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I'm really infuriated about this. Since mid-2016, my iPhone 6 Plus started to act "weird". It'd shut down sporadically, would reach 40% and then suddenly deplete, and started to get slow. But the problems were not consistent. I went to the Apple Store, and the phone passed all their diagnosis checks, even the battery.

A few months later, after my AppleCare+ expired, the problems intensified. And I spent most of 2017 with a very slow and unreliable phone. I honestly thought it was iOS 10. Had I known it was the battery, I'd have paid to replace it. Or I'd have forced them to upgrade it for me for free when I had AppleCare+.

I upgraded to an iPhone X, thinking the 6 Plus had reached its EOL, but now I think I've been lied to!
Lucifer comes from the Latin words for light bearer, so Luciferase and luciferin make plenty of sense I think
Sturgeon’s law
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> Why do people have to come in to the Apple Store to replace their batteries?

You don't. Thousands of people replace their own iPhone batteries every week. Even I've done it, and I'm not especially dexterous.

Just go to Amazon or Google and search for a $20 replacement kit. Or, if you're not a DIY person, where I live there are places on every other streetcorner that will replace your battery for you.
How is this a "completely manufactured scandal"?

Tens of millions of old iPhone users were left in the dark why all of a sudden the phone was slowing down to the point where it was becoming unusable. Millions of people probably spent hundreds of dollars otherwise they wouldn't need to spend if they know this was something they can fix with a new battery.

I personally have been using iPhone 6 for 3 years until this CPU-Battery disaster struck. So I ended up buying an Android phone. I love my Android phone now, but it's still money I wouldn't have had to spend.

This is a huge scandal. I like the response by Apple, but it's too late and millions of people already spent money they could've avoided spending. Good bye iPhone. I won't be coming back.
Yes I was noticing it. I was really noticeable compared to my wife’s iPhone that’s newer but of the same model. The time it takes for search to return was the biggest thing that was bugging me.

A $50 battery replacement for 2.5 years of service is totally reasonable.
Props to Apple for doing the right thing. Sad that it took a manufactured scandal for iOS to provide elementary transparency into the behavior of known-to-degrade battery component.

> Early in 2018, we will issue an iOS software update with new features that give users more visibility into the health of their iPhone’s battery, so they can see for themselves if its condition is affecting performance.
If we're being pedantic, then it is a compiler. It's a compiler that targets another high-level language instead of a lowered representation. Transpiler is (in my opinion) a meaningless specialization of the word compiler.

The corresponding blog post (http://blog.mgechev.com/2017/09/16/developing-simple-interpr...) does seem to be educational.
Yes, if you wanted to extend a nationwide system for any and all PHI communications, your idea would be a good approach.

In a more wonderful world than what we live in today, the US government would have setup a simple, unreadable (even by them) secure channel for everyday citizens to be able to transfer sensitive data to verified businesses and other citizens. They can't see past the criminals using it to subvert the police though.
Where did you get this from?

> The biggest difference is back then you probably didn’t spend 12 hours a day in front of the machine.
No, my mind is not playing tricks on me. My 6 slowed down to a barely usable pace after an iOS upgrade. This happened suddently, and not gradually, right at the time Apple was releasing new devices.

It is normal to be suspicious. My battery did not wear out overnight.
Archived Link if it's still down
https://web.archive.org/web/20171228201620/https://blog.clou...
Send me an email and I'll share a few useful tools/companies for getting lists of cold prospects/contacts.
I read that section as what one is commonly exposed to, not what he's advocating doing.
There is no "planned obsolescence game". Just stop.
The Olive Gardens around here are worse than the middle tier of frozen Italian dinners you can grab at the grocery store, these days (they've definitely gotten worse over the last 10-15 years—I think they've preferred lowering quality over raising prices, though they've done that a bit, too). Some dishes are worse than cheap frozen dinners, even. Last time I went it seriously had the taste and consistency (and general watery-ness) of microwaved food, too. Actually that last part's true for most of the non-fine-dining Italian I've had around here lately, including a few mom & pop places, not just chains. If the cheap to middling sections of the frozen aisle are better than what you're making... please stop. Then again, it sells for some reason, so who am I to say.

[EDIT] and to back up Marpster below, it is nonetheless "fancy" around here to many (Missouri), including those who could certainly afford better for their special nights out.
My point is that javascript the language doesn't justify the absurd complexity of the ecosystem that's developed around it.

A statement like "JS gets a shit reputation for being mountains of config before you can do any work" put my teeth on edge a bit because there's no good reason for that to be the case, given how simple the language is.
1. You're still trying to fix a design flaw with software.

