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I was on a trip to Europe recently and noticed my iPhone 12 was getting hot and draining battery quickly. A check of the battery settings quickly showed the culprit: Instagram, despite the fact it was in the background and not being actively used. And this was before I had updated to iOS 17.

Having your news on Facebook can only help most online publishers who depend on traffic to drive their advertising revenues. Those that don't primarily depend on ads will have paywalls that will prevent users from getting free content. Thus the notion that news outlets are somehow being "ripped off" by Facebook is absurd.

With that context, it's obvious that this is a play from publishers to get additional revenue from a company that has deep pockets. Nothing wrong with that, its free enterprise, but in this kind of power play you better make sure that the company that you are trying to put the squeeze on needs you more than you need them.

wood1208 said:

Size matters! I mean Macbook Air screen size to at least 141." if not larger.

I just got my 14" MBP (32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, 24-core GPU) and the screen size and resolution are much better than my old 13" MBP. Screen area on my old 13" was very cramped. I think 14" with high-resolution screen is the sweet spot.

I resisted buying a 12.9” iPad Pro because I was worried that it would be too big and lose the portability and convenience factor that I like. However last year I finally decided to switch to the larger size and I’m glad that I did. The biggest advantage to the larger screen size is multitasking is finally practical. And it turns out that the larger size was nothing to fear as it is still very portable; in fact, I can’t imagine now how I used to get by with the smaller sized tablet.

I think that some the negative comments regarding the article's subject matter are a bit harsh. There are undoubtedly some people who own neither of these devices and might wonder if the iPad Mini would serve both as a general purpose device as well as an e-reader. For them, the article is useful at describing the differences and the advantages and disadvantages to both devices for this purpose. For myself, I see no reason to have an e-reader as my iPad services for that just fine. However, my wife has very sensitive eyes and the Kindle Paperwhite is much better for long-form reading for her, while she uses her iPad Mini for nearly everything else.