News - iPhone hurling 'sports game' app banned from the Apple App Store

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Apple also helps keep its customers safe with a third party charger trade-in scheme.

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Yes, throw your £500 smart phone as high as you can. Perfectly safe, nothing to worry about :D

Good game, good game :)

That picture of the melted connector is curious IMHO - resistance at the connector alone shouldn't produce nearly enough heat for that. I guess a knock-off charger without any output protection could short out and cause something like that though.

It's something I've been trying to tell people for a fair while now - just don't buy stuff like chargers (or pretty much anything TBH :P) from Ebay/Amazon Marketplace/market stalls/etc unless you really know what to look for. The potential for risk to life/property is very real, and the knock-offs can be fairly hard to distinguish from the genuine kit.

IMO, keep hold of chargers, USB cables and the like from phones in a safe place so you have some known-good, genuine kit for spares. Even basic USB and PC power cables I've bought from ebay are often appalling quality, using unbelievably thin conductors for example, causing real problems for the connected kit!

My best try = 1.17m

No1. Royboy_91 = 43.14m .........wth he must have dropped it off a building or attached it to a firework, I call cheating

What about the vomit comet? That might work.

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Originally Posted by Infinite

My best try = 1.17m

No1. Royboy_91 = 43.14m .........wth he must have dropped it off a building or attached it to a firework, I call cheating

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Perhaps he got in a lift...

Maybe I'll try that on Android version!

I'd guess dropping it off a building wouldn't work; it likely measures height based on the internal acceleration sensors, and a drop would be easy to distinguish from a throw.

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Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle

Perhaps he got in a lift...

Maybe I'll try that on Android version!

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Take it bungee-jumping?

""I'd guess dropping it off a building wouldn't work; it likely measures height based on the internal acceleration sensors, and a drop would be easy to distinguish from a throw. ""

Unless of course it is actually measuring the drop and not the elevation?

Apple have missed a trick here - perfect excuse to sell extra-ruggedized iphone cases at an extortionate markup for people who want to get that high score without risking their precious device ;)

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Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle

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Originally Posted by Infinite

My best try = 1.17m

No1. Royboy_91 = 43.14m .........wth he must have dropped it off a building or attached it to a firework, I call cheating

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Perhaps he got in a lift...

Maybe I'll try that on Android version!

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Attach it to a RC Helicopter :)

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Originally Posted by big_hairy_rob

""I'd guess dropping it off a building wouldn't work; it likely measures height based on the internal acceleration sensors, and a drop would be easy to distinguish from a throw. ""

Unless of course it is actually measuring the drop and not the elevation?

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As I said it will be taking measurements from the accelerometer, there's no distance travelled/altitude sensors on the phone. I've also just done a quick search and confirmed it does detect drops.

Ah, that's a shame. I would have thought it would be able to detect a throw, i.e. speed dropping uniformly, and then rising again, as opposed to a drop which should just have rising speed.

It *does* distinguish between drops and throws.

I'm quite surprised that apple hasn't patented some vital part of the charger and then sued any unlicensed manufacturer out of existence. It's what they try and do with everyone else.

Got to wonder though why are people buying cheap chargers, is it for a 2nd location or is it because the original has packed up.

As for the game it should be able to use the accelerometers to calculate the rise and fall of the throw and then take the lesser of the two could be clever and detect when someone fails to catch it and go oopsy daisy be more careful m'kay