normm

I'm sorry, but the premise of this post is simply wrong.  There has been no decline.  Last year there was a blip, with the big sales of big phones, and this year the sales are exactly back on the former exponential growth curve.  No decline!!

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Most of the AirTag's power is presumably for BlueTooth -- UWB is extremely low power.  Hopefully there will be much smaller future tags with tiny batteries, once most iPhones have UWB.

Dark Matter by Crouch is an excellent scifi novel, and having the original author adapt it and be showrunner, with the lead actor also an executive producer, sounds like this will be done right!

mcdave said:

The games are probably being used for political infiltration too.

So the government is banning licenses for games that it itself uses for infiltration?

jony0 said:

Pages still lacks Find & Replace of special characters

Not true.  You can use menu commands for find and replace special characters from a selection, or directly enter escape codes such as \n \t \i etc.

crowley said:

normm said:

crowley said:

Would be nice if it had more than one USB-C port. 

It has three.

The charger does not have three USB-C ports.  It has one.

Sorry, I stupidly misunderstood what you were referring to.  I meant the MacBook has three USB-C ports.  The USB-C charger has one charging port (and zero USB-C ports).

avon b7 said:

normm said:

Apple integrates as much as possible onto one chip, for power and performance reasons.  I'm sure they plan to continue this trend.  Requiring separate replaceable components may prevent good design.

They won't integrate the battery, screen, backplate, antenna, speakers, connectors, motors, storage memory, cameras, sensors and many other elements into one chip any time soon. 

There is a lot that can be done to make devices more accessible (less labour time on repair as a result) and easier to repair and upgrade. 

There's always a tradeoff.  Remember when Android people made fun of iPhone for having a sealed battery compartment?  And yes, replaceable and upgradeable storage means more connectors, more power, less reliability, etc.  Sensors can certainly benefit from being more closely integrated with the main processing.

crowley said:

Would be nice if it had more than one USB-C port. 

It has three.

On laptops, switch to usb audio.  This is a fully digital connection, with power available for noise cancellation and for microphones.  People can also use wireless audio if they want, but including the headphone jack as a wired connection these days is anachronistic.

soldbyroland said:

If there is a God in heaven, she will be picked as Grandma's vice president. Nothing could be more repugnant than these shrill Blues Sisters out on the campaign trail together. Neither of them has ever created anything except hysteria. Yet they are out criticizing the the people who create jobs and opportunity. What a wretched creature she is!!

Warren is one of the top bankruptcy experts in the world, many say the top expert.  She's highly cited in her publications on this subject, working as a professor at Harvard.  She grew up as a Republican, but it was seeing how ordinary people get pushed into bankruptcy by lack of heath care, and tricked out of their savings by financial advisors and "services", that made her enter politics.  She has fought the big banks that screwed up the economy harder than anyone else.  Remember that she was supposed to be in charge of the Consumer Protection Agency which she started, but the bank lobby and Republicans blocked her.  She started from humble beginnings and has accomplished more than most ever will.  It would be nice to have someone who has spent her life working hard to understand economics involved in running things when the world economy is so shaky!

I am the number one Apple fan, but they are not above criticism.  I actually think they would do better by reducing or eliminating their cut of subscription and media-buying charges.  It almost forces sellers to move the buying part off their iDevices, which certainly hurts the user experience.  I think Apple would make more money overall if they made less in ways that hurt the user experience!