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elfig2012 said:

OLED for 2020...Apple always very late to catchup, where is the “one more thing” invention-Apple?

hummerchine said:

Ha!

For everyone who thinks you will miss the home button...YOU WON’T!!!

Any time I use a device now that has one it seems completely backwards.  The new gestures are better and you’ll get used to it almost immediately.

I agree that the 7 is still a great phone...but man...my Xs Max is SO MUCH BETTER!!!

Totally agree.  Came to the Max from and 8 Plus. First day my brain wanted to go to the home button after getting used to the new gestures I never looked back.  Makes using my IPad Pro 10.5 a little confusing sometimes.

melodyof1974 said:

GG1 said:

Is it safe to say that the 11 Mac models listed are presumably all iMacs? I.e., no refreshed Mini's?

Edit: I guess some models could be the rumoured 16-inch MBP.

I have been holding off purchasing a new mac mini. I have been seeing price cuts all over the web.

A refresh in less than a year?  Has that happened before.. I am thinking of a new mini myself. 

seanismorris said:

So your alpha testers are being charged .49 / month?

This must be a way to not pay your employees overtime, and avoid labor lawsuits...

Company memo:
Wink. Wink. “You don’t have to play and give us feedback if you don’t want to.”
Also, “Please don’t print out your resume on company printers”.

Apple sometimes does the strangest things.  It’s like the bean counters are in open warfare with who ever is in charge of “don’t be evil”.

The way it written is confusing. It’s .49 a month with a free month. In a month the service will be launched with iOS 13. So the testing will have to be completed .. no ?

“Apple has invested more than $500 million dollarson Apple Arcade so far, and is set to showcase over 100 titles at the mid-September launch.” 

“The internal carry test program will draw to a close with the launch of iOS 13, according a report by 9to5 Mac on Saturday morning”.

So employees after release pay .49 a month. As of now there has been no consumer pricing set. 

AnotherBrick said:

There is one sentence that will prevent me from buying a HomePod: “Apple's HomePod is a fantastic home speaker. It connects solely over Wi-Fi and streams Apple Music natively, but nothing else.”

A device which claims to be an audiophile grade speaker that only plays mp3 quality music and cannot accept other sources unless that source has AirPlay, which probably eliminates turntables for people who are vinyl purists, absolutely killed my interest in the device. I wanted something that could play the highest quality bit rate for digital and could play my high end vinyl collection as well.

HomePod is a great speaker but do you seriously want to play your vinyl on a speaker this size, and not a larger component system ?  I have been throwing around the idea of getting back into vinyl and it near crossed my mind to try and use my HomePod for this over my receiver and component system? 

It’s a $299.00 WiFi speaker that sounds great but to me doesn’t make sense to try and incorporate with an expensive turntable and vinyl collection. When you picture sitting back and critically listening to a high end vinyl collection doing it with the HomePod just doesn’t seem right to me.