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How many of these kidnappings are going to be faked to provide cover for a theft?

It's exactly the thing I would do.
Talk about all the buses you want. What I really really want to hear about is the chargers that make it possible. Give me maximum MW rates and rates for how much each station can crank out in total.
I disagree. I think they're doing the right thing here.

Most users shouldn't need to manage their battery performance actively at all. What's next? Users should manage their own RAM usage? Absolutely not.

They're giving away batteries for free, and giving users more visibility into the health of their battery in an upcoming update. That's the right thing.
Just going to throw this one out there.

I swapped from an Nexus 5 to an iPhone 6+. I bought the iPhone 1.5yrs second hand to get a significant amount off its price. It is dented significantly on the back, but still serves me like a new phone apart from a noticed slow-down.

On the other hand, the Nexus randomly started shutting off and the battery only lasted half a day after charging every day for the following 2 years.

The phones are now effectively the same age and Apples fix has prolonged the apparent age of my phone, I guess (thanks).

But I think people are being harsher because Apple products have longer expected life but use the same battery technology. This isn’t really fair, is it?

Ftn. I have designed and manufactured 3 battery assemblies for electric vehicles in a racing context.
Depending on how bad the battery is that me end up giving someone 30 to 60 minutes of battery life.

That seems almost useless. Certainly worse than having a slower phone that has hours of battery life.
I could not care less about which company did this, it could have just as easily been Samsung, LG, <put your favorite brand here>

BUT, what I do very much care about is that the company who did this does not get away with it without losing some feathers, because they did intentionally hide something from the user that did affect them quite noticeably and if they would not have been called out could have had even more serious effects in the long run.

Imagine the following scenario. The battery of your phone is happily degrading and the manufacturer of your phone puts in some serious effort to develop a strategy so you as the user don't notice it. You keep using your phone thinking everything is fine, all the while your battery keeps degrading faster and faster. Then some day you actually need the power (in terms of processing power and in terms of stored energy) because, let's say you are taking a longer high quality video of a wedding. But since your phone is now running on full throttle your battery keeps discharging uncharacteristically fast because it is already in a bad state, or the software can't keep up with the data compression and has to start dropping frames and the video of the event you wanted to keep in good memory now looks awful.

Sure, this is only a very benign scenario but it still illustrates that the manufacturer should not try to hide such important information from the user. And as I have mentioned in another thread, no one can tell me that not a single Apple engineer during this whole process has stepped up and said "Hey maybe it's also a good idea to tell the user that we are throttling the whole system so it may live a few months longer"
It's by a shadowbanned account. You'd need to have showdead on to see it.
Do the math instead of listening to people who resist change.

You are right about the extra stuff that comes with coal power, but you will find with a good modern coal plant, transmission losses, and battery/electric motor loss still puts less CO2 in the air that gasoline cars per mile travelled.
My guess is that the downvote was a sort of "offtopic" one: "yeah, we can't change the battery ourselves, c'est la vie, it's Apple, get over it, let's discuss the issue at hand".
What about those of us that already paid to have the battery replaced? I was having the automatic shut down issue and Apple was telling me the battery was just fine. Since they refused to warrantee the battery I just ended up paying for another battery.

This was before the issue was really well-known. They were acting as if I was making it up. But yeah, anytime the phone was below 50% battery life I was in danger of having the phone immediately turn off. In my line of work this is not acceptable. Above anything else I need a working reliable phone.
That's relatively trivial to switch. If anything it would be the ecosystem of purchased applications that you still intend to use.

Other than that, nothing should really keep you "locked-in" on iOS. Not even iMessage. You can use WhatsApp or FB Messenger with friends or family. It's not a big deal.
>>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.

Enough with the hyperbole already. Yes, a few (rather outspoken) users had this issue. For everyone else, slowdowns were noticeable, but they barely made the phones "unusable".

That's why this is a manufactured scandal. Yes, Apple could have (and should have) been more transparent. But their decision to throttle the CPU was based on sound engineering principles, rather than a nefarious attempt to get people to upgrade.
What are some other options?

Calibrating for a new "0%" effectively lead to a "shorter battery life".

I don't know the intricacies of these options, but I can make a guess. The point which a phone resets isn't accurately predicted. Some user actions may cause larger voltage drops than others. For which action do you calibrate to 0%? What if you only do that action once a day? Is this trade off worth sacrificing 1% of your full capacity? What about 10% or 30%?
> If the US did what the EU has done with allowing people to avoid being tracked the big tech companies would be nudged toward developing smarter business models. Maybe it's not necessary but it's foolish to dismiss government out of hand.

