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Apple announces new Music, Podcasts, and Maps features coming in the fall
Apple Maps has saved me from long delays a few times also. I now use it regularly on longer trips even when I am familiar with the directions. Just in case there is a delay that Siri can help me avoid.dewme said:Turns out that Apple Maps and Siri saved me from sitting in backed-up traffic for hours due to an accident ahead. My wife in a second vehicle was about 30 minutes ahead of me but was not using Apple Maps. She arrived at the destination more than 2 hours after I did.
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Life-saving Apple Emergency SOS summons help for 10 stranded hikers
While it's great to hear that Apple's SOS feature provided the assistance they needed it's concerning that they decided to embark on a hike like this without preparing properly. The SOS feature gives me a lot of peace of mind knowing help is available if needed, but being properly prepared for a hike like this is crucial.AppleInsider said:Most of the hikers weren't prepared for the expedition and were provided with food, water, and lighting equipment by the SAR team as they guided them out of the canyon. Fortunately, one of the hikers possessed an Apple device with the Emergency SOS feature, and none required medical aid.
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Sketchy rumor suggests Apple Watch will be able to sync with Mac & iPad
I would have bought my kids the Apple Watch SE years ago if they could sync them with their iPads. I am considering the cellular watches for them as I could then set them up from my iPhone but that would require changing my phone provider.
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iOS 17 rumored to get big updates to Wallet & Find My
Wow, so condescending and missing the point completely. AppleZulu wasn’t complaining about the rumours themselves or the fact they weren’t accurate. They were highlighting issues with the rumour rating system and the fact the article didn’t mention Gurman was changing his own prediction. Many of the things you mentioned about how the rumour mill works are the very issues AppleZulu was pointing out were not being addressed well in the article.chasm said:
Um … are you sure you understand what a “rumor” is? Literally it is an unsubstantiated report with no way to confirm it. Mark like all the other reporters is speculating based on unreliable reports from possibly-accurate, possibly-not sources, alongside his own experience with what Apple tends to do.AppleZulu said:It’s becoming increasingly clear that these rumor scores and reputation descriptions of track records of leak and rumor makers is entirely an act of whimsy.Sites like AppleInsider would be glad to drop rumor reporting entirely, precisely because it is unreliable and prone to flip-flops, but readers on this and the other Apple sites demand that rumors be covered. The best a site can do is try to put a “warning label” on how likely they think something is.
If you’re just now waking up to the fact that even frequently-correct-in-the-end rumor mongers like Gurman and Ming-Chi Kuo often flip=flop because new sources contradict the old ones, thus forcing them to rewrite their predictions sometimes as much as a full 180 degrees, you really haven’t been paying attention to the rumor “market.” This happens all the time, in predictable yearly cycles.Apple tries to keep a tight lid on this stuff, creating a vacuum for information, and that leads to dodgy sourcing. Most rumors are just educated guesses about where Apple will go next, not soon-to-be-fired factory workers blabbing about Apple’s actual process and plans. I’m sorry if you did not know that, but again — if readers didn’t demand this coverage, and prove it over and over again by driving hits and clicks here and YouTube and other sites and pretty much everywhere, most of these sites would largely avoid reporting on unverified stuff like this.
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Apple's iPhone drops to second place in declining smartphone market
They would have been back then. But as they are no longer in the top 5 they wouldn't be included in the graph. The graph would show either the top 5 across the entire period or the sales history of the current top 5. The fact Huawei had much higher market share at the start of the period included in this graph would not be relevant. Including Huawei would be like including Atari in a graph of the current top consoles just because they were at the top in the past.waveparticle said:Huawei is not in top 5 Q1 2020?
