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  • Study: Apple Pay at 9% adoption in US, lags far behind PayPal and traditional payment meth...

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    "There is little incentive for consumers to ditch credit cards, the top form of payment in America, for a mobile payment alternative, du Toit notes. In some cases, swiping or inserting a credit card into a point of sale terminal is easier than pulling out an iPhone, unlocking it and tapping it on an NFC reader."

    WTF, does this guy have any clue on how Apple Pay works?  Apple pay is linked to a credit card.  You are not ditching anything.  Pulling a wallet then the card out of your pocket then sliding it into the reader is not easier than pulling out a phone and tapping it on the reader.  That's another joke.  And you don't have to unlock the phone, just double tap on a button. 

    So after reading that, why should I believe any of the stats that his company Bain offered up?  Does not even pass the sniff test.  Apple Pay has been out several years and it being accepted in more and more places.  Only 9%.  Who gave them those figures?  Why does Bain allow people like du Toit make ridiculous public statements like this in their name?

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  • Review: The G-Tech Mobile Pro SSD is nearly as fast as the storage in your 15-inch MacBook...

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    Yet the Sonnet Fusion 1TB drive is faster still, achieving the same speed as the Mac’s internal drive,  and it’s $50 less. 
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  • Review: The iMac 5K with Intel i9 & Vega graphics encroaches on iMac Pro territory

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    To take this premise one step further, I decided on an even better cost-savings solution. I got the latest  Mac mini with the top of the line cpu (the 3.2GHz 6-core Intel Core i7 processor with Hyper-Threading technology), the 512GB SSD, upgraded the RAM from the base to 32GB myself, and got a Sonnet eGPU with a Radeon Vega 56. While giving up a tad on the processor end, I have the T2 and most of the better I/O. The graphics card tops the iMac and best of all, total cost all-in was $2,400. Half the cost of the iMac Pro base model, and another $850 less than the maxed out iMac. Had my own 4k monitor. Did not need another. Highly recommend doing it this way. Great video editing rig on the cheap.
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  • Apple Music rival Tidal enables 'master'-level audio quality on iPhone & iPad

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    These comments are interesting, to me.  There's a general smattering of thinking that the difference in sound quality is negligible so it is not worth the extra subscription fee, or you need very expensive audio equipment to hear the difference.  Neither of these is true. 

    I do find irony in the fact that there is a lot of 4k video out there.  Apple TV 4k, downloadable 4k, ultra HD 4k disks, yet it is widely known that unless you have a 100" TV or site three feet from the screen you'll never notice the difference from 1080p.  Yet those same companies, and consumers that are on the 4k bandwagon thing audio is just fine at MP3 or CD quality.   What is good for the visual is good for the audio.  The quality of HD music is better and I'm glad there are a few streaming services that recognize that and I'm happy to pay a bit more to get it.

    As for cost, you can put together a great sound system in your home for under $800 and hear the benefits of streaming Tidal Master Quatliy over anything Apple or other streaming services are providing. 

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  • Hands on: Apple's iPhone XR brings color and value to the 2018 lineup

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    airnerd said:
    Inflation is a thing.  You know gas, bread, milk, etc all cost more each year as well.
    If gas was $6 a gallon, bread was $4 a loaf, and milk cost $6 a gallon right now, you would have a valid comparison.  Unlike those commodity goods, consumer electronics typically go down in price over time.  Cameras, televisions, hard disks, even drones just get getting cheaper and cheaper.  Only Apple seems to be able to buck this trend.  It will probably work for a few more years.  But with higher prices you get more intense competition.  It will be interesting to see where Apple is in 4-8 years when iPhone are more like the commodity goods you listed.
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