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My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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Post by jxjnskkzxxhx »

sigmoid10 wrote: post #95
cortesoft wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Like, how is it even justified—does Apple really spend $99 on infra maintenance and server costs to host your app? How much something costs is not what determines how much a company charges for something. A company sets prices based on what will make it the most money. A company only lowers prices if they think doing so will generate higher total profits in the long run. Apple seems to think charging $99 a year for…

>How much something costs is not what determines how much a company charges for something. It actually does - in a free market. That's, like, one of the main arguments why capitalism is good for the population and not evil. But in a gate-kept oligopoly like phones, actors can abuse the system to squeeze more money out of consumers, leaving the corporations as sole beneficiaries. That's why this kind of stuff usually…

> It actually does - in a free market

Meaningless sentence.

Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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Post by ndr42 »

timewizard wrote: post #100
cortesoft wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Like, how is it even justified—does Apple really spend $99 on infra maintenance and server costs to host your app? How much something costs is not what determines how much a company charges for something. A company sets prices based on what will make it the most money. A company only lowers prices if they think doing so will generate higher total profits in the long run. Apple seems to think charging $99 a year for…

> A company sets prices based on what will make it the most money. No company does this. Prices are set based upon demand. This does provide opportunities to make more money during some periods than others. If you have a monopoly then you can ignore this and just pick what makes you the most. > Apple seems to think charging $99 a year for developers will help its long term bottom line the most. It's absolutely a besp…

>> A company sets prices based on what will make it the most money.

> No company does this. Prices are set based upon demand.

I read an interview a long long time ago (with Jobs, Schiller or Cook - I don't remember) where they were saying explicitly that Apple charge the amount that get them the most money not marketshare. I remember the times when analysts where obsessed with market share and that apple had to lose because they were to expensive. I don't hear that opinion that often today.

Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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Post by timewizard »

ndr42 wrote: post #112
timewizard wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A company sets prices based on what will make it the most money. No company does this. Prices are set based upon demand. This does provide opportunities to make more money during some periods than others. If you have a monopoly then you can ignore this and just pick what makes you the most. > Apple seems to think charging $99 a year for developers will help its long term bottom line the most. It's absolutely a besp…

>> A company sets prices based on what will make it the most money. > No company does this. Prices are set based upon demand. I read an interview a long long time ago (with Jobs, Schiller or Cook - I don't remember) where they were saying explicitly that Apple charge the amount that get them the most money not marketshare. I remember the times when analysts where obsessed with market share and that apple had to lose…

That's what they say. Anyways it would be a clever way of rephrasing "many of our products have very low demand and high lock in."

Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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Post by pabs3 »

bpiroman wrote: post #63

this is so cool! Is it possible to boot linux on an old iphone?

It has definitely been done before, but probably not recently. Maybe if you use the checkra1n bootROM exploit you could do it with lots of dev work.

https://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/ https://checkra.in/

Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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Post by victorantos »

I donated my iPhone 8 a few years ago and it’s still going strong, at least from what I heard last time earlier this year. Honestly impressive how long these older iPhones keep up, both in performance and battery life (still original battery)

Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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prmoustache wrote: post #108
akutlay wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would guess they do it because they want to minimize the chance that someone will install an unapproved app to someone’s phone and cause harm. I know it’s already pretty hard but Apple seems to be very particular when it comes to this.

That is not their job.

That’s an opinion. Apple’s take is that they sell ”everything that runs on your phone has gone through our reviews, so you can trust it isn’t malware”

That, in their opinion, makes it their job to prevent people from permanently installing software on other people’s phones. I’m sure they would remove the “permanently” if they could, but developers have to test builds so frequently that they can’t review them all.

Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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Post by CaptainFever »

rbinv wrote: post #20
redundantly wrote: post #3

I love projects like this, doing things because you can. Especially low power, off-grid projects. However I did not love the writing style of this article. Lots of repetition. Asking questions to stress a funny point. Lots of repetition. I don't mean to sound like a jerk, even though I've succeeded at it. The author is cool, what they did is just as cool.

It's AI slop. In fact, most (if not all) of this blog's recent posts are AI slop.

That's not what slop means. This is anything but low-effort or low-quality.

Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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Post by CaptainFever »

deadbabe wrote: post #56

The privacy obsession and the fact he never mentions what kind of images the service is processing or what they’re for just kinda gives me the creeps, especially for the amount of requests he gets. There is a non-zero chance this is for illicit purposes.

It's not your business. This is just the old nothing to hide argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

Re: My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server

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Post by theandrewbailey »

ideashower wrote: post #5

I'm confused. What are you OCR'ing that requires a solution like this? What images are you processing?

My guess is that he wanted to use that Apple OCR framework and that iPhone was whatever he had handy. I went to his blog's homepage hoping to find some article as to what he's processing, but I didn't find anything. Is he scanning all of his novels?
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