Do you think that they would really get "better" for a consumer, or more covert as they become "smarter"? I'd assume the latter.
If by "fundamental battery issue" you mean that all phones have this issue or some comparably severe tradeoff, then no, this is not a fundamental issue. Batteries don't all degrade at the same rate, and even given a specific battery tech, the way it's implemented in the device can have a dramatic impact on the longevity. Temperature, rate of charging, the degree (i.e. voltage) up to which it is charged, the degree (i.e. voltage) at which it is considered empty are all factors that are primarily in the device manufacturers hands.

Even a few percent overprovisioning can extend life expectency by a lot; and aggressive temperature-related charging (and discharging) throttling can trade peak (benchmark) performance and predictable charging speeds for longevity. I bet apple could make a phone with at least double the battery longevity with 1% price, mass, and size increases, and perf and battery life decreases -- if they wanted to. Of course, those factors are easily quantifiable, and battery longevity less so...

So sure: battery degradation is a fundamental issue in the sense that all batteries degrade - but how they do and what tradeoffs the device makes to minimize that are largely up to the manufacturer, and unfortunately also poorly documented, poorly benchmarkable, and I'm not sure how clearly a warranty would apply - so yeah, the it's a factor that manufacturers are bound to skimp on.

(I wouldn't particularly expect apple to be any worse than the rest of the pack, though).
I don't think Apple would ever introduce a switch that could allow the phone to randomly power down.
The batteries are not free. How about a user replaceable battery design?
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Do you track things like viewability? Why not use something like an adserver?
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iTunes is bloated, but there's no good replacement. And it's less bloated than it used to be, since they removed iPhone app management.

I do hope they have a skunkworks project to rewrite the whole thing from scratch, though. It could really use it.
Of course there is no evidence of that - because then people would have a legitimate (though different) complaint.
Maybe it's the way you tell them. With engineers, a little explicitness goes a long way, and will generally be accepted - unless you're being patronising and telling them something they already know. So try saying "I'm not saying this to gain any sympathy or anything like that, but I had a similar experience, which was... and what it taught me / how it made me stronger was..." I mean that's kind of a stilted template, but you get the general idea.

Now, this might lead to a bunfight about whether those situations were similar, in your colleagues' opinions - but then at least you'd have brought out into the open where your colleagues weren't thinking along the same lines as you - which might not always be what you expected!
This isn't the first time this has happened to Apple. They use to not sell replacement batteries for the original iPods, and when people called in to complain, they were often told to buy an entire new iPod. This was settled in a lawsuit:

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/apples-ip...

Another important note is this battery replacement cost only cover the iPhone6 and up. That's only the 2015 release. That's still lubricious. If we had devices as powerful as today's cellphones that cost $500+ in the early-90s, losing support after 2~3 years would be lubricious.

In 2012 I remember seeing someone with the first generation iPhone EDGE (pre-3G). That's right; the thing was like 6? 7 years old? He really only used it on Wi-Fi. EDGE data was painful, but it was still his primary/only phone for another year.

The throwaway economy saddens me, and this move doesn't really do enough to prevent the continuing pileup of e-waste being shipped on boats to China and Africa.
Interesting how the response of sites with terrible user experiences caused by ad tech is not to say “oh, how can we change our ads so people will accept them?” but rather to find ways to make their user experiences even more horrible, e.g. popping up new unwanted interruptions accusing you of having an ad-blocker.

Hey big web sites, here is the solution, and I won’t even charge you for it: stop making terrible user experiences. I am not trying to block your ad; I am blocking your carelessly-written malware-laden code, your obnoxious pop-ups, your auto-playing videos, your shove-in-my-face-at-the-worst-time messages, your unreasonable consumption of my mobile data, and everything that is making a simple article difficult to load.

I’ll even tell you how to fix this: make more simple text ads, or images that are not animated and not peppered with distracting colors. Make the first paragraph of every article a nice little blurb telling me more about a company that pays you to advertise for them. Put some cute ads in muted colors inline with the content. Create a couple simple links to things that cost money that could support you (apps, T-shirts or whatever). In short, don’t be a complete jerk to the people you apparently “need” to help maintain the costs of your site.
So the right thing is to have phones crash as the battery age?

This is not a question about battery life in terms of how many hours the phone can run. This is a question about the phones ability to draw high amounts of power for short intervals.
The parent is confused by the same thing I was, which is on first load the page only shows 3 "helpful" comments, and you have to click a link to see all 21 pages.
Ah, so you prefer your phone just shutting down unexpectedly when you open your picture-taking app, update the public transportation app to buy a ticket because they updated the server, or exit the metro into the freezing cold of winter? Right.

