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Wouldn't GPS be far more accurate for this purpose?
GPS altitude is not accurate. http://gpsinformation.net/main/altitude.htm
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iPhone 6
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Re: iPhone 6
#182Wouldn't buy the iwatch or the new iphone, and I have been a Apple longterm user. Like the motorola 360 better, round design is a huge win and again Apple are last to market with a inferior product. The iphone's main feature for me was that it was more secure than android phones. But after the celebrity icloud hacks and the iphone backdoors that were revealed (then denied by Apple) I have had enough - Apple products…
Wow, this comment is really full of FUD. Planned obsolescence? iPhone backdoors? You need to reevaluate where you get your Apple-related news from.
> They were caught out slowing the older versions of their phones right before the release of the new ones by analyzing google search data
Where did you even get this from? That's 100% made-up. But it's also oddly specific in a way I've never heard before. What site is pushing this particular brand of garbage?
Re: iPhone 6
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does and I won't get a new iphone before 7 or 6s comes out anyway because I don't need a new phone right now. But I feel betrayed. They were the only phones out there that understood a phone isn't magically better just because it's got higher numbers. Now it seems they aren't anymore. At this rate next time I buy a phone I'm gonna have to get one of those stupid watches and forego a phone completely.
I think you misunderstand the meaning of the word betrayed.
From the dictionary[1]: "to disappoint the hopes or expectations of". Seems spot on.
Re: iPhone 6
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
I build an avalanche safety app http://www.ullrlabs.com and knowing your elevation is one key aspect of determining the avalanche risk (due to differences in altitude for wind effect, temp, and snow accumulation).
Wouldn't GPS be far more accurate for this purpose?
No but the barometer assists with getting a faster GPS lock by giving it an approximate altitude
Re: iPhone 6
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the keynote, when they demoed the un-updated CNN app, it looks like they're just scaling the app (no black bars) and depending on the resolution of the screen to avoid the blur being obvious.
So I imagine it's possible to scale up the app so that the height takes up the full length of the new height, but an app I am working on now was coded to be specifically 320pt wide, so I'm worried about how they handle this. I'm hoping that it keeps the aspect ratio, even if that means black bars for now, because otherwise there will be undefined side-effects in many apps.
Admittedly, I don't know how they've actually implemented this, but I would imagine that it would be possible for them to render the app on a 320pt "virtual screen", then take that and stretch it appropriately for the actual screen. Otherwise I don't see how they'd maintain true backwards compatibility.
Re: iPhone 6
#186Gruber is going to have to set aside about a month's worth of updates to get through all the claim chowder from the people who gave the Galaxy Note shit for being 'hilariously' or 'ridiculously' or 'stupidly' large.
Found the one I was thinking of in particular: http://thetechblock.com/samsungs-galaxy-note-changed-my-life... and linked to by Gruber http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/15/techblock-galaxy...
Well he could easily retort that the if you're going to make a phone this big, do it right, make it as light as possible.
I assume the iPhone 6 is lighter than the equivalently sized Galaxy phones.
Re: iPhone 6
#187I'm sure this will be downvoted into oblivion but I have Karma to burn preaching some truth. Between big phones (even the small iphone 6 is bigger!), the watch and NFC, Apple is clearly repositioning themselves as fast followers and letting Samsung et. al. foot the bill on R&D and market building. They're probably hoping they can provide higher quality (and more profitable) offerings in markets that somebody else has…
"Between big phones (even the small iphone 6 is bigger!), the watch and NFC, Apple is clearly repositioning themselves as fast followers and letting Samsung et. al. foot the bill on R&D" Just like Apple let Creative Labs foot the bill on R&D and market building with the Nomad before the iPod was introduced?
Other than "both devices played compressed music files" I don't think there was really lots of comparison between the nomad and the iPod.
But yeah I guess in some way that's true, portable mp3 players of some kind were a rapidly growing market being developed by dozens of companies when the iPod came out. I had an entire series of CD-R/mp3 capable portable CD players back then for example. So the market was open and proven, but Apple provided real innovation in both technology and in digital distribution that wasn't there at all before the iPod. Combined, those were game changers and set Apple ascendant to the point it is today.
Getting most of the major record companies to sign on the dotted line is something I think only Apple could have done.
Re: iPhone 6
#188No current gen iPhone that fits in my pocket and that I can comfortably use with one hand? Anyone remember this Apple ad?
Re: iPhone 6
#189Wouldn't buy the iwatch or the new iphone, and I have been a Apple longterm user. Like the motorola 360 better, round design is a huge win and again Apple are last to market with a inferior product. The iphone's main feature for me was that it was more secure than android phones. But after the celebrity icloud hacks and the iphone backdoors that were revealed (then denied by Apple) I have had enough - Apple products…
Wow, this comment is really full of FUD. Planned obsolescence? iPhone backdoors? You need to reevaluate where you get your Apple-related news from. > They were caught out slowing the older versions of their phones right before the release of the new ones by analyzing google search data Where did you even get this from? That's 100% made-up. But it's also oddly specific in a way I've never heard before. What site is pu…
The New York Times published the article from a Harvard Professor. Link in the original comment, as is the paper revealing the backdoors.
Here is the PRISM slide showing the timing of Apples participation, exactly one year after SJ passed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
It's not FUD I'm stating a set of facts here. It is what it is.
Re: iPhone 6
#190Too bad there is no longer a high end 4" model. The iPhone 5S won't support Apple Pay since it doesn't have NFC, and it is no longer available in 64 GB. I would have thought that Apple understood they have customers that actually prefer the 4" size, or else they wouldn't have had any sales the last years. Let's hope for a iPhone 6S mini next year.
It may support Apple Pay if you pair it with an Watch.
Interesting, I assumed it still required iPhone 6 because in the keynote they mentioned some addition to the secure enclave for this. But the website explicitly says Apple Pay is compatible with Apple Watch, and I quote:
> Paired with iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, or iPhone 6 Plus. In-store purchases only.