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It's not "troll" behavior if the patents are legitimate and are legitimately being infringed.  And the proper place to determine legitimacy is in the courts.  Not in a clickbait headline.

If they don't do anything to change the part that goes in my ear, these will unfortunately still be useless to me.  I'm sad that I chose the wrong ear shape.

Beats said:

bobolicious said:

badmonk said:

Yes the GG searchlight is being projected on a building in Gotham City right now.

Soon we will know that Alphabet would never ever sell our data to anyone (but they will use it internally to seek advantage over their competitors).

My iTunes keeps nagging (and stopping playlists) to reconnect to the iTunes Store even though the Store preference is off...?

Apple Support confirmed there is no way to turn this off other than staying 'tethered' to Apple...?

Contact Apple support. AppleInsider and it’s commenters are NOT Apple. 

You noticed the part where he mentioned what Apple Support said, yes?

The post is informative.

danox said:

Apple has never had a interest in computer games of any type over the years….

Not completely true, but pretty darned close.  As much as a subset of Mac users would like the various Mac iterations to be better at gaming, the fact that Apple hasn't gone in that direction tells me that they don't feel like they need to do so.  The Mac isn't intended to be a gaming machine, and that lack of intent is deliberate.  In complete fairness to Apple, that strategy is working for them.  They're one of the richest companies in the world, without gaming.

As for this MS acquisition, MS has repeatedly stated that such acquisitions as this one are intended to bring exclusive content to platforms where game pass exists.  That's almost a direct quotation from Phil Spencer concerning the Zenimax buy.  They will obviously honor existing contractual obligations as part of the sale, and those include continued support for games contracted to be present on other platforms, e.g. Sony and Nintendo.  Those games that are not currently on other platforms will very likely remain exclusive, and new games from these studios will almost certainly be exclusive.  It remains to be seen whether new versions of existing games will be exclusive.  I could honestly see that one going either way, depending on the game.  Making, for instance, COD and Candy Crush exclusive seems like a really stupid move, but other games, not so stupid.

Fred257 said:

This will be a game changer ((literally)

Assuming it will actually run games, I don't disagree.  In order to actually run games, one or more of these things will likely need to happen:

• Apple will need to start caring about games other than those in the Arcade.
• Game developers will need to port their games to this device.
• Apple will need to make it compatible with existing VR platforms, e.g. Steam VR, Meta, Windows Mixed Reality, etc.

For me personally, and I know Apple's priorities don't match, and that's fine, unless I can play Elite Dangerous, Skyrim VR, and the new VR games, and possible VR adaptations of those games, likely to be coming out in the next few years, it's going to be a non-starter for me.

The other, and more likely IMO, possibility is that it because a must-have accessory for my work PC.  It's doubtful that my employer will invest in that particular possibility, unless it becomes obvious that it will be a cost savings.  It's even less likely that I would be allowed to connect such an accessory to my work machine.  Our security is so locked down that it took me three months to convince them to allow bluetooth connections other than the keyboard and mouse. 😕