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  • Original Apple-1 computer signed by Steve Wozniak sold for $340,100

    Looks like Wozniak's signature devalued the item!!

    Seriously though, I think the "professionally restored" and "almost all period-correct components" had a hand in fetching a lesser value than the other Apple-Is that were sold.
    watto_cobra
  • Tesla, BMW don't appear to be gearing up to join Apple's new CarPlay vision

    79% of potential car buyers is not the same as 79% of smart phone owners. People wondering how the survey says 79% car buyers say that won't consider a car without CarPlay, when the iPhone does not have 79% market share in smart phones are mixing 2 things up.
    lolliverwatto_cobra
  • Apple passkey feature will be our first taste of a truly password-less future

    The problem I see with something like this is when using cross-platform devices. My work laptop is a Windows machine, but at home I use Apple devices. 
    For a while, I tried using the iCloud Key Manager add-in that Apple had for Edge, but it was a real pain. It would ask for a validation every time I used it, which meant that me directly typing in the password was simpler.

    I am not sure it will be simple to solve it. 
    watto_cobra
  • Cash-strapped Pegasus spyware developers wanted to sell to 'red-flag' countries

    tommikele said:
    DAalseth said:
    As Sal Tassio said in The Godfather, “It’s only business.”.
    When NCO started having trouble I predicted they would just go underground and start selling to anyone. Looks like that’s exactly what they want to do. 
    Ladies and gentlemen. I present to you Capitalism in its purest form.
    Just as I told you when you made the exact same post on another Mac oriented website, you screwed up the quote and misattributed it. You don’t look too cool right now. Maybe even foolish. Only someone trying to be your version of cool screws up quotes from one of the most quoted gangster scenes in cinema history.

    First, it's Tessio, not Tassio. Sal Tessio.

    Second, it was said by the Michael Corleone to Sonny Corleone, not by Sal Tessio. Tessio is in the room, but he did not say that. It was said slightly differently three times in that scene. Once by Tom Hagen, once by Sonny Corleone and then the more famous one, that is quoted, by Michael Corleone to Sonny when he questioned Michael about shooting the crooked cop McCluskey.

    Messing up Godfather quotes and misattributing them is a mortal sin. Doing twice via a copy/paste between websites is even more serious. The Godfather would be displeased.



    Sorry to continue being off topic, but when Tessio knows that he is screwed, doesn't he tell Hagen something along the lines of "Tell Michael it was only business. I always liked him"? 

    Still, as you mentioned, the most famous version of that is by Michael.
    watto_cobra
  • Compared: 14-inch MacBook Pro vs 2022 Razer Blade 14

    For me, the dealbreaker is that the base Razer Blade is 99 cents more than the MacBook Pro.
    thtcrowley