You don’t know why “most people “ buy anything, you only know why you buy something.
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While I understand what you may be trying to say, it's conveyed poorly as a response to his comment. He didn't say "most people", he said "most people who are phone geeks" and that's been a factual trend that they do indeed buy Android
https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddhi...ind-of-person-prefers-an-iphone/#1a0ff8e0d1b0
"Many Android people are techies: they over-weight 50% for computer/technical/medical"
I've been playing the cell phone game since the DynaTAC days, so I might have a little insight as to why people buy what they buy. Please don't tell people what they DO and do NOT know.
I have a PhD in electrical engineering and designed microprocessors for a decade, including for AMD. I’ve designed memories, chip packages, and systems. Don’t tell me what you think I don’t understand, son.
As for your question, think for a moment. That space IS used for something on every iPhone, because no iPhone uses it for a card slot. It’s battery, haptics, thermal path for the SoC, or reduction in volume, etc.
That sounds like it's made up.
And you obviously have 0 experience with SD cards.
No it's not, those things aren't influenced by the SD card slot in any relevant way.
I guess you've never seen how phones look on the inside and you are simply naming things randomly.
Well then taking in consideration what he wrote on this thread I'm pretty sure it doesn't do him any favors to mention it.
Agreed. Apple as a company has run out of steam. Innovation is limited by dimension and scale. More cores, more heat, more warping of the logic board, higher failure rates on the MacBook Pro line from 2018 model year is one large clue. Because Apple is designing their own CPU does not really matter much, the industry is based on Intel (and some AMD) chips.
Expect Apple to do a Microsoft and begin to license the desktop OS (pattern already exists with NeXT purchase) and we will "activate" using the Apple Store.
Apple will get out the notebook market in the future and focus on iOS. macOS will be opened enough to allow hardware companies to license the security chip and decide if memory and storage need to be soldered to the logic board or go back to more ports and upgrade options for a host notebook.
Apple has lost its way in design for the "Pro" and should really just let the free market design the next generation. Let macOS follow Windows and capitalize on services and support.
Focus on iPhones and such. The best part of "Mac" is the OS. Rid needing to Hackintosh PC's to prove that point.
Expect Apple to do a Microsoft and begin to license the desktop OS (pattern already exists with NeXT purchase) and we will "activate" using the Apple Store.
Apple will get out the notebook market in the future and focus on iOS. macOS will be opened enough to allow hardware companies to license the security chip and decide if memory and storage need to be soldered to the logic board or go back to more ports and upgrade options for a host notebook.
Apple has lost its way in design for the "Pro" and should really just let the free market design the next generation. Let macOS follow Windows and capitalize on services and support.
Focus on iPhones and such. The best part of "Mac" is the OS. Rid needing to Hackintosh PC's to prove that point.
Two seconds on google:
Who wrote this? https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/641683/
Or this? https://www.ecse.rpi.edu/frisc/theses/MaierThesis/
Or any of these?
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6ab5/91002edcbe94bf9c7519f2fcee222edc38f7.pdf
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/845192/
https://dblp.org/search?q=Cliff Maier author:Cliff_A._Maier:
Hey, who’s this article talking about? https://news.softpedia.com/news/Ex-...rformance-on-Lack-of-Fine-Tuning-227816.shtml
Maybe when you pretend to be an expert on the internet you should do it away from the actual experts.
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You’re just wrong. Go actually design some electronics and then your opinion might be informed.
The “less affluent “ also was interesting. But you're right you have to be a phone geek as opposed to a geek. I’m geeky but not a phone geek.
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I won’t if you don’t speak for the masses. You don’t know why “most people” really do or don’t do something.
Well you can give it the college try as others before you have tried, but saying it with conviction doesn’t make it true.
Well you can give it the college try as others before you have tried, but saying it with conviction doesn’t make it true.
Since I know it to be true, that's all that matters.
A little bit of Google on you and it confirmed you don't come off very professional and have been dismissed several times across different forums.
Good question, as mentioned presently you do not exceed your AMOLED/LCD brightness past 50% (presently at 650 nits). Let say that AMOLED/LCD brightness is doubled (1300 nits), that would mean that to get the same amount of brightness presently at 50% with doubling the nits you will get it at 25% if not less. When any display brightness raises above 0% it takes more battery power. The brighter the display the less power it takes at low settings.
This is used for example purposes:
Present AMOLED brightness 650 nits:
10% brightness battery life usage 12 hrs.
25% brightness ... 11.5 hrs.
50% brightness ... 11 hrs.
75% brightness ...10.5 hrs.
100% brightness ... 10 hrs.
Now lets factors in other activities, gaming, listening to music, BT, LTE, WiFi, browsing, recording video, etc. That will further reduce battery usage time. IOS does a great job juggling battery efficiency, however making minor improvement here and there will only increase usage time, for example dark mode on iOS.
Once again this is only used as an example.
If you are using the screen in sunlight conditions, at higher nits the screen does not have to jump from 10% to 25% brightness. It can make an incremental change from 10% to 15% to achieve the desirable effect, thus using less battery power. At the end of the day have a larger battery is great, however having efficient use of that battery is even better.
I am in the crowd that uses their device on 5% brightness and only rarely increase it to 25% due to ambient lighting conditions. With the increase in nits I can have the display set at 1% and increase it to 10% on rare occasions, thus increasing battery efficiency.
You wouldn’t very often, particularly on a phone where you aren’t likely doing tons of things at once or running full blown image or video editing apps and the like.
Good god, listen to yourself!! You're doing the same crap your accusing others of doing.
I guess by your measure if I used an Apple computer since 1980 (I have), I now have the expertise to build one and give Cook some advice on running Apple; I've probably used an Apple device longer than him anyway... And yeah, I've used mobile phones since they were very big bricks (around 1984) but that doesn't mean I'm a an expert in all things about them either.
You certainly did from 2GB to 3GB when it was upgraded before. I'm sure 4GB will be noticeable for though who keep apps going in the background. On my X it wasn't amazing so the 4GB should help
Just because you aren't an expert by now doesn't mean you need to be saucy about it. Good God.... <eye roll>
Interestingly (maybe just statistically speaking ...), me and my peers - who have all been in reasonably sophisticated technical sectors for some time - all use iPhones. I think in my group, people tend to appreciate the elegant simplicity and design consistency combined with a (at least by my experience), solid service channel.
You haven't proven you are either, and even if you were a god damn "expert",
you'd need something more than a snarky post and a subsequent brain damage inducing eyeroll to demonstrate it.
Anything I or anyone says about their expertise, or non expertise doesn't really matter
in the context of the kind of casual garbage level snark discourse that's the mainstay of these forums.
Now, take your eye balls and roll them away somewhere for a bit.