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• tipping point for what?!  windows is an OS of convenience and affordability, once you try macOS, there is no turning back.

  in Apple release of iTunes on Windows Store foreshadows 'tipping point,' Microsoft exec says Comment by avidthinker May 2017
• windows me-ification of android!

  in Google reveals 'Android Go' operating system optimized for low-specification smartphones Comment by avidthinker May 2017
• still a second-rate OS

  in Google shows notification dots, smart text selection, optimizations in 'Android O' Comment by avidthinker May 2017
• the telescreens from 1984!

  in Amazon announces premium touchscreen $230 Echo Show, allowing Alexa to 'show you things' Comment by avidthinker May 2017
• i don't see what amazon has to lose out of this deal.  it's not like apple is asking for the 30% cut from the prime membership.  and yes, airplaying the man in the high castle was super annoying.

  in Amazon may finally cave, bring Prime Video to Apple TV this summer Comment by avidthinker May 2017
• scottw2 said: I use a Mac Mini as my main computing machine. I'm an advanced user and would like to see the following feature: (1) Upgradable RAM & SSD. Apple can make a Mac-not-so-Mini (or call it just a Mac!) to accommodate that (2) M…

  in Apple's Mac mini an 'important product,' staying in lineup Comment by avidthinker April 2017
• ...except one phone blows up in your hand and the other doesn't.  i'll let you guess which one is the iPhone.

  in Apple's iPhone, Samsung phones nearly equal in J.D. Power satisfaction survey Comment by avidthinker March 2017
• did a quick compare with iPad pro.  am i correct to believe that the key differences between this and the pro is  -slightly thicker -no true tone -no pencil support -no smart connector, hence no keyboard ?? if so, this might be my first iPad.  no…

  in Apple replaces iPad Air 2 with A9-equipped 9.7-inch iPad starting at $329 Comment by avidthinker March 2017
• just in time for the kids in china to blow their lunar new year cash on.  it's a good looking phone to boot.

  in Apple launches special edition (Product)Red iPhone 7 Comment by avidthinker March 2017
• question: hey sammy, so tell me, how does this product blow up?

  in Samsung reveals new 'Bixby' AI assistant to take on Apple's Siri Comment by avidthinker March 2017
• is the file format called .EIF for "exercise in futility"?

  in Microsoft creates tool to help Apple users migrate data from Mac to Surface Comment by avidthinker March 2017
• Today, however, Lardinois writes that Google "never intended to sell in high numbers" and that "Pixel was always meant to be aspirational" Hahahahaha, right... so product flops are aspirational?  then again, this is the company that brought us wave…

  in Google's Chromebook Pixel ends up another F for Alphabet Comment by avidthinker March 2017
• The Russians are coming!  The Russians are coming!  Oh, wait...

  in App Store, Apple Music, iCloud & other Apple services impacted by Amazon outage [u] Comment by avidthinker February 2017
• Microsoft is..... DOOMED!!

  in Microsoft will pay $1.2M to settle class-action suit over misprinted retail store receipts... Comment by avidthinker February 2017
• "the shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree."  -jim lahey

  in Fire breaks out at Samsung factory responsible for Note 7 battery production Comment by avidthinker February 2017
• hurray, poppin' bottles tonight!

  in Apple smashes expectations: record setting $78.4B in revenue on sales of 78.3M iPhones Comment by avidthinker January 2017
• hey spotify, if you don't like it, spend the next 40 years building your own OS and innovating/reiterating on hardware.  otherwise, shut the fuck up and enjoy life until the venture capital dries up.

  in Apple counsel attacks Spotify complaints as 'rumors and half-truths' Comment by avidthinker July 2016
• pull the trigger, tim.  i bet you can cover the deal with the loose change hidden underneath your couch.  i'd love to have jay-z as yet another brand ambassador for apple music, despite his trash talking when the service launched.

  in Sources split on alleged acquisition talks between Apple and Tidal Comment by avidthinker July 2016
• Beijing Intellectual Property Office = extreme oxymoron

  in Beijing patent ruling unlikely to hurt Apple in China, RBC & Piper Jaffray say Comment by avidthinker June 2016
• Oh this is rich.  China hasn't done anything innovative since the invention of paper and gunpowder.  Full disclosure: I am ethnic Han Chinese.

  in Chinese bureau finds Apple copying smartphone patents with iPhone 6 design Comment by avidthinker June 2016
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