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How to extend the battery life on your Apple Watch
Or charge every night and use the watch for all the reasons you bought it.
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Russia demands Apple pull Telegram for iPhone from App Store
Time to download Telegram. If Putin is against it, it must be good.
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First look at the new space gray 2018 Mac mini
I agree with everyone who says this is horribly overpriced. I cursed for a good few hours, but ultimately caved and ordered the $1,100 i5 6-core config, 256GB. I had to reming myself that I am not paying for specs. I am paying to have Mac OS and not Windows. That is worth the markup.
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Microsoft partners on touchscreen 'Kano PC' to challenge iPad in education
Assembling this thing will likely teach the kids nothing. The "how computers work" program will probably be less effective that any number of YouTube vids on the topic. Overall, it's a silly gimmicky idea and a waste of money. Sorry if I sound bitter, I once bought my son a "build your own camera" kit with a similar educational message. Took 5 minutes to "build" and was a piece of trash. May as well have burned $100.
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Compared: The 2019 Amazon Fire HD 10 versus the 10.2-inch 7th gen iPad
Perhaps, though you'd have to go pretty far back to only spend $150. You'd end up with an iPad Air or iPad Air 2 most likely. I would take the Air 2 over the kindle. Not sure about the original Air. That no longer gets software updates and the A7 was unimpressive on that device in 2013.rare comment said:
Or buy a prior generation iPad? We have some ancient iPads that still seem to work fine for email, video, news, etc.fasterquieter said:I bought the previous version for $99. I was very pleased with myself, as I'd have a tablet to take traveling without having to worry about losing it. Traveling with my expensive iPad Pro made me very nervous. Turns out is was just a waste of $99. The volume was too low, the screen had a terrible light leak that drew my eye away from any movie I was trying to watch. It was too dim to see in a bright room. It was painfully slow. Almost felt broken sometimes waiting for the home screen icons to appear. I hated it so much.
The article states that if you don't have enough money then you don't have a choice between this and the iPad. This is true, but I think a third option is to put the extra $150 toward a better phone. I found the Kindle device to be so horrible to use, I used my phone instead. Maybe the faster chip will make this revision worth it, but I doubt it. -
iPhone 11 Pro vs Samsung Galaxy S20 - $999 premium smartphones head-to-head
Samsung jankiness and Android for $1K is not a very enticing proposition. My last trip into the Samsung/Android world was the Galaxy Tab S4. A beautiful screen tied to an awful operating system and slow processor. Sold it after a few months.
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Goldman Sachs spends $350 for every Apple Card signup
If this is your position you should get one then throw it in the trash. Cost Goldman $350.zenwaves said:Gold-man Sucks.
No thanks.
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NBC's 'Peacock' app could have live television streams when launched
I am so excited I could burst! /s
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Apple takes TSMC's whole 3nm production capacity for Mac, iPhone, iPad
"Those numbers are presumably expected to increase, as the publication also reports an estimate that TSMC must sell at least 300 million processors to return a profit."
Wow. I wonder how many iPhones Apple needs to sell to make a profit? 7? -
Shipping delays continue to dog Apple's 4" iPhone SE
I think the pricing is definitely the main thing driving sales. A lot of people will always buy the cheapest model, even if they have the means to buy the more expensive ones. I know a few people like that myself. One of them has at least a million dollars at their disposal, but always buys the cheapest iPhone. Now the cheapest phone is as fast as the most expensive, I don't even bother advising against it any more.
