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  • Is the Apple One subscription worth it in 2025?

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    Betteridge’s Law of Headlines

    Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with “no”.

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  • iOS 26 vs iOS 18: Is Apple's 'Liquid Glass' a true redesign?

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    Modern Aqua.

    i like it. 

    Next step: Skeuomorphism!
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  • iPhone 16e selling well in Europe but can't beat its cheaper siblings

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    Price is a factor. And iPhone outside of the USA, Canada, Australia and NZ have never had commanding market share. Android was already there in non anglosphere countries with a competing product before Apple got serious about those markets, plus the different ways phones are sold there makes the buyer more sensitive to the price of the phone.

    oh, and don’t market a phone as cheap when it’s not. Apple is not a budget brand.

    But particularly price influences sales in slow economic times. It’s like a wise man once said, Apple has to remember that not all its friends are Larry Ellison.
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  • 'The Morning Show' returns in fall 2025 -- here's when to watch

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    Sorry above commenters, but this is flogging the proverbial horse to death. Americans are really bad at this. It happens all the time. A good show keeps going and going until it dies a sad, unloved death. It’s lazy. See also Disney with Marvel, Star Wars. A travesty.

    Better to put the effort, money and resources into new ideas. Given the quality of Apple movies lately (eg fountain of youth, the gorge), that might be a very, very good idea.

    Why not take a leaf out of the k-drama format? A set, standard number of episodes, a complete story arc, and that’s it. Then producers go off and do a completely new story. Just like a book, in fact why not base it on a great book? In the Korean context, they often base a story on a successful webtoon. And multi book stories could be multiseries. The Koreans do 16 episodes as a rule, but also occasionally do 8,12 or 22. Maybe Apple could do a standard 8-12.

    Slow Horses is a good example of what I mean. Each series is based on a separate book. Maybe hornblower books or other serial book stories (I would say reacher, but already done by prime well, although it destroyed Jack Ryan) would make a good set, but concentrate on stand alone novels I would say. some of this type of approach is quite famous. Think 1995 Pride and Prejudice six part story arc.
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  • Apple's next-generation 'CarPlay Ultra' is finally here

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    No doubt it can be put into some late models with digital clusters. But why would a manufacturer update a say, 2021 car when they can encourage you to buy a new one?
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