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  • Apple Watch won't get third-party watch faces anytime soon

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    Having used the Garmin watch face store, I don’t blame Apple in the least. There are some horrendously designed faces in there and a number of them are battery drainers.  That’s not to say that there aren’t some decent ones, but the bad ones seem to outnumber the good ones. 
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  • New watchOS 9.5.1 update includes bug fixes & improvements

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    spheric said:
    Battery life has been abysmal on my Series 6. Here's hoping.
    Yeah, the battery on my Ultra has gone a little wonky the last few weeks since 9.5. Hoping this fixes whatever caused that. A reboot helped a bit, but definitely seeing more drain than I had been seeing during the day. 
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  • Critical security flaw is exposing older Wemo Smart Plugs to hackers

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    Absolutely inexcusable to not fix this. There are enough of these plugs functioning perfectly fine to consider these a “dead product” for a security flaw fix. 
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  • Apple inching closer to one billion paid subscriptions

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    In report from February, Apple revealed that its Services business reached over 935 million active paid subscriptions. That was a 35% increase from the 900 million subscriptions it noted in the fourth quarter of 2022.
    I think your arithmetic may be a little funky here. 35% of 900 million would be 315 million which would put them at 1,215 B.  While they’ve had impressive growth, it’s probably a little closer to 3.89%. 
    Alex_Vwatto_cobra

  • Apple's lack of care with gambling app ads is a symptom of a bigger problem

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    Mike Wuerthele said:
    diz_geek said:
    dewme said:


    I respect your arguments and appreciate your perspectives. I guess the only request I would have with articles like this one would be to preface the title with “Opinion: “ because much of what is presented here on AppleInsider, outside of the comments, is informative while this is clearly an opinion piece. 


    While I disagree with dewme’s libertarian position in general, in fairness to him the “Editorial” header does not appear when I access the article on my iPad using the AI app. 
    Yep, the AI app has had that problem since… well, as far back as I can remember!  Not even the forum view of the article shows “editorial”. If I go to the AI website on safari, it does. So, @"Mike Wuerthele"  showing that in the screenshot doesn’t really resolve the issue that the AI app does NOT show that it’s an editorial. 
    1) I am not a developer, web, app, or otherwise.
    2) It is absolutely labeled an editorial for about 93% of our readers.
    3) It's also very clear from the headline and lede that it is an opinion piece.

    This avenue of conversation in the forums has concluded.

    Then you should discuss this with your developers rather than being rather rude to your readers.

    In the AI app, both iPhone and iPad version, it explicitly does NOT state that it is an editorial.  Your app has had this problem for years.  And while, yes, it is obvious from the content itself that it is an opinion piece, rudely stating to someone questioning about it being one or not because your app doesn’t label it as such is not that readers problem, it is a problem for the publisher’s developers if it isn’t properly showing that label. 


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