MAmarcosscriven·Oct 1, 2015
In A9ChipSource: small open-source iOS utility to identify A9 foundryWDUK
A9ChipSource
Objective-C2015–2015
WDUK / A9ChipSource
A9ChipSource
A small iOS utility to identify the manufacturer of the A9 chip within the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus
4Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
57GitHub stars
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What it is
A small iOS utility to identify the manufacturer of the A9 chip within the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus
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Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by hour5 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-09-30 16:14:54 UTC to 2015-10-01 07:20:46 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 16:00 | 2015-09-30 16:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-30 17:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Sep 30, 17:00 | 2015-09-30 17:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-30 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 30, 18:00 | 2015-09-30 18:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-30 19:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 30, 19:00 | 2015-09-30 19:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-30 20:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Sep 30, 20:00 | 2015-09-30 20:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-30 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 30, 21:00 | 2015-09-30 21:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-30 22:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 30, 22:00 | 2015-09-30 22:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-30 23:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 30, 23:00 | 2015-09-30 23:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1, 00:00 | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 01:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1, 01:00 | 2015-10-01 01:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 02:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1, 02:00 | 2015-10-01 02:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1, 03:00 | 2015-10-01 03:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 04:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1, 04:00 | 2015-10-01 04:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 05:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1, 05:00 | 2015-10-01 05:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1, 06:00 | 2015-10-01 06:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 07:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 1, 07:00 | 2015-10-01 07:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 08:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesHow did he know what manufacturers those ids mapped to?
https://github.com/WDUK/A9ChipSource/blob/master/A9ChipSourc...
In A9ChipSource: small open-source iOS utility to identify A9 foundryA quick port to Swift: https://github.com/mnem/SwiftA9ChipSource. The functional bit is in https://github.com/WDUK/A9ChipSource/blob/master/A9ChipSourc....
Objective-C isn't too bad. I've certainly had more boilerplate to deal with on various other platforms. In terms of names, it is verbose though. It's one of the things I really like about it.
In A9ChipSource: small open-source iOS utility to identify A9 foundryI haven't done any iOS development before but is there any real reason why a tiny app with what seems to be ~100 lines of code needs to be split into several small files with even fewer lines in them?
https://github.com/WDUK/A9ChipSource/tree/master/A9ChipSourc...
As far as I can see, the actual work is performed by around 5 lines of code in this file, which reads a configuration value, performs two string comparisons, and outputs to 2 text fields:
https://github.com/WDUK/A9ChipSource/blob/master/A9ChipSourc...
In other words, is this level of verbosity/"fluff" typical of iOS apps?
In A9ChipSource: small open-source iOS utility to identify A9 foundryA9ChipSource: small open-source iOS utility to identify A9 foundry
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