Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by saagarjha on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:10PM (#20830775)

iPhone 7+ is a pretty capable phone.

- Sent from my iPhone SE

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Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by r00fus on Thursday August 29, 2019 @12:49PM (#20831232)

I dunno, I used to log several hundred hours of calls alone in a month on my iPhone (for work mainly) but now it's a lot less. I'm not thrilled about FaceID.

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Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by kshacker on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:53PM (#20832974)

So you cut down your phone use because of FaceID? Did your needs change or did you start using a second device or something?

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Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by dzhiurgis on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:42PM (#20832894)

Current iPhones are on par with 2018 MacBooks and shreds quad-core i7 2017 MacBooks. It's mind blowing.

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Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by michaelmrose on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:02PM (#20833059)

Citation needed. Laptops can have faster storage and much higher thermal and battery budgets especially when plugged in.

I expect you are going to cite something that shows an artificial benchmark run for 3 seconds.

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Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by dzhiurgis on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:40AM (#20836014)

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/56

https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/search?dir=desc&q=macbo...

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Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by michaelmrose on Friday August 30, 2019 @12:58AM (#20836065)

It's an artificial benchmark running for a short duration. The fact that it boils a complex topic down to a singular number should be your first indication that its nonsense.

I think Geekbench is what Tiobe is to programming language rankings or Fox news is to objective news coverage.

If you can't run the same tasks on the same OS you probably can't objectively compare them in a meaningful way. Lack of good data however doesn't excuse using bad data. After absorbing bad data you actually know less than when you started because you think you have objective analysis.

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Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by dzhiurgis on Friday August 30, 2019 @10:03AM (#20838678)

I've witnessed that myself by running Octane JS benchmark. I think that's pretty good indicator for most smartphone applications.

I agree, storage speed is probably appalling - you still can't sync your iPhone over USB 3.0 - takes half a day to do so after a vacation...

Even after that you can't deny transistor count and numbers we have. If you have better ones - do present them.

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Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by michaelmrose on Friday August 30, 2019 @02:09PM (#20841017)

Not having good numbers doesn't suggest we ought to accept bad ones. If you have nothing to eat you don't eat right then you don't eat dirt.

We aren't discussing smartphone applications. The topic of discussion was whether current generation iphones are on par with 2018 Macbooks. I think the practical answer is that the cpu on the phone is inherently limited by battery/heat/storage speed in actual usage. If the poster had simply said "felt as snappy as" it would be hard to disagree with a subjective feeling. I don't think their objective analysis is as defensible.

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Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by Fnoord on Friday August 30, 2019 @10:25AM (#20838903)

> It's an artificial benchmark running for a short duration.

While I don't disagree with your point, we should realize both iPhone and MBP do throttling.

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Re:Apple expands parts access to more independent repair bus... by whatusername on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:43PM (#20835564)

in what operations? I'm not compiling code or rendering 4K on my phone.

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