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Twitter Inc. no longer exists, now X Corp.
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Brazil stops iPhone sales until Apple includes an AC charger
Brazil put a price on wokeness, good.
Apple is so concerned about the environment they don't include a charger or earphones in their $1,000+ devices.At the same time, they make products that can't be repaired and need to be replaced wholesale. Example my XS face ID crystal broke, turns out, that cannot be fixed or replaced. At all. Not by Apple or anyone else. Either you use the phone without, or you throw it away.What @wood said is a simple solution but Apple won't do that because they're hypocrites. Apple used to be a good company under Steve Jobs - at that time, critics were saying the same thing. Back then they were not right. Today they are.
I also don't think the environment argument has merit - let's say Apple ships 1000x less chargers, OK, fair enough, but people are going to buy 100x more 3rd party chargers, most of which are way more polluting than what Apple is making in its closely monitored factores, and some of these 3rd party chargers will destroy the iPhones, leading to more waste. i think in the end nothing will have been saved. Except the carbon neutral rating, congratulations, hypocrites!
wood1208 said:Price for Brazil iPhone by default includes charger. If someone don't want it than give deduction/rebate for charger in final price on invoice.
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Controversial Humane Ai Pin is here, costs $700, and requires a subscription
Well, this is interesting.
Unless they are too early, this is an obvious winner - productivity wise likely better than iPhone which is amazing.
In terms of entertainment, it's clearly worse, you r Tik Tok videos won't look so good rendered by green lasers. But... it's not for that.Computers have become way too complex - AI with voice recognition offers a way out of that morass - the only visible way out.
We've already thought of all the clever UI elements we could put on screens, but the complexity keeps growing. I am an engineer and I think the number of options in iPhone settings is ridiculous. There's way too much going on, nobody has time or the mind to learn all that. Add to this blockchain it gets even worse.
This device is super impressive in terms of battery and power
And how it is to be used - the biggest hurdle - has already been shown in like 1000s of episodes of SciFi shows and movies, Star Trek and others. We know how to use this.
Apple should be extremely worried, this is exactly the kind of thing that will kill them in the long term. Because Apple makes so much money from iPhone, it won't be easy to jump on this tech.
I hope they don't sell out - this startup is epic, and I did not expect to say this after the headline. But that is really cool stuff and the obvious direction computing is going in the future. -
New M3 MacBook Air arrives with faster Wi-Fi and better performance
tenthousandthings said:I see they now offer a 16GB version among the standard configurations they keep in stock, instead of having to order it. That wasn’t possible when we walked into the store and bought an M2 Air back when it first came out. We got the 8GB (which has been fine for what it is used for), but I remember thinking Apple had left money on the table, as we would have gotten the 16GB if we could have walked out of the store with it right then and there.
Another mistake Apple made was to discontinue Rose Gold - I know a lot of girls with rose gold laptops and they all absolutely love the color. Starlight is not quite the same, appeal-wise. Also the new MacBook Air is a lot fatter, visually - it pretty much looks like a MBP. I can't understand for the life of me what got into them to make it look like that. We all know the volume is same or less than the M1 wedge shape MBA, so this is all just visuals - but the large feet under the laptop make it appear fat when it's on the table. A strange decision - ultrabooks from Huawei and Samsung look smaller (and may actually be smaller). -
Apple Silicon M2 vs M3 - looking at the future of the Mac
canukstorm said:
These leaks build excitement while not promising anything - since it's not Apple official official - and they could also be "wrong" in case Apple can't deliver on whatever was leaked.
It's pretty clever. Gurman's track record is near 100%. If Apple wanted to shut down that channel they would have.
It's all under plausible deniability as all sides work together but no official contract exists. -
Controversial Humane Ai Pin is here, costs $700, and requires a subscription
comcastsucks said:"Any time the microphone or camera is in use, a "trust light" is turned on for people to see"
How long until someone figures out how to turn that off?There's tons of other devices which can silently record things that are much better suited for the task - because they're designed for it. -
Apple drops to fourth place in China's smartphone sales
FWIW Huawei is a phone maker, not a "local reseller" - they make some of the best Android phones, unfortunately got banned in the US for political reasons.
Honor is a Huawei sub-brand to sort of get around the restrictions, although it seems Huawei doesn't really care all that much about the US / EU market at the moment. -
Controversial Humane Ai Pin is here, costs $700, and requires a subscription
Punultimate said:Looks awkward to wear and interact with.Also they need to spend some money on marketing; a stilted demo in an echo filled room with lackluster record and no background music is not a great introduction to a new product.Interesting ideas with the hand projection and interaction but 100% a skip for me.I've seen many cringe marketing overly glossy pitch perfectly ad-voice - that doesn't work anymore, the collective has moved on from it. Today's biggest adiences are watching ad hoc YouTubers with bad hair and incorrect spelling 10x or 100x more than the old TV stations - authenticity wins. -
New macOS Sonoma 14.4 bug kills file versions in iCloud Drive
charlesn said:This and other cases like it are why I stopped auto updating my Apple products when the latest releases drop. I now always wait a couple of weeks, at least, to see if it's "safe" to do so. It's really inexcusable for the dot 4 version of an OS to be breaking stuff and having this level of bugginess.
Which is why I frantically update the moment a new release is available.