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  • AirPods' 2024 refresh could include two Gen 4 models, AirPods Max update

    thedbathedba
    If the only upgrade awaiting the Airpods max is USBC and additional colors, then muted isn’t the adjective I’d use.
    Grossly underwhelming would be more like it.
    williamlondondewmebeowulfschmidtargonaut

  • Apple will frame iPhone 15 USB-C switch as a consumer win

    thedbathedba
    Many iPhone owners who don’t hang around tech forums, will see this as an Apple money grab forcing the poor user to buy more cables.
    For so many of us who own multiple Apple devices it won’t make that much of a difference.
    We already have iPads, Macs that already can be charged via USBC. 

    As far as the “environment” is concerned, this won’t do much other than tick someone’s check box.  
    williamhwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple Vision Pro has finally arrived

    thedbathedba
    Apple Vision Pro is available now, starting at $3,499. Pre-orders sold out within minutes, though, and Apple was believed to have only made a few units, compared to a typical iPhone launch. 

    Well no kidding.
    Can you name another product in Apple’s lineup that comes even close to making as many units available, at launch, as the iPhone?

    I’ve seen reviews from Joanna Stern, John Gruber, MKBHD and iJustine and this looks like a very compelling 1.0 product.
    Not sure that many people will bite at that entry price, but enough will, to keep development going and in 2-3 years give us version 2.0.

    Oh and the competition are warming up their copy machines.
    jas99muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondondanoxStrangeDayswatto_cobra

  • GM ditching CarPlay could go bad, complain car dealers

    thedbathedba

    GM's replacement for CarPlay is due at the end of 2023, but its dealers are in the dark about when that will be and what it will do to sales when buyers figure it out.

    GM has previously said that people who buy a new GM electric vehicle will get access to features such as Google Maps for free -- for eight years. After that, GM expects people to subscribe for what they used to get free with CarPlay, and ultimately sees it giving GM a potential $25 billion revenue stream.


    Read on AppleInsider

    Probably enough time for them to walk back on this. 
    However leaving Car Play out from the get go will turn many North American buyers away from them.
    Traditional auto manufacturers have put out terrible user interfaces in the past and there's no indication that that's about to change. 
    The exception to that seems to be tech companies (Tesla, Rivian) who have their own systems and their interfaces are far superior to that of the traditional auto makers. 
    zeus423narwhalFileMakerFellerchasmwatto_cobra

  • Abandoned $10 billion Apple Car project referred to as 'Titanic disaster' by employees

    thedbathedba
    slow n easy said:
    I'm not sure I would have ever bought an Apple Car. Knowing Apple, they would probably want to get rid of the steering wheel or some crazy shit like that. I would never even consider a car that I couldn't drive myself. I'm sure that Apple would also consider performance to be a low priority, and for me, performance is a high priority. I did consider the 2024 Model 3, but rejected that car because of a lack of instrument cluster screen. I don't want one gigantic iPad like screen. I prefer 2 or 3 different screens and the car I recently bought has a head-up display, which I love. Also, in the Tesla, you can't turn off adaptive cruise control. I tried it in my Integra, and I absolutely hate it. I turned that off along with pretty much all of the other active driving stuff. I don't plan on buying an EV until around 2034.
    A lot of assumptions about the Apple Car, that was actually never released and only existed as an internal R&D project.

    What's wrong with adaptive cruise control? Don't you want your car to keep a safe distance between you and the car in front while you're speeding down the highway at at least 100 km/h (=60 mph)? Besides there are least three or more settings to most cars (my terms ==> safe, safer and safest).   
    freeassociate2fastasleepbyronlwatto_cobra

  • Spotify listeners may finally get lossless audio -- but at a cost

    thedbathedba
    This will matter to the less than 1% of Spotify users that claim to “hear” the difference.
    There will be YouTubers that will make it look like the greatest thing to happen to music, well since music itself.
    The more than 99% of users will just shrug it off and continue listening to the way they’ve always been listening.  
    dewmeCalvinatorwatto_cobra

  • AirPods & Apple Watch market share insight opens debate on consumer choice

    thedbathedba
    At this point I think the DOJ would want AirPods, Apple watch, iPhone, iPad and Mac to be separate independent entities. 
    Why wouldn't Apple want its devices to work seamlessly together?

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but do other watches work with an iPhone through an app? If someone wanted a Garmin or a Fitbit, wouldn't that work on an iPhone?

    Headphones/Earphones from other manufacturers all work when paired to an iPhone. In fact if you want a superior wireless listening experience, like LDAC according to audiophiles, then you should not buy any version of AirPods. Even better you should not even buy an iPhone because it doesn't support this and has less customizations than equivalent Android phones. Apple isn't reducing the experience of audiophiles, it's basically telling them not to buy their own products. 
    Where is this so called anticompetitive advantage of AirPods? Most YouTubers describe them as over priced inferior products.  
    jas99watto_cobra

  • Thunderbolt 5 vs Thunderbolt 4 -- everything you need to know

    thedbathedba
    gadgetcanadav2 said:
    My ideal setup is my Macbook Pro with one Thunderbolt 5 cable powering the macbook that connects to a 32" 8K monitor with a TB5 passthrough feeding another 32" 8K monitor both at 60Hz or better. The back of the monitor would have a 10GB ethernet port and 3 or 4 USB-C ports that would connect my microphone, webcam and time machine hard drive. One TB5 cable for power and all communication to my Macbook Pro would be amazing. Apple just needs to make a Studio Display Pro with those features when they release a new MBP with TB5.

    Even better than your 32” 8K monitor would be 40” 8K.
    That could still retain “Retina” resolution at 220 pixels per inch.

    watto_cobra

  • Apple starts charging credit cards for first wave of MacBook Pro with Touch Bar orders

    thedbathedba
    mtbnut said:
    Wait, after all the doom and gloom prognostications by all the pundit "power users" who have been yelling loudly through their social media channels, one would think no one would order the "terrible" new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. 

    Or are they all a bunch of dead canaries in a coal mine? 
    "Dead canaries in a coal mine" is the correct answer.
    watto_cobra

  • Tim Cook included in early list of potential VP candidates for Clinton campaign

    thedbathedba
    tallest skil said:

    You have absolutely no argument and no refutation to the claim, and she has explicitly stated that’s exactly what she is going to do. Go fuck yourself, traitor.

    Holy fucking shit, the liberal foundation of projectionism is fucking universal. You guys just can’t fucking get away from it, can you? What the fuck was that about magic mushrooms? Open a goddamn dictionary.

    I'll respond to just two of your statements. 

    1) Really mature of you. Way to open up a dialogue. 
    2) Traitor? I'm not a US citizen. Try harder next time junior. 
    3) US surrealism never ceases to amaze. What you guys call liberalism (the Clintons?) is what most of the rest of the world would call the right, maybe even the far right. 

    But go on thinking any Democrat is going to take away your guns. Just like Barack Obama did, ...... Oh yeah he didn't. 
    And keep on holding on to antiquated concepts like the 2nd amendment. You know it was written when muskets was the sophisticated arm of the day. 

    singularity