Posted on 08/29/2016 3:29:32 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple just sent out invites for a press conference on Wednesday, September 7. The company will most likely unveil the next iPhone. The invite doesn’t say much. Apple usually likes to give hints — but this time, it just says “See you on the 7th.” The event will be held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. This large venue has already been used for the WWDC keynote in June.
For the past three years, Apple has unveiled a new iPhone in early September. Everything indicates that Apple is going to follow the same pattern this year with a new iPhone. But what do we know about the iPhone exactly?
Many leaks show that the iPhone 7 (or whatever Apple calls it) will feature more or less the same design as the iPhone 6s. The antenna lines at the back will be streamlined and the camera will be a bit more prominent. And yes, it looks like the audio port is going away.
For the bigger model, Apple could introduce a dual-lens camera system. Two cameras could let iPhone users shoot better photos in low-light conditions — it could also improve HDR performance and color fidelity. Or it would let you use an optical zoom with two different angles. We don’t really know yet.
Apple could also use this opportunity to unveil new MacBook Pro computers. There have been many rumors about an upcoming MacBook Pro with a Touch ID sensor and a curious OLED mini screen above the keyboard. The Apple Watch should also receive an update before the holidays. Will it happen on September 7 or later? It’s unclear.
TechCrunch will have a team on the ground to liveblog, take photos, shoot hands-on videos and more. And if you don’t plan to buy a new iPhone, iOS 10 is also coming in September. Read my preview to find out what’s coming your way.
Yup, that would be me! d:^D
But with that said I'd hafta wager a guess that yer just kinda SOL when a buncha "working Joes" or some such start "discussing" the finer aspects of Ford vs Chevy, 5.56 vs 7.62X39, Tesla vs Edison, Kennedy vs Johnson or any of the other plethora of petty rivalries. The "psychology" of it is that the non-serious joviality of it alludes many Apple owners and brings entertainment to the perpetrators.
In reality, they're all great products with occasional "hiccups". And who can really disparage the success of a sort of American company, eh? Not me.
But I will pick on their marketing department and FANBOYS. Just like the Disciples of Harley Davidson and their big "rebel" construct. Hard ta be too "rebellious & free" with a $400-a-month bike payment. d;^)
Y'all are so wound up that when you fart only dogs can hear it. Enjoy yer "spice", HA. Do they even sell Apple on Caladan? d;^D
I see it as envy, and stubborn attitudes. The anti-Apple idiots drawn to Apple threads do so because they bought inferior products that don't have the quality and features of Apple products. And they're too stubborn to admit their failures and that they miscalculated. So they lash out in anger, and toss crap out on Apple threads. A totally meaningless gesture, because Apple product users aren't going to change their minds. When a moth comes round you swat it and continue doing what you were doing.
Place your phone sideways.
is it wider than your eyes?
OK, a camera at one end, another at the other, Bingo, 3D!
BZZZZT! Wrong, The leaked images of the iPhone 7 double camera lenses are about a half-inch apart. Nice try.
What is different about what you wrote and what I wrote? You claimed it was the latest model iPhone, which is the iPhone 6S, but this article refers to the iPhone 6 and 6 plus. If you bothered to read farther in the article you'd find indications of the NUMBER of complaints involved, to wit:
"iFixit said the defect has affected a growing number of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus owners, citing its own repair shop colleagues and dozens of complaints on the Apple Support Communities."
As you can see it is NOT a huge problem for the Apple iPhone 6 users as it is being made out to be, not when the level of complaint amounts to "dozens of complaints" out of over 250 million devices in the wild. Based on those numbers, and the timing of the sudden widespread appearance of the mainstream news about a very minor complaint, I can only conclude that it is essentially a FUD (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) Campaign, most likely mounted by Apple's competitors in advance of Apple's iPhone 7 launch. It happens EVERY YEAR, in the three weeks before Apple announces its new iPhones, like clockwork. That's why I call that period FUD Season.
If you bothered to investigate other sources, you'd find out that what you claim is only one of the theories about the cause, based on some comments from repair guys who claim it comes from endgate, except that engineers say that the iPhones involved show no signs of having been bent, that the other ICs in the area don't show any signs of breaking loose, and that others are looking at the growing problem of tin whiskers which have hit OTHER makes of smartphones and other electronics, brought about by the forced abandonment of lead in solder due to new government regulations.
