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racerhomie3 said:

montrosemacs said:

racerhomie3 said:

Idiotic activism.

Does love scare you?

No but putting out ads that leave 50% of people triggered is not a good thing for Apple.

These adverts are for Australia and last October the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey returned 61.6% "Yes" responses and 38.4% "No" responses, with 0.3% informal. The total turnout was 12.7 M or 79.5%. Several hours after the results of the survey were released, Senator Dean Smith introduced the Marriage Amendment (Definition and Religious Freedoms) Bill 2017 into the Australian Senate. The bill passed the Senate by 43 votes to 12 on 29 November 2017, The bill passed the House of Representatives without amendment on 7 December 2017 and it received royal assent from the Governor General on 8 December 2017 and came into effect the following day. One of the leading opponents to gay marriage was staunchly Catholic, ex-prime minister Tony Abbot, but after the Act was passed he said: “I certainly don’t pretend to be an overnight convert to supporting same sex marriage, but I am looking forward to attending the marriage of my sister Christine to her partner, Virginia.” (Which he did, and you can see the photo's online.) For 99% of Australians - supporters and opponents - this is a done deal and we're already back to the important things, like sport and parties. On the subject of parties, the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is on this Saturday, it is one of the most fun events in a city that has a full calendar of great events, year round, so this is actually very clever, on the ball marketing.

stageofhistory said:

Doesn't look like this is an update that's available in the UK... There's no News section showing for me, or any US or UK news networks in the app at this time.

It would be very helpful if AI started posts like these with "US ONLY".

seanismorris said:

No comment.  I hate malls...

Making me walk past a bunch of stores that I have no interest in, to get where I need to go, is a waste of my time.

They probably also have parallel parking... shudder.

The site isn't in a mall, its in a public "square". It's not actually square (not even a rounded rectangle - RIP Steve Jobs), but that's modern architecture for you. However, it is fronted by galleries and restaurants and currently has no shops, so that's really the big issue for Melbournites, not the architecture. As to parking, there's a parking station on the other side of the art gallery from the proposed Apple store location, but very few people will drive there, Melbourne is a very walkable city, the main rail station is a 1 minute walk away and there are about a dozen tram routes all operating at a couple of minutes frequency along both frontage roads.

johnbear said:

both apple and this microsoft watch look terrible. even if they were free I wouldnt wear such ugly accessories! I like my iPhone and mac computers but at least I don't have to wear them as accesories;)

I love my Apple Watch (Series 2, 42mm Space Black Stainless Steel Case with Space Black Milanese Loop running watchOS 3), not only for the functionality but also because it looks great. I guess the aesthetics are a personal matter, but I don't think that the functionality can be disputed. However, we most certainly agree on one point: i wouldn't wear the Microsoft XBox Watch if it came free with my breakfast cereal.

When will it be available outside the US?