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I could blame Apple for not reassuring everyone that their music won't disappear, but the non-tech media really botched the reporting on this one. Mind bogglingly bad. It took no time at all for the craziness to spread everywhere. My daughter texte…
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swineone said: Count me in as someone who has the problem on a 2018 MacBook Pro, hasn't notified Apple, and in fact (compounded by a bunch of other things) will no longer be an Apple customer from now on -- this 2018 MacBook Pro will be the l…
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lkrupp said: Add mouse support to iOS and you might as well buy a MacBook and be done with it. The mentality of trying to force the iPad into a laptop configuration is just anathema to me. Just buy a damn laptop for the same or lower price. …
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.... and Red Rock comes in just under the wire, as Apple will close the only 2 stores in the Eastern District of Texas tomorrow.
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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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fastasleep said: AppleInsider said: ... and both will incorporate micro LED backlighting. ...and micro LED backlight specifications ...will incorporate mini LED backlighting What? Micro LED doesn't involve backlighting, the RGB L…
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bohler said: Cook paid US$300bn in recent years to shareholders....well above the cumulative R&D budget over the same period....in the end, Apple didn’t even manage to equip its laptops with a decent keyboard...this is an outrageous scand…
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elijahg said: It wasn't mentioned once after 2017. It's now 2019. That's several years. Cancelled after 564 days. That's 1 year, 6 months, 18 days. It was "several years" on Mercury, a couple years on Venus, but only a year and a half here.
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martinxyz said: Tim Cook was supposed to be the QA and supply chain guru. Awesome. Another dot point in the Keynote of failures. What does supply chain have to do with faulty engineering? If he were better at supply chain, Apple would hav…
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elijahg said: Seemed strange to me too. My feeling is they've got so much to announce (new iMacs???? ...please?) that they didn't have time for this too. March 25 is all about Apple's new subscription services. These iPads have been rumored …
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plovell said: chasm said: Hopefully the appeal judges will make Qualcomm pay up while they consider the case. Qualcomm already paid. This case was them trying to get some of it back. The last paragraph of this article seems to …
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AppleInsider said: The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has muddied the waters surrounding how different USB standards are named, with USB 3.0 and USB 3.1 set to become different generations of USB 3.2, while USB 3.2 itself will become the mor…
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StrangeDays said: fumi said: I think we'll eventually see another router from Apple. Especially as its Services Division will become so much more important in the coming years. Er, but hardware sales (a wifi router) are not services…
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StrangeDays said: Anyone have trouble with the Vudu web-scanne on an iphone? It keeps claiming I’m not geofenced/located at my billing address, even tho I am. So I have to use my Mac’s DVD player, which of course is no good for blu-ray discs.…
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lkrupp said: I’m just stupefied by those who see Apple as the bad actor here. This take is all over the tech blogs. On MacRumors the comments are like 10-to-1 against Apple as abusing its power and how it shouldn’t be able to do this to a com…
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flydog said: AppleInsider said: The emails haven't made an appearance at an ongoing U.S. Federal Trade Commission trial accusing Qualcomm of monopolistic practices, forcing chip buyers to accept patent licenses at the same time. And…
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tbornot said: let's not forget the Apple stealing windowing and mousing from Xerox thing, too. Apple asked Xerox executives to see their technology, and they agreed. That isn’t stealing. Of course, it wasn’t a good idea, but Xerox di…
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Mike Wuerthele said: canukstorm said: Mike Wuerthele said: racerhomie3 said: I seriously disagree with this. I hope Apple never compromises on the Mac again. The $800 Mac Mini is an excellent machine. The $200-400 is serv…
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wanderso said: One thing that spooks me: why isn’t Apple offering the XR as “carrier free” (unlocked) at this time? I'm not sure when Apple has had unlocked iPhones on launch day, certainly not in the last few years. When I bought an unlo…
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YoRHa said: I’m curious why they’re $100 more than the off-contract price of all phones prior to them. Apple has its premium line; why couldn’t these have been $649 like the rest? And why get rid of the SE? WHY, Apple, did you get rid of the SE?…