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Apple's watch far more than I need. I'd love to see Apple or someone make: 1. A wrist device that'd vibrate on rings and let me stop/start/adjust volume on music and webcasts. 2. A waterproof wrist or ankle device that'd vibrate on rings. In parts…
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Unfortunately those enhanced feature apparently still don't include a decent, built-in spell checker, one whose lookup isn't worthless. The developers of Hunspell, whose open source product Apple uses, don't have the funding for a decent, regularl…
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I'd be more impressed by Apple and others if they built public-key encryption into their email programs. It should be well enough done that a simple exchange of emails means that the keys are exchanged and used automatically from that point on. The …
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Three cheers for Apple! Well maybe just two. 1. iPhones have long needed better protection from water for those outdoors and in sports. 2. It's easy to suspect that everything radio in an iPhone would benefit from getting exchanging those aluminum…
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I checked out the new iPhones yesterday at a Verizon store on a nearby campus. Certainly nice, particularly the larger screen on plus model, but not really worth getting excited about. My iPhone 5 serves my needs quite well and there are a host of…
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Those who want a more feature-rich and less buggy app might want check out the iOS version of Textexpander: https://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/touch/index.html Here is the list of apps it works with: https://smilesoftware.com/apps/ It not on…
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Yeah!!!!! But when it comes it will still be long overdue.
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One bit of good news is that, with a lot of iPhones coming back to Apple after but one year of use, the company won't be recycling them into pop cans. They're too valuable for that. Apple will be reselling them unlocked. The question is how those sa…
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An Apple TV with a tvOS that's like the iOS that runs on my iPad? Sounds like a good argument not to buy it. I was hoping it'd offer something unique and useful.
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Interesting how the giant, international corporations never seem to overpay their taxes. Just accidental I'm sure. Nothing deliberate. They never use multi-national loopholes either. No, they draw the line at that. "We use no complicated tax breaks…
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Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, ArsTechna didn't clarify what that "dongle" does. It may just be Apple's term on the on-pencil connector. My hope is that it pairs the male Lightning connector on the Apple Pencil with regular USB power, so you …
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One of my regrets about my iPad 3 is that I'm stuck with the last iPad that uses the old & clumsy 32-pin connector. I'm not going to repeat that again. My next digital devices, laptop and tablet going to be USB-C. I have nothing against a Lightn…
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Alas, this new release has helped me realize just what bothers me about iPads, particularly the larger ones such as my iPad 3 and the new iPad Pro. They're not like desktops or laptops, which are designed to be placed on tables. They're not like sm…
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Wow! This event has lasted over an hour and half and is still going strong. Lots of new stuff from Apple! Quote: "The Apple Pencil also includes a Lightning Connector that can be inserted into the iPad Pro, allowing the accessory to be recharged qu…
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Hopefully, this feature can not only be turned off but really turned off so no rogue app can get access to it to listen for certain words. Apple seems to be big on security right now, but perhaps it needs to make some forms of security hardware-bas…
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It came to me yesterday that, while Force Touch might be confusing if varying inputs do completely different things, it'd work quite well if a light touch was the equivalent of hovering with a mouse and a harder push was like clicking the mouse butt…
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The "thinest yet".... so the madness continues. Those who don't have the talent to make something unique and attractive make it thin. Apple's design teams also doesn't know how to make its products: 1. More rugged, hence all the case we add. Why n…
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Quote: I think they might be opening up Siri to third party developers. I've been hoping for that for a couple of years now. That's good news. If Apple won't do it, I'd love to see someone create a Siri for kids, perhaps even an age-…
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Not a bad idea, but it looks like the market has moved in another direction%u2014accessory batteries with USB connectors. They're inexpensive and work with multiple devices. That may mean that, when these fuel cells reach the market, they'll do best…
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The price is right for what Apple is likely to be offering in return. And $149 new probably means that in a few months refurbs will be selling for $99. That should set Amazon to worrying. My chief objection here is my ongoing objection to what Sili…