No, you have to ask why Samsung is bothering to push so many pixels that are totally unnecessary on their much higher resolution 6 inch screen when the best a human eye can see is far below the threshold of what they are providing. It is a waste of bandwidth and processing power and memory purely for marketing hype. . . and that is all it is! Hype. The human eye can only see so much detail and going beyond that detail at that size is dumb and the only reason to do that for bragging rights for someone who is SPEC crazy and does not understand what it means. Apparently such as you who gets lost in such magnificent numbers, rather than the reality of what you really need to accomplish a given task.
To use your final thought, is it the greatest resolution or is it enough resolution so that humans cannot distinguish the pixels, and then move those sufficient pixels around in a smooth animation at a high rate of speed? That is where large numbers FAIL.
My girlfriend Kathy, who is a nurse, and I came up with a proposed diagnosis for the condition that explains it, to be added to the next modification of the ICD-10, the international compendium of diagnostic codes, when they bring it out:
90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projected Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.
It would be nice if Apple spent some of the money saved on paying taxes on fixing their products instead of hiding the money overseas.
Apple pays .005% tax <— you and I pay 43% or more. I wish I knew some leprechauns to shelter my money.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3764393/Apple-faces-bill-billions-Irish-tax-affairs-EU-rules-company-effectively-received-state-aid.html
There is data supporting 0.4 arc minute resolution, which would translate to about 720 PPI at 12", or about 500 PPI at around 18". I know that Apple pushes 1 arc minute, but that's at the bare minimum. Looking at an iPhone screen and a Note 7 screen - with black text on white background - and the text will be visibly crisper on the Note 7. Having 2.2 times the resolution does help.
And I know here, around Dolby, the guideline is half an arc minute for the UHD displays. That's what the guys pushing the creation of content say you need to have realistic images, and they do have a few thouand man-years in content creation image improvement so I'm inclined to trust them.
Then when you add in VR functionality, you halve the resolution each eye sees, so something around 300 PPI becomes 150 PPI - really pretty bad resolution, making it not good for VR applications. Those extra pixels help a lot in that case.
So there's quite a bit to be said for higher than 300 PPI - there is quite a bit of evidence you need more than that, especially if you want to do more than just read text messages.
As I posted above, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus ARE current models, as minnesota_bound posted. You “cleverly” changed it from CURRENT model (which minnesota_bound wrote) to LATEST model. Which is NOT what was claimed.
He’s right, you’re wrong. You’re arguing a question that was not asked - but is a great strawman to attack!
Apple is hiding nothing overseas, Minnie. Everyone knows where it is. . . where it was earned. If Apple were to bring it into the United States, our arcane tax laws would tax that money, on which income taxes both there and here have already been paid, at 35%. We are one of only TWO countries in the world who have such a rule, while all others allow their companies to bring their own assets home freely to be invested in their own home economies. Our Liberal politicians are shortsighted and stupid.
Apple is headquartered in the United States and as such pays the bulk of its corporate income taxes HERE, not in the EU. Your claim that Apple pays only 0.005% tax is the EU income taxes, not even the Irish Corporate Tax (which is 2.5%), but the EU's share of which THEY WANT MORE! The rules of the EU state that when a country collects back taxes, it has to go to paying back international loans. Guess where Ireland's international loans came from. The European Union. This is all about the EU wanting 13 billion Euros. Ireland would not even get that money that is not owed.
Quit being a bound lackey for socialist thieves, Minnie, both here and off shore.
Sorry, you are wrong, Shanghai, as is minnesota_bound. Again, you seem to have a serious problem with reading comprehension.
I quote minnesota's original post in this thread which I was addressing and correcting his errors, which were many and egregious:
"They have to bring out a new phone as the current has bad screen and the company is being sued over it."
His original statement did not say "a current" but specifically "the current" which means the latest version. The iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus have not been in production since approximately March of 2015. Ergo, while their inventories may be still be being sold, they are no longer being manufactured by Apple and have been superseded by the redesigned iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, the new current model, as well as the entirely new, smaller iPhone SE. By the definition of the word "current," the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are not the current iPhone model, necessary to solve a problem as implied by minnesota—bound's snarky comment as two later models have already supplanted it that have demonstrated the very minor ("dozens of complaints") issue.
