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Quote: Originally Posted by Nobodyy First of all, that snooty tone is what keeps people out of this community, so "keep it to yourself if you don't have anything nice to say," because no one is high-fiving you for being a smartass on the Inte…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TechLover Obviously as far as Apple is concerned, this lawsuit did not have any merit as Apple was not found guilty of anything and does not have to pay a dime to any purchaser of the fuel band. Actually, the laws…
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Quote: Originally Posted by redefiler So? Tim Cook said he liked the FuelBand and maybe in his capacity as a Nike board member it's relevant, but nothing done at Apple has any consequence on Nike's FuelBand design and performance. Apple was m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Nobodyy What were the claims that it failed to meet and how/why? Why was Apple involved as a denfendent (versus someone like Walmart who presumably also marketed the band)? Aren't these questions that'd be an importa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton I've seen this movie, and it's absolutely negative. It's polemic. Gibney thinks he's uncovered a new scandalous exposé on our adored icon, and that's how Magnolia is marketing the movie, but if you wa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slurpy Good, took long enough. Google owned spyware products do not below in Apple Stores. Next time, read the article. Apple will continue to sell the Google/Nest products. Oh, you think Apple doesn't have priv…
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Quote: Originally Posted by buckalec Hope the "Godfather" feels the financial pain. Godfather my arse (some CNBC producer looking for something catchy in his lower third) , inspired by Braun and it was Schiller who conceived the click wheel if …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wood1208 I have right to say few words as a long time Honda and Toyota owner. Good job Honda and shame on you Toyota !!! I don't care all of the Carplay or Android Auto functionalities other than few like phone/text…
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Quote: Originally Posted by zroger73 Meanwhile, the photo above shows CarPlay running on a Honda Civic. More specifically, a 2014 model Civic, which quickly became vaporware as CarPlay never made it to any Honda. Now Honda claims the 2016 Ac…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 Most people 'hate' Apple products because they are jealous or can't afford to buy them. No, that is your arrogant and spoiled brat attitude.
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Quote: Originally Posted by John.B The current generation of Beats headphones is actually pretty good. Anyone harboring an opinion of these based on previous Beats headphones would do well to check out the current crop; especially the Solo2 mod…
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relic wrote: » My point is, everyone has a phone that can do everything the iPod can, so what's the point of doubling up. I can see a 9 - 13 year old using one who hasn't gotten a phone yet, though I haven't seen many children over 11 who doesn't …
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relic wrote: » I'm actually surprised Apple is still producing the iPod. The only customer I could think of who might actually want one is maybe a preteen who doesn't have a phone yet. I recently replaced my aging Fiio potable amplifier with their…
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I am surprised MTV is still on the air and surprised musicians make music videos. Those died in the 90s when The Real World hit the airwaves. Beats 1 is awful and no one cares about VMAs. People who don't rent their music won't care about the VMA…
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Quote: Originally Posted by justinpe "...it's presumably a form of copy protection, since in theory a person could sync music with a Nano or Shuffle, cancel Apple Music, and keep the tracks forever, so long as they don't sync with their iTunes …
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I received my 128GB iPod touch this afternoon and ran Geekbench. The app needs an update to properly recognize the new A8. It reports the CPU as an ARM at 1.11 GHz and 991MB of Memory. The scores are impressive compared to the old 5th Gen with A5…
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Rebooting the iPod always fixes everything. Ran the test again after a fresh reboot and the new score is close to the results found in the article.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella I'm not saying iPods are crappy or not good or not important for some people. All I'm saying is the world has moved on. Apple sells 10 iPhones for every 1 iPod it sells. You are the exception...n…
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Interesting result with my iPod touch 128GB. Geekbench is outdated since it does not recognize the new A8 CPU, which may explain why the multi-core was lower. Not sure how they report 2,440 in the article, and a slightly higher score for single co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SirLance99 I know it really doesn't exist anymore but the Zune was able to do all this. "If you are using a Zune Pass, you must connect your Zune device to your PC with the Zune software every 30 days or the lic…