But which employee?
Poaching 100 employees from a company to eventually bankrupt the company from which they were poached... which will put thousands of those employees out of work only benefits a few at the cost of the many.
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Apple Predicted to Build Its Own Power Management Chip for iPhones Within Two Years
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But which employee?
Poaching 100 employees from a company to eventually bankrupt the company from which they were poached... which will put thousands of those employees out of work only benefits a few at the cost of the many.
I've never, in my life, had a phone dead before noon. Either you use yours in extreme ways (flashlight on while streaming three hour movies with full brightness and sound output through Bluetooth), you have defective units or you don't charge at night.
[doublepost=1491931327][/doublepost]Apple has shown it can streamline quality and efficiency within use when it controls more parts of the production. This will be a pleasant development, if true.
I agree, iPhone battery life is abysmal, right out of the box. I also don't see the cost:benefit of wireless charging as it exists today.
However, quick charge isn't a solution either, it's a patch, and a poor/flawed one at that. It requires changes to battery chemistry and/or increases in current to the battery, both of which contribute to the battery becoming more volatile and hot. There's plenty of (more than) speculation that quick charging (at least in that implementation) is one of the main contributing factors of Samsung's Note 7 fiasco.
To me the solution is obvious. Make the phone a little bit thicker a put in a bigger damn battery.
you Sound a bit dramatic lol. If your phone is 100% in the morning and dead at noon I think you have faulty battery issues you should address.
How, exactly? Some random analyst floated a rumor with no actual information OR action on Apple's part, so why exactly are you accusing them of something? Also, since when is it "screwing" someone to start making your own equipment instead of relying on others to do things? Is Microsoft "screwing" HP, Lenovo, and Dell by making the Surface?
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Employees don't leave a job they love for a place that is giving them a worse opportunity. Would you prefer people weren't allowed to leave if they chose? Perhaps we can bring back serfdom?
I use just iPad chargers only at home, so when I have to charge my iPhone at work with the small iPhone charger it feels like charging forever.
The implications are having an enormous competitive advantage.
Being able to develop your own custom silicon with private and proprietary features that are hidden and not available to your competitors in commoditized off-the-shelf components is huge.
Not sure why people don't go through their apps and turn off all unnecessary notifications, don't allow apps to run in the background unless necessary, turn off location services unless necessary, etc. I do this whenever I get a new iPhone or download a new app. I don't have problems with battery life. I also use private browsing whenever possible to eliminate cookies to help clear up storage. I've had a 64Gb iPhone 6 since October 2014 and I have no complaints.
Dialog Semiconductor shares plunged to their lowest price in over 16 years on Monday, after an industry analyst predicted Apple will drop the supplier and move to its own in-house power management chips for iPhones by 2019.
The prediction comes from analyst Karsten Iltgen at German investment bank Bankhaus Lampe, who said that Apple will at the very least cut back to some degree on Dialog's supply of power management chips for the iPhone, according to a research note obtained by Bloomberg.According to Iltgen, Apple is setting up its own power management chip design centers in Munich and California, and up to 80 Apple engineers are said to already be working on its own PMIC (power management integrated circuit) component. However, he said Apple dropping Dialog "is unlikely in the short term."
Dialog's website says its integrated power management component results in up to 30% longer battery life:The analyst noted that Apple has steadily hired engineers from the United Kingdom-based Dialog over the past year, from the chipmaker's pool of about 1,300 engineers, but a person familiar with the situation noted that "it isn't unusual" to see employees flowing between Apple and its supplier.
However, last week Apple announced that it was planning to stop using the graphics processing chips supplied by Imagination Technology in its iPhones within two years, and Bloomberg noted that, ahead of that decision, Apple had hired "several people" from Imagination to help craft its in-house technology.
If Apple does make the same decision with Dialog Semiconductor as it did with Imagination Technologies, the former company could see as much as three quarters of its business gone over the next few years, as it's believed that Dialog gets as much as 74 percent of its sales from Apple.
Some analysts don't believe that it will ever come to that and disagree with Iltgen's prediction, as Barclays analyst Andrew Gardiner recently mentioned in a research note that he does "not see [Dialog] remotely in a similar position" as Imagination. Dialog shares remained down around 16 percent on Tuesday.
Last year Dialog entered the news when a Fast Company report mentioned the supplier's $10 million investment in wireless technology company Energous, adding to recent rumors that Apple and its suppliers were gearing up to implement some form of wireless charging into a future line of iPhones.
Energous has said that its first truly wireless charging technology will arrive later in 2017, but in regards to the iPhone's wireless charging it's believed that Apple is again looking in-house to craft an inductive charger for the iPhone as it did for the Apple Watch, rather than using a truly wireless solution.
Article Link: Apple Predicted to Build Its Own Power Management Chip for iPhones Within Two Years
I use just iPad chargers only at home, so when I have to charge my iPhone at work with the small iPhone charger it feels like charging forever.
I got it worse. I'm charging mine through my works PC USB port..
Put it on at 9 I'm lucky if it's reached 100% by lunch ha
No, because Microsoft is still doing business with those companies selling HP, Lenovo, Dell, etc. through brick and mortar and online Microsoft Store.
As long as Apple uses ARM IP to design SOCs there shouldn't be any issue.
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Employee poaching is good for us employees.
Similar here, but I am using iPad chargers vs My PC.I use just iPad chargers only at home, so when I have to charge my iPhone at work with the small iPhone charger it feels like charging forever.
Sometimes my phone got nearly no battery charged after some hours PC gaming.
When I plug it into the iPad chargers and get my face wash before sleeping, there may be 10%+ charged (with 70%+ before)
