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  • Apple smashes expectations: record setting $78.4B in revenue on sales of 78.3M iPhones

    But Nikkei reported a 30% "slash" right? 

    Sad. Everyone says so. 
    lostkiwianantksundaramwatto_cobraMikeymikecali
  • US government bans defunct Galaxy Note 7 from all flights citing fire threat

    rbonner said:
    I agree with another commenter on another post, samsung should issue a update that renders the phone unusable or have the carriers somehow disable the units.  Would save time looking around on the flight.
    There was an article earlier this week that a tracking company saw activated Note 7 numbers go UP in the days immediately after the recall. Deactivation from the service provider end is the only clear solution. Imho. 
    baconstangchiapscooter63lolliver
  • 10 years after Apple axed 'Computer' from its name, Tesla tosses 'Motors'

    I am impressed with those roofing photovoltaic tiles  of his. 
    dedgeckoSpamSandwichlostkiwi
  • Super fast bionic glass: iPhone 8 Review

    Thanks for the comprehensive work up. Appreciate the information as I’m deciding between the 8 + and the X. Leaning toward the X to replace my 7+
    doozydozenRacerhomieX
  • Apple squashes iOS 11 bugs with quick release of iOS 11.0.1

    dysamoria said:
    sog35 said:
    iOS 11 really sucks on my iPhone 6 Plus.

    Battery life is shitty.  Real shitty.  Battery life is probably down 30-40%.

    Apps take fucking forever to open.  So many bugs. What a mess. Rotation sucks.

    Tim is really slipping. How do they even release such a half baked version of iOS?


    Bollocks. I have none of those problems. I suspect this is just an excuse for you to flip your manic-button and begin your hate-on-Cook phase anew.
    Ah yes, the old "it's just you" response. Just because you don't have these issues doesn't mean no one does. You mustn't have been in the computer industry long because this is like a cliche of unhelpful tech geek responses on forums when people report problems.

    One person's anecdotal report isn't enough to declare an absolute epidemic, but the reverse is still true.
    It does suggest, though, either a specific hardware or app issue rather than a widespread problem with the new OS. Solvable too. 
    fastasleep
  • New Chinese cybersecurity law will force Apple to keep data on local servers, aid gov't. searches

    Isn't the U. K. and perhaps the European Union heading down this very same path? Police States are very seductive to politicians. 
    lostkiwi
  • Apple agrees to pay $450K to settle charges of mishandling e-waste in California

    securtis said:
    You can't say apple cares about the environment when they purposely solder on RAM and hard drives to limit upgrades. How is that good for recycling when someone has to pry off the glued on components?
    Increasing product reliability by making the interior connections as reliable as possible is good for product usage. Fewer parts failures and products are used longer. Lessening discarded products. That's all an environmental plus despite repair company whining. 
  • US Attorney General 'hopes' Apple will unlock San Bernardino iPhone

    razormaid said:
    tmay said:
    You are aware the the Constitution is a piece of paper that is open to interpretation, and in times of crisis, is easily avoided/manipulated, and history proves that over and over. This is a case where the Director of an Agency under the umbrella of the Department of Justice under the current Administration is now seen in overreach by Congress, and at least one Federal Magistrate. That is how our system of government survives and evolves. There isn't any Constitutional purity simply for temporal reasons; the Founding Fathers wouldn't have any idea of the future beyond at most a vague few decades. 
    Yikes!  Really?  So the Ten Commandments are really old and up for interpretation to all Christians just because it's old and written in stone?  A law is a law. They didn't write it in the abstract. They wrote it in such a basic way that only people trying to skirt around it try to "interpret" it. If followed to the tee and not allowed for the "variations on a theme" approach, we would not have such a mess of things now. It's because judges started trying to "interpret" it rather than follow it that's created these "precedences" - they use those to justify even further perversion of the actual written law. 
    So you run about on the Sabbath and stone to death anyone you find violating the day by working? Because, you know, the law is the law. Here's hoping you get a great price when you sell your daughters into slavery. "The Law". 
  • US Attorney General 'hopes' Apple will unlock San Bernardino iPhone

    jfc1138 said:
    So you run about on the Sabbath and stone to death anyone you find violating the day by working? Because, you know, the law is the law. Here's hoping you get a great price when you sell your daughters into slavery. “The Law". 
    Hang on. Old Covenant vs. New Covenant. There’s a lot of misunderstanding going around about what Christians believe vs. Jews.
    The Bible? So it's okay to pick and choose what parts  to obey to the tee and what parts to ignore? That sounds a whole lot like "interpretation" to me. 

    Or  to the Commandments? Thou shalt not kill. To the tee? Yet we have an enormous military? So unilateral disarmament because there's no "interpretation" allowed for that very clear directive? That was the statement of the poster I was responding to: NO "interpretation" allowed: To. The. Tee.
  • Apple to integrate Japan's FeliCa tap-to-pay standard in next-gen iPhone, report says

    FeliCa is similar in function to ApplePay: but Apple is accommodating it, so why not accommodate the Australian Banks with a similar side by side accommodation, made even easier as its not additional hardware but simply software access to the iPhone's NFC chip. Or Apple could have insisted the Japanese change over their FeliCa terminals to ApplePay compatibility?

    Apple ls making a localized solution. Seems quite similar to Australia to me: paying for a train ride or paying for groceries: still "paying".