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linkman said: mpantone said: The demo units are alarmed anyhow. By most reports they are also essentially bricked once they leave the store. Could be used for parts or sold to some naive dimwit who thinks they are getting a fully f…
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If Apple wants a menu bar in iOS/iPadOS, they could have added it to the original iOS 18 years ago or any point since then. It has undoubtedly been trialled in their labs over the years. Even today, it's probably trivial for a software engineer to f…
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My gut feeling is that the market for a thin iPhone is very small, maybe even smaller than that of the iPhone mini. The iPhone mini was discontinued after two generations and all of Apple's major competitors have abandoned the smaller form factor as…
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AUsername said: If someone had used the Apple Store app the could have self checked out on an off the shelf purchase, sealing the claim to be a person who legitimately shopped at a closed Apple Store. I also wonder if that would have confused…
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danox said: Didn’t Apple quite clearly say the features will be rolled out over a period of time it hasn’t even been a year yet (WWDC 2025 around the corner) with Microsoft, Google, Meta, Nvidia, and Qualcomm making plenty of announcements be…
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ssfe11 said: I think it will all be about JuneQ guidance which with the dollar falling off a cliff, iPhone panic buying and stock price favorabiliy buyback ramp ups should be pretty strong. Apple has not provided guidance since before the…
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Well, hopefully it won't get any dumber. Consumer-facing LLM-based AI chatbot assistants in April 2025 are dumb as rocks: no artistry, no common sense, no contextual awareness, no taste and more. And some of today's newer LLMs are worse than their p…
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randominternetperson said: I don't understand this product. Without Command/Ctrl/Windows/alt/option keys it's essentially useless. Also having the trackball buttons above the trackball? Who would actually (try to) use this keyboard? I agr…
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Huh, I apparently did not understand this particular issue perhaps because I have usually done so from the same county. It's strange that Apple would just bill every online tangible item as a sale from Cupertino. Anyhow, Cupertino gets to keep some…
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It's more important for sports apps to provide less time lag for game information. If you attend the game or are using media sources that are near realtime (like AM radio broadcasts for MLB), having realtime data is better. You don't really want to …
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This seems very shortsighted from Apple. Anything that discourages people from filing bug reports is not a particularly wise move especially from a company that has built up a reputation for protecting user privacy. There really should be an opt-out…
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rezwits said: Does it have the trackball or not? Re-read the article. It actually covers this in the last sentence of the second paragraph: "It uses a 70 percent layout with a built-in trackball, deep blue housing, and rounded keycaps that m…
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randominternetperson said: That scrutiny led to the CDTFA's 2023 audit. The agency concluded that tax revenue from Apple's online transactions should be distributed across the state based on where purchases were actually made or delivered -- …
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lowededwookie said: Therefore, by saying Messages is being used more than Facebook Messenger is technically correct but not really relevant to this case of social media. But then look at the top four platforms for social media - Facebook, Ins…
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9secondkox2 said: What the heck.... (truncated for brevity) It’s wrong. Please stop. My takeaway from your screed is that you have issues about reality. And we have been here numerous times before. Your comments are sometimes enter…
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welshdog said: They should use Beryllium alloy for the chassis. Strong and light and only toxic a little bit. And how much will Beryllium alloy add to COGS? I will ignore the comment about toxicity for the moment which isn't really a selli…
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dewme said: Can't you just mount an eye bolt on top of the headset and tie a helium ballon to it? That's not so farfetched. VR HMDs in the Nineties often were hung from the ceiling with cables because the headset hardware was way too heavy…
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I'm sure there will be more cases brought to the court system in time. This certainly won't be the last time we see the DoJ investigating a large US corporation. Antitrust laws were passed about 130 years ago. The DoJ is trying to enforce current re…
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charlesn said: Well, considering that Apple is the 800 pound gorilla in the consumer electronics space, it will obviously benefit most from any tariff relief by virtue of its huge sales. As far as tariff exemption lines added that "consis…
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New AG, same pursuit. First guilty of monopolizing search, today guilty of monopolizing advertising. It's not like the AG dropped this. And as we've seen from DOGE reforms and other executive branch action, the current administration has no problem…