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Shame. I really like the Apple Arcade concept. It took me a long while to realize the games on there don’t have micro transactions.


I’m looking forward to Polytopia coming out soon.


Apple Arcade is a great idea and at the moment it was really lame games. It makes sense that developers aren’t making ROI and opting to go it alone instead. But with annoying, but revenue generating, micro transactions. 

I went into Best Buy a month ago to get the iPhone X because I wanted to use my Best Buy Credit Card for the free warranty and all that. Turns out the 256gb version that I wanted was $1260, a little over $100 more than MSRP which I could get anywhere else. The cell phone sales guy couldn't tell me why it cost more at BB, which also sorely needs the business.

A week later it hit me. BB gives rewards bucks which is about 10% of the purchase price, so BB bumped up the price to avoid handing out 10% off. But what I can't reconcile is why? If I had bought a toaster, video games, whatever that amounted to $1260, I'd still get 10% back as in-store rewards bucks. So if BB didn't want to lose that narrow profit margin to the 10% back, didn't they consider that they would gain it in the profit margins of whatever else I buy in-store? Like phone cases, screen protectors, games, headphones, etc.? 

So long BB, you've lost any incentive I've had to use your CC. I just bought it at Apple anyway with my bank's CC.

This article and these comments are making me want to swap my desert for the white model 

“Barry Sherry”

Oof. Quite a name is parents bestowed upon him.


Just last week we had our triathlon bike from Kenya to DC get lost along the way with Lufthansa. We showed the baggage agent our AirTag that it was in Berlin instead of Frankfurt. Their system said it was still in Nairobi. The agent said they see AirTags all the time and believe them over what their system says. The next day we saw movement from Berlin to Iceland and finally to DC. 

Gods, if ever there was an article that needed a video to go along with it, then this was it.

I watched two episodes and I just couldn’t go on. Arquette just had unearned super detective powers. The “secret drug addiction” trope is as overused now as quicksand was back in the 60’s-90’s. House, Nurse Jackie, Breaking Bad, etc.


and like House, Arquette just walks in like this Sherlock Holmes super hero and gets the job done. How did she become like that? The whole show wanted to be a dark comedy, but to me it came across as campy tropes that made me roll my eyes. 

Lmao. Talk about “suffering from success”. Poor GS, they can’t shake off the Apple handcuffs. 

I’ve used moom for years. I really wanted to like Apple’s version, but they don’t have quarter tiling as a shortcut, so I can’t use it. I open folders that I move files around in and I quarter one side and half the other. Too bad. Need to keep using Moom