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It would have been OK to get rid of the jack if they had made the phone compatible with Qi. But that would be using a standard they didn't make so that won't happen. Jesus Christ why doesn't a 700$ phone have the capability to wirelessly charge? Oh that's right; because Apple lol.
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Apple is literally allergic to technology standards, every single thing they use has to be their own proprietary poo poo so they can
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Sep 11, 2016 16:31
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WhyteRyce posted:I thought the Square reader used Bluetooth and the headphone jack was just a holder for the device but nope that's how it communicates with the device like it's a loving dialup modern it basically is like a dialup modem which is great because it works with literally any smartphone or tablet or your computer like even one ten years old
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Sep 11, 2016 16:32
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loquacius posted:Apple is literally allergic to technology standards, every single thing they use has to be their own proprietary poo poo so they can also allergic to paying taxes apparently remember when they testified in front of congress and said that they don't pay taxes because tax code is complicated and they believe in simplicity of design
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Sep 11, 2016 16:33
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Standard wall plug outlets are an old technology and have been around for a hundred years. I wonder if they are going to get rid of that too.
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Sep 11, 2016 16:33
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Replace you wall plugs with Lightning plugs!
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Sep 11, 2016 16:37
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corn in the bible posted:also allergic to paying taxes apparently  the most Apple thing I'm guessing this means they of course all voted for Herman Cain's simple and effective 9-9-9 tax plan
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Sep 11, 2016 16:40
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loquacius posted:
You can't raise business tax's! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!
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Sep 11, 2016 16:41
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corn in the bible posted:also allergic to paying taxes apparently There's also the recent thing in which the EU called them out for their tax inversion scheme in Ireland. Ireland is ironically trying to avoid collecting the 15 billion since it wants to stay a low tax Cayman Islands like place for multinational corporations.
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Sep 11, 2016 16:44
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loquacius posted:
I believe Tim cook actually offered a retarded threat as well regarding "jobs" being lost if they were forced to pay.
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Sep 11, 2016 17:06
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Ireland's in the awkward position of having to collect taxes from a company it doesn't want to collect taxes from
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Sep 11, 2016 17:08
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Vegetable posted:Ireland's in the awkward position of having to collect taxes from a company it doesn't want to collect taxes from the government is planning to appeal the ruling that gives Ireland $15 billion.
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Sep 11, 2016 17:13
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Eames36 posted:I believe Tim cook actually offered a retarded threat as well regarding "jobs" being lost if they were forced to pay. It would be sad to see Chinese workers out of a job.
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Sep 11, 2016 17:46
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Eames36 posted:I believe Tim cook actually offered a retarded threat as well regarding "jobs" being lost if they were forced to pay. They probably will not leave Ireland because the government will do everything in its power not to tax them.
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Sep 11, 2016 17:47
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Vegetable posted:Ireland's in the awkward position of having to collect taxes from a company it doesn't want to collect taxes from Looks like the Technocracy is off to a solid start.
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Sep 11, 2016 18:38
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2DCAT posted:Apple is okay at integration, but their actual engineering is crap. Their R&D budget is somewhere around 5%, which shows how little they value actual innovation. Most of the good tech they own is stuff that was developed but DARPA, acquired from SRI, or elsewhere. Apple makes their money from good marketing, not good engineering. Their innovation has mainly been in user interfaces. As I recall, the overall user experience on the iPhone was a legitimate improvement over most other internet-capable phones, especially for people with limited computer literacy (not to mention proving that you don't really need a physical keyboard). Just like the early Macs were, in many ways, legitimately easier to use than DOS of Windows 3.1. It's just that in both cases, their competition eventually evolved to where their advantage was greatly diminished, and they ended up coasting largely on name recognition.
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Sep 11, 2016 19:16
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Where were you fucks four months ago Moto Z doesn't have a headphone jack http://www.androidcentral.com/moto-z-doesnt-have-headphone-jack
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Sep 11, 2016 20:11
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a happy snowman posted:Where were you fucks four months ago Just lol at comparing Motorola to Apple.
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Nonsense posted:They probably will not leave Ireland because the government will do everything in its power not to tax them. Apple already announced they would pay a lot of taxes in the US next year, which means the 15 billion do have to be paid in Ireland, as apparently the ruling said if they pay taxes in another country, these are deducted from the 15 billion Ireland can get. I wonder what other countries will try to get apiece of that cake. Germany refuses to claim a share that would have to be paid here because our politicians are corrupt dick heads who cater only to corporations. Apple claims that Apple Germany only does marketing. If you buy a product in the Apple Store in Munich, you actually buy from Apple Ireland, so no taxes paid here even though the Store is physically in Germany. And that is legal, I wish I was making this up.
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Sep 11, 2016 20:20
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Mithaldu posted:It doesn't even matter what for. Extrapolating from a lack of a need on your end to a universal lack of said need is unnecessarily narrow-minded.
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Sep 11, 2016 20:52
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Germstore posted:Oh. It is kind of a borderline case. I assume the existing devices physically block the charging port. They dont and it's not a borderlone case because the ipads are often used to replace pos terminals
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Sep 11, 2016 21:03
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What even is better about the iPhone 7 anyway, like aren't phones good enough for their intended purpose at this point. Why even bother getting the iPhone 7 if it takes away a useful feature and just stick with the iPhone 6?