Not an Apple customer (never was, probably never will), I use a Samsung Android, and I wish my phone were doing that performance limitation thing, because I do feel the issues caused by unexpected shutdowns on a daily basis. I constantly carry an extra battery to be able to reboot my phone when that happens.
Yeah, if "tech" just means "many employees are programmers" or "has a large online presence" it seems obvious that tech is going to become a larger portion of the market, and rebalancing to cut down the "overweight" tech in your portfolio runs directly counter to what passive cap-weighted investing is about -- having investments that follow what has won in the past and is expected to win in the future.
I think the argument is that one would notice that the battery drains very quickly, and starts shutting off at a certain percent. Then they could know the battery is a problem, and pay $79 to get that replaced, instead of upgrading.
I appreciate that you've written some good articles recently, and as you may know, we've boosted them onto HN's front page (as described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there). But could you please not post crappy comments like this? You're an experienced enough HN user to know that (a) you're outright breaking the site rules; and (b) such comments usually end up worse than useless because the downvotes they complain about soon get canceled out by upvotes—as happened above. In most cases, silently upvoting the downvoted comment yourself is enough to fix the problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> laymen questioning the work ethics of actual professionals because they think they could possibly do better, if only etc.

> What is unreasonable, very unreasonable, self-entitled in my opinion, is expecting that experimental physicists provide some kind of repository

> It's not that there's some kind of conspiracy

You seem to be arguing with someone else

> I don't usually comment on HN about Physics because... well, never mind, it really was a bad idea this time.

If you are knowledgeable on the subject I would encourage you to comment, but keep the comment on the topic being discussed
Good use case, because damn is it easy. It's ~2 miles, inside a pedestrian corridor (one of the few in America, alas!). A modest size battery pack would go quite a ways when you barely hit 10 mph (16 kph), at least if there's a solid regenerative brake.
So you think a Popup

"Hey you're battery is going bad. Do you want to [keep the performance] or [save the battery life]?"

Would be too much??
I remember experiencing it with my six. I’d be using my phone and then the phone would just randomly shut down. I might have noticed the battery indicator saying five percent or something like that right before it died (even though that wasn’t true).

You’d restart the phone and after a second trip to the battery indicator would show the correct level (let’s say 60 to 80 percent).
There could be a local compromise that exposes the SSH keys (for login) but not the remote password (for sudo).
What do externalities have to do with duopolies?
Are they really unreliable? I use a 2013 macbook pro (that I bought refurbished mind you) and it works just as well as the day that I bought it, except that the mute key doesn't work. The 2015 mbpr I used at my previous employer seemed just as sturdy.

I also abused an iphone 5s for years until an upgrade to an iphone 7 earlier this year. Seems like a pretty stable device.

I don't see these problems. Now I'm stuck with a thinkpad at work that has garbage battery life and an infuriating track pad. Every Android phone also turned out to be a turd (Galaxy S3, Moto X). Now that I have a file browser on iOS I don't think I'll ever go back- especially when you consider that Apple is basically the only company in the big 5 that at least publicly goes to bat for your privacy.
There was also commercial ad-supported content before tracking advertising. You know, 100% of ad-supported content before the Web. The world will for sure not end if spyvertising goes away.
You are correct in how you understood the article. But I get the impression from the parent poster that he will use a "DIY" solution which costs $25 to get the same result.
Free idea for someone in a state where MJ is legal: glow in the dark pot. "Woooaaaahhh".
The trade-offs that come with that would completely destroy everything that makes iPhones great.
> it's not as if every device with a lithium battery shuts off at 40%

Nexus 6P.
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> I do not file bugs anymore.

I've filed a small amount but stopped pretty quickly because the web app where you report bugs is just horrible. I literally ended up making 2 bug reports the first time, 1 for the bug I wanted to report and then another bug report for the web app. I can't even be bothered to check whether those issues have been resolved, but I don't even care anymore at this point.
>makes it near impossible these days to get a usable laptop because PC makers totally copied Apple alas.

I'd say that is only the Ultrabook market which goes for super thin. There are plenty of other laptops out there that are thick enough to even have a CD drive. On top of that there are the gaming laptops which are even thicker.
Apple has criteria for whether or not they'll replace your phone's battery at all. I assume that eligibility for the lower battery replacement price will be identical to the eligibility test they're already doing for the battery replacement service.

When you take your phone in, they'll do a test on the battery's current capacity and status, using a custom app. If the battery has reported errors, or if the reported capacity is low enough (below 80% capacity remaining, as I recall), then they'll agree to replace the battery. Takes a couple minutes to run the test, and then about an hour to swap the battery.

