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I’ve had the card for 11 days tucked into the back of my leather Decoded XR case. Every time I put my phone down the card makes contact with various surfaces. Nether-the-less the white paint finish still looks perfect. The magnet strip has a few m…
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JWSC said: So odd that Apple chose titanium when they had the experience of the original titanium PowerBook, which didn’t wear well with discoloration. Titanium is the only metal that can be relied on to stay flat. This is because it has a…
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It’s basically painted. Apple’s video shows the coating being sprayed on. The finish is very plastic looking. I was expecting it to be metallic. When I opened the package my first impression was that it had a plastic protective film on it. I picke…
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GeorgeBMac said: Unless it adds either beauty or functionality, why pay for it? For me, that's the killer for the stainless steel version: I can't tell it from the aluminum version and, since the aluminum version stays scratch free, it does…
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iOS_Guy80 said: Surprised employees are being charged .49. They were given first crack at testing the Apple Card for nothing. With Arcade they have to test the payment system for the subscription. They also had to test the free trial peri…
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Whilst Apple currently uses Samsung as the primary manufacturer, the OLED panels that go into iPhones are 100% designed by Apple (with use of some Samsung patents on pentile pixel arrangement). The panels use whatever materials Apple specify. Eve…
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rob bonner said: Not trying to be negative on this, really asking. Why would anyone want this card? The rate is pretty high, the integrations are interesting but don't really add that much value IMO, and I can use Apple Pay with my existing…
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You write: “with the company failing to secure tariff waivers this time around” Have the US government actually given Apple an answer on this yet? The President’s comment was probably based on what he saw reported on the news. Tim Cook later revea…
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rob53 said: edit: Also got an email from Apple saying there were changes to my billing information even though all my information was up to date. This is probably because you made the new card the default for you Apple purchases (in order t…
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Hayito said: got approved for 50K and 12.99 APR, Physical card on its way... Wow! With a squeaky clean credit rating of 780 and income over 100K, I got the top interest rate of 23.99% and 8K limit. When I set it up, the pre-entered addres…
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Good editorial. It interesting to me that iPhone revenue is down 12% with a lineup that has the XR as the most popular device vs last year when the X was most popular. I think it’s safe to assume that the ASP has dropped a lot. If so, iPhone UNIT …
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Since Apple has a 6 year license to Qualcomm’s patents. Apple has 6 years to advance it own technology ahead of Qualcomm’s. In the meantime Apple can use Qualcomm’s chip designs or it can use Qualcomm’s technology in its own chip designs. Interest…
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You write: Another obstacle is the terms of Apple's legal settlement with Qualcomm, which resulted in a six-year licensing deal and a chip supply arrangement that could potentially last just as long. If so that could mean Qualcomm chips in iPhones a…
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His whole argument is a ‘straw man’. Apple do not fundamentally object to services being advertisement based - they object to privacy abuses. You can do ads in a way that respects user privacy.
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Depending on how the contract is written, the quality issues may make the minimum order requirements void. Basically, if the manufacturer can’t meet specified quality the buyer may not be obligated to buy anything at all. This would effectively mak…
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The fact is that Samsung invested big on OLED with Android hopes that did not materialize. They predicted that all the cheap Androids would rush to adopt OLED. They believed that once Apple started to use OLED everyone else would have to copy them.…
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The obvious flaw is that you can only listen to music in an environment where you also have sufficiently bright light to be able to use sunglasses.
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This is well meaning but fundamentally backwards. Do No Track should be the default. Everyone should have the right to expect not to be tracked without signing up for anything! The danger with this is that it implies that companies have a right to…
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Mike Wuerthele said: Just because something isn't winning, doesn't mean that it isn't a challenger. Even if the device itself goes toe to toe with iPhone in terms of functionality, the Pixel sells in such tiny numbers it is hard to argue th…
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These financial analysts think 5G is going to be the next big thing. I think they are wrong for 3 reasons. 1) 5G offers no known new application to give added user value. For example, LTE was big because it enabled the ability to stream video etc.…