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    Apple Cash Grab - Iphone 5

    in PC & Games Discussion

    Posted

    It's not irrational at all.

    Apple is the problem with smartphones, not the driver of innovation.

    Apple products are shit, their OS is f**ked but their marketing rules.

    f**k Apple.

    You used to make logical comments. That is not one of them.

    The first iPhone, as utterly shitful as it was, did kickstart innovation in the mobile industry.

    I could go on, but I'm betting you know this.

    At the same time, it is my belief that there is no one driver of innovation in the mobile industry anymore. Apple have driven 'their' innovations, and acted like little bitches with big lawyers on retainer if anyone reinvents these features. Samsung have their innovations, as do HTC and even Nokia. Any time someone comes up with something genuinely innovative, the others come up with something the same or similar enough. This is a good thing for us, as consumers.

    Apple is the America of the tech industry. They just want to be different. NO logical reason for it. They just do it. Oh also money everything they do is for max gain profit wise. Hence a new iphone every 12 months. Hence now a new charger so people have to buy all new acces. No reason for it. They did it because they could. But hey. Look at apples shares, people are waking up to the fact and the company is in quite a bit of trouble if it keeps going the way it is. If it keeps falling how it is the company will be bankrupt in the next 5-10 years.

    You're half right. About 25-50% of iPhone owners are the "iSheeple" that Aaron refers to, and they wanted a thinner, lighter phone. Couldn't happen without changing the adaptor mechanism. The physical size difference between the old dock connector and the new 'lightening' connector is crazy. The new converter adaptors are also ingenious in how they work, but you'd have a hard time convincing me that it was easier to do the adaptive pin assignment they've done from 30pin to 8pin adaptors than it was to do 30pin to 4pin micro USB.

    There is a totally logical reason for Apple being 'different'. They're a marketing machine more than an engineering firm. They differentiate their products from the OS to the supply chain. They do an excellent job, sales figures reflect this. Is it for everyone? No way. But as Aaron points out, their marketing rules.

    Why can't anyone make some educated arguments from time to time, rather than just bang on about 'iSheeple' and 'retards'?

    Apple Cash Grab - Iphone 5

    in PC & Games Discussion

    Posted

    Same. My last two phones have been HTCs and if my next isn't a Nokia Lumina, then it'll be an HTC of some sort.

    Battery life on all current gen smartphones sucks nuts. Yet another thing I blame Apple for. If not for their bullshit "thinnest, lightest" marketing shit, our phones would all weight 50% more (at a whopping 160-180g) and have batteries which last a couple days with usage.

    But since the iSheeple are so f**king weak they can't carry a phone that weighs more than 118g, battery life sucks balls.

    f**k Apple, stupid f**ks.

    Did Steve Jobs touch you as a child? You have a completely irrational hatred towards Apple that goes beyond their products.

    What Have You Done To Your Stagea Lately?

    in Wagoneers

    Posted

    You can set target AFR's with the Fcon and use the wideband input/parameters for O2 correction.

    Won't stop the too rich/lean CELs though as the ecu will still receive the signal and crack the sads (not that it will affect the Fcon tune).

    I wonder how close the O2 correction on the F-con would be to stock ECU correction? As in, would the ECU see something good/close enough?

    Ryan, if the light bothers you that much, remove the bulb and just buy a Cipher cable to check for CELs periodically.

    I'll probably end up with the Cipher cable in the new year anyway, easier to sort out than a code reader and more versatile. I just don't want the light firing and masking another issue.

    Because simply, its the best way for it to run in low load/idle areas of the map. Hot day, cold day, freezing - doesn't matter. Altitude - doesn't matter. It just corrects.

    I would like to see what O2 functions the FCon has, and if they are useful. Thats all.

    Target AFR seems to be useful, and easy to implement (which I think was what Scotty was talking about in a backhanded kind of way :P). Whether it'll replicate the stock ECU in the same kind of way I don't know, but I doubt it.

    And I thought F-Con was supposed to be the bees-knees with no CEL issues...(thought I read that somewhere a year ago).

    I hope you get it where you are comfortable driving it around Ryan, CEL or not. Persistance is the key; and if you do find a good solution (with no CEL) you will be a forum hero ;) .

    Yeah its pretty good Leon, more research to clear random codes is required, but other than that it's good. 8k rev limit is a bit high for my liking, but other than that it's got a fair bit of shove. Be interesting to see what it does on the dyno with Scotty's upgraded spring, holding 15PSI not 7...

    What Have You Done To Your Stagea Lately?

    in Wagoneers

    Posted

    Do you have any way of seeing the O2 correction that the stock ECU is reading? If so, is it cycling- counting up and counting down? That'll be whats causing the error codes, I'm sure its to do with the way everything interacts and not your actual AFRs changing.

    i don't, no. Is this something the Cypher cable can do?

    I'm sure there would be a way to loop the signal back.

    AFRs look fine on the wideband so I'm sure they're not actually changing.

    What Have You Done To Your Stagea Lately?

    in Wagoneers

    Posted

    Drove home today, fault code free until not far from home... when the left bank lean and some kind of left bank voltage error codes popped up.

    Throttle is still fine though, I'll have to see if I can find some kind of solution. Fingers crossed!

    Car is now sitting out the back... tomorrow night I should start on the cooling overhaul. Unless the Scotty Actuator turns up tomorrow, in which case I'll be chucking that in :D

    What Have You Done To Your Stagea Lately?

    in Wagoneers

    Posted

    Nope. I can't find a blank table referring to throttle mapping, and according to the tuner a blank F-con table should leave the ECU to control that function.

    They have no idea what caused the fault, but I'll just have to keep an eye on it and if it reoccurs its either a problem with the throttle position sensor or a problem with the wiring harness for the cruise control.

    Shitloads better though. SHITLOADS!

    What Have You Done To Your Stagea Lately?

    in Wagoneers

    Posted

    Had the tune sorted out this morning. Idles much nicer now, and throttle is sorted.

    Fault code was throttle circuit, had some weird behaviours (like fault light going on and off with throttle press/release with the stock ECU plugged in), but after clearing everything, resetting, and verifying, it now feels really good.

    Now to enjoy it!

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