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  • Apple warns developers it will pull apps without recent updates from the App Store

    Sorry that it's onerous for a developer to keep an app up to date, but I have to agree with Apple on this one.

    Apple updates iOS with new features all of the time and old apps that haven't received an update since iOS 6 or so reflect poorly on the store, hide more modern apps in the clutter, and perhaps more to the point probably don't reflect modern security practices and privacy notifications and behaviors.
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  • Elon Musk pulls out of joining Twitter's board of directors

    entropys said:
    i still think Musk is a carpet bagger sucking in gullible investors and government officials...  
    We need more carpet baggers if they can create things like Tesla and SpaceX.

    Those two things have earned him a lot of goodwill in my book, and because of that I can forgive his occasional, boring lapse.... [sic]
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  • Apple announces 'Tap to Pay', lets users take payments on iPhone

    Nice, but whatever happened to the tap to transmit contact information feature?
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  • What to expect from the 'iPhone Fold'

    netrox said:
    fallenjt said:
    Ver Unlikely. It’s a gimmick and pron for damage but add zero or little benefit. Apple doesn’t design gimmicks based on Dieter Rams’ good design principles they followed.
    I agree but look at MacBook Pro with HDMI and Magsafe, making the ugly MacBook back in style despite the fact that USB4 offers BOTH features. 
    Umm... it's thicker at the edges NOT because of those ports but to maximize thermals and battery space. The 2013 MBP had thin edges and HDMI and MagSafe.

    And, personally, it's not ugly.
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  • iPhone 14 will get 48MP camera sensor, folding lens arriving with iPhone 15

    Skeptical said:
    Another victim of deceptive marketing. Exactly why does the camera need to be 48 megapixel? More mega pixels equals reduced low light sensitivity. This is the same roadmap that was followed by camera manufacturers. Oh well. 
    You needed to preface that with, "All things being the same..."

    According to the proposed specs, the pixel size for the smaller pixels is larger than just x/4, which makes a 4x4 bin larger than the current single pixel. Which in turn should work out to equal or perhaps even better sensitivity.
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