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For sure AMEX acceptance at merchants has grown over the years especially in the past ten years. While it is easy to pick out a specific exception of a large retailer like Costco, I've noticed that I can use an AMEX with very few exceptions especial…
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This is a very bizarre rumor, one that I find rather implausible. As mentioned in the article, these three iPhones and the iPad mini 5th generation share the same A12 Bionic SoC. However the iPad mini 5th generation has only 3 GB RAM whereas the iP…
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It is unrealistic to think that Apple intended Time Machine to be the perfect backup solution for every single Mac on this planet. Clearly it was designed to be a simple tool for consumer use. If it were too complicated Joe Consumer wouldn't use it…
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macOS Sonoma 14.7.5 is available for those on the older operating system as well as the newest Sequoia 15.4. I was offered both (Sequoia and Sonoma) on my Mac mini M2 Pro that was running 14.7.4. There was also a Pro Video formats update as well as…
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decoderring said: Wow, I think this is the first time I’ve ever not wanted to install an update. I’ll do it because there are likely some security updates, but I wish it were possible to not have all the AI stuff that, for me, just creates b…
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People, the live presentations in front of a theater audience are long gone. Let it go. It's time to move on. Apple are control freaks anyhow, the canned videos dovetail perfectly into how Apple likes to operate in 2025. The live presentations ori…
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I too would like to see better software QA from Apple. It has been over ten years since I stopped updating macOS, iOS, iPadOS upon launch. These days I update to the current version a few days before WWDC in June. This ensures an update to a feature…
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I agree that The Player (1992) was a likely inspiration for this show. In fact, at the beginning of The Player there is a 'oner' during which Fred Ward's character describes a 'oner' to another character (my memory is hazy but I think it was The She…
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cubeover said: C1 too late, they need E1 chip (Elon1) for not paying those 5G royalties and shooting to Skylink direct. Great idea! Until you go indoors or find yourself sitting in a subway car on the London Underground or Tokyo Metropolit…
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Good for Apple, they should milk this for all they can. (Disclaimer: I have never seen even a minute's worth of Severance.) The media consuming public in 2025 is extremely fickle and soon they will move to something else. The window for a company t…
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muthuk_vanalingam said: mpantone said: As I predicted elsewhere Apple has done what I expect. They produced a modem chip with comparable performance (minus mmWave) to the competition with a huge power savings. It's the latter that ben…
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My guess is that Apple is now projecting much narrower gross margins on television production. Apple *LOVES* fat margins so continuing the pursuit of moneypit content production is not in their best interest. So they are reviewing all of their curr…
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Wesley Hilliard said: 9secondkox2 said: Tim’s ai, headset, and car haven’t panned out so far. Would love to see a return to the days of Apple not releasing something until it’s 100% ready and captivating. I’ll give Cook’s car a pass s…
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Even if the lawsuit is meritless it draws negative attention to Apple. The best way they can counteract this is to quickly ship a super-useful, super-effective, super-private AI-powered Siri, just like the one they pictured in their now-revoked adv…
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gatorguy said: mpantone said: gatorguy said: mpantone said: As far as I can tell, consumer-facing AI isn't improving in leaps and bounds anymore, and probably hasn't for about a year or 18 months. A couple weeks before S…
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mrstep said: mpantone said: As far as I can tell, consumer-facing AI isn't improving in leaps and bounds anymore, and probably hasn't for about a year or 18 months. A couple weeks before Super Bowl I asked half a dozen LLM-powered AI …
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iOS_Guy80 said: Wonder if they’ll have an apple store on the street level. Odds are pretty low on that based on the number of other Apple Stores at corporate locations. To my knowledge, the only one housed in the same building was the now-…
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No one can be the best at everything. Clearly Giannandrea wasn't. Neither is Cook. Neither was Jobs. Neither are you. Neither am I. It's important to point out that Services revenue has grown massively under the current leadership. I think Cook i…
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Let's remember that John Giannandrea was the former head of AI at Google. It's not like he was unqualified for his post at Apple. However being a good researcher and shipping product are two very different disciplines. Unfortunately Apple took its …
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Joe Consumer cares more about having a great camera module in their phone over having a handset that has uniform thickness across its entire construction. That's why phones with camera bumps sell well. There's very little demand for perfectly flat…