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My wife has an iPhone 5, and I still have her old 4s lying around acting as an iPod. Compared to my iPhone 6 (which I highly prefer the size of), I find her 5 tolerable size wise, but looking at the 4s, it feels positively tiny, and I don't know how…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cropr I don't agree that the life cycle of 4-5 years is the main reason for the decline of the iPad sales. A Mac has a similar life cycle and the sales of Macs are going up. The only problem with this theory i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Inkling Spoken like a true Apple fanboy. When Cupertino speaks, you obey, not noticing that as SD slot is much smaller than a CD player, or that it is so useful for added storage that Amazon felt compelled to includ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NolaMacGuy omg are you serious.. that aint never gonna happen. hell even the clones are dropping their SD slots now, too. and its the right choice -- most users dont want to dick around w/ removable media, and on t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sagan_student I'm still using an iPad 2 and didn't notice any more slow down upgrading to iOS9, in fact I feel like iOS9 made it tiny bit more responsive. Not sure what others have experienced. Is it still sluggish? …
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My own experience mirrors what appears to be the general consensus here. I'm still using my iPad 3 (though I haven't switched to iOS9 as I think it's sluggish enough on iOS 8 as it is), and I'm even debating just getting an iPhone 6s Plus and fore…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 Why are merchants so against Apple Pay? What if Apple meet them in the middle and offered to share customer data? Would that help? I can't imagine merchants turning down Apple if they got customer data back…
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Quote: Originally Posted by xSerenityx I recently used it at Zara, Sephora, Anthropologie, Panera, the work vending machine, Rite-Aid, Home Depot (though now I hear it's been turned off-- I hope not), McDonald's, Trader Joe's... It's about a qua…
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This might be the final push my wife needs to upgrade her aging iPhone 5.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ignomini My experience of OLED is over saturated eye candy, but not very accurate color. However, if as rogifan mentions, Apple adopted OLED, there would be a strong incentive to offer a dark theme. Some of us would …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TechProd1gy The most significant obstacle in my neck of the woods (midwest) is training at the retailers that already have it. In most cases I have to walk the clerk through the process after they tell me "we don't t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Maccaguy I know this is anecdotal, but I've found even when stores have new NFC/chip and pin terminals, they aren't used to people using them. I can't count the number of times I've been told "I didn't know you could …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sector7G who thinks every one at chase should be fired for OK'ing this dog sht idea ok making paying more difficult and time consuming, not to mention them scanners don't work on for the first few times you try. the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii But you don't need a new computer to run Windows, you can just install it on your Mac. Ditto! This is what I tell people. Just get a Mac, as it can do both (if you really have to run Windows).
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Quote: Originally Posted by Fred1 Singing to the choir here, but there's no way I'm going to sell my 2009 Macbook Pro for $300. I replaced it with a Retina Macbook Pro last year (so sweet!), but I'd rather use it as a serving tray than give it…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MAJANI It's drops to flash storage on their Fusion Drives which get me. They've dropped it down to 24GB from 128GB, and still charge $200 extra for one more TB or alternatively a whopping $900 to get a 1TB SSD . A 1…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 I didn't like the changing aspect ratios. I have a 2.35:1 screen and that film made my 115 inch screen into a 55 inch screen. movie was entertaining but a bit too weird for my taste. Nice setup! As for…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cornchip Wonder why they couldn't have just run it through some filters?/s? (I don't know a lot about making movies) I don't think that's how Danny Boyle operates. Who knows, perhaps shooting in 16mm was cheaper …
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Quote: Originally Posted by polymnia Clever visual cue to reinforce the eras shown in the film. Films that traverse long stretches of time can be jarring or even confusing. Makeup treatments and dialog cues obviously help, but a visual treatmen…