2. Good move on lowering cost of a replacement, because it sure seemed like you were trying to extend the battery to a point where Apple care ran out. However,some people are reporting throttling at 89% battery capacity as reported by coconut battery. This is absurd! Why? Because you won't replace batteries until at least the 80% mark!

Thanks for the clarity, but you need to stop using tiny batteries.

Edit: Let's be clear. We are here because Apple chose to use small batteries. An 1810maH battery will degrade to a point where the iPhone shuts down faster than a 2200maH battery would have. They didn't design the iPhone for longer than 1 or 2 years with those tiny batteries. Period.
Yes.

It may depend on various factors, but I know someone with an iPhone 6+ that is ridiculously slow. At times it can’t keep up with typing terribly well. Or you’ll go to open a simple app and it will take a couple of seconds.

And iPhone 6 that one of their relatives purchased on the same exact day does not exhibit this behavior. At least not to a noticeable degree.

The phone is three years old and has had a hard life. It gets discharged down to 10% pretty often.

As soon as the articles about this started to come out it fit perfectly. We’ll find out when they try and replace the battery, but I suspect this is the issue.

However this is also probably one of the worst cases. I mean if my phone was throttled 10 or 15% I’m not sure I would really notice. If things get bad and it starts being 40%+ I can see how it would be noticeable.
One thing that Apple hasn't addressed is if the Geekbench results [1] over-represents or exaggerates the the throttling effect. Since Geekbench pushes the iPhone to its limits for the duration of the benchmark, iOS needs to throttle performance to prevent shutdown while being tested. This results in lower-than-expected test scores every time. But how much does this map to real-life, visible performance drop?

Edit: Another question I have is how do other devices handle battery degradation? Do Android phones just let devices shutdown unexpectedly or is there also performance throttling? Or is the problem non-existent on non-Apple devices somehow?

[1] https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2017/12/iphone-performance-an...
Apple knows what typical usage patterns will do to the battery. If most customers hit an issue that degrades their phone performance before 1 year, then Apple made that conscious decision when doing system design (multiple phones have this issue). It’s fully within their power to spec a battery that lasts a bit longer.
Yes part of the reason people buy iPhones is because everyone else has one but it's more about network effects than a status symbol. There are just some things that work better between iPhones than between iPhones and Android phones.

Little things like being able to automatically share WiFi passwords, Apple Pay between people, FaceTime, iMessage, being able to share my location continuously with my wife when I'm on the road (or before when I was running long distances), etc.
...and an epic example of the bigger they are the harder they fall in the making. Am typing this from Sierra OSX, btw, not cynical, just kind of bummed about the decline of OSX' quality.
> It was Apple specific

Maybe these symptoms are Apple specific but Samsung had fire and explosions:

http://www.techradar.com/news/samsung-galaxy-note-7-battery-...
Ask HN: Cryptocurrency without mining?
I can't say I am not intrigued by the popularity of cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin boom. However I would never buy Bitcoins as I consider the mining idea a very weak link of the Bitcoin.

Overall however I think cryptocurrencies can only be good for society, so I was trying to thing of an alternative. How can we have a cryptocurrency that doesn't generate coins out of thin air(or lot's of pointless calculations)?

The answer I came up with is by providing a service that people would find useful. One such service could be international money transfers.

So the idea I have is something along the lines of distributed ledger for facilitating international money transfers. If user A in US wants to transfer money to user B in Germany, they could find their local US exchange and buy $100 worth of FXCoins and send them to user B. User B then would go to his local Germany exchange and trade back the FXCoins for Euros.

That way the market would truly take care of pricing the FXCoin correctly and would not become a bubble. Also it will be more like a currency, a medium to transfer wealth, rather than an speculative investment.

However I have very little knowledge about the blockchain technology and wanted to ask HN folks if they see any technical difficulties in doing something like this?

For example, I was wondering if the blockchain can work without mining. Any feedback/problems/suggest solutions or alternatives would be appreciated.
Which Amazon brought upon themselves by doing the exact same thing years (read: YEARS) before any retaliation by Google.

Amazon is the one stopping casting from their devices. Not Google. Google Cast is free to setup for. https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/design_checklist/

Nothing needs to be sold through Google Cast, no royalties, etc. All Amazon has to do is SUPPORT it. Or atleast allow homegrown solutions to thrive.

I agree this is a stupid 'feud' that only hurts consumers and I have my likes and dislikes for both companies but if you cannot see the difference here then I'm not sure how to help.
I am affected by this issue. I would rather have a risk of my phone shutting down at <40% than my phone gas lighting me with performance degradation.

