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  • Amazon Prime users to be offered Apple TV+ bundle

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    Fidonet127 said:
    I get AppleTV+ via the bundle and I enjoy it. I cannot see this adding many subscribers. This will be a few subscribers, who will do a month or a few months, but I cannot see subscribers lasting for a year on this. Same thing for those who only pay for Apple TV+ by itself.

    I've never seen the need to cancel Apple TV+. Netflix is far more hit and miss for me. It was a little lean during COVID and the strikes, just like everyone else, but the intro of new and returning shows has been pretty steady throughout the year. I also save money by doing the yearly subscription for TV+ and Music.
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  • Apple Pay returns to Home Depot, grocery chain H-E-B starts to accept it

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    prof said:
    mike1 said:
    It's worth noting that Home Depot did not accept any type of contactless payment options. It wasn't only Apple Pay that wasn't available.
    Of course. Basically the title should read: "Home Depot and H-E-B are finally arriving in the 2020s by adding contactless payments"... which is absolutely ridiculous. Here in Europe you have to search very hard to find a shop that doesn't take (contactless) payments since various radical security improvements over the last couple of years have enforced payment fulfilment providers to replace their card readers a few times and it would be ridiculous to swap outdated technology against slightly less outdated technology without contactless payment support.

    Interestingly, in my experience, virtually all small and mid-sized retailers accept contactless payments. Only some of the larger chains, such as HD, have not offered that convenience.
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  • Apple Pay returns to Home Depot, grocery chain H-E-B starts to accept it

    mike1mike1
    It's worth noting that Home Depot did not accept any type of contactless payment options. It wasn't only Apple Pay that wasn't available.
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  • Teardown shows AirPods 4 still unfixable by the public

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    avon b7 said:
    charlesn said:
    SO... which brand of wireless earbuds are fixable by the general public? Go ahead, I'll wait... 


    Listen: I realize that the Right to Repair niche and the iFixIt gang would like to return us to the 1960s and Radio Shack, but the vast majority of consumers have voted otherwise with their wallets. So give it a rest! Hey, I remember the days when I could do most of my own repair work on my car, now impossible because most car functionalities are computer monitored and controlled, but the car I drive today is FAR more reliable than the self-repairable cars of my youth. 
    User repairable:

     https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds

    It is important to clarify that no one has voted (with or without their wallets) on essentially disposable buds. 

    If anything, if they said 'disposable' on the box, sales would probably drop off considerably. 

    Not at all. I don't think any reasonable consumer would ever expect a $129-$179 wireless ear bud to ever be repairable. You can replace them for less than the labor to have someone try to fix them. And only a subset of a subset of users would even think they would have the means or knowledge to repair it themselves.
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  • Teardown shows AirPods 4 still unfixable by the public

    mike1mike1
    They need to add a disclaimer. No user-serviceable parts inside.  :D
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