If Apple didn't want leaks to occur, or leak itself, it would make sure they didn't.
This. Is. Absolute. Nonsense.
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This. Is. Absolute. Nonsense.
You think Apple has the ability to make a supply chain involving thousands of vendors (services/assembly/manufacturing) involving dozens of countries complete leak free?
You sir (or madam) don't understand a globalized technology supply chain.....
Those are not iPhone boards... Those might be iPad boards... the bottom tang is WAY to long to fit inside an iPhone. I guess that's why they call it rumors... :-D
Apple use to WoW! Now it's lame no surprises anymore so many leaks here and there its sickening!
This is incorrect. The Coca-Cola formula is an extremely highly protected trade secret. It is not patented. While, in theory, one could patent a recipe or manufacturing process, Coca-Cola has not patented their formula because (1) patents require disclosure of the invention's composite parts and how to make or operate the invention in question; and (2) patents expire in relatively short periods of time.
If Coca-Cola had patented its drink formula, the recipe for Coke would be in the public domain and any drink manufacturer could produce it or slight variations on it without infringing Coca-Cola's intellectual property rights.
If the Coke recipe were to leak, on the other hand, while it would be within Coca-Cola's rights to sue the living daylights out of the people responsible for the leak, Coca-Cola could do nothing to stop third parties from producing the Coca-Cola recipe.
It's a reasonably good analogy to compare Apple leaks to a Coca-Cola leak. But while there are relatively simple steps that can be taken to ensure that the drink formula never leaks (e.g. ensuring that only portions of the recipe are produced at different plants and then mixing together those portions at a separate plant; making sure each manufacturing head only has the portion of the recipe he or she is responsible for) the tech game is far more complex. At some stage in the game, a complete iPhone has to be produced and come off the line and come in contact with one or more human beings - a device that, unlike Coca-Cola, can be stripped down into composite parts with a low degree of difficulty. iPhones are furthermore small devices that can be smuggled in pockets or elsewhere easily. Lastly, they are devices which are tested broadly and by large numbers of people.
I am just surprised that there are so many alleged iPhone 7 leaks. Remember when it was a huge deal that one complete iPhone 4 got into the hands of the general public? It's strange to me that we're getting new info on the iPhone 7 every single day.
Hmmm that is interesting. It almost appears like the chip directly below the SIM on the 6s has been moved up above on this one.Comparing that pic with the current 6s/6 motherboard....
I really do wonder what that "chip slot" between the A10 slot and the sim card slot is supposed to be...
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They are definitely iPhone boards. There are 4 of them. Two upright and two upside down.
I think that you're referring to the Qualcomm chip.
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It's an iPhone board.
I work at TCCC corporate. The formula ingredients are pretty common knowledge. It's not that hard to reverse engineer. The "secret formula" is more of a marketing gimmick than anything.
Also, the syrup plants aren't "undisclosed". Pretty sure it's right here in Atlanta.
these leaks gets more and more each year, eventually i don't thinks there's any more secrets and there'll be no more surprises at Apple, and the "one more thing" will be extinct and history
But my PCB board is where I keep my PIN number!
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He has asked me to tell you to stop calling him that - you're not his mom.
Excellent post. Some have difficulty understanding how a leak actually begins and ends on sites like Macrumors. And with Apple being so secretive as they are, I always like to think someone wants to expose Apple.
Integrated Apple-designed radio chip for WiFi/Bluetooth/baseband modems etc?
There was an article over 2 years ago about Apple poaching RF chip designers from Broadcom. Maybe that project is making it into products now and Apple is about to do for the RF stuff what it did with the CPU stuff when it did its own clean-sheet ARM implementation rather than taking ARM's reference designs. This would be a big development if Apple can do a really tight integrated implementation with no extra stuff in there that isn't needed by their phones and as much shared logic as possible between all the different radio systems. It could all help to drive down power consumption and help increase battery life.
Hmmm, maybe it's the back of an old cupboard that's been laid flat across two stools. You should start a poll, and find a wood expert too.
A circuit board is an ingredient. Good luck building an iPhone from that. It's no different to a Coca Cola manufacturer taking a quick snapshot of the sugar the load up in your coke.
INGREDIENTS
Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, phosphoric acid, natural flavors, caffeine.
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Odd, this comes directly from Coca Cola themselves...
INGREDIENTS
Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, phosphoric acid, natural flavors, caffeine.
Any cellular chip will likely be under the other RF can along with the other radio chips.
So - the extra chip might be a RAM chip. Previously, RAM in iPhones was in the same package as the A series SOC chip. In iPads it's been a separate chip (due to more circuit board space.) Perhaps the RAM size has been increased beyond what can be achieved with a package-on-package design?
That is literally the point. They don't post the ingredients because it is a trade secret. They do not post anything more specific than "natural flavours." "Natural flavour" is not an ingredient. Increase your reading comprehension skills please.
It will be interesting to see if this rumor comes true and how much initial backlash some users with throw out due to the major change. No doubt Apple perhaps, and third-party's will develop an adapter for the interim until users adapt to the new design or go with other BT headphones.
My reading comprehension skills are just fine. It's obvious the point is missed on you. But again, thanks for playing.