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Post by akmarinov »

shen wrote: post #47
akmarinov wrote: post #36

Didn't Apple move to a 3 year S cycle? Like iPhone 6, then iPhone 6s, then iPhone 7 all being the same phone and then introducing a new design with the X. So with this past year being the XS, this year will be the whatever XS 2 is, but with the same design, then we can expect a new design next year. Meaning that their China not upgrading problem, as per the article, will continue for at least another year.

In that case you can argue the 8 is also the same as the 6. It's not.

According to the article, people in China only care about the external design, so in that sense the 8 is the same as the 6.

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Post by oflannabhra »

ksec wrote: post #123
oflannabhra wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple didn't just raise prices, for the sake of raising prices. Their takeaway [0] from the iPhone X was that customers were willing to pay for more advanced and more expensive features. FaceID, OLED, stainless steel, etc. Apple is making more expensive products (not just raising prices), because people have shown that they want to pay more for more value. Lots of people on HN, as well as elsewhere, will take issue w…

I am not sure where you get that 1.5 Billion number from, I don't see Horace mentioning it. But the latest number of Active Devices, as Tim Cook mentioned a 100M increase would equate to 1.4B Active Devices. ( Which is actually slower than previous momentum, as they were adding 150M / year between 2016 and 2017. )

You are correct, the most recent confirmed number is 1.4 billion active devices. I misread the projection.

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Post by droussel »

graeme wrote: post #118
droussel wrote: post #106

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Not always, a lot of apps are universal and can be installed on both iPhones and iPads, with the UI being adapted to each.

Oh interesting. If there is a separate install is it still potentially a universal all? I guess I was wrong.

I'm not sure I understand the question. You need to install it on both your iPhone and your iPad for sure. But universal apps are the exact same binary. But a lot of developers prefer to create 2 different app, 1 for iPhone and 1 for iPad for various reasons; charging separately for each being one possible reason.

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Post by ttul »

kakaorka wrote: post #99
ttul wrote: post #89

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I would never in my life use a Chinese phone. Chinese manufacturers are _guaranteed_ to be in the pocket of the CPC and its security services. Moreover, their record on security and privacy is poor. For a device that is so intimately tied to my personal data, the premium I pay for Apple's brand is vastly inferior to the value I would lose by constantly worrying about my privacy with a Chinese handset.

Although I prefer iPhones, I don’t think any American manafacturer is not in the pocket of the NSA.

At least NSA follows the rule of law. Yes, you can argue they sometimes don’t, or they they push things. But there is simply no comparison at all with China where there is no rule of law at all.

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Post by jpetso »

meritt wrote: post #71
javagram wrote: post #61

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The XZ2 compact was released in April 2018 so it’s newer than the SE. I think you might be confusing it with the non-Compact edition?

Ah, totally missed that. Thank you

The XZ4 Compact should also come out soon(ish), if the leaks are trustworthy as usual.

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Post by bradknowles »

acdha wrote: post #129
bradknowles wrote: post #121

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The showstopper for me is FaceID. I won’t buy a device where that is the only biometric AuthN solution available. If/when my 7plus dies, I’ll buy an 8plus, either new or used. I won’t buy anything newer than an 8, until such time as they give me fingerprint ID back in some form. Hard stop.

Why is that a showstopper but Touch ID isn’t? They’re both biometric systems where the raw data never leaves the secure element, both are hardened against simple attacks, etc.

Have you ever tried to use FaceID with a reader that is arms length away from you, and you can’t get any closer to it?

What about a reader that is not only arms length away, but oriented in a very inconvenient position?

I don’t want any device that could potentially unlock itself just by someone holding it up and asking if this is my phone. Or that could lock itself up tightly and possibly even wipe itself, because it had seen too many strange faces.

Now, I don’t use biometrics to unlock my phone. But the inconvenience of having to look at the phone and have it scan my face when I want to use ApplePay, that’s plenty enough reason for me to never use a device where face scanning is the only biometric method available.

I don’t care how much they claim that the data never leaves the phone. That’s just table stakes for me.

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