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Sep 11, 2016 21:04
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etalian posted:the government is planning to appeal the ruling that gives Ireland $15 billion. Isn't that how usually these things work? It seems intuitively the bigger the sums and players involved, the less likely it's ever going to actually be enforced?
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Sep 11, 2016 21:04
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Justin Tyme posted:What even is better about the iPhone 7 anyway, like aren't phones good enough for their intended purpose at this point. Why even bother getting the iPhone 7 if it takes away a useful feature and just stick with the iPhone 6? Or just not buy the new iPhone? Because the battery will age and be a pita to replace and also they're going to stop making os updates for it so you won't be able to run new software
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Justin Tyme posted:What even is better about the iPhone 7 anyway, like aren't phones good enough for their intended purpose at this point. Why even bother getting the iPhone 7 if it takes away a useful feature and just stick with the iPhone 6? I might get it because of the awesome camera and waterproofing, and also being faster. I also already have bluetooth headphones.
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Sep 11, 2016 22:00
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ratbert90 posted:Just lol at comparing Motorola to Apple. Apparently cause it was a piece of poo poo anyway and no one wanted it. Oh boy a 2mm thinner phone just the thing I haven't been asking for.
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Sep 11, 2016 22:03
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a happy snowman posted:I might get it because of the awesome camera and waterproofing, and also being faster. Oh yeah I forgot about the camera, that seems like a nice feature. Waterproofing doesn't warrant the price tag for me though, I have never in my life killed a phone via submersion.
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Sep 11, 2016 22:58
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notZaar posted:It's pretty clever, it means you don't need a battery in it and it will never get pushed off by drunk people swiping. It's really pretty neat- the thing generates an audio signal that the app reads through the Mic sorta channel on the phone. If you run an audio monitoring program on the phone and just stick the Square reader in there and swipe something with a mag strip you'll see the raw output. First one was literally a magstrip reader hooked up directly to the right points on the TRRS plug and like one resistor and later they added a PCB and an IC chip to do some sorta rudimentary encryption on the signal. I wonder if they'll still work with the Lightning connector adapter... if it has a Mic In thing built into it I don't see why not as all the Square app requires seems to be an audio signal.
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Just lol if you own a 650$ premium "most advanced smartphone in the world" and it doesn't even include wireless charging.
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Sep 11, 2016 23:27
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wireless charging is dead because it adds .2 mm of z-depth. true story.
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Germstore posted:wireless charging is dead because it adds .2 mm of z-depth. true story. drat you copper coils!  Don't worry, when Apple finally makes a iPhone with wireless charging it will be a proprietary format that charges .5% faster and Apple will call it revolutionary.
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Sep 11, 2016 23:37
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Germstore posted:wireless charging is dead because it adds .2 mm of z-depth. true story. I've literally never in my life held a phone and said "wow this is way too thick, I sure wish they shaved off ports, wireless charging, and battery life to make it thinner" but here we are. The last phone that they really knocked it out of the park with battery life was the RAZR MAXX HD with its 3300mah battery and that was 5 loving years ago lol. I used to get 3 days of battery on that thing. Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Sep 11, 2016 |
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I've literally never in my life held a phone and said "wow this is way too thick, I sure wish they shaved off ports, wireless charging, and battery life to make it thinner" but here we are. Yeah, I want a company to go "You know what? gently caress making it slimmer, we made it 1mm thicker and gave you a crazy amount of battery life." I had to put a case on my Note5 because it was too thin.
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ratbert90 posted:Yeah, I want a company to go "You know what? gently caress making it slimmer, we made it 1mm thicker and gave you a crazy amount of battery life."  Also the fact that this is an actual Apple accessory is so loving funny; Steve Jobs would have decapitated whoever created this on live TV: 
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Sep 11, 2016 23:47
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ratbert90 posted:Yeah, I want a company to go "You know what? gently caress making it slimmer, we made it 1mm thicker and gave you a crazy amount of battery life." On like any phone with a removable battery you can get kits to extend it yourself and put a bigger battery in there, it's great Yeah I loved the MAXX series of phone from Motorola
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Sep 11, 2016 23:53
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i bet steve jobs would have come up with another cool device by now, and instead since he died we've just got a bunch of dudes continually loving around with no rhyme or reason and also the apple watch
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Sep 11, 2016 23:58
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Durzel posted:Surely the whole appeal thing is going to be spun out indefinitely until everyone involved in the original sentence (?) has died, or it fades from the public consciousness and just quietly disappears? Yes it basically allows Ireland to run out the clock, at least being a tax haven for a few more years while the appeals process goes through in the EU judical system.
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ratbert90 posted:Yeah, I want a company to go "You know what? gently caress making it slimmer, we made it 1mm thicker and gave you a crazy amount of battery life." The big joke is that we're nearing the end of Moore's Law, where the number of transistors you can fit on a semiconductor chip doubles every 18 months, you can only get so much out of that. It's feature width, the size of an single transistor, has slowed from 22nm in 2012 to 14nm and is believed to be at the 10nm level by 2017. Eventually, Moore's law is going to bottleneck and, suddenly, bigger is better because that CPU isn't going to shrink 2-3 years. I think the next big thing is really going to be flexible OLED, which may be hitting the market as early as next year. A lot of product demos have been made, but I'm guessing that getting that stuff down to a mass-production level is hard.
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