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  • Apple's cleaning cloth is sold out through January -- get this instead

    petripetri
    The only thing more ridiculous than the existence of Apple’s polishing cloth is the sheer amount of column inches that have been devoted to discussing it.
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  • Majority of iPhone users unimpressed with iPhone 13 lineup, study finds

    petripetri
    I suspect the survey is asking the wrong questions of the wrong people, probably on purpose.  Nobody should be upgrading from last years phone or possibly even the one before that; Apple know full well that upgrade cycles are longer now as the technology plateaus.

    For me, I upgraded from an iPhone XR to a 13 Pro, and not only is it a very nice step up on almost every level (LCD to higher res OLED with pro motion, single camera to three lenses, 3gb ram to 6gb etc) but as someone who always used to pay extra for the 128gb it was also good value.
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  • John McAfee dies in Spanish prison following extradition order to US

    petripetri
    patchythepirate said:
    FWIW, he came out with a social media post late last year (edit: maybe in 2019 actually) showing a tattoo spelled “whackd”, I think, and warning ppl that he would never commit suicide, so if he mysteriously died of suicide, it wasn’t him. Pretty strange stuff. To his credit, he seemed to have called it. Makes me more curious about whatever he was getting into. I didn’t follow him so I’m not really sure. 
    Did he “call it” or was he cornered, suffering paranoid delusions and reacting publicly to his own private thoughts of suicide?  Governments don’t kill people for tax evasion.  
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  • Apple now tells users to unpair Apple Watch Series 3 before updating

    petripetri
    If this was simply a four year old model that Apple were doing their best to maintain support for that would be one thing, but the fact that this is a CURRENT model that Apple are still selling today makes this unacceptable.  The unpairing/updating process does indeed take hours, and is not a simple process either, especially if you use Apple Pay and have to get your bank(s) to reauthorise cards as well.

    They should have taken this off the market a year or two ago.  If they’re insisting on still selling it, then support it properly with tailored and optimised updates that actually fit the device.
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  • Hands On: Wristcam, an Apple Watch band with dual cameras

    petripetri
    I guess it’s impressive that they’ve taken this so far, but the problem they have is that if there were a genuine market for this, Apple would already be all over it with a better and more integrated product.

    If they end up proving there is a market for it, Apple will again be all over it with better product.

    Either way, Apple are never going to allow this to have the kind of tight integration into WatchOS that would make it truly worthwhile.
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