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Comment · 5 years ago
Don’t forget the detail that the app just flat out didn’t work on iOS and the governments advice was to open the app, turn off auto screen locking and leave the app running, screen on in your pocket.

Shortly after, Android and iOS released a proper API for doing this which worked in the background but the government did not use it.

Comment · 5 years ago
From what I have seen of American cars, this one is completely compliant. The horrible part about this car is that the signals are red and that they are the same light as the rear/brake lights. Which is apparently extremely common in the US.
Comment · 5 years ago
I have never had a phone charger fail on me so if we assume that it lasts 3 phones and I buy them every 3 years, that comes out to about $1.66 per year for phone chargers.

It’s not a surprise no consumer cares. The average consumer would pay an extra $100 for their phone to get it in their favourite colour. The cost of chargers doesn’t even register.

Comment · 5 years ago
My state of South Australia banned a lot of plastic last year. I don’t think even “ecoplastics” like PLA are allowed. It’s all cardboard, paper, bamboo, light wood or other odd things like sugar cane pulp.

The vast majority of the containers work just as well as the plastic ones did.

Comment · 5 years ago
The charger probably costs about $1 to the BoM. I wouldn’t expect to see any change.

But this is not the biggest thing which is that the parts of the iPhone do not determine the price. The price is already set and determines what parts go in. If something somewhere else becomes cheaper, that’s more room in the budget to spend elsewhere whether that be better hardware, hiring more software developers, higher skilled retail workers, etc.

In the end it’s up to the user to decide if what’s in the box provides enough value to justify the price. And from the sales data of the last year, that’s an astounding yes.

Comment · 5 years ago
I have never seen a lightning dock ever. Docks seemed to die after the 30 pin was discontinued. Every car I have seen now uses Bluetooth and has a usb A port for cables.
Comment · 5 years ago
The lightning connector only supports usb 2.0 so even apple binned it on the iPads now.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is likely more accurate than the OP link. My experience is that Ruby jobs are less common but that they seem to pay far more.
Comment · 5 years ago
How much of this is just the millions of Wordpress or Nextcloud installations? I’d be more interested in knowing how many unique apps or developers work on each language because in my experience I haven’t actually seen a single php developer other than Wordpress tweakers.
Comment · 5 years ago
People complain 50x more when there is no mac or Linux version. There is no realistic solution that suits everyone.
Comment · 5 years ago
And you still need them because some services only provide sms verification.
Comment · 5 years ago
The iPhones are currently at 6 years and the iPads at 7 (and counting)
Comment · 5 years ago
Given that 2012-2013 was the year of 4G. I doubt that law would relate much to 3G phones.
Comment · 5 years ago
It’s so reasonable that Apple has already reached that level. My iPad Air 2 from 2014 is on iPadOS 15 right now and it works well.

This will hit android OEMs hard if it is implemented.

Comment · 5 years ago
Tbh some of these even look better in context. I’m not sure why it even matters that every text box is pixel perfect identical rather than suitable for the environment.

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