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  • Apple resurrects Texas Hold'em to mark 10+ years of the App Store

    Hopefully they kept the Apple employees that cameoed as characters; Phil Schiller and Joz were some of the more obvious ones, but apparently quite a few employees ended up in the final version.

    StrangeDays
  • Ten US states file suit to block proposed Sprint & T-Mobile merger

    Rayer said:
    I think it should be "attorneys general", not attorney generals.
    You are correct, although I never understood that grammar portion of the English language.
    In this case, "general" is an adjective modifying "attorney", it just is weird because it comes *after* the noun (because of its French origins.)

    English is pretty much a dumpster fire of a language in any case.



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  • Apple Card: no multi-user support, no penalty rates, foreign transactions, more


    jbdragon said:
    insync88 said:
    I don’t know if it’s just me....But I’ve never been this excited for a credit card before 
    It's just you!

    But really, if the Credit Card number is always changing, how do you use it to pay some of your bills like Garbage, or Water, etc. How do you have automatic payments without going back to the site every month and enter a new token number?
    It doesn't constantly change.  The card number on the stripe is never divulged, except the last 4 digits.  In general, the card number given to you in the app is a virtual card number (as offered by other cards) that you can change any time, but it doesn't automatically roll.  I dunno if you can generate multiple virtual card numbers (which is handy for paying bills and suchlike) or if the previous numbers are invalidated when you create a new one.


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  • Apple Card: no multi-user support, no penalty rates, foreign transactions, more


    rob53 said:
    I agree but I wish it wasn't backed by a MasterCard although that's what Costco uses in Canada (Visa in the US). I wish the Card wasn't associated with any credit card company.
    That would mean you couldn't use it on any network, and there wouldn't be any infrastructure to handle payments and suchlike.  The last time someone invented something completely new like that was the Discover Card, and it was pretty useless in the first half-dozen years after it was introduced, even though it was backed by Sears and Dean Witter Reynolds.
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  • How to play music from your Apple Watch on speakers and wireless headphones

    The icon in the Control Center isn't the Airplay icon, it's the "choose an audio output device" icon. You can see this icon used in the audio controls for the iPhone as well, where it's used to choose between headphones, Airplay devices, and other audio output devices. That's why your Bluetooth headphones and speakers appear there. I'm guessing that someone at Apple mislabeled the menu with "Airplay"-- somewhere else the label is "Bluetooth" so it's obviously just a bug. The Airplay icon is a rectangle with a solid triangle pointing upwards into the rectangle.
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