(Caveat: I was last through this process on my old iPhone 5, about six months ago. I assume that the procedure and policies are basically the same for newer iPhones, and haven't changed substantively since then. My battery's remaining capacity was below 40%, and was reporting errors, when I had it replaced.)
Hahaha "lubricous" - what a fantastic typo!
there's got to be a way to get that to work...
Better: glow-in-the-dark smoke!
RE 2: What I mean is that "N-sigma" and local p-value are being used interchangeably, which you can see from this plot. There's no "number ... calculated without including info about any theory/evidence regarding the Higgs boson".

RE 3: The model used to calculate the background are unphysical in the sense that they set the Higgs production cross section to zero without changing anything else. There's no physical Higgsless theory.

RE 4: I was agreeing with you and adding some facts.
Multi signature wallets are easy enough to use. You’re going to need a lot more rubber hoses.
That makes sense.

So I question the question is would users be happier having their phone slow down or having the battery appear to drain extremely fast?

I guess my answer to that would depend on how bad the average “slowdown“ is. I think you’re right if the issue is serious, but if most people only take a 10% hit when your phone is old then the slowdown may be a better option.
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Or maybe it's just a reflection of the reality that there are probably a lot of people who don't want to go to a football game and not get drunk.
> Editor’s note: At nearly 7,000 words, you probably don’t want to try reading this on an iDevice. Bookmark it and come back later.

Love it, and have bookmarked. Without a thoughtful message such as above may have started and given up half way through (much less than that if I'm honest).
I think you mean ludicrous instead of lubricious, just fyi.
Increase in passive/beta investing is not necessarily good for the economy. We are going through an extraordinary period for levered beta.
They explain it in the article, they think it's a worse UX to have the device turn off unexpectedly.
But these examples are cherry picked. Was Google lucky? Oracle? Hotmail? Take away what luck might exist, and would they not still be billion dollar companies?
Ok, now that I see a photo. I don't know if there are any vendors that have single junction box switches that control three lights. In general though, the smart switches tend to be deep and don't leave a lot of room in the junction box.

Are you sure you don't have a neutral wire in the junction box? In my junction boxes, the neutral wires weren't used for the old school switches but are capped in the back of the junction box.

Regarding the interface, the Wemos are not very reliable because they are wifi. I used to use X10 and they were way more robust than the Wemos. You might want to check X10 if you're going to code yourself. The hardware tends to be a lot cheaper than the newer switches.
This story broke less than 2 weeks ago. So 10 business days (minus holidays) to put together a corporate response that affects hundreds of millions of devices seems pretty damn quick.
The battery is user replaceable. If a minimum wage earner in the mall can do it with a few basic tools it isn’t that difficult.
The rigt thing would have been a model recall changing the battery with something that has enough voltage margin to keep the cpu running after the usual degradation for at least the 500 cycles it’s rated for

This is an engineering issue on evaluating margins properly repackaged as “we’re improving battery life” to hide stability issue caused by bad assumptions on cpu stability across voltage ranges.
Being a programmer, but not an engineer, I always wanted to try to create a camera with the ability to micro-shift the sensor in both directions, increasing the resolution. If you shift 3 times by 1/3 of the pixel on each axis, you can theoretically 9X the resolution (well, megapixels). Of course, it won't work for dynamic scenes, but could be quite useful for industrial scanning or looking for house insulation problems.
Upthread at the moment there is a Samsung owner who does have shutdowns from battery problems.

Part of it has to do with how the battery has been treated. Wild swings in charge daily cause damage. Hot temperatures cause damage. I'd guess most iPhone owners have little to no damage. But for those who do, slowing the phone and giving a warning is a good alternative to shutting down.
His point was that Apple's latest chips promise something like 2x the performance of the best Qualcomm or Samsung chip.

If that gain is indeed real, or mostly real, then the difference may be explained by the fact that Apple makes some compromises that other chip makers don't - such as increasing the boost performance of the chip more than the battery and the heat management can handle.

As for the "on paper" claim, I think it's justified, because largely we only know the Apple chips are "so much faster" from synthetic benchmarks. But in real world tests it doesn't seem to make much of a difference.
Maybe if they made their iPhones that fraction of a millimetre thicker, they'd have the courage to bring back a headphone jack into their $1000 phones.
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Or maybe "How long do you want your battery to last?" Choose 6 hours, or 8, or 12.
It’s not about battery life. It’s about not pulling so much current that it suddenly shuts down the entire device. Why do so many people think this is just about making a charge last longer?
Do you use night mode ?

What is your issue with the screen ? I like it a lot ! it goes for accuracy over color popping though, so I get that not everybody is going to like it but to go as far as finding it garrish ? I know that some phones in the first batch had screens issues but I have nothing to report.
Hahahaha, that was a good one. Large corporations don't have humanity, their stakeholders don't allow it.
Well, there is a button that turns the phone off. The angry users could use that and experience the same thing.