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Zamgeek said: There might be umteen hundred Apple authorised service centers around the US, sure. But the world is bigger than the US, and Apple products are used arond the globe. Some countries, like the one where I service Apple products, h…
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elijahg said: So it does affect the use of the phone, as you can no longer see the battery health, despite the phone knowing that data, and it seemingly will not go into "peak performance protection" mode. Ok then. If the specifications …
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I think Apple's approach is reasonable. Thirty years ago, I designed battery powered medical instrumentation (including defibrillators) containing rudimentary "gas gauge" hardware/firmware in the battery packs that allowed cell life and capacity to …
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AppleInsider said: So far the project has resulted in more than 42,000 lines of code across 1,500 files from 18 contributing entities. I, a single individual, write more than that in year.
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scott6666 said: The only government levers we have to help manufacturing is NASA and military purchasing. NASA's 2019 budget is $20 billion. US commercial satellite industry revenue in 2016 was $110 billion (out of $261B globally). NASA i…
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Surely Apple could see this coming. Back in 2013 they proudly announced that the Mac Pro would be built in the US. Six years later, in the middle of the MAGA presidency in which Trump threatened numerous manufacturers who were considering moving pro…
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Samsung, Qualcomm, Huawei and perhaps others are able to integrate their modems into the same silicon as their processors. Apple can't currently do that, as they have no native cellular design ready. Until they do, they're stuck producing iPhones wi…
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Amazon has worked out ways to minimize the potential for television dialog to wake Alexa. Surely Apple is bright enough to figure this out, too? https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/5503926/amazon-echo-alexa-ad-wake-up-word/
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SD Card slot on the back of the iMac. It's a blind reach, and if the card is even slightly off axis when you attempt to insert it, it jams. I presume they didn't put the slot in the bottom edge of the chin because an inserted card spoils the look, b…
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mjtomlin said: Possible in-house x64 based CPUs? Nope. Intel won't license the x86 architecture to Apple, and Apple won't split internal development effort between two instruction sets.
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lkrupp said: AppleInsider said: For subscriptions, the rate drops down to 15% after one year of continual payments -- a fact glossed over by Ek in his complaint. This is news to me. How about you? Apple made that change three…
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Mouse preference can be a very personal thing. I have carpal and radial tunnel nerve damage and initially thought the Magic Mouse would be terrible. I'm nearing my tenth year of using them and they've been the most comfortable mice I've used since m…
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From their website... "Simply use the native Apple Home app or download the free Satechi Home app in the App Store." So it seems that it's not necessary to install/configure these things using a separate app. That would be very nice.
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mrbofus said: hentaiboy said: What’s a “sleep mouse”? I was wondering the same thing myself. I assume they meant, “sleek”? "Sleek", particularly when compared to Apple's own Magic Mouse, makes about as much sense as "sleep".
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hodar said: I would love to see some stability in my HomePod. By stability, I don't mean crashes - I mean that last week I had to re-connect my AppleTV to the HomePod that sits about 2 feet away. It worked great for a day or two. Then I fir…
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If you believe that the actual failure rate of MacBook Pro keyboards is far lower than it appears from reports in the press (which is Apple's claim), there may not be anything Apple can do to reduce the "apparent" failure rate, except wait it all ou…
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jbdragon said: bsimpsen said: Should the next round of tariffs cover the iPhone, I wonder if the big winner will be Samsung. They have substantial manufacturing capacity in Vietnam and may be able to avoid tariffs for their iPhone comp…
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Should the next round of tariffs cover the iPhone, I wonder if the big winner will be Samsung. They have substantial manufacturing capacity in Vietnam and may be able to avoid tariffs for their iPhone competitors. That would hand Korean based Samsun…
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davgreg said: The possibility also exists for Apple to develop its own x86 chips. They certainly have the people capable of doing the work. While that's technically possible, it's unlikely Intel would license x86 to Apple, and so that's …
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sweetheart777 said: Apple may buy AMD... It's been years since this option was discussed here, but I recall that AMD's x86 license contains a poison pill that cancels the license if AMD is acquired.