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472039-top iphone x

It's piece of cake to forget people all the same make calls with phones, since that'south non what most people buy them for. Now there are reports Apple's iPhone X is falling downwardly at that particular task, and that the problem is spreading.

9To5 Mac reports hundreds of users have reported an increase in problems, with a typical half dozen-8 second lag earlier they tin answer calls. Other reports suggest the gap is every bit long as 10 seconds, and that some calls are missed considering the telephone doesn't wake upwards and display unlock controls. The issue appears to stem from excessive lag between when a call is received and when it can be answered. While the reports seem to focus on the iPhone X, it may not be completely isolated to that handset; ZDNet claims the issue may go back equally far every bit Oct and reports from an iPhone 6 user running iOS xi.0.three.

This is only the latest glitch to hit Apple devices, after reams of bad press over its decision to throttle phones to preserve bombardment life and general concerns over how well the iPhone X is (or isn't) selling. iOS 11 is troubled enough that Apple is in one case again pushing back from introducing new features or capabilities in iOS 12, and then they can proceed patching the iOS version they already released. The iPhone 7'south components are declining in some cases, to the signal that Apple has had to begin replacing phones due to component failures. And Gizmodo catalogs how the iPhone X's screen plain scratches extremely easily (we tin can't confirm this, not having used an iPhone X).

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It'due south gorgeous — and kind of cleaved.

And so there's the unresponsive cold bug that appears to hitting iPhone Ten'due south hard, the faster burn-in seen on OLED panels, the iPhone 6s' battery life issues afterwards components were exposed to air for too long in a Chinese factory, and fifty-fifty claims that the iPhone 10's and iPhone eight's batteries may hit their 500 cycle-fourth dimension limit much more than apace than anticipated. In short, there'due south a lot of not-great news almost Apple's iPhone family unit swirling around the iPhone X and to a much smaller extent, the iPhone eight and iPhone seven.

Always since Steve Jobs died, at that place'due south been no shortage of people willing to write lofty think pieces about Tim Melt, his leadership of the company, and how he compares with Jobs. In many cases, these comparisons aren't particularly useful. We don't know how Jobs would've responded to various changes in marketplace conditions and we certainly don't have all the information necessary to compare any given decision Cook makes. Jobs himself was far from perfect. Devices like the G4 Cube and the famous iMac "Lump-Stick-Rectangle" design didn't exactly set up the market on fire.

I don't want to say that Steve Jobs would accept avoided these bug, because that'due south simply not clear. Jobs may have put an extremely loftier bar on product quality, but that was quality every bit divers on his terms. "Y'all're holding it wrong," and the iPhone 4's antenna issues are showroom A for this kind of thinking on his part. I don't think we can say, categorically, that he simply would've avoided the trouble, or that he would've responded to it differently.

Only even if this trouble resists a simplistic "Jobs would've washed better" analysis, I think we've got enough information points in hand to draw a line. Smartphones are complex and can absolutely have bug. You tin can even argue that about of these issues are small-scale, compared with devices like the Galaxy Note 7. But the tendency hither isn't positive. Starting with the iPhone 6 Plus and Touch Illness, Apple seems to have real, sustained bug with edifice devices that aren't striking by a major defect or problem. It hasn't exactly been distinguishing itself on the software front end either, if the legion of complaints about iOS 11 are any indication. And Os X macOS fans haven't been thrilled with the company's direction, either.

The smartest thing for Apple to practice might well be to accept a year off launching hardware to smoothen designs, the same way it has periodically taken a twelvemonth off launching major new software versions to smoothen its Os. Only that'south not going to happen. While the company's overall iPhone sales did autumn in Q1 2022 (that'due south Apple's fiscal Q1, not the calendar quarter), they only dropped from 78.three million units to 77.3M units, a partial decrease. Meanwhile, revenue grew 13 percent, thanks to dramatically college ASPs on the iPhone X.

In short, financially, the company'south strategy is working brilliantly. And that'due south all the reason Apple tree needs to continue right on doing what it'southward doing.