And in the off hours... Ford employees are encourage to use the suits to fight crime in ... MEGADetroit!

No instruction pipeline cache == feature.

Yeah all ARM7 cores have that "security feature".

I hear PC-XT's are making a comeback, because most malware won't fit in 640K any more.

So having only 640K is a "security feature".

This is a highly amusing claim.

The first product that Apple *ever* preannounced under Steve Jobs was the Intel switch, and that was already being leaked because of the T-1 developer systems Apple had to ship to developers so that it would have software to run on the hardware, by the time the hardware was released.

The only time you "miss targets" or "miss projected ship dates" is when you announce a product prior to it shipping.

Steve announced products, for the most part, by getting up an a stage, and at the end of the Keynote presentation (which would always include a lot of demonstrations, which, when the screen changed, resulted in an "...and BAM!"), he'd say at the very end... "...and one more thing...".

And there'd be a new Apple product.

You never missed a ship date, because the "... and one more things ..." always ended with "...and these are available in Apple stores TODAY".

So it's great that Apple pre-announces and all these days, and has a 1/2 cycle opposite the WWDC cycle for computers vs. consumer products -- so it's kind of not possible to do the Steve thing, because there's one WWDC, and you need two keynotes to cover the release cycles, and there's no other thing to keynote at.

But.

If Steve didn't have product on the shelves, in stores, ready to buy... ...you didn't get it shown in the "... and one more thing".

It still missed it's ship date -- but you didn't know about it.

So unbunch your panties, people: this is not a news story, unless you want to write about how the marketing and announcement culture has changed under Cook... because the release date thing?

It's not news.

IF you have to jailbreak your iPhone to get the problem to show up, perhaps you shouldn't jailbreak your iPhone.

No, you can't measure it that way.

Attempting to dray too much current, and watching the voltage is the only way to determine the amount of current available to draw. Not the other way around.

You ramp up current draw at a given voltage, and if your voltage starts to drop, you have to back off on current utilization. The only way to do that is to back off on current utilization.

It's the current draw that matters; you aren't drawing off 9 volts, and then suddenly you can only draw off 7 volts. That's not how battery degradation works.

Yes, I understand.

You long for the days when you can charge more than one battery, and carry around more than one battery, and swap it out, so that you can go 15 days without a recharge, or you can watch 9 hours worth of movies on your flight to another country, without paying the extra $15 for them to turn on the plane's power jack at your seat.

Battery degradation in sealed battery devices is not an issue, unless you are frequently letting them run all the way down, or they are doing so because you are running badly behaved applications which constantly use power.

For yourself, and the tiny fractions of users like you, there are solutions available.

You are just unhappy with them, the same way that people who want to add storage to a cheaper device with less default storage are unhappy that, in order to use an SD card, you have to by a "camera adapter" cable-and-dongle kit.

If you want more battery life without having to pay to recharge, or where you are away from the power grid: buy yourself some battery bricks.

If you want to not run out your battery, quit running the badly behaved applications.

If you refuse to do either, then pay the airline the $15 and get the power wart-to-device cable for $35.

3%-5% of users will have "needs" ... -- those are "finger quotes" ... that aren't met by the devices on the market.

Bitching about that is not going to make the manufacturers make a design change to serve a tiny minority of the market, while making the user experience worse for everyone else.

If you want to be able to have your minority market device, get a manufacturer to build it, on the promise that you'll buy it at an higher price, because the volume sales are going to be 33x to 20x smaller than the majority of the market devices.

I hear both Blackberry and Nokia have relatively idle assembly lines, because the majority of the market doesn't want the devices they are building. So they are already in a position to build devices for a market minority, and pay the extra costs that happen when you can't get the big quantity price breaks on parts that you get from selling actually useful and popular devices instead.

I'm kind of tired of vocal people who obviously represent a tiny minority of market desire to put their money where their mouth is, spouting off as if everyone wants what they want.

"If you need a machine and don't buy it, you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it." -- Henry Ford

Or who subscribe to the idea that asking consumers what they want is the way to build products.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” -- Henry Ford

If your cell phone CPU can't eventually cause this problem, by drawing more current than it's possible for a worn out battery to provide, triggering a shutdown...

You probably own a Nokia "feature phone", and not a smart phone.

Other cell phone vendors have already stated that "Yes, we do the same thing".

Do you know one company with a sealed battery that's going to want a lawsuit against Apple about this to be successful?

That's an automatic precedent against them doing the same thing, as well.

They are.

Unless you are not a very technically competent user.

Then there's the Eastern European guy in the Mall kiosk who will do it for you with parts from stolen iPhones bought off eBay for about $50.

That would have been lying.

Because the voltage doesn't drop; it's the current that drops.

The only people who would ever see it are people with very, very high CPU utilization.

Mostly the people who jailbreak their iPhone run a CPU benchmarks.

Well, we know if Steve were still in charge, it would have been option #3.

Incorrect.

The issue is current draw, not the size/capacity of the battery.

In many cases, the battery has the same capacity as before. But if you are mining Bitcoin on your iPhone, or running badly written software, then it will be CPU intensive enough to draw more current than the battery can sustainably supply.

This issue is that the peak current demand by the CPU utilization for some apps is no longer sustainable.

Note that Apple throttles the CPU down all the time. What the change does is cause the CPU not to throttle up all the way, when it would draw too much current.
There's actually no reason -- other than bad programming -- that you would need that much CPU power on a cell phone -- even one as nifty as an iPhone.

Where do you plug in your charging cable in while camping? The back end of a bear?

So you are saying that the more young men who wear suicide vests in jihad, the more OK polygamy becomes?

Wouldn't this cause the leaders to call for jihad, so as to have more women for themselves?

Because I've never seen a jihadi leader actually wearing the vest...

Precisely.

I'm over 4X the "lifetime number", and my average is a book a day. This does not include any reading I do online, it counts only physical books, most of which are in various rooms throughout my house (or in many, many boxes).

If you lean "whole word", you do not recognize written versions of words you use in every day speech, if you've never been taught them, nor can you speak words which you've only ever encountered in written form.

This is a necessary consequence of learning words as ideograms, rather than phonectically, as syllables.

That would not be useful.

Who wants to monitor 100's of cell phones, all broadcasting "Help! I'm up someone's ass! Help! Help me!"?