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Presumably you get some kind of bulk discount if you're storing 100PB.

iPhone 6 here. Have experienced exactly this issue since upgrading to iOS 10 (and 10.1)

The battery will drain extremely fast (typically lasts about half a day, with light usage), and will randomly and suddenly die when reporting 20, 30, or even 50 percent remaining.

The unpredictability of when the phone will completely die makes this problem particularly frustrating.

Connecting a charger cable results in it immediately reporting 20/30/50 percent battery again.

Have already had a Genius bar appointment to resolve. The 'Geniuses' ran the usual battery diagnostics, and said the battery was close to their 80% threshold, but were adamant a full restore would resolve the issue. They were rude and dismissive, and point-blank refused to replace the battery, or handset.

I did a software restore, and lo and behold, still have the issue.

What frustrates me the most is that Apple never admits a mistake.

I'm never going to buy an iPhone without a headphone jack, but reinstating the jack on a future model would be admitting they made a mistake with the iPhone 7.

Likewise, with the new MacBook Pros, they are not going to release an update in a year's time that doesn't sacrifice ports and performance and battery life for size and weight, because doing so would be admitting a mistake. Nor are they going to dramatically cut the prices, such that they are actually affordable for someone, because doing so would be admitting a mistake.

[...] a new set of elections to be held allowing those who are now more cognizant of the terrible decision they allowed emotionally charged rhetoric to goad them in to making to show they've changed their minds.

Amusingly, it's primarily the Remain camp's predictions of total economic catastrophe that have proven false.

One might even describe it as "emotionally charged rhetoric"

Any word yet on whether it still has Mini Toslink support?

I'm no sound engineer, but intuitively the design of the AirPods slightly exacerbates noise cancellation issues by:

a) Placing the microphone further from a person's mouth, or at least, removing the option for people to hold a wired microphone close to their mouth;

b) Significantly reducing the distance between microphone and speaker.

There's no need to be obtuse.

The advanced noise cancelling, pairing, and synchronization tech are solutions to problems that don't exist (or are less pronounced, in the foremost case) with wired headphones.

You don't see any merit to beam-forming microphones for noise cancellation, seamless paring experience, Siri access, other-earphone awareness, or lack of tangled wires

I honestly cannot. They're impressive solutions to problems Apple have created for themselves.

Personally, I don't use the built-in microphones in headphones. If I'm speaking to someone, I either hold the phone to my ear, or use speaker phone.

Taking two seconds to plug my wired headphones into my device is a pretty "seamless pairing experience", and I can use them with whatever device I please, unlike the AirPods.

My wired headphones don't need to be "aware" of each other, because they are connected to each other.

I spend about ten seconds each day ensuring my headphone cable isn't tangled.

You don't remember how iconic the white earbuds have been as a status symbol?

Where I'm from, white earbuds have only ever been: a) an invitation to thieves looking to steal the device they're connected to; b) a sign that someone doesn't care about audio quality.

[...] that takes a total disconnection from headphones as a category of device, and I'm not willing to believe that's true.

On the contrary, I think the problem is that I would actually consider a headphone purchase, rather than blindly buying something like the AirPods.

It's not for lack of effort.

I've racked my brains and I simply cannot understand why anyone would prefer these to existing wired or wireless headphones.

I also prefer in-ear headphones when out and about, so would compare the AirPods to something like the Klipsch S4i [1]

Compared to the Klipsch earphones, the AirPods:

1) Are more than twice as expensive ($159 vs. $69)

2) Have significantly worse sound quality

3) Look ugly as sin; wired earphones like the Klipsch ones look just fine, and come in colors other than white

4) Require regular charging (only 5 hours of listening time); wired earphones require no charging at all

5) Are considerably easier to lose or misplace (either one or both)

6) Will have a finite life, as the battery wears out; standard wired earphones will last forever if you look after them

7) Are only compatible with current generation Apple devices; standard wired earphones have universal compatibility

8) Will likely be depreciated within a couple of generations of Apple products; wired earphones will endure

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00264GYMG/

Hopefully the delay is a chance for the product designers to go back to the drawing board.

I simply cannot fathom why anyone would want to own a pair.

Is anyone else getting serious connector fatigue?

For so long, USB 2.0 with a Type-A connector was the standard. You saw Type-B connectors on printer cables, but the other end always had the reassuring Type-A connector.

Then along came USB 3.0, and USB 3.1, which have the same receptacle as 2.0, but aren't necessarily interchangeable. USB 3.x adoption is still lacklustre, so you now have a bunch of devices with different versions, and new systems come with a mixture of 2.0 and 3.0 ports. Why? Isn't 3.0 backwards compatible, and better?

Now we have USB Type-C, which doesn't bear any resemblance to anything which came before.

