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  • Apple's first HomePod ads urge customers to 'order now'

    brakkenbrakken
    Terrible ads. 
    Show us what they hell they are for!!
    techrules

  • Apple's 8 years of iPad: a revolution in iOS computing

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    Apple has repeatedly altered technology and the landscape of the industry, and the iPad in many ways is the peak of this ongoing innovation. Even when SJ wasn't at Apple, the PowerPC and ARM chips in the new layouts of the PowerBook and Newton introduced form factors that became standards throughout the industry. Apple has also consistently been the leader in creating new GUI's to match each devices usage scenarios.

    The iPad is the culmination of Apple's evolution in tailoring GUI and hardware to provide a specific range of features for a specific range of uses. Unlike other companies, which seem to have no actual focus, Apple also seems to be working toward a long-range goal of about thirty years, with each step taking place as the technology supports it. 

    iPad, as a platform, has the architecture in place to continue developing in ways that a laptop simply can't: iOS provides a foundation capable of expanding far beyond what it has even achieved over the past ten years. 

    It seems an obvious trend, naturally set by Apple, that devices are set to be light, portable, and very usable. The failure of all other products seems clear: uncomfortable to hold, frightening - through lack of privacy and security or abundance of complexity - to use, and poor resale value. 

    The most interesting future set of developments for me is how iPhone and iPad continue battling it out in the market, and which functions and what applications each acquires. With the iPad, its first petals are blooming, but it certainly isn't anywhere near maturity!

    I have owned: iPad 2, iPad mini, and iPad mini 4, and now have iPad Air 2, 2015 iPad Pro, and another iPad mini 4. 
    I wish to own an iPad Pro mini. Please, Apple! With cherries on top!!
    watto_cobra

  • Hoping to capitalize on Apple battery controversy, HTC and Motorola volunteer that they do...

    brakkenbrakken
    Once again Apple gets skewered by idiots for trying to do the right thing.
    Perhaps they'll go psycho one day and turn off iCloud and sell the company to Microsoft, and serves everyone right.
    watto_cobra

  • Advanced TrueDepth camera, Face ID "major drivers" of iPhone X user satisfaction

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    I wish all AI writers were as capable as Dilger. 
    watto_cobratobian

  • Eric Schmidt stepping down from role as Alphabet's executive chairman

    brakkenbrakken
    Good riddance. 
    pscooter63sunwukong