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Quote: Originally Posted by LarryA Can't imagine buying one, even at $350. I predict this launch will be humbling for Apple. Be careful, smart people have predicted similar sensible sounding things about Apple products and have turned out to c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismY My comments don't restrict Apple from making it thinner each year. That would definitely be easier than what i'm proposing, but I'm not sure that's the best route since jewelry is typically collected, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mpantone Nah, but I'll look super stylin' in my coffin. Besides, square watches = yuck. Whatever floats your boat. For me, round watches with their gauges and dials? Too steampunk. Not my thing.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Crosslad When you buy a Rolex though it is for life. The Apple watch will be a purchase for just a couple of years due to the battery and speed that technology becomes outdated. I wouldn't want to spend $5,000 on a …
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Quote: Originally Posted by bdkennedy1 And in 5 years when Apple stops supporting it and the battery won't hold a charge anymore, it will be worth $100. It's easily $400 to service a Rolex, needs it every 4 years or so. Swapping the battery on…
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What's missing for me is GTAT explaining how they were not complete idiots for agreeing to all of this. But maybe that's just too hard to do. "We gambled and lost." isn't the smart thing to say now, I imagine.
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Well, that's quick. Was it yesterday that someone found out their email check web API was wide open?
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Quote: Originally Posted by PaulSorensen Interesting that these merchants apparently were able to allow Google Wallet based NFC transactions. One could wonder how much Google Wallet was actually used. Maybe not enough to bother shutting down N…
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As far as I understand the EU investigation is for another issue than the trick where part of Apple has tax residency nowhere. The EU investigation is for 'transfer pricing', the prices the various parts of Apple charge each other for IP licenses an…
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So, apparently according to one person looked at this with some depth (https://www.nikcub.com/posts/notes-on-the-celebrity-data-theft/), celebrity data theft is something that goes on all the time. Usually, these thing don't become public, because t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mazda 3s Surprised you didn't implicate Samsung Indeed! Samsung spends 10x as much as Apple on "marketing". Samsung hiring celebs to tweet from their iPhones we knew about. Now we know where some more of this mon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by RegurgitatedCoprolite John Gruber is very careful about everything he posts. I heard him say a few years ago he likes to control every pixel on his site. He wouldn't post this comment without knowing something. Yes…
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Quote: Originally Posted by snoissea "It looks like Motorola's designers tried to draw as much attention as they could to the 360's stupid flat-tire display shape." Motorola's "stupid flat-tire display shape" is only the shape almost EVERY …
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Quote: Originally Posted by colibri Protectionism - clear and simple. They are giving Chinese knockoff brands like Xiaomi space to grow locally. Also, Xiaomi has chinese government snooping built in, same for other local brands. On the rest …
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darryn lowe wrote: » My reading of this is that it is writing to the firmware of the USB controller which would be standard across the board no matter what the device. So in theory at least ALL devices would be vulnerable. No way. I've made some …
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Utterly pointless too. How would they even know they are looking at the right source code?
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Production snags are great news! This means Apple is doing something hard and the copycats will take longer to catch up.
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Quote: Originally Posted by pmz NFC is not happening. It it is old, unsecure, immature, pathetic technology. BLE is lightyears ahead, actually active in development, and already being built in to iOS devices. Totally. But. The credit and de…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lorin Schultz I agree that Apple could create an elegant, integrated payment solution. That's not the challenge. Getting their hardware installed in BILLIONS of businesses around the world is. It just won't happen. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by NelsonX Bytheway, you should check NFC World to see how widespread NFC has become! http://www.nfcworld.com/ They've been saying this for years. Progress is really slow. By the time NFC for payments is in enough plac…