaomi, Huawei and the rest I guess, then. I'm eagerly awaiting the Pocophone F1 release here in Uruguay.
That must be an odd definition of "lunch", given that Apple tends to capture roughly 80% of Smartphone profits, Huawei about 6%, and Xiaomi even less than that.
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#450I can imagine Apple has quite a few linguists on its payroll; They are still beating the words “beautiful” and “best” to death in their keynotes. It’s tough to not be excited about new features that are debuted upon each release, but it’s also getting monotonous to hear, “Product X is the _best_ version of its kind. Product Y is the _most_ we’ve ever created and its pictures are simply _beautiful_.”
Not only, but the overuse of "Product X is the best $thing we have ever made", while hearing also "and we completely redesigned it" pretty much every year creates the overall impression that they keep getting things wrong.
It's a content-free statement, so it always makes jump to thinking about a sad distant future instead. Like a heat death of the universe, or when there is just a decline in economies of scale, the next phone might cease being the best ever produced.