Not even a days worth. If I've got my math correct then they are currently selling about 46,500 per day.
Posts by Steve Todd
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Microsoft Surface 2 fondleslabs finally get off ground with airline order
Sharp whispers its vital statistics: 15.6in 3840 × 2160 IGZO screen for next MacLap Pro?
Redmond expands fanboi trade-in program to include iPhones
'200 million' fanbois using iOS 7 just a week after release - study
Re: It's cause they're dying for a change
I hate to point this out to you, but market research shows more people jumping TOO Apple than away from it. Market share data ignores the facts that (1) the market is increasing in size dramatically and (2) much of the new market is in bargain basement devices that are free on contract to subscribers who should have otherwise chosen a dumb or feature phone.
Most Apple users were perfectly happy with iOS 6, and more than likely there's going to be some backlash because they didn't want it to change. Personally I'm on the whole happy with it (particularly features like being able to tell it just to get on and auto-upgrade apps without bothering me) but you shouldn't confuse the wants and likes of tech bloggers with the core audience.
iOS 7 SPANKS Samsung's Android in user-experience rating
Re: iDIOTS Operating System
However you look at it DLNA is a bad standard. Even the manufacturers themselves worked this out and came up with Miracast which is quite close to AirPlay in its scope and ambition. Doing heavy lifting on a low power mobile device is stupid, and that's mostly where the feeds are coming from.
Re: iDIOTS Operating System
DLNA is far from simple to get working as the standard has so many options and alternatives. Your TV set may support one variant, your phone another and never the twain shall meet. Apple created their own alternative in AirPlay and the DLNA crowd have been playing catch-up. If there's an AirPlay compatible device on the local network then an icon appears in your media app. Tap that and you're connected and playing on the remote device, simples.
Special format? Well if you count MP4 as a special format ... And you don't even need to do that with apps like VLC. Likewise you can run Plex servers and play media back from that on your device, or iTunes and run that push or pull (ie. sending media from iTunes to a device, or the device requesting the media it's self).
As for WiFi signal strength, it gives you that on the top of the screen when you connect. The only point at which a signal analyser is useful is when you're setting up a network and you want to know what band number has least interference. Even that is dealt with by modern base stations that look at activity themselves.
Re: iDIOTS Operating System
Dropbox downloads to its own personal file space on iOS, the only thing you can't do is chose where it is going to put it (and why should you care?)
You need not go anywhere near iTunes, and that has been the case since iOS 6 was released.
iBooks handles ePub format books just fine. Use Dropbox or email to get the files on to your device and then open them in iBooks, easy.
The native format for music is MP4 AAC, which isn't DRM'd, is an industry standard and is better quality than MP3 at the same bit rate. If you still insist on MP3 then it will happily play them, and there are many music apps in the store so you aren't limited to Apple software.
There are limits on what you can do, but for the average user these limits are meaningless (you honestly think Joe Public wants to run a WiFi analyser?)
Hardbitten NYC cops: Sir, I'm gonna need you to, er, upgrade to iOS 7
Re: Disable Find my iPhone?
So a mugger is going to hang around long enough to extract the password out of you and test that it is correct? The whole point about these kind of things is not that they make theft impossible, but that they increase the risk to the thief and reduce the resale value of a stolen phone. Those two factors together will reduce the number of thefts.
Re: Disable Find my iPhone?
Nice theory, but you can't assign it to another Apple ID unless you know the password for the current ID. Activation is by device ID, not mobile SIM number so changing that won't help either. Once the device is tied via Find my IPhone to your ID it won't let you change that association without entering your password, which the thief won't have.
