basically, the app judges your current phase of sleep by sensing your movements, and purports to wake you up at the optimal moment. It seems to work for me, which is good enough for me, after all. YMMV?
But if you're unable to download it now, I don't have a good solution for you, sorry. I hope you figure it out!
Smartphones are computers.
Creating artificial product categories, taxonomy, is why we’re in this predicament.
Semantic woo is leveraged to decide a smartphone is not a general purpose computer such that corporate entity can label it new thing and set new expectations.
Intellectual property law and protections need to be thrown in the garbage, no device sold without being unlocked.
It’s thought policing when I’m convinced a general purpose computer (smartphone) is something else altogether. We live in a carceral society that’s extracting our agency to coddle a handful of replaceable figureheads.
War is peace. Apple is anti-1984.
That there's a GP computer inside isn't that meaningful. There's one inside "smart" TVs, too, but those TVs are still just appliances.
This is why my old iPad 2 is sitting in a box somewhere. Old Android phones got wiped, bootloader unlocked, and the latest version of LineageOS, etc. they could handle. They mostly get used as readers, fancy remotes, or media players (older ones in airplane mode when not powered off fully for security reasons).
iPhone screen replacements at an Apple store seem to be in the $200-300 range, which is expensive enough that I'd consider other options, including just buying a refurb phone from a reputable reseller.
$90 to replace a battery seems outrageously overpriced to me.
I just found it surprising that it was that steep.
How we allowed this to be the case for our pocket computers is beyond me.
Hundreds of millions change their phones every year, which is why there's supply for the used market.
Billions of people don't change their phones every year, because they can't afford to or don't care to.
Knock on wood!
There was a period of dramatic progress but now things have largely settled. I recently replaced a 12 Pro with a 14 Pro and it is likely nothing at all changed. There is zero impact in my life. Have the 12 Pro waiting in my drawer for my son with an XR to upgrade, but he doesn't even want the hassle of doing the transfer and then setting up the apps that don't properly migrate data.
Exactly. "Oh look! It's so smooth when I scroll back and forth!"
I actually stop scrolling to read, but I guess I might be in the minority.
The screen refresh and always on Lock Screen are added bonuses.
"Many people change their phone every year." I expect that to be one of the things that immediately changes with our current, fantastic economy in the US.
Very few people upgrade every year. The average lifespan of a mobile phone is 2.5 years.
In the late 2000s that length of time was lower because phones were improving by leaps and bounds every year but now phones are waterproof, have more resilient screens, cost more, and performance increases between models have slowed.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/17/smartphone-users-are-waiting...
The lifespan increase pattern is mirroring the personal computer upgrade cycle, but more rapidly.
I've never replaced a phone sooner than 5 years after I got it, but I know I'm a weirdo.
You want the two of your heaviest apps you want to use together to fit in RAM, to be able to switch between them.
Yes, those 1% who wear out their flash are going to be furious and complain online and even just 1% of phone buyers is still millions of people.
Eventually the read speeds would get intolerably slow. Launching applications or rehydrating them would take forever as the storage would just be so slow compared to when the device was new. Rebooting would take 10 minutes or more. This failure mode pushed me to upgrade at least twice.
I now just stream the majority of my data, and on-board storage has ballooned so I don't end up rewriting that high of a percentage of the overall storage that often. It was easy to cycle through all the storage when the on-board was 16GB but at 128GB+ it takes a bit longer to burn through it all.
I haven't, either. But then, I'm aware of the limited life of flash, so I only purchased phones I can put an SD card into, and then almost all of the data I store on the phone gets written to the card. I'd rather wear the card out than the embedded flash.
But I like replaceable cards anyway. It's a cheap way to minimize the use of on-board flash that is difficult or impossible to replace.