If you Look at the smart phone market now, larger displays have dominated for quite some time and smaller iPhones with 4 inch displays have been on a downward trend for while, even though I still think it’s great that they offer the SE as an entry-level device and affordable.
If you look back when Jobs came back to Apple, he slashed third party clones, cut the line up and wanted to go back to more basic inventory.Choices? That's not something Apple gives you. They give you what they believe is what you want / need.
Sure I do. I work hard for my money and will spend it where I have the decision to do so. Who says I don't enjoy what I purchase , otherwise, why would I buy it?Everything wrong with the ‘entitlement’ culture right here. You don’t deserve anything. You should be thankful we will live in an age where these things exist for you to enjoy.
I am looking forward to returning to plus-sized phones, and finally updating my s0 watch. But I am very curious what the sales pitch will be to explain why the XS is better than the X. Improved camera and processor are not likely to get many x owners to upgrade this year unless they want to move to the “max.” I’m guessing there is some other unknown feature that will be the selling point.
My s0 randomly has days where the battery dies by noon, and then th next day it’s fine. It is missing some existing health features (resting heart rate), and won’t work with the new operating system. And it is so slow that using any third party app is out of the question.When Apple Announced the plus for the first time with the 6 Plus, i went crazy. Landscape home screen, 5.5' screen at 1920x1080p, 2900 mAh battery. it was a dream. After that, they made no effort to make the Plus models any different then the smaller variant. I also have S0 watch that still works perfectly. I'm looking to take my S0 watch for anther 4-5 years or until it completely doesn't work. Battery life if still amazing.
This, this, this! ^Idea: improve Siri really really hard. Then call the next iPhone the iPhone Siri.
Nice someone points it out, I see Apple likes to sell refreshed 2 year old crap SoC with new form factor iPhone, the same story goes with 3GS and 4(big design change) 5s>6(big design change and 1GB RAM) honestly i was really surprised they managed to get bump with A11 that much because it was good opportunity to sell 2 year old SoC too, it looks like they will this year because they are making major design change for all of us(not only guys with $1000+) But i hope it's not true and they will bump speed about 25%, they are finally stepping down to 7 nm, this should get us more than mere 10% and Apple "S" year iPhones were always fire(when we talk about speed bumps)
When you say “quite old hardware”, to what are you referring?If they do not offer smaller phones its obvious they are not sold in large amounts. Mentioned SE had quite old hardware (previous generation if I am not wrong) when it was thrown to market.
And people want and deserve choices.....
This, this, this! ^
Upgrade Siri really REALLY REALLY REALLY hard!
I should be able to have an actual conversation with Siri. She should remember something I said 5 or 15 minutes ago and she should be able to referback to that part of the conversation.
She should have access to my calendar and reminders and alarms and she should actually BE AN ASSISTANT to me.
If I told her 20 minutes ago that I want directions to Sam's Club and now I'm driving there, she should be smart enough to look at my shopping lists and errand reminders and say, "Hey Mr. Flight Plan, on our way to Sam's Club, we'll be passing only a couple miles from a Home Depot and even closer to a Lowes. At either place, you could pick up the garden hose, cow manure, and Ironite that are on your shopping list. Home Depot has a weekend sale on cow poop and fertilizers. Would you like me to set a waypoint?"
Then I could say, "Why yes Siri, please add Home Depot to our trip."
And she would say, "Since you'll likely be buying perishables at Sam's Club and not at Home Depot, I'll make Sam's Club our last stop before going back home. I've created the Sh_tRun Detour for our errands at Home Depot today. Diverting navigation to Home Depot first."
I can accept that we don't have the George Jetson flying car yet, but why don't we have advanced personal assistance logic yet, especially from Apple? This is inexcusable.
The question becomes how does an App Store hoster, Windows, Linux, Android, or iOS, find an app whose developers have lied about what their app is really doing?...Considering very recent revelations that some of Apple's apps were data mining from approved apps (and sending the results to Chinese companies) proves that either Apple isn't as dedicated as they claim about protecting your privacy or that there really isn't a secure way to lock a system down yet.
