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With the proliferation of Apple's high-resolution touchscreen portables like the latest iPhone 5s and iPad Air, a growing number of screen protector manufacturers have started to move toward glass as a premium substrate offering. Compared to plastic or other composite materials, tempered glass is hard, scratch resistant and —most importantly —highly transparent.
Design As with other glass protectors in its class, mPact is thin at 0.4mm. Unlike competing products, however, the unit's edges are chamfered to blend in with the iPad Air's aesthetic. This design also serves to deflect objects that may come into contact with the protector, which happened more frequently than we anticipated. Apple designs its iOS devices to withstand everyday bumps and bruises by keeping their screens substantially flush with surrounding structures.
For example, the most recent iPhone 5s employs a thin plastic insulating layer that curves around the phone's display, which sits slightly above the unibody chassis. In previous models, the screen was wrapped in a rubberized gasket-like component that helped reduce sharp side or corner impacts. Adding a layer of glass —no matter how thin —to the top of Apple's design will inevitably lead to that layer being scraped, we learned. The iPad's chamfered bezels deflect incoming objects up and away from the screen, directly into mPact's own chamfered edges. We did see a few hairline scratches on the protector's edging after a week of use, but we believe there would have been substantially more damage if not for the beveled design.
Aside from its chamfering, mPact is much like competing tempered glass products on the market. We will say that the fit was better than most and almost exactly covered the iPad Air's display. According to the specs, mPact comes coated with a variety of films, including antibacterial, anti-fingerprint, oleophobic, anti-glare and UV cutting layers. On the underside is an adhesive that applies clear without leaving a sticky residue.
Inside the package are four acrylic-coated home button stickers in black and white; two with the familiar home button symbol and two without. The button set is domed and as such we removed them after only a short time, finding it too easy to activate inadvertently. Without the stickers, however, the home button becomes a crater that quickly collects debris. Installation and use Out of the box, mPact is covered on both sides by sheets of thin plastic film, which are removed one-by-one during installation. First, we used the included swab and microfiber cloth to clear the iPad's display of dust and debris. Next, the first film was peeled back to expose mPact's adhesive backing, and the glass was positioned over the iPad's screen. Readjustment is possible prior to initial installation, but once mPact is applied with the applicator card, removing it weakens the adhesive bond.
Once everything is in place, the second outer film can be removed. Most impressive about mPact's design and material choice is the resulting clarity. We've tried a huge number of screen protectors and only a few high-priced models like the ScreenGuardz Pure come close to mPact's light transmission and color fidelity. In use, there was no 'rainbowing' or light refraction to be seen, a common quibble we have with plastic or composite protectors.
As seen in the above photos, the stock iPad Air's display (top) is just as bright and colorful after mPact is installed (bottom). We had no issues with touch screen responsiveness, though the glass didn't have as smooth a draw as Apple's stock screen, nor was it less reflective despite its anti-glare coating. Fingerprints were visible after repeated use, but no more so than usual. One problem with many glass screen protectors, mPact included, is that the material's thickness interferes with the magnetic bond between an iPad and a Smart Cover. The extra half millimeter puts the cover on the very edge of the magnets' attractive force, causing it to sometimes flap open under its own weight. While not a major issue, it does detract from Apple's Smart Cover design and is something to think about before purchasing.
Putting the protector to the test, we rubbed keys, coins and headphone plugs on its surface. We also stowed the iPad without a cover in our bag during daily treks to the store. While some dirt and grime got caught in the button area, a quick polish of the glass revealed no trace scratches.
In the end, it took the tip of a ceramic kitchen knife to break the unit, as seen above. It should be noted that, while all other stress tests were conducted with mPact installed, this last extreme measure was done off-device on a hard surface. In our estimation, the knife cut about halfway into mPact, leaving a clean straight line with no 'spiderweb' cracks. With a five-inch gash running down its center, mPact's structural rigidity was compromised and the glass ultimately fractured into six distinct segments.
As shown in the photo above, mPact did not shatter and held itself together after breakage. While speculation, the post-accident integrity may be thanks to an internal laminate, though we have been unable to confirm this detail. Conclusion mPact is one of the better screen protectors we've tested. It's easy to install, tough and very nearly transparent.
