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flydog said:

johnbear said:

Ugly, made for the sick elderly 

Please post the pics that you relied on to determine that its ugly. 

Also in response to others, I think johnbear is just trying to be humorous. So has to start off and say that it is ugly. And then it would have been easier to catch the rest of the humor if he/she had said it was for Sick Elderly (SE). At least this is my take on the person's comment. A /s would have made it more obvious.

svanstrom said:

eumaeus said:

“Flatten the curve” was to keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed. They are currently under-whelmed to the point of bankruptcy. 

Oh no! That is terrible. It is clearly time to open up states so that the hospitals can get their profits up again.

You do realize that the comment about them being bankrupted Is because many surgeries considered non-essential, like to repair heart valves and other things like removing some tumors, have been postponed and are not currently allowed to be performed? Some of which may result in unintended deaths. It is not ment to mean let’s remove some restrictions on the general populace in some states so that there are more coved-19 patients to help hospitals make profits?

It has A10 because architecturally and cost wise that must be the sweet spot. Yes, A11 and A12 are better still in terms of speed, etc. But architecturally by A10 there is already multiple-cores (especially, including different ones for high performance or better efficiency) and it has decent graphics (A10X is good enough for 4K AppleTV) and some basic AI capabilities for machine learning and AR (although no neural engine?). So probably the best bang for the buck for a "new" lower end model. Probably faster than 80% of the Android models released out on the market this year (all the non-flagships, like Pixel 3a). With iPad and iPod apple does have mid-tier products that are "new". And for iPhone it will just keep selling the iPhone 7 / 7+ to satisfy the mid-tier with A10. Isn't this exactly what Apple should be doing to diversify?

akamine_jr said:

Surface has a huge advantage over any iPad: mouse cursor. No way iPads will be taken seriously in businesses until it behaves as a proper computer, as Apple claims they are. This coming from an Apple fan. 

Do you have an iPad? If you have the software keyboard showing, use two fingers on the keyboard area and the keyboard area turns into a giant touchpad to move a cursor within the current text box.
On latest iPhones force touch in the keyboard area similarly activates it as a touchpad. 
What else would you need a mouse cursor for? If you want to move to a different area use your finger and touch where you want to go. 
Are people aware that soft keyboard can be turned into giant touch pad to move cursor? It was a revelation to me when I discovered this. Made it very easy to precisely move around in a text box. 

So, what if the talk about a touch bar at the bottom of the phone was really a micro LED panel with the fingerprint sensor embedded in it;  and an OLED panel was the main screen? 
 And maybe the next generation of the MacBook Pro has a micro LED Touch Bar?