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  • Apple apologizes for iPhone slowdown controversy, will reduce out-of-warranty battery repl...

    raclark77 said:
    If they had told people what they were doing before just slowing peoples phones down without their consent it would be different.

    This action is tantamount to malware being pushed out as a software update. More reason to NOT trust company updates.

    And now to restore the device to previous conditions the user must pay for a new battery?! How is this not equal to randsomware?! Having to spend money that had not been planned on being spent until this is basically extortion.

    At $29 a pop just how many millions will this make them?! This is outrageous, and just laughable that some of the people commenting here are just fine with this as it is.

    This just happened to slow down old devices at the exact same time as new Apple phones being sold too! This is too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence.

    I feel Apple has overstepped with this whole situation. The price reduction on a maintenance that wasn't needed until their actions is not a fix of any kind.

    As it stands now, I have no plans to buy anything Apple again. Microsoft, and Apple both are making some boneheaded decisions lately. I almost think they might just be the same company secretly.

    They were caught red handed. Me paying them for their actions is not going to make me feel any better about this in any way.

    If this was all fine, then why was it secretly/silently done?
    What planet are you from, where batteries don’t wear out and/or for profit corporations replace them for you for free for life?

    What brand car do you drive, where you get free battery replacements?
    The planet is Earth, where phones that worked well on iOS 10 started unexpectedly shutting down under iOS 11. 
    williamlondon
  • Apple ID holders can now switch from third-party email address logins to Apple email domai...

    I just tried to change my gmail account to  my iCloud account and the system will
    not allow it. I get an error message stating I can’t use iCloud addresses. 
    Just tried this morning and it also won't let me. I've been waiting years to change from my gmail address.
    GeorgeBMacpatchythepiratewatto_cobra
  • Apple intros urBeats3 headphones & cheaper Apple TV Siri Remote

    Accordingly to developer resources the new Siri remote, "now provides motion data for attitude and rotation rate." Yes, "attitude," that's not a typo. Tell me what that means, please. 
    By analogy, pilots have an attitude indicator, as well as an altitude indicator (altimeter). The attitude indicator shows the orientation of the airplane.
    doozydozenbrian greenwatto_cobra
  • Apple partner Wistron says 'iPhone 7s Plus' will include wireless charging, improved water...

    What's the attraction of wireless charging? Can someone point out the pros? You still need to touch it on something, just not plug it in. Still needs to be in the proximity of the charger. If anything, it's more limiting, because you don't have the cable which you can use to move the phone around while charging.
    lostkiwinetroxGeorgeBMaccolinngargonaut
  • Amazon adds iCloud Calendar compatibility to Alexa ecosystem

    FYI, you'll have to turn on two-factor authentication for iCloud, in order to get an app-specific password for the Alexa app.
    Soliben20