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Apple confirms T2 coprocessor blocks some third-party Mac repairs
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Apple Pay person-to-person transfers will be free with debit card, incur 3% fee with credi...
That fee is to be expected and presumably a person to person transfer also won't be considered as a purchase by credit cards; it would be considered a cash advance which potentially (depending on your bank) comes with its own one off % fee added by the bank and would incur interest from day one (no interest free days) and will have its own special interest rate (often much higher than the interest rate for purchases).
Here's hoping people realize the likelihood of this. -
Apple could expand NFC capabilities beyond Apple Pay in iOS 11
There's no way this is Apple bowing to the pressure of Australian banks. This would always have been intended by Apple. As Radarthekat said, they first keep tight control of new features and then they slowly open them up in a safe way.
I'm laughing at those banks that didn't get on board. The new Person to Person Apple Pay payments are received to an 'Apple Pay Cash Card' which stores the value received. You can then send that value on to someone else or spend it using Apple Pay or withdraw it too your bank account. So from my understanding it works like a digital pre-paid Visa debit card. This will open up Apple Pay to all Apple users regardless of whether their bank is on board or not. -
Fitbit to reportedly buy smartwatch maker Pebble for 'small amount,' phase out product
ktappe said:I don't think I'll ever understand the concept of buying a company just to shut them down.
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Apple calls for lower-than-expected Q2 guidance on iPhone sales miss
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Apple shuts down Epic Games developer account
d_2 said:My wife sells wholesale goods to retailers. With Epic’s logic, she should take her products, walk in to her favorite large retailer (WalMart), setup a table or two, and start selling direct.
Sure, that would work great.
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Apple's leather sleeve for iPhone 12 review: expensive, but without equal
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Apple's self-driving vehicles disengage for safety more frequently by design
DAalseth said:Between April 2017 and June 2018, Apple's test vehicles travelled 24,604 miles autonomously, experiencing 40,198 Manual Takeovers and 36,359 Software Disengagements during that time. For the post-July period, the cars are said to have traveled 56,135 miles autonomously, and to have experienced just 28 Important Disengagements
April 17-June 18: 24,604 miles with 76, 557 disengagements
After July 18: 56,135 miles with just 28 disengagements.
Sounds to me this includes an early experimental testing period when yes the SW would be buggy as heck.
The latter figure with over twice as many miles and less than thirty issues is more endemic of a maturing system.
The latter figure only proves what they said, that they changed the types of disengagements that they reported.
I also assume they are improving but there's no proof of that from the data above. -
Cortana iOS app to go dark in Australia, UK, Canada on January 31
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Apple's 'Far Out' event sneaks in 'Severance' reference -- twice
Why would they use a lookalike? It defies logic.Apple own the rights to Severance.
If they couldn't get the actual actress, why bother doing anything?crowley said:Not exactly a great look at the girl on the platform. It could be Britt Lower, or it could be a lookalike. I'm more inclined towards the latter, face looks a little bit different to me.