You are making the strawman to try and support his error. Nice try, but no over ripe banana.
Tim Cook must be posting as Swordmaker : )
Or maybe Swordmaker is Rush.......... From his site today.
“The European Union is nothing but a bunch of takers. The European Union wouldn’t know how to produce diddly-squat.”
“All these brilliant socialist Democrats in Western Europe, all these elites, these pointy-headed intellectuals, our so-called betters, can’t manage anything. And they have been out of money for years. They don’t know how to budget. They don’t know how to behave responsibly.”
“Apple is the European Union’s golden goose. And they’re taking as many eggs from the golden goose as they can, because they’re out of money.”
I’m beginning to think that some of the Apple haters here suffering from MAPS are starting to have “tin whiskers” sprout in their brains shortcircuiting their neurons.
"According to his article, Dr. Optoglass tells us that the perfect resolution of the eye can see 2190 PPI at 4 inches from the screen. However, none of us holds our phones that close to our faces, at least I hope you don’t, because that actually is bad for your eyes. In addition, the average visual acuity of a human is about 1 arc minute, which simply refers to a person with 20/20 vision. A person with 20/20 vision at 4 inches (the closest a healthy adult can focus) can see up to 876 PPI, which is considerably lower than the ideal eye, which can see at .4 arc minutes.
That 0.4 arc minutes is at 4" viewing distance. I used to be an extreme myope. I could focus at 1.5 inches and could see 0.25 arc minute when was at that extremely close focus. I wore coke bottle lenses almost ⅝the inch thick at the edges to see distance. That was before I had to have lenses implanted due to cataracts. I now have 20/20 vision and have to wear reading glasses for normal reading distances. Sometimes I miss the ability to be a microscope.
People do not look at phones at 4" viewing distances. Their field of view is to narrowed unless they are focussing on a single thing on the screen. People look at phones at 10" to 15" viewing distance.
The only people who can see even a 0.6 arc minute resolution at those distances have 20/05 eyesight, an almost impossibly small minority of the population.
The difference is NOT visible and those who claim they can see it are fooling themselves. Optometrists and Ophthalmologists (some of my clients are in those fields) would strongly disagree with your claims. 1 arc second is 278 pixels per inch at a 10-12 inch viewing distance.
The iPhone's worst resolution is 326, which is the equivalent of 0.74 arc seconds, good enough for someone with 20/15 eyes. Approximately 7% of the world's population can claim close to 20/15 eyesight. Less than 2% have 20/10.
Ultra High Density displays are not meant for viewing at that close a range, Shanghai. A 27" UHD 4K monitor has only about 157 PPI. So much for your vaunted experts. A 4k TV can be as low as 96 PPI. Oops. The iPad Pros have far higher resolution at 324 PPI than do HD TVs, yet they are much smaller. It is all about viewing distance.
It also says 876 PPI at that distance, and that is a lot lower than the ideal eye. Your own quotation proves your conclusion wrong.
Huh. So you contend that “the current” is the same as “the latest”. Well, I guess your English really is lacking. The iPhone 6 is current; it is still for sale. However, it is not the latest - that is the iPhone 6S. Current versions of the iPhone stretch back a year or two; they are not the latest.
You’re flat out wrong. But you can go ahead and try to twist it. I guess you also want to debate what the meaning of “is” is...
ROTFLMAO! . . . my "own quotation" were taken from your own cited expert's words verbatim from the link YOU PROVIDED as he shot you down, Shanghai.
There is NO PERSON who has the "ideal eye," who can see normally Shanghai. No one. I could actually focus closer than that only because I was an extreme myope. Look that one up. Don't join the ranks of the idiots posting because you WANT something to be true. It isn't. 20/20 is considered perfect vision. 7% of the population are blessed with 20/15 vision and 2% have 20/10 vision. Even THEY cannot resolve to that "perfect eye" ideal. You do NOT build products targeting 2% of the population. The iPhone's 326 PPI is sufficient for those with the 20/15 vision. Anything more is just marketing HYPE so that fanboys like you can brag about your huge number of slowly moving pixels and wasted resources because the huge number sound so good in ad copy!
Fanboy?
K’bye - fanboi...
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