Posted on 04/26/2017 9:37:07 PM PDT by Swordmaker
I've never broken an iPhone in almost ten years of owning them. My 36 year old daughter cracked her hand-me-down iPad screen. $25 and 45 minutes of my work and it was good as new again.
I don't like the politics of Apple's leadership either, but I like their products. I don't like the politics of Microsoft's leadership either and having worked on their products for decades, I've grown to hate them.
There are repeated rumors that Apple is considering a low end iMac with an A11 or A12 processor. There are versions of MS Windows that will run on ARM.
Apple glass breaks
Do a thread I double dog dare you
And it breaks easy if not in a good case
I’ve replaced glass too
The Kurds run that here...it’s their niche
Kurds are big in Nashville
About 50 bucks
Glass is around 30 and 20 to put it on and the coating thingie
http://www.itproportal.com/2014/08/02/why-on-earth-is-apples-iphone-so-fragile/
I’ve moved on to Death Have No Mercy from Dead Live
Man I never tire of it
Nighty
So does Samsung phone glass. Any glass breaks, if you drop it enough. Both iPhones and Samsung use the latest, toughest Corning Gorilla Glass. . . same glass. Apple has been using Gorilla glass since the very first iPhone back in 2007.
In fact it was Steve Jobs who found a use for Corning's up-to-then useless product. Apple has not changed to a different supplier other than Corning for their iPhone and iPad screens, although they were exploring using sapphire in place of Gorilla glass several years ago, but the 450 pound sapphire boules needed to be successfully grown at a 90% or better rate, and instead they were getting a 90% failure rate when the boules cracked and shattered on cooling. Apple stayed with Corning as their cover glass supplier..
I know my iPhone is a real dick.
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So they post benchmarks from a real phone compared with an imaginary one?
Yeah that’s cool...
Thanks for remembering the Amiga... A product way ahead of its time and marketed almost like some Republicans market Conservatism...
i think its great that competition is driving this up and up. more spped is more flexibility and better apps...
the one thing i want is a battery that lasts more than a day and lets be honest if you use your phone you have the new 1000 yard stare...i.e. wheres the closest charging point..jeeze its not a lot to ask to get a few days at least...is it?
Here ya go...
They have to push this because it’s Apple’s cash cow and every thing else they’ve done in the past few years failed.
S7 edge glass is CRAZY expensive to replace... my son cracked his and was told its was about 250 to replace it. :(
I’ll stick with the better and open OS, Android. Love my cheap micro SD storage too.
It’s a pocket computer that also makes calls.
Apple had nothing to do with the ARM processor. The “A” stands for “Apricot”.
The Commodore Amiga 1000 has a Motorola CPU 68000 same as first Mac
the Custom graphics and sound chips in the Amiga was by same guy that did the original custom chips for the Atari 400/800
the Amiga was That be to follow on to the Atari 400/800 By the atari’s designer but then Atari mamagment decided to go a Different way so he took the new machine to Commodore which was Atari arrival at the time
Maybe because it’s a whole lot more than a telephone...
I just discovered mine was a tip calculator.
How do you compare apples with androids?
Completely different platforms.
“To put the iPhone 8’s supposed performance edge in perspective, its result would also outgun the Dell XPS 13 laptop.”
To be fair, while this is still impressive the XPS 13 is only running a dual-core “i7”.
(I’m not at all a fan of Intel’s current processor naming scheme. As a matter of fact, I’d love to see Apple bring out systems based on Ryzen.)
“How do you compare apples with androids?
Completely different platforms.”
You run the same benchmarks on each, which is a perfectly valid thing to do.
It’s the same as comparing (for instance) a Photoshop benchmark on Windows versus macOS.
Such comparisons give a good idea of both how productive and how enjoyable to use the respective systems may be.
Get a Raspberry Pi.
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