U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani

Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by comex on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:21PM (#17324128)

Here’s one example. Apparently RIM’s employees collectively thought it was impossible (to achieve the stated battery life); I think they count as experts:

> RIM had a complete internal panic when Apple unveiled the iPhone in 2007, a former employee revealed this weekend. The BlackBerry maker is now known to have held multiple all-hands meetings on January 10 that year, a day after the iPhone was on stage, and to have made outlandish claims about its features. Apple was effectively accused of lying as it was supposedly impossible that a device could have such a large touchscreen but still get a usable lifespan away from a power outlet.

http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/12/27/rim.thought.apple.was...

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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by oldgradstudent on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:25PM (#17324172)

I had the first iPhone. Let me just say that the official battery life was somewhat aspirational.

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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by teraflop on Friday June 15, 2018 @06:55PM (#17324408)

The comments summarized in that article seem to no longer be available, but I have a hard time believing the summary is accurate. When the iPhone was released, there were already PDAs on the market with screens the same size or bigger.

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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by URSpider94 on Friday June 15, 2018 @07:37PM (#17324693)

The devices at the time with larger screens were larger, heavier devices that had shorter battery life. Nobody made a pocketable device with a screen that size.

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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by megablast on Saturday June 16, 2018 @05:34AM (#17326732)

I had an iPaq at the time, had maybe 4 hours battery life, and that was with wifi used sparingly. No 2g or 3g was possible. Slow processor. Crappy screen.

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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by ceejayoz on Friday June 15, 2018 @08:21PM (#17324902)

PDAs that could run a processor powerful enough for actual desktop-quality Webkit, a cellular radio, etc.?

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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by MBCook on Friday June 15, 2018 @10:01PM (#17325357)

That was exactly the anecdote I was thinking of.

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Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth ... by sjg007 on Friday June 15, 2018 @11:42PM (#17325699)

It's all in the power saving software.

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