The article is about Apple, but it describes the https://frame.work/ blue ocean of mobilizing the laptop where nearly everything is replaceable and upgradeable
Apple's Blue Ocean
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its a bit of a myth for ever lasting bulbs, its more complicated than that. The life time was a trade off of colour and brightness. If you made them very red shifted and quite dim then there are bulbs that are very old still around, but they don't produce much light and never did. The harder you drive the filament the better the light properties but the quicker it died. The industry choose a point for trade offs as a…
I'd be happy with an LED bulb that lasted a year. I haven't yet found one that can do that reliably. Remember that 60W incandescent bulbs costing $0.25 used to be available that met that goal. We've taken huge steps backwards on interior household lighting.
Just joining in with others who report that I haven't had any problems with LED bulb failures. I've used exclusively LED bulbs for at least 5 years now (maybe about 15 bulbs across my home), and none has ever failed on me.
They do sometimes flicker when they're in a traditional dimmer set at an intermediate level, even though the ones I've bought claim to work with a dimmer. That's frustrating.
But I haven't had any outright failures.
If it helps: I bought mostly SANSI bulbs off Amazon.
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#93Make battery packs (call them "removable batteries, if you like") 100% completely and totally separate from the device itself - think of it like a UPS for a desktop...no (or practically "no") battery on/in the device, and instead you run the device with a Qi-compatible battery pack IOW - the device becomes 30-50% lighter (on its own), and the buyer determines how heavy his/her experience will be based on which Qi-pac…
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Because Apple has had this for years a while now with the MagSafe battery pack. I actually think it should become a standard that all companies adopt. It's far easier and quicker to use than removable batteries and doesn't remove valuable space inside the phone.
It’s also incredibly wasteful. 30-40% of a battery bank’s capacity is lost to inefficiency, and even worse with a case on. It would be great if phones commonly offered pogo pins on the back in addition to wireless charging.
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#94I thought Apple's Blue Ocean stuff were:
* Macintosh
* iPhone
* Apple Store
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#95The future is batteries with more charge cycles, not replaceable batteries. The solid state battery people are claiming 10,000 charge/discharge cycles. If they can achieve that, it's 27 years of battery life. The case will wear out first.
Lithium ion batteries that can handle a thousand to several thousand charge cycles and only see 80% reduction in capacity have been available for ten years. My 2013 Macbook Pro has just such a battery, rated for 80% capacity after 1000 cycles, and it lasted over 6 years before the battery's internal resistance rose enough that heavy load would cause a brownout and the machine to force sleep. Yet they are not in wides…
> Solid state batteries with 10k charge/discharge cycles are never going to happen for the same reason incandescent bulbs are purposefully manufactured by every single lightbulb manufacturer to fail when they figured out a hundred years ago how to make them last forever.
Technology Connections has an interesting video on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Bs98KmnY
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#96The short version is: "Wouldn't it be disruptive if Apple went back to replaceable batteries?" but the author stopped short of where that leads. One of the things that doable "now" that wasn't doable "then" is wireless charging. I love that I can put my phone on a pad next to the bed at night and it charges, pick it up and there is no trailing wire to unplug, put it down and there is no wire to find and plug in. This…
Wasn’t a similar but worse version of this common in laptops 15ish years ago? You often had the option of running two batteries instead of 1 and a CD drive because they had interchangeable slots.
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#97The short version is: "Wouldn't it be disruptive if Apple went back to replaceable batteries?" but the author stopped short of where that leads. One of the things that doable "now" that wasn't doable "then" is wireless charging. I love that I can put my phone on a pad next to the bed at night and it charges, pick it up and there is no trailing wire to unplug, put it down and there is no wire to find and plug in. This…
> "Why not no battery in the device?" How about a nuclear battery, aka radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)? This would be sealed in (carefully!) and would last the lifetime of the device, with no need for charging, ever. Would need special steps/handling to ensure safe disposal at end of product life, however.
This is challenging because you probably don't want a phone that is hot all the time. There is however a very interesting technology which uses beta radiation and what are essentially "solar cells" to generate electricity directly[1]. Basically you could paint some Cesium 137 on to a solar cell and it would generate power 24x7!
[1] Beta Voltaics a new kind of nuclear battery -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betavoltaic_device
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#98Their next big move will probably be some AI product that ties together their other offerings into their exclusive platform. The ideal would be that you buy all their products and they automatically learn how you live your life, ancitipate your needs and provide for them seamlessly. Other companies try to do this now but it's not seamless at all. If Apple can use some tricks to identify a user, link all their stuff together, begin predicting needs and popping up solutions for them, all tied into a privacy-first data warehouse (nobody can use your data except you on your Apple devices), that could capture much bigger segments of the worldwide tech product landscape.
At least, that's my assumption based on their massive spend on infrastructure related to AI. I've been waiting for their cloud hosting project to jump out of stealth mode, if it's still in progress, but maybe it was never intended for anyone other than Apple's use. If that's the case then it makes more sense that they'd sort of pull a Google and invest more heavily in the backend server side for one product that could really be a killer, which would most likely be something AI. An answer to Google's search product that isn't search.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
What brand of LED bulb do you buy? I'm consistently replacing one or two bulbs a month around the house. I don't know if it's the electronics or the LEDs; I don't really care either.
Ikea and generic home depot LEDs have lasted 13 years of daily use with zero failures. Also, I've never seen that high a rate of LED failure. You may want to have your house checked out by an electrician for peace of mind.
No trouble with any other electronics in the house. Just the bulbs.
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#100Two things I've been waiting on for years: • MST (DisplayPort daisy chaining) in MacOS. The hardware has supported it for over a decade. The OS is the weak link here. It's the difference between spending $75-$300 for a dock in addition to the cables and just connecting the monitors together along with a single cable to the first monitor. • Non-soldered storage. Seriously. Storage is the most likely component to fail.…
Most people don't write terabytes per day and the ones who do can just double their storage.