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Simple:  OLED can experience burn-in of graphics that appear for long periods of time. Also, and related, the”O” stands for organic.  Organic compounds usually don’t have the lifespan of inorganic compounds. In OLED, blue has a much shorter lifespan than Red and Green. This could lead to color fading and inaccurate color over time—YMMV.  

Sarkany said:

Secure? Funny. I guess you didn’t read the article with the WiFi exploit. Who knows what kind of security hole is being exploited this very moment by a bad actor on Apple itself or their devices. Get real.

When you load your card onto Apple Pay, it is encrypted and sent to VISA, MasterCard, or whatever company manages the card. Then VISA eg. will issue a different set of 16 digits encrypted to send back and be stored in the Secure Enclave silicon on your iPhone. Only VISA knows the new 16 digits and only VISA has the encryption key. The Secure Enclave does not communicate without encryption, and only VISA can translate the encryption. New keys are used on every transaction. VISA et al only collect info that would be collected to make the payment, the same info collected with a card transaction.

Read up on it at Anandtech.com or ArsTechnica.com via search on sites. AppleInsider may have an archive article on the subject as well.

It’s so secure that credit card companies and banks offer a discounted usage fee to Apple. 
As in the VISA example, not even your bank knows the key. VISA does the communication with your bank directly.

If you don’t trust a company like VISA and their communicating with your bank, then you don’t have any cards at all. As far as the Secure Enclave, it is silicon that would be destructed if it is tampered with physically. Software-wise, the encryption is safer than using a card directly to pay for something.

Be happy, not cynical. ߎ栦amp;nbsp;(emoji for musical notes).

This is an uplifting article with insight into real life consequences of Apple’s intense focus and skills in integration of software and hardware. 

Think of it as a hobby for Apple in the short term similar to the Apple TV box. 

haikus said:

Perhaps the author decided to use “Europe” in the context of this article as an synecdoche for “European Union”, after mentioning the EU once. 

Cool.  I learned a new word: “synecdoche“.   Referring to a whole entity by using a term that refers to a part of the entity.  E.g. head: What was the head-count at the event (people).  Boots: how many boots on the ground (soldiers).  Suits: there were a lot of suits in the room (business-persons). Boards: she’s a great actor on the boards (stage).
Minor quibble—or question?: The EU would be a part of Europe vs Europe as part of EU. 

unbeliever2 said:

`...before Apple's Human User Interface Guideline writers coined the term that we today shorten to "app."`

This is complete nonsense. The term "application", denoting software distinct from the operating system itself, goes back to the 1950's at least.

The word ‘program’ was pretty dominant when I wrote programs in 1966 on punchcards for a mainframe.  

1.)   I don’t think anyone has predicted that 24” iMacs might be upgraded not only with M2 but also with M2 Pro and M2 Max SOC as “scary fast” options. I’d expect the M2 Max will be faster than the base M3.

For the iMac 24”, that could be a “scary” fast option of interest for many—including folks with a Studio Display they already have or would get so they’d have a two monitor system with power in the tank. 

There could be an introduction of a 27” or 30” or 32” iMac with the M2 Pro or M2 Max.   That would make sense. It would fill a long time stretch of no upgrades on that product. The M2 Pro & M2 Max are already in production and this would avoid the supply crunch on the M3 SOC. 

2.)  Another thought is—why would Apple schedule a reveal and compete for audience just when game 3 of the World Series starts?

Maybe the reveal will followed by (or be in) a series of ads during the World Series game, with a bigger ad just before the game start of 5:03pm PDT, and a repeat or second ad during 7th inning stretch.  And short 20 second or less ads during the game hi-lighting gaming on iPhone and the new iMacs as reinforcement teasers. It would be a rather larger audience and during a sporting event, in which they might also reveal expanded MLB showings beyond the Friday night deal. 

commentzilla said:

mayfly said:

There is a phrase in this article that understates what I'd think is a much bigger issue:

"increased vulnerability to external shocks"

With no metal bezel surrounding a glass lens, seems like it would be way more likely to break due to accidents that current phones survive intact. They're going to have to explore a radically different glass technology to prevent that. Or they could just use current glass tech, and make more money on repairs, I suppose.

Hint... the "lens" is not made of glass.

I’ve heard the glass covering the display on the iPhone referred to as ‘lens’ in the past.  It might be ‘engineer-speak’ or a British term.  In the US, we think a lens is on the camera or in glasses, a microscope or telescope. A lens is glass ( or clear plastic) we look through that transmits light and bends the light to form an image that is enlarged, reduced or otherwise distorted. Yet we have sunglasses the have no distortion, just a filtering of light. So, yes, I can see the display glass referred to as a lens. 

Phillips Hue site via the article link, has no info or reference to Philips Hue Festavia string lights. That’s odd. 

twolf2919 said:
With respect to "pent-up demand for iPhone 16", Wedbush made the same claim when justifying their price target before iPhone 15 came out.  I guess a broken clock is going to be right  at least twice a day?  …