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  • Apple Notes in iOS 18 looks to up the ante with Microsoft OneNote

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    VictorMortimer said:
    People actually use OneNote?

    I mean, the only 'note' app I've ever seen a need for on Windoze is Notepad, and that's just because it's the closest thing to TextEdit on a real computer.

    If I see OneNote on a Mac, I just delete it.
    I fully agree. 
    At a former job there was a rollout of OneNote. My director and I both agreed it was of absolutely zero use to us. 
    I don’t need a separate organizer app within my computer - a computer is one big organizing tool. 
    It mystifies me that so many people need this extra, distracting layer in their lives. It’s asthough the entire purpose of the computer system is lost on them. 
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  • Decade-old Apple Car project may be completely dead

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    This is a very good thing. I was very relieved to read this article.

    Having a great deal of experience in the auto industry over decades, I can tell you this is a field that Apple should stay away from.

    It could be the worst of all businesses, bettter only than the hospitality industry. The auto industry has incredibly low margins, is highly capital intensive, has a great deal of exposure to lawsuits, and the list of negative attributes goes on and on. 

    The ability to say, “No.” is one of Apple‘s greatest strengths. 
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  • Apple suffers fourth consecutive quarter of declining sales, beat Wall Street anyway

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    Apple is doomed. 
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  • iPhone 15 Pro Max delivery estimates hit October minutes into preorders

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    I had no problems. I’m on the Upgrade Program and set up my order two days ago. 
    My phone should arrive on the 22nd, at my door. 
    Pro Max Blue. 
    Website worked perfectly. 
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  • Apple Watch bands harbor dangerous bacteria -- because no one cleans them

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    welshdog said:
    Soap does not kill most bacteria, unless it is anti-bacterial soap which we aren't supposed to use because of the creation of resistant strains of bacteria, because soap will not kill them - wait what just happened?

    Lysol and alcohol may have negative effects on band materials - use with caution unless you are really rich and in that case go ahead and destroy your posessions on a regular basis because you really just don't care, because you have that luxury and are a very inconsiderate and wasteful person which is the worst insult I know.

    Apple cider vinegar is a total scam and is no different than regular acetic acid and this reminds me of the people who think that mixing vinegar and baking soda makes some sort of miracle cleaner that is safe and effective which of course it is not effective at all since you just deactivated the vinegar. The by product of the magic "cleaning" reaction is co2 and sodium acetate, which is a chemical compound used to make salt and vinegar potato chips very vinegary without being a wet soggy acidic mess.

    I don't wear a watch but my wife likes her Apple Watch and when she cleans her bands we use OxiClean or the active ingredient, sodium percarbonate, which is also the active ingredient in Efferdent and is also the active ingredient in most coffee machine cleaning tablets and the active ingredient in most "color safe" laundry bleach products and so far we have seen no damage to the bands.

    Tonight I like really long sentences.
    No. Very misleading bordering on outright wrong. Soap DOES kill bacteria and viruses by destroying their bilipid layer - their outer membrane. Soap literally tears apart the pathogen. No anti-bacterial addition needed.

    Read this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/health/soap-coronavirus-handwashing-germs.html

    Excerpt:  
    Some bacteria and viruses have lipid membranes that resemble double-layered micelles with two bands of hydrophobic tails sandwiched between two rings of hydrophilic heads. These membranes are studded with important proteins that allow viruses to infect cells and perform vital tasks that keep bacteria alive. Pathogens wrapped in lipid membranes include coronaviruses, H.I.V., the viruses that cause hepatitis B and C, herpes, Ebola, Zika, dengue, and numerous bacteria that attack the intestines and respiratory tract.
    When you wash your hands with soap and water, you surround any microorganisms on your skin with soap molecules. The hydrophobic tails of the free-floating soap molecules attempt to evade water; in the process, they wedge themselves into the lipid envelopes of certain microbes and viruses, prying them apart.
    “They act like crowbars and destabilize the whole system,” said Prof. Pall Thordarson, acting head of chemistry at the University of New South Wales. Essential proteins spill from the ruptured membranes into the surrounding water, killing the bacteria and rendering the viruses useless.

    So wash your bands with soap - especially if you have metal bands. Then, if you have bands made of porous materials, use some alcohol.
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