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Apple Confirms a Fix is Coming for Static Noise Problem Affecting iPhone 8 Earpiece
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Oh I won’t let Apple slide on this. But they manufacture millions of devices. It’s touhg to get them all perfect. It’s stuff like this where we only hear about the bad. No one posts about the millions of perfect iPhones
I agree but iPhone 8s aren't selling nearly as much as other iPhones in the past and the fact that Apple is acknowledging it as a problem is concerning. Anything less than 1% with Apple is unacceptable.
First time I didnt upgrade to a new apple phone. Apple seems like a sinking ship, unfortunately.
I think the most important thing, is Apple acknowledging the issue early on with the iPhone 8 only being approximately a week after the launch. Regardless, it's inconveniencing, but at least it will be rectified.
Probably not something that would have much to do with this given that no one in public would have been testing the new phones.
My 6s has been doing something similar since I got it. Exchanged the first one due to the issue, and the second one did it also. Every few calls I'll hear a super loud screech then static.
I think the acknowledgement is a good thing. And 1% percent? They manufacture like 30 million units, more even. That’s asking a lot no?
I have no words for this one. Good luck on your future updates. Tim Cook is making Apple into something most of us don't know.
I'm in the packaging business. Anything more than 1% is concerning. And that's just your normal blow molders of plastic bottles. I would think the criteria to be an exclusive Apple supplier would be even higher. Just my opinion.
When you make all the phones the software goes on it can't be THAT difficult. I mean, if Google can get it done...
As in devices that sometimes have some issues or software that has some issues? Because typical things like that didn't exist when Steve Jobs was around, or basically when it comes to pretty much any other product?
We have a forum full of product development experts here. They understand everything that needs to be done, and specialize in getting everything done perfectly and on time. You should hire them all, because they know better than your current team. Pronto!
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High Sierra still installs onto computers with Fusion drives, but the file system is not updated to use APFS. These drives remain on HFS+. Am I right or wrong? You just stated that High Sierra isn't available at all for these machines, which could be a serious factual error.
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Users do indeed get the OS, just not this one feature (yet).
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High Sierra still installs onto computers with Fusion drives, but the file system is not updated to use APFS. These drives remain on HFS+. Am I right or wrong? You just stated that High Sierra isn't available at all for these machines, which could be a serious factual error.
You said:
Users do indeed get the OS, just not this one feature (yet).
Kinda surprising given is is the same basic phone design for the 4th year in a row...
Easy bud. People pay a lot of money to Apple to have a perfect device. Their hard earn money. Apple used to be a company about quality products and that has gone downhill over the last few years and people are voicing their frustrations. Don't need to bash everyone for it.
Were you around for iOS 8 debacle? Stutters all over the place... crashing safari.... failing apps and resprings out the ***hole...
Bashing is definitely not needed. That said, perfection never existed. Sure, there were people satisfied with what they had, just as there are now too, and then there were those with some issues here and there, also just as it is the case now. It's possible that quality has suffered over time, perhaps for a variety of reasons, but perfection never really existed nevertheless.
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People quickly forget or ignore or perhaps just don't know. It's all not that much different than many previous years.
We know perfection isn't there but an issue like this on a design that's been the same for 4 years just doesn't seem right. Especially the ear piece. I've replaced and fixed iPhones over the year and the ear piece hasn't changed much, if at all, over the years. Trust me. Being in the packaging business, I'm an engineer, everyone thinks everything should be perfect. I know that it can't. Just weird to see these issues almost being a given with Apple. I'd be curious if we could ever see the numbers of users affected but you know that will never be released
The software fix will just tone down that frequency which also affect all iPhones even though they don’t have a problem.