Apple Thread - The most overrated technology brand?

[Doggo]

You're the kind of person who would run an RTX 3090 on a CRT monitor

Is that a challenge?

Also, I dig the new iPhones. But I wish that Lightning would just die already. Rumour has it that this may be the last phone that has a port at all, and that it may be going portless next model. Dunno what I think about that, but I guess it's one less thing to break, and one less cable to break.

But as someone who routinely forgets to charge my phone(s), or is just out and about a lot anyway, I love the fast charge on my Pixel 4. Its even faster than the 6s plus in most instances, and at peak current will charge about 1% every 45 seconds at 18w. It's really impressive, and I hope that any future iPhone doesn't lose fast charge by way of losing the port.

 

[Pissmaster]

Is that a challenge?

Also, I dig the new iPhones. But I wish that Lightning would just die already. Rumour has it that this may be the last phone that has a port at all, and that it may be going portless next model. Dunno what I think about that, but I guess it's one less thing to break, and one less cable to break.

I'm surprised they haven't yet. The water resistance is gonna go through the roof.

But as someone who routinely forgets to charge my phone(s), or is just out and about a lot anyway, I love the fast charge on my Pixel 4. Its even faster than the 6s plus in most instances, and at peak current will charge about 1% every 45 seconds at 18w. It's really impressive, and I hope that any future iPhone doesn't lose fast charge by way of losing the port.

Your Pixel 4 might be able to wirelessly fast charge. My Note 9 can, I just plugged my $15 wireless charger into the fast charging adapter that came with my phone and it worked.

 

[techno651]

This IOS14 killing my mfing battery... I carry it, but you won't see me bowing at the alter of Apple much longer. (Yeah... I say that every update, and I don't do shit about it.)

 

[Doggo]

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I'm surprised they haven't yet. The water resistance is gonna go through the roof.



Your Pixel 4 might be able to wirelessly fast charge. My Note 9 can, I just plugged my $15 wireless charger into the fast charging adapter that came with my phone and it worked.

Oh really? I'm kinda surprised that they're making rumours about it, myself. But yeah, water resistance will absolutely skyrocket, which will be a nice little bonus.

The P4 does have wireless fast charge, but fast charge in terms of wireless charging is definitely a relative term. Wireless fast charge means 10w theoretically,at least for the Qi standard. I only have a couple of wireless chargers, and while they both accept 9v QC inputs, the phone only wants to take just a touch over 5w from the charger, regardless of if it's in the OEM case or not. I have a few USB charge testers and electronic loads laying about the place, and they have rudimentary logging capability. I've never seen the pixel take more than 5 or 6w itself.

Qi fast charge seems to be around 10w, which isn't *bad*, but it's definitely not 18w either. Although didn't Apple say that the new iphones have their own wireless charge protocol that bumps this figure up a bit? I haven't actually seen the keynote yet, and I tried to avoid as many spoilers as possible but still get an idea on what the new models look like. I'll watch the keynote at some point though.

I suppose I'm not against the idea of going portless, it definitely has its advantages. I just hope that fast charging capability of current models will be preserved at least in part. Say, 15w wireless charge should be plenty, and a nice compromise. This also allows a decent margin for losses in charging efficiency, an 18w USB-PD power supply will still smash a good solid charge rate into the thing.

P.S. My biggest concern with a portless design, apart from charge rate, would be how you would go about device recovery, DFU, etc. I'd be very interested to know how this would work if the device no longer has a port that a computer can connect to.

 

[Sammy]

They went on and on about how great the camera is when 99.99% of iPhone users use it to take pictures of their food for Instagram or to make TikTok videos. Pretty sure no actual photographer does their work on a fucking phone. I'm still going to get the 12 Pro Max when it comes out in November because it's my upgrade year but the virtue signaling was out of control, and I will not use Android.

I know they make tracking and stabilizing rigs for iphones, and they do get some use. I know there was a Sabaat (some kinda high end car don't crucify me if I got the model wrong) commercial shot entirely on iPhone and edited in iMovie that got airtime, though admittedly it was probably done partially as a promotional thing, like Apple supplied all the equipment no charge as a proof of concept, still for broadcast you couldn't tell the difference.

Also fuck you

You're the kind of person who would run an RTX 3090 on a CRT monitor

@Doggo is a hero and history will remember that. I'm the kind of person that would run a RTX3090 through a CRT Monitor, and I'd run TenebraeQuake on it, and get a respectable 25 frames per second doing so.

 

[Doggo]

This IOS14 killing my mfing battery... I carry it, but you won't see me bowing at the alter of Apple much longer. (Yeah... I say that every update, and I don't do shit about it.)

Apologies for the double post. But standard questions here. What device are you using, have you made any recent changes, have you gotten the latest updates, etc? Go into settings and take a screenshot of your battery info for us, it might help drill down the issue.

@Sammy Thanks, fren. <3 I won't lie, I'm actually super curious to try it now. I just need to turn my 1080 Ti into an RTX 3090! And find a nice old trinitron, of course.

 

[Least Concern]

Qi fast charge seems to be around 10w, which isn't *bad*, but it's definitely not 18w either. Although didn't Apple say that the new iphones have their own wireless charge protocol that bumps this figure up a bit? I haven't actually seen the keynote yet, and I tried to avoid as many spoilers as possible but still get an idea on what the new models look like. I'll watch the keynote at some point though.

