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  • Apple applies for more 'Reality' trademarks for AR, VR headset

    roakeroake
    “One Reality Pro Processor”

    Um, nevermind!

    watto_cobraFileMakerFellerbyronl

  • Hyper announces 'world's first' 245W GaN charger, portable battery pack

    roakeroake

    HYPER HyperJuice Battery

    Highlights

    • 27,000 mAh Battery Capacity
    • Up to 245W of Power Output
    • 2 x 100W USB Type-C Ports
    • 2 x 65W USB Type-C Ports
    • 100W Passthrough USB Charging
    • OLED Indicator
    • PD, Qualcomm 4.0+ & PPS Compatible
    • 3' USB Type-C Cable Included
    • Dimensions (W x H x D): 7.5 x 3.2 x 1.1" / 191 x 81 x 28 mm
    • Weight: 765g / 1.69lbs.

    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Apple testing App Store feature that automatically opts users in to price hikes

    roakeroake
    TheWindIsRising said:
    Read the tweets.  How is this so confusing for so many of you?  Pressing the button clearly isn’t going to do Anything.  What on earth do you guys have for breakfast?  Some of you are holding you fingers in the air over the button like on any planet in the universe it would matter at all.  

    The notification is being delivered because Disney is raising their rates and Apple requires it be disclosed to users in advance.  The message includes a link if you want to cancel, which you can always do from your Apple Account settings under Subscriptions, as has been done for over a decade now, but just in case, under all the details about the price change including the date it comes into effect, there is a link explaining, in case that’s also somehow a mystery, that you can cancel and where to go.

    If you’re holding out on pressing the button, wake the F up and see a brain doctor.  Nearly everyone in that Twitter thread needs help.

    And as for the title of the article, this is a test in what way?  This is normal behavior.  You have a subscription, the vendor is raising the price, here’s the details.  What exactly are you expecting Opt-In to look like?  You can say “I Decline” and your rates stay the same?  That’s absurd.  You have an active subscription, the response to a change of terms would be an Opt-Out, and that’s what the notification is doing.  You can’t just pay what you feel like paying, and Apple would have no business cancelling your subscription without asking first in order to give you some weird mirage of having an Opt-In.

    Honestly.  
    Well, this guy clearly missed the point.
    muthuk_vanalingamapplguy

  • Apple claps back at UK report it claims would force it to 'redesign the iPhone'

    roakeroake
    shareef777 said:
    I don’t understand how allowing external app stores would impact Apple’s secure image. Simply don’t install the external App Store (simple default switch that prevents external app stores from being installed), users will remain secure.

    The only logical reason Apple is against this is the loss of income from said external app stores.
    Let me help you understand.

    Alternate stores will have inferior security standards.  Some online “stores” will be run by individuals and include pirated software.  Malware will be introduced that steals information from users.

    Sites will start running stories about all these nefarious activities on iPhones.  People don’t understand the nuances.  They just hear “iPhone… stole my data… malware… runs so slow…”.

    Apple has spent a decade and a half creating the finely polished, highly secure, seamless experience that the iPhone is known for.  All the news and rumors above destroy that image because, as I said, people don’t understand or care about the nuances.  They just open wide and swallow it whole.
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  • Apple's iPhone SE and Mac mini spring event is on March 8

    roakeroake
    Apple invitations used to tease what was coming via the graphics, wording.  It seems like in recent years, there is less of this.  With "peek performance" and the AR image, hopefully these are actual clues and not just cool things that are unrelated.  Do any of the old programmers out there remember PEEK and POKE from the days of yore?  I used to do programming in BASIC and Assembly language.  Two extremes at the time.
    watto_cobraargonaut