If my phone shut down when it shouldn't then I know to search out diagnostics about my battery. But if my phone slows down I have actually done these things:

* complained to developers that their apps are slower, wasting their time and resources when my battery should have been changed.

* reinstalled my OS. Which did not help when I should have changed my battery.

* searched and searched and searched resources online. When I should have researched a new battery.

* I also have to mea culpa all friends to whom I have ensured through the years that Apple never intentionally slows down their hardware. I have lied to my friends and need to apologise to them.
> This does nothing to compensate or win back the trust of customers like me.

What is it that you want Apple to do to make you personally feel better?
Is it also why we have these awful keyboards on the new mbp ?

I feel them absolutely awful to type on (I have never complained about a keyboard before but I just can't stand this one), although it is subjective, some people are fine with it.

What is unquestionably bad though is that you need to replace the whole keyboard if one key has an issue (and apparently it happens a lot). I know several people for which Apple had to reset the whole laptop after a keyboard issue, but I can't make sense of it.
Small note, it’s not $50. That’s the price REDUCTION. So now it’s only $30.

I made the same mistake, which someone else pointed out to me.

There are a lot of companies that make their money fixing iPhone batteries for $30. If this isn’t a limited time offer they’re in deep trouble.
i'm not this guy but this is a useful framework for sending cold emails:

https://medium.com/@cliffordoravec/the-epic-guide-to-bootstr...
> for anyone with an iPhone 6 or later whose battery needs to be replaced

I'm guessing they'll have some criteria on that
I think this is a good response, and I think a lot of the outrage over this issue is overblown. At the end of the day there's a fundamental tradeoff that Apple needs to make on behalf of their customers: performance or stability. They chose stability, and I think they have a convincing argument as to why: "It should go without saying that we think sudden, unexpected shutdowns are unacceptable. We don’t want any of our users to lose a call, miss taking a picture or have any other part of their iPhone experience interrupted if we can avoid it."

I have two concerns:

1) They still haven't fully eliminated the sudden shutdown behavior. My old 5S would shut down randomly under 20% without warning. Sometimes it would make it all the way to 1-2%, but most of the time it was between 5-15%. You'd think they'd scale performance throttling untilt this wasn't an issue.

2) I think their messaging with respect to battery health and the battery being a consumable is pretty poor. As far as I can tell there's no built-in battery health indicator in iOS. Sure there are those dodgy "Super Battery Health Plus Pro" apps, but it seems like a diagnostic menu in settings would go a long way. Even more puzzling is that techs at the Apple Store have access to some sort of diagnostic that does this already. Last time I went to get another issue fixed the guy said that my battery was at 70% capacity and the voltage was pretty low. Why wait until '2018' to ship a self-serve version of this?
> what happens if they stop being in that category? What happens when the only housing available is for drug addicts and you just happen to be poor?

I agree with your general sentiment that we should build more, but having housing dedicated to those who are having issues (drugs, mental issues, etc) can help break a cycle that may not be broken with simply having more affordable housing. There have been several initiatives that have shown that we can save money on homeless people by simply giving them a place to live for free, and a lot of the benefit comes down to the fact that being homeless exacerbates their issues, the costs of which fall on tax payers anyway.
Agreed.

If there was no yearly release deadline, and the project were resourced identically, my experience points to there being even fewer releases of identical quality.

Deadlines needed.

Simply more / better QA resources required.
If you don't mind the bitbanging, Software SPI could totally be an option for your resistive touchscreen if the screen itself isn't a super active device.

Also, for the camera itself, way, way cool. I love the idea of stumbling on hidden gems in the rough and polishing them into a nice ring.
I am no Apple fan, but part of what they sell you is an experience where details like that are hidden from you. Before everybody got a Mac, didn't techies complain about Apple dumbing down computers?
It is an enzymatic reaction - and comes from fireflies, or similar biological effects. So there's no reason that - at some point - the effect cannot be entirely generated in vivo rather than upon addition of particular ingredients. The hard part is getting enough light. Enough light to read by is a lot of energy for otherwise very efficient biological processes. Once engineered though, as long as the plant is energetically productive (alive and well-fed), the glow should persist. The glow could persist as long as the plant is alive.

The paper:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b04369
Maybe Akka with Persistence module?
> Synergy was frequently used in a mindless, vague way

Again, I'm really not trying to put the author down here - but "leverage" is a term that can very easily and often is used in a mindless and vague way. Not always, of course, in the same way that "synergy" can absolutely be used properly.

