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New comment by asendra in "Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit"

asendra — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:58:17 +0000

It shows a lack of respect for their users, and for their users money.

They are charging the same for almost two years old hardware than they would if It had been updated, but the user gets a worst product, and in the long run, experience.

New comment by asendra in "Microsoft Wins $480M Army HoloLens Contract"

asendra — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:20:08 +0000

That only makes sense if you stop putting morons in charge, though.

New comment by asendra in "Modifications to Google Chromium for removing Google integration"

asendra — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:19:05 +0000

On Safari 12, my 2015 13" rMBP scores 55, my iPhone X 89, and the new iPhone XS 125 !? Faster than the new iMac Pro (https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1043277162676072449)

New comment by asendra in "Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible"

asendra — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:12:46 +0000

You have dirt inside your lightning port. Clean it up and should be fine.

New comment by asendra in "Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible"

asendra — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:07:02 +0000

Yes and no.

the solution to the problem was the correct one, they just forgot one important detail.

TELL THE USER!

As a result, plenty of people, (including myself) noticing their two year phone starting to slow down quite a bit, decided to upgrade to the new and shiny model, instead of just replacing the battery, because who would have known that was the problem?!

New comment by asendra in "Ten years of V8"

asendra — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 07:11:38 +0000

And I've yet to experience a smooth web experience in an Android phone (using Chrome), or at least as smooth as on iOs..

New comment by asendra in "Insured, but Still Owing $109K for a Heart Attack"

asendra — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:06:53 +0000

Does this mean the average American is shortsighted and stupid then?

“But the average American has less than $4,000 in savings, while 57% of U.S. adults have less than $1,000 to their names.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/budget-...

New comment by asendra in "Blue Origin successfully lands both booster and crew capsule after test launch"

asendra — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:36:15 +0000

Is that on the same time scale as Falcon Heavy doing it's first launch in 2013?

New comment by asendra in "Apple Watch Adoption"

asendra — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:20:22 +0000

If you train any sport with any kind of seriousness you usually end up needing more advanced training features, like HR pacing, zones training, intervals for speed workouts, cadence..

There is no way to do all that properly with an Apple Watch as of today. Not to mention the pain that is to wait for the screen to turn on to see if you are running at the proper pace/HR vs a Garmin watch.

New comment by asendra in "Apple Watch Adoption"

asendra — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 12:19:52 +0000

If you were still a runner, or did any type of sport with decent training, you would still be using Garmin or equivalent.

Apple watch just doesn't cut it. I own both (AW2 and Garmin 735xt) and I gave up trying to use the AW for any of the sports that I do. (Running, swimming, biking, gym, Triathlon)

New comment by asendra in "Determining the Average Apple Device Lifespan"

asendra — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:16:41 +0000

Because it was found out that they were doing the battery thing. If not, he and everyone else would have continued suffering a poor experience without knowing that it was a battery problem, or bought a new iPhone.

I know that’s what happened to me with my 6s at least.

New comment by asendra in "iMac Pro's T2 chip"

asendra — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:56:34 +0000

It might be about blacklisting older versions, so users can only install the newest version like on iOS.

New comment by asendra in "A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance"

asendra — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 08:13:00 +0000

I did. 6s to X one year before planned.

New comment by asendra in "A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance"

asendra — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 08:07:23 +0000

Stating that a battery replacement will fix it instead of letting them suffer and increasingly slow phone or buying a new one unnecessarily.

New comment by asendra in "A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance"

asendra — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 08:01:13 +0000

Apple hid the cause (an ageing battery), and purposely slowed down peoples phones without warning.

If your phone randomly shuts downs, or it last less time between charges, you know it must be a battery issue. You go to Apple or whatever, and fix it paying no more than 79$ (maybe even free if it still has warranty!)

If you hide it and degrade performance, people don't know its a battery issue, leaving them to suffer a slow phone, or spending 700+$ on a new phone.

No matter the good intentions, and the "good solution" they implemented, they fucked up.

New comment by asendra in "A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance"

asendra — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:57:24 +0000

Thats the sort of thing that happens when you are spoiled by buying every iPhone, never experiencing an ageing phone or even an iOs update on an older phone.

It was painful to hear.

New comment by asendra in "A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance"

asendra — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:52:59 +0000

But I bet you knew it was a battery problem, and how to fix it without buying a new phone.

That's the main problem here.

New comment by asendra in "A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance"

asendra — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:49:48 +0000

Just my case, but Apple replaced my 6s battery because of random shutdowns under the replacement program on Jan 17th.

Around the release of iOs 11 (not sure exactly when because it was gradual and I was also on the iOs 11 beta) my 6s became incredibly slow, almost unbearable, until last month I decided to upgrade to an X because of how slow it was. Was planning a year more but I just couldn't see myself using it 1 year more.

Now I see via CPU Dasher and Geekbench that my 6s with a battery less than a year old (95,7% original capacity, 406 cycles) is running at 1400-900Mhz, (almost always between 1200-1000Mhz) instead of 1800Mhz.

New comment by asendra in "A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance"

asendra — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:26:58 +0000

People know batteries wear out, but the expected behaviour is the phone lasting less hours between charges, or even unexpected shutdowns, but definitely not degraded CPU performance.

That has never happened before, there was no precedent for that, and no way of knowing it was a battery issue. The only solution for most people was buying a new phone.

New comment by asendra in "A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance"

asendra — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:05:12 +0000

I also spent the corresponding amount for an X in my country but,

a. Good luck when you run out of battery on your AirPods, or you loose one, or you forget them etc. It sure is nice to have the flexibility (Not to mention the much higher audio quality with proper iems/headpphones)

b. My X is considerably bigger and specially, heavier than my 6s.