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tipoo said:

The 12" particularly seems on death row. Who would pay 100 dollars more, to lose Thunderbolt 3 and a port and have less power? All to save 0.75 pounds.

It's not for me (same as the MBA), but your question sounds like what people were saying about the MBA when it was first launched with a much higher entry-level price, a much slower system, and a considerable drop in the number of ports against the MacBook at the time with the same size display.

For someone who is very mobile I think that smaller and lighter are important factors and if that was me I wouldn't scoff over $100 spread out over several years if it's going to suit my computing needs and be easier to carry.

grifmx said:

can we put in our own drives is the question?

Since all the storage is now all PCIe-based SSDs with a T2 chip to work in conjunction with the SSD, I'm assuming that it's soldered.

Personally, I use these shortcuts so often that it's more handy to drop them all down by a one key. They've never interfered with any other shortcut mappings as far as I know.

philboogie said:

As much as I love iOS, after seeing these 3 photos of the guy against the sun I really ought to take a look at that Samsung phone. I mean, in those photos his face is much better lit.

A lot of the Note 9 photos look better to me. Counting them up it's a little over half the Note 9 photos seem superior.

If they did a blind test where they list a a couple dozen photos and then have the reader determine which phone took it I feel like the Note 9 would come out ahead.

My only concern about the student IDs via NFC if they will work when the device has no battery power. While that's certainly handy, I don't think it's safe that someone could lose or have an iPhone stolen and then when the power runs out it will still allow access to dorm by pressing the Sleep/Wake button. 

caladanian said:

Please explain what “open loop” technology for London tube is - and it’s (dis)advantage is. 

I think this will answer everything for you:

• https://clearbridgemobile.com/open-vs-closed-loop-mobile-payments/

LukeCage said:

Well most disruptions don't start off with people trying to actually disrupt an industry, they just try to get a niche and the rest is history. However in this case, Apple being as big as it is, if they said that they were trying, they would have regulatory boards in America and Europe all over them. For Apple to disrupt the credit card industry, imo, they would have to go after the banks, but banks now are much bigger and more powerful than they used to be. I'm not saying it's impossible but it's would be a pretty hard task to accomplish. 

I believe Apple choose the best solution and I'm happy to say it's the solution I proffered years before Apple Pay was ever introduced. My only wish is that the extra security for using Apple Pay would result in lower transaction fees for retailers which would help them advertise this option more, and for mom-and-pop shops with discreet card readers that have mostly supported Apple Pay (and all other NFC-based scanners to have the company that supplies the device notify them that they can take these *Pay payments.

If anyone wants to help with increasing the saturation in your area you can order—free of charge—register and door stickers from Apple that you can give to those businesses when you come across them. I don't do it for Apple; I do it for myself, because the sooner I can reach a tipping point where I can more freely not carry my physical cards on me the more convenient my life will be.

• https://www.applepaysupplies.com/home