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Who the eff cares about repairing an AirPod themselves? Seriously? Majority of today’s generation can’t even boil water. Give me a break.

in Teardown shows AirPods 4 still unfixable by the public Comment by thrang October 2

Watched this with my wife and son a few days back. It wanted to be a Shane Black movie, but didn't have his sensibilities, rhythm, energy, or smartness (see The Nice Guys for how it's done - a movie that gets more than a few nods from in "Wolf"). S…

in 'Wolfs' is the most-watched movie on Apple TV+ ever Comment by thrang October 2

A CNBC article notes that he’s staying on, heading IT, real estate development, and security initiatives for Apple.

in Apple CFO shakeup: Kevan Parekh replacing Luca Maestri Comment by thrang August 26

Way down the road, it would be very interesting if this type of variable focusing technology could be integral to how 3-D material is created. One of the problems I have with 3-D movies right now is the focus is defined for you, but your brain can …

in Future Apple headsets may use liquid lenses to correct vision Comment by thrang August 22

This is fatal-blow level error IMO for a company - you do one thing, and you bork it so severely, They could not have tested the app extensively, OR AT ALL, given the number of problems. How poorly run can a company be that this gets anywhere near t…

in Sonos CEO insists iOS app cannot be rolled back to the older, better one Comment by thrang August 21

Even if true who cares? You would be nuts not to use a case on a device that cost what the modern smart phones do.

in Apple brings back dark black for the iPhone 16 Pro Comment by thrang August 2

Despite the overall high quality of the panels being currently use, the AVP needs a lot more resolution TBH; the pixels per degree is way too low for clear text at smaller sizes. At least my experience in two separate demos. Its fine for gaming or m…

in Apple Vision Pro rumored to get tandem OLED screen tech developed for new iPad Pro Comment by thrang July 31

bloggerblog said: I hope Apple doesn’t sacrifice display quality in an effort to make it cheaper In fact, we need much more resolution (pixels per degree) than less. Right now it's 34 ppd, which is excellent among headsets, but less than …

in Future Apple Vision: What to expect from Apple's next headsets Comment by thrang July 1

I did a few in-store demo's of the Vision Pro, and the last thing I would want to see is LESS resolution. I found text and icons to be quite soft, so despite the high native resolution of these panels per eye, I've come to learn what I am experienci…

in Apple may be already lining up suppliers for a second Apple Vision headset Comment by thrang June 30

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