The one drawback is price. At $60 for the iPad Air version, mPact may not be the most expensive tempered glass screen protector we've seen, but it is definitely at the higher end of the spectrum. Smaller versions for the iPhone 5s and 5c come in at a more palatable $30, while the iPad mini mPact is $50. Looking at it from another perspective, though, a $60 screen protector is much less expensive than replacing a damaged iPad display. With optical performance bordering on the invisible and responsive touch translation, the extra protection really only comes at a cost of added thickness. Overall, we found mPact to offer significant value for the price, if only as insurance against possible breakage.
That being said, we don't use device cases, making our screens more prone to accidental cracks and scratches. For those who already own a Smart Cover, Smart Case or comparable protective product, mPact may be overkill. But for users who, like us, prefer to carry around 'nude' devices, it is definitely worth a look.
During the first quarter of 2018, global spending on cloud infrastructure services jumped 51% from the same period last year, comfortably beating the growth rates achieved in the previous five quarters, Synergy Research Group revealed in April. Market leader Amazon was a major contributing factor, as growth of its AWS division was also the highest achieved since late 2016.
AWS’s worldwide market share has also held steady at around 33% for 12 quarters, even as the market has almost tripled in size. In an interview with Computer Weekly on the sidelines of the recent AWS Summit in Sydney, Migliorini shed light on how AWS stays ahead of competitors and the company’s growing momentum in the ANZ market. We know AWS is the market leader in cloud infrastructure services. How does the company maintain its lead over its rivals? What were some of the key things that you think it got right in the ANZ market? Paul Migliorini: We’ve been operating in Australia since 2011, and by the time we launched our services here in 2012, we had more than 10,000 customers. One of the things that characterised our early success in Sydney was that we had a lot of large enterprises such as Suncorp and the that saw the long-term potential of our platform.
At the time, the Australian startup sector was relatively small compared with that in Singapore, the west coast of the US or the UK, but we did have some significant Australian digital pioneers and startups that used the platform as well. Today, most of the top 50 startups in Australia are built on AWS. We’re also seeing. In 2006, the tax office moved a significant amount of production workloads to AWS. More recently, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ran the workloads for the marriage law postal survey on us as well.
So we’ve seen the public sector really starting to trust us with their most significant and important workloads. The things that we think make us different and valuable to customers is that we have the broadest functionality by orders of magnitude compared to anyone else in the market today. We did that by building for our customers, taking care of the undifferentiated heavy-lifting and iterating at a very fast rate based on customer needs. This is done through what we call who build the things they feel they need to build for customers, independently of other teams. Some 90% of what we build comes directly from customer feedback.
The other 10% is from us trying to interpret what our customers need and we invent on their behalf. We rolled out 80 new features in 2011. Last year, the number was 1,430. That’s nearly four new services a day. Because we have several times more capacity than the next 14 providers combined, we have the scale to drive economic benefits and lower prices.
In the 12 years we’ve been in operation, we’ve lowered our prices 65 times. We’ve never raised prices – and most of that is on the back of little or no competitive pressure. We do that because we know that if we continue to lower prices, we will earn the trust of our customers. Speaking of prices, there were a couple of Tesla cars outside that were wrapped with banners claiming that Oracle could half your customers’ cloud bill. What would you say to such publicity stunts from competitors that try to pull customers away from you? Migliorini: When I saw that, it reminded me that we are focused on the right things, because if you start focusing on your competitors, then you’re focused on the wrong things.
We choose to focus on our customers and we think that is the thing that will help us to do well over time. That was my observation when I saw those cars. In recent years, there seems to be a renewed focus by cloud suppliers to go after the public sector in Australia and elsewhere around the world. Is there anything beyond just going for a huge slice of the market? What about the learning process that you go through while working with public sector customers?
Do you see that as a way to tighten certain areas that might have fallen through the cracks for some reason, given that governments might be more demanding than other customers? Migliorini: I’ll answer that generically, and then I’ll specifically refer to the public sector. But if you want to go deeper, I’d advise you to speak to our public sector team who specialises in this area. For us, it goes back to the initial answer where what we build over time is what customers ask us to do. We have a phrase that we use a lot internally: ‘There is no compression algorithm for experience.’ What that means is that we’ve now been in existence for 12 years – several years more than any other provider in the market – and given our scale, we can see the problems of scale that other providers are unlikely to have seen. The nature of our business model is such that when we put a fix in the platform for say, security, then everyone gets access to that so that security gets better over time.
