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  • iOS 17 continues personalization push & makes big adds to Messages

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    appleinsideruser said:
    beowulfschmidt said:
    appleinsideruser said:
    I hope I can keep my own contact photos for incoming calls. Like in messages, I prefer to recognise people by my (amusing, unflattering) pictures of them, not theirs.

    Right!  And not only because I'm more likely to recognize my picture of them than I will their pic, avatar, memoji, or whatever they choose to represent themselves.

    But also because some bright boy somewhere is going to figure out how to insert something malicious into that image and just call people to infect them.

    Yes, I am paranoid, but that doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
    It’s ironic that Apple just removed the preview of images sent locally via airdrop, yet now plan to add an even bigger image on unsolicited calls from anywhere in the world!
    To be fair, from what I later saw described, use of that image would be an option on the receiver's end, not unconditional.  So that mitigates some of my personal concern.  The general issue of unsolicited images is still there though.
    appleinsideruser

  • Vision Pro prescription lenses to start at $300, guesses Gurman

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    Given that there are multiple companies right now making prescription inserts for all major headsets for less than $100 (much less if all you want is the prescription, and none of the other stuff some of them offer), and that there didn't to be anything special about the Apple headset that would preclude a non-Apple product (many of the existing ones already use magnetic couplers), $300-600 seems...excessive.

    So that leads me to one of three major suppositions:
    • Gurnman is an idiot who didn't do any kind of market research before making this claim, and Apple will price them competitively.
    • Apple is too stupid to have already read the market.
    • Apple is doing the "Apple Thing" and supposing that people will pay extra just for the Apple name.
    I'll provisionally go with the first.
    Kierkegaardenwilliamlondondarkvaderwatto_cobra

  • New Beats Studio Buds+ release may be imminent

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    Japhey said:
    beowulfschmidt said:
    Honestly, the only additional feature that I'd be looking for in any Apple produced ear buds is the "stay in my ears while eating or walking" feature.  In the case of the AirProds Pro, just sitting on the couch watching a movie for 15 minutes will see them work themselves out of my ears.  Truly disappointing, as I absolutely love the sound.

    The Beats Fit Pro are a little better, but still work themselves loose after 30-40 minutes.
    This might sound like a weird question, but do you twist your Beats forwards or backwards in your ear?  Because every video or photo I ever saw showed them twisted to the front of the ear of the user.  But that didn’t work at all for me, so I tried rotating them backwards and it worked like a charm. They seriously do not budge now. Anyway, a few others I know hadn’t thought to try it that way either, so I thought I would ask. You probably already thought of this…but I figured I’d share just in case. 

    I have tried several different positions.  Some are slightly better than others, but all are loose.

    I guess I should consider returning my defective ears. 🤣
    Japhey

  • Apple & Google aren't happy about dinosaur and alien porn on Kindle book store

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    written stories involving dinosaur and alien sex, which is apparently a thing.
    Well of course dinosaur and alien sex is a thing!  How do you think humans came about?  Sheesh!

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  • Kroger stores start accepting Apple Pay for grocery purchases

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    payeco said:
    hmlongco said:
    Xed said:
    FINALLY! 🙏

    Lowes, Home Depot, and Walmart are the last major ones I can think of.
    Walmart won't do it out of spite since their own payment system imploded. I am getting sick and tired of Lowes not enabling any contactless payment systems, however.
    At some point their hand may be forced. Visa and Mastercard mandate contactless card acceptance to be able to accept their cards in Europe and Asia. If they do that here Walmart and the rest of the hold outs won’t have a choice.

    I'd be surprised if Walmart, king of "you'll do it our way or you won't do it", really gives even the smallest fvck what Visa or MasterCard says.  Besides, they already have their own proprietary contactless payment system in their stores.  Is it possible?  Sure.  Probably not in my lifetime though.
    williamlondon