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  • Nearly every Apple top exec is working on the AR headset

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    manwithnoname said:
    I don't think the majority of the public care about AR/VR. It will just be another product some people will buy. Its no great inovation or world sharttering tech. Techno heads will buy it up as they do with anything new, whether it's useful; or not! That most likley is not what Apple fanatics want to hear but it is what it is.
    Yeah. It will have the success of iPod HiFi boombox or the G4 Cube.
    williamlondon

  • AirPods Max 'devastatingly overengineered' but repairable, demonstrates teardown

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    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    It turns out that a solid piece of aluminum is not very well ventilated. Hot electronics + a hot ear + a humid day in the summer = one dripping moldy mess.
    Compared to what? Plastic headphones?

    And what "hot electronics"? It's a pair of headphones, hardly gets any hot.

    Some people will complain about anything....

    right_said_fredking editor the grateStrangeDayswatto_cobra

  • Inside Apple's Singapore Marina Bay Sands retail store

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    JP234 said:
    JP234 said:
    Insanely great. But what did this cost me, as an Apple shareholder? Betting my dividends would be higher if Apple spent a teeeeeny bit less on these eclectic and expensive stores that are popping up. Apple customers don't need a "floating dome" to shop for Apple goods and services. A mall store is just fine for me.

    Comments like this remind me of why our world is so messed up. Humans are selfish, and not out of survival like the rest of nature.

    So how is Apple's hard work at padding your pockets bringing value into your life? Do you drive an expensive car or a junker, just to be practical? Do you own a large screen TV or just read a book at night?

    It goes both ways. Apple's investment in the "Apple experience" is why sales remain strong.
    Actually, my wife and I drive Volvos. A 2013 S60 and a 2022 XC40, both Platinum trim, paid for in cash. Between our Apple, Microsoft, two utility and 5 oil company stocks, the dividends throw off enough cash to buy a new one (about $45-$50K each) every two years. My 2013 has only 28,000 garage kept miles on it, so I'm keeping it, even though I'd like a new one. Maybe if Apple paid me a special dividend or raised the dividend, I'd get a new 2023, even though my '13 is near mint. But I'm a lifelong gearhead, so cars are near the top of my spending priorities.

    Our TV is only 43." And I read lots of books, too, mostly from the library. We have no debt; not cars, not mortgage, not credit card.

    To put it in terms no millennial will ever understand, but every Boomer will, "You can't spend or borrow your way to prosperity."
    Hahahaha, that's rich coming from Boomers that got their prosperity through greed and from taking for themselves the resources for the following generations, piling up externalities, and cutting down all the ladders of support they used to get where they are for extra profit - so selfish that they behaved as if there would be no future after them!

    Boomers literaly spend all the country's resources they were given and borrowred against the future of the country and of their children!


    ravnorodomdewmewilliamlondon

  • Apple has never been against advertising -- it's against invasive data collection

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    Well, Apple might never have been "against advertising" but most of us Apple users have always been - not just about better privacy but also seeing less or no ads. That should go along with paying a premium for a premium product. A cheapo company can nickel and dime their customers all they want, a premium brand shouldn't. These articles look like paid "damage control" and preparing the sucker buyers for the eventual landing of even more BS advertising on Apple platforms...
    clemynxmuthuk_vanalingam

  • Inside Apple's Singapore Marina Bay Sands retail store

    foljsfoljs
    JP234 said:
    Insanely great. But what did this cost me, as an Apple shareholder? Betting my dividends would be higher if Apple spent a teeeeeny bit less on these eclectic and expensive stores that are popping up. Apple customers don't need a "floating dome" to shop for Apple goods and services. A mall store is just fine for me.
    If Apple was associated with mall stores that are "fine for you" they'd be seen as a bargain low-value brand, and would be not even close to half their current market value...
    ravnorodom

  • Apple still working on next-gen external display with integrated graphics card - report

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    I really like this concept. With the technology that Apple has worked with to power graphics in iPad and iPhone, it feels to me they can develop a custom solution to drive this at a reasonable cost versus putting a true "graphic card" inside a monitor. It would also allow the monitor to be sleek and sexy like its laptops.
    First, a rumor with unnamed sources. 
    Kids this days. The way these particular "unnamed sources" are presented (and their secondary source), makes the news 100% legit (not to mention intentionally leaking) to us experienced Apple-lers.

    Back in the iPod/Jobs days we had to differentiate and evaluate between all kinds of rumors.

    And places like AppleInsider etc were called "Rumor Sites" for a reason. The ease (and naivety) with which current AI readers seem to scorn all "rumors" amazes me...

    Now get the fuck out of my lawn...


    fastasleeppatchythepirate

  • Intel pushes USB-C as 3.5mm jack replacement, touts better sound, thinness & power management

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    cali said:
    Lightning is still smaller than USB-C and I believe lightning is still too large for a headphone standard that will span decades.

    it would be awesome if Apple announced lightning 2 before dropping 3.5mm.
    After a certain size (and USB-C is that or close to that) devices won't have smaller physical ports for headphones or whaever. They'd just use wireless transmission.

    So it makes no sense to say "lightning is still too large for a headphone standard that will span decades" -- as if in 2030 we'll be using some thinner and brittler cable and tiny physical port for sound. That would be so brittle, it would break at the first push or tangling. Instead we'll go from something like lighting/usb-C to wireless sound in smaller future devices.