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Old 11-19-2018, 09:38 AM
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If your phone doesn't update the time to the new time zone put it in airplane mode then take it out of airplane mode. That works for me every time.
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Old 11-19-2018, 03:48 PM
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Apple, Google, Samsung, you name it. They're all engineered to fail and we're all nitwits for ever believing otherwise. They want you to stick with the two year upgrade cycle, even though it's not as necessary as it was, say five to seven years ago. A massive class action lawsuit would straighten them out, but it'll probably never happen.
That's a difficult argument to make when the current price for an Apple-authorized battery replacement is $29. It was $80. About a month before Apple instituted the $29 program, I had my battery replaced at the higher price. They sent me a refund for the difference six months later. I didn't ask for it. They just did it. Out of the blue one day, a check with a letter explaining what it was for showed up in the mail.
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Old 11-19-2018, 04:23 PM
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Not to mention that Apple got busted programming their phones to intentionally degrade performance after a certain period of time.
Technically true, this being APC where we play fast and loose with the facts when we wish to complain about something. However...

Apple programmed the iPhone to reduce performance when the battery reaches the end of its design life in order to prevent unexpected shutdowns. Before they did that, your battery indicator might read somewhere around 20% or more, but the phone could shut down while performing some processor-intensive task because the battery was unable to maintain required voltage in that condition under that load. This, obviously, leads to very unhappy phone users, whose belief that a 20% charged battery should last them at least a few more hours is not entirely unreasonable. So now, when your battery gets old, the phone slows down a little bit when it's working harder, ensuring that it stays powered on at lower battery charge levels, extending the useful life of the phone and its battery beyond the two years or so that it takes to run the battery to its charge cycle limit. If you don't want to upgrade, replace the battery, and you're back to full speed.

Under the current version of iOS (and might be one version previous to the current version), the performance degradation function kicks in (if I remember correctly from my recent experience with it) after the first unexpected shutdown, and not until then. You will receive an alert telling you that it has turned that function on. You have the option of inhibiting that behavior, maintaining full speed at the risk of experiencing unexpected shutdowns.
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Old 11-24-2018, 07:53 AM
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Wow,....this thread sure got derailed
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Old 11-24-2018, 11:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Reactivity View Post
That's a difficult argument to make when the current price for an Apple-authorized battery replacement is $29. It was $80. About a month before Apple instituted the $29 program, I had my battery replaced at the higher price. They sent me a refund for the difference six months later. I didn't ask for it. They just did it. Out of the blue one day, a check with a letter explaining what it was for showed up in the mail.
Lol. It wasn't out of the goodness of their heart. The lower price is because they got caught throttling older phones.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/...w-down-apology

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Old 11-24-2018, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by lowflying View Post
Lol. It wasn't out of the goodness of their heart. The lower price is because they got caught throttling older phones.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/28/...w-down-apology
...which they explained is intended to increase reliability of older phones with weak batteries, and can be remedied by replacing the battery. You'd think people would appreciate that their phones won't suddenly shut down, but "Apple Intentionally Slows Down Older Phones" makes better headlines without the explanation.

And I don't care why they offer the cheap replacement price. All I care is that they do. Even at $80, it was a better deal than paying 10 times that to replace the phone after two years.

And to get this thread on track: If you must interact with your female coworkers at any time in any way, wear a body cam. Better safe than sorry.
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Old 11-25-2018, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Reactivity View Post
And to get this thread on track: If you must interact with your female coworkers at any time in any way, wear a body cam. Better safe than sorry.
A bodycam? 😲
Isn't that taking it a bit too far?
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Old 11-25-2018, 11:29 AM
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The buddy system works.
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Old 11-25-2018, 11:32 AM
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The buddy system works.
A threesome?
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Old 11-25-2018, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog View Post
A threesome?
I had one last night.

There were a couple of no-shows, but I made do.
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