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  • iPhone 17 Slim still rumored to have a 6.6-inch display

    boboliciousbobolicious
    I am still drawn to the 6/7/SE format as it is so compact...

    likes:
    - slim, round edge shape
    - minimal lens footprint
    - touch ID
    - reuse of accessories

    would like:
    - latest 24mm eq lens (SE body)
    - night photo mode
    - full screen (keep touch id)
    opinion

  • Apple makes the last-ever iPod nano and iPod shuffle obsolete

    boboliciousbobolicious
    The nano 6 was my personal favourite including fm reception...

    everymac.com/systems/apple/ipod/specs/ipod-6th-generation-6g-multitouch-nano-specs.html

    watto_cobra

  • How to make an external bootable drive in macOS Sequoia

    boboliciousbobolicious
    Has Apple made this kind of maintenance much more difficult with APFS ?

    I recently lost an email folder trying to merge it with a smilarly named one (no warning) and learned that Time Machine can no longer restore email or mbox.  

    Really.

    Is email some of the most basic and important data we need to have backups and records of ?

    How is this an upgrade.

    Thank goodness my nightly mirror had not yet been overwritten.

    I had to fiddle rebooting back and forth and exporting / importing a number of times to get things back. Another evening closer to death thanks to macOS.

    Even the mail export function has quirks that did not seem logical, such as selecting a top folder does not export the contents.

    Really.

    I now consider Time Machine critically broken. 

    I NO LONGER DEPEND on TM to save my mission and legally critical correspondence.

    Anyone who has ever attempted a full recovery may also agree TM is too slow for fast paced work environments.

    It used to be we could simply make a mirror of our startup drive using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner and that would work.

    TEST IT.

    Suggestions:

    - dual alternating time machine backups and ideally a third cloud based option for rapid emergency file (only) recovery.
    - dual alternating nightly mirrors and ideally a third cloud based option for emergency workflow recovery.

    Do we keep getting memoji and Siri machine learning to 'learn from' us when basic essentials seem to be being quietly depracated...?

    So discouraging - is the annual and often incomplete shareholder driven feature implementation of macOS 'progress' serving the customer ?
    xyzzy-xxx

  • Cameras on iPhone 16 Pro Max are fourth-best in the world

    boboliciousbobolicious
    Thank you for this review...

    As I feared:

    "Despite a nominally higher 48MP pixel count on the ultra-wide camera, our testers could not observe any improvements in detail, neither in the lab nor in real-life scenes, at ultra-wide settings"

    I guess I'll be waiting another year, sigh...
    ITGUYINSDgrandact73watto_cobra

  • Sonos CEO insists iOS app cannot be rolled back to the older, better one

    boboliciousbobolicious
    Any system dependent on proprietary software is potentially vulnerable.
    Libratone had similar issues cutting a much loved equalizer feature and forcing users to sign in - it seemed all about data mining...
    I still enjoy my analogue amps, speakers and airport expresses, the latter of which I understand have excellent DACs and analogue outputs thanks to Steve Jobs interest in audio...

    VictorMortimerwatto_cobra