I was signed up for the battery replacement because my iPhone 6 Plus had become nearly unusable... when the screen started wigging out.
They had up to a two month backorder on battery replacements and had already put me on a wait list, when I went in and made an appointment for the touchscreen losing its mind.
They analyzed it, said it was normally $160 to replace the whole phone with a refurb, saw from my notes that I already had a battery replacement scheduled, confirmed the battery was also completely gone, and knocked the price of the battery replacement OFF of the refurb price. LOL. They weren’t supposed to do that.
I walked out with a refurb that has a brand new battery and in brand new condition for $120. Hahaha. Working great again now, still slow at things it wasn’t pre-iOS 11, but working.
One of the things I’ve noticed is that apps that use a lot of RAM kick the other background apps RAM storage out of RAM and they can’t recover to where they were when they were put in the background.
If buying iOS Apple stuff today, get the biggest RAM you can. And I’m not talking about flash storage. Dig into the specs and go for RAM. iOS 11 is a RAM hog as are almost all apps now.
The refurb stopped my search for the time being for which Android I’m going to on the phone side of things. The iPad probably stays but it’ll get set aside as a CFI tool and I’ll be playing with Android tablets also.
Someone mentioned the Android users don’t buy apps. It doesn’t really apply to the pilot market segment. We’d buy anyway. But... the android tablet market shrunk considerably. People don’t see tablets in the mainstream much in the future. The phones got big enough that most people don’t need or want a tablet. And for those doing desktop replacement there’s things on the Android side like the Samsung dock for their phones.
And frankly, in the $300 space, a chromebook meets more consumer demand than an Android tablet does.
Amazon also helped kill the pure Android tablet as well with their Fire devices that are crippled. Because most of what people wanted a tablet for, consuming media and surfing, their subsidized Fire tablets will do.
So it’s hard to do Android tablet software. But I’ll keep hoping someone really gives ForeFlight a run for the money on the Android platform. Some are close.
Garmin makes the most sense to actually finish their Android product someday and make it on par with their iOS product. Wish they would.
I want nothing to do with the Apple Cook wants to build. Besides being no better than the completion on hardware (except tablets, and they announced a cheap one to try to save their own butts in the education space where chromebooks have decimated iPad sales), their software and constant updates are no better than anyone else’s now. That isn’t worth a premium price. They lost the edge.
Bad part for all of us is, dedicated tablets on mobile os’s are likely to become a niche market. Chromebook “convertibles” are taking over and even Microsoft just stripped a version of Win10 to try to compete in the chromebook market space.
If you look around the room at a security conference most participants are carrying a $300 chromebook they can wipe easily and not care. Not their daily driver laptop with a legacy OS on it that may end up hacked all to hell by the naughty stuff on networks at security conferences and nearby hotels.
The trend is away from tablets in general. Not fast, but away.
