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StrangeDays said: sirozha said: Professional photographers are not going to use the iPhone as their primary camera anyway. So, the name of the new iPhone 11 Pro is a misnomer. It should have been called iPhone 11 Instagram Pro. You…
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I'll echo the stance of some on this board. I'm a huge advocate of the iPhone SE form factor.... not so much for the size in of itself, but for the usability with one hand. It fits very comfortably in my palm, with a near-perfect center of gravity…
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Wait...… so there were millions of hours of Siri conversations recorded and listened to by 300 quality assurance reps, and Siri is still the train wreck that it is today? Seriously?! What were they actually doing with the manhours? Unbelievable.
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jdw said: StrangeDays said: jdw said: Quality assurance" -- ha! Siri is a brain-dead bozo who after years of "training" still cannot pronounce my daughter's name correctly.... Gee, what am I doing wrong? Mine works. Texts, …
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slurpy said: jonathanworld said: So Apple stopped selling iPhone 6 in Sept 2016.....forced obsolescence in 3 years is going to bring in Federal review...not smart. Oh, screw off. The 6 was released in 2014, and is ancient by smart…
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GeorgeBMac said: beowulfschmidt said: hammeroftruth said: The tech giant later instituted a battery replacement program to deal with the fallout. In January, CEO Tim Cook revealed some 11 million people took advantage of the che…
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Soli said: atomic101 said: EsquireCats said: It always amuses me how one can see a feature that maintains the operation of the device, in spite of physical inevitabilities, as planned obsolescence. That would be the exact opposi…
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EsquireCats said: It always amuses me how one can see a feature that maintains the operation of the device, in spite of physical inevitabilities, as planned obsolescence. That would be the exact opposite of obsolescence, and yet here we are. …
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wizard69 said: atomic101 said: Fatman said: I guess that will save about $30million/yr in salaries. Hire some more people to the Siri team to finally catch up with Amazon/Google. Amen to that. As a whole, Siri is terrible. Af…
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Fatman said: I guess that will save about $30million/yr in salaries. Hire some more people to the Siri team to finally catch up with Amazon/Google. Amen to that. As a whole, Siri is terrible. After almost 9 years I’d expect it to have reac…
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The problem is multifaceted, and price is definitely one of the factors weighing in on the slowing upgrade cycle. New phones are no longer the compelling night and day upgrades that they once were, and the wow factor has certainly been stifled as s…
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foregoneconclusion said: gatorguy said: The rational explanation says they had created a BAD PR situation with the intentional throttling stories flowing out of the iOS update and needed to do something positive to counter them. Thus the …
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I'd be very interested in a Mini even with the older curved form-factor. I've never owned a mini (have always been a full-sized iPad owner), but a low-cost portable version with revised internals would seem to fit a niche for me. Something that I co…
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ericthehalfbee said: davgreg said: Fanboy drivel. Google is an advertising company. Pixel phones and Chromebooks are a dot on the balance sheet. Microsoft is a cloud services company. Windows on PCs is no longer the big driver of MS …
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What benefit does this lawsuit realistically serve the public other than making the attorneys a little bit richer? Sad when the new frontier of information and technology only gives greedy opportunists another avenue of loophole treasure seeking.
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Speaking from someone who is a bit of a technology nut, and from someone who always salivated at the newest iPhone release, the magic of smartphones is gone for me. The feature set is largely fleshed out, and the phone has become a bit of commodity…
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StrangeDays said: AppleInsider said: Apple Pencil 2 is night and day better than the original, likely what Apple should have shipped the first time Every time I see this comment anywhere I point out how absurd it is -- products do…
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macxpress said: ireland said: Lest with forget Apple's inevitable price hike for them. $2,000 iPhone... you can do it, Tim. Sigh. Because nothing else in this world is also increasing in price...*sighs* Setting your sights too lo…
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macgui said: wonderwoman said: My battery is at 95% health. Am I eligible for this? More importantly, should I go to the genius bar? Yes, as long as you have a qualifying phone. Indicated battery health is irrelevant. Part of the …
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kruegdude said: atomic101 said: magman1979 said: I laugh at these fucking idiots on Wall Street, they've anthropomorphized the iPhone XR into the iPhone 5c reincarnated! That was a dismal failure too, yet went on to be a HUGE se…