Posts by plankton

Philips—an 80% price cut would help too. These lights are still FAR too expensive to be anything more than a nerd gimmick. If we really want to cut energy consumption with smart LED bulbs, they need to be not more than $5 each so...

I'd just like the new Mac Pro to be released asap (like yesterday) and then I could make an informed decision about whether to soldier on with FCP X on ageing hardware or move to Premiere on better non-Apple hardware. The Apple...

The operation couldn%u2019t be completed. (NSURLErrorDomain error -3001.)(102). Beginning of the slide into mediocrity%u2014Cook needs to fire a few more.

Ironic that the screen shot shows a map but the base wifi model has no GPS function, making it essentially useless for maps even when using applications like citymaps2go that provide downloadable maps. I would have bought one if it...

You cannot buy a lightning adapter here in Tokyo until mid-October. It's a pain but the small lightning plug itself is nice.

You might try some troubleshooting of either the OS X install or hardware if you find Safari 6.0 takes 2 minutes to load an AppleInsider page because I am not seeing this behaviour and it has not been commonly reported. 

Nobody said they were stupid. And it is why I said quality suffers for a few weeks.  Once they get familiar with the job, quality rises again.

This is why I always wait and buy Apple refurbs—very few of these urban poor people desperate for work have any real experience building hi-tech products, so quality always suffers in the first few weeks after they join the production...

The podcast (on Itunes) below details a visit to Foxconn back in 2010, so Apple has probably made significant advances since then, but nevertheless don't tell me Tim Cook did not know what was going on back then. Apple is simply...

Some people (me included) are having significant problems with dropping wifi connections. There are quite a few threads at Apple Support Communities on this and no-one has found a solution yet. Here is one...