Posted on 01/11/2015 10:42:14 PM PST by Swordmaker
One thing i've learned over the years is that what is complained about on forums is a small minority of users. . . and they are very vocal. Common Wisdom is never to be trusted.
The fact is that Apple uses standard Bluetooth radios and hardware supplied from standard suppliers such as CISCO and Qualcom. If there is a problem connecting, the problem is in the hardware and it should be there for everyone. Usually it is a problem with a batch of the chips provided on a small number of the iPhones/iPads and can be hard to track down. Sometimes it can be handled in software with changes in firmware, sometimes it takes a swap out of the device.
That said, Apple is not above making mistakes in their software. . . and sometimes the fixes they put in to address the issues with the problem chips create problems for chipsets that were working fine before. That happened with the iOS 8.1.3 release for a small number of users. . . who also cried out very vocally. When a company such as Apple is churning out 15 million iPhone 6 and 6 plus models, they have to accept various suppliers offerings of chipsets. . . and they try their best to make sure that everything works together. Sometimes, I think, the suppliers, to meet demand, drop in some sub-par chipsets, or even some from another model, that meets specs, but do not quite work exactly the same as the ones specified. Should these be caught before being installed? You bet your bippy. But that's a perfect world.
I just know that when I read these real world problems that a very small minority of Apple users report, but know that I have the EXACT same model they have and am not experiencing what they are describing. . . nor are any of my friends. . . nor are any of the other millions of users with that model. Errors of this type usually affect far less than 1% of the models involved.
The anti-Apple trolls pick up on these forum complaints and cry these are "endemic" and "exemplary" in the Apple device and normal for Apple products, when they are not.
It was so bad it turned apple in to a trillion dollar company. I wish I had those kinds of failures.
Exactly. . . only not yet there. . . but heading there.
You can keep up with out the snarky comments. I read several Apple Comment pages every day and never comment on any of them, I just go there to see what may be new or useful.
Thank you for the explanation. I had no idea what the motivation was for the original iPhone not having high speed cellular data. At the time my brother was on Verizon using a PCMIA data card and used a Motorola Razr phone. My Sprint plan for the PPC-6700 was less than what my brother paid just for his data card. My tethered phone provided just as fast of a connection and he had some type of cap on his usage.
For me there is no greater recent example of how important capitalistic competition than the advances made in “smart phones”. I have been using the same laptop for several years. It was one of the cheapest I could find when my previous laptop quit working. Recently one of the hinges for the display broke so I started looking to see how many improvements had been made since I purchased it. There were not enough improvements to justify a new purchase. I was able to fix it instead.
In the same time period the capabilities of tablets and phones have increased greatly while the price has dropped significantly. Every Android user should be thanking Apple for making such great products and every Apple user should be thanking Samsung and other major Android manufacturers for making such great products. It is this brutal completion that has fueled major advances to the point where all of these tiny devices now are much more powerful and much easier to use. People who buy entry level DSLRs and mirrorless cameras should be thanking Samsung, Apple and other manufacturers for putting such great cameras in their phones and tablets. Camera makers have had to greatly improve their products because phones and tablets now have cameras that are very good.
I have never purchased an Apple product, but I do thank them for making such great devices. I have got an amazing Samsung Gear 2 watch which interfaces with my phone. My grandson saw it the other day and he asked me if it was an iWatch. I said, “No the iWatch hasn't been released yet.” So he almost immediately lost interest and started bragging about his dad's iPhone 6 and told me he was hoping his dad would give him his iPhone 5. But I am sure when the iPhone comes out it will force Samsung to up the ante with its wearable tech products. Already amazing products will improve even more.
You poo poo the lack of security of SD cards for some reason but then mention about iCloud a proven security risk. You have a certain conundrum there Sword.
Should I go to my local Apple Store or verizon for iPhone help u think?
What browser u use?
“If I could just get a USB port on my IPad, it’d be awesome. “
There is an adapter. Also wifi discs.
