64gb you pay $100 down 128gb $200
and your monthly payment stays the same along with the same buy out.
Damn I'm 100% doing this. They allow a slightly higher payment for the bigger capacities right?
i will let you in on a little secret. Wacom stylus does not have any batteries whatsoever. it is lightweight. it has over 2000 levels of pressure sensitivity and even tilt sensor. and when you flip it over, there's an eraser head....yes, just like a real pencil. and yes, the eraser head is pressure sensitive as well. that is why Wacom has always been the gold standard.
i have no idea why apple's stylus has a battery. maybe it has over 10,000 levels of pressure sensitivity? we'll see.
All around fail by Apple. And it is hilarious that no one can identify the amount of RAM in the iPhone 6S and citing the need of 'teardown.'
IMHO it's only important to people who like to quote numbers. If it "only" has 1 gig, I'll still 100% be swapping out my 6+ for a 6s. Would I like 2 gigs? Sure, but it's not a deal breaker. My 6s does everything I want and the only lag I notice has nothing to do with lack of memory.
I will let you on a little secret, wacom has done over a 100 patents on digitizers and similar technologies. Wacom Patents since 2009
Since 1987 Wacom has had exclusive rights to several patents which is necessary to do a battery free stylus. The technology is called EMR for Electro Magnetic Ressonance. It has to do with the electronics on the tablet for they have a coil that generates a little electrical magnetic resonance which allows them to utilize a pen without battery for there is a little coil underneath the display screen which provides power.
Effectively your wacom stylus is being charged in a very similar way that some cell phones are charged without a cable being plugged. It is just utilizing physics to provide the power source.
Wacom on the benefits of EMR technology
Wacom explaining how EMR works
Digital Arts Online explains how 1 product from 1987 made such a big difference and launched wacom
Wikipedia on Resonance
Wikipedia on Electromagnetic Radiation
Now the original patent has expired long ago, but Wacom which was founded a few years earlier prior to that patent, and a single product was so successful and it allowed them to leapfrog and develop a business focusing on this technology and the profits allowed them to do the further R&D to do a lot more patents, and now those patents are the ones required to do a very good non battery stylus. It is the same logic on why Intel had to give away x86 since they were too small at the time when IBM demanded them to, but once they were big enough they can decide to stop cross licensing the patents. Now if you create a fancy technology that wacom or intel does not have you can stop them from using it unless you come up with a cross licensing agreement. Yet you need to be careful on how restrictive you are with your "no cross licensing" or "licensing for a fee" you are for the various governments can start antitrust. You are allowed to be a monopoly, you are allowed to have a 100% market share, but you are only allowed to do that if the market is competitive and if its not competitive it can't because you are applying pressures and tactics to make it impossible for the market to become competitive.
Thus you license out patents that allow competitors but keep all the good ones so you can have exclusive features.
So just like no one can make a competitive x86 cpu anymore without intel's and amd's permission (since intel has a lot of patents, and amd's x64) even though x86 patents are long dead, yet the marketplace is competitive enough and for the most part the various governments think Intel is not abusing their power too much in the years gone past and currently.
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Now apple in the 80s and 90s has a lot of patents with stylus as well. This is because Apple released the Newton PDA from 1993 to 1998 and they started developing the newton in 1987. That said if they did not create any patents since 1995 all those patents would have expired since patents are good only for 17 years (old rules) but its now 20 years (new rules). I do not know which patents apple currently has on stylus and the such for all that gets technical and gets boring real quick.
Ram on iPhones is not about lag, it's about tabs reloading in safari. It sucks that it took this long, but finally the iPhones will have 2GB.
I don't get the points of these, especially given the snark they start they start out with.
It does nothing to counter the point that's quoted. Tilt angle is not new in stylus technology.
Yeah, that started off like he wanted to do a rebuttal but ended up just filling a page with random factoids?
So I guess samsung pays them a fee? The Note series does not rely on battery.
The point is that you were trying to be snarky but completely failed at it because you didn't actually refute his point that Apple could have just used Wacom technology like dozens of others have.
Please, do you think that Apple didn't just license N-Trig's tech instead of wholesale creating something from scratch and somehow not infringing on N-Trig's patents?No Chrono that is not what happened, he was saying Apple in all its brilliance can't do what a smaller company does. Which was the built in battery. Yes Apple could have paid for Wacom styluses but decided not to do so. And the tilt factor Apple does too, and we do not know all the things like pressure sensitive levels and such until we see the device.
Even Samsung wouldn't have come up with this idiocy.
im not sure I could have some up with a stupider way to charge that pen if I had tried (assuming that's real)
i mean the thing looks like a dangling weenie
How did that design pass approval? utterly inefficient
Yeah this has been the least interested I've been in a long time. I look at my 6 and see no reason to upgrade it. The gf has my old 5+ and has no desire to move to a bigger screen. A ridiculously large iPad doesn't do anything for me and couldn't care less about Apple TV. Will never care about the watch.
I think basically for me the smart phone market is now stagnant. The only thing I care about now is better battery life until someone can figure out a way to completely revolutionary the form factor which is likely a long way off.
The iPad Pro makes little sense to me. Why wouldn't you just get a macbook? it's only half a pound heavier and you don't have to pay for the keyboard. Comes with 256GB and has a USB port (kinda).