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  • Apple apologizes for iPhone slowdown controversy, will reduce out-of-warranty battery repl...

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    eriamjh said:
    This won’t stop the lawsuits.  
    The lawsuits are going to die on the vine anyway. Apple has never promised a level of performance, and the battery has always been labeled a user consumable. Additionally, the throttling routines were announced with the iOS 10.2.1 update to keep the phones from crashing altogether, but perhaps with not quite enough granularity.
    “Most iPhone users will realize, as most iPod customers realized, that they never needed to replace their batteries,” Joswiak said.

    Greg Joswiak, Apple Marketing VP, July 2007, ladies and gentlemen. This was from a David Pogue story about the original iPhone lasting for 400 cycles. 

    muthuk_vanalingamchristopher126

  • First look: Diminutive Dride Zero dash cam aims at Apple-esque setup and use

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    zimmie said:

    Doesn't matter. It is illegal to mount it on the windshield itself ..
    Couldn't you just stick it on the back of the mirror. You can get dash cams that are integrated in a mirror that goes over the existing one.



    Problem solved!?

    And they should make an external button, that you can stick somewhere, like the Flic, instead of having to reach behind the mirror. But they could probably enable that functionality in the app pretty easily.

    You don't reach behind the mirror to press a button. The button is on the side facing the driver, opposite end from the camera, opposite side from the camera. It's got the cloud icon on it.
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    TomSawyer

  • First look: Diminutive Dride Zero dash cam aims at Apple-esque setup and use

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    TomSawyer said:
    Nobody brought a ruler or a common item like an Apple product to provide scale to the repeated claims of incredible smallness?
    Sorry, I couldn't put my iPhone 6 next to it while I was taking pictures with my iPhone 6.
    TomSawyer

  • Apple opens larger, relocated store in Raleigh's Crabtree Valley Mall

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    KerryJenkins said:
    Raleigh has had the Apple Store for 10 years (Charlotte and Durham also with stores). Apple needs to pay attention to Fayetteville, North Carolina. With Ft. Bragg, two universities and a community college, there's a need. Often overlooked by retailers, Fayetteville has many top performing locations of many restaurant chains, Game Stop, etc.
    Durham's Streets of Southpoint store was the first in 2002. I agree, Fayetteville is often overlooked.
    watto_cobra

  • AppleInsider podcast talks AirPods, 2018 iPhones, iOS 11.2, and STEM education with MakeCr...

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    rrrize said:
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    nhughes said:
    rrrize said:
    Can't say I don't like the podcast. It's not bad at all.  But it is highly, HIGHLY annoying when one of you is talking and the other cuts in with a thought but no one wants to back down so you both keep talking at the same time, in essence telling the other that you're not going to stop till your thought is complete.  How about just not cutting one another off. Courtesy plays better over audo (podcast).  Quit the annoyingness <-- I know it's not a word. :smile: 
    Fair point, but I'll note that we are not recording in the same room (let alone the same state). So the whole "talking over each other" thing is sometimes a lag issue, sometimes a miscommunication issue.
    And sometimes, (not always, but sometimes) it's a clock sync issue. Clock sync drifts the longer we record, so our responses can be perfectly interleaved at the beginning of the show and be off, talking over each other (even though we weren't) by the end. I make several cuts to adjust it back into line, and I appreciate your patience with it as we record these.

    Oh wow... had no clue you guys were not in the same room (or state)! Well, that explains it. Of course, from time to time in conversation we interrupt one another. That's natural. I just have a peeve when one participant in a convo appears to think they have a point so great that they cease listening to the person talking, cut them off and refuses to stop talking until that "great" thought is complete. It's a peeve I have in any conversation setting - not just your podcast. But when that happens (at least seemingly) in your podcast, I find myself shouting out loud, "SHUT UP DUDE! LET THE GUY FINISH HIS THOUGHT!!" lol.  At the very minimum, it shows that I'm really into the show and am listening and interested in what you guys are saying, right? : )   Thanks for clarifying.  Keep up the good work! I'll catch you on the next podcast.
    If it sounded enough like we were in the same room that it hadn't occurred to you we weren't, I'll take that as a thumbs up for the audio quality. Thank you!
    cgWerksnhughes