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  • Energous CEO makes tenuous reference to future iPhone as leading platform for wireless cha...

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    Makes me wonder where Apple might put the transmitters for this system? A standalone device? A smart speaker? A new "wireless" router for both power and WiFi? In their new desktop systems? A new Apple TV?
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  • Love is blind: NPD says Android customers are so committed that exploding Note 7 did little to help.

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    blastdoor said:
    I agree with the statement in the article that we need to wait to see actual sales figures from Apple before attempting to draw conclusions. 

    Ha! When does anyone wait until Apple actually makes a statement about anything? Whether it's sales figures or product development - it's all speculation and it's almost always negative. While it is fun to guess what's going on, since Apple is tight-lipped about everything, we see way too many people taking these "reports" and rumors too seriously. It seems that patience is a virtue that doesn't have a place online.
    cali

  • Next-gen Apple Watch might thin down by moving haptic motor to wristband

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    tycho24 said:
    Rayz2016 said:
    jay-t said:
    This on the other hand would make the bands much more expensive and - possibly - would narrow the diversity of bands down. I'm not sure this is a wise move. Personally, I don't think that the watch is thick. It is normal. Not thin, but normal.... Plus, I rather have the watch "thick" as it is now than having a thick(er) watch band!
    And all of this is precisely why it won't happen.

    I wonder if anyone's ever worked out what percentage of Apple patent applications ever turn up in a shipping products. From what I can tell, the only ones that show up are the ones that are granted a patent a year or so after the product has started shipping.
    What you mean is: AI's very very very ridiculously stupid guess of how this might be used, is not correct.
    Duh.
    How anyone w/ an iq trivially above retarded could look at this patent application & think: "aha, they must be thinking about removing the Taptic Engine!" is entirely beyond me.
    They sell bands of over a half dozen materials, ranging in price from $50 to $500, & Apple Watch is popular in part because of a rich 3rd party band accessory market.
    I cannot even begin to fathom the enormity & expense of a project to seamlessly integrate a Taptic Engine into these all, lol.
    It is really cool that they're clearly exploring designing OPTIONS in bands for people with different use cases... or possibly even, this is for a screenless "Fitbit" type band wearable they're exploring.
    A while ago Apple also submitted a patent for a band that could inflate/deflate slightly, presumably to allow for accurate blood pressure readings.
    I'm wildly surprised that one of these moron AI editors didn't run the article: "Apple to integrate air powered size adjusting feature into all bands, including link bracelet... we know it seems impossible; but it's the only conclusion we can come up with, by superficially glancing at new patent!".


    Yeah, I agree that some people make more of it than what it really is.

    Apple is NOT going to move the Taptic Engine out of the watch. That's just stupid to think they would. What these patents most likely refer to are specialized bands designed for specific purposes. Apple has made it easy to swap out bands to the point that it created another 3rd party industry. The next logical step is to come out with "smart" or "active" bands that can add functionality and features to the watch for specific purposes. Users would simply swap out their regular band when needed.
    mike1ty24hours

  • Apple signs deal with wind turbine maker Goldwind to bring clean power to suppliers

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    bobolicious said:
    Does nimby-ism exist with wind too?

    - mining for metals & rare earth minerals for the magnets

    - energy needed to fabricate, transport, install, maintain and ultimately dispose of the turbines

    - visual and physical transformations of the natural world

    - low frequency (including inaudible) sound effects still under study

    Wind is indeed renewable, and arguably cleaner, but can we call it clean ?


    Not a real argument as everything mentioned above is also required to build equipment for mining and transporting resources from nature.

    The "clean and renewable" applies to the production of energy, not the production of the equipment to harness the energy - as there is absolutely no method of harnessing energy that doesn't require some form of man made equipment.
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  • Man recovers working iPhone 4 from bottom of Pennsylvania lake

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    A friend of mine was in a car accident and ended up in the hospital for a couple of weeks. After he got out he went to clean out his car and found his iPhone 4 frozen in a puddle of ice on the floor... He let it thaw and was surprised that the phone still worked. It did not have a case on it. How it survived I have no idea? But it did.
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