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  • First 'Planet of the Apps' episode drops tonight, free to watch

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    Apple showed a screening of the pilot at WWDC to an audience of developers. 

    It look like everyone sat through it, and enjoyed it. People were laughing at funny parts (and some of the titles explaining what B2B and SKD mean. The drama of Reality TV was just what you'd expect, but (speaking as a non-fan of TV and especially hyper-dramatized Reality TV shows) it was fun to watch and held my attention. It actually is even fun to see stories unfold.

    It's about app development and business, not personal drama and fighting.
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  • First Listen: HomePod is Apple's AirPods, enhanced for your house

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    volume controls are printed +/-, apparently touch sensitive on either side of the Siri light
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  • Early case for Apple's 'iPhone 8' may mistake logo cutout for fingerprint sensor

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    Induction charging.
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  • Apple may aid investigation into deadly 2016 EgyptAir crash

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    This is a French investigation into a hypothesis, conducted after an earlier Egyptian investigation determined the place was blown up by a bomb.

    Isis claimed it placed a bomb on the plane, which took off from Egypt, and "Egyptian authorities said explosive residue had been found on some of the victims."

    http://www.businessinsider.com/explosives-traces-found-on-victims-of-crashed-egyptair-flight-2016-12

    That is sort of material to the report. 

    Also, Apple's statement to BI:

    "We haven't been contacted by [Air Transport Gendarmerie] or any authority investigating this tragic event. We have not seen any report, but we understand there is no evidence to link this event to Apple products. If investigators have questions for us, we would, of course, assist in any way we can. We rigorously test our products to ensure they meet or exceed international safety standards."

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/french-investigators-think-apple-iphone-153313900.html?.tsrc=applewf
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  • Samsung Galaxy Note 7 battery fire lawsuits spreading to Galaxy Note 5, S6, S7 models

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    melgross said:
    I'm not a fan of Samsung, but do these lawyers have any statistics to show these devices have a substantially higher risk of fires than the industry average (like the Note 7 did)? Otherwise it just seems like greedy lawyers searching for a class action where there isn't any merit. 
    Well, if consumers come to them wanting to sue, then that's what the lawyer should do, as long as there's evidence there was a real problem. If a number of people have that problem, then it could be expanded further to a class action. That's their job.

    The Note 7 problem was so outrageous, and so far out of norm, that almost nothing can be compared to that. There were about 300 fires in the first two weeks the phone was on sale, worldwide. During that time, about 2.5 million were sold. notes have sold about 10 million a year. If we extrapolate that, and say 12.5 million a year, to make it easy, that would be about 1,500 fires over the year. Almost nothing can compare to that.

    but if there's say, 30 fires in a year, that would still be far out of norm. In 2016, Apple sold about 215 million phones. Just a handful caught fire. That's normal.
    It's not really "normal" for phones to catch on fire unless they are significantly damaged (internally broken from trauma) or are recharged with a defective or improperly built charger or damaged cable. 

    However, Samsung's flagships are very large devices built around high-energy drain displays and overclocked chips that require large capacity batteries and attempt to provide rapid charging with high wattage chargers. Add in poor power management software and you get substantial risk of fire that's far larger than a typical phone. 

    Apart from actual fires, there are lots of reports of overheating. In fact it appears pretty common among Android phones in general. Add together the platform, poor QA, rushed to market at discounts to a demographic that's likely to keep using them after being damaged and you have even higher risk. 
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