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  • Apple paid fine for hazardous material handling at North Carolina data center

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    Is this one of their older facilities where they were experimenting with different alternative energies like biogas and fuel cells? Because isn't solar the winner in the alt. energy race and isn't that what they use in newer facilities?
    Jellygoop

  • Apple's cheaper iPhones are not the volume sellers pundits predicted: iPhone 8, X are

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    Soli said:
    ascii said:
    The size of the X screen, NOT THE PRICE, is what held back a lot of us big screen fanboys from buying it. 
    Yup, that's what prevented me from buying it. $1000 is actually not that much for a device you will keep for several years. But these days my phone is my primary book reading device so I need a "plus" model.
    I still hear/read people saying the iPhone X has a bigger display than the iPhone Plus models. Unfortunately, very few seem to realize their error when you try to explain it.

    I'm certainly in the same boat as you and multimedia, but even then I'm not sure I'll be getting a new iPhone this year (which will mean I'll be using my iPhone 7 Plus for an unprecedented 3 years) since my Apple Watch is helping to offload a lot of what I need my iPhone to do (with my Mac also helping as I use it most of all, including sending and receiving phone calls from it on a regular basis).
    I've also got a 7+ (but not a watch). It's going to be super hard not to update to an X+ if it comes out this year!
    Alex1N

  • Apple's cheaper iPhones are not the volume sellers pundits predicted: iPhone 8, X are

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    multimedia said:
    The size of the X screen, NOT THE PRICE, is what held back a lot of us big screen fanboys from buying it. 
    Yup, that's what prevented me from buying it. $1000 is actually not that much for a device you will keep for several years. But these days my phone is my primary book reading device so I need a "plus" model.
    netmage

  • One cable to rule them all: a look at Apple's retired connectors through the years

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    Soli said:
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    Soli said:
    We're living in the golden age of port interfaces. This doesn't go into all the connectors used by WinPCs, but thanks to Apple moving to USB we saw a lot of those fall away much faster than they would have had Apple not made the first move. I do not miss all the variants of DVI that appeared on Macs over the years. Long live the USB-C port interface.


    ascii said:
    Nice survey. That last sentence is a key point though. The Thunderbolt 3 bus over USB type C port will not be the one port to rule them all, it will just be one more port.
    The USB-C port interface is the closest we've ever come to that and it's one of two port interfaces on the current MBP. I see no reason why protocols graters than USB 3.1 and TB3 won't be able to utilize USB-C in the future so why don't you think it fits the "to "one port to rule them all" mantra?
    I think they will eventually replace USB-C with something else for the same reason they replaced USB-A with USB-C, namely they will want to have a smaller connector still.
    I don't understand what your point is. I don't think the article—or anyone else—made any claim that there will never ever be a port interface to come after USB-C.
    I interpreted the line in the article "it appears Apple has achieved much of what it's been reaching for much of its history," as saying we have reached some kind of one port utopia.
    watto_cobra

  • Hands on with the vintage-inspired Rymek Bluetooth keyboard

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    Those kind of things only really work if they're super-authentic, like they are modelled after an exact model from the era, one regarded as a classic, and they have tried to use exactly the same materials as the original as much as possible, and exactly the same dimensions, stuff like that. When its just a generic model like this made of modern materials then it feels too much like you're an adult with a kid's toy typewriter, rather than someone paying homage to a great design or to a cool thing from the past.
    chasm