This doesn't do any good and is just stupid virtue signaling.
Charging your tiny phone battery differently depending on when Apple thinks the energy provided to your local grid is cleaner won't make any difference whatsoever.
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Charging your tiny phone battery differently depending on when Apple thinks the energy provided to your local grid is cleaner won't make any difference whatsoever.
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With iOS and iPadOS 16.1, Apple introduced a new security feature that requires a device passcode prompt to initiate a backup. iMazing and iMazing Mini both support this prompt, which currently cannot be bypassed.
I'm all for security but... OK, I'm all for a security/convenience balance, but being nagged multiple times per day until I comply is a PITA. I preferred the previous arrangement of trusting my iOS/macos combination. I do hope Apple relent a little.
With iOS and iPadOS 16.1, Apple introduced a new security feature that requires a device passcode prompt to initiate a backup. iMazing and iMazing Mini both support this prompt, which currently cannot be bypassed.
I'm all for security but... OK, I'm all for a security/convenience balance, but being nagged multiple times per day until I comply is a PITA. I preferred the previous arrangement of trusting my iOS/macos combination. I do hope Apple relent a little.
I was dependent on iMazing doing an iPhone backup when my iMac woke up each night to do its CCC backup. When it stopped happening each night, I did one manually to see if I could tell why it wasn't working, and the prompt popped up on the phone.
Annoying. While the phone is doing an iCloud backup whenever it likes, it's not as though you can trust an iCloud backup.
Maybe they are working on technology that will also do this for laptops, and iPads, and some day maybe a car?
Like maybe this is the first step towards proving out the concept and developing a strategy?
Send a feedback report/complaint to Apple. You never know, if enough of us do this they may give us the option to override.
Virtue signaling is about looking good, not doing good. Across hundreds of millions of iPhones this will make a difference, so it’s not virtue signaling.
Can you prove it’s when “apple thinks”? Or is there a deterministic way to know when the grid is being supplied by cleaner power?
China consumes less power per capita than the US. It is #1 in the world in solar. It is #1 in the world in wind. These aren’t even close—like double the entire EU, which is far ahead of the US. It is #1 in the world in hydro by 3x, with 28.5% of the world’s total. It is #1 in the world in grid battery storage, and in pumped hydroelectric storage as well.
Yet per-capita it still consumes less than the US. By all means, criticize China’s continued use of coal, but what about West Virginia, still at 88% coal, well above China? There’s very similar political resistance in coal-producing regions of China.
The iPhone was built in Guangdong province, with 29% renewables plus about 14% nuclear, puts it ahead of the US average with 20% renewable, 19% nuclear.
With their large populations, China and India are critically important, but the US is still king of consumption and has not been keeping up. South Australia is getting quite close to 100% renewables; the best we can do is Iowa with 58% wind.
Overall China’s failure to curb coal is deeply concerning. I think the US has built its last coal plants, and they are closing rapidly. China’s period of rapid growth is ending, so I do expect progress on coal going forward, but it should have done more, just as we should have done more. Timing matters!
But this is about the iPhone. Guangdong is better than the China or US average. If you want clean power, site your plant in South Australia.