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  • Apple's next HomePod could be a desktop or TV sound bar

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    I'd probably buy that, depending on the degree of "Apple ridiculousness" in the price.
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  • Apple's FineWoven case and Apple Watch band lineup may have been cut short

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    9secondkox2 said:
    robin huber said:
    I posted this elsewhere but I'll do it again here since it is relevant. 

    I am seem to be one of the few people that got a FineWoven case that isn't a problem. Got it with the phone in September and it seems to be gong strong. 
    Ditto. No problems with mine either. As lovely as leather? No. But we’ve got to reduce the impact bovine agriculture has on the planet in every way possible. Either that, or reduce human population by about half. Good luck with that. Perhaps use human leather? /shudder/
    As long as there is beef, there is leather. Beef isn’t going anywhere, so better to utilize what would otherwise go to waste. It’s more efficient use of resources, more respectful to the sacrifice of the animal, and results in better quality products. 

    The case against leather isn't so much about whether or not it's wasteful, or "more efficient use of resources" or some "respectful to the sacrifice of the animal" garbage (as if it had a choice in its "sacrifice"), it's because the modern industrial tanning process is toxic as hell, to both the environment and the tanning workers.
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  • Apple TV+ hits #1 in streaming movies, Top 10 in streaming TV series

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    It seems likely to me that the viewership of Argylle on Apple TV+ was precisely because of the poor critical reception in Theaters.

    "I've seen some bad reviews so I'm not going to pay ridiculous theater prices to go see it, but now that it's playing on the service I've already paid for this month, I'll give it a shot."

    And of course, as my daughter said, "but...Henry Cavill."
    watto_cobra

  • Fear of Nintendo's wrath is keeping emulators off of the App Store

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    9secondkox2 said:

    If Nintendo doesn’t want their old games available, that’s literally their prerogative, as much as it’s annoying for enthusiasts.

    Yes and no.

    They absolutely have the right to stop selling their old games, and to stop the pirating of those games by people who haven't bought them.

    Whether or not they have the right to stop existing owners of those games from employing an emulator to continue playing those games on another device is a different question entirely.

    As with movies and music, it's completely legal to make a backup of the media for one's own use.  Nintendo has worked especially hard to make the making of those backups difficult, for which I condemn them even if they are fully within their legal rights to do so.
    9secondkox2williamlondonwatto_cobraAlex1N

  • Drama about emulators on the App Store has only just begun

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    I'll keep my Atari 800 and Nintendo 64.  Yes, they are still in a box in my basement.
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