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Honestly, kudos to the EU for forcing this change. For me, it was never phones that were the problem. It was all those other rechargeable electronic devices like headlamps, security cameras, under desk lights, electric toothbrushes, etc etc that h…
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As a developer, I fully support Apples policy here. Updating an app to keep up with the latest App Store requirements can be a bit painful, but a junior programmer, with some oversight could take care of it. It would just be a x.x.x+1 update. It ju…
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My Eero 6+ mesh network was a huge upgrade from my previous NetGear Orbi mesh.Netgear's app+ router software was terrible and we always seemed to have problems with the Orbi's being too close to each other and seemingly fighting over devices. Eero …
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All this whining from the tech writers about Siri not knowing , for example, Baseball scores is solved by "Hi Siri, Ask ChaGPT < insert stupid baseball question here>" Meanwhile Siri by itself works great for creating messages, reading message…
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twolf2919 said: I, and perhaps quite a few others, are in an even worse predicament: we rely on x86 apps that were never even ported to macOS! In my case, for the last 15 years, I've had to run Intuit TurboTax for Business in a Windows 10 VM…
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As a developer, I wholeheartedly concur with the arguments presented by the OP. The intricate tax and regulatory frameworks that Apple must navigate across diverse geographical regions justify the substantial 30% revenue share.And then you just publ…
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Well, "calories burned" was always going to be a "best guess". More to the point the researchers should be doing the same analysis on watches from Garmin, Samsung etc as well. I can see how this will morph into an Apple-bashing series of articles …
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I am guessing this does not include any sort of equivalent to calling 911 as in the USA. Because good luck with that.
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hmlongco said: "That privacy-first approach has become a selling point...." More security-first than privacy-first, from my perspective. Every site I share a credit card number with multiplies the chances my card number and information will b…
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I think CarPlay Ultra took so long as manufacturers want to be able to punch through with their own branding and Apple had to rethink how that works while still keeping the clean Apple design in the display. Also consider the huge variety of car dis…
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Tim Cook has details about when/where every iPhone was sold and access to amazing data analysis tools.He **can't** lie about this. He has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders and he could be sued for giving false or misleading information.
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If you are a software developer these days you have to use AI - I use it every day and it is a huge productivity boost. Using an AI assistant beats having to interact with snarky people on stack exchange. Apple wants to use AI for coding - this has …
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Tim knows exactly how many iPhones were sold and when/where. They are accusing Tim Cook of lying - while they are just guessing. For TC to lie would be a very serious offense, and highly unlikely.
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elijahg said: 12% seems like rather a lot for what appears to be nothing more than a payment processor. Why not use Paypal which is something like 1.5%? So the penny finally drops. So let's be clear, Epics court case was not some kind of …
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So I guess the end result could be an app developer can now be on the App Store as a free app, then have a link to an outside payment system to activate paid features as to completely bypass paying Apple for the incredible value of the iOS ecosystem…
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More brilliant decision making by Tim Cook - remember this decision was taken many years ago.
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Farago said: Western countries are idiots. That this comes as a surprise is just pathetic—of course the Chinese military is going to do everything it can to spy on the West.- Chinese hackers stole trillions in intellectual property theft (htt…
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mknelson said: "The latest M3 Ultra Mac Studio is a great, if extremely expensive, way to run massive LLMs locally. But for the hobbyist dabbling in the subject, tinkering with projects like the PowerBook G4 can still be rewarding." Meanwhil…
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I don't think there is any evidence that the new HomeKit architecture will make "older smart home accessories inoperable". Nothing in my home , which included some fairly old accessories , had any issues. I switched over fairly early to the new arc…
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You guys don’t reflect what most people use Siri for. 99% of people use Siri to dictate text and read messages or emails, and get directions using maps- and it’s damn good at that. I don’t find google much better with understanding speech, if at al…