Still, it would be extremely easy for me to mindlessly posit whatever I want as "high impact", or at the very least "minimal time investment". "Minimal" and "high impact" are inherently subjective phrases (minimal compared to what? high compared to what?) and without a baseline are effectively useless.

So, I guess I still don't see a huge difference between "synergy" and "leverage" in terms of vagueness. And if vagueness exists, mindless usage is pretty soon to follow.
There was content before even advertising. And we're here creating ""content"" without being paid on a site with no ads.
I use a combination of a custom scraping tool and paid curated lead services.
If Apple hadn’t made this change those phones would have randomly turned off instead. Those people probably would’ve gone and bought either a new were iPhone or switch to android like you did.

On the whole I don’t think this would have caused anyone to spend money they wouldn’t have otherwise. Perhaps they would have stayed with their phone longer.

It’s hard to tell, and this is certainly worse than if they had just told people about the battery in the first place (although I imagine THAT would’ve become a scandal two).
That's a false dichotomy; Apple has many options other than slowing down the phone and having it randomly restart.

For example, they could have altered the calibration of the battery indicator so 0% charge corresponds to the charge level where random restarts/throttling starts to occur.
> Apple is reducing the price of an out-of-warranty iPhone battery replacement by $50 — from $79 to $29...

> Early in 2018, we will issue an iOS software update with new features that give users more visibility into the health of their iPhone’s battery, so they can see for themselves if its condition is affecting performance.

There we go.

It took too much trouble and too long for it to happen, but Apple is stepping up and doing the right thing.

Actually, the cost of battery replacement is now excellent. If they hadn't screwed this up by not communicating what was going on, I think they could have easily justified $49 - $59.

So I take the drop to $29 as a tangible apology, which I appreciate. (Well, personally, I've already replaced my battery using a $25 kit from Amazon, but obviously that's not viable for the great majority of iPhone owners.)
You know...I’ve never thought of shipping fast as being applicable to blogging. In some ways my blog posts fall victim to the “waterfall” development model and never end up shipping. Thank you for helping me think of that in this way.
Good point until:

> Why do you think the car depreciates the second you drive it off the lot?

Because of the dealership and "new car" markup. There's next to no difference between the car that left the parking lot and a "new" one. If you don't care about this silly game, you can save a lot by buying an ex-display model with a few hundred/thousand km done.
> op: [request for a battery expert to chime in with professional opinion]

> response: [non-battery expert with subjective opinion]

sums up why I hate HN comments sometimes.
The kickstarter project doing the same but via genetic engineering ran out of money earlier this year https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/04/whatever...
I would love HN to force people to explain why they are downvoting something.

Batteries fail after a while, it has been a constant for a very long time.

What has changed is that in many recent phones it is a pain to replace it yourself.
They could offer to buy back any functioning iPhone 6S at an above market rate from anyone who recently purchased a new phone. Its sort of a crazy idea, but close to what people want.
I think a sensible low-tech way to build a small-to-medium sized mars or moon structure is to dig a big hole, stack bricks or cut stone to form an igloo-like dome in the bottom of the hole, and then bury it in dirt with a staircase to get in and out. The inside can be sealed with an air-tight liner material and an airlock installed.

The weight of the dirt counteracts the air pressure and protects against radiation and temperature variation. The bricks provide a rigid compressive structure to maintain the shape and hold up the dirt.

The liner doesn't have to be particularly strong, just resistant to accidental tears. Theoretically, the brick dome could be omitted if you can exactly balance the weight of the dirt with internal air pressure, but that seems kind of risky (and every time the internal pressure fluctuates slightly, the dome gets a little smaller as the dirt settles).

The hard parts of this plan are a) how do you get/make thousands of bricks? and b) how do you do all the excavation and assembly? It would be great if we could get robots to do the whole thing and have a habitat ready before humans arrive on the scene, but with current tech a lot of the work might have to be done manually by guys in space suits with construction equipment. I suppose once you have one habitat, it's a lot easier to build a second one next to it.
Why Are RESTful APIs Called RESTful?
Sure, I bet community is great otherwise, it is just occassional elitism (which I guess was inherited from the C++ community) that comes off as toxic.

Btw that same survey showed how people are quite fine with writing JS, which makes this entire thread seem even more ridiculous.
It wasn't until I upgraded to ios 11 that my iphone 6 began shutting down at 30% battery. This coincided with the phone being completely unusable. I could not launch apps, using the message application was nearly enough to make me quit apple.
The ASX is implementing a distributed ledger via Blythe Masters company, here ya go http://www.digitalasset.com/about

People probably said there no use for the internet.

The head of the patent office said circa ~1900 that everything that could be invented had already been invented.