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bestkeptsecret said:

My next TV is a Sony, but I won't connect even a Sony to the Internet. All the smarts for my TV will remain in my Apple TV.

Because you’re so eager to get into the Android ecosystem? 

designr said:

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danox said:

Those who live in the southeastern part of America or the midwest (fly over places) the world is passing you by, Apple can't save the stupid area's of America, Apple also can't save the old-line Newspapers, or magazines who are 25 years into the internet age and still have no clue about tech or how use it they seem to want a white knight to save them from themselves and that will not happen.

I'm in a large metropolitan area, one of the biggest, but it can definitely be argued where the stupid areas of America are and where most of the stupid and delusional people can be found. I would argue that they can largely be found in certain feces infested places close to the coasts and without many of those places in the middle that liberals despise, the backbone of the US, all of those elitist morons who are in actuality ignorant, hateful losers would starve to death in a week or two. It would be a fun experiment to see played out sometime. 

I'd be the first to agree that there's a fair amount of arrogance emanating from the coastal areas that often derisively dismiss "flyover country" (or other areas that they deem to be stupid or "on the wrong side of history"). And I also suspect I disagree with folks that happen to inhabit those areas on many issues. But your response is pretty harsh and inflammatory. I think we can all do better than this.

I always laugh when I read these kinds of comments, especially when California has the 6th largest economy in the world.

I agree we can do better, but we rarely do, especially around here.

What does the size of California's economy have to do with this? Are you referring to how they'd fare without "flyover country"?

The argument posed was that the stupid and delusional people “infest” places close to the coasts, and without the middle of the country the “ignorant”, “elitist morons”, and “hateful losers” would “starve to death in a week”. Seems unlikely the 6th largest economy in the world would starve to death without the middle of the country, ever, nor that it could achieve such status being run by stupid people. Meanwhile, farmers in the Midwest are going bankrupt in record numbers thanks to supporting Trump and his tariffs, as China and other countries look elsewhere for their agricultural needs. Meanwhile those coastal cities taxes are paying for subsidies that aren’t really helping farmers survive, or ensure once the tariffs are lifted, that the international business they’ve lost will ever return. So whose news is fake again?

MisterKit said:

Even if older fringe models are technically supported they are often rendered useless after updating to the latest iOS version. It’s almost as if Apple realized iOS 12 would be EOL for some devices and this time decided not to leave us with a brick. I will certainly wait it out before updating some of my borderline devices to see how they are working in the field.

My 5s runs just fine on iOS 12. It’s slow, but it runs fine. Each update the 5s has received has perceptively slowed it down slightly from the previous version. I don’t think another update will render it unusable, but definitely much less desirable.

That would not be the case of the SE. My SE perceptively runs no worse than it did new out of the box the month it was introduced. If an update slowed it down even as much as the 5s is currently running (and that would be a huge change), it wouldn’t begin to make the SE unusable.

AI_lias said:

Yesterday I read a rumor of the SE being revived, with all screen and 4.7 size. Maybe that's the same rumor.  I think it would sell, to have 8 screen size in SE frame

rob53 said:

Will this work as a Wacom tablet replacement? It would be nice. 

The original article suggests that it will, and can be drawn on with an Apple Pencil while used in this mode.