PeterBocan

Apple went rotten after Steve Jobs’ death, former engineer claims Apple turned against customers and its own employees after the death of co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs, a fired Apple engineer claims in a lawsuit. Source: https://www.siliconvalley.com/2018/09/27/apple-went-rotten-after-steve-jobs-death-former-engineer-claims/ Law-suit: https://www.scribd.com/document/389672362/Darren-Eastman-vs-Apple [ If this story is true, it may reveal that the first trillion dollar company practices and low quality of the products and bad design decisions Apple made ever since 2011. Everything from BendGate onwards, to headphone jack decision, dongle decision, etc. ]

@GoodBytes yes, and I dont dispute that but salaries in Europe are completely different than in the US. So, getting 200-300$+ bump in a price is quite a decisive point to go with the last gen iPhone X or go full Android. @huilun02 and I have iPhone SE and I am completely fine with it. No worries there, but the phones are getting more and more pricey, thinking I may switch to Samsung.

Compared to previous year's flagship iPhone X 64GB was sold for 1215$ in the Czech Republic, and 1440$ for 256 GB version, VAT included. So we are talking about 200+ $ jump. Anyhow, this pricing policy is making Apple products unreachable for the people.

yes, that's true, but when USD-EUR had a better conversion rate, but Apple set it that 1 USD was 1 EUR even if the rate was 1 USD for 0.7 EUR. I am not buying it anyways, but just pondering about the ridiculousness of the price.

Hello guys, I want to point out that Apple has changed it's pricing policy and it got A LOT pricier for people outside of the USA. I have no idea why, whether it's the tariffs between the USA and China, or the Apple's tax evasion from the EU bureaucrats, but Apple iPhones got about 25-35% bump in already pricey iPhones, on top of the very thick Apple margin. I am based in the Czech Republic, so the conversion rate for CZK for 1 USD is around 22 CZK. So here is the comparison of newly released iPhones, (Czech prices are in the brackets, after the conversion): Apple iPhone XR pricing is $749 ($1013) for 64GB, $799 ($1080) for 128 GB, and $899 ($1215) for 256 GB Apple iPhone Xs pricing is $999 ($1350) for 64GB, $1149 ($1553) for 256 GB, and $1349 ( $1823) for 512 GB Apple iPhone Xs Max pricing is $1099 ($1485) for 64GB, $1249 ($1688) for 256 GB, and $1449 ($1958) for 512 GB Yes, you see it correctly, Apple sells the biggest and the largest phone for almost $2k USD in the Czech Republic - at this point it should have had a contact list of billionaires built in. Apple's little addendum at the end of the page says in Czech, that the price includes 21 % VAT (Czech Republic), doesn't include the price of delivery (???) and because Apple Distribution International is based in Ireland, the software download tax which are taxed as services (seems like an Ireland's tax) is 23 %. Just for comparison, the biggest and largest Samsung S9 are sold in the Czech Republic for 990$ for 64GB, 1125$ for 256 GB and Samsung S9+ for 1125$ for 64 GB and 1215$ for 256 GB (with VAT included). I do wonder, did it change in your respective country? Is it only the EU thing?

This is why LTT sucks a little. If there's a deep problem with the software/hardware they are not capable of getting into it like a chad, plugging a phone in a debug mode and record the performance. I know, swapping $10k worth of processors is fun and easy, but not everything is in life... https://elinux.org/images/8/83/Finding_performance_and_power_issues_on_android_systems--eric_moore.pdf https://developer.android.com/studio/profile/battery-historian

Can I mix death metal with trash metal?

Back in the day of IE6-IE8 (and maybe IE9?), there was no access from JavaScript to any kind of Cryptographic APIs. This looks like a typical, but sacrilegious implementation of MD5 hashing algorithm in JavaScript. It's uncommon these days to see such a code, as it is very hazardous to implement, or even try to implement hashing algorithm on your own.

It's not a fix. It's a mitigation. If it was a fix the processor would work at 4.8 GHz during the rendering time.

Nope. Their specific programs like package managers are different but all of them have man pages.

This guy is salty. Extremely salty.

It's not a fix, it's a mitigation.

A bit of Louis won't hurt...

Right? Also Macbook users can forget about turboboost towards 4 GHz. They just choked a voltage a bit and that's it.

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Huh. It is better, they basically turned the i9 into i7 because it can not boost over Base Clock at heavy usage. Congratulations.

You are right.

ZSH for life. Bash is miles ahead of CMD, but ZSH is just Creme de la Creme! EDIT: I wonder whether they come up with better scripting language than that nightmare.

We should call the section "Hammer time!"

Dude, the only thing they can do is undervolt and limit the voltage. The heatsinks and VRMs will not miraculously appear in your notebook, even though for that price, that would be impressive.

Yeah, we've seen the benchmarks already. Pretty shit.

Consumerism. They don't need it, but they have to have it. It doesn't matter that it costs the same as trip to Europe, they have to have it, because they feel obsolete.

You can never fix hardware issue with software update. You can only mitigate the stupid design. It's like trying to fix missing leg with, I don't know, VR headset. It's only a mitigation, not a fix.