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  • Hands on with the small and mighty 6th-generation iPad mini

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    Eric_WVGG said:
    Posting this from my new iPad Mini 6. The iPad Mini has been my favorite Apple product ever since it debuted, and this model is everything I hoped for, yet I feel a little conflicted.

    the “Liquid Retina display” (dumb marketing name)… “gorgeous”? Have you even seen an OLED? I am praying that this is the last LED product I ever buy. The glare is hateful. I understand that OLED is expensive and we are experiencing all kinds of weird supply chain problems due to COVID, but no, this screen is merely adequate.

    I constantly find myself tapping in my pass-number instead of using TouchID. I understand why they didn’t put tap-to-wake on pre-FaceID models now, it is truly disorienting.

    and now the one thing that is making me legitimately angry: the screen is 744px wide. Web sites and apps are built to detect 768px (the older model width) as the starting point for tablets. Now, instead of tablet size, everything is showing up as stretched phone view. It’s infuriating, tablets are much closer visually to laptops than phones. Apple absolutely should have made this device a quarter inch wider just to maintain compatibility with ALL THE SOFTWARE IN THE WORLD.

    I really like this thing. It is making me very angry. 

    There is an option in Safari in Settings for “Request Desktop Site”.   Make sure that is on 

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  • #AppleToo engineer target of online abuse, failed by HR

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    She’s been at Apple for 1 year.  She has done  this at every company she’s  worked for

    Good luck getting another job in tech after this shit show 

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  • Apple employees threaten to quit as company takes hard line stance on remote work

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    So, they want an exemption to work full time from home due to medical reasons... but don't want to offer any proof?   Did I get that right?  

    This will be a great opportunity to cull some of the deadweight that has attached itself to the ship over the last five years

    "...or legal action."   LOL.   Go ahead!  



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  • Google fined $592 million for non-compliance by French antitrust regulators

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    EU regulators are out of control bureaucrats with no business experience.  Would not be surprised if Apple does pull out of one or more countries

    Remarkable how the EU is unable to compete in tech, software or services on a world-wide scale.  Regulation and fines are how it responds 

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  • Qualcomm thinks it can make a laptop chip better than Apple's M1

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    Okay.  So what OS are you going to run on these new devices?    Android?   Chrome OS?   An updated version of Microsoft ARM that failed years ago?  Without a firm OS and app software plan, Qualcomm's whole plan is half baked.    

    Apple will have M2 already in the market in 2022,  M3 about to launch, and have years of refining its OS and app support.  

    Last,  Apple is about to gut Qualcomm's iPhone business when it launches its own cellular silicon in the next 2-4 years.  

    Right now -  this IS as good as gets for Qualcomm. 

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