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  • iPhone 17 Pro Max to get exclusive 12GB RAM, vapor chamber cooling

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    M68000 said:
    Other than battery capacity, it is a bit of a travesty that ALL features are only available on the oversized two handed jumbo phone for a given model year.

    i am pretty sure that Steve Jobs thought or said  phones should be able to be used with one hand.  I happen to agree with Steve on that.
    To also quote Steve Jobs: “You’re holding it wrong”.   My hands are not gorilla sized at all and I very often use my Max Pro one handed without issue.  I also use it two handed.   Depends on what I’m doing.  Some things are easier two handed but a lot of normal use is fine one handed.  And the things that are easier two handed are because of size.  I’d be using two hands on a normal sized phone as well (mainly typing more than a few characters at a time).  

    I buy the largest phone that Apple makes.  I like to see more on screen or as my eyes age I can up the size of text a little and still get a lot on-screen.    I also use 3 screens including 2 4K screens on my work computer or on my personal Mac an iMac 5k and an attached 4K screen and a 3 Apple Cinema.  I like to have lots of real estate to see stuff and present relevant information.   
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  • Logitech wants to sell you a subscription mouse some day

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    If they do release a subscription mouse, just say NO.  It doesn’t matter how good it is.  Do not encourage subscription for any normal hw.   

    The same thing for subscription to Hw in your vehicle (for things not normally subscribed to — your network subscription is fine — subscribing to heated seats is not). 
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  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

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    Pema said:
    avon b7 said:
    Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

    The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 
    Absolutely spot on. 
    This is vintage Microsoft sloppiness going over 50 years now. Releasing substandard code, causing chaos first on the desktops, then when office networks became the norm and then the enterprise and now global. 
    Why we are still saddled with the worst o/s ever written I will never understand?

    Windows is basically a graphic interface bolted on to DOS. Anyone who has ever followed the path from DOS to Windows 2000, Windows XP and now the latest incarnation Windows 11 knows that it has never been a stable O/S. The only reason that it is still pervasive is because Gates licensed it for a small fee to any PC maker. The hardware was never a concern for Microsoft. You could install DOS/Windows on your toaster if you like. So long as you pay the $25 fee per box. You are good to go. 

    Apple, ever the company to maintain quality control, would not split the two. Well, ok, there was a brief period when the Pepsi Cola moron ran Apple that the company licensed the OS to a guy in Texas I believe who agreed to a very stringent hardware contract. But that arrangement fell apart after a year. And since then Apple, after Jobs came back from Next, has grown into a $3 Trillion company, always maintaining the highest standards. 

    We have the equivalent of DOS/Windows in the phone space. It's called Android. You build any junky phone and slap Android on it and you are good to go. 

    This particular outage had to do with Windows but also with the way Windows is managed from the cloud. A single component of CrowdStrike called Falcon was not thoroughly tested and it cascaded down to every Windows install out there. 

    And it will happen again. Get rid of Windows and you solve half the problem. 
    Tell me you did t read the article without telling me. 

    First, Windows has not been a GUI on top of DOS since NT came out.  Second, MS code was not the cause of this problem.  crowdstrike was allowed to push out an update affecting windows kernel without MS having any control.   Nothing to do with MS. 

    I’m not a MS cheerleader — I avoid MS in any form as much as possible and have no MS apps on my own computers out of principle.  (Work computers are a different situation).   But it’s not fair to MS to claim they have sloppy code that caused this.   This was crowdstrike code that MS seemingly had to allow access at kernel level without any coordination or vetting with/by MS
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  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

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    avon b7 said:
    Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

    The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 
    And MS is expected to maintain separate versions for the EU and the rest of the world?   EU directives do affect the whole world where it’s not feasible to wall it off for a region.  And allowing security providers who have customers and deal worldwide access only in EU based PCs makes no sense.  
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  • An exclusive, real-world look at the haptic buttons Apple developed for the iPhone 15 Pro

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    Regarding the rumored Apple Car:  we have no idea of the new inventions, technology, software, etc that came from it and will show up at some later date in some totally different product.  Even though no car seems to be forth coming.  

    They’ve said or alluded to advances in AI were made, for example.  
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