He’s probably mad his iPhone doesn’t have a SCSI port to plug in his Syquest.
Excuse me, TRUTH MATTERS, and no one has ever shown that iCloud is a "security risk," only that a few celebrities used either very weak passwords, or security questions. No one has hacked into iCloud.
No one has ever used any "iBrute" or "iDict" script solution to break into any Apple account except their own. . . and that only because they put their own password into the dictionary they were using fairly close to the beginning of the passwords to be checked. Those are facts.
The celebrities accounts were compromised—not hacked—because the celebrities used truthful answers to commonly asked questions for which the answer would be hard to find for average citizens, but for celebrities are easy to learn by basic and simple research into fan magazine biographies. For example a question often asked may be "What was the name of the street where the elementary school you attended was on?" For Joe Schmo, hard to find out. For a celebrity, read a fanzine bio, learn what school she attended, do a bit of research in an old phone book, and "Ta da!" the pervert has the answer. Another question might be "What was your favorite pet when you were growing up?" Again, a search of a fanzine biography is likely to provide the answer.
However, it turns out that many of the 150 - 200 celebrities "accounts" supposedly compromised from iCloud, did not come from iCloud at all. Some did not have iCloud accounts. Many of the photos—about 55%— had metadata that showed the photos came from Android, Windows web cams, and even Flickr accounts, sources highly unlikely to uploaded to iCloud from an Apple device. Forensic investigators determined the photos the photos, some which were years old, came from collections that had been amassed by a community of perverts whose hobby was breaking into celebrities' computers, accounts in many venues, and trading what they find. . . and getting in by what ever means they could, including befriending the celebrity! This was confirmed by some members of that community who had been trading the photos. . . and had actually been the ones who had acquired some of the photos. The person trying to sell the photos was breaking their code of secrecy and trying to sell outside the "community." He had been peddling his collection for TWO WEEKS before the release of the so-called "iBrute" iCloud dictionary attack. . . and announced THAT was how he got the pictures. . . and suddenly got the attention he had been trying to get for his collection. He LIED!
Dictionary attacks such as "iBrute" and "iDict" cannot work on the complex Apple ID's that Apple requires its members to use. Apple requires hard passwords, using both upper and lower case letters, mixed with numbers, and keyboard symbols. NO dictionary would be able to have those combinations in them in a reasonable time frame. Pr0x13, the author of "iDict" used a dictionary of 500 common passwords. . . and only 18 of them would have met Apple's strict criteria. The ONLY way that Pr0x13 got his system to work, and for his buddies to get it to work on THEIR accounts was to put their own passwords into the list. In fact, among the 500 obvious common passwords, there are TWO that are obviously not members of that list—and are easily spotted as they simply don't belong to the same set—I think they are Pr0x13's and one of his friend's passwords to iCloud, LOL!.
ANY THING uploaded to iCloud is encrypted to 256 AES encryption using the users Apple ID entangled with the 128 bit UUID of the device. Depending on the complexity of the User ID, that can be an extremely complex passcode. Apple then anonymizes the data, splits it into four pieces, combines it with other data from other users, and AGAIN encrypts it to 256 bit AES encryption on TOP of your encryption. If anyone breaks in and downloads any of that data, ALL they are going to get is gobbledegook. . . totally useless garbage.
On the other hand, that stupid SD card uses standard Windows formatting. . . with ZERO encryption, no user protection.
How Android lost its SD Card storageNow Android fans are probably already thinking, "well with an Android device, I can add an SD Card for more storage!" In fact, that's what Samsung itself recommended Galaxy S4 users do in early 2013 to make up for the fact that Android and bundled apps were wasting nearly half the available advertised storage.
However, SD Cards don't work like built-in storage; they're more like a floppy drive. They offer no security because they use Microsoft's FAT file system, which does not support file or user permissions, enabling any rogue app to read and steal personal data and making it far more difficult for end users or enterprises to secure their devices.
