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If there's anything I'm worried about it's not the supply chain, that's Tim Cook's speciality. We had similar stories about jet black iPhone 7's last year. Ther

by dep_b 9y ago

If there's anything I'm worried about it's not the supply chain, that's Tim Cook's speciality. We had similar stories about jet black iPhone 7's last year. There's always something. But please get iOS 11 back to iOS 10 in terms of battery performance because I'm afraid the .1 release this year is not even the one you should go for if you're conservative with upgrades. We don't need a yearly release anymore, we need solid upgrades for both macOS and the mobile OS's. Just release when it's ready.

rwc 9y ago
And AirPods, which continue to be limited supply.
- toasterlovin 9y ago
  FYI, they’re almost caught up with the backlog. Shipping times are down to less than a week.
- briandear 9y ago
  Really? Just bought some in at the Covent Garden Apple Store London on Saturday. Saw plenty at the Palo Alto Apple store yesterday. Two weeks ago, at the Aix-en-Provence Apple store, saw plenty there as well. Who wants Air Pods and can’t get them? I decided to buy mine and they are amazing.
  - boulos 9y ago
    You seem to have embarked on a world-wide tour of Apple retail stores... What keeps bringing you in?
    - JorgeGT 9y ago
      Maybe power adapters? France, UK and the US have different sockets.
    - jsjohnst 9y ago
      Not OP, but I generally stop into one if I pass a new one, especially while traveling. It’s a great place to get free high speed wifi for example.
    - tedunangst 9y ago
      The store is almost always in a high traffic neighborhood you're likely to visit. If walking by, why not walk in? They're usually interesting from an architectural design perspective, at least compared to the Hollister store next door.
jvzr 9y ago
The latest beta is pretty good re. battery life. Maybe not 10.3 level (have been running the beta since WWDC so I don't remember). Anecdotal data from Reddit support my assertion. And I say that while I had a pretty bad time with previous betas…
IBM 9y ago
This isn't new, every year there's complaints about battery life or other bugs that get fixed in the 0.0.x updates. The 0.1 update basically knocks out anything else. It also doesn't matter if "we" don't need yearly releases (and I don't agree with the premise at all). The product needs them and therefore Apple needs them. If they're planning on releasing a new iPhone every year (they are) then there needs to be an accompanying OS release to make use of whatever the hardware features are. It also needs to be for all their platforms because so much of it uses shared technologies.
- dep_b 9y ago
  What is new that is after running all of the betas on my iPad battery usage was still poor on the release version. While iOS 10 only drained my battery for a while in the first few days when it was indexing.

by dep_b 9y ago

rwc 9y ago

And AirPods, which continue to be limited supply.

toasterlovin 9y ago
FYI, they’re almost caught up with the backlog. Shipping times are down to less than a week.
briandear 9y ago
Really? Just bought some in at the Covent Garden Apple Store London on Saturday. Saw plenty at the Palo Alto Apple store yesterday. Two weeks ago, at the Aix-en-Provence Apple store, saw plenty there as well. Who wants Air Pods and can’t get them? I decided to buy mine and they are amazing.
- boulos 9y ago
  You seem to have embarked on a world-wide tour of Apple retail stores... What keeps bringing you in?
  - JorgeGT 9y ago
    Maybe power adapters? France, UK and the US have different sockets.
  - jsjohnst 9y ago
    Not OP, but I generally stop into one if I pass a new one, especially while traveling. It’s a great place to get free high speed wifi for example.
  - tedunangst 9y ago
    The store is almost always in a high traffic neighborhood you're likely to visit. If walking by, why not walk in? They're usually interesting from an architectural design perspective, at least compared to the Hollister store next door.

jvzr 9y ago

The latest beta is pretty good re. battery life. Maybe not 10.3 level (have been running the beta since WWDC so I don't remember). Anecdotal data from Reddit support my assertion. And I say that while I had a pretty bad time with previous betas…

IBM 9y ago

This isn't new, every year there's complaints about battery life or other bugs that get fixed in the 0.0.x updates. The 0.1 update basically knocks out anything else. It also doesn't matter if "we" don't need yearly releases (and I don't agree with the premise at all). The product needs them and therefore Apple needs them. If they're planning on releasing a new iPhone every year (they are) then there needs to be an accompanying OS release to make use of whatever the hardware features are. It also needs to be for all their platforms because so much of it uses shared technologies.

dep_b 9y ago
What is new that is after running all of the betas on my iPad battery usage was still poor on the release version. While iOS 10 only drained my battery for a while in the first few days when it was indexing.