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mjtomlin said:

wood1208 said:

Does anyone know why Apple choose 2 wide angle back camera instead one extra wide and one tele photo ?

Although he was referring to the dual camera system on the iPhone 11, John Gruber from Darirng Fireball mentions...

Fundamentally it’s a bet on the power of computational photography — it’s easier to zoom in digitally than it is to compute a wider field of view.

But as was also mentioned on stage... that extra wide lens can be used in really tight shots, “When there’s no room to back up.”

It’s not harder to compute a wider field of view, its impossible. If the lens can’t see grandma outside the frame, it can’t compute her. Yes you can take a panorama but that’s a different action than pressing the shutter button. It is most likely for 3 reasons 1) people take group shots and can’t back up enough, so you can get shots you wouldn’t otherwise get. 2) more useful for AR applications 3) the ultra wide doesn’t use OIS so prob a cheaper than adding telephoto camera package which does

couldn't disagree more, enjoyed it considering the dry material. Conveyed in a fun way. 

nothing "illegal" about non union work, period.  if they wrote it before the strike then they don't break union rules, if they use a writer who doesn't belong to union, they don't break the rules, if a union writer decided to do it non union and not support his union then he/she broke the rules not apple. either way, these are union rules and having nothing to do with legality or US law. 

as for your supporters, "virtue signaling" hahahahaha, ahhhhhh amazing how even educated people can be brainwashed. you don't have to care about the planet but ask yourself why are you triggered when others do???

The reductionism and simplistic thinking of Jony era vs. now is hilarious. He did great work with Steve, yes but The iPhone was not successful solely b/c or even b/c of Jony’s design. It was a marriage of design and innovation of new tech. Multitouch, eventual App Store, selfie cam, etc. iPad was a big iPhone. His design was sold to you with world class marketing. His accent on all the videos, the slow shots of close details and scripts about Al-You-min-ee-um, chamfered edges etc.

Yes those were all premium and advanced Apple but if the phones tech didn’t exceed everything else on the market then it would not have mattered. 

Debating fine details and products form the last 5 years in relation to Jony is useless. Let’s be clear about something, Jony checked out 11 years ago when Steve passed. Period. He was devastated and burnt out. It was well reported that he wanted to return to the UK. That would have been a disaster at the time for Apple stock after losing Steve. The company and the design team would have been fine but the stock would have suffered so he was paid a boatload and allowed to do what he wanted not leave and move back to the UK in order for the market to not be spooked. 

He worked from his elaborate studio at home in San Fran most of the time and designed the Apple Park and given free rein including designing solid gold edition watches that he could give to celebrities to make his life interesting. 

Correction - The season isn’t over Nov 10th. That’s the end of round 1 of the playoffs which just started last week. Here is the remaining schedule :

Round One     Oct 25 - Nov 10
Conference Semi-finals   Nov 23 - Nov 24
Conference Finals    Nov 30 - Dec 1
MLS Cup    Dec 7

Richard Hylton said:

Why is it so difficult to state what it is that the government wants. It has been reported that the government wants a back-door through the operating system and, contradictorily, that it seeks to retrieve information from a specific phone.

Thats the issue, those are NOT contradictory statements. The govt wants a back-door through the operating system SO THAT it can retrieve information from a "specific" phone. Your iPhone & my iPhone and Syed's iPhone are all the same. The were MASS PRODUCED, they are one and the same, the only difference is you put your info in yours and I put my info in mine. There is no UNIQUE way to access data on only one("specific") iPhone that won't access data on ALL iPhones. and by the way the scary part should be that we are even talking about this issue in regards to this case. If they want to do it for this case then they will use it for literally thousands if not millions of cases. He & his wife are dead, the FBI has admitted he wasn't working with anyone else, this was his work phone not his personal phone(which they destroyed b/c that would have been where the info was), etc. etc. I could go on. this case has nothing to do with this "specific" phone. The next time some kid brings a gun to school or is even heard threatening to shoot up the school then the FBI & local LE will want access to the phone to see how he is planning it and who he might have been talking to about it. bye bye privacy.

grandact73 said:

red oak said:

“He returned his headset”.   What a joke 

Was he part of the original Android team that literally copied iOS?  

Why is it a joke? Just because it goes against what you want? He formed his opinion and decided it wasn't worth it to him.

It's a joke, b/c if he has the "bona fides" then certainly has the cash to drop $4000 and he would keep it to see where it is going on a regular basis as the software develops. Truth is he is (mostly likely) android centric so has no use for an iOS centered device and his returning it has no bearing on the device. He just used it for this review to try to stay relevant. 

and that the iPad was now the world's most popular video player "by a large margin".

There was a bit of a difference though. Using the latest 2006 figures available, Jobs said that the cell market had been worth a billion dollars. Apple was aiming for 10 million dollars in the first year.

Apple's aims for iPhone sales now seem modest

I think you mean IPod not iPad in the first reference and clearly the graphic say 1% = 10M Units NOT 10M dollars.