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  • Major US carriers don't support dual SIM at launch of iOS 12.1

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    Chadwi said:
    The only reason I upgraded my phone was for the dual sim feature. I assume the U.S. carriers are trying to figure out how they can make some money off of the sim activation. I'm willing to bet they are using compatibility issues as a delay tactic until they can find a way to break it off in our a$$
    Then maybe you should have researched this before you updated for the single reason of dual SIM. Duh.
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  • Apple's new Mac mini finally arrives with 5X performance, Thunderbolt 3, more

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    Okay, no iMac refresh, no mention of Mac Pro. I’m currently using a Late 2013 iMac 27” 14,2 with the Core i7 Haswell 3.5Ghz and it’s running Mojave just fine. I suppose I’ll just keep waiting for a new iMac for now. 
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  • Angela Ahrendts, the 'non-techie' who runs Apple Retail, joined Apple on October 14, 2013

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    StayPuftZombie said:
    lkrupp said:
    mike54 said:
    I don't agree with what she has done to the Apple Stores and I don't agree with what Tim Cook has done to Apple. Both are on the same page focusing on investors, image and PR and should be in different positions. Both are non-techies but are good for the investors.
    And the really interesting thing is that you and @StayPuftZombie, with all your venom against Apple’s present leadership team, have absolutely no place to go. There is NO alternative to Apple for you based on your own pontifications about how a tech company should be run. Where will you go? What will you buy? A Dell running Windows? I think not. No, you’ll bitch and complain and then stick to Apple products like you always have. 

    That is crushingly accurate.  The 2nd choices are just craptacular.  While Surface hardware has gotten really good/interesting (the surfacebook), the software is still a pain-smoothie.  

    But to recount a little history, when things got bad enough on the Mac back in the late 80s early 90s, I was forced and did go to NeXT (which was not only a god send and step up, I still miss parts of it as still being better than OSX in many ways to this day) and NT (god helped me).

    Today, I'd probably realistically amble along with a hackintosh for a few years (assuming they mess up the new mac pro and make it an unupgradable blight like the iMac Pro and macbook pros) to figure out what to do. Maybe some linux variant.  Some that mimic NeXTstep like GNUSTEP (and can even run some mac apps) and some that mimic the mac.  But to your point, 2nd place is far away.

    That said, just because the alternatives are garbage doesnt mean you laud apple for their bad decisions and moves.  Precisely because I want them to do well.  And again, the 90s were evidence that when things do get bad enough, people, even long time fans, did abandon apple.
    They are only garbage in your personal opinion, not everyone’s, not even most, not even many. I got over my own anger at what Apple does or doesn’t do over twenty years ago. I was an Apple II guy that stuck to the II even after the Macintosh debuted. I went so far as to buy an Apple IIGS instead of a Mac in my stubborn loyalty to the II line. When Jobs finally killed the Apple II I was livid. Of course I eventually switched to the Mac. Next came the PowerPC to Intel migration. I had bought into the CISC/RISC narrative that less megahertz didn’t mean less performance. I was so pissed off that many of my posts in the Apple forums got deleted. I had bought a water cooled Power Mac G5 before that happened. I have long since come to the conclusion that it’s not worth the anger and stress, the negativity, the nonsense of hoping against hope that the old, failed Apple will return. And so should you. The upgradeable desktop era is coming to a close in my own opinion. Apple’s success is now tied to mobile and that’s that.
    GeorgeBMacStrangeDaysStayPuftZombie

  • CBC Video claims Apple's repair policies are abusive, but 'proof' falls far short

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    I think Apple’s reputation can weather these attacks. I know for me personally I would never EVER take my Apple product to a third party repair shop, especially the ones you see in a strip mall named Bob’s Computers.
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  • Remembering Steve Jobs

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    And I’ll never forget or forgive the trolls on C|net who viciously attacked and vilified Jobs the day he died. There were efforts to organize trips to urinate and defecate on his grave. It was the most vile thing I’d ever read in my life. I pleaded with C|net to delete the most vicious and cruel of those posts to no avail. Those posts are part of the reason I have no tolerance for Android sycophants or Apple haters, no matter their motives. It has gotten me shadow banned on a couple of sites but I don’t care. I will respond tp them just as nastily as they post.
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