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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram To be fair, I read the NYT more than any other newspaper. Their political and international reporting are outstanding, as are their travel, cooking, arts, movies, and education sections. Their tec…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Drunkzombie I've always thought that MTV began to suck once they diluted all their programming on all this new channels: mtv 2, mtv jams, mtv classics or whatever, and then their main network was basically "xxx shore…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram What's an MTV? I miss the days when it was Music Television.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan People still watch the VMA's, or MTV for that matter? According to the Wikipedia article, 8.3m people watched it last year. It looks like it's been viewed by between 8 and 10 million for quite a while. I…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I never use the Genius Bar. I use Apple telephone support 100% of the time (when in real difficulty, i.e., can't easily find an answer on the web or the Apple Discussion Forum), and I have almost alway…
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Quote: Originally Posted by fallenjt Yup. I replaced mine at Valley Fair mall, both times. Dropped the phone, went to Starbucks close by, had a Machiato and came back: it's ready. Glad you had such a good experience. I didn't.
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Quote: Originally Posted by fallenjt What kind of Genius Bar did you go? I replaced my screen and receiving radio because my 1 year old drooled on it. It took only 30 min to replace these, oh twice last year. 4 hrs? I don't fucking believe it. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ThePixelDoc I have a gut feeling your proclaimed individualism gets in the way of you having any kind of decent experience, whether with Apple devices, in it's stores... or socially whatsoever. You might look up "A…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Weird. I get surveyed all the time. Usually, takes no more than a couple of minutes. Survey or no survey, you could still complain to Apple about your Genius Bar appointment via their customer servic…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mhikl I don’t like to be a naysayer but I have a question. Apple no longer requests me to rate either my purchases or my trips to the AppleStore. About two years ago I had real problems with my Mac mini and out of fr…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 what version of the Watch did you buy? why did you return it? short on cash? Do you have photos of your watch? How can we be sure you are not a troll? Why should he have to prove himself to you? You …
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The speed with which people on these forums jump to deny that anything could be problematic with an Apple product is pathetic. Apple aren't perfect you know, they have manufacturing issues like everyone else. The fact they get reported is a functi…
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I'm actually quite impressed with mine. It's speech recognition, while still limited in function (though they keep adding more to it) is impressive, even at long range (mine's in the corner of the kitchen, and it picks up what I tell it a good 20m …
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I'm glad they're doing this. The "flyover" doesn't add much practical value to Maps, even if it does look cool, but Street View is a very real benefit in Google Maps. I might have to go back and read DEDs laughable article that went to great pain…
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This is a tremendous idea. The fact that Apple went out of their way to get my data off a Windows PC back in the day made the decision to switch much easier. This should achieve the same for phones.
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The best thing Jobs did on his return to Apple was see the potential in this guy. That, along with, somewhat controversially, his convincing Microsoft to invest in Apple and continue Office support, are probably the two moments that most created t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brlawyer Apple only "lumps" them together when they are not substantial enough to brag about...even more evidence that the AW is an abysmal failure, chinese dogs wearing Edition watches and all. Yeah, right. T…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I don't follow. It monitors your heart rate regularly (and therefore, activities that increase your heart rate -- relative to the resting rate -- should be reflected). What exactly is the problem? Can …
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Pleased they seem to be doing something about the measurement of standing activity. I've had multiple days where it has given me credit for standing more hours than I've actually been wearing the watch.
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anantksundaram wrote: » My AppleWatch has been consistently showing 25%-30% at the end of a typical 17- to 18-hour day. I've noticed that it has actually got better in the past ten days! Weird. Same here. With the exception of day 1, when I …