I suppose I'm not against the idea of going portless, it definitely has its advantages. I just hope that fast charging capability of current models will be preserved at least in part. Say, 15w wireless charge should be plenty, and a nice compromise. This also allows a decent margin for losses in charging efficiency, an 18w USB-PD power supply will still smash a good solid charge rate into the thing.

You want 15w? You got it, baby.

You know, something I thought of the other day… Are you still going to be able to charge the phone while that little cardholder attachment is attached? Wouldn't that be RIP to all the magnetic stripes on the cards?

 

[LegoTugboat]

Everyone's favourite, most accurate leaker Jon Prosser's saying ASi Mac event on November 17.
It seems to match with what Bloomberg were hinting at, with a 'mid-November' announcement mentioned by them last week.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Some iPhone 12 benchmarks are sneaking out onto Geekbench.

The metal benchmarks aren't as high as the Air's, probably due to the phones being smaller and therefore heating up quicker, but they still post a very respectable 8900-9000.

This still beats Iris, and a GeForce GTX 970M, but falls behind an A12X. If it follows the trend of the larger phones performing better than the normals, we should see the Pro/Pro Max hitting 9100-9200.

That sounds strange. I looked at Geekbench's Metal benchmarks and it's all kinds of screwy, IRIS and the 970M should not be anywhere near each other and the scores/ranks of parts I'm familiar with are equally nonsensical. Apple probably have excellent drivers for their parts so the performance is what it should be, Intel having been a key partner for so long probably have excellent drivers for Metal as well, Nvidia on the other hand had a falling out with Apple and the list is full of cards that I don't think was ever part of the official lineup.

It could be that it compares favorably to a 970M hobbled by old and busted drivers.

 

[Pissmaster]

You want 15w? You got it, baby.

You know, something I thought of the other day… Are you still going to be able to charge the phone while that little cardholder attachment is attached? Wouldn't that be RIP to all the magnetic stripes on the cards?

Maybe? Though so many things are NFC now, everything from my credit card to my Dave & Busters card.

but I guess I'd lose the magnetic strip on the back of this old Walmart gift card I forgot I had in my wallet and they'd have to punch in all the numbers manually and that would be mildly inconvenient

 

[LegoTugboat]

So, we've had more and more rumours start appearing about the Apple Silicon Macs, with reports focusing on MacBooks and 21 inch iMacs (which Apple sells HEAPS of to colleges.)

Now we've had a couple of interesting drops, the first being the latest developer beta of Big Sur 11.0.1.
The second being...

 

[Sonichu-choo trainwreck]

I'm from the Apple ][ days -- the real Woz era was awesome
toolless opening case and a schematic
it was a different time

 

[fuckidunno]

I'm surprised they haven't yet. The water resistance is gonna go through the roof.

I would hope it's already there with ports. Sonim has it aced
I confirmed with Sonim support the the port caps don't effect the water rating.
they are there for non-fouling convenience - not ingress protection

I'm a little concerned with no ports if you have to force a connection,

 

[Joe Swanson]

Well I finally got around to making my old Ibook usable by throwing a gig of ram and an SSD in it.

 

[Pickle Dick]

Well I finally got around to making my old Ibook usable by throwing a gig of ram and an SSD in it.

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Now this is based and PPCMac-pilled

I, myself, bought a iBook G4 a few years ago as the first Mac I ever owned, though it hasn’t worked in years.

Funny enough, my model (12” 1.33 GHz) appears to be one of the last iBook G4s produced, while your’s (presumably 12” 800 MHz) seems to be one of the first of them produced.

 

[Joe Swanson]

Funny enough, my model (12” 1.33 GHz) appears to be one of the last iBook G4s produced, while your’s (presumably 12” 800 MHz) seems to be one of the first of them produced.

Yeah it have to be one of the earliest G4s, I remember my older brother getting it in late 2003/early 2004 as a school laptop then giving it to me around 06 when he got a first gen macbook.

 

[LegoTugboat]

Some more interesting info.

The Big Sur beta mentions three unreleased Macs for 2020, two are believed to be Apple Silicon, and the third a 16 inch Intel MBP.

Apple's conference call happened, which led to some reveals:

Apple One launched on the 30th of October.

Revenue of $64.7 billion, profit of $12.7 billion for quarter, up 1%.
$9 billion in Macs sold, breaking previous $7.4 billion record. Would have sold more if not for supply constraints.
iPhone sales down due to iPhone 12 being delayed. Initial iPhone 12 sales look 'promising'.
$14.5 billion for services (subscriptions, etc). Apple has 585 million paid subscribers, expects to hit 600 mil before end of year.
Tim Cook mentions more to come in the year, no specifics.

Oh and Apple's favourite bug from the iOS 12 beta, where it would helpfully alert you to a new iOS update a few dozen times, made a return with iOS 14.2 beta, before being squashed again

 

[Pickle Dick]

Apple One launched on the 30th of October.

What's an Apple One?

 

[LegoTugboat]

What's an Apple One?

That's the discounted bundle if you use multiple services they announced back in September.

 

[Pissmaster]

Horrifying rating because:

Apple has 585 million paid subscribers

like I know that includes people who just have the cheapest iCloud storage option and people who just have Apple Arcade but damn man, I don't know a single person with a sub to any of those