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  • iPhone loyalty rates down to 8-year low, survey claims

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    bigtds said:
    omalansky said:
    My housekeeper, who has a Samsung phone, occasionally asks me to help her do something on her phone. What a mess! I'd end up shooting myself if I had to switch to the Android operating system!
    Don't pretend this dosen't happen with iOS also.
    Don't pretend you read the post either... OP helped the house keeper thinks Android is a mess and hard to navigate and would NEVER use it. I feel the same when my father asks me to do something on his Android phone as well.  Can I get done what he asks ..yes.. Do I find it a bit slow and convoluted getting to simple things..that are quickly accessed on IOS yes I do.

    Personally if I ever had to make the jump to Android it would only be Pixel for me, or whatever phone is running stock Android with proper updates.
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  • Apple iPhone chip maker TSMC predicting strong demand for rest of 2019

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    ksec said:
    And it has very little to do with Apple.

    5G Modem and SoC as well as AMD's GPU and CPU. 
    TSMC is believed to have already commenced mass production for the Apple-designed "A13" chip, which will be at the heart of the 2019 iPhone refresh due this September.

    I think this ^ is a bit more than a little impact.  Yes they have other customers, but they aren't making a couple of hundred A13 chips either.

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  • Amazon at work on new Echo to tackle HomePod, other high-end smartspeakers

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    macgui said:
    Despite the eavesdropping potential of any Google or Amazon product, competition is good.

    There are people who are and won't be concerned about Amazon and Google's data collection practices. Their devices are and probably will be priced the same or cheaper than the HomePod. Alexa is quite superior to Siri in many ways, at least for the time being.

    I only have one HomePod at the moment, but plan on getting another one. I like that they will 'pair up' for true stereo. An ATV is yet to grace my room, but it's on the list. Good to know the HP will play nice with it.

    I was reading last night, with room lights low and not a sound in the house, when the HP lit up and a got a couple of seconds of swirling light. The HP has done this from time to time, sometimes probably triggered by something it 'heard' on the TV resembling the trigger.

    This is the second time it's been dead quiet and Siri has woken up and taken a quick listen. I'm curious as to why and if anybody else has that experience.


    I have only ever had Siri come on if there was a sound trigger..  I will hear ... mmhmm while we are talking?   I have however had music start playing in the middle of the night when everyone was asleep and I was coming down to let the dog out!  Hahaha Too many ghost videos on Youtube prior to that.. I was freaked out to say the least.

    Listening is one thing and data collections is another.. Are you saying that Siri is waking and collecting data to do something with?  If you are dead quiet what is the concern? what could be collected at that point? Could just be a little bug..
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  • Amazon at work on new Echo to tackle HomePod, other high-end smartspeakers

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    bigtds said:
    Too late. It will be hard to compete with Sonos on sound and features. Since you can have either Alexa or Google on Sonos and a vast array of other music sources, why buy anything else?
    Because I personally don't want Alexa or Google Assistant products in my home ... period. That is why I bought something else.  My personal collection and Apple Music are more than enough to fulfill my needs.
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  • 2020 iPhone to reduce TrueDepth notch, full-screen display rumored for 2021

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    waverboy said:
    The notch isn’t silly or nonsense.  It’s no more bothersome in real usage than a rear-view mirror is on a windscreen. Yeah it takes up some space, but it really doesn’t matter. 

    Of course they will work to shrink and eliminate it tho. 
    It’s both to me, and along with FaceID is the major reason I haven’t upgraded yet (that and my current phone still works so great, that fabulous extra gig of RAM really set it apart from the 6).  I figured they’d get rid of both eventually, and it looks like I might be right.
    You have never used Face ID or the OLED screen with notch. So your post is basically silly nonsense. You like what you like, but to judge a product like you have is just ridiculous.

     Honestly your post sounds like your are justifying not upgrading your phone by trashing the newer models. 

    My Xs Max is gorgeous and runs smooth and crisp with Face ID. It took me about a day to truly get used to using it and not the thumb to access the phone. I watch videos on YouTube daily and the notch isn’t and issue at all. I honestly thought it would be when I first saw it on the X, and then using it when I bought the    the Xs Max. 
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