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Apple Highlighting iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c Reviews by Tech and Mainstream Press
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I wouldn't bet on a faster transfer of your data with USB 3.0 - sure the bottleneck isn't the flash memory inside of the iPhone?
There it is in black and white .. PROOF if ever it was needed - that the iPhone 5Coloured and the 5Simplified are the best phones in the world - ever. For all time. Ever! Good. Hurrah!
And its on paper and everything like that .. and Apple wrote it .. so it MUST be true .. so you nasty Androidthusiasts can jolly well .. you can jolly well .. well you better look out ... thats all!
Can I just add here that I believe everything I read?
Oh and that I'm a wee bit gullible too ...
And not even a teensy weensy bit objective in my outlook ....
Thanks!
And its on paper and everything like that .. and Apple wrote it .. so it MUST be true .. so you nasty Androidthusiasts can jolly well .. you can jolly well .. well you better look out ... thats all!
Can I just add here that I believe everything I read?
Oh and that I'm a wee bit gullible too ...
And not even a teensy weensy bit objective in my outlook ....
Thanks!
Best is a subjective word though. You can always find a way to claim whatever you make is the best and not be wrong. it's all about how you spin it.
I don't know the specs on the iPhone flash memory...but I've used USB 3.0 quite a bit with USB 3.0 keys, hard drives, and other devices...the transfer rate is about 3-5x faster than USB 2.0...which is very welcome...even though it still doesn't approach the rates of say, e-SATA, SATA3, and other technologies. But rather than me currently spending 40 minutes synching a ton of new 320k MP3 files and videos, I could do it in about 10 minutes with USB 3.0.
Besides, if flash were the bottleneck, Apple could surely find a flash upgrade.
Apple is not the underdog and I can't imagine anyone thinking that they are who pays attention to the media.
And they've created this page (which they typically haven't done before), in my opinion, because competition is greater than it has ever been in the past.
It's a smart move. No reason not to boast about excellent reviews.
I also never understood the technical reason how the flash could be the bottleneck. If it is flash memory, isn't that faster than HDD?
In the past, they trusted customers to know that when Apple says it is good, it is good.
Now, seemingly, they need to have their word bolstered by an appeal to the "experts".
Dedicated flash drives that can achieve those speeds and SSDs use banks of interleaved flash chips to be *able* achieve those speeds. (Think RAID 0.) The phones don't, or at least not to the same extent.
To the best of my knowledge, there's no phone on the market that even comes close to being able to write to it's flash at USB 2.0 rates, much less USB 3.0. Think of it this way. If you stuff an old 3400rpm EIDE laptop drive into a USB 3.0 cage, it's not going to be any faster than it will be inside a USB 2.0 cage. The bottleneck isn't between the device and the computer, it's inside the device itself.
I don't see The Verge on their anywhere. Love it.
Yes the Verge has found their niche - and it isn't kowtowing to Apple products. If they gave the iPhone too much praise, there would've been hell to pay in the comment section. Unfortunately the intelligence of comments on the Verge is being sucked out by Androidian drones. The Verge used to have a far more wittier and informed balance of dialog. On the verge of becoming Engadget.
Or, you have a very selective memory.
http://d.smugmug.com/Events/Apple/MacWorld-2009/i-zjGMvr8/1/L/2009-01-06_1011-39_6356-L.jpg
This has nothing to do with Android. No idea why you would bring it up except to start a flame war on a thread that again has nothing to do with Android.
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Or, you have a very selective memory.
http://d.smugmug.com/Events/Apple/MacWorld-2009/i-zjGMvr8/1/L/2009-01-06_1011-39_6356-L.jpg
To be fair - I think he's talking about creating a web page - not quotes in a keynote. So I'm not sure your example is the right "proof."
All I know is I have a 4 and I'm pretty sure that a 5s is going to be a lot better than what I have - whenever they become available again.
I do think that Apple should have more product available before a big hyped up launch. Even if they didn't sell 20 million the first weekend, I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't be stuck with a bunch of phones in a warehouse somewhere wondering what are we going to do with all the leftovers.
I do think that Apple should have more product available before a big hyped up launch. Even if they didn't sell 20 million the first weekend, I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't be stuck with a bunch of phones in a warehouse somewhere wondering what are we going to do with all the leftovers.
I can't see The Verge being quoted. Perhaps it was removed? Or did I miss a joke and it was never there?
US: "Well. Mr Samsung .. there's the evidence. Mr Samsung, what do you make of that?"
THEM: "Now that Ive seen the indisputable proof - I apologise for my all fellow Android devices and users of those devices. I'm sorry"
US: "Mr.Samsung. Thank you very much"
THEM: "Now that Ive seen the indisputable proof - I apologise for my all fellow Android devices and users of those devices. I'm sorry"
US: "Mr.Samsung. Thank you very much"
I am not sure what the iPhone (or other phones) use for their flash memory chips. But as a device that is clearly aimed at music, video, and gaming, the poky transfer rates are very annoying. My 3GS was slow to transfer content from iTunes...my 4S is slow...the 5S has not been improved. So we have about 6 years of Apple technology where Apple refuses to improve the transfer rates.
This is similar to all the Macs that ship with 5400RPM drives...appalling.
It's not just the iPhone...it's also our 64GB iPad that is slow as molasses to transfer a few 2GB movies. I might as well go out to dinner while I wait.