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  • Apple board member Al Gore sells $29.5M of company stock

    He's broke, he thought he'd be collecting carbon tax royalties by now.
    No, he wont, the bluff has been called, and he is opting out!
    watto_cobrawilliamlondonSpamSandwich
  • Tony Fadell, "father of the iPod," steps down from CEO post at Google's Nest

    3.2 B !! For what? Clear evidence this business was close to loosing the perspectives again!!!
    calimacky the mackymessagepad2100moreck1983
  • Apple TV+ launches with original series and movies

    Guess I want my free one-year after having spent a fortune on Apple equipment since my first Mac in 1997, currently having 15 Apple HW units in use in a household of 2, so I shall have to wait one year before subscribing!

    Great way to treat good customers!

    mrakoplas
  • Actually, there is something new about Apple's upcoming iPhone 7

    kent909 said:

    rpt said:
    There are really two things I miss much more in my 5s and 6s than more speed or a better camera.

    The battery time is an outrage, and I detest the "thinnest phone ever" competition based on one of Steve's two most stupid statements regarding the iPhone: "look how thin it is" and the one about the original iPone having the only useful size.

    Please dont once again hammer me with opinions about battery time (and I do have auxiliary power!). I have/have had 7 iPhones, and my employer have a few thousand users; the common number one grievance is the lack of battery time. After we got used to decent battery time with our last versions of dumb-phones before the iPhone, this has been a constant loss, fortunately not challenged by iPhone's competitors, in what case I probably would have been forced to use Android of some kind.

    Regarding size, I much prefer the size of my 6s to my 5s, and my wife is extremely happy with the size of her 6+. So am I because it saved me upgrading her iPad, and to her size is less important carrying a purse. The current size range is in my opinion perfect, and should have been in place long ago, but waiting obviously was a great business decision. 

    The other one is the lack of water proofing, once unlucky, this becomes important.
    Maybe if you have auxiliary power and you don't have enough battery life to get through the day, have you considered that the problem is not battery life but how much time you spend with your phone? Do you spend more time looking at your phone than your family? While that may not be a problem if they are also mesmerized by their little screens at the same time. But you remain outraged while spending all you non phone time detesting thinness. Just an observation. To each his own. Hey if your phone is dead, just pick up that iPad your wife no longer uses. Between the two maybe you can be assured of another day without having to sleep.
    Of yes, I really love spending a long day using the phone on a business trip, of course playing games so I dont have to bother about following the ongoing boring negotiations, just being in the red part of the  battery indicator needing the downloaded  boarding pass.

    You may not believe it, but there are people using the phone as a professional tool!

    The iPhone is the best for that purpose I belive. BUT BATTERY TIME BEATS THE IMPORTANCE OF A FEW FRACTIONS OF AN INCHE IN THICKNESS.

    And its a joke that you need to haul around auxiliary power, which usually somehow tends to end up out of reach when really needed.
    glynh6Sgoldfish
  • Microsoft debuts Surface Studio all-in-one PC, refreshes high-end Surface Book

    The way Apple keep on selling nearly outdated computer  products most of the time, I guess Microsoft will do well. And yes, I know they will provide some updates again tomorrow, probably leaving a lot of disappointment, before they go back to sleep again.
    aylk