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Airpods cool? No, they still look like toothbrushes hanging out of your ear. Silly but you're not a moron anymore as many people have similar stuff hanging out of their ears.

But, while on the go I bring my Airpods in my pocket leaving me without tangling cables and without (too much) stress when I need to put in my headphones at some incoming call. I do not walk around with a full blown headphone on my head. That does make you look like kinda sad (besides, it can be pretty dangerous).

So, yes, I do love my Airpods and I use them a lot... for phonecalls, facetime, skype and google talk. For that the Airpod does a good job. For music? Not really. It's not that bad but I do prefer my Beoplay headphones.

miguelghs said:

This article is wrong in so many levels. I keep seeing media and blogs obsessing about Apple but what they fail to see is that I have to keep a cable for my phone, a cable for my headphones, a cable for my computer, a cable for my watch, a cable for my tablet, etc etc… and as me, there’s many others. 

I wish this law was approved many years ago and we wouldn’t have to deal with this mess. 

Many years ago a similar law was proposed, not with USB-C but with mini-USB being the de-facto standard at the time.  If that law had passed then we'd all be using mini-USB connectors now. Very likely we'd never be using the lightning cable nor the USB-C cable then. With that ruling we'd even be stuck with VGA and DVI cables as mini-USB isn't fast enough for video-transport. Glad the ruling didn't pass. It would definitely have blocked innovation, just like the USB-C ruling will block innovation now even though we all feel USB-C is pretty ok at the moment.

Before USB we'd prefer to use those heavy RS-232, SCSI and Centronics cables. Remember those? Glad no law got passed back then to set these as the standard. 

You forgot to mention the most important drawback even though you did seem to go in that direction: the size of this 16E.

I also bought my 13 mini after hearing Apple was expected to terminate the mini sized phones. And here I am, surviving with my mini until Apple will realize the mini does have a lot of admirers. I won’t go larger and I won’t go the Apple Watch route (I’m a Withings guy). I just keep my fingers crossed and hope it works for years to come.

So, it’s a personal device? Every family member will require their own Vision Pro?

I'm from the Netherlands. I don't really care about my child seeing any nudity (she'll immediately yell "Yuck!" anyway). However I do care about child abuse, blackmail between kids, bullying and pornography  (especially abusive, agressive or disrespectful pornography). I do have my doubts regarding American companies trying to enforce American puritan morals upon my child. I hate to see my child already feels nudity is bad, just because of the leading puritan American morals in a lot of series and movies while at the same time agression and gore is apparantly quite accepted in the US while it's not on this side of the Atlantic. So Apple now decides she cannot see nudity but she can see violence? Yes, I would prefer my kid not to send any nude pictures and to stay away from Omegle etc. But that's way more my task as a parent, not Apple's.

Anyway, I just read the iCulture article. It seems upon receival of a suspected nude picture, Apple will just blur the photo and warn the child with "This photo could be sensitive. Are you sure you want to view it?". And upon sending a possible nude picture "It's your choice but make sure you feel safe". Now, teens are per definition very curious and my kid is no exception: she'd definately want to view such a picture but will learn pretty fast not to view any more such pictures from certain people in a chatgroup. So, it's not as bad as I initially thought it was. It might even be quite helpful but still, the message it bears is "nudity is bad" and that's something I definately don't want my child to learn.

Pyper13 said:

Samsung (or whomever) always tries to be first, rushing products to the market based solely on Apple rumored products.
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More like Apple just watching how others fare, gixing issues and molding them into a really usable product.

Rings like Oura, Movana, Circular Ring and now the Samsung will help Apple developing theirs and launch it when it’s ready. Unfortunately the market often demands launching it just before it’s ready, turning first generation users into beta testers / guinea pigs.

I’m looking forward for a good ring, without an additional subscription. The Movana is promising but currently they only offer a ring targeted exclusively at women.

With 2nm this means less power requirements. I’d think this opens some serious options for a new mini phone.

My 13 mini is still going strong but one day it will break and I sure don’t want anything bigger than this. Nor do I look forward to folding phones, whatever great breakthroughs are being made.  I just don’t care. For me the mini is the sweet spot. I’d actually like it to be even smaller, like the 5S.
 

Just no fingers near my screen, thank you. Maybe some function keys can be replaced with keys containing an oled screen but otherwise, it’s fine as it is now. Please, no screens at the palm rests and do not replace the speakers with touch sensitive areas or oled keys. Do not sacrifice the sound quality of the mbp. Interesting ideas though. Keep going.

Nice, such a thin one and a folding one. Now complete the line up with a fat mini, Apple. Same battery power, smaller screen for those who don’t want to shine with their iPhones but just wish a very usable tool allowing to do their daily work.
Meanwhile, I’ll just stick to my near perfect iPhonr Mini-13. Near? Yes, it’s slightly too big. I don’t care about thickness.