One of last few iPhone 5Ss STOLEN from within MASSIVE POLICE CORDON at Apple Store
Qualcomm turns back hands of Toq smartwatch
First look: Apple iPhone 5S and 5C
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it ... Win Phone 8? No, it's APPLE'S iOS 7
Re: Thumbs up. Apple Vs Microsoft
That whooshing noise is the point going completely over your head. He tried to pay Microsoft as soon as they actually sent him the email. They made the process unpleasant and, after he'd jumped through rings and hoops, said no he couldn't have the package after all. Apple made it simple and easy to get their free update. He wouldn't have minded paying Microsoft, and considering they were asking a customer for cash you'd have thought it would be something they'd make quick and simple also.
Re: Is it a bird, is it a plane? @jemma
Who told you that they were building a value phone? Apple certainly didn't. Their "budget" model is the old iPhone 4S. It would certainly be unwise for any manufacturer of high end/luxury products to jump straight to the budget end of the market. Firstly it devalues the brand and secondly the margins are terrible. There are basically 2 companies these days who are making a profit selling smartphones, Apple and Samsung.
Be happy with your budget phone, but stop trying to pretend that there's no cost or value in producing higher end products.
Dog bites man: Apple's Macs trounce all Windows PCs in customer love
Re: Hmmm...
Since the OP asked "when was the last time they used a Windows PC (objectively) to compare" then I gave a perfectly valid answer. I use Windows PCs, of high quality and from an objective viewpoint, on a daily basis. Having made an objective comparison then I prefer the Mac option. There is always going to be a subjective component based on what you use the device for, but for my set of use cases the Mac works better and requires less maintenance.
Re: My Macbook experience, and observations of those around me.
One has to wonder about the voracity of your post given a number of the errors above.
The Pro is an all aluminium device, with an internal slot loading DVD drive. You couldn't bend the drive if you tried. The eject button is on the keyboard, at the top right. The trackpad is all glass, capitative and configurable to accept light taps as clicks rather than full presses. It's generally regarded as the best trackpad on the market, the gold standard to which PCs aspire. There is only actually 1 video chipset, the other is Intel's integrated version (i.e. crap). The OS switches between the two transparently depending on load, no need to bother about manual tweaks, reboots etc. There are many PC laptops that tried the same trick, mostly with far less success.
Re: rounding error
You really need to learn about statistics and sample sizes. The accuracy of the numbers depends on the number of people they ask compared to the total numbers sold. I doubt in this case that the margin of error is more than a percentage point or two.
As for Lenovo, I suspect they don't have a big presence in the consumer space that this survey was interested in. For business use they sell truck loads.
DARPA: You didn't think we could make a Mach 6 spaceplane, so let us have this MACH TEN job
Apple's liquid-crystal screen pusher mulls $2bn IPO – report
Re: I wonder if.... @random handle
The 1% OPERATING margin (i.e. after costs are subtracted) they were talking about was due to a cut in orders from Apple. It's the same in any business, if you have a large customer who cuts their orders then you're going to see a cut in profits. It doesn't matter WHO that customer is.
A margin of only 1% is still a profit, not being "nearly sunk". Foxconn run almost permanently on not much more. What we don't know is why Apple reduced orders as their sales numbers weren't as bad as the pundits were predicting and they also source from 2 other display manufacturers (AU Optronics and Samsung). It's possible they were struggling to reach quality standards or volume.
Re: I wonder if....
Apple will help with financing of new/additional production line capacity for their suppliers (I presume in exchange for guaranteed capacity), but they don't seem interested in buying manufacturers per se. Samsung have to be careful in buying other companies in this field or they may find themselves in a monopoly position, and will have all sorts of restrictions dropped on them if they do.
Apple to uncloak new iPads, iMacs at October 15 event?
Re: still waiting
"time was when Apple announced, Apple shipped...."
No, if they have something completely new then they have been known to announce it long before you could buy one. Remember the original iPhone? If its just an upgraded model then they don't want the Osborn effect to cut it so they ship quite close to the announcement.
Re: Sounds like a fantastic idea
Erm, iOS *is* OS X ported to ARM, with some clean up and adjustment to the GUI layer to make it work in a touch environment. Porting applications between the two environments is comparatively simple. Expect the two to converge to a greator or lessor degree over time.
