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  • Apple falls 2% as HSBC joins chorus of banks downgrading shares on iPhone saturation fears...

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    I will do you all a favor and refrain from buying shares ... if I did it, with my luck they would surely continue to drop! #sharecooler
    JWSC

  • One month later: iPhone XS versus the iPhone XS Max

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    netrox said:
    I really hate the super sized iPhones. It's really a problem. It's the same mindset with people having for McMansions and supersized meals where they measure their egos based on how big their things are. It's a sickness. There is nothing appealing about carrying a big ass phone around. I have XS and while I love it, it's really pushing to how much I can tolerate the size. I don't like the weight and the size being too large. The sense of portability is lost. I have Appe Watch. I have iPad. I have MacBook Pro. I have iMac. I much have everything Apple but damn it, Apple, stop making iphones bigger to appeal to those size queen idiots.
    Me, me, me ... practically everything you've stated is self-centric. That's fine, but calling those who prefer larger phones "idiots" and associating the desire for a larger device with ego is where you cross the a-hole line. You don't like it, that's cool, don't buy one. Many of us have no problem handling or carrying around a larger device, and prefer the extra screen space. If you don't like it, move along ...
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  • Hands on: Apple's Walkie-Talkie app in watchOS 5 will let you talk to your friends in an i...

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    "Users can add anyone, even friends who don't own an Apple Watch. It would be nice to limit contacts to those who have compatible equipment." When I went to add contacts, those who have no iOS devices were gray, and when I select someone who owns an iPhone but not a Watch my request failed with a message that the person does not have a Watch. So no, you can't add friends who don't own a Watch.
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  • Wipe your iPhone before selling it, because if you don't you might get your data stolen

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    fastasleep said:

    You can still do things such as changing your Apple ID password. Then if someone gets into your phone, they won't know that new one and won't be able to use, for instance, your Mail to send messages.
    Huh? This only makes sense if you use your iCloud mail as your primary mail account. Most people don’t.

    However, an iCloud backup isn't complete. It's intended to safeguard what Apple thinks is your most important data, such as your photos, your account settings, documents and so on. It does not backup your apps. The logic is that you can always get those again from the App Store but sometimes you can't and always you have to re-enter your login details.
    So backup via iTunes. Plug your iPhone into your Mac, tell iTunes to make an encrypted backup, and let it take all the time it likes to copy everything over. 

    iTunes does not back up apps. 

    More to the point, both forms of backup keep a record of what apps you had installed and how you had them arranged. It used to be that an iTunes backup would reinstall locally-saved apps at the conclusion of loading the backup, but of course that convenience was neutered by Apple some time ago. So today, both backup methodologies deliver the same results with respect to apps, you get placeholders installed and the apps are then re-downloaded wirelessly.
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  • Grayshift claims it defeated Apple's forthcoming 'USB Restricted Mode' security feature

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    Let the one-upsmanship continue ...
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