mark,
I did check iphone x and investigated. no hme button, but only wants face to
look at you to unlock.
it is silly of apple of doing this. that is because in past, after what
happened in shootings in santa monica, fbi had iphones that belonged to
shooters. fbi needed to opento investigate something, but apple came up to
block as they refused to cooperate. it is because of perosnal issues as they
can't break. I applauded apple for protecting privacy. as if someone would
steal iphones like this. but for fbi and police reasons, it would be more
helpful. like wallets. fbi and police don't care for perosnal thigns, but
they want to find ids and make sure of this. now, mark, apple has health
app. one of my close friends got stabbed and he dialed 911 fro iphone and he
was lying on sdewalk. olice came over and took care of his iphone. they
checked for his health for blood type, for medicine, and others that would
save his life. fbi didn't care for anything for his perosnal things.
I have health app as I use for my name, my medicine, my sister's name to
contact for emergency as police can check and find out plus they can see
what kind of communication methods I need. they can see who is my
interpreter service. this would help police contacting interpreter service
to arrange for itnerpreters to pop up for tactile communciaton.
mark, apple is missing a lot as they lack reality. they have forgotten about
edward snowden sharing about nsa as why there are many issues. apple
realizes this.
mark, my question is why do you care for iphone without home button?only
press power button andf press home button to unlock. that is all.
mark, each time when we upgrade ios version, at the egining, it keeps
repeating asking quesitons if we need touch, passcode, and face photo. I
roll up eyes why wasting times ignoring as I click but they stay stubborn
and it takes several minutes to get out of touch, passcode and photo and go
on normal. I am tired. of all jokes.it is ridiculous for apple to do for
blind and deafblind like this.
sincerely,
rich
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From: M. Taylor
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2017 1:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: I went to buy an iPhone X. T-Mobile told me it wasn't worth it -
CNET
I went to buy an iPhone X. T-Mobile told me it wasn't worth it
Commentary: A visit to a T-Mobile store reveals some very particular
feelings about Apple's new phone.
December 3, 2017 9:00 AM PST
Not worth it?
César Salza / CNET
I think of T-Mobile most often when I see it's insulted Verizon and when I
see someone wear a pink tutu at a party.
Still, it's presented itself very well over the last couple of years as the
carrier that thinks most about customers, especially with its push toward
unlimited data.
Could it possibly be the store that would guide me toward buying the right
phone?
Regular readers might know that I've been visiting various retailers to see
how they present different phones to customers. You know, in person.
I've been to both a Verizon store and a Best Buy to learn about Pixel 2. In
both cases, I was guided toward a Samsung Galaxy.
I went to an AT&T store, where I was told that the Galaxy Note 8 was a
better phone than the iPhone X.
What would T-Mobile tell me?
I was moved to visit, as the carrier offered a 2-for-1 promotion on the
iPhone 8 last week.
Did this mean that T-Mobile was selling so many iPhone X's that it was
desperate to get rid of the lesser upgrade from last year's phone?
Was iPhone X the phone that would tear me away from my trusty, now slightly
rusty-looking iPhone 6?
I went to a San Francisco Bay Area T-Mobile store to find out.
It all started well enough
A sprightly salesman approached me as I looked over the iPhone range.
I showed him my iPhone 6. He didn't sneer. This was a good start. Not
everyone looks so kindly on old phones in the Bay Area.
He swiftly dismissed the iPhone 8 as a minor upgrade.
"You've got wireless charging, faster processor and you've got the glass
back. But it's pretty much the same phone as the one you've got," he said.
"But wait. Don't you have a 2-for-1 promotion going on for these right now?"
"That ended Monday. We've got a 2-for-1 on the Samsungs, but not on the
8's."
Was this the moment I was going to be told Samsungs were better? Not yet, it
seemed.
"Oh, so did you have the promotion because you needed to get rid of a lot of
8's?" I asked.
"No," he replied, a little too quickly. "It was just a promotion."
I then asked him about the iPhone X. He couldn't show me how Face ID works,
because each phone can only work with one person's face.
He insisted, though, that it was secure. "I think there's a million-to-one
chance that someone else's face will open your phone," he said.
iPhone X? It's not worth the extra 200 bucks
Then things took a strange turn.
He suddenly volunteered that it took more time to get to all your apps on
the X than it did with the iPhone 8 Plus.
"With the 8 Plus, you just double-click on the home button and, look, there
they all are," he said. "With iPhone X, it's messier." He showed me how much
messier, as he made several gestures to achieve the same effect.
So the future of the smartphone takes you back in time, not forward?
"A lot of people aren't buying the X because they miss the home button," he
said. "Look, there's not much difference between the X and the 8 Plus. The
camera's the same, the screen size is almost the same. All the iPhone people
in this store upgraded to an 8 Plus, not an X."
"Why?"
"Because they didn't think the X was worth the extra 200 bucks."
I confess to being surprised. I've enjoyed the candor of all the salespeople
I've talked to. But here was one who was trying to sell me what most people
would tell me is a lesser phone.
"So why do people buy the iPhone X?"
"One of the biggest reasons is the animojis," he said, with something of a
chuckle. These require your facial features from Face ID and animate them
into, say, a unicorn or a pile of excreta. A pile of singing excreta, if you
want to enjoy animoji karaoke.
"But these are just younger people, right?"
"No, all ages. It's incredible."
And the best phone is...the one that's dead
"So which phone do you think is the best?" I asked.
"For me, the Note 8," he said, without hesitation. "I had an iPhone for a
while when the Note 7 thing happened. But when the Note 8 came out, I went
straight back to it."
He explained that, for him, Android was better because he could "do more"
with it, especially download free apps. I'd heard this from several
salespeople. This one loved the Note 8's big screen.
It was then that he admitted his Note 8 had died just before Thanksgiving.
"Just totally dead," he said. "I couldn't believe it."
He had a temporary phone but would be going straight back to a new Note 8
shortly, he said.
Now that was brand loyalty. And no, unlike staff in other carrier stores, he
said he didn't get a work phone from T-Mobile.
"So are you saying I should get a Note 8?" I asked. "Isn't it hard to switch
from iOS to Android?"
"It's simple," he replied. "We do it all here for you."
This was an incentive I hadn't heard before. But he stopped short of telling
me I should go Android.
"You should stick with iPhones," he concluded, with a tinge of pity. "It's
what you know."
OK. So, finally, which iPhone?
This salesman was utterly charming, if occasionally distracted by a sudden
influx of customers in the store.
He took me over to the iPhone comparison chart to make his final pitch.
"See here. With the 8 Plus, you even get one hour's more browsing than you
do with the X," he said. (This is true. 13 vs. 12.)
He could see I wasn't quite convinced.
"What it comes down to is this," he said. "If you take a lot of selfies and
you like animojis, get an X. If you don't, get an 8 Plus."
He got pulled away by another customer and became so involved with that
customer that I ended up leaving the store.
And I underline, as always, that this was just one visit to one store.
On the plus side, he hadn't tried to move me over to Android, as salespeople
in other stores had. On the 8 Plus side, he seemed determined that the big,
but not so novel, phone was right for me.
I asked T-Mobile whether salespeople are incentivized to sell certain phones
at certain times. The company declined to comment.
Was he trying to sell me the phone he thought would be best for me? Or was
he trying to sell me the phone he wanted to sell me? That's the real-life
customer dilemma.
I dwelt on this for a moment, before another thought invaded: At no store
has a salesperson told me the iPhone X is the best phone or even, in this
case, the best iPhone. Even though my colleague Scott Stein, who knows about
these things, insists it is definitely the latter.
That's a little odd, isn't it?
TECH TODAY
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