USB Type-C makes sense because it's smaller, but we already have a mind-boggling array of smaller USB connectors for mobile devices, like USB Mini-A and Mini-B (What's the difference? Did they elope to create Mini-AB?). Then Micro-A and Micro-B, which sound a lot like the Mini variants, but aren't. What the hell is Micro-B SuperSpeed, and why is it actually two ports?

While all this has been going on, three versions of Thunderbolt have emerged. Thunderbolt v1 and v2 inexplicably use a Mini DisplayPort connector. Thunderbolt v3 uses a USB Type-C connector, but isn't the same as USB Type-C. Or is it?

Meanwhile, the general population are still furious that Lightning came along and rendered half their iPod/iPhone/iPad accessories redundant.

I wouldn't mind Apple dropping USB Type-A ports in favor of Type-C for the new MacBook Pro, but I'd like some kind of reassurance that USB Type-C is going to last more than a couple of years...

Unless you're using private NZB sites with encrypted/obfuscated files, usenet is nowhere near as good as it used to be.

Even then, private torrent trackers are better for choice.

The average age of cars on the road in the US is something like 11 years [0]

Even if CarPlay/Android Auto last more than five years, I expect new versions will come out which render old vehicles incompatible.

[0] http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ihs-average-c...

If you're referring to topsites, they are archaic, their rules are outdated, and they optimize for speed over quality of releases.

In terms of breadth and quality of content, private torrent trackers are far and away the best download method.

As per the iPhone 7, removing the 3.5mm port would free up a fair amount of internal space, which could be used for other purposes, and ultimately contribute to making the laptop thinner.

Obviously if you are buying items from the iTunes Store, or using Apple Music, they are tracking those transactions and your listening habits.

If you are listening to your own music locally, iTunes does not phone home on your usage.

The 3.5mm port on the MacBook Pro is not just for headphones.

It doubles as an S/PDIF connector for outputting digital optical audio, so can be used to feed external DACs or other audio equipment with lossless audio.

I don't want to have to carry around a bag full of adapters for my laptop to be useful, just for the sake of making the machine a couple of millimetres thinner.

My use case is similar, and I'm bullish on USB-C improving this mess.

At your desk, you just need a dock. Everything you currently connect to your laptop can be connected to that dock, and the cables hidden away, then all you need to connect to your laptop is a single USB cable.

Away from your desk, why is the dongle for your keyboard and mouse a concern? Most dongles are tiny, and can be left plugged in permanently.

Optical just feels like a cleaner interface. USB requires drivers, and introduces timing and electrical interference issues.

USB also feels like overkill for an audio interface. It allows transfer of data in both directions, and introduces security risks if you don't fully trust the DAC you are connecting to, or worse still if the DAC is connected to a network/the Internet.

I'm not suggesting for a moment there is any audible difference between the two, but optical audio has always struck me as a 'cleaner' way to output digital audio.

I would be extremely annoyed if it were removed from the MacBook Pro.

The only reason they won't have cancelled the service is because they haven't done proper customer profitability analysis.

There is absolutely no way a customer running a Tor exit node with ~50Mbps traffic 24/7 on a €4,90pm server is sustainable.

That sounds like a horrible relationship, and is certainly not the norm in many cities.

As a property owner, you should not have to request (by means of a "Post No Bills" message or other) that other people don't interfere with your property.

Fusion covered this story in depth four months ago:

[1] http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansa...

[2] http://fusion.net/story/290772/ip-mapping-maxmind-new-us-def...

This assumes users of the data don't then report the location, and ignore the precision estimate.

If your argument is that it takes a lot of resources to apprehend and convict someone, only to send them away for a mere four years, by far the largest cost in all of this is that of keeping them in jail.

It costs around £40k/year to keep someone in jail, not including the opportunity cost of lost productivity.

Will the prospect of an eight year prison sentence make someone less likely to commit the original offence(s) than a four year sentence? Probably not.

Will it reduce the risk of reoffending once they are released? It will probably have the opposite effect.

It's the difference between copyright infringement for commercial gain, and for non-commercial, personal use.

I doubt many torrent site operators make much money from their operations, and if they do make a profit now, the level of risk (and prospect of bankrupting legal actions in the future) probably don't make it worth it.

The list of regulations that affect startups, especially in the web/software space is rather small. The impact of regulation on the startup scene in Europe is almost zero.

Complete and utter nonsense.

If you're planning on establishing a start-up in the UK/Europe, and you believe this to be the case, you need a lawyer to give you a reality check sharpish.

Privacy?

His party has only 1 single seat.

Number of seats in Parliament is a poor measure of influence. UKIP has had a major impact on British politics, particularly at the last General Election.

So much so that the EU Referendum was called, and indeed, a majority voted to fulfil the central purpose of UKIP.

To his credit, he has been an MEP for seventeen years.