note: this post has been incorporated in a separate summary post The iPhone XS Japan launch was muted with none of the lines of the 2017 iPhone X launch. But […]
Farewell to the first golden era: iPhone XR price cut and the end of Japanese carrier subsidies
The Wall Street Journal piece Not So Big in Japan: Apple Cuts Price of iPhone XR to Boost Sales outlined iPhone XR prices cuts in Japan along with iPhone X production […]
iPhone X Display Module Replacement Program for Touch Issues
Now that the standard iPhone X one year warranty is over (AppleCare+ still has a year to go) and important new product releases are out of the way, Apple has […]
iOS 12.1 Apple Pay Suica performance issues
Apple engineering closed my January 2018 iOS 11.2.5 Suica error flicker bug report with the release of iOS 12.1 beta 1: “We believe this issue is resolved in the latest […]
iOS 12 Suica bugs exacerbate iPhone X NFC problems and create confusion
iOS 12 Apple Pay Suica bugs are causing headaches for some users getting exchanges for iPhone X Suica problem devices (a NFC hardware problem across all iOS versions): users find they […]
Pixel 3 FeliCa and iPhone X NFC problem switchers
That didn’t take long. A few hours after the Pixel 3 announcement with confirmation of FeliCa models for Japan, iPhone X users like this one are ready to dump their […]