Apple searlized the iPhone 14 backglass [video]
youtube.comAny better source than a Youtube short?
iFixit tested already what you can and cannot replace on an iPhone 14 here:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/66879/iphone-14-parts-pairing-re...
Maybe the person in the video missed something?
No iFixit did
"Back Glass + Wireless Charging Coil
Functional: No adverse effects have been reported thus far."
We can now correct this to say that pictures taken with the flash will no longer be saved.
Yeah, but nobody reported on this issue before.
Looks like the wireless charging assembly is serialized, not the literal glass. Very frustrating and anti-repair.
Apple continues to push the envelope when it comes to product design and anti third-party repair.
They must really hold the quality of their devices to such a high standard, that even people who would willingly accept the "risk" of installing third-party components (or first-party from the manufacturer!), can't install the parts in their phones because it'll cause problems.
Not to mention the software Apple uses to "link" each part in a phone together so it removes issues like this is closed source and not really available to anybody so even if you did replace parts yourself you still can't use them!
They call themselves green and climate friendly, but it doesn't seem so friendly when you can't even re-use components from other phones that are broken to fix yours!
I'd suggest that this has at least as much to do with theft deterrent than just being 'anti-repair'; as a deterrent, it seems effective.
Video with seekable interface: https://www.youtube.com/embed/fLEOiQdDkzk (at least on desktop; YMMV)
Geez, TikTok (basically) content on HN...
Regardless of the UI, I really don't like the video trends that are popular these days, including:
- Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence.
- Always shot vertically.
- Every. Word. Appearing. In. The. Middle. Of. The. Screen. As. Its. Spoken.
Sorry for the tangential rant.
I appreciate having captions b/c I'm often watching in situations where I don't want to or can't hear audio.
Even so, I much prefer normal captions with full sentences vs. words popping on and off the screen at 10 words per second.
Could you imagine consuming normal content that way (e.g. HN threads)? That would be anxiety inducing (and honestly, these types of videos are probably causing some level of anxiety to some people without them even realizing it).
On that topic, ever noticed how ChatGPT's answers are animated?
> Heavily edited to remove pauses so that the whole video sounds like one long sentence.
I appreciate the brevity. I hate videos that are longer than necessary. I really hate the videos that are about 10 minutes long (the advertising sweet spot), containing content that could have been delivered in 30-45 seconds without all of the "like", "subscribe", how they're feeling that day, etc.
We're talking about different things.
Yes, there is fluff content that isn't necessary and can be cut out to make the video (in some cases, much) shorter.
What I'm talking about is the video equivalent to "wall of text" -- talking with zero pauses (because all pauses have been edited out).
Welcome to being a minority. That ship has sailed over a decade ago. People like to watch videos without sound. Some like to read because they can’t hear thru accent very well.
> - Always shot horizontally.
you mean vertically?
Indeed, fixed!
That's the most frustrating part for me with Tiktok, Youtube shorts, instagram etc.
I wish you could scrobble through a video - it's more frustrating on Youtube because you always could and now all of a sudden you can't, and now videos 60 seconds or less get auto-converted into shorts (from what I've understood). Very annoying.
Whoever designed this knew what they were doing on an addictions/product/customer retainment level because it sure wasn't a usability/UI engineer that made this decision.
I just realised the other day after many many months that one can scrub through IG Reels with the bar at the bottom.
I think only for reels which are longer than a certain time length...
> Geez, TikTok (basically) content on HN...
The aggression, quick cuts, single word subtitles...
I don't understand the appeal of this style. I wonder how people will look back at this era of video editing in 10 years.
OK boomer, strike that, 20-something?
In 10 years something even more horrible will be hip and tiktok'ers will be whatever dated slang there is for big yikes.
What is "searlized" ? Given all the negative backlash on the actual video, I'm not sure I will learn by watching it.
Did they heat it up so much that it can't be taken off without being broken?
The wireless charging assembly has a serial number that's programmed into the phone at manufacturing time. Replacing that assembly (glued to the back glass) with one having a different serial number causes photos taken with flash to fail to save.
If the topic doesn't even interest you enough to click the link, maybe skip posting a low quality comment on it.
It did interest me, but I find even decent videos tediously time wasting over reading speed.
Waiting for independent replication.
Assuming it is proven true, this is unlike other attempts at crippling repairs from Apple as it's affecting behavior that is completely unrelated to the replaced module(the flash being implementable as a passive component). I wonder if the lawsuit against HP for disabling scanning when low on ink could set a precedent usable against this.
> Apple searlized the iPhone 14 backglass [video]
searlized? srsly?
> nfc chip
> no logical reason why apple does this
How can he be serious
As an Apple client: good that they keep working on anti-theft measures. I hope they end up serialising every last bit of the phone.
As someone who lives in a country where pickpocketing and theft are really common: agreed.
If making an iCloud-locked iPhone and all of its parts useless is what it takes to make pickpocketing not worth it, i'm all for it.