Apple named in criminal lawsuit over Premier League–streaming app
Re: Apple can't be responsible for every app in its store
Rights licensing internationally is a complete mess. Even here in Europe, where we theoretically have an open market that allows private citizens to buy in whichever country they want, there are all sorts of odd legal hurdles to doing so.
All Apple can do is ask a publisher to provide some kind of documentation that they're entitled to provide the material in the country in question (and don't forget that this is often split by the original rights holders into regional and media type packages so even this may not be obvious). The publisher can lie. Does this make Apple liable?
Re: Apple can't be responsible for every app in its store
Kind of depends what they are responsible for. Are they responsible for the Kindle app for example if Amazon publishes a book they don't have rights for? This app could have also been used to view legitimate content.
What they have responsibility for is that the app meets their guidelines, that it doesn't do anything to compromise the device and that it isn't designed to do something overtly illegal in the country of sale. If the author then uses it to provide media that is unlicensed in the country of sale without Apple having any approval rights on that media then I'd say Apple aren't liable. If they are informed by the rights holder and continue to sell it then that would be another matter.
Apple’s iOS 64-bit iUpgrade: Don't expect a 2x performance leap
Re: 64-bit improvement
Apple have an ARM Architechural license. They design and build their own cores. They have done since, IIRC, the A5. The A6 Swift core was quite a lot faster, clock for clock, than a stock Cortex A9, getting close to the A15 in performance on much less power.
The A7 is slated as twice the speed of the A6, but with the same battery life. That isn't efficiency?
As to Apple packaging features up, have you not yet learned that this is what they are best at. They package them in a way that is attractive to users rather than what techies think is attractive (see Windows Tablet Edition vs iPad for an example of that).
Re: Exactly - with a modern multitasking OS this would do really well
Erm, iOS is a modern, multitasking OS. It limits what an application can do in the background (and those limits are being relaxed further in iOS 7) to conserve battery life, but under the hood it's the same BSD/Mach hybrid that powers OS X. Google are doing the same kinds of thing under Android BTW.
Re: One wonders
Not quite that simple. 32 bit apps have to run inside of the WOW32 environment in 64 bit Windows, DLLs have to be kept separate and, at least by convention, programs live in a different directory tree. There is no such distinction in OS X. Apps run side by side. The OS knows if they are 32 or 64 bit, but there's no segregation.
One wonders
How much the author actually knows about programming. There is no need to have a 32 bit and 64 bit version of the operating system software loaded at the same time. Worst case you need a mapping layer which adds a small overhead. Just because Microsoft have traditionally made a complete mess of this doesn't mean that everyone has to. Take a look at the migration path for OS X apps. 32 bit and 64 bit apps coexist happily on the same core OS. The only part that MUST be 64 bit are device drivers.
TWO can play this 64-bit mobile game, says Samsung, crossly
Re: Why oh why
Because the instruction set is more efficient and more compiler friendly than 32 bit ARM. Even if you're only doing 32 bit things, your code recompiled in 64 bit mode should be faster.
That and ARMv8 is much better at floating point math than its predissesor, which is worth having in many 32 bit program's also.
iPhone 5S: Apple, you're BORING us to DEATH (And you too, Samsung)
Can we down vote an article please
Markets mature. You can't keep making huge improvements every year. Moores law says you can have double the number of transistors on a chip every 18 months, but says nothing about how fast or efficient they will be. Despite that Apple have managed to double performance again, on the same battery power, while adding new hardware that looks like it might actually be useful (RFID? Meh).
What else were you expecting from a phone?
For PITY'S SAKE, DON'T BUY an iPHONE 5S, begs FSF
Re: Blah blah blah -@AC 14:24
By implication fingerprint verification is done in hardware on the A7 chip. How are your VHDL/Verilog reading skills? There's no such thing as a totally open system, and even as close as we get to it there isn't anyone who understands the whole system in its entirety.