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Apple rival Huawei debuts KFC-branded Android phone in China
The best part is the introduction video:
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Apple's Tim Cook says increasing pace of 'iPhone 8' leaks hurting sales
There is historical precedent to Cook's claims (i.e. it's not just fluffy B/S to explain away the small dip in numbers.)
It's called the Osborne effect, and it could explain an even larger dip than the current decline.
Those old enough to remember the Osborne computer company may remember how their downfall was assisted, not just by competition disruption, but by dealers cancelling their orders for the current generation computer after having the next-generation model pre-promoted to them.
Hence it's also a logical conclusion - if the next generation product is revealed to be a significant upgrade (instead of just being the more modest -S changes), then consumers will naturally hold back their purchases. The difference is waiting a few months, instead of more than a year.
Certainly there may be other contributory reasons, such as the product maturity and competitors producing visually similar devices - but those would be minor factors by comparison. The growing ASP of the device could be an indication of the above, or a byproduct of long-held resistance from countries such as India and Indonesia. (However the SE model is due for sale on both of these countries soon, so we're likely to see an uptick again.)
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Apple's GarageBand, iMovie, Keynote, Numbers, Pages now free for all iOS & macOS users
To answer an earlier question: I use the suite for professional use. Keynote is a stand out here, it now exports to various web platforms while keeping effects intact (effectively making it a wysiwyg web development tool), plus the new photoshop-like layers makes it trivial to work with complex slides. When it comes to presenting I find it super easy to plug in a dongle to my iPhone's lightning port and present keynotes straight from my phone (while my windows compatriots still can't get their VGA ports to work consistently.) I also appreciate being able to output PDFs with a built-in weblink to the online version so the client can always get the latest version of a document.
In comparison using word and powerpoint always feels like I'm fighting the application to get it to do what I want. PowerPoint in particular is a total clusterfuck that needs to be burnt to the ground - it will have me shouting at the display in frustration. I am confident no one at microsoft actually presents with native powerpoint slides. The app is so limited that I could go on for days about its inadequacies.As for numbers, I still find excel easier to use, but that is mostly to do with data and formula entry approaches that I'm accustomed to, numbers is definitely a much faster application however, and I frequently bring excel sheets over to do mass-manipulations.As a side note, with 32-bit apps no longer being supported this announcement is moot for iOS, since any hardware that can run 64 bit apps is already entitled to the free versions.
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Review: Garmin's Fenix 5 smartwatch aims at athletes, not Apple Watch fans
There is no room for bulky watches in the fitness market - it's ignorant to how people conduct fitness activities. During running a bulky watch is utter f-kery, especially for runners with smaller frames (which is optimal for running). On the opposing side of use such as weight training they get in the way of cables, numerous machines and prevent the use of wrist straps. To date Garmin's best fitness products are small and light, but even those have problems with HR measurement. (I've owned a fair few of them.)The other issue is that wrist-worn heart rate sensors perform poorly for fluctuating heart rates - without coincidence it's these same exercises where it's most useful to know heart rate. It's far less common to require heart rate for stable heart rate exercises, because it's trivial to measure it when it's not changing. (P.S. Garmin's chest straps are outdated garbage with frequent pairing issues.)
These devices are not even good for those with health issues. Here a rapidly changing heart rate can signal a medical emergency, yet a rapidly changing HR merely confuses these devices, they're truly built for stable heart rates and everything else simply doesn't work.
As the author notes, for fitness you're best going off with a small light device and a chest strap. My recommendation is the aluminium apple watch and the bluetooth wahoo chest HR monitor, they work flawlessly together. (And the Apple Watch has the most accurate heart rate sensor for the wrist regardless.)
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Jay Z pulls albums from Apple Music and Spotify
Presumable this was done to create some exclusivity for Tidal, but a single artist is not going to have much effect, especially for a service that is more expensive. More likely this demographic will just resort to sharing the music.
