Apple previews iOS 11.3
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So I guess everyone can relax now ? No? :)
“Sure my phone only lasts 2 hours now, but it’s fast again!”
Seems like a shoot yourself in the foot option.
Notifying people that it’s going on? Yeah that should have been there from day 1.
http://h4labs.org/why-apple-will-allow-users-to-throttle-the...
78% of a battery will still provide a decent run time.
I know someone who’s really effected by this. I imagine the thing would shut down all the time if they turned the option off.
That said, obviously my example is for one of the bad cases, not a case where the phone is only 10% slower.
By who? I'd never turn throttling off personally.
In some instances throttling can lessen battery life. A faster processor might use less power to do a given bit of work than a slow one because of race-to-sleep.
I'm curious how the functionality of turning off the battery saving feature will work. Either a.) the phone constantly turns off and is unusuable, proving Apple did the right thing in the first place, or b.) the phone continues to work as it did when it was new, proving Apple lied.
I can simulate the problem these devices have rather easily on my own phone, a 2011-vintage Motorola Defy. The thing was first sold as having an '800 MHz' SoC, a later model (Defy+) supposedly sported a '1000 MHz' SoC. In reality the hardware did not change all that much between those releases except for the inclusion of a high-capacity battery. The clock rate is software-defined and can be changed more or less at will. As I was one of the developers to work on porting newer releases of Android (in the guise of Cyanogenmod) to this platform I had access to a number of these devices. All of them ran without problems at the standard clock rates of 800MHz and 1000MHz, most could be overclocked to 1.1GHz. Beyond that clock rate things started to look different with some devices experiencing sudden reboots when called or in other 'active' situations. The higher the clock rate, the more devices would start failing. On the other hand, some of them could run at 1.3GHz without problems, this includes the one I'm still using. It is now almost 7 years old but still works fine on its original battery. While battery runtime has gone down from about 5 to 3 days it still works without sudden reboots.
If Motorola had clocked the Defy to 1.2GHz from the outset they'd have been in a similar situation as Apple is now with some users complaining about their devices rebooting spontaneously. They did not do so, instead they marketed the device on other features (being waterproof and rugged and such). Apple on the other hand did and marketed their devices as being 'faster than ever', i.e. they deemed the instability caused by the overly high clock rate a defensible trade-off.
I don't mind the Bluetooth radio being on, since I anyway use it all the time. But having WiFi on (even when disconnected from a network) does drain my battery faster, and I want the control that existed before.
I decided not to upgrade my other devices to iOS 11 until this changes. It's a sad state of affairs that I have to decide between security (not getting updates on iOS 10) and battery life and convenience (both disappeared for me on iOS 11).
I've provided feedback to Apple on this a few times since iOS 11 was released. Hope someone takes this more seriously, since I'm not the only user with this experience.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with those ads, it just amazed me that NONE of them seemed to be aimed at adults or tried to sell the phone as being a productive computer.
I suppose Apple is just selling the brand?
Pretty much any mid-tier phone these days are plenty productive and there's not much that differentiates them because businesses tasks really haven't changed.
I'd suggest you check out YouTube for animoji videos before dismissing it completely (like "Animojis Takeover TV" and others). There's a lot of creativity being unleashed by it, IMO.
They have several different ads, selling different features, to different groups of people.
Not interested in any features untill those are sorted. In fact, I’d like less, thank you. The iMessage app has become an abomination of mistakenly hit clutter.
Edit: You have to be on WiFi to get this done, even if you're in a place that has great cellular data speeds and high data download limits, because iOS won't allow downloads of apps larger than 150MB (IIRC) on a cellular connection.
But you don't need to put a physical authentication chip into your devices any more.
This lowers the cost and allows for retroactive certification.
Imagine describing some project and having some semi-retired codger tell you what you need and have it boxed and sent to you.
I bought the iPhoneX thinking I'd hate that feature - but after using it, it's just goofy good fun as an emoji.