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  • Editorial: Reporting about the MacBook Pro is failing at a faster rate than the butterfly ...

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    foregoneconclusion said:
    All the same types of complaints that people level at the butterfly mechanism keyboards are replicated by PC laptops that don't use it. Simple internet searches prove it. None of the major PC brands for laptops provide any numbers on how often those types of duplicate keyboard failures occur either, similar to Apple. Considering those two facts, it's not all that convincing to treat butterfly failures as if they're somehow out of line with the rest of the industry. The keyboard is one of the most heavily used external pieces of hardware on any brand of laptop, so it makes sense that it could be one of the more common areas of repair in terms of percentages. Anecdotally, I've had more than one scissor keyboard fail for a desktop Mac, both at work and in home use.
    Speaking as a long-time Apple Genius (until very recently) I can say that when you go from seeing the occasional keyboard issue, to seeing multiple coming in every day,  there is a problem.
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  • Why Apple's smart home speaker dreams are still falling short

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    Many moons ago when I was a genius we used to have a Bluetooth speaker in the genius room to play music while we worked.  When the HomePod was released we were forced to use that instead.  It was absolutely useless especially with all the different accents from the multicultural staff.  Swearing at and throwing things at it became commonplace.

    it’s crappyness didn’t stop my buying one at 50% discount though.  Sound is ok but Siri is absolutely abysmal, like a D grade student who gets held back to do 3rd grade year after year after year after….
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  • Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone 18 years ago

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    Wow, that brought back happy memories.  We all new the rumours about a phone device, and it didn't disappoint.  

    As an Apple retail employee we each got given a free iPhone and I can still remember walking home, marvelling at how beautiful it was and how great it felt in my hand.

    The stock price a few years later was pretty marvellous as well.  

    Cheers Steve, RIP.
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  • U.S. to investigate planned French tax on Apple, other tech giants [u]

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    How dare France try to level the playing field.  

    Tax-dodging multinationals have an unfair advantage over small local companies who can’t base their operations in tax havens.
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  • Apple refuses Irish finance committee meeting for second time

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    As a UK resident, I am extremely pissed off that Apple makes huge profits in the UK that they don't pay any tax on. Local companies are expected to help pay for the infrastructure, education and lawful society that allows business to work efficiently, while multi-nationals don't want to pay for any of that, just use it all for free. And then have the audacity so whine about "it's all Political crap" when your greed starts catching up with you.
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  • US lawmakers attack Apple for song takedowns in Chinese government censorship effort

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    A bunch of hypocritical lying Republicans, pretending to care about the constitution. I assume that their main issue is they haven't received any lobbying money from Apple
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  • MacBook, MacBook Pro keyboard repairs 'prioritized' for in-store next-day service

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    The biggest issue with fast turn-a-round is the crappy post-repair diagnostics and trackpad calibration.  Hair-pulling frustration levels when something that should take 15 minutes, could take hours or even days to complete.
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  • Influencer isn't telling the whole story about her viral AirPods replacement ordeal

    Ecky-ThumpEcky-Thump
    Hopefully this “influencer” won’t influence others to act like a complete arse and ruin the day of retail employees.
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  • Apple's best designs by Jony Ive, according to the AppleInsider staff

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    I'm surprised no one has mentioned the iMac G4.  The angle-poise display that seems to float in the air is an ergonomic dream, while the base with the CD drive that seems to poke out its tongue is both cute and beautiful.

    As an aside, I still have mine sitting away, it actually has a manufacturing fault where the silkscreened port icons on the back are in the wrong place, so it has the wrong emblem over the ports.

    I wonder if that makes it a valuable rarity :-)
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  • Apple-backed lobbying groups accused of fighting climate legislation

    Ecky-ThumpEcky-Thump
    Good, I hope it’s true. Anyone that has any sanity left should be opposed to this bill, for many reasons, climate nonsense being just one. Climate is purely a political issue and a way to manipulate economies. Even if you failed grade school science and somehow believe that extremely low levels of gaseous plant fertilizer is somehow bad for the planet, the political efforts to reduce CO2 do nothing. 
    "Climate is purely a political issue" "climate nonsense"

    No, climate denial is political, climate science is     science.  Some people just can't handle the facts.
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