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No surprise at all. Amazon Prime Video is a streaming service just very hard to watch:

- PS4 app in the US, Germany. UK,... but not available outside those Amazon Prime countries, while the streaming service is.
- Nvidia Shield app same story, so you disable location services and it works
- Yes, you can watch it on an iPad or iPhone, but please stop this Airplay nonsense.
- FireTV doesn't work outside these Amazon Prime countries (some content does)

How hard can it be to port an iOS app to tvOS ? Should be a matter of days.....

kestral said:

How does a processor upgrade work? Provided the chip uses the same socket, can one just buy an i7 with the right socket, replace it and that's it, or is there more to do in order to get this to work?

Yes, in principle should work. FYI, the i5 7400 is the "cheapest" Core i5 Kabylake you can get. It has a TDP of 65W. So you could replace this one with Core i7 7700, which also has a TDP of 65W.

The Barclays people don't know what they are talking about. You don't need 1300 people to design a power management controller for a phone, so handling the charging/discharging of the battery and generating all those voltages for the SoC, modem, wireless amps etc.

It's just another game than doing a CPU, GPU etc.

However, I'm sure Apple has gained the knowledge after doing iPods and iPhones for the past 15 years.

80 people is about right for such a PMU (power management unit), also given that Apple will move to in-house developed wireless charging,
wants new power tricks (e.g. modulate supplies like AMD and Intel are doing) etc.

These analysts are (as usual idiots). Personally I don't believe in AR. Why the hell would I walk around in the real world with a headset over my regular glasses to see Pokemons jumping around or see immediately where my destination is. You play games to be immersed in another reality.

I own a PSVR. I agree the game makers are still looking for the killer app. However, two games / demos stood out for me in the past months:

- The Batham Arkham VR game, where you solve as Batman some crime. You actually feel being Batman, specially with the Move controllers.
- Last night, I played the SW Rogue mission from Battlefield SW. You are in an X-wing cockpit and it's totally awesome to navigate through an asteroid field, attack a Star cruiser and pull up the targetting computer. This 15 min experience/demo screams for more.

freediverx said:

ireland said:

PayPal works, but in the past when I've had issues their support was so bad it's not funny. I literally got locked out of my account for 3 months through no fault of my own because that was their policy.

Everything about PayPal's user experience is terrible, from their relentless attempts to use your checking account instead of your credit card to their obnoxious interstitial ads when you're trying to quickly access your account information.

I thought it was my settings, but you are right, despite of what you do, it ALWAYS picks your checking account as primary account.

On the other hand, sometimes I wonder if these analysts are sober. Apple is available in the US, but still hardly outside the US. So how can it take away marketshare from Paypal ?