The question becomes how does an App Store hoster, Windows, Linux, Android, or iOS, find an app whose developers have lied about what their app is really doing?
Where I was going is this. If you download a navigation app and it requests access to location services and your contacts and you grant, the app has infettered access to your location (even while using) and your contacts. If this app hosts code to upload this information to an aggregator, how is apple (google, microsoft or linux) supposed to know this? One this information is uploaded to the webserver, unscrupulous developers can monetize this information. The app has essentially lied about what it's doing with your information and the privacy policy isn't worth the paper it's written on. You gave access to the app to access your location and contacts, the app developer is using your information unscrupulously.I write software for industrial assembly machines, but not for commercial or personal products or software. None the less, the apps in question have to be accessing data, hopefully just location and web browsing but in a worst case scenario financial or personal data on the phone. Requests need to be made to phone hardware to get some of that data (location) and file access for any of the rest. I don't believe that Apple doesn't require that the software requesting information to identify itself. After that you perform a small set of security checks- does the app have permissions set to access the data, is the app in use, does the app stay on after a close command and does the app ever access the data when the phone is idle. There are probably a few apps that would need to do some of these things occasionally, but not many, and not often.
For an approved app that is sending data, what does it need to do to get access to the phone/computer/pads internet access? What about where it is trying to send the data, is the IP address known and verified?
As I said, I don't really work in or with that environment, although I do work with online systems to remotely monitor or modify programs. But I would think that Apple should have requirements for when and how an App is allowed to access data, and if it violates those requirements then there has to be some form of detection and notification so it doesn't go on for an extended time for a lot of people.
Or maybe they don't. Within the last few weeks it was found that Google Maps was transmitting a users location back to Google even if you have location service either turned off for Maps or restricted to only transmitting it when you are using the app. This breach wasn't caught for a number of months. Source 1, Source 2.
And this isn't the first time that Google has done this--2017 location tracking story. I don't know who or what company you can really trust with phone privacy but Google obviously isn't one of them.
This is why I don't believe Google when they say they aren't selling your private information.
Where I was going is this. If you download a navigation app and it requests access to location services and your contacts and you grant, the app has infettered access to your location (even while using) and your contacts. If this app hosts code to upload this information to an aggregator, how is apple (google, microsoft or linux) supposed to know this? One this information is uploaded to the webserver, unscrupulous developers can monetize this information. The app has essentially lied about what it's doing with your information and the privacy policy isn't worth the paper it's written on. You gave access to the app to access your location and contacts, the app developer is using your information unscrupulously.
edit: I'm not clear on how on the iphone an app can get access to your location if you have location turned off for that app (unless the app is using restricted apis)
What you are pointing to is either restricted apis(which apple should catch), or the cell id tower information. The article you linked to made that observation. Maybe the cell id tower id is not restricted, in which case google or other app, would know your location to within a few miles.Because the app requesting the information has to ask the OS for that information. Once again, I don't program in this type of environment, but I can't believe that individual apps would be given direct access to hardware or files without needing the OS. Yes that is possible, and yes it used to be done in industrial equipment. That's one of the reason our electric and utility systems are said to be in danger of hostile hacking. Most of the controls being used are 1 to 2 decades old. They aren't hardened agains attacks very much at all.
If the access permission is turned on, and the app is in use I don't know what Apple (or any other phone OS) could do. But in the examples I cited the access permission is turned off and the app is still requesting current location and then sending it to a 3rd party. Is the permit access setting really doing anything if it can be easily ignored and the company can get and send information that the user thinks is safe?
They ought to be showing some new iMacs along with new iPad Pros.
What you are pointing to is either restricted apis(which apple should catch), or the cell id tower information. The article you linked to made that observation. Maybe the cell id tower id is not restricted, in which case google or other app, would know your location to within a few miles.
Maybe a dev who has done this type of programming can comment.