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netrox said:

isnt iPad Mini also a phone since it supports cellular (if you go for celluar in addition to wifi)? 

No. Cellular data only. No SIM card, therefore no cell calls. It's not a phone.

calebsmiley0811 said:

How on earth is everyone reviewing it when it only arrives on Sep 24....??

Product reviewers are routinely shipped devices early, for this purpose.

OctoMonkey said:

Since my free AppleTV+ is valid for another 8 months or so I will probably give this a watch...  although given how it appears to be little like the book I have my doubts.

Being little like the book[s] is most likely a very good thing. If you've read all or most of the Foundation novels, you'll recall that they are largely conversations between two people. That's a bit hard to sell as a blockbuster TV series, and would also be hard to write, and act, and hard for an audience to appreciate. Which is likely why Foundation has not been adapted for the screen up to now.

entropys said:

It is the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire in space. The Foundation crew were the monks preserving knowledge. That is the core story.

I do like that 

"Whenever I'm adapting something, I read it again or watch it again, and I try to write down what I think the core ideas are, the essential ingredients," he told Gizmodo over video chat. "In this case, because Asimov wasn't alive, I was talking to his estate, to his daughter, and I said, I want to make sure that I've identified the core ingredients that make "Foundation," "Foundation." 

ah well, time to renew the Apple TV+ subscription for a while.

The preservation of knowledge is actually NOT at all the core story, which you'll discover if you read the entire series. The preservation of knowledge was, instead, just a convenient cover for the true mission of the Foundation.

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

If Apple wanted to innovate, they could try a round face as an option. That new Samsung watch looks sexy, has better features and the price is a lot lower than the Apple Watch. If it worked with an iPhone, I would be tempted.

"Innovate"? This is imbecilic. There are very good reasons why Apple chose a rectangular screen. It's vastly superior for reading texts, emails, notifications, etc. Changing that for some kind of vague numbskull notion of being more "innovative" is ludicrous. Do you even know what "innovation" is?

As Steve said, "design is how it works".