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  • Apple refuses to back GOP convention because of Trump politics

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    Earlier in the year Donald Trump stated that he would determine where Apple could put their factories and how they would manufacture products.
    2/19/16 Trump called for a boycott of Apple because Apple will not break into users phones which have been confiscated by the police/FBI.
    - Trump is directly attacking Apple in how it does business and he is stating that Apple must cooperate with the government to strip phones of password protection which is a direct attack on user privacy.

    * What response should Apple make to Trump? Some believe that Apple should do nothing because freedom of speech does not exist for the company's executives and Board.
    * My response is; since when did Trump take away the Constitutional protections of every American including Apple's leadership? Should Apple lay down its freedoms and surrender to Trump? Should Trump run Apple? Should only Trump speak for Apple? And should Trump decide that users of Apple products have no privacy?
    * I say absolutely NO!
    I support the freedoms given to us by the Constitution. And Trump has no right to silence any of us including Apple.
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  • How Apple Watch became the iPod of the future

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    I enjoy these kinds of tech history articles a lot. From the history of the iPod (which began to be used as a watch), the development of a dedicated Apple Watch was inevitable.
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  • Review: Apple's 9.7" iPad Pro is professional-grade, powerful & pricey

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    If a person needs the Pencil, more than 64GB of storage, the latest SOC or the connector, then get the 9.7 inch IP Pro. But otherwise the IP Air 2 is a better deal. It's still pretty fast and it is a lot cheaper at $499 for 64GB.
    netmage

  • Shootout: Apple's new 9.7" iPad Pro vs. iPad Air 2

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    blackcrayon said:
    bb-15 said:

    - The onscreen gfxbench GPU test scores I wrote about were straight from the Ars Technica graph. I saw nothing about the gfxbench test being capped at 60 fps.
    About this Cunningham said; "Onscreen performance, which renders scenes at the screens' native resolutions, is about the same (as the big iPad Pro)" But it is also not that much faster than the Air 2 as the scores show.
    - As for the off screen gfxbenchGPU test (which is always done at 1080p) the scores are way above 60 fps which again does not show any cap. The higher off screen score shows the power of the GPU in the new iPad which could eventually have better performance with higher resolution games though it's hard to say when those will be released.
    * As for what would be noticeable right now; software that is CPU intensive which uses single core will clearly be faster on the new iPad Pro. But current apps that are multicore intensive or available GPU intensive apps used on each device's native resolution are not going to show much of a difference imo.
    Onscreen tests are capped at the refresh rate of the display which is usually 60Hz... Which is why you won't see any scores above 60 (check over at Anandtech where they test a lot of devices).  Eventually the GPUs get so good at the older GL benchmarks that just about everything gets around 60 onscreen unless there is a drastically different native resolution of the screen.  And then they have to update the benchmarks to make it worthwhile to even run onscreen tests.

    Offscreen tests are done at 1080p, but there is no display to hold back the refresh rate, so it's unlimited.  It's interesting to compare the two, because you get situations where "hey the Galaxy S6 GPU is better than the iPhone 6's GPU, it kills it in offscreen tests!" but then "Yeah but the Galaxy S6 GPU still can't handle its high native screen resolution so XYZ looks choppy!"...

    I think we'll probably have the usual effect of the Pro only looking slightly faster at first, but the difference becoming more apparent as iOS grows e.g. iOS 10.
    Thank you for the explanation. So, with the gfxbench onscreen GPU tests done by Ars Technica, the T-Rex HD results of the iPad Pros could be ignored since the Pro devices are bumping up against the 60 HZ limit of the displays and are almost at 60 fps with that test.
    - But Ars also did a Manhattan HD onscreen test. And the scores for that did not bump up against the 60 HZ / 60 fps limit.
    - 9.7 iPad Pro 35.3 fps
    - 9.7 inch Air 2 28.1 fps
    Back to my point. The graphic performance of the new iPad and the Air 2, on their screens (which is currently what most users will see), does not seem to be that different.
    netmage

  • Shootout: Apple's new 9.7" iPad Pro vs. iPad Air 2

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    If someone must have a new 9.7 inch IPad with the Pencil, keyboard connector and 128 GB or more of storage, then the new iPad Pro is the only choice.
    - But let's say that a person can get by with about 64GB of storage (& they don't need the Pencil), then the price difference between the Air 2 and the 9.7 inch IP Pro could be a factor.
    9.7 iPd Air 2 64 GB $499
    9.7 iPad Pro 32 GB $599
    9.7 iPad Pro 128 GB $749.

    * Performance; depending on the benchmark the Air 2 can be close in speed to the new IP Pro. Ars Technica did some tests in their hands on article;
    Geekbench 3 single core the new Pro is a little over 1/3 faster than the Air 2
    Geekbench 3 multi core the new Pro is a little over 10% faster than the Air 2
    GFXBench GL: Onscreen T-Rex HD frames/sec; new IP Pro 59.5, Air 2 52.8
    Manhattan HD; new IP Pro 35.3, Air 2 28.1

    In terms of performance, imo for many users, they will not be able to tell the difference between the new IP Pro and the Air 2. Considering price / performance to me the Air 2 will be the better deal for a lot of buyers.
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