Saying that Android needs power saving mode to compete with iOS in terms of battery still has nothing to do with marketshare. >_>;
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Saying that Android needs power saving mode to compete with iOS in terms of battery still has nothing to do with marketshare. >_>;
Dude, really? your comparing apples and oranges how about market share between Apple and Samsung (high end, not those cheap crapy junk toys < $300)?
Competing has nothing to do with market share. Quality over quantity! Compete in quality!
Android needs al those optional settings an tweaks because it can't figure out what the costumer really needs.
Kinda weird isn't? You buy your Samjunk High end phone and you have to work on it for a few hours to get to know it and to make it work the way you need it to. And if a year later een new android version comes out chances are remote you'll receive it. -> you'll have to start hanging around XDA to get a costume rom.. Buying a Android phone is like buying a lot of work.
Ive been there don that. Wont ever go back there again.
cmon let it out!!! just dont forget to breath
ps samjunk out sold apple with just its gs3 back in 13 but i guess all those people tossed there phones and dont use them any more.
take a look at apples stock dump it did back then also.
do you know a single person that has one of those cheap phones you think make up that market share?
pss you also brought up the market share when saying android needs power profiles to compete with ios.
psss who ever brought up samsung? android has this feature not samsung
As I just learned out of you post, you don't read very well. I'll stop this debate. If you don't realize that competing can be done in more then just market share there is no point what so ever in having this debate.
I asked about this earlier, but haven't seen any clarification yet. When they say "up to three hours more" in low power mode, exactly what does that mean? Three hours left when it says 20% on the battery? Or three more hours than you could normally get without low power mode? I looked up the Apple battery data and the WORST thing it listed for an iphone 6 was 10 hours of internet use (cellular network). I suspect some games may be worse, but they didn't list that. So, assuming the battery drop matches the display percentage correctly (iow, not like how a full take of gas usually drops slowly for the first "half", but much faster for the last "half"), that means 20% power would give you another 2 hours anyway of the most demanding use. So "up to 3 more hours" is an improvement, but really may only be 1 MORE hour than normal. For things that takes less power, the improvement would be even smaller. So, anyone know how to properly interpret that "more" part? Is it going to be an hour or less more than normal or 3 hours more than normal?
Since Calculator is in the Control Center, you can open it quickly without unlocking your phone – just like Clock and Camera. I suspect that most users haven't figured out this trick.
(This is also why they can't let you enable arbitrary apps in Control Center. These are sandboxed to ensure that you can't use them to bypass the lock screen or access sensitive data.)
low power mode, now power reserve on the Apple watch... Will we next see a Mac that will last 4 more hurs on reserved battery power ? Seriously..... That is not the point of low power or reserved mode .... It's reminding that battery has mostly drained. and to plug in to charge... By Apple extending this (assuming it does work how they say it does) would this shorten the battery in the short term?.. Thus, more battery replacements = better for Apple since they'll get more $$$ overall.
We have gone from something that Apple knew to "oh, and by the way, we just realized WE can get more power from a battery no other manufacture can as present, despite we use the same battery tech."
I'm suspicious of this .... and the fact you can do this in software... is even more troubling.... I thought this would be a hardware thing.
I would have just thought get a bigger battery on newer phones does the same thing.
We have gone from something that Apple knew to "oh, and by the way, we just realized WE can get more power from a battery no other manufacture can as present, despite we use the same battery tech."
I'm suspicious of this .... and the fact you can do this in software... is even more troubling.... I thought this would be a hardware thing.
I would have just thought get a bigger battery on newer phones does the same thing.
And there may be a multi-tasking feature that only the A9 with 2GB of RAM can take advantage of in iOS 9.
Pure market share of smartphones is a minor factor for third party developers. What matters is the good old "aftermarket purchase rate" that is traditionally connected to higher end devices.
The automotive market is a good example. The (domestics to limit the conversation) automotive platforms with the most after market purchases are The Jeop Wranger, Ford Mustang and Chevy Corvette. These are higher than average priced brands but for an aftermarket business, it is most of the revenue.
Again, if the buyer can afford a few hundred extra for their smartphone, they have the pocket change for apps. The latest rhetoric from Google has not changed this.
Android is marketed with the slogan: "Be together, not the same" and it has allowed device makers to come up with plenty of features that people want which Apple is either lacking or has been slow to bring to the market....what is wrong with that?
The $200.00 Moto G phone that your calling junk is highly rated by consumers and is running the same software as higher end devices. Optional features are just that, optional.
The common user of Android is not flashing ROMs and they are increasingly not needing platform updates to enjoy new features like Google now, google fit, new apis, security updates, etc... I just read here that users are seeing some of the features announced on iOS9 like proactive to be completely missing on their device after updating to the beta. What great is an iOS update if the new features you want are missing?
iOS is awesome so stay with it.
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This requires centuries of research.
This is a universal concern, and applies to all loved ones at the end of a long day!
I love how Macrumors seems to have missed the point of this function all together. The whole point of a power saving mode is to reduce performance and thus power consumption. When your battery is running low you don't go and launch games and function heavy applications, you cat conservatively trying to eek out all the life you can. This takes that even further meaning your efforts get you that bit more. I would be far more interested in battery life results with two devices doing same activities and one put in to save mode and the other not.
I only get a day charge on the iPhone, but 5 days on my Xperia Z3c doing the same thing in Sony's battery saver mode with no noticeable change in performance in what I use a phone for. So it's about time Apple do a battery saver mode as well, if it suddenly means I can get 2-3 days battery... great! Though since the battery in the iPhone is so small, I don't expect miracles, the battery in the Z3c is 2600 and the iPhone 5s is 1560.... even though the Z3c is only a tiny bit bigger.
I really wish Apple would make their phones fatter again, it means a bigger battery and bigger sensor, I have no problem with the thickness of the Z3c, in fact it's better since you have better grip.
I really wish Apple would make their phones fatter again, it means a bigger battery and bigger sensor, I have no problem with the thickness of the Z3c, in fact it's better since you have better grip.
I think it disables push and reverts to the automatic fetching interval set by the user.
Going into Airplane though has a noticeable positive impact for me.