SD Card's lack of file and user account security—along with the related problems of potentially removable storage in a mobile device (there are many)—prompted Apple to never rely upon SD Cards for memory expansion on its iPods and iOS devices, even though it did make it possible to use external SD Cards with iPods, Macs and iOS devices via USB.
Google initially supported internal SD Card slots to help make Android devices cheaper, but the security and usability issues finally prompted Google to remove SD Card support in its 2013 release of Android 4.4 KitKat.
After installing KitKat, Android users found that their SD Cards no longer work, or can only be used in very specific ways, not as general purpose storage for things like apps and the user's photo library. Users who bought a Galaxy S4 and took Samsung's advice to make up for lost storage via SD Cards were subsequently left SD-out of luck.
Remember, this isn't about Google issuing an update that retroactively erased a primary marketing bullet point of Android; this is a lawsuit claiming that Apple was defrauding customers by giving them significantly more free storage compared to Samsung. Not one of the reports linked above even mentioned that fact. — Source: "Despite lawsuit, Apple's iOS 8 storage is actually far more efficient than Google's Android, Samsung's Galaxy, Microsoft Windows", Daniel Erin Dilger, Apple Insider, 01/04/2015
That's what I would do. You may walk out with one that works for what you need. . . free. Be sure you sync yours with your computer before you go.
i generally stick with Safari but I also have Atomic Browser installed. . . plus if i want to see a Flash video I have Puffin and Chrome installed, but don't use them much.
Again not sure what you’re talking about I have the Galaxy S5 and Kitkat 4.4.4 and my SD card works as expected and works pretty damn fast not like a floppy at all. Buy a fast micro SD card and it’s not slow like you are purporting. Hell, I can take burst shots with my camera in the S5, (Does the Apple even offer burst shots on it’s inferior camera?) and the SD card has no trouble keeping up. Try again with the Apple delusion...
Speed has nothing to do with it. I NEVER said it was as "slow" as a floppy drive" I said it was not as fast as the type of RAM connect to the logic boards in an iPhone. It isn't. It can't be. it's not the same kind of memory. the issue is how is it formatted and how is the data stored and accessed. Security has everything to do with it. FAT32 does not offer security or user control. Some of the Android vendors added the functionality back in, but it is not officially part of Android anymore as Google has removed support.
I just love how you ignorant, non-iPhone users tell us iPhone users what our devices can and can't do. You are one of the worst offenders.
Using Burst Mode on the iPhone 5sUp to 999 photos can be taken in a single burst. Recent interface improvements make it easy to choose the best photos from a burst group before discarding the rest to free up storage space.
Initiating burst mode requires no prior setup. Simply open the Camera app, frame your shot, and hold down the shutter release button. This works with the on-screen button and the volume buttons. Rapid fire captures will start, with matching sound effects and a frame count displayed on the screen. In the example above, 8 separate photos were taken in under a second.
Releasing the button saves the burst group to the camera roll. After all of the action shots have been recorded, it's time to sift through and see what's worth keeping. Navigate to the Camera Roll by tapping the photo thumbnail in the lower left corner of the screen. The burst group will appear with the number of photos included.— Source: iPhoneFAQ.com
The camera on the iPhones are considered the best cameras on any phone when all features are considered. . . and results are included. Are you serious about burst mode? Of course it does. It takes VIDEO and in fact can do 240 frames per second VIDEO, or super-slo motion video. That is the ultimate burst mode. . . and can do it direct to a connected Mac if you like. Try that with an inferior Android phone camera. . .
By-the-way, many Android cameras with burst modes cannot save to SD cards—the option is actually grayed out—because the SD card memory is too slow to keep up!. . . and even if you buy a fast SD card, unless you root your phone, it is STILL grayed out, and the burst photos can only be saved to system memory.
If you think the iPhone camera is "inferior", try reading this thread about an iPhone camera review by an ANDROID PHONE camera user, Blue. . .
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