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  • Quanta rumored to be building new 'inexpensive' MacBooks in Dec. quarter

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    Headline "Quanta rumored to be building new 'inexpensive' MacBooks in Dec. quarter" First line in article: "Frequent Apple partner Quanta should soon see a surge in orders thanks to "new expensive notebooks" from the former …" So, is it inexpensive or expensive?
    netroxRayz2016williamlondoniantimmy123peterhart

  • Maxed out 2018 15-inch MacBook Pro at $6699 isn't Apple's most expensive laptop ever

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    Two words: Macintosh Portable.

    7 kilos of portable power (because 7 kg sounds so much lighter than 16 lbs), 16 MHz Moto 68000, an active matrix monochrome display, a trackball that actually made it to space on an IBM experiment, and a lead acid battery with which could could (almost) boost your car.

    Street price was ≈CDN$8100 … but it did come with a carrying case, so, you know, there's that. ;-)
    anome

  • Siri on HomePod can now speak to you in French, German, Canadian English

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    dkhaley said:
    What’s Canadian English, eh?
    As far as I've noticed, there are handful of words that are pronounced slightly differently. And spelling generally follows British rules.

    If you want to know more, watch Strange Brew. ;)
    You misspelt "huh". ;-)
    Spelling follows Canadian rules, not British or American. There's some overlap both ways. We don't say "oot and aboot" so neither should Siri. We say kilometre properly, where it rhymes with pillowfeeter (and centimetre, and millimetre, and kilolitre, and …) rather than speedometer. Bob and Doug were lovable fictional characters, not learned men of elocution. ;-) 

    The best we can hope for is that Siri will say hockey, not 'ice haw-key', and she won't say MON-tree-all for Montréal, or trip over her digital lips when saying attempting to say Saskatchewan or Kapuskasing.
    jbishop1039jony0watto_cobra

  • A brief history of the iPad, Apple's once and future tablet

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    "The iPad is going nowhere."

    It's more accurate to say "iPad goes everywhere." (though I do get your point) 
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  • Apple should mix hardware & services into 'Apple Prime' subscriptions, analyst says

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    "Apple customers already spend an average of a dollar a day on hardware and services"

    This is Apple's real business plan! I've been saying this for years and the numbers have roughly scaled up proportionately year after year. This little secret has been out in the open for years yet Wall Street analysts continue to be blinded by counting baubles and fretting over market share numbers. With over 600 million customer credit cards on file (and growing daily), a dollar-a-day yields about $220,000,000,000 in annual revenue. That's one helluva predictable revenue stream as a base to build upon.
    cornchipwatto_cobra