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Honkers said: cropr said: A recent development has been to add basic Android Auto functionality to the car OS system (Volvo OS in this case). Google has to do a lot of work to embed this Android functionality in the car OS. Google calls…
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22july2013 said: My current Honda forces me to manually alternate, every day, between my Carplay ecosystem and my Honda ecosystem. That's a hard fail. I don't want that. Unless I'm reading it wrong, Volvo wants to support CarPlay/Android but …
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jimh2 said: Those using the 3rd party app stores for their products will quickly find out 99.99% of iPhone users will never venture over there to hand out the credit card and personal information to another company. They may well find out the…
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Calvin_Hobbes said: "As it turns out, Spotify is mostly not subject to Apple's 30% commission either. After the first year of a subscription, Apple's fees drop to 15%." oh. Well that seems more than fair. And while we're on the topic of co…
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scatz said: chelgrian said: darkvader said: I'm assuming they'd still work if you use a VPN to appear out of the country to Apple servers. I expect Signal would still just work, I can't imagine they'd go to any actual effort to…
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Still not really usable in Belgium due to the language issues. When Apple Maps was launched in Belgium some 10 years ago, I tried ito use Apple Maps + siri to navigate me to 5 major roads in Antwerp: Apple Maps + Siri managed to route me to 1 addr…
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twolf2919 said: lam92103 said: Apple should not be able to dictate what over 53% of American consumers can install on their phones. They should not be able to force companies to bend to their rules or just loose 53% of the mobile marke…
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jfabula1 said: Ah EU….sorry but Google is not EU company you can bully. Yes you can tax them the right way but ad is their business. If businesses are really hurting then dont advertise on their platform. Simple enough. Taxing is not the c…
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I bought a K380 18 months ago and I really like it. I have 3 office spaces and I take the keyboard with me in my backpack . One the features that are not mentioned in the article but that is important for me it the mechanical on/off switch, so it d…
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macxpress said: Just don't text Android users...problem solved! So I use Whatsapp?
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person said: Do credit card companies make it so you can use the nfc chips in their cards work with other companies? I think not Be informed. All chip based credit cards use the same standards. So any credit card can be used to pay at any…
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AppleInsider said: Finally, Google calls RCS an industry standard. Which it isn't, not even close. Google hasn't even adopted RCS across all of its disparate messaging platforms. To set a few things straight: SMS is a telecommunication…
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ericthehalfbee said: What I expect to happen in the EU is numerous criminals and shady developers are going to infest iPhones with malware and privacy invading features. Users will be screaming at Apple (who else will they blame) and Apple w…
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The global pricing policy is more important for me than the number of price points. Being an app developer in the EU, I always had issues when Apple decided to change to USD EUR exchange rate and I had to adapt my pricing in EUR. Up to now, I need…
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badmonk said: Samsung is notorious for stealing IT from smaller companies and so to portray Samsung as a victim in its relationship with Apple seems to be a stretch. The pot calls the kettle black
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Alex_V said: My theory is that Microsoft still exists thanks only to Excel. The company rests upon that single foundation stone. Businesses around the world must have Excel because of the formulas and macros or whatever, that run their compan…
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lewk said: What's pretty screwy about this is that they evidently haven't bothered to talk to their security people. A lot of government agencies in the US and I suspect in Europe as well, use iMessage because it is encrypted end to end, and…
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avon b7 said: Theoretically, Apple could do what Huawei has been doing for years. Add to a standard to enhance performance of its own devices without impacting standards compliance. That seems impossible. The performance on a 5G network …
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longfang said: For me Samsung is a non starter being unable to run iOS. Then why did you read the article?
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danox said: How would they know how many iPhones Apple shipped?Did Apple also tell them how many iPhones were actually sold this quarter? Did Tim send them a memo? There are a lot of indicators for IDC to estimate the volume even if Apple…