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Comment Re:Just one question... (Score 3, Interesting) 216

by sexconker (#47929957) Attached to: iOS 8 Review

I have an iPhone 6 on order, and I plan to use it either way, but I couldn't find the answer to this in the article: Can I use a playlist for an alarm, or can alarm apps work correctly in the background? Since the built-in alarm app only plays one song, you had to use another app if you wanted to wake up to a random song off a playlist. iOS 7 and older versions required that app to be in the foreground for it to play the song. Normally not a big deal, but if you answered a text message in the middle of the night or couldn't sleep and did a little websurfing and forgot to switch back to the alarm app, your alarm wouldn't go off. This isn't an issue with Android, and I'm hoping Apple has fixed this serious limitation - either by allowing the alarm app to use a playlist, or by allowing 3rd party apps to play a song without being in the foreground. It's my biggest pet peeve about iOS, especially after having an Android phone without this limit for the last two years. (If you read reviews in the App Store for alarm apps, most or all of them have people complaining about the app having to be in the foreground - they don't realize it's a limit of iOS rather than a limit of the app. So, I know it's not just me that's annoyed by this.)

The alarm only works if it's the foreground app? Holy fucking shit LOL!

Comment Re:no wonder apple dropped 16GB machines (Score 5, Insightful) 216

by sexconker (#47929809) Attached to: iOS 8 Review

That drive me up the wall. Why have an entry level phone? the manufacturing costs between 16 and 64 is tiny. Why support some many phone types? just make 1 64GB phone.

And I ask the in earnest. What data support the cost of different lines vs/ the cost of all of them being 64GB?

16 GB is there BECAUSE it's a bad choice.
32 GB is NOT there BECAUSE it's a good choice.

People will see the lower price of the 16 GB version and use that price to decide if they want an iPhone 6.
Then when they're getting ready to buy they'll hear / worry that 16 GB isn't enough, so they'll shell out the ridiculous up-charge for the 64 GB model.
The true zealots will buy the 128 GB model despite not needing that much storage.

The cost of maintaining 3 different lines is minimal. The extra income gained by stratifying the models like this is huge.

Comment Re: Lifetime at 16nm? (Score 1) 66

by sexconker (#47929531) Attached to: Micron Releases 16nm-Process SSDs With Dynamic Flash Programming

All of those questions are about the controller and it's wear levelling software, not the flash chips.
In regards to your questions about security, the specific number of times a cell can be erased is irrelevant, only that wear level takes place and physical data is moved around to different locations and not immediately (or potentially, ever) erased from the old location.

In theory, you should just need to delete the encryption key, because the controller encrypts all the data on the flash chips 256bit AES encryption. Again, that's entirely in the controller software.

If you don't know the details of what your controller is doing, how can you be sure that a full format (including 0 fill) is actually hitting all the data? If your drive has more storage than it presents, your format utility has no way of actually overwriting data. If you grab a utility from the vendor and it doesn't explicitly spell out what it's doing, how do you know? If something dies, what's the best way to copy as much data off the device as possible in an attempt to recover? How do you tell the controller to dump all data, including shit sitting in the spare areas? Can you even tell the controller to do this? Is the controller really encrypting all data? Where is the key located? How do I set or clear the key? How do I enable/disable the encryption?

All of this matters, and no one will fucking tell you how the controller actually does shit.
Your answer is to just trust the controller. That's retarded. My answer is to distrust the controller, encrypt, and backup until they fucking tell me exactly what they're doing. That's a much safer approach, and it's device/revision/firmware agnostic.

Comment Re:The larger question: (Score 1) 610

by sexconker (#47929437) Attached to: Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices

No they don't compete in the market as a whole. People who buy $50 phones aren't going to buy $600 phones and people who buy $600 phones aren't going to buy $50 phones. They aren't the same customer base. For all practical purposes they are different products.

People who buy $12 jeans aren't going to buy $150 jeans.
What happens every time a Walmart opens within 10 miles of fancy boutiques?

Comment Re: Lifetime at 16nm? (Score 1) 66

by sexconker (#47922957) Attached to: Micron Releases 16nm-Process SSDs With Dynamic Flash Programming

I don't understand how the native cell life is relevant.
You're not buying flash chips from them, you're buying an SSD. The write endurance of the drive is what matters. How that is achieved is irrelevant.

It's extremely relevant.
How do you securely erase a flash drive?
How do you securely erase a single file on a flash drive?
How do you (attempt to) restore lost data from a failing flash drive?
How do you (attempt to) restore lost data from a failed flash drive?

I'll never buy a spinning disk again, but this shit matters. If you're wondering about my answers to the four questions above, they're:
Fuck it, encrypt sensitive info.
Fuck it, encrypt sensitive info.
Fuck it, restore from backup.
Fuck it, restore from backup.

Comment Re:The larger question: (Score 1) 610

Actually in the price point they compete in ($400+, $500+ phones) they are gaining share. The huge growth is in the $150- part of the market and Apple is getting none of that. You can count share by grouping sneakers, and jumbo jets into "transportation facilitation devices" and just counting units. And that would be similar to the way people count smartphones as one big pile.

They don't compete in a price point, they compete in the market as a whole.

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