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Dual SIM is all about protecting China market share at this point. Asians have had dual SIM phones since the feature phone era and major Chinese phone makers have sold dual SIM smartphones in the domestic market for years. With Huawei and Oppo now s…
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Calm-down. Apple is generally secretive so speculation by the public and press is natural, including by AppleInsider and it’s readers. The tendency of AppleInsider to zealously defend Apple at all costs doesn’t do much for your own credibility and …
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Autodesk always does what is easiest for them and enables the maximum licensing fees from locked-in customers. I have run Autocad for 30!years, this has always been the case. Since a majority of their market is now Windows (except some architects …
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This is not a new or unexpected problem. The top top end processor for MBP or similar thin form factor notebooks is seldom the optimum performance solution in real terms due to thermal throttling and power consumption. Typically, these processors…
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Pro: Faster charging, fewer adaptors, more choice of accessories Con: Lighting male end is more robust, all the existing docs, cables, etc. From my viewpoint, the change doesn’t offer a significant advantage for the use case so would be a nuisance…
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MBP keyboards have required case replacements since 2010 if the repairs were done by Apple, but Independent repair stations have done KB only repairs, which took about 2 hours of work on the scissor switch models Im sure it’s also possible to repai…
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No Apple Care+ and no case? What were you thinking? After waiting for the (product) RED iP8+, to compare with the iPX, I chose a silver iPX with RED silicone cover. I really liked the looks of the (product) RED phone, but after side-by-side use comp…
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All Chinese and Hong Kong transit cards use central server systems so integrating to them is not a major technical issue. The cards are simply a number isn the system and the central server keeps the balance, so they can be topped-up by various mean…
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Shanghai Transit cards (NFC) are available from the ticket window on any Metro station and many shops. No ID is required, only a small deposit for the card (refillable). If you are visiting RMB100 including the card deposit should cover at least …
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avon b7 said: lkrupp said: What? Wait one goddamn minute. Apple is failing in China. We have that hammered into our heads every single day by the tech media. The Chinese phone makers are eating Apple’s lunch in China. No Chinese worker…
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Quote: Originally Posted by herbivore Apple could move to TSMC for their CPUs. However, Samsung is still the leader in flash memory and among the leaders in display technology. It would be in Apple's best interests to work with Samsung. Sams…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Last I knew Global Foundries was not part of Samsung. They have been two independent companies. In that regard I'm certain that each A series chip is designed against multiple production processes. For App…
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Dare to Tim Cook : OS X Guerneville Just Do It, Tim.
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Quote: According to people familiar with matter, Samsung employees working on the special team also help develop display technologies for Apple and are thus not allowed to share product information with colleagues outside the group. Affording this …
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Quote: Originally Posted by tmay Apple would have designs produced for both processes, and I believe that both TMSC and Samsung would have had to at least have a tapeout (preproduction) as part of the competition. I do think that Apple was alwa…
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That approximately correlates to the 25% allocated to Global Foundries in this leaked document published by semiwiki. Or he could have taken that information and made an assumption it would be thrown to TSMC. Yet we can still wonder how TSMA wil…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sflocal What is the regular merchant fee in China? Do they even charge a fee to its citizens, or is it a matter of the Chinese government not wanting Apple (or any foreign company) to have that kind of monetary ac…
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This is no big problems because we have several NFC payment and IM based payment options that run on iOS. I think it will take time to get Union Pay, not because of the Union Pay clearing house but because of the member banks, some of which may no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by King Editor the Grate This is one of those times I'm glad to still be on Snow Leopard! So you think Snow Leopard is more secure? You seem to be using the internet so you might want a reality check of that. Are…
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That's the Timmy Cooke Signature Model he's wearing. Kool.