A new advancement could make VR lenses thinner, whether Apple should buy Netflix and what we think of Apple’s battery replacement program. Oh and DTNS has been around for four years now, officially.
With Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Roger Chang and Patrick Beja.
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- News You Should Know
- (01:05) Google’s experimental Fuchsia OS can now run on the Pixelbook | ArsTechnica
- (01:25) Alibaba’s UC browser beating Google Chrome in Indian mobile market | Marketing Land
- (01:50) Intel’s chip with AMD will use Radeon Vega graphics cores | PC World
- More Top Stories
- (02:40) YouTube star Logan Paul apologises for film of man’s body in Japan | The Guardian
- (06:35) There is a 40% chance Apple will acquire Netflix, according to Citi | Business Insider
- (09:20) Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager | The Verge
- (12:10) LG shows off the world’s first 88-inch 8K OLED display | engadget
- (14:45) New Metalens Technology May Revolutionize VR And AR | ValueWalk
- Discussion (17:20)
- A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance | Apple
- Your old iPhone battery can be replaced even if it passes Genius Bar test | Ars Technica
- How to Find Out if Your iPhone Is Eligible for Apple’s $29 Battery Replacement | Fortune
- Apple will replace your iPhone battery even if it passes tests | engadget
- Days after iPhone battery fiasco, lawsuits against Apple begin to mount | Ars Technica
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- Today’s Contributor
Hi Tom and the rest of DTNS gang,
I just watched today’s episode and I think you, Patrick and Sarah are letting Apple off too lightly when it comes to slowing down their phones. Besides the transparency issue which I agree with you guys their is another issue you hadn’t addressed and that is why are they having the crashes in the first place. I know Apple says it’s due to the old batteries, not been able to provide the necessary power… but is that true ? All the other major smartphone competitors claim that they do not slow their phones and presumably their batteries are degrading with age as well. So why don’t they feel need to throttle their phones ? Now this is just speculation on my part, but perhaps their is flaw in Apple iPhones , software, or processor… that they are not able to compensate for when the battery capacity is reduced and instead of recalling their product they throttled the phone to make the issue “go away”…
I don’t think we are getting the whole story, just my two cents.
Richard
It would be a fair point if the idea of CPU spikes causing battery failure could be shown to be unreasonable. But most of the articles I’ve read on it don’t question the underlying reason. I know plenty of older non-iOS phones that suffer from restarts. It’s a fair question why Apple decided to address it and Android hasn’t.