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iPhone 16 vs iPhone 16 Pro compared -- Going Pro in 2024
There's an obvious disparity between the two tiers. The Pro models have three cameras on the back, while the non-Pro have four.The SE has six.
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iPhone 15 Pro review three months later: Worth every penny
I’ve hung onto my 13 pro for another year and have zero regrets. I’m sorry but while there clearly are some improvements in the 15, they’re in no way worth the money over my already excellent, and basically faultless phone.
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Apple will issue iOS update to appease France over RF exposure row
As always AI falls over itself to defend Apple, but a reading of 5.4w/kg does not just “slightly exceed” the legal limit, it’s 35% higher. Regardless of what margin there may be between the legal limit and a harmful effect, ignoring it to the tune of 35% is unacceptable.
If you go 35% faster than the speed limit, you’d best expect you’re going to be booked for it.
Assuming it isn’t just a faulty test (and that seems pretty unlikely) Apple have some explaining to do. An iOS update now is all well and good, but this is a three year old phone which may well have been breaking the law for three years.
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Twitter has now rebranded as 'X'
You forgot the bit where all the cool kids moved to a different school, and the principal burned down his own cafeteria while “owning the libs” and rebranding it as a dumpster fire.Michae1 said:After Musk bought Twitter we learned the depths to which it has been used to promote certain certain narratives, and suppress other ideas. As someone who never used the service, I was only mildly interested in the steps he has been taking to democratize it, monetize it, and revitalize it. But what has been highly entertaining to me is watching how butthurt people have gotten over these changes. The principal came into the cafeteria and told the “cool kids“ that they don’t get to decide who sits at their table anymore.
Twitter wasn’t perfect, but if you think that amplifying actual nazis is “democratising” and “revitalising” the platform then, well, perhaps you’d better sign up after all, clearly you’re the target market.
As for monetising, you’re no doubt aware that income is through the floor and the genius Musk has managed to literally halve the companies value even before dumping the brand (arguably its most valuable asset). Kerching!
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Tom Hanks film 'Finch' sets Apple TV+ film premiere record
I sort of enjoyed this film for the most part but the more I reflect on it, the more I really hate it tbh.**Spoilers ahead!**1. I imagined to begin with that the film was set after some climate emergency had finally finished off most of humanity - certainly that’s the way it looked, it’s perfectly plausible and would have given the film some emotional weight as a warning from the future… but no, later on we discover that it was actually just some random solar storm. Completely beyond our control, not man made at all, nothing to see here! A cynic might wonder whether apple had a say in steering the film away from any sensitive topics here.
2. We’re meant to sympathise with Hanks’ character who, as the last human who knows he’s dying, is desperately trying to make sure his dog (the last dog?) is cared for when he’s gone. But his solution is to create a new sentient being, a robot with AI so complete that he even dreams, to look after this dog for the remaining few years of its life and then… what? This newly sentient creature who - as the story demonstrates is essentially as human as you or
I, and who thrives on companionship - is then destined to walk the barren earth forever alone. The filmmakers even kill off Hanks’ other robot dog earlier on just to make sure. It actually just leaves me thinking how cruel the main character must be to do that.
