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Mike Wuerthele, please update the article to note that in Australia Amex credit cards also work with ApplePay (on those terminals that accept them). Market pressure will eventually make this happen. Certainly, on a recent visit, every time I paid…
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Roger Fingas, please update the article to note that in Australia Amex credit cards also work with ApplePay (on those terminals that accept them). Market pressure will eventually make this happen. Certainly, on a recent visit, every time I paid w…
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I'm still waiting on my Airpods, but Siri only works for me if I mimic an American accent (which I do very badly). When will we get an Aussie friendly Siri?
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I love my 42mm Apple Watch Series 2, Space Black Stainless Steel Case with Milanese Loop Strap. I wear it from wake up to bed time, office, home, gym, running, swimming, even a 10km Spartan Race (but I did cover it with a sweatband), I even shower w…
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Yea! Dubai Mall is much easier for me to get to than Mall of the Emirates or Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.
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I'm just back from two weeks in Oz and about half of the outlets with tap-and-pay accepted my Amex CC on my Apple Watch. If I had an ANZ (one of the banks that is not in the cartel opposing ApplePay) CC it would have been accepted at all tap-and-pay…
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Great to have a better pencil and soon smaller form-factor iPads to use it on, but when will we get handwriting recognition built in to the OS? Siri is good for many things, but dictating to her during a meeting is not cool.
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Great article Daniel, I hope it was email with the link to Chris Mimm's article in the WSJ that put the burr under your saddle.
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SpamSandwich said: "Ear speakers"? Speakers located next to where the ear will be if you hold the phone to your head. Current iPhones have the speaker at the bottom, next to the microphone. This patent could have immense application t…
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The iPad can be a laptop lite, or a tablet that replaces the laptop. As a laptop lite it requires hooking up a keypad and accepting the limitations of its file management system and lack of connectivity. If it is to be used as a tablet that replace…
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Looks cool, but why bother? My Christmas present to myself was an Apple Watch Series 2, Space Black Stainless Steel Case with Space Black Milanese Loop. I exercise regularly, including gym, run, swim and obstacle races and don't need to change bands…
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slurpy said: anantksundaram said: I am going to finally get around to buying an AppleTV 4. The 2nd Gen in the basement is getting long in the tooth (e.g., the YouTube app is gone), so I have to bite the bullet. This is the FIRST EVER…
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Another great reason to use mapping apps. In Australia it is not uncommon for accidents to occur where a car, being driven at night on a long, straight outback road, plows into a freight train blocking a level crossing. Just a warning from Siri, lik…
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I'm just back from a month's holiday in Oz. Tried to buy an A-Watch Series 2 in Dubai on the way out - sold out. Tried to buy one in at the A-Store in Perth - almost sold out and did not have the model I wanted (steel, black with black Milanese Loop…
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sflagel said: Better safe than sorry. Low probability x unlimited damage is a good enough reason not to wear a gadget to Parliament... I agree, but the last word in your post should be 'cabinet', not 'parliament'. Parliament is open to t…
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See "Apple patents laser mapping system, etc.", AI's first post on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. Clearly it is intended to be part of a positional tracking system for mobile VR.
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Please, please, please, please, please HWR with the aPencil on iPad, and the ability to sketch and have it automatically create regular shapes (I still miss my Newton!) A monitor "Designed by Apple, built by LG" is a great idea. Can we also have a …
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lowededwookie said: The performance requirements for the Oculus Rift are a joke. All it is is a headset that displays graphics. Back in the nineties there was an Amiga 3000 powered system called Virtuality and it could run a car simulator, a…
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macxpress said: I guess if I were Apple, I'd just say fuck Australia! Sorry to those who live there and can't use it, but if banks and retailers want to be dipshits then I guess Apple has no choice. You can use Apple Pay in Australia, y…
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Visiting Sydney a few years back my iPhone died. By the time I got back to my hotel and raced (on foot) to the Apple Store it was late. I explained that I was flying out tomorrow, had appointments that night and in the morning the next day and was t…