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Taylor Swift isn't going to play the Super Bowl halftime show. She rightfully believes that artists should get paid; currently the NFL does not pay halftime entertainment talent. And in past years, many of the Super Bowl performers have been former…
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Xed said: mpantone said: While I haven't yet been in this venue I always hesitate about these Apple architectural projects. As far as I can tell, there's a lot of -- how do I put this? -- outright dismissal/ignorance for decent acoust…
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VictorMortimer said: That's really unsurprising. There's nothing new or exciting about the 16. Same old iPhone, not really any more interesting than what already exists. Not really anything interesting happening until Apple complies with EU …
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While I haven't yet been in this venue I always hesitate about these Apple architectural projects. As far as I can tell, there's a lot of -- how do I put this? -- outright dismissal/ignorance for decent acoustics. A lot of Apple Stores have horrib…
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gatorguy said: mpantone said: gatorguy said: And IMO this is the reason Apple's event is on Monday. The EU announcement is Tuesday. This makes little sense. Everyone can pretty much guess what Apple is going to announce: ne…
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blastdoor said: From my perspective, the iDevices aren’t nearly as interesting as they used to be. I’m much more interested in Macs. Well, look elsewhere today. No one (sane) is expecting any Mac announcements today. Generally speaking Ma…
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gatorguy said: And IMO this is the reason Apple's event is on Monday. The EU announcement is Tuesday. This makes little sense. Everyone can pretty much guess what Apple is going to announce: new iPhones, maybe an iPad or two, maybe a new…
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AirPods were a natural evolution of the wired EarPods that were an iconic wearable; Apple even ran a bunch of silhouetted advertisements for years that highlighted the white wired EarPods that differentiated themselves over the black over-ear headph…
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No need for throw away perfectly good USB-A peripherals. Just use an external USB hub that provides USB-A ports and/or buy some adapters/pigtails. The latter live in my travel kit. It's not that big of a deal in 2024. One thing I discovered about 1…
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winstoner71 said: Establish the subject with a first and last name before just mentioning them by their last name to open the article. Just saying. It helps the readers follow the story easier. Worse the hyperlink to the KHOU website is b…
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kiwimachead said: Hopefully Apple can shut down this practice. Who uses these cheap/free crappy apps anyway? Tried face app once with my wife and kids for a laugh to make us look old, had a laugh then never used it again so deleted it. Socia…
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Afarstar said: M68000 said: Other than battery capacity, it is a bit of a travesty that ALL features are only available on the oversized two handed jumbo phone for a given model year. i am pretty sure that Steve Jobs thought or said …
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mattinoz said: escargot said: Does AI not realize how useless and flawed the data from CIRP is? They are essentially two friends with a blog, who only survey 500 people to get their "data". You don't need to be a statistics major to …
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libertyandfree said: 64GB on an iPad mini would be criminal neglect. No way should it ever have less than 128GB. There are plenty of non-consumer usage cases that require minimal on-board storage. One of the local beer gardens uses iPad…
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Hopefully someday Apple Intelligence will run spell check before articles to AppleInsider are submitted... If only someone would create a standalone, manually invoked spell check in the interim... If LLMs already help students write term papers…
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iadlib said: Just release the director's cut in the first place... after all... he is the director Hollywood studio executives are understandably allergic to films with really long running times. Remember that the "perfect running length" …
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mattinoz said: Sorry but there is nothing in this story that suggests a “shake up”. it reads like slight rearranging of people to value their contributions. One is given a chance to take a boarder responsibility , one given a chance to focus.…
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apple4thewin said: Great the color is old oranges now ߤ榺wj;♂️ I wouldn't take some taste-challenged mocked up website graphic as gospel, especially relating to pre-release rumors. That's like 2-3 suppositions you are accepting as fact wh…
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shrave10 said: Who cares? Google will probably be required to divest Youtube, Chrome, etc. soon anyway. Assuming the service level stays the same, it wouldn't matter to Joe Consumer. They would still be getting the same content regardless…
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king editor the grate said: mpantone said: king editor the grate said: In-person?!? Awesome! Hopefully, it will be interesting to watch again. I'm afraid you have misunderstood this event. The actual presentation will be the…