Out of the 1,430 new features that we built last year, about one-third of them are related. So what’s happening more as we operate across more sectors, including regulated environments like government, financial services and healthcare, is that we comply with every conceivable certification and standard that you can imagine – whether it’s or the in the US.
As we comply with a standard and build a feature or function for one industry or country, we’re building more resilience and rigour into what we do. This benefits all our customers globally, including those in the public sector. The year 2016 was a really sensitive year in Australia. There was a lot of and we thought it was really significant that the Australian Tax Office chose to move the MyTax tax filing application to AWS.
That says a lot about the trust that the public sector has in the public cloud to do really important things with really important data. More traditional enterprise software companies are partnering with cloud service providers. One example is VMware which launched VMware Cloud on AWS last year in the US. This clearly signals the need for hybrid environments that enterprises are more comfortable with. From AWS’s perspective, do you think that perhaps one day, all workloads will be on the public cloud? Migliorini: I believe in the fullness of time, almost all enterprises will move nearly all workloads to the public cloud.
What we see in the short-term is that partnerships are really important. You would have seen a lot in the past few days around services partners that have competencies in different industry sectors – and that’s really important for customers. As you correctly say, technology partnerships are also important and customers are asking that both services and technology partners work together. We think VMware is really interesting. Australia, I believe, is the most virtualised market in the world. Around 90% of Australian organisations have virtualised in VMware, and you’re right that basically every enterprise across Australia and New Zealand today is looking at ways to leverage the public cloud to innovate or remediate their legacy environments. So, we’re really pleased about the relationship, and VMware have announced that they’re going to go live with in Sydney in the third quarter of this year.
There are a lot of enterprises in Australia that see the benefits of leveraging the AWS platform, whether it’s for or to get greater agility. But they have also made a big investment in VMware capabilities and toolsets, and they want to be able to leverage the benefits of the public cloud without having to reskill fully. We think the VMware relationship will be a really important one, particularly in the context of hybrid conversations, for years to come.
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Was there any re-engineering on the part of AWS at the backend to support these enterprise workloads, some of which might be mission-critical? Migliorini: The short answer is yes – we are building specific things to support relationships. I can’t comment specifically on VMware, but I’m sure we’re doing engineering to support that relationship.
But what I can comment on is SAP. We’ve seen hundreds of customers move SAP systems to AWS in Australia. Some of them have done type stuff with their, but in many cases, customers have also.
One of the things we’ve done is to release a new category of instances called the from SAP. We now have 4TB of such instances that are certified by SAP to run SAP workloads on AWS. We’ve also announced that we will be releasing 8TB and 16TB instances.
To the best of my knowledge, no other supplier in the market has that level of certification. Is the enterprise segment of the business growing faster than you expected? Migliorini: I’m not sure if I ever had clear expectations, but, yes, it’s accelerating. I don’t think I’ve met a customer in the past 18 months who hasn’t made a conscious decision to move to the cloud. The conversations we have with customers really revolve around how quickly and when they want to do so.
Australian and New Zealand enterprises are really getting imaginative and ambitious with their innovation agendas and that can mean leveraging new technologies like, cloud computing and machine learning. We’ve also seen a lot of organisations redesign their structures around agile and. It can mean experimenting with the cost of failure, driving greater agility and a raft of things around innovation to digitally transform their business. The biggest constraints to all of that are legacy environments that consume scarce capital, which more organisations are looking to redeploy on platforms that create value in the long term.
What are your thoughts on some of the and how does that impact your customers? Migliorini: I can’t comment specifically on the NBN, but at the moment we’re finding that networks aren’t constraints for our customers. We have what we call at four locations across the country, and we have customers connecting to us directly. They can connect in other ways, but at the moment it doesn’t appear to be a constraint. In any case, the internet has a lot of redundancy and routing built into it to be able to cope with disruptions. We’ve built our own private network backbone which connects our regions as well. Read more about cloud computing in Australia.
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