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  • Apple Watch 'Series 4' leak shows slimmer chassis with larger screen & new watch face

    sphericspheric
    From this RENDERING (it's not a photograph!), I too don't know how it was concluded that the watch is slimmer with a larger display. It looks essentially the same to me (other than the colour). I hope the design is noticeably refined but I cannot tell from this rendering.

    Still, I'm ready to upgrade my series 0.
    Apple promotional shots aren’t renderings, as a rule. They’re almost always actual photographs. 

    https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/8/4311868/the-illusion-of-simplicity-photographer-peter-belanger-on-shooting
    wonkothesane

  • Why are the displayed capacities different in Windows and Mac applications?

    sphericspheric
    Informative rant:

    https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/base-ten-for-almost-everything/
    bretzelburg

  • Apple's 2018 iPad includes 2GB of RAM, 2.2 GHz A10 processor; performance similar to iPhon...

    sphericspheric
    tht said:
    mcdave said:
    This is a huge mistake. The genuine tablet market is having trouble getting off the ground and Apple’s biggest-selling computer is using its 2016 processors.  iPads should lead Apple’s charge not tail behind a phone!  This should be an A11 with the 2018 iPad Pro on A12X.
    This category is failing and Apple needs every advantage, not to shoot themselves in the foot.
    After a peak of something like 65 million iPads per year, it looks like Apple’s iPad sales have stabilized to about 45 to 50 million per year. That’s pretty good!

    If you are thinking that tablets should outsell, say, PCs, with more than about 350 million sales per year, then yeah, tablet vendors have a long long way to go, but it isn’t being held back by SoC performance. It’s content availability, software/apps, and display size. It’s also a bit of a zero sum game with PCs. Say, tablets would have to replace say 50% of the laptops in the market and the PC market goes to something like 250 million per year and tablets are at say 300 million per year.  
    Except that worldwide PC sales were at 260 million last year and falling, while worldwide tablet sales were at 175 million and rising in 2016. 
    Soli

  • London's Regent Street Apple Store uses iPad to control acoustics for live performances

    sphericspheric
    As a gigging musician, it’s been amazing to watch how quickly iPad control via WiFi has become bog-standard for live consoles. 

    The first time I saw an FoH engineer walk around the venue with his iPad, talking to the musicians directly on stage as he edited their monitor mix, was pretty rad. This was about six years ago, and the iPad was fairly new - but the industry was already embracing it. 

    Today, it’s almost rare NOT to have iPad support. 
    MisterKitchiadtb200

  • We're removing Political Outsider

    sphericspheric
    avon b7 said:

    I deliberately avoided Political Outsider because I knew what to expect there. There was no need to actually go in and see it first hand to understand why this decision was taken or give an opinion on it. It doesn't mean I think they shouldn't exist, I simply understand why this decision was necessary.

    FWIW, I frequent other forums that have a political corner, and while it gets vitriolic and unfair, I have never, on any forum that wasn't expressly free-for-all, but tied to a certain main topic (as is this one), experienced unchecked the rampant racism and outright Nazi propaganda that was frequently and